Biggest botched storyline of this era

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

Nexus sucked. Get over it. The slimmed down Corre had more potential. You all might get behind a bunch of jobbers but after Cena there would be nothing for them. You can't keep a bunch of green guys going for longer than a couple of programs.

Believe in the Shield. It's believable. They are equally dangerous. Wade Barrett and goons were no match for Cena. Not to mention the group was being pruned anyway. Inserting CM Punk killed Barrett by outsmarting him, taking over his group and banishing him. Bigger burial than a pile of chairs.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Nexus sucked. Get over it. The slimmed down Corre had more potential. You all might get behind a bunch of jobbers but after Cena there would be nothing for them. You can't keep a bunch of green guys going for longer than a couple of programs.

Believe in the Shield. It's believable. They are equally dangerous. Wade Barrett and goons were no match for Cena. Not to mention the group was being pruned anyway. Inserting CM Punk killed Barrett by outsmarting him, taking over his group and banishing him. Bigger burial than a pile of chairs.

You can say that all you want but no one agrees dude.

 

[RammerJammer]

Eh, CM Punk's push, he came back to quick after winning the WWE Title, should've been SummerSlam where he returned.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

You can say that all you want but no one agrees dude.

So?

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

So?

So go fukk yourself.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

So go fukk yourself.

Can't be good for your health.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Punk was given a year long reign to do something. He is what he is. I don't dislike him but he was only going so far. To get to that Rock or Austin level you have to either be incredibly charismatic or hit every note perfectly as they did with the Austin/McMahon feud. McMahon was just as much as a part of the ratings increasing as Austin was. It was the dynamic between the two that was uncanny. The Rock has charisma (or at least had..) beyond what is typical in wrestling. He's a fukking STAR in Hollywood... He's in a leading role in four upcoming movies this year and two of them are going to make a ton of money.

Punk is very good for wrestling. Key words: for wrestling. The realism from wrestling has been neutered during the PG era. Only once in a while do they ever reach that rare level of realism that was seen weekly in the old NWA, for example... there are no more Andersons and Windham's... etc. Nothing makes sense anymore.

That's what makes The Shield so refreshing.

 

[DaylitoJames]

BTW, the biggest lost-money eff up was easily NOT having a summer Cena vs Brock Lesnar fued leading to a monster match at Summerslam.

Extreme Rules had the biggest may buys since like..backlash 2000, and YOU KNOW summerslam would've gotten huge press if say the two of them had a cage match or something.

It only would've cost brock lesnar like 5 appearances and it would've paid well.

I actually agree with this. When Brock came back and F5 Cena with the crowds approvial I thought at Extreme Rules Brock would beat Cena with an inch of his life and beat him putting Cena in doubt leaving for 3 months only for a return match at SummerSlam in some kind of stipulation match on some Superman vs Doomsday type ish. But when Cena just popped up and pin Brock I was then the speech Cena made afterwards "Yeah I'm leaving for a while" but was back the next day and never left still got me

 

[Golayitdown]

I actually agree with this. When Brock came back and F5 Cena with the crowds approvial I thought at Extreme Rules Brock would beat Cena with an inch of his life and beat him putting Cena in doubt leaving for 3 months only for a return match at SummerSlam in some kind of stipulation match on some Superman vs Doomsday type ish. But when Cena just popped up and pin Brock I was then the speech Cena made afterwards "Yeah I'm leaving for a while" but was back the next day and never left still got me

:smugcena: is the greatest in the history of the sport

 

[DaylitoJames]

:smugcena: is the greatest in the history of the sport

At the end of the day between that promo and that "Skidmarks187" promo plus eating a bowl of Fruity Pebbles on tv he may be the greatest troll of all time.

 

[R=G]

Nexus didn't make any mainstream waves though. Non wrestling fans/sites weren't talking about them except for the time got fired...



More like foresight. It was obvious that it was supposed to be used to push Barrett. Like Liggins said, he's been proven to be a very boring fella (no sheam) so it wasn't MUCH of a loss.



