If J.R Was To Be Fired To Further This Storyline....

[Pay Per Ghost]

...how would you do it?


Sure you could go the kayfabe route like they always have. Wait till Oklahoma turns up on the Raw dates and BAM! A kick to the colon!



But see this is a transparent, hipster world we live in. A world where a smattering of fans can start a chant like 'Goldberg', and people who have only the slightest idea of how Goldberg used to work would scream so; at someone who looks or works nothing like Goldberg! No see you'd fire a beloved character like J.R out of nowhere. Keep it low-key and shit, and make everybody at the office NOT comment on it. That's how you make it real.



Thicke can shut the fuck about blurred lines because WWE is running amok with it. I have heard remarks and taunts made that I never thought I would on WWE TV. Trips calling the Rated R Experiment an abject failure is only the tip of the iceberg. They are doing an impeccable job in making you believe, that they are running the ship as they bally well wish to. And they are.




Now there will be a small section chanting for J.R come Monday, but the fact is Trips won't address it to make it even seem that much more real. Its psychology 101, he'll use the firing of J.R at some due point where it will make maximum impact because addressing it right now, may arouse suspicions of kayfabe. Now its a weird situation this, do we bitch about the programming? Do we daresay 'Fuck Hunter stop making Randy Orton stand tall all the time!'? Do we scream 'Long Live J.R!' at this pompous ass? Not yet. And our beloved Okie said this on the Austin podcast, when they built a rivalry down in mid-south, the babyface FINALLY got his comeuppance at the big show down in Louisiana. Same place Mania is happening next year. Till then, he would come this close but to no avail. Its called a build, and I hope and expect WWE to keep the audience's attention for the next 7 months or so for the final blow off at Mania 30.




Now I'm not saying I'm certain that the J.R firing is an angle. I'm saying it's how they'd fire him in today's WWE.

 

[THTRobtaylor]

I doubt there is an agenda as such in this firing - which lets face it, he was.

He got let go because in Vince's eyes someone had to carry the can for a percieved fuck up, much like Finlay rather than doing anything actually wrong.

If they use this in stories, right away it sets the wrong tone - the finality of the statement from Vince, it's terse nature tells me this is real-real and while it wouldn't be the first time (midget Bret) it reminded me very much of Randy Savage's "goodbye" on RAW. "Thanks, but you won't be back".

Perhaps JR mentioned he'd had an offer from TNA? Perhaps he is taking the sauce global? Who knows but if they were gonna do it as a storyline this all makes no sense... he'd show up in the ring, retire and Trips would come down and stop it asking him "Who said you could be out here? Who cares? etc."

 

[Derailed]

Best way for Triple HHH to get heat for this is IMO by him saying i am letting him go as it is best for business or by him saying JR did not fully support him making Randy Orton the face of the company and he is better at spotting talent so he let him go.

 

[It's...Baylariat!]

It's simple:

Have HHH invite JR to Raw in the near future and call it a JR Appreciation Night. Advertise it on Raw as a tribute to Good ol' JR, and even hint around through commentary that there's some rumor that JR might be announcing his retirement and HHH wanted to celebrate his career.

Then you have JR come out, thank the fans and the WWE, then go on about how he'e never hinted about retirement and he'd be a WWE lifer if it were up to him. Of course, this brings out HHH, who tells JR that he's making him look bad and that's not 'best for business'. JR pleads his case saying he wanted to merely set the record straight about his loyalty to the WWE. HHH would then tell JR that if he was loyal at all, he'd simply thank the fans, head up the ramp and eat his damn cake and head back to Oklahoma, not insinuate the WWE's forcing you to leave.

This would lead JR to leave to the back, only for HHH to make JR apologize. JR refuses, saying he doesn't need to because he never said anything out of line. HHH says he called him a liar and that's not good for business. This causes JR to go on a tangent about how nothing HHH's ever done in his career has been best for business but has been best for HHH. JR would go on to say that between the Kliq, DX, him burying deserving talent that HE brought in to get a break, only for them to never see an opportunity because someone who was in the McMahon's ear wouldn't let them get one.

JR then leaves to go up the ramp and then Stephanie walks to the top of the ramp to meet him, then slap him in the face.

After the break, you have JR leaving, only for Vince to show up and ask him who the hell he thinks he is? And says you don't get to leave that easy and says that if you want that retirement pension and royalties from future opportunities, you're gonna have to choose a superstar to fight for you. And whomever you vote for, will face THE SHIELD. And if that superstar loses, then YOU'RE FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRED! Then JR says I won't leave it up to myself, I'll choose three superstars and let these fans decide. Vince says that's just fine and good luck.

Then you leave the voting up to the WWE App and have the choices be Big Show, Dolph Ziggler, or Mark Henry. The vote should go to Show, and while JR's at ringside on commentary 'for the last time', you have Show lose to the Shield and then have Vince fire JR.

 

[Mustang Sally]

Now I'm not saying I'm certain that the J.R firing is an angle. I'm saying it's how they'd fire him in today's WWE.

Could very well be. After all, Edge provided some entertainment this week while no longer under contract with WWE. Why can't J.R. do the same, somewhere down the line?

Someday, it would be interesting to read the true history of what went down with this guy during his years of waning influence and responsibility. Don't think he was fired for some mess-up at the conference with Flair; Ross' path out has been paved for a long time.

Still, remember years ago when he was setting up an announcer's table near the "official" one and calling the matches even though he wasn't supposed to be there? Despite the scripted aspects, I always felt there were a lot of true feelings coming out of that gig. As with the Edge-Matt Hardy-Lita program, you can never fully tell with WWE when life is imitating art. It's one of the things that makes pro wrestling a unique form of entertainment.

I can see a good-guy power grab by J.R. in the future. He can come back for a short program, deliver the goods as he's always done.....and plug his barbeque sauce along the way. I'll cheer for him.

 

[closet_fan]

I guess we'll see if they use this as an angle or not. If the report of them saying JR "retired" as a PR move, I'd think they'd want to sweep it under the rug and not even mention it.

If he was let go, why come back to further a storyline? He's not under contract with them anymore. Edge is (Legends).

 

[NegativeFeedback]

I can see them turning this into a storyline to garner some heat. They obviously aren't going to say they fired JR, but they can say that JR decided to retire because he hated the new regime.

Although if they suspect JR might be jumping ship to another company soon, I can see Triple H deciding it's best to never mention him again on TV, just to avoid giving him publicity.

 

[jimmyrave]

The official line is that JR has retired, so they could always have him back on Raw as a tribute, then have HHH/Stephanie give him a beat down. That would really generate some heat.

 

[Christian Faith]

JR being "fired" on TV has been overdone. Does anybody else remember Linda Mcmahon's bizarre heel turn where she "fired" JR only for that particular angle to never be mentioned again?


It would have been nice to see him get a proper in ring send off but in no way does this need to be turned into an angle.

 

[MCMG]

If has actually retired then it is slightly disrespectful to make an angle out of it. I'd think he deserves a montage on Raw but I doubt that will happen. Option 2 is for them to have Lawler cutting a promo about him and then HHH to come down and say this is "good for business" because J.R was to old or something. Maybe even "firing" Lawler and putting someone like Alex Riley on TV for a month or so could work to gain even more heat and cement that HHH has gone power crazy.

 

[Pay Per Ghost]

Something about this screams work to me some more AFTER the Austin Podcast. Hell! Now I may think this all may lead to Austin heading back for a match at WM 30 and shit. This all could very well be a, a rouge to setup the Rattlesnake.

I don't expect J.R to blast WWE or write a slanderous autobiography or anything any time soon. The fix, may still be in.