There's been a lot of talk about how Orton and Christian are over in comparison to each other. I mean, why on Earth would you give a face Christian the world title? He's not nearly as over as Orton. Except, well, he kind of is. His crowd reaction has been growing week after week - you're right. The reaction he received at Over the Limit was one of the biggest, if not the biggest, of the evening and definitely equaled Orton's.
This particularly troubles me when I consider what a very wise man once pointed out; that Orton has been pushed with all the force of a nuclear-powered bulldozer for over half a decade and, meanwhile, Christian's been bounced around the card more than a pretzel crumb on poker night. If Christian can come off the back of a push that's all of one month long and equal - if not outdo - John Cena's number two live on pay-per-view, what could he have done with half a decade's worth of nuclear pushing?
Christian isn't built like a bodybuilder. He doesn't have the looks of a model. In fact, he's only marginally better built and better looking than me, and I'm no prize. However, he's shown that if he's given the ball, he will fucking sprint with it. Every match he's in will become a match of the year candidate, every promo he cuts will be golden and, even when he's booked to be number two, he will make the crowd care about him as if he's number one. It's too bad that the WWE, as the coach in this painfully prolonged metaphor, wants to take him off and put on that child prodigy they picked out seven years ago. He's the guy that's supposed to be the game winner.
If you push hard enough, it'll go in eventually, right?
