I just said the exact same thing on operation sports. If CM Punk were to come back...I really hope they are smart and put it at the beginning of the show to keep the fans from possibly taking away from quality matches such as the Wyatt Family/Shield, etc. That, and if CM Punk did come back (I still don't think it will, I hope so don't get me wrong, I just don't see it), come back with "This Fire Burns!" I miss that theme song so much!
Over the last month the Shield has undergone the most organic face turn I've ever seen. Dudes are wicked over.
You realize they shouted more for Daniel Bryan when he wasn't anywhere to be seen than they did when he was actually in the ring... It's just like Stephanie said, they turned on him so fast and wanted someone else.
This is kind of a bizarre reading of what happened. They chanted for him when he wasn't out there because they wanted to see him. When they were seeing him, they shut up to listen to what he had to say. And when did they turn on him and demand someone else? The CM Punk chants don't count.
what do you mean the CM Punk chants don't count? Bryan was out there headlining the show and he wasn't enough for them. how is that going to encourage them to have him be the big ticket if even he can't get them to engage in the product enough to forget about punk for five minutes? (granted it is his hometown so I expected some chants) my point is the stupid chants don't even mean anything... they are just being obnoxious. They were setting up the Wrestlemania match for everyones favorite guy and they killed it with the dumb chants.
I just meant that they were clearly calling for CM Punk to come out and make the save; it wasn't a signal that they were turning on/bored of Daniel Bryan. WWE had it set up perfectly, acknowledging Punk's absence during the pre-show and during Heyman's promo, so I don't blame the crowd for thinking he was going to show. Plus, yeah it's Chicago.
Been on a Ricky Steamboat kick on the WWE Network. Can somebody explain to me why he was never a super-duper mega star? He had the makeup of the prototypical guy to build a company around, but he seemed to switch from WCW/NWA to WWF every few years. Plus he kinda dissappeared once the 90's rolled around. Was it his absolute inability to be a heel? Was he sort of a jerk in real life?
I thought the whole "hijack" thing made little sense. Crowd chants/responses should happen naturally in response to what's actually going on in the ring. A group of people predetermining that they'd crap on stuff no matter what actually happens is a strange concept. I also don't quite get what exactly they are protesting. CM Punk leaving out of his own volition or Daniel Bryan not being in the title match? It's good work by the writers and the performers (from Paul Heyman to Triple H to, yes, Daniel Bryan) to turn in a good show and manipulate the crowd into reacting as the performers and WWE want them to. And this is what an effective wrestling promotion should do-- getting fans emotionally invested in the stories the promotion is telling so they watch TV programs and buy PPVs and live event tickets.
Congrats on Paul bearer, completey rightly fully inducted. This class is so freakin stacked it's crazy
Disappointed, not really surprised though. I was hoping they could get Punk back on board to save that main event. They really booked that first hour or so extremely well. Heyman killed it as usual, the Road Dogg did a nice little heel tactic to get the fans behind the Usos for the title change, then Cesaro who won't get booed, and then the 2 factions that are both extremely over. Never really gave them something to s**t on early, and they kinda lost steam. Really digging the whole Shield crew right now, Ambrose is supposed to to be the crazy character, but even his in ring work looks out of control, in a good way. Rollins and Reigns are beasts. Crowd was also ready to pop big for Cesaro turning on Swagger, thought it wuld have been good to do that in front of a Smarky crowd like they had last night.
Was Steamboat not a mega star? He feuded on and off for a decade with Flair for the WCW title and the IC Title match vs. Randy Savage at WM3 is considered by many the best WM match in history
