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Your "True Opinions" Of Posters?
- Thread starter Johnny Scumm
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Nate DaMac
Fuck erbody but me
Hit me Davester.
The Dragon Saga
Whale in a Teardrop
If you know enough about me, hit moi.
Blue Chipper
Shapeshifting Humanoid
What do you think of me, Dave?
red ass skull muhfukkah
Dooooooooooooom
I'll take some feedback Dave. Not sure why, but I'll take some.
FunKay the Inevitable
People Like Me, We Don't Play
Dave thinks I'm the second coming of Triple H, but I'll let him tell you that 
Jeff Hardy was one of, if not the most over guy in the WWE at a time.
Sheamus needed a main event push, and he got it. He's proven to be a great talent since then.
I'll give you Kane.
You didn't think CM Punk was ready? That's cool. He did a decent enough job, though and was over as sin.
I like the variety of having lots of guys in the main event. If that means there's a period with a lackluster title reign, so be it, there's enough main eventers to ensure that there's something else interesting going on.
And what is your issue with Sheamus?
Just being over doesn't always mean you should be at the top of the company as World Champion. If Hardy was just as over and in the same situation 10 years earlier when there was just one World Title then he wouldn't have won it.
How exactly did he need a main event push? He was a new guy to the company who was already made to look strong in ECW. There was no strong build up to him becoming a main event guy and a world champion. There's a reason its been almost a year since he has held a World Title.
Decent enough wouldn't cut it when there was just one top guy.
Basically superstars these days are considered main eventers and are able to become World Champion way to easily. Guys like Hardy and Punk when he won his first title were fine to be champions in today's WWE but if it was 10 years earlier there's no way they would have become champion when they did. When there is only one top spot it makes the moment they become champion that much better and it ensures that they are ready and deserving of that spot.
I'm going to go ahead and disagree there. I thought all of their reigns were short and uneventful. Outside of the shock of actually winning the title Sheamus did nothing memorable as champion. CM Punk's first reign was awful. Jeff Hardy won the world title 3 times, 2 of those lasted only about a month, and the other lasted about two minutes. Not sure how any of those could be considered good.
It's Punk's fault he was booked like shit? Umm... No. The pop he got when he first came out the next week was great. Of course they spent the next three weeks making him look second rate against Batista. Everything was wrong with the booking of that reign. Punk was ready.
You and I could argue all day if he was ready or not but it's irrelevant. The WWE obviously didn't think he was, otherwise he wouldn't have been given a short, shitty booked title reign.
What the WWE thinks isn't always the truth.
So you want me to get his merchandise sales from the summer of 2008? I didn't realize that merchandise sales were the only factor when looking at whether or not someone is ready for the main event.
We are talking about being the World Champion on the number one show. Punk had great crowd support back in the summer of 2008 but he wasn't one of the most over guys in the company. I have no clue what his merchandise sales were back in the summer of 2008 but I highly doubt they were some of the top numbers in the company.
Basically Punk had been on ECW for close to two years and in just his second week on RAW he became World Champion. He went from feuding with the likes of John Morrison and Big Daddy V to being the top guy on the top show. No way was he ready at that time.
I said that CM Punk wasn't ready for the world title during his first reign. Now he is one of the top guys in the company and certainly deserving so I have no clue where you are going with the wait and see thing.
If that isn't the definition of twisting someones words around then I don't know what is. There are groups of guys in the WWE in every time period that have the right combination of high popularity, great ability, and experience working with top guys. Those are the guys who belong in the main event. Punk had great ability in 2008 and his popularity was rising but he wasn't quite there yet and he certainly didn't have the experience of working with the top guys because he had been stuck on ECW.
