Y2J saved Big Show?

[supersrc]

After being sacraficed to the cenamonster big show walked away with zero momentum and was on the verge of becoming a very big joke.

Does anyone else agree that with edge getting sidelined and forceing y2j to get a replacement partner has saved the big shows current carrer?

Also where do you think this due is going to go?

I personally do think being the iotola of rock and rolla's partner has helped big show alot seeing as how he got burried in his last big fued, but I cant really see where the big show and y2j are gonna go with this team, they are a bit of an odd paring. Being able to go from show to show to show will help both of them, but they should be able to squash any other current tag teams, wich may help big show at the moment.

 

[Blue Chipper]

Big Show and Cena's series of matches had Big Show looking fairly dominate, with Big Show getting in tons of offense, and even making Cena tap out in a tag team encounter. I don't get what you mean by Big Show was "buried". He gave the biggest guy in the company a run for his money in every match the two had. Big Show walked away from that feud looking more legit. What was Show doing before his feud with Cena? That's what I thought. Big Show was placed in this tag team because Edge was injured, and he didn't have anything else to do. And both in the team are seemingly benefited from the it, not just one. Chris isn't "saving'' Big Show.

 

[hArdyPUNKmArk]

Come on dude, Jericho saved Big Show?! Nope not at all.

Show's feud with Cena made him look better to me than when he was sucking up Vicki's fat ass. I would have prefered a Ziggler/Jericho team but Show isn't the worst you could get. It gives him something to do and allows Jericho to sort of sit back and let Show be the muscle of the team. Anyways, Show's career was never in trouble and to think otherwise is pretty rediculous.

 

[Showtime]

Are we serious??? Big Show looked stronger and better after his feud with Cena? Come on. What planet are you from that doesn't see Cena dominate over the competition and leave them buried in the dust. One, a win in a tag team match is utterly meaningless given the WWE's overall interest in tag team wrestling and the fact that usually anything bizarre or screwy happens in a tag team match that leads to all chaos, but I digress. He jobbed to Cena at Judgement Day, then the 7 ft 2 monster tapped to Cena at Extreme Rules. I hate Cena and the STF because he usually fights people bigger than him and he always uses that move and they all look weak afterwards for tapping (see Umaga, The Great Kahli), was pinned in the fourway match on Raw for the title, and lost just about every other match in between. Hell and then after that he became saddled in the middle of the middle-card division. Excuse me, what is a 7 ft 2, 5-time world champion doing fighting a bunch of people half his size for the US title??? That is not the way the WWE should be using the Big Show

Enter Jericho. Show is now one-half of the tag champions. He finally gets to play his confident, I'm better than you cause I'm bigger than you and I got gold, character that he hardly gets to play cause he never has belts. With Jericho that means we'll be seeing Big Show on both RAW and SD so double exposure. He's part of a main event storyline that's guaranteed him a spot on SummerSlam as opposed to an unknown match verse a random opponent thought up by creative in the final two leading weeks. In all ways and for both Big Show and Jericho, this pairing is saving both of them. It's given Big Show something to do, and it's given Jericho someone who can beat those Jericho despises, and that's everyone.

 

[RH23]

No. Jericho didn't save the Big Show. The Big Show did pretty good with his Cena feud and it looks like he and Jericho will hopefully have a decent run as tag team champs. I do think that besides the Cena feud, Big Show as been booked really crappy since he returned.

 

[The REAL Iron Chef]

I'd like to not take either side. Chris Jericho didn't necessarily "save" Big Show, it was more of an enhancement of Big Show. Cena didn't completely bury Show during their series of matches. Instead, he worked some of his John Cena magic (as he did for Jack Swaggah) and made Big Show look like a credible threat. This on top of Big Show always looking like a threat based on size alone.

Chris Jericho's involvement simply gave Big Show something to do, while also (hopefully) revitalizing the tag division - well, as revitalized as it can be in this day and age.

