And idea popped in my head today, what are a few things we have yet to see, and changes in wrestling? Well "heels" can now be seen as more popular than some "faces" i.e Wyatts & Shield. Mysterio has never been a heel, and WWE has never had a "light weight" faction.
The premise behind a faction (3 to 5 guys total) lead by Rey Mysterio, could be a "anger" against the system, anger against the "bigger guys" like Big Show, Big E, The Shield, and so on.
To kick off a faction like such, Mysterio would start some beef with the Big Show about how he gets title matches at Survivor Series just because of his size, and how Mysterio gets nothing because he isn't "tall enough" (you get the drift), it leads to Mysterio attacking Big Show but to no real gain doing nothing to hurt Big Show, it gets announced that Big Show will face Myterio on a following Raw.
On the following Raw, Big Show tries to tell Mysterio that he doesn't want to fight him, hurt him ect.. Tries to be nice about it, but Mysterio keeps pushing at Big Show and the match goes on back and forth with mostly Big Show knocking around Mysterio, but to further Mysterio over as a heel, he does the usual cheating and bad guy tactics, plays the crowd. At the end of the match Mysterio with a chair goes after Big Shows knees, shouting that hes going to cut down the Big Show, at that time a couple of "light weights" run down like; Justin Gabriel, and Kofi Kingston.
While Mysterio is attacking Big Shows knees with the chair and Gabriel & Kingston come into the ring with fans expecting them to stop Mysterio, they instead just look at Mysterio, then turn around and attack Big Show, until enough refs finally come down to stop them.
And there you have it Mysterio, Gabriel, and Kingston all turn heels, all cheating and playing the crowd, with their main objective to attack "big guys" and go after their knees.
I'm not going any further with how that plays out. What it does do though is it gets Mysterio back on tv in a major role, it gets Gabriel and Kingston in major roles doing something (doesn't need to be these guys, could be Bourne or Kidd ect..). In this current WWE the heels are just as popular as the good guys are, Mysterio, Gabriel and Kingston right now are anything but overly popular, not only does it get Mysterio back on tv, but in a faction of 3 or more guys, he wont need to be in all the matches, like the Shield where Dean might be the guy on the outside or Reigns, the same could be done with Mysterio, or having him in the faction he can be in the matches, but wouldn't need to spend much time in the ring. Not only that, a heel Mysterio doesn't need to do all the popular high flying moves he normally does > win win.
And there is no getting around the facts: 6 man tag wrestling is extremely popular for the first time since the Free Birds in WCCW, and the light weights in WWE are going no-where while struggling to get tv time on Raw.
Your thoughts on such a group, would it work? Or how would you better the idea.
The premise behind a faction (3 to 5 guys total) lead by Rey Mysterio, could be a "anger" against the system, anger against the "bigger guys" like Big Show, Big E, The Shield, and so on.
To kick off a faction like such, Mysterio would start some beef with the Big Show about how he gets title matches at Survivor Series just because of his size, and how Mysterio gets nothing because he isn't "tall enough" (you get the drift), it leads to Mysterio attacking Big Show but to no real gain doing nothing to hurt Big Show, it gets announced that Big Show will face Myterio on a following Raw.
On the following Raw, Big Show tries to tell Mysterio that he doesn't want to fight him, hurt him ect.. Tries to be nice about it, but Mysterio keeps pushing at Big Show and the match goes on back and forth with mostly Big Show knocking around Mysterio, but to further Mysterio over as a heel, he does the usual cheating and bad guy tactics, plays the crowd. At the end of the match Mysterio with a chair goes after Big Shows knees, shouting that hes going to cut down the Big Show, at that time a couple of "light weights" run down like; Justin Gabriel, and Kofi Kingston.
While Mysterio is attacking Big Shows knees with the chair and Gabriel & Kingston come into the ring with fans expecting them to stop Mysterio, they instead just look at Mysterio, then turn around and attack Big Show, until enough refs finally come down to stop them.
And there you have it Mysterio, Gabriel, and Kingston all turn heels, all cheating and playing the crowd, with their main objective to attack "big guys" and go after their knees.
I'm not going any further with how that plays out. What it does do though is it gets Mysterio back on tv in a major role, it gets Gabriel and Kingston in major roles doing something (doesn't need to be these guys, could be Bourne or Kidd ect..). In this current WWE the heels are just as popular as the good guys are, Mysterio, Gabriel and Kingston right now are anything but overly popular, not only does it get Mysterio back on tv, but in a faction of 3 or more guys, he wont need to be in all the matches, like the Shield where Dean might be the guy on the outside or Reigns, the same could be done with Mysterio, or having him in the faction he can be in the matches, but wouldn't need to spend much time in the ring. Not only that, a heel Mysterio doesn't need to do all the popular high flying moves he normally does > win win.
And there is no getting around the facts: 6 man tag wrestling is extremely popular for the first time since the Free Birds in WCCW, and the light weights in WWE are going no-where while struggling to get tv time on Raw.
Your thoughts on such a group, would it work? Or how would you better the idea.
It grabs our attention and tends to hold it, though our attention goes over more to women when we're adults, but we still get distracted by bright and shiny things too.