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Originally Posted by Vito Cruz
If you have the Usos cost Alpha the belts at Backlash, Rhyno and Slater winning the belts and Slater getting his contract immediately means dick all. The moment would be able the Usos being heel.
But if you do AA/Usos in the finals of the tournament, it means you've already blown off Slater's chase to get on the roster and they then have to find ways to keep artificially extending that storyline.
As it is now, I'm thinking that Slater and Rhyno win on Sunday to get Slater officially onto the roster. Alpha don't look terrible in losing because Gable is hurt, yet he soldiers through the match anyway. Gable takes a few weeks off, the Usos win the belts at the next PPV, Gable returns and we get our logical AA/Usos match at Survivor Series or something.
Is it ideal? No. But given the short turnaround time they had to fit this tourney in I can make sense of it.
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They're going to have to find ways to keep extending this storyline anyway. It's a comedy one. Unless the plan is to actually run with Slater & Rhyno as champs, in which case, it'd be better to put them over The Usos anyway, because people don't give as much of a shit about them as Alpha.
You put Usos over Alpha and have Slater/Rhyno qualify for the finals. Then you can do whatever you want. Now you have Slater/Rhyno going over injured guys you are supposed to care about for a new set of belts for a "feel good" moment. It's so fucking gross.