The thread where we get CyNick to defend maligned storylines, and tell us how we don't understand...

[The CyNick]

Originally Posted by Ultra Mantis How does Sting beating HHH hurt HHH? If your long term goal is HHH vs Rollins, you can still have Rollins go over Sting, who now looks a bit more credible challenging for a world title in 2015 because he beat The Game and then have Rollins work that into his HHH feud, simple jab like "Well I beat Sting, did you?" and you have a plot point there. Instead neither guy gets any kind of rub from Sting because he's evidently a massive jobber and there's nothing to draw from. Filler. HHH is the heel authority figure, he's not going to lose his heat just because he loses his one match a year after going over nearly every week.

First, HHH had lost multiple matches prior to The Sting match. You can only take so many consecutive losses before you lose shine.

Second, the storyline with Rollins was HHH is like having Tom Brady as a mentor. You are trying to live up to someone who has achieved everything there is to achieve. If HHH had lost to Sting, and Rollins beat Sting, you are telling a different story. HHH isnt Tom Brady, he's like Phillip Rivers, good, but not great. So, great, Rollins can beat someone who is above average. Thats not nearly as effective as him beating someone who is presented as a true legend.

Third, Sting wasnt going to be around. If Sting was scheduled to work 6 months, and go on the road, sure it would make sense. But he was never going to do that.

[Ultra Mantis]

Originally Posted by The CyNick First, HHH had lost multiple matches prior to The Sting match. You can only take so many consecutive losses before you lose shine. Second, the storyline with Rollins was HHH is like having Tom Brady as a mentor. You are trying to live up to someone who has achieved everything there is to achieve. If HHH had lost to Sting, and Rollins beat Sting, you are telling a different story. HHH isnt Tom Brady, he's like Phillip Rivers, good, but not great. So, great, Rollins can beat someone who is above average. Thats not nearly as effective as him beating someone who is presented as a true legend. Third, Sting wasnt going to be around. If Sting was scheduled to work 6 months, and go on the road, sure it would make sense. But he was never going to do that.

I have no idea who Tom Brady or Phillip Rivers are, but a single loss to the biggest babyface in the history of WCW is not going to make Triple H go from GOAT to meh. You seem to not place any value at all on Sting, so please explain the genius reasoning behind bringing him in at all.

HHH goes over strong on TV every week, it doesn't matter that he loses his Mania moment because it doesn't change that he's in charge and he usually gets the upper hand and his losses don't even matter. He's not an active wrestler, he doesn't need to win matches or even wrestle to get shine. That makes about as much sense as when they kept putting Cole over Lawler and then that was the end of that dumb commentator feud, no pay off for the babyface and all that heel build for nothing.