As for the thread topic, there's only 2 options that can compete Ryder and HHH/Nash/Punk...


In Ryder's case, HE DID ALL THE fukkING WORK. All they had to do was give him a quick segment weekly, give him a nice little win streak and let him cook. He wasn't going to replace Cena, but he was over and all they had to do was milk it. Dude was selling merchandise and getting huge reactions for a short second. @ not capitalizing on that. You push a guy like Miz for years hoping he will get some crowd reaction like Ryder was getting.

In Punk's case, you had the next Austin 3:16 moment right there on the stage. No, he wasn't going to be the next Austin (once in a lifetime) but he had a lane to do something major. All they had to do was let it marinate and not fukk it up. Not only could this have made for some good TV and a great summer, but they fukked off the opportunity to get a legitimate replacement for Cena. I know it's cliche, but Cena could have turned heel and had a fresh start. It truly could have been the start of a new era. Instead, we got Kevin fukking Nash (who wasn't that great 10 years ago) and HHH (the guy who is MUCH better behind the scenes than he is in front of the camera at this stage in his career) getting put in the mix. The worst part is that Nash/HHH could have easily been done without Punk involved.

My heart wants to say Ryder because they used his whole movement to shyt on him. They essentially proved that you can't go out and get yourself over and expect to get rewarded. On the other hand, my mind says Punk because it's the only option that would have gotten away from the :smugcena: era while taking the company in a new direction...

Punk had no Austin moment because he didnt carry the industry on his back...not even close. Ryback getting a shot did make money though.

And Nexus sold merchandise, increased buys, was legitly over as heels instead of this cool heel shyt Punk does that changes nothing, and were easily the talk of the industry in 2010 above any and everything. Rock came back in 2011 and an absymal Mania does great. Punk gets hot and cant blow away the Nexus Summerslam number at all. Limitimations..big talk that didnt do anything for the bottom line.

Tue Nexus summerslam drew 350k while Punk vs Cena did 296k. Get the fukk otta here with fake semantics

 

[Golayitdown]

Punk had no Austin moment because he didnt carry the industry on his back...not even close. Ryback getting a shot did make money though.

And Nexus sopd merchandise, increased buys, was legitly over as heels instead of this cool heel shyt Punk does that changes nothing, and were easily the talk of the industry in 2010 above any and everything. Rock came back in 2011 and an absymal Mania does great. Punk gets hot and cant blow away the Nexus Summerslam number at all. Limitimations..big talk that didnt do anything for the bottom line.

Tue Nexus summerslam drew 350k while Punk vs Cena did 296k. Get the fukk otta here with fake semantics

What the fukk does carrying the industry on his back have to do with the Austin 3:16 like moment? I was talking about the potential of one moment to cause a major change for the E. This right before the HHH/Nash shyt that took all of the steam out of Punk. Similar to how Ryback continuously losing is taking his appeal away. You're talking about 2 different times. Punk's 434 reign is damn near unrelated to the events that occurred in 2011.

And what the hell does the Rock have to do with the discussion?

 

[ThatKidBlackHippy]

That Nash shyt by a landslide.

Imagine if after Austin blew up with that 3:16 promo, they immediately threw him in angle where he got attacked by Bob Backlund every week, never got revenge, and then ultimately had a PPV match against Pat Patterson and lost clean.

shyt was just

Came in to say this. The entire storyline made NO sense.

 

[R=G]

Rock was bigger in 2011 than everything. By the same accord....Nexus was bogger than everything in 2010. Thats why its a blunder. Thats why they were mentioned..they were bigger than Shield..hotter than Punk and it all got fukked up.

 

[Marlo]

The only one that doesn't belong on that list is Orton jobbing to Christian. Their feud was awesome, great matches, crowd was really into it and gave Christian a much deserved chance to shine.

When those Smackdown spoilers hit the web on tuesday night and Christian had lost the title so fast. Everyone was like and then it turned into

The Bryan one stood out for me cause they buried him, the fans literally rejected that shyt and he got hugely over, and then they had him say No to almost act like the Yes stuff came from them