Alpha Centauri
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Originally posted by The Core
Hmm..never participated in this thread.Putting Lashley against Masters was a stupid move. Not so much because of the size differential, but because it's totally unnecessary. Lashley is over because he's talented. He can wrestle. He's huge. You don't need an on again-off again midcarder putting him over. I think he'll knock off Umaga, whom I have a great dislike for. He goes from some stupid superhero faction with Rosey to being nothing more than Vince's version of Samoa Joe, only Umaga has nothing but squash matches and hardly ever "wrestles". Just wag his tongue..make noises and throw his weight around every night. Besides, in all those "Billionaire" interviews, everyone calls for Donald Trump to get his head shaved because they don't know who Vince McMahon is, nor care probably.
Cena is stale, he needs to drop the belt, but not to Shawn Michaels.
Batista deserves nothing, IMO. He's in the WWE because of Triple H. Outside of that, he's slow, has no "wrestling" skills, is a terrible person IRL, and has nothing but his physique going for him. To end the Undertaker's streak with such an uncredible "talent" would be a real shitty way to send Taker out.
..and once Lashey knocks off Umaga, get him out of ECW. Please. It's like a real life "Billy Madison". Making someone prove themselves in lower ranks when they're clearly better than all of them, plus the majority of the RAW/SD talent as it is.
It's a well known fact that Vince likes big guys. It doesn't matter if they're good or not, he just likes big guys. Nathan Jones was brought in with all the fanfare, and despite being an inhumanly sized being (Proportionately.), was awful and Batista is Brock Lesnar without being anywhere close to believable or good. Bobby Lashley not only lacks stamina, but look at his move list, he's already stopped using The Dominator now, they've gave him a crappy running powerslam.
Brock came in, started destroying people with vicious moves, or ordinary moves that looked killer, and got over. That said, he did botch a lot. Goldberg is a brilliant example of how it was done well. WCW was packed so full of employees that he had plenty of shit wrestlers to rack up wins against, but it didn't make his streak seem lame. He had brilliant moves too, as did Scott Steiner, who was great in WCW, now he's some idiot. Chris Masters, another man who could benefit from moves that made you believe his muscles were for anything but show, yet they give him a full nelson. What happened to Sid, Mike Awesome (Ok he's dead, but you get the point) and other people who used to make people cringe by doing powerbombs?
Even Kevin Nash had potential that wasn't really used (Despite being WWF champ for 2 years), though he didn't help himself. I think he just didn't have many he liked working with. Him and Shawn had great matches, but they more or less ruled the booking roost back then.
Bobby Lashley is the first promising "big guy" in ages, but he'll come to nothing. It's a shame. Just another waste, like RVD, Booker T and Kane before him, and CM Punk to follow, or worst of all, Nova (Simon Dean the fitness guy, to all you who are new.).
-AC