 

[CuddleBuns84]

The Big Show was very boring during the Cena feud. In fact was very boring till one of the top heels in the business came in, and made the big show receive more heat from the crowd. Amazing move for the big show, the new attire works, and a role Jericho's lacky will work for him. So yes, the move saved the big show for the moment, because he really didn't have anything to do but pick fights with the high flyers. Not also that, but Jericho's big mouth, and Shaq was just great.

 

[Decarow]

In my point of view, it did. I felt like nobody really cared about Show around WM25. And his Cena feud was good yes, but it just gave Cena something to do without putting him in the title picture. I've always liked Show better as a tag champion for some reason.

 

[Kliq]

I'm sure Big Show would have been given other work if this thing with Y2J didn't materialize. I don't agree with the people saying the Big Show-Cena feud helped Big Show, though.

 

[SavageTaker]

I’m not going to save Jericho saved Big Show, because there was nothing to save him from. However, I think that Jericho has made Big Show more interesting. Before Jericho tagged with him, Show was doing nothing of importance. Now that he is with Jericho he is actually interesting and I want to see what he is going to do next week. I liked how Jericho put both himself and Big Show over in his commentary and I liked how Show dominated Kofi Kingston. People say that the product doesn’t look realistic, well the way Kofi was manhandled by Show looked realistic. I was thinking that they were going to have Kofi hit some more offense, but I was wrong. Show looked great and Kofi didn’t get buried or made to look weak. I am really looking forward to see what he and Jericho are going to do on Smackdown and on next week’s episode of Raw. So I don’t think Jericho saved show, he just made him interesting again.

 

[Spaceman Spif]

Hmmm... where to go with this... I could go with the whole yes indeedy, Chris Jericho saved the Big Show from heading down a path that would ultimately lead to him getting his walking papers....

Or I could say Jericho did not save the Big Show, that the Big Show was indeed already doing good and really didn't need this tag team.

Or I could say they saved eachother.... hmmm...

What the hell, I'm gonna with while Jericho didn't necessarily save the Big Show, he did indeed give him a helping hand. Big Show was not floundering by any means, but he was kind of just floating along, not really doing anything, just bouncing around here and there. Yeah he was already a crebile main eventer, and was in no way made to look weak by Cena, but after that whole program, Show really wasn't doing much. So by partnering him up with Jericho, it gives him something to do, while also helping to bring back some much needed prestige, hype and interest in the tag team division. So no Jericho didn't save the Big show.

 

[D-man67]

I don't think Jericho saved Show but i think he enhanced his character a bit and pulled him out of a nothing feud in the mid card. Show shouldn't be feuding for the U.S title because he can't lose clean to midcarders like Kingston and Bourne who are half his size. Prime example being this monday on RAW. As soon as it was announced that he was getting a U.S title shot, it had DQ finish all over it. Show can generate heat and get a push without squashing the midcard and i am excited to see where JeriShow can go.

People rag on JeriShow as a tag team but they somehow work. The old school pairing of the big guy and the quick, cruiserweight style worker clicks well. On his own, Show's matches can seem slow and boring but by tagging with Y2J, he can bring him in for a hot tag and the match picks up some pace.

More importantly, Show gets a rub off Jericho when it comes to promo-work. When JeriShow came out this week on SD!, i imagined Y2J to do all the talking and generate heat but Show was ok on the mic and i believe the two just click.

Jericho didn't save Show. Show wasn't near a release and was on tv every week albeit with the midcard but i think by tagging with Jericho, Show is cross branding and getting exposure twice a week. He's coming out dressed like Jericho and looking like the self-righteous honestman gimmick that Jericho has and he's getting time on the mic instead of just coming out and squashing people. Show's character is slowly getting developed and i expect the pair will look tight come Summerslam.

 

[Chill]

No I don't think Jericho 'saved' Show as such. If you actually look at him, Big Show is always booked dominantly and despite losing to Cena in their program, Show was still permitted to look strong (e.g. Cena having trouble getting the STF on him, Cena being thrown through a spotlight and so on). Plus, being in a feud with the most over person in the company (John Cena) is not an example of someone in need of saving. What I would say is that by teaming with Jericho,the Big Show has been freshened up, he's doing something new, he's changed his look a bit and he's a champion.

