WWE World Heavyweight Championship: Triple H vs. Roman Reigns

DA BAD GUY escreveu:

Renato escreveu:Alguém que tenha começado a ver Wrestling nas últimas semanas acredita que o Reigns é o top heel e o Triple H o babyface heróico que finalmente o vai derrotar no maior show do ano. Também acho que o The Rock vai estar metido nisto, até porque nem estou a ver nada melhor para ele, mas até lá isto tem tudo para correr mal.

Sim, porque claramente quem começa a ver wrestling vai ligar à reação do público.

Darth Aeris escreveu:

DA BAD GUY escreveu:

Renato escreveu:Alguém que tenha começado a ver Wrestling nas últimas semanas acredita que o Reigns é o top heel e o Triple H o babyface heróico que finalmente o vai derrotar no maior show do ano. Também acho que o The Rock vai estar metido nisto, até porque nem estou a ver nada melhor para ele, mas até lá isto tem tudo para correr mal.

Sim, porque claramente quem começa a ver wrestling vai ligar à reação do público.

acho q ele estava a falar apenas do pessoal que já viu e tem o minimo de noção   e que volta a ver na Road to WrestleMania e depois baza. Pelo menos parece.

Dave Metlzer escreveu:Roman Reigns is still set to be the star of the show, in essentially the same position he was in a year ago. Reigns will be going against a WWE champion who is going to be cheered like crazy over him, even though the object of the match is for it to be his breakout performance and solidify him as the top babyface in the company. As of right now, the plan is for Reigns to go over and be the top babyface in the company for years to come. Vince McMahon wants this to be the springboard for several years of Reigns in the position formerly held by John Cena. And it’s very clear he’s not going to be cheered. Of all the wrestlers Reigns could face that would be the biggest drawing opponents for him unless a new guy is elevated to the top level, they are Cena, Undertaker, Brock Lesnar and possibly Dean Ambrose if he’s elevated properly. Probably right underneath that is Seth Rollins. All except Rollins are babyfaces, and there is strong belief the crowd will turn Rollins babyface upon his return, and he’d be more effective in that role. But just by the numbers game, when you’ve got The League of Nations and Kevin Owens as the top heels, and Owens, with the most potential out of that group being the one who doesn’t have a Vince McMahon main eventer look, they may fight to keep Rollins on the heel side. There’s also Randy Orton returning shortly, who is another babyface, but one who is better as a heel.

WWE is coming off a period where the prior top face, John Cena, was routinely booed most weeks on television, heavily in the larger markets, and even more on the big PPV shows. At the same time, nobody in the company moved merchandise, sold tickets, and for much of that period, garnered response, both positive and negative like Cena.

With Reigns, in many ways you have a lesser Cena. His personality isn’t strong. Like with Cena, he’s far from the best or most versatile in-ring performer, but he works hard every night. Like Cena, he can have tremendous matches in main events and then people criticize him as a bad wrestler.
But he is not as big a star as Cena, and this is with years of getting him ready. The audience at Fast Lane and at Raw booed him heavily when he’s supposed to have his most momentum building to his big win. At the same time, he does well in main events at house shows. His merchandise numbers are good, although nowhere near Cena level.
He has the look to be a star and he’s a great athlete who works hard. The problem is, the audience make up of wrestling has changed greatly and the main attributes that people look at to be the top guy, essentially looks, are less important because it’s an audience that for the most part doesn’t care in a money way about looks. But like all entertainment businesses, decisions are made based on looks and the perception that looks are the key factor in being a top star.

Perhaps in another era, based on the standards of that era, Reigns would be the guy to lead the company for the next five years. But no amount of knowing what used to work or thinking what should work can cover up, that today, this didn’t work. You can analyze why, and I’ve heard it from the smartest guys in the business, and some who may not be so smart. But none of those reasons, whether they are right or wrong, changes that no matter how things should have gone, and how crowds should have reacted, they didn’t. And going into WrestleMania, they aren’t going to change, particularly with the audience that travels to that show loving HHH. He’s the guy who gave them their NXT and him clearly wanting that adulation while winking that he’s playing bad guy on television and that the angles on the show don’t count.

But as a part-time wrestler, HHH’s role was to set up the new star, which means losing the title, unless Vince McMahon gets cold feet again. But this time, there’s really no answer. The most popular wrestler, Brock Lesnar, is also part-time. Dean Ambrose isn’t Vince McMahon’s type. They can go back to Cena as the default guy, but they’ve got nobody in developmental right now that that fully fits the standards they want as a new Cena. That’s not to say that putting a likeable character like Sami Zayn in that spot to today’s audience that it may not work. It probably will. But that requires Vince McMahon to see wrestling as something different than he sees it.
And at this point, it doesn’t seem to matter. Business is what business is. There are no major difference makers, except maybe for a unique match here and there. Whether Roman Reigns or Sami Zayn or Dean Ambrose is the face of the company, it’ s not 1987 when you change the world champion and put the wrong guy with the belt and business goes to hell. The story of the last several years has been the struggle between the hardcore fans and the decision makers relying on what the standards once were and aren’t any longer. And in the end, none of this seems to have any bearing on the bottom line.

DA BAD GUY escreveu:A audiência só mudou porque a WWE deixou de tentar captar a atenção dos fãs casuais e a apresentação do produto e dos wrestlers é aborrecida e enfadonha.

O Hunter recebe reações positivas pelos smarks - que querem enterrar o Reigns consequentemente - no entanto, ele é o maior apoiante do Reigns nos bastidores juntamente com o Vince.

Also, o Reigns não tem uma personalidade tão forte tal como o Cena também não tinha como tem agora no início da run como top dog. E o Meltzer também elogiou a maneira como ele (e o Cesaro) falava ao mic numa conferência, ou algo do género, de um jogo da WWE, por isso é mais um que é enterrado pelo booking terrível da WWE.

Para terminar, não percebo como é que um público de smarks que valoriza tanto o in-ring work, acha que o Ambrose é superior ao Reigns, mas pronto, wtv, cenas de Wrestling.