First and foremost, if you've yet to read my post on Sheamus heading into WrestleMania 26, please, read that before you read this. Here is the link:
http://forums.wrestlezone.com/showth...57#post1806957
Now, on to my post!
Sheamus, obviously he has connections, being friends and work-out buddies with the man who will ultimately run the WWE soon, as if he didn't have his hand in the cookie jar enough as it was... Er, no, he took the cookie jar, and now he's scraping for crumbs. Regardless, it's no secret that Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, Kane and even the likes of Edge (shows no signs of slowing down aside from injuries) are getting old, and you have to look to the future sooner or later. And that's exactly what WWE (More like Stephanie and Trips) did in December, and instead of building towards it, they just shook everything up. They put the WWE Championship on a man who had a hard time defeating Goldust, in five weeks (at best) on the A-Show.
Obviously, it was at Triple H's hand. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, as I've been a Sheamus mark since I first saw him in FCW, but what did it do for his future? I, for one, think Sheamus winning the WWE Championship might have killed his career. He's really no more than a mere spark to WWE's flame, and he's supposed to be seen as a main guy? Edge, John Cena, Randy Orton, Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho and Undertaker. That is the experience, and that is the main event scene in the WWE. So is it really fair to put Sheamus up there, who is still relatively green, in the sense he's yet to grow into his own and really expand in the ring. Surely, it will come with time, but I think someone such as Christian and even John Morrison should be above Sheamus in credibility.
After WrestleMania 26, whether Sheamus beats Triple H or not, then we'll see if Sheamus might have even the slightest chance of being a mainstay, a cornerstone in the upper-card scene in the WWE.. Or if he'll even remain employed. Sheamus doesn't draw. Plain and simple. The only reason the ratings were high during his reign was because Cena was still chasing, and everyone expected Sheamus to get an Edge-esque first title win. Make him a main eventer, but not a top guy. Sheamus, is not, a top guy.
I completely understand Triple H is trying to help Sheamus get over with the crowd by having a "heated" angle (I'd rather watch another Orton/Cena program) going into WrestleMania, and hopefully put Sheamus over big with the crowd as a top tier performer. Sheamus isn't bad in the ring, he's not bad on the mic, and he sure as hell doesn't have an "okay" image, he makes you double-take when he's on the TV, he has a presence.. And, well.. He's just downright intriguing. What's not intriguing about the offspring of Casper and the Slim Jim Man?
With that being said, do you really see someone who, even as WWE champion, got flat, silent, no (or near to it) reactions from the crowd? Sheamus has gotten some decent heat on him, but no where near the likes of the other main event heels in the WWE. Right now, Sheamus in my eyes isn't a main event heel, with such men garnering as much heat as Jericho, Punk and even Batista. Am I proposing a face turn? Fuck no. I'm just saying, WWE, please, let him do something new. Let a new talent go out there, put it all on the line, and either fail horrendously, or wind up the smarks like it's already so damned easy to do. Who knows, either he'll get a real reaction, or he'll get another flat pop. What do you have to lose? One of Triple H's crew? Oh no?! One less person to go over those whom work their asses off for 17 years *Cough* Christian *Cough* (Just for the sake of argument) when they have little psychology and need to be carried. WWE Champions should NOT need to be carried. Who is he? Warrior?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4LeoYS5Y74 *Failed at the Youtube addy thing, so here's the damn link -.-*
I'm sorry, but if you've got heat, boos last longer than 5 seconds and outplay the entrance music...
Regardless... If Sheamus wins at WrestleMania, what in the hell are they going to do with him? Face John Cena for the WWE Championship again? No... Batista/Cena is the biggest money feud in the WWE, so that will be drawn out for a while. Face Jericho or Edge? I wouldn't want to see either of those matches, myself. His only real option is to continue with Triple H, which, will do nothing for him as he will sooner or later have to face him again. How often do you see Triple H do multiple jobs to the same person? Let alone in succession?! Sheamus will ultimately go under in the long run with Triple H, and with that, his whole dominating appeal with be more or less, gone, as now he's lost to the only top guy open for a feud. Is he going to feud Kofi? Who's having the exact same struggles but on the babyface front?
The only way I could ever see Sheamus truly going over strong enough to be seen as potentially a long-term guy, is if he beats Triple H at WrestleMania, then beats Triple H AGAIN (I know, right? Who am I kidding!?) at whatever they dropped Backlash for, I don't really care anymore, and then maybe gets screwed over by someone else to give Triple H a cheap win to keep him strong and satisfy Trips' hunger to win in the long run, and Sheamus goes off feuding whoever else. That, or he wins at the WM26 follow-up PPV and goes into a multi-man title chase, and gets eliminated by someone in a multi-man match and feuds them from there.
I don't see Sheamus as a marketable enough worker to draw money for you longer than he already has. He's supporting cast, unfortunately. I like him, a lot, but he's never going to be THE guy, he's not a franchise player. Maybe he'll be where Randy Orton was in 2005-06, or maybe he won't be around at all in the long run. Hell, he could end up as Umaga, the upper-card jobber (The role taken up so graciously by Kane) and just fade off into the realm of Should've Beens, rather than Has Beens.