 

[SoniC]

This one has to go Yes and No for me... Y2J doesn't save big show's wrestling future because let's face it... the guy has a great amount of skill for a man his size and he is still the "World's Largest Athelete."

However i do agree that the teaming with Jericho does save the Big Show as a performer... Show never had any verbal confrontations of any merrit with Cena, he had no need to... He also had no need to change his look at all... I think Show looks good in the suits and as the large Jericho... (the new singlet looks ******ed to me though)... but the last time we got to hear Show actually speak and give his mic skills another chance was when he went heel again after his move... it's just nice to see him be able to flex his other skills outside of his athletic ability...

 

[smalltownfan]

To me, Big Show's career has been good, but not great. I remember his prime which was about 1994-2002 or a little later. He was awesome, dominant, nasty. Then his weight got out of control and he left for a while. When he came back, he looked as good if not better than he did in his days in WCW. However, he started to gain some of his weight back but in his defense, I read a report on him that he has Acromegaly, a growth disorder that killed Andre the Giant so it seems inevitable that he will gain weight. But besides all that, his singles career the last couple of years wasn't going very far. WWE needed to package him as the dominant big man incapable of being stopped. By sending him to tag with Y2J, this actually helps his career and his health. Think about this combination. Y2J is the mouthpiece and the brains behind the team and Big Show is the brawn. By teaming Show up with Y2J it gives Show instant star credibility and it also helps him health-wise because he's not in the ring as often as he would be if he were a singles wrestler. I expect this team and their title run to last a good long while until WWE can figure out what to do with Big Show next. Y2J doesn't need much help creatively because he's simply a natural at what he does.

 

[Dave]

I'm not sure it saved his career. I think it gave him a lot more momentum than he came out of the Cena feud with. Nevertheless, Big Show always has a place in the WWE because the WWE will always need huge guys to go out and squash little guys. I don't think it saved his career but it is certainly better than a continuation of the Cena feud and is probably better than a feud that they would have come up with.

I wouldn't say that Edge getting injured was a good thing either, even if it did mean that they had something for the Big Show to do. Edge is a great worker and I think that when he come back, the WWE will be a better place. Nevertheless, Big Show has an opportunity to get some real momentum at the minute and hopefully he can get a good rub off of Chris Jericho.

 

[owenhartfan]

Big Show and Cena's series of matches had Big Show looking fairly dominate, with Big Show getting in tons of offense, and even making Cena tap out in a tag team encounter. I don't get what you mean by Big Show was "buried". He gave the biggest guy in the company a run for his money in every match the two had. Big Show walked away from that feud looking more legit. What was Show doing before his feud with Cena? That's what I thought. Big Show was placed in this tag team because Edge was injured, and he didn't have anything else to do. And both in the team are seemingly benefited from the it, not just one. Chris isn't "saving'' Big Show.

You honestly think doing constant jobs to Cena makes the Big Show look more legit? Big Show is a multiple heavyweight and World Champ and one of the biggest men to ever step in the ring, yet losing to John Cena "The biggest guy in the company" is a step in the right direction for him? A run for his money means jack shit when the result of the match is a clean tap out victory for Cena. This match was set up to help Cena look immortal just like every other fucking match hes been the last five years. Big Show wrestled for the U.S title against Kofi "I'm the most annoying superstar of the decade besides Cena" Kingston last night and was very happy to get the shot. Its obvious when superstars go from main eventing to chasing a second rate title (IC or US) its good indication that person was used to endorse the top star, which 9 times out of 10 its fucking John Cena. One thing both Jericho and Show have in common is that they were both used recently to make Cena look like Superman and then sent back to the mid card. In no way did Show's career benefit from his jobs to Cena "The biggest guy in the company". That being said...I Don't believe Jericho saved Show either. They combine top stars in a tag team every couple years..Look for them to break up within 2-3 months and then start feuding.

 

[RVDgurl]

I'm not sure that Big Show's fued with John Cena did anything to help or hurt his career. Even though Cena eventually came out on top, Show had some very good moments of superiority.

