Priceless??

[Chill]

I know there's been a lot of threads recently about Legacy but I wanted to start a thread around the topic of 'Priceless'. The other day I watched the promo they cut on RAW after Rhodes betrayed Holly at Night of Champions to side with Dibiase. Anyway, the promo they did was great imo...both displayed a lot of personality on the mic and actually got mic time and in the weeks that followed they were actually allowed to cut regular promos...something of an oddity nowadays for them.

When it was just Rhodes and Dibiase they were main eventing RAW and beating Cena and Batista for the tag titles but now in Legacy they are nothing more than Orton's lackys (and I have tried to find ways of denying this but truth is that is all they are atm). I've been a fan of Rhodes since he first started with WWE and I think he was actually allowed to show more personality with the boring Bob Holly than he is being allowed to do right now....

This is not what I thought was going to happen, now granted we are still in relatively early days yet, Rhodes and Dibiase could still really benefit from being in the group but I just wonder how well they would have coped without Orton???? Would they be more developed than they are now?? or would they have lost direction and crashed and burned??

IMO they would have been just fine on their own, don't get me wrong I like Legacy and it's the main reason I watch RAW atm, but when I watched that early promo, it got me thinking how good Priceless were on their own or at least how good they could have went on to be....

 

[The Palace of Wisdom]

I'll be honest, Priceless, and even the Legacy as a whole, is in a LOT of trouble. They are the blandest and most beaten Main Event stable I think I have ever seen. There is nothing dominant about them, nothing spectacular. They are led by Orton, who nobody can figure out if they want him to be dominant or a pussy, and Rhodes and DiBiase have done virtually nothing since being paired with Orton. They hang out and stand behind him when he cuts a boring and pointless promo, and they get beat by whoever he's feuding with.

If something doesn't happen, Rhodes and DiBiase will never get above a certain point. They haven't made an impact AT ALL on Raw, and they've been teaming up for about a year, paired with Orton for a few months. If their last names were different, they probably would've been ECW'd or released outright by now.

 

[ORTON_RULEZ]

I think when the WWE writers came up with the angle for a 2nd/3rd generation stable it would've sounded great but now they want the New Hart Foundation also its alot less of a choice so rhodes and dibiase are the hawkins and ryder if you will of La Familia, they will get titles again but while the angle of Legacy being beat up all the time it will be cheating or with help, Legacy needs someone like Batista or Umaga bit of muscle won't back down kinda thing and help Rhodes Dibiase as the role Orton has been playing is making THEM look pathetic every week.

 

[Sandman18]

Priceless needs to not be in every Raw main event due to the fact they look weak. This stable needs to be elevated and the way to do that is to have them beat the Colons for the straps. This tag team division should have a tourney leading up to NOC where the winner fights the Colons. WWE has 3 programs wherre the titles can be defended so let the build up happen on these shows. Then the finals should take place on Superstars a few days before the PPV. We now have them get over and look dominant instead of them gettin their ass kicked as Orton's lackeys. All stables are supposed to be formed to build stars and this is not happeneing yet. They need to establish themselves as a tag team and then as singles competitors after a while when Legacy breaks up. DeBiase has a ton of talent but I am not sold on Cody yet. Does anyone else agree that a tag team Tourney would be great here.

 

[SavageTaker]

I think Priceless would have done just fine by themselves. They probably wouldn't have been in as many main events as they have been so far, but they would still be main-eventing eventually.

I don't think that the group would have crashed and burned. They would have stayed in the tag-team division and possibly could have had some good feud with some of the other teams.

I quite honestly would have preferred if they had given team Priceless a longer run as just Rhodes and DiBiase and then later on had them joined Randy Orton and form Legacy.

 

[rnzrkorip]

i am so sick and fucking tired of rhodes and dibiase looking weak week after week after week. why is creative doing this to them? cody gets his ass handed to him virtually the whole time while ted gets a few licks in but that's about it. priceless would have been just fine on their own with one more guy, not orton. i had high hopes for legacy and thought they were great, at least i wanted to keep convincing myself they were great. they have all the talent and potential in the world. we need to start seeing it.

