KaiserGlider wrote:Yes, you could argue that almost everyone is used badly, but nobody else since Cena has gotten the push Roman has.
Right. And Cena was also hated. There's no reason to think that the next guy will be any different.
Reigns is a better performer than Cena, but was the more hated of the two. Because the WWE's booking is getting worse over time and the fans patience for it is running thinner. As a character Reigns was more phony, more corporate, and more branded than Cena. And he was pushed down people's throats even harder. The next chosen guy will be treated the same, and it'll keep getting worse over time.
The company is horrible at booking faces. This has been an issue since Eddie Guerrero passed. And it's always worst when it comes to the top face in the company, who gets more television time and is naturally under more scrutiny.
If Reigns doesn't make a quick recovery, my guess is that they're going to go with Braun or Drew as their replacement top guy. Braun is quite a limited, one dimensional performer, who is already starting to feel a little over-branded. Nobody knows yet how Drew would be treated as a top babyface, but I can't see his booking being any better. They will continue to get this wrong, because they've been getting almost everything wrong for the last few years. Vince McMahon just isn't a competent storyteller these days.
The biggest problem with the Reigns push is that WWE showed that they are unwilling to give the fans what they want. I think that's what people reacted to most. It wasn't so much that they thought Reigns sucked as the top guy, it was more that they were angry that they had told WWE they wanted someone else and the company ignored them. First it was Bryan, then it was Styles, then it was Seth. But Vince McMahon and Kevin Dunn are still those same stubborn bastards. Now that Reigns is gone, they're not going to look at the roster and see who the most popular guy is and push him to the moon. That's not how they work. They're going to find a guy that they like, and strap a rocket to his back, and push him
their way.
Reigns the performer wasn't the problem, it was the people writing for him. Those writers haven't gone away.