[quote name='mykevermin']^ Thing is, Christian is a short-term fix for the next PPV. They might go with him as it makes sense (quasi-vengeance for Edge vs Del Rio), but he won't be in the main event scene for long. He's Christian. Vince doesn't see him as a star and never will. Smackdown has
-all for even remotely believable top-card talent. It's like Rey Mysterio, Big Show, and the cast of WWE Dark Match™.
They should break up the Corre:
1) what a stupid
ing nickname. They never explained where that extra damned R came from anyway.
2) the collective 4 of them are so beyond a joke that to call them a joke would overvalue their current standing in the company.
Turn Zeke face, make him the next BIG GUY CRUSH THINGS kinda monster that Vince would love to see on his bearskin rug. He could be the next in the line of "
it, push the big guys as dominant babyfaces" pushes WWE loves - Lesnar, Lashley, and Batista come to mind. Put someone with him as a manager b/c Zeke can't talk (well, he *can*, but it doesn't fit with the crushkilldestroy personality he would be using). Push him to the moon. What else are you gonna do, put Kane in there against him? That'll
in' sell tickets.
I like the idea, but WWE wouldn't push the envelope like that they way they would have 14 years ago w/ NOD.
(yeah, it really was that
ing long ago)[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I really only meant Christian as a 'fill the slot' player for this PPV, as I fully expect him to drop-off again long term. The flipside of that, though, is that he could also be in line for the 'Rey Mysterio's Magical Death Propulsion' push, where Christian gets a shot only because people still have fond memories of Edge. Which, by the way, given the terrible memories of the Rey push, I actually have to applaud WWE for letting Edge go out