 

[HansChristianFrankenstein]

I'm not a fan of Priceless as I don't consider them to be anything special and feel they're only around because of their last names but besides that point, WWE just doesn't know how to do factions anymore. Their idea of a faction nowadays is a main guy accompanied by a couple weak, carbon copys.

Back in the day, stables consisted of different superstars, each with their own personalties, joining together for a common purpose. Once they joined forces, they didn't start acting like eachother. Every week the announcers mention how much Ted and Cody resemble Orton in the ring now, like it's a good thing. We have an Orton, we don't need two more. It was the same with La Familia. You had Edge as the main guy with his two weak, carbon copys, Ryder and Hawkins and then Chavo and Bam around for jobbing purposes. Evolution was the last time there was actually a stable where everyone held their own instead of just a main eventer and his crew of jobbers. Unless, WWE starts letting stable members have their own characters, nobody's gonna care. Hell, they even had to throw Snuka and Manu out of Legacy because they didn't completely look like mini-Ortons.

 

[uhdorablexloser]

Cody and Ted=Jobbers.

Plain and simple. I kind of laughed when I found out Cody and Triple H were going to be in a match. That was such a damn joke. We all knew what the outcome was going to be.

 

[flaboy]

when i first started hearing of a legacy group forming where they might have carlito run it and others i thought it wasnt going to work but when they made it and put orton in charge i thought that was great. i thought it was going to be orton teaching priceless the way and then later have them with all the gold kind of like evolution. now its kind of like they made the stable to help out orton and be his hinchmen and that sucks cause it semms like priceless never gets over. i think it is bringing down all 3 of them and im one of the biggest orton fans there is they should of kept orton with that story where he had that rage condition and actually put fear in all of wwe and then priceless would be there to increase the fear. and i dont think they should have priceless get involved in every orton match thats whats bringing them down and they still get beat down. im a fan of all 3 of them and all im sayinf is that something needs to change and im not talking about splitting them up.

 

[justme26]

i have been trying to figure out what WWE is trying to do with Legacy and Dibase and Rhodes since the start. I agree with alot of the comments on here, I think theses guys have a lot of talent, but they get beat and pinned all the time. It seems like they either run in during an Orton match and beat on someone, or they are in a 1 on 1 contest and get crushed. When is the last time Rhodes or Dibiase won a singles match? In my humble opinion these guys are in NO shape right now to succeed anytime soon on their own, and are becoming less interesting and less "fearful" each week that goes by. What storyline would be believable now that has Priceless actually dominating something? I have been a fan of the WWE for 15 years, and it just seems like the boat is sailing on these guys and they have not even really got started......

 

[redcorleone]

They're called 'Priceless' because nobody would pay to watch them unless they were with Orton.

 

[Razor Blade Dream]

I agree that they just look like Mini-Ortons and that is fucking bad. I'm kicking this way back, the fucking Heenan Family had an awesome mix of wrestlers. And the best thing was it spanned three wrestling companies. But in WWF you had Bundy, Rick Rude, Mr. Perfect, Andre', Orndoff, Harley Race among others. They all didn't look like each other nor dressed like each other. Imagine Andre' wearing Rick Rude tights? *shudder*
Granted, there were more guys in the Heenan family but they were still able to keep their personalities.
Legacy is not so much La Familia as it is Right to Censor with how everyone looks and acts the same. At least Right to Censor had Stevie Richards on the mic and was able to piss off the pope while Orton just puts people to sleep.
I don't care how "new" this stable is, it is going nowhere fast. They need to let "Priceless" be themselves, have more mic time, throw in more members or just disband the shit already. I don't watch Raw that much because I am bored to tears with this crap already.

 

[DXRulez19]

when i first started hearing of a legacy group forming where they might have carlito run it and others i thought it wasnt going to work but when they made it and put orton in charge i thought that was great. i thought it was going to be orton teaching priceless the way and then later have them with all the gold kind of like evolution. now its kind of like they made the stable to help out orton and be his hinchmen and that sucks cause it semms like priceless never gets over. i think it is bringing down all 3 of them and im one of the biggest orton fans there is they should of kept orton with that story where he had that rage condition and actually put fear in all of wwe and then priceless would be there to increase the fear. and i dont think they should have priceless get involved in every orton match thats whats bringing them down and they still get beat down. im a fan of all 3 of them and all im sayinf is that something needs to change and im not talking about splitting them up.

