So has anyone even noticed Dean Ambrose is gone?

[trick]

Who’s the last face they actually booked well? Seriously asking because I can’t think of a single one.

Heath Slater? That lasted for two months, then they stopped writing for him and Rhyno and they put the belts on Gable and Jordan right?

They give up on a lot of people before they even have the chance to tell the whole story, or they tell a story and they just give up on the story when the story starts to get over(see: Jinder Mahal, Shinsuke Nakamura, Sami Zayn as a face, the New Day as heels, etc). It's weird. Once someone gets a reaction, they don't even bother to write a good story for that person

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Heath Slater? That lasted for two months, then they stopped writing for him and Rhyno and they put the belts on Gable and Jordan right?

They give up on a lot of people before they even have the chance to tell the whole story, or they tell a story and they just give up on the story when the story starts to get over(see: Jinder Mahal, Shinsuke Nakamura, Sami Zayn as a face, the New Day as heels, etc). It's weird. Once someone gets a reaction, they don't even bother to write a good story for that person

As soon as someone gets over they get buried, flanderized, or stripped of what got them over, taken off tv entirely, or a combination of all 3. Part of the old :flabbyvince: philosophy of don’t let anyone become a star so only the brand can be the draw.

 

[8WON6]

Who’s the last face they actually booked well? Seriously asking because I can’t think of a single one.

If you want to blame booking that's fine. That's not my argument. He's also just not a great in ring guy, like he's supposed to be a brawler and he doesn't even do that well either. The Shield split exposed him the most out of the 3. Seth is going to always be a good decent worker that they can use in a jam for a title match here and there. Roman is at least polarizing enough to make you care either way. What does Dean bring to the table?

 

[mrken12]

Dean >>> Seth>>>>Roman

At what?

 

[Breh Obama]

At what?

Everything overall

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

If you want to blame booking that's fine. That's not my argument. He's also just not a great in ring guy, like he's supposed to be a brawler and he doesn't even do that well either. The Shield split exposed him the most out of the 3. Seth is going to always be a good decent worker that they can use in a jam for a title match here and there. Roman is at least polarizing enough to make you care either way. What does Dean bring to the table?

Aside from the Ambrose vs Rollins feud when the team split, I haven’t found any of them to be very interesting as solo acts. Roman has been as bland and dull as anyone I’ve ever seen in the ring. It doesn’t matter if you move well and crisp in the ring if your matches don’t tell a story and you have no personality to make a crowd care about you. Seriously he’d struggle to get a reaction if this character were in the middle of the card instead of being force fed as the top guy. Ambrose went way too wacky and cartoonish after the Rollins feud, with his match quality especially suffering with no real direction for him as a character, and after that Rollins turned into just another generic bad guy who then never really developed much of a real chance in personality once he returned and turned face.

 

[mrken12]

Everything overall

This thread says otherwise.

One has to go: Ambrose, Reigns, Rollins

Honestly neither one of them is well rounded enough to be the top face for the company.

 

[Kinguno]

Dean basically the Russ of the hounds of Justice if Russ couldn't do anything

 

[Alfred0Santana]

Nah. Dude been change the channel status for me.

 

[reigun]

Coli face turn when Dean returns and starts wrecking shyt. Book it.

Brehs gonna be watching the Network documentary on his road to recovery like, "That's my Lunatic Fringe "

 

[Metal Face]

Heel Ambrose vs Reigns at SummerSlam for the belt

 

[ZEB WALTON]

Yall hatin on d boy deAn

 

[Zebruh]

Dean should've always been a heel tbh.

He's a stale face. Have that man come out and talk shyt. He's charismatic enough to play a cool villain. Plus the whole lunatic thing would lend itself better to a tweener/heel than a face. I don't get 80% of his booking.

 

[WalkGawd]

Dean should've always been a heel tbh.

He's a stale face. Have that man come out and talk shyt. He's charismatic enough to play a cool villain. Plus the whole lunatic thing would lend itself better to a tweener/heel than a face. I don't get 80% of his booking.

He would make a dope ass Joker-type of character. He needs some goons (a la Miz) and some on-camera chick that's as crazy as he is like a Harley Quinn.

 

[NYChase718]

Russo went on to say that today's talent would not know how to respond to the negative crowd reaction.

"I don't want to beat up wrestling in 2018, but when I see that this was 22 years ago, and then, I see today's promos, like, what happened? It should have been an evolution of this [promo]. Steve, I say it all the time, bro, and I don't want to pick on them. I don't want to pick on them and a lot of it has to do with the writing. But in 2018, the only guy that you can kind of compare to Brian Pillman is freaking Dean Ambrose, and, like, every time I see Dean, I'm like, 'okay, he's trying to be Brian Pillman.' And, bro, it's painful. I mean, it's painful! There's nothing natural, there's nothing believable, and everything comes across very forced." Russo said, "bro, I've got to tell you, Steve, 99.9% of the wrestlers especially today put in that exact same spot would not have known how to react. That was not planned. He had to know because now the smart marks were turning on him because they were pissed, he had to know how to really embarrass them and he did. I don't see anybody today that would have been able to do that."