John Cena survived this, Edge too and CM Punk went full face before going heel again
Cena did but 80% of the world is also bored to death with his superhero gimmick that he's had going for the past 35 years. Edge, Jericho and Rock have managed to do it, but I think Edge and Jericho turned back and forth fast enough before people could get too bored with either persona.
Punk went full face but he never really did the generic "WWE Universe" sucking up. When he was a face he still spent the majority of the time ripping on his opponents and being rebelious. Lookin back he didn't address the crowd that much when he was a face
Cena did but 80% of the world is also bored to death with his superhero gimmick that he's had going for the past 35 years. Edge, Jericho and Rock have managed to do it, but I think Edge and Jericho turned back and forth fast enough before people could get too bored with either persona.
Punk went full face but he never really did the generic "WWE Universe" sucking up. When he was a face he still spent the majority of the time ripping on his opponents and being rebelious. Lookin back he didn't address the crowd that much when he was a face
Yeah, I don't think Punk's face turn was meant to turn out that way but it did. Punk basically took what R-Truth started a month earlier but instead of cutting promos against Cena and the fan(Little Jimmy's), Punk did it on authority figures(Vince, WWE creative staff), which went well over with the fans. Similar to what SCSA did during fall of '97 when he stunned non-wrestling personnel like JR, King, Vince. Fans ate it up.
I'm still pissed that they cut Truth's push so short. It was like only a month long. One of the best heel turn I can remember in years. They blew it!
You mentioned Bryan in your other post about him getting over with fans. At first I thought he was only over with the indie WWE fans, similar to fan support of Benoit, Jericho and Christian got throughout their WWE career but Bryan actually have a lot of kid fan support too. I think he's actually more over than those 3 guys was back in their heydays.
I like the design of the new belt, but not a fan of all the diamonds and such.
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He looks pretty bad (dunno if you've heard the phone call of him where he constantly repeats "i'm dying" and talks about having vodka for breakfast), but it seems to have worked for Jake Roberts, so maybe DDP can help him too. Hope so, since Scott Hall was my favourite as a kid.
Wow what an idiot. Notoriously unhappy with his position for years, gets injured, comes back with a HUGE push to the world title match at Wrestlemania, and he can't even stay clean at least for 7 weeks??
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Swagger is in the midst of the biggest push of his career and is scheduled to challenge for Alberto Del Rio's World Heavyweight championship at WrestleMania 29. It remains to be seen how WWE will respond to Swagger's DUI & drug arrest, but the following portion of WWE's Wellness Policy could spell trouble for him:
"Any WWE Talent, who is arrested, convicted or who admits to a violation of law relating to use, possession, purchase, sale or distribution of drugs will be in material breach of his/her contract with WWE and subject to immediate dismissal."
"Subject" to immediate dismissal does not mean mandatory dismissal. Countless WWE wrestlers have been arrested for DUI in recent years, however the drug possession charge could really hurt him.
Wow what an idiot. Notoriously unhappy with his position for years, gets injured, comes back with a HUGE push to the world title match at Wrestlemania, and he can't even stay clean at least for 7 weeks??
He did it for the fans. No one wants to see him vs del rio.
Hopefully Sheamus gets himself fired soon
I say replace him with The Godfather at Wrestlemania, with Godfather scoring a decisive victory.
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