I agree. Their making Orton look like hes just scared. The whole stable get dominated and they have to win by DQ to get titles. Ortons great why make him look like a gay leader.

 

[Nate DaMac]

Its kind of sad really. I would much rather see a match with with either one of these guys then Randy Abortion. I think its all leading up to Teddy realizing whats going on and eventually standing up for himself. Unfortunately, Cody will be lost in the shuffle.

 

[nthomas504]

They need to get into the Tag-Team scene really fast. If they continue to be storyline jobbers, then they will have no time to mature in this industry. This is very important for Ted because he has a movie coming up, and if he is still in the same position that he's been in for the last couple of months, then the movie will get low buy-rates, and would be a complete waste of money.

What bugs me most about Legacy in general is that they acted like they would get an immediate push, but all they've done is been in handicap matches, Triple Tag Matches, and Steal Cage crush matches. They were made to appear like a 2009 edition of Evolution, but they've just become a JBL Cabinet at best. Ted needs the US Title, or they both need the Tag Titles, and give them something to do beside speak for and protect Orton. I see great things for both of these superstars, especially Ted. If the WWE screws this up, i really dont know why creative is getting paid these days.

 

[Razor Blade Dream]

They need to get into the Tag-Team scene really fast. If they continue to be storyline jobbers, then they will have no time to mature in this industry. This is very important for Ted because he has a movie coming up, and if he is still in the same position that he's been in for the last couple of months, then the movie will get low buy-rates, and would be a complete waste of money.

I agree. They need to do something with Ted and fast. If they want to keep him in Legacy at least have him do comedic bits of him plugging his movie during a Boreton promo. Like, Orton goes on and on about whatever he talks about, my brain sort of fries at that time and Ted taps him on the shoulder and whispers in his ear and Boreton balks at him. He goes to speak some more and Ted brings out a mic and shills his movie while tossing out merchandise to the audience. Eventually this would piss off Orton and he would try to punt kick of doom Ted out of Legacy but Ted kicks Orton's ass and leaves on his own.
Or if they want to go the serious route, just have him yank the mic away from Orton and he cuts a promo on how Cody and him were on the verge of being legitimate threats in the tag and singles division but they were rooked into this stable of lackeys and mini-Ortons. He goes on to talk about the great stables in the business and he says that Legacy is nothing more than jokes and they will amount to nothing in wrestling history and brings up how his dad and IRS had a great run as tag champs and he knows that Cody and him can do it as well, even better. And he goes on to say that Orton saw the potential in them and wanted to stop them because he knows they can kick his ass because they are that much better than him. Orton at this rate goes to RKO him but Ted beats him to the punch and when Orton goes to grab him he slaps on the Million Dollar Dream and leaves Orton in the ring. This of course would start a mini-feud to boost DVD sales and Ted would eventually get a good US title run.

But, you know they will fuck it up.

 

[rnzrkorip]

alright, ted dibiase impressed the hell out of me on superstars against cena. seriously, they gotta be reading into some of the shit we're saying on here. tonight, young master dibiase looked like pure gold. i am sure there are cena fans who are going to say that cena made him look that way. nah, i just can't do it. i'm sorry, i just can't. now that we all see, at least i hope i am not in the dark on this, that ted can put on a hell of a match with the wwe's poster boy, now it is time for the wwe to remind us exactly why cody is such a big deal. i remember him when he first arrived, very impressive young man. havn't seen him do anything since than. we received a dibiase check. now it's time for our rhodes check.

 

[Nate DaMac]

I too was impressed with his match on Superstars. But I do give credit to Cena for puttin him over. I mean he didn't win, aut he looked good. I really don't want the Colons to drop the titles to them tho. Not over any advancement shit, they just cant put on the match the Colons can.

