Maybe not a believable victory, no, but in pro-wrestling, especially WWE being incredibly over and the face of a brand is more than enough to justify someone as a champion. I honestly believe now more than ever, that Rey is a great choice to be World Heavyweight Champion.
Being incredibly over in a promotion does a lot for you, but it does not make you a credible winner over a guy who stands as noted, 310 pounds and probably 2 - 2½ feet taller than you.
Rey Mysterio is a good choice for a world champion I'll give you that, I generally find him to be somewhat of a fluke champion in terms that he goes by being the underdog of all people, and he is absolutely not, if Rey Mysterio decides to go with the whole "I'm actually not an underdog" while it will kill his entertainment and the amazement behind his victories against big guys, it will make him more liked, at least by me.
Rey Mysterio does not need the championship, he serves better making the talent look strong, he's getting older and is most likely to retire in 2-3 years maximum, and while he's incredibly over, so is Christian, so can Jericho be, but both Christian and Jericho puts talent over rather than holding championships.
So what do you want Rey to be? A jobber that loses every match because a man of his size doesn't look believable wrestling against guys bigger then him. His in-ring work is more entertaining than 95% of the WWE roster and more better than anybody on Smackdown. A guy Rey's size isn't going to be a technical master. I guess you look down on cruiserweights as a whole.
Absolutely not LJL, I do believe that Rey Mysterio should be allowed to have victories, I do not see him as a "credible" main event wrestler, I've always seen him as the upper mid-card wrestler, who gets a mixture of mid-cards and main event feuds.
Rey Mysterio is in his full position to get a victory over a guy like CM Punk, Christian, Dolph Ziggler, those guys, not a guy who stands by far superior to the majority of people in size and most potentially in strength as well.
Again, as I noted earlier, Rey Mysterio doesn't need the world heavyweight championship, he is a decent champion yes, mostly to the mid-card championships when they need the legitimacy, Rey Mysterio does not need to be world champion when people who are up and commers, could blossom in the main event card with the championship, a guy like Jack Swagger, who really hasn't gotten the build he deserved.
And in this case, I'll go against the best post opposing me. And IC, in this case, that goes to Ferbian. The rugged bastard.
I'm not exactly sure if I should consider it a compliment that you'd go against the best post opposing you, or whether the "rugged bastard" should be considered offensive, I'll play along although.
Well, let's look at the shenanigans that occurred in Rey's win, shall we? If you remember, it was actually Punk that was in control of Swaggie. He'd hit the GTS, and then Kane came out and did his whole schtick. Rey hits the 619 on a Swagger already hit with the GTS, and then that splash. What's so unbelievable about that? The small guy snuck the victory in. If anything, the title victory actually makes sense. They didn't make Rey out to be a juggernaut, he won he match after two finishers were hit on Swagger. CM softened him up, and Rey took advantage. If anything, it really is believable how Rey Mysterio won.
There's nothing unbelievable in the fact that he actually pinned him.
It is more in the terms of which he actually managed to hang with these guys, a guy like Big Show, who could, hell probably should be booked in terms of being the "immovable object" or "unstoppable force" because he, with the exception of John Cena, Batista and Sheamus are the only guys that could be booked in the unstoppable force, John and Big Show were the only two that could possibly be booked in the Immovable Object section.
Hanging with a guy like that, and doing it well, is not something that strike me believable.
CM Punk softened up Swagger that's true, but it doesn't make it any less of a thing that makes it odd (at least to me) that Rey Mysterio was the one who managed to capitalize in it, in a match where by size and opponent, from a legitimacy point of view, he would cleanly be the underdog, of underdogs, in a match of underdogs (okay that's a stretch, I know that, but it makes a point).
Maybe Show would have crushed Rey. But Show wasn't involved in the finish, remember. Besides, by your logic, everyone except Swagger should have been crushed by the Big Show. And Swagger has already proven he can't beat Show.
I wouldn't say there's anywhere in my logic saying that Jack Swagger was anywhere near the potential guy to stand toe to toe with Big Show, but he is the most believable of the 3 opponents Show actually had.
I know that he wasn't involved in the finish, which makes for it to be odd that he, no matter the fact that he had gone for a decent amount of time, and had taken a decent amount of punishment, that he was the one to stay down the longest of all the wrestlers.
Big Show got the ring-steps into his knee, and knocked down by CM Punk, it took 2 people, perhaps 3 (I can't really remember if Jack was involved in that particular thing) people to take out Big Show, and he had the longest time to recuperate and return in the ring to stop Rey Mysterio, who had less time to recuperate (from less impact although) to get the pin.
Your winner and new champion, The Big Show. Pardon me for containing my excitement.
No need to pardon, it's all a matter of opinion whether you want to see X person walk out the champion, I admit I wanted Jack or CM Punk to walk out the champion, but I would also have liked to see Big Show become champion, he doesn't need it, as well as Rey doesn't need it (something I have covered, no need to repeat myself,
that much).
First of all, Show could probably give you decent to average matches at best. Swagger's reign has been an abortion, really, as I think he lost more than any champion. He'd have good matches, but also lose. And you don't want your champion losing.
Jack's reign has been an abortion due to bad booking, Sheamus' reign had been an abortion due to bad booking when he had the first reign, a mistake on the behalf of WWE rather than anything, jack could have been build to a damn great champion leading all the way to Summerslam for Undertaker to return (speculated return time) and loose the belt to him, who as well doesn't need the belt, but could be the better one to put Jack over while winning.
Nobody wants their champion to be loosing, unless you're WWE and don't see sense in booking a great champion during their first reign, who isn't looking to be the future face of the company (Brock Lesnar had a good first reign, Stone cold had a good first reign, Hogan had a good first reign, John Cena had a good first reign).
Punk I'll concede. But given the shenanigans that occurred, Punk wasn't winning. And if this leads to the SES VS. The Undertaker in a legitimate feud, I'll be happy.
I would love to see that as well, but I do think it will be CM Punk and the Straight Edge Society vs Kane, ultimately a Brothers of Destruction feud perhaps, even though I find that highly unlikely, it still gives CM Punk and Kane something to do, and to continue building the storyline of Undertaker in the meanwhile.
And great matches. At the least, he'll be champion for only a month. From a wrestling standpoint, I fail to see what's wrong.
Great match indeed, but I don't know how long he will be champion, could be longer, although I do hope you're right, I just do not like to see Rey Mysterio as a champion, but that's a personal taste it seems.
Now from a backstage standpoint? Oh, this is absolute poison. But I discuss that elsewhere...
This right here makes me question some things as well.
First off, wasn't Rey going on a vacation?
Rey hurt Undertaker, and took him out for a few months, that can't possibly be good for your backstage reputation, especially not with a guy like Undertaker, who I really think will sooner or later be too damn pissed with Rey to ever work with him again.
