Who deserves a push and how would you achieve it?

[kylexxx]

Which wrestlers would you like to receive a push and how would you achieve it? Would you give them a new gimmick, if so, what would it be? Maybe a new finisher? Anyway you can think of too give someone a push.

My pick would be CM punk.

He is an amazing athlete and wrestler who sadly is being held back in the wwe. He needs to go back to his ROH days, be the heel that fits his character better then a face and get back the pepsi plunge and anaconda vise. His gimmick has so much potential, and countless possible fueds.

If stone cold is coming back for a match at WMXXV then this could be a perfect fued to bring him into. Punk claims he is the greatest wrestler ever due to him being better then everyone cause he doesn't drink etc, and then attack stone cold through a handful of promos which could then see him have a few altercations leading into a match.

Or maybe one with a returning jeff hardy. Would really turn the fans against him.

What are your thoughts?

[TomSmithUK]

MVP

All the way. He needs the WHC strap by the end of the year. He's probably the best heel in the company, there's no 'cool' aspect to him like Edge, and no tweeners that would look heel against him like Orton has in Cena.

He's gonna lose in his program with Matt Hardy, which will make him free for a Main Event run (they won't cock up the US title like they did the IC on Raw, i mean come on, IC champ running for title???)

He should have won money in the bank really, it doesn't work with a face, unless it would be like Jeff Hardy, who cashed it in, in advance going into his hometown. Have MVP cleanly beat someone like Batista in a number 1 contender match.

Have him pick up a cheap win on Taker for the belt, nobody does him clean, and especially not a heel

[AnthonyMango/NoFate007]

Just a few examples...

Kennedy - I'd have him feud with Jericho and eventually defeat him for the IC title. Give him a rather long run until he's legitimate enough to challenge for the WWE title.

Morrison - King of the Ring. Use that as the catalyst for his push. This guy's got it all.

Miz / Kenny Dykstra - I'd team them up and put them as two potential tag team champions. At the same time, they'd feud with Matt Hardy over the US title. Perhaps the Miz could be the one to take it from him. They can be another "trio stable" underneath Morrison the same as Edge has his "Rated R-Entourage".

Carlito - I'd move him over to ECW to take Burke's place.

Ryder & Hawkins - Have them win Raw's tag team championship via some cheating method that Edge teaches them. As I've said before, I want Edge to take Orton's place on Raw, as they both have exhausted all their feuds.

Burke - Draft to Raw. Feud for the IC title. Takes Carlito's place on Raw.

[agentm005]

I would love to see some guys like Shelton Benjamin and Elijah Burke get a push. They were pretty hyped up upon entering ECW and neither has even really had a serious push at a major title...I think both men are extremely talented, especially Shelton, who has been around a bit longer.

We have seen Shelton do some pretty incredible things in the ring, especially considering how few high-profile matches he has been involved in. In order to give him a solid push, though, I think you would need to move him over to Smackdown to content for the US Championship or Raw for the Intercontinental Championship. In order for Shelton to flourish, he needs to work his way up from the mid-card to the upper mid-card/main event level, ala Jeff Hardy (granted, Shelton doesn't have nearly the fan support that Jeff does).

I think a good idea in order to give a lot of midcarders more of a push would be to move them to ECW (which is in lack of talent and diversity to begin with) and bring back the ECW TV Title. Take some guys from Raw and Smackdown who aren't being used much and you could easily make the ECW TV title as prominent as the IC and US titles. I think some programs involving the likes of Shelton, Elijah, Kofi Kingston, Carlito, Santino, Charlie Haas, Cody Rhodes, Paul Burchill, Super Crazy, Chuck Palumbo, Jamie Noble, Kenny Dykstra, Vladimir Kozlov, etc. Now obviously you can't just take all these guys to ECW, but I could see some good programs for ECW involved with many of these wrestlers. Plus, it would not only push the wrestlers upwards a bit, it would also push ECW in general. It would also help these guys out in the long run when contending for bigger name titles...It is never a bad thing to have held championship gold in the past when working a program involving another title. Make its more believable, in my opinion

[Monkey Winchester]

I'm Going to catch some heat for saying this but Matt "Frickin" Hardy.

He has all the tools in the world. He has charisma, hes very skilled in the ring, fans love him. He was red hot coming back from getting "Fired" and I use that term loosely as I believe it was a work. You know what WWE did with him. They Buried him. The fued with him and Edge couldve went on for a long time but they chose to stop it fast.

Then he went to smackdown and got lost in the shuffle and he lost all his momentum. Finally last year they put him in an excellent fued with MVP. Then he got injured. I hope they keep building him up because he is one of the most talented people that WWE has right now. He is one of the few people that have been around a long time and its time they reward him with a HUGE push.

[The Mark of Zur-En-Arrh]

I'd have to go with Kennedy, he got a gr8 push on Smackdown, beating 8 former champs during 2006, had a couple of title shots against Batista and Lashley, went to Raw and he's floudered ever since. Defeating HBK and winning MITB with no follow up is all he achieved in 2007 (altho that's because of suspensions and injuries), and now he's been off tv for a month doing a movie and most people have stopped caring.
He shud be in KOTR tomorrow night and win it. King Kennedy has a ring to it don't you think?

[bwakagr8ness]

i agree with the Kennedy angle. The guy has some real talent and needs the chance to prove it. he at least deserves the IC title and a long run with it. i dont honestly think he is World title status with the high-card superstars, but he is right below which would make him a contender for the intercontinental championship. I just cant go with the Matt Hardy angle tho, im just not impressed with his in ring abilities and lets face it he is awful on the mic, i just have a feeling that they are going to have the guy beat MVP at backlash which is also a bad idea. take jeff and matt hardy off of the singles card and make them a tag team again which is very so needed, being the fact that there is no really good tag team ne more. the WWE really needs to concentrate on re-building the tag team division, b/c they have enough really good singles competitors to wrestle and feud for title and non-title matches in all 3 brands. Tag teams tho, they should just have one set of tag team titles instead of 2 and have all the tage teams from all brbands compete for one set of tag titles. that way it would boost the tag division.

[Mighty NorCal]

Originally Posted by kylexxx

My pick would be CM punk.

He is an amazing athlete and wrestler who sadly is being held back in the wwe

yOU FOR REAL BRO?? being held back?? By held back, do you really mean getting pushed to the moon despite being extremely sloppy and getting very little pops when he enters?? Uuuum he won money in the bank, despite being NOWERE near being ready for title match main event status?? So how is the WWE holding him back?? He is being pushed far BEYOND his abilities, if anything.

BTW this thread has been done a million differnt times, and different ways. But I shall drone on with the same things that are fairly easily rcognized....

Kennedy, Morrison, Shelton Benjamin, Elijah Burke. One of these guys could have the push started this monday night with KOR, especially since all of them have a cocky heel gimmick, in varying degrees. Something like this would give them yet another thing to be braggadocious about.

[xmoshx]

im goin wit john morrison ever since he dropped the johnny nitro name he has really stepped up his promo's and wrestling ability i liked him as the ecw champ and he showed what he could do in the mitb match and will be a big time player in the wwe if not by the end of this year by next

[tbanger]

i think when ppl are saying punk is being held back they mean that his move set is being limited. i think if he was given a bit more freedom ppl would start to see him as a better package. perhaps with more freedom of move selection he would be less sloppy.

atho i actually like punks work. ive seen some pretty good matches with him in. i think he needs to be on raw, he wont become a heel because thats not what wwe want to do with him. But i think he can become a bit of a stronger face on raw with more mic time. as they say - practice makes perfect!