Now that Jericho seems to be gone from Raw, or at least done defending his title and just trying to get back on Raw, what will become his ex-partner?
Big show was drafted last year on Raw. He feuded a while with John Cena, got a title shot but lost to Randy Orton, then became a half of the Unified Tag Team Champions. Everyone would agree that Edge’s injury was a career saviour for the Big Show, but now, will it take profits of this or not ?
You could simply say “Fire him”, but every roster needs a heel giant, Henry being face makes that RAW needs the Big Show. Plus, he’s actually the only heel giant in the WWE, the great Khali is the “Punjabi playboy” (seriously?), and Kane is … well, Kane is Kane.
The Big Show is a 4 time world champion, an ex ECW, something like 8 time Tag team champion, and he’s a giant. All of these make him a potential main eventer, or at least a high mid-carder.
But the main-event stage is kinda crowded (already three man in there), he has already feuded with John Cena, already lost to Randy Orton, and Sheamus needs bigger (no pun intended) names to establish himself as a real main-eventer.
He’s an established tag team member (8 times tag team champion). But when you just split up with your partner, it’s actually difficult to restart immediately a new team. He even jobbed to DX again, teaming with Chavo (sigh). Pairing him with someone else won’t work either. The MVP/Henry team didn’t work, did it?
Actually, he doesn’t have a lot more to do. He can’t really do some comedy stuff, so that excludes Hornswoggle, Santino Marella, and Chavo. Carlito has disappeared. Bourne, Primo and Chris Masters are just jobbers, what do we have left?
The Miz, Jack Swagger, MVP and Mark Henry. Please, please, do not make a “clash of the titans” again. I’m sick of giant vs giant match. Plus, Henry and the Big Show are not really the most interesting giants. Watching Henry slamming Show or Show knocking out Henry won’t entertain me, and trust me, I’m easily entertained… Jack Swagger is nowhere, I can’t see a feud between them. Make some tripe threat matches for the US title? That could be a solution too and could help the Miz.
Wait for the draft and draft him back to Smackdown could be a solution as well. Remember that Big Show has turned his back on the Raw team at Bragging Rights, he’s supposed to be hated by everyone.
Another option would be for him to become an enforcer. As long as my memory goes, I have never seen the Big Show as an enforcer, and come on, everyone could need an enforcer like that. He could be an enforcer for Sheamus, who seems to play the coward heel, or for the Miz, but that could kill his momentum right now. He could help Swagger to recreate some heat and interest too.
He could restart his feud with Kofi (the one he had for the US title prior to Night of Champions, when he became Tag Team champion). Jobbing to Kofi will help Kofi to get back his popularity and proved his high mid-carder status (losing to Orton too many times didn’t help with that). Plus that will maintain a heel in the main-event/High mid-card, because, Randy’s all alone there (Sheamus doesn’t count yet). And last but not least, that will give the Big Show some air-time, and that’s what he needs right now, or he’ll fade into the darkness, the same way he almost did before Edge’s injury…
What are your thoughts on the Big Show’s future in the WWE?
Big show was drafted last year on Raw. He feuded a while with John Cena, got a title shot but lost to Randy Orton, then became a half of the Unified Tag Team Champions. Everyone would agree that Edge’s injury was a career saviour for the Big Show, but now, will it take profits of this or not ?
You could simply say “Fire him”, but every roster needs a heel giant, Henry being face makes that RAW needs the Big Show. Plus, he’s actually the only heel giant in the WWE, the great Khali is the “Punjabi playboy” (seriously?), and Kane is … well, Kane is Kane.
The Big Show is a 4 time world champion, an ex ECW, something like 8 time Tag team champion, and he’s a giant. All of these make him a potential main eventer, or at least a high mid-carder.
But the main-event stage is kinda crowded (already three man in there), he has already feuded with John Cena, already lost to Randy Orton, and Sheamus needs bigger (no pun intended) names to establish himself as a real main-eventer.
He’s an established tag team member (8 times tag team champion). But when you just split up with your partner, it’s actually difficult to restart immediately a new team. He even jobbed to DX again, teaming with Chavo (sigh). Pairing him with someone else won’t work either. The MVP/Henry team didn’t work, did it?
Actually, he doesn’t have a lot more to do. He can’t really do some comedy stuff, so that excludes Hornswoggle, Santino Marella, and Chavo. Carlito has disappeared. Bourne, Primo and Chris Masters are just jobbers, what do we have left?
The Miz, Jack Swagger, MVP and Mark Henry. Please, please, do not make a “clash of the titans” again. I’m sick of giant vs giant match. Plus, Henry and the Big Show are not really the most interesting giants. Watching Henry slamming Show or Show knocking out Henry won’t entertain me, and trust me, I’m easily entertained… Jack Swagger is nowhere, I can’t see a feud between them. Make some tripe threat matches for the US title? That could be a solution too and could help the Miz.
Wait for the draft and draft him back to Smackdown could be a solution as well. Remember that Big Show has turned his back on the Raw team at Bragging Rights, he’s supposed to be hated by everyone.
Another option would be for him to become an enforcer. As long as my memory goes, I have never seen the Big Show as an enforcer, and come on, everyone could need an enforcer like that. He could be an enforcer for Sheamus, who seems to play the coward heel, or for the Miz, but that could kill his momentum right now. He could help Swagger to recreate some heat and interest too.
He could restart his feud with Kofi (the one he had for the US title prior to Night of Champions, when he became Tag Team champion). Jobbing to Kofi will help Kofi to get back his popularity and proved his high mid-carder status (losing to Orton too many times didn’t help with that). Plus that will maintain a heel in the main-event/High mid-card, because, Randy’s all alone there (Sheamus doesn’t count yet). And last but not least, that will give the Big Show some air-time, and that’s what he needs right now, or he’ll fade into the darkness, the same way he almost did before Edge’s injury…
What are your thoughts on the Big Show’s future in the WWE?