With that being said, Big Show was in the right place at the right time when Edge went down with the injury. The Jericho-Big Show pairing has thus far been interesting and believeable. If this storyline continues to build momentum the way it has so far, then Show and Jericho will benefit from it. I'm not sure you can say that Jericho has saved Big Show because both men are being billed equally and both men stand to gain crediblity from this push.

 

[Spillz3000]

Okay so you guys mean to tell me that after all these months of complaining that John Cena was dominating the Big Show(Look up some posts cause they are tons) that now Big Show looked good in that fued? Are we watching the same show? For that fued to work Big Show should have won at least one of the PPV's. Judgement Day was the perfect PPV for Big Show to win. Cena was still injured from the thrown through the light thing. Vickie said Cena wasn't medically cleared and all that hoopla so this should have been an easy win for Big Show right? Wrong! Cena ended up breaking through the barriers and beating Big Show where it looked very credible for him to get the victory. Big Show should have won with the Camel Clutch thus making Big Show look like more of a threat when they had a Submission match at Extreme Rules. Cena could have then won that match to a better response being that he beat the odds seeing as the Big Show decimated him before that. But instead Cena had to beat the Big Show in all their PPV bouts.

The only win Big Show had out of their fued was a short meaningless match on Raw where The Miz helped distract Cena for Show to get that win. I mean if Big Show is being booked as The World's Largest Athlete why would the Miz need to help him? I'm sorry but in my opinion that fued did Big Show no favors. I mean for a fued to work don't both parties have to rack up wins? Jericho/Mysterio was a great example....Both men traded victories until a final epic encounter. Show/Cena it was all Cena taking the wins except for that meaningless Raw match.

In fact Big Show barely left the fued a WWE Title contender(Which on the Fatal Fourway thread everybody was saying how Big Show doesn't deserve anywhere near the belt based on him looking weak against Cena.). So after that match Big Show moves onto the U.S. title. While that belt is prestigious it's hardly anything worth The Big Show pursuing.

In the end I'm going to say putting The Big Show with Jericho helped The Big Show find direction and confidence in his character. Cause I don't know if Big Show would have had a Summerslam match unless it was a continuation fued with Kofi and Bourne. Before Jericho nobody cared too much about Show and now Show is one of the main focal points.

 

[HypnotizedHero2010]

i think so. i personal hate the big show and think that any monster person, like big show and khali, has no place in wrestling. you cant have a good match with someone who is over 400 pounds. it can't be done. the matches are two slow and the big guys are too unathletic. the bigshow has been given some new life now that he's with jericho, but if you team any1 with jericho they become 100x better.

 

[Ambiguous Turd]

The Big Show has been turned into a joke for a good portion of his career in WWE, due to horrendous booking. Yet, he gets recycled time and time and time again and marketed as a legitimate contender. Very similar to Kane ... although he is definitely a notch or two above Kane in rank.

With that being said, I don't really feel as though Jericho necessarily "saved" Big Show, because as stated, WWE keeps recycling him again and again to the Upper Midcard, regardless of how he is viewed by the public. And the fans really have no choice in the matter, but to accept what Vince gives them (assuming they wish to remain WWE fans).

 

[Southwind]

Big Show's career took a big hit due to a 3 month long job to John Cena by the WWE teaming him up with Jericho it seems they are trying to build him back up as unstoppable which just doesn't work. As great a worker and talker Y2J is Show is beyond saving. By him or anyone else and the WWE should stop trying to rehash his character because nobody buys the Big Show as a unstoppable giant anymore but hey that's WWE booking for you.

 

[Hacksaw Highway]

This should be turned into an angle. Y2J and Show should hold the belts for 3-4 months, and Big Show gets on a roll. Y2J starts claiming he is responsible for Show's new found success, and eventually Show turns face again to fight Jericho. Show could use the rub of beating a legit, established, 5 time world champion in Jericho, and it gives Jericho something to do until Edge comes back and they (hopefully) feud.

 

[RageBattle]

Look back through the years, he has always shifted from jobbing to being a credible threat for a title. It's no different now, it's just better for him, and us.