15 thoughts on “Wow!”

  2. I just don’t get how they couldn’t see that coming.  Half the Rumble gets the Rey Mysterio Effect and the “Die, Roman, Die” chants probably start tomorrow night.

  7. It was Philly.  Philly is always unpredictable/goes against the expected, so I can’t remotely agree that them cheering for Rusev is a definition of anything but “it was Philly”.  

    Honestly, Philly was pissed off once Bubba Ray got eliminated.  Add DB to that, and yeah, they were gonna boo who they were supposed to cheer and root for others. 

  11. Due to the weather, they’re airing it on RAW. Wow, the crowd response to Reigns was…surprising.

    I didn’t expect that kind of massive negative reaction. (Even though you were all talking about it.  I figured…nah…it couldn’t have been that bad. I was wrong.)

  13. So…it felt like the really serious boos didn’t start until there were like…four guys left in the ring (Kane, Show, Ambrose, and Reigns).  Yeah, there were some when Bryan was put out of the match, but it really amped up later, I think about when Ziggler was eliminated.

    So…why is that?  Is the WWE just pushing Reigns too hard, and the crowd is reacting to that?  They were actually chanting for Rusev over Reigns.  Rusev’s more fun to watch wrestle, I’ll admit…but still.  As was mentioned before, it’s a failure to have the crowd cheering Rusev.

  14. It’s a combination of factors, for sure. First of all, Reigns has had a string of terrible, just laughably bad promos recently, which I really do think have had an effect on how he’s being perceived. He’s the clearly anointed “next big thing,” which makes a lot of fans reflexively shit on it because “we don’t want to be told who to like”. And his in-ring work is improving, but not really up to the level of putting on great matches – all of his amazing in-ring moments were as part of the Shield, or in the Rumble last year.

    I mean, last time this year, we all fucking loved Handsome Prince Roman Reigns spearing the shit out of everyone – but he had Ambrose and Rollins to carry the storylines around him.

    And he’s, honestly, in the shadow of the populist underdog babyfaces in the company. Daniel Bryan, of course, but also Ziggler – at Survivor Series, Ziggler had such an amazing performance, was white-hot, and has just been shuffled back into the mid-card since.

    I don’t think it’s as simple as “the WWE hates wrestlers who get over by themselves” (again, see Bryan, Daniel and his Wrestlemania 30 performance). But I do think that the audience wants to feel like the guys they like for being good wrestlers should be at the top, not like the guys at the top have to win them over by being good wrestlers, y’know?

  15. I think the other thing is that it became dead obvious who was going to win the match at the end. I really liked Ambrose and Reigns looking at each other and creating a truce (which would have made for a fascinating new storyline)…but as soon as Ambrose got tossed out, I knew what was happening and didn’t care anymore. I actually half-missed the Rusev swerve and would have loved to see Rusev finish off Reigns. I just want to see something that isn’t telegraphed 3 months in advance!

    The Authority storyline is SO DULL with no one particularly fighting against it. TripleH and Stephanie just glare at people when Kane and/or Big Show lose. When Triple H interfered in the Cena/Lesnar match, they brought Sting in to fix things up. That was awesome! Total swerve!

    I’m starting to rant, so I’ll stop now.

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