 

[Chill]

It seems as though Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase have been facing off against the Colons during RAW's recent tour of Mexico, so maybe we will see these two teams in a feud shortly. I certainly hope so, all four of them need something to do but especially Rhodes and Dibiase in order to distinguish themselves from Orton.

 

[JenovasWitness]

I like Ted Dibiase, Jr. He is solid in almost every aspect of the game, good talker, good worker, had a decent match with Cena on Superstars.

The weak link in this chain is Cody Rhodes. His delivery in his promos seems to be too effected, his in ring selling is decent but his offence is simply not believeable, I mean...he just appears to be so fragile. His physique is developed well enough but he looks like he is the same size as Colin Delaney. Every time I see Cody get in the ring with one of the major players on Raw such as Cena, Batista, etc. he just seems SO overmatched.

I know there have been small men World Champions before, but they had that extra "IT" factor that set them apart. Benoit was a little rock of muscle and aggression with incredible technical expertise. Eddie Guerrero was a mat wrestler, high flyer, entertainer and comedy act all rolled into one. Cody Rhodes is just small. I remember he DDTed Daivari once. I haven't seen anything special about him yet.

 

[Chill]

Well the dust of another RAW has just settled and yet again Cody Rhodes has just got his ass handed to him by Batista. Last night he was slaughtered in a cage much like he was a few weeks before Wrestlemania only he had the honour of getting beaten by Trips that time.

Don't get me wrong Rhodes can lose to Batista but why does it always have to be booked so wrong all the time? Rhodes could have gained much more from that match but obviously WWE only care about hyping the pay per view and showing how dominant Batista is. Everything was wrong from Batista's arrogant little smile as if to say "you haven't a hope in hell Cody" (and yes there is an overwhelming size difference but a cocky smile isn't going to help Rhodes get over, imo WWE should be having their competitors taken seriously, even by the almighty Batista...) to Rhodes hardly getting any offence in there.

WWE are getting their booking with Legacy all wrong, I hope they can get back to tag teaming or something because they are not benefiting at the moment (especially Rhodes) from the whole thing. Before Wrestlemania I said to myself they're (Rhodes and Dibiase) serving a purpose (by getting beaten each week) in order to build up HHH/Orton and I thought things would change after the event, well suffice to say that aint happened yet. Needless to say Cody Rhodes didn't look too 'Priceless' last night...

 

[labrunner88]

o.k i may be wrong but i feel ted dibiase should turn face soon cuz i see suttle little hints on raw when he talks up with the old man beater randy/ does anyone see it as well as i do. it would be perfect randy s backup boy turns and kicks his butt when he least suspects it

 

[repcommandos23]

They should have had batista and Flair join Legacy after the Orton punting HHH thing to add a guy with mic skills and a powerhouse. They could then have Legacy dominating for a few months and when HHH comes back, he joins forces with hart dynasty to give to stables rivaling (like DX and the Nation)

Then keep the Legacy vs HHH up until HBK gets back and have HBK save HHH after he gets ganged up on.

Or even instead of the hart dynasty have the colons with them caring about the tag titles ( priceless should win titles with help of batista). So then you have a stable with HHH going for the Title and COlons going for tag tiltes. The sides would be fairly even with Flair only being there for his mic skill. Orton= HHH Dibiase+Batista= Colons (maybe not so even) and cody rhoades can be the bafoon of the group (the one who gets beat up). I like Dibiase, i can;t remember the match he had with someone high in the food chain and had a very good match. If the sides needed even more they could add MVP to HHH (although I like MVP vs. Kofi, with MVP going heel for US title)

I also would like to see the WWE bring more credibility to other titles so they can create new rivalries like MVP Kofi, or even MVp v HBK, MVp v Batista, and MVp MIz. All were for US championship

 

[supersayian]

this is what were going to see. folks at Extreme Rules HHH will return and ruin the Main Event. then Ric Flair or Batista will join Legacy Bank on That Folks. HHH will then get the numbers game until someone joins him ( HBK) or Someone. then they will have the Classic Survivor team match to end the feud. this could be smelled from a mile away.