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Just throwing this out there, but whoever gets Central States ought to get 1st draft pick. The only person you could even contemplate using your save on is Manny Fernandez and he wouldn't get saved in any other territory.

Can you compare HHH to Mr. Electricity Steve Regal for old times sake? HHH would have been a shitty Ralphus because he would have tried to mug the camera for more time and actively try to get himself over. HHH isn't going to want to be the butt of the joke.

Because he has "buried" their favorite heels multiple times by winning his feuds with them. The vast majority of the Cena haters reasoning doesn't go beyond "he only does 3 moves/he always buries people/blah blah Superman blah blah" Of course that 3 moves argument is bullshit because no one who uses it applies it across the board. The same people who would bash Cena using that argument would defend Dean Ambrose if someone said the same thing about him because "well it's WWE's fault he doesn't do more moves"

Yea trying to get all 17 people on at the same time for a draft may be an issue.

Scott Steiner doesn't belong in that group. He was as good a choice as anyone, I would argue maybe the best choice, to be the top heel after some time in 1999.

I'm not shitting on La Parka, I like La Parka. But people remember Sid too and he was a guy who got a LOT of chances to draw on top and he couldn't. Being over is not the same thing as people able to draw.

I don't think La Parka's inability to be a main eventer has anything to do with him being Mexican and everything to do with him not being able to cut promos and wrestling in a skeleton costume. Yes, that skeleton costume made him stand out from the other luchadores but it's not a main event gimmick. Eddy had a higher ceiling despite being smaller due to his ability to cut promos and play both heel and face.

I think WWE has already gone way too far in painting the company and it's owners as the bad guys and should really be working to undo that damage instead of ramping it up. They've worked people so hard that now anyone who the fans see as "the company's" guy gets a backlash, even if people were really into him before i.e. Roman Reigns.

But what is the point? So people on the internet can write how awesome it is that Cena turned heel? Who is going to make up the ticket & t-shirt sales? You want to pin all your hopes on Daniel Bryan???

Not in a WWE PG environment. And you act like a heel doing bad things automatically gets a heel reaction these days. On paper, someone attacking the lead announcer and throwing him in the ring so they can hit their finisher on him so he can get stretchered out is about the biggest heel move you can make. Brock Lesnar got cheered like crazy. (It's Michael Cole, but honestly you put J.R. in that situation and Lesnar still gets cheered)

This is as good a choice as any but even Savage started to be seen at a tier below the very top especially after he became a 2nd fiddle in the nWo. But he did do a lot to help make DDP so yea he could have done a lot of good against an Eddy or a Benoit.

I don't know that WCW really had a true main event guy who could work with someone beneath him and help make them the way that Bret Hart could in WWF. Hart was not the same in WCW, he was more at the Eddy/Benoit level than the Hogan/Goldberg level. I think JVK is definitely right about La Parka. They could have done more with him, but that doesn't mean he could have been a real top guy, not even close. There is this weird thing where anyone who gets good crowd reactions is now suddenly looked at as someone who could or "should" be a main eventer. But getting crowd reactions and being someone people will PAY MONEY to see is different. Otherwise Sid would have been one of the biggest draws of all time. But pretty much no one was buying tickets to see Sid even if he would sometimes get the loudest reaction on the card.

Yes. It never stopped them from cheering for The Rock.

Hulk Hogan couldn't have had an effective heel turn in 1993 WWF. It didn't matter that he wasn't the same Hulk Hogan that took over the world in 1984 and that the crowds were nowhere near as into him as they were at the beginning of his run. I think Cena is in the same boat, you can't turn him heel in WWE. He could go somewhere else, to NXT or ROH and be a heel, but not in WWE. Because his heel turn won't generate real heat, it will generate "fuck you, you made my kid cry" heat from parents of kids who are Cena fans and elicit "yes, he finally did it, oh my god I'm so happy!!!" cheers from the audience that is booing him now. You risk alienating and pushing away the fan base you most rely on to buy tickets and merchandise just to appease a bunch of people who are fickle as hell and will now be giving your top heel massive babyface reactions. I don't see the benefit from a business perspective to turn Cena heel.

They have some weird chemistry that when you put them in the ring together the crowd just can not and will not give a fuck. Pretty much every time I've seen them wrestle on TV in the past couple years it's either led to the crowd turning on the match and getting themselves over with stupid chants or just sitting on their hands the whole time.

I didn't know how much Batista you had seen so I didn't want you to just write him off as worthless based on him vs. Big Show. The only thing worth watching in the match is how much Batista gets rattled by the crowd turning on his match.

1. Southwest 2. Florida 3. Montreal

Batista was capable of some really good stuff. He just wasn't a guy that worked well against big lumbering types. He had bad series with Khali, Big Show & JBL but he might be The Undertaker's best opponent for as many good matches as they had, the 3 match HHH series was really good and I enjoyed all his matches against Cena. He also held up his end of the bargain in the little Rey/Batista vs. MNM series.

If superman had a defective finisher that people have to kick out of at least twice before being put away. I couldn't believe people were actually complaining that Rusev only took one AA. Imagine that! Only ONE finisher! This isn't really fair because you are treating all finishers as equal and you don't watch regularly. Yet at the same time you reference the Royal Rumble match where he does 3 of them in a row like a rolling german. Everyone kicks out of one AA now. Some finishers don't ever really get kicked out of (has anyone kicked out of Big Show's KO punch?) and some do. We can argue how stupid that is (it's really stupid and I have been beating the "Cena needs a new finisher" drum for a while) but you can't just ignore how half the roster has kicked out of the first one, including a lot of guys that were lower on the pecking order than "undefeated for a year" Rusev.

Like when he and CM Punk went even further than the Brock deal with Punk & Austin doing this in the same room together pretty much just for the sake of it?

I don't see Austin really coming back. He did this same "build up a match that isn't going to happen" thing when he had that interview with CM Punk & JR for whatever video game was coming out at the time.

This was pretty tough. Then I remember the $10,000 challenge match from Memphis and Bundy got my vote. I am really not sure how much better Gang is in the ring, except that's probably more consistent. The best Bundy matches I have seen were pretty damn good.

Haven't seen the match yet, but Satancio also wasn't above faking that he was fouled or taking a win that way.

Titanes songs are the best.

Is the Sweet Brown Sugar in Southwest Koko B. Ware?