Highly suggest checking out the Finn Balor vs Kevin Owens match from tonight's episode of NXT. Fantastic match.
I disagree. Lesnar is a cash cow. Sell him on the WWE Network. You don't spoil Hogan, Rock, Austin, Sting, Undertaker, HHH, etc on free TV. 3-4 title defenses with the kind of punishment Lesnar is willing to endure and inflict is a spectacle. Keep it special. Keep the IC and U.S. titles with top guys and #1 contender tourneys to round out the smaller PPV's
It really was a great match, even more impressive was less about them doing a ton of high spots, and more about outstanding psychology. Good lord, Kevin Owens actually sold the after-effects of an armbar rest hold for nearly an entire sequence! Balor sold the knee incredibly well, and it played into a finish that managed to leave both guys looking like legitimate threats, and leaves the obvious angle of Finn going super saiyan to win a rematch. More than anything, that was a Raw-style match that was held up by both performers; it's not at all a stretch to squint and sub in Bray Wyatt for Kevin Owens, or Daniel Bryan for Finn Balor, and the match would have played out in a similar way. Pure fantasy booking, I'd love to see a Bray Wyatt-Finn Balor program; after Bray loses to Taker at WM, I'd have him steadily build up a stable similar to the Ministry of Darkness; rescue the Ascension from the wasteland, put the leash back on Luke Harper, and debut this clean-good looking guy who seemingly doesn't belong in the group. Put him only next to the biggest guys to make him look physically small, and don't let him talk. But make it clear that everyone in the group is a little afraid of him. Have him do his finishing maneuver after the new Family beats down all the faces on the roster, starting with Zach Ryder and ending with Dean Ambrose. Get Ziggler or Ryback or some mid-card face to challenge Wyatt to a match as revenge for them running amok on the mid-card. Have Bray only agree if that face can defeat his "caged demon" at Summerslam, reveal that his chosen champion is Balor, and give him his own full entrance complete with the bodypaint in a debut singles win. Have him wrestle as a face; he'll get over despite being associated with a heel stable. At Night of Champions, have Bray take the IC belt via interference from the family, and have him deface the heck out of it, disrespect it, and never defend it without DQ interference from his goons. Have him win the rematch at HIAC, and captain the new family to a traditional survivor series match win. Balor causes an accidental loss for Bray during a tables match at TLC when he misses a double foot stomp, breaks a table, and causes Bray to fall onto the previously broken table, ref thinks the match is over. Bray is getting suspicious about Finn's loyalty, but trusts him in the Royal Rumble, and the Family wrecks house until Bray turns on Balor and eliminates him. The next night on Raw, have him kick Balor out of the group, and turn Finn face. Let him earn an IC shot at Fastlane for Wrestlemania 32, then give him the chance to pick a cage match pinfall/submission only stip to keep the rest of the family out, then let him get his Wrestlemania moment with a double foot stomp off the top of the cage to win. Post-Wrestlemania Raw, have him be battered, bruised, and carried in by all the wrestlers whom the Family had terrorized over the last 9 months, and with the freshly cleaned strap on his shoulder.
Easily the best divas match on raw in years. My problem with Paige is those damn brown spots on her inner thighs. Bruising or something. It's too distracting.
From somebody who is as pale as she is, we don't bruise easier, but everything is noticeable. A bruise on a normal person can be hard to see, on us pale folk it jumps out. And god yes would hit. There are few things I wouldn't do for the chance to disappoint her in bed.
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He's the champion, though. What kind of champion only wrestles with the frequency of one day a month (days of PPVs)? It just wouldn't make sense. Now that Lesnar is 100% WWE, they should put him on TV more.
It marginalizes the money in the bank aspect too, since there'll only be 3-4 PPVs and 3-4 Raws where the briefcase can be cashed. Not a huge problem in comparison to the champ only being on like 10% of the programming, but you can't go year round where the champ only does video promos and Heyman does all his talking otherwise.
My points didn't really connect, but if the briefcase can only be cashed on 3-4 PPVs, then it only widens the divide between the good and bad PPVs. Perhaps this will serve as an attempt to have the lesser titles carry the lesser PPVs.
