Alberto Del Rio Is The New World Heavyweight Champion

[SDS1582]

The timing of this title change is interesting in that we're close to the Rumble and we know DZ is going to cash in soon.
With reports that they want the main event for the world title at WM to be Sheamus vs. Orton, that means that Sheamus or Orton has to get the belt at either the Rumble or Elimination Chamber. I'm assuming we're going to have an ADR-Big Show rematch at the Rumble for the belt. Meaning that either Sheamus or Orton will win the World title at the Elimination Chamber. If that's the case, then why give ADR the belt?

Well, some would say it's so a face champ has the belt for DZ to cash in on. If that's the case, again, he's going to drop it to Sheamus or Orton prior to WM, so after all that build for DZ, why do that?

The best option, IMO is for DZ to cash in MITB at WM on the winner of the World Title match.

So again, I ask, why give ADR the belt right now? At this point, it makes very little sense, unless Big Show has some kind of injury that we don't know about.

[ndotk2012]

Personally I think Del Rio is one of the best WWE in ring performers and regardless of how long his title reign is I'd expect some pretty decent matches whilst he is Champion...

Someone stated earlier that Lilian Garcia never mentioned a time limit in which Dolph Ziggler must cash in when he won the WHC MITB contract. True I have never heard any commentator mention this as well so personally I see Sheamus Orton for WHC title at Wrestlemania.

Where would this leave Del Rio & Ziggler? Who knows with the WWE!

[Slash-LN]

I didn't watch Smackdown this week and there was a title change? Awesome.

I'm not a fan of the Big Show so I wasn't a fan of him being champion. I'm even less of a fan of ADR so I care even less about him being champion. Looking at the top contenders on Smackdown (Big Show, Sheamus, Randy Orton and ADR) there is no one I want to see as champion so I lose out anyway.

I haven't seen enough of ADR as a face to really determine what kind of face champion he'll be but at least Ricardo is awesome.

[SDS1582]

Originally Posted by ndotk2012

Personally I think Del Rio is one of the best WWE in ring performers and regardless of how long his title reign is I'd expect some pretty decent matches whilst he is Champion...

Someone stated earlier that Lilian Garcia never mentioned a time limit in which Dolph Ziggler must cash in when he won the WHC MITB contract. True I have never heard any commentator mention this as well so personally I see Sheamus Orton for WHC title at Wrestlemania.

Where would this leave Del Rio & Ziggler? Who knows with the WWE!

I thought that the MITB holder has a year to cash in the case or else they lose it. Someone told me that the MITB holder has to cash it in by WM. So, I'm not sure what the correct answer is.

[berlinbrawler]

The whole thing strikes me as odd for several reasons.

For starters I thought Big Show was doing a nice job as champion. I admit I'm probably in the minority on this one, seeing as I'm one of the very few who will admit that Show has some athletic ability and can have great matches.

To just unceremoniously end it just like that seems weird. Why did they have Show beat their top Smackdown guy Sheamus over and over just to hurriedly pass the belt to someone else? All this effort to make him look like this unbeatable monster to just pull the plug out of the blue? Not even at a PPV? It makes no sense.

Why Alberto del Rio? I like Berto, but I don't think he's "there." He was somewhat struggling to be relevant as a bad guy. As a good guy I'm not feeling him at all. He wants to protect his buddy Ricardo. Ugh. Lame. Not buying it. And it's not just me. The crowd reaction to babyface Berto is lukewarm at best. They're not even sure yet he's really a babyface. Everything about him screams heel - the music, the look, his elitist aura. Sometimes there are characters that just aren't babyface-material at all and Berto is definitely one of them.

The only thing that would make sense to me would be if Show was injured or suspended or whatever and they had to get the belt off him quickly, so they came up with this emergency plan. But I haven't heard anything to that end, so apparently that's not the case.

Simply poor booking.

[info62]

Originally Posted by SDS1582

I thought that the MITB holder has a year to cash in the case or else they lose it. Someone told me that the MITB holder has to cash it in by WM. So, I'm not sure what the correct answer is.

I think it's a year. People say by WM because MITB originally being a WM event meant that the next 'Mania was one year away. Since MITB has it's own PPV now I'm guessing the deadline is the next MITB pay-per-view.

As for ADR winning the title. I finally watched Smackdown, and I don't like that there was no build up for this, no feud, just a match and ADR wins. I can't complain too much since ADR is my favorite in WWE right now, so I'm obviously happy for the moment. But it's random and like others have said, it just makes me think that he just won so Ziggler can cash in on him. Because it's just strange that he would win in the middle of his turn when he's still trying to get the crowd behind him.

[MCMG]

I enjoyed the LMS match and it was actually a good moment when he won the belt; however, I cannot see his reign lasting. I can't see him holding the belt going into Wrestlemania so i firmly believe that Ziggler cashes in before that. It will be a short but very good title reign for ADR.