True that. IWC hates when the machine get's behind a wrestler and push him.
It's hard to make babyfaces at all these days. It's ridiculous and sad.
It's not hard to make baby faces - but it is impossible to force them. You can't simply take a guy who is getting a good reaction and expect the audience to give them a great reaction over night. That's where the WWE tends to fail in creating new baby faces - or new stars in general. They force everything. The key is to take a guy who is getting a good reaction and slowly build him up by putting obstacles in front of him. When that guy finally overcomes those odds, the crowd pops in a huge, organic way. This is basic story telling 101.
FWIW - The failure of this basic story telling technique is what spawned the Daniel Bryan outrage last year. He was getting a really good reaction, and it seemed like the WWE was slowly building him by putting a lot of obstacles in front of him --- but when he didn't even appear in the Rumble, the crowd realized that the buildup since Summerslam was for nothing; there wasn't going to be a payoff to the emotions invested in the Bryan/Orton program.
No matter how jaded you think an audience is, no audience wants to see the bad guy win over an extended period of time. It's one thing to see a heel champion go over a face contender in a program - it's another thing to see that program extend for 4 pay-per views (as Orton/Bryan was) without ever seeing the heel get what's coming to him. There's a reason stories NEVER play out that way, and it's because they don't work. So basic story telling suggested that Bryan was going to come back, win the Rumble and finally go over Orton at WrestleMania - because, again, the odds had clearly been placed against him for so long. The crowd was ready to cheer for that in a big way - for the face to finally overcome the obstacles that were put in front of him by the Authority and to earn a spot in the biggest match of the year. But by signing Batista to work the WrestleMania main event, the WWE forced a different path on the audience that conflicted w/ the organic story the company had seemingly been telling for months. And yes, the audience shit all over that.
The WWE isn't the only entertainment venture to fall into the trap of being dead-set on doing something one way even if it no longer fits the story that's being told. A lot of TV shows have a solid idea on how they want to wrap up their story, but they aren't exactly sure how to get there. So they start telling a story, and before they know it - the end they wanted doesn't fit the story they've told. The best shows adapt to this. The shows that don't adapt are severely criticized. This is actually the criticism of the How I Met Your Mother finale - Ted winding up with Robin would've worked had it happened before season 5... by season 9, no one wanted to see that. To the WWE's credit, they did adapt a year ago by adding Bryan to the main event.
And in doing so, the WWE created it's biggest baby face performer since Bret Hart. Unfortunately, they refused to accept it for what it was. Sure, they gave him the title, but they immediately put him into a the C story on Raw. The A story line was Triple H, Orton and Batista reforming Evolution to take on the Shield. The B story line was Cena taking on Wyatt. And the WWE Championship was relegated to the third most important feud on the card as Daniel Bryan was challenged by Kane. So I ask - how far do you think the WWE was willing to go with Daniel Bryan if they were legitimately pushing 8 other superstars ahead of him during his first month as champion?
Seeing how the WWE handles their organic baby face stars is all the information I need to call BS on Triple H's statement. It's not impossible for the company to create baby faces... what he means is that it's impossible for the company to force baby face stars. And for some reason, that bothers him.
In the case of Roman Reigns, we've headed down the same path. The WWE decided a year ago that Reigns was going to be the next Cena. But they couldn't predict what would happen when the Shield split. With Rollins no longer carrying his matches and Ambrose no longer carrying him on the mic, Reigns was forced to adapt to a new set of circumstances - and he failed miserably. His in-ring work didn't improve. His mic skills didn't improve. And to make matters worse for him, he was injured during the months when his character needed to start building momentum toward the Royal Rumble. An audible should've been called when all these factors started to come into play, but the WWE refused to do so - hoping that the Reigns' good reaction would turn into a great reaction once he was pushed to the moon. But because there was nothing organic about it, because it was forced, because it didn't fit any story that was being told on camera - the audience shit all over it. Again, you can't force people to cheer for something just because you want them to. You need to give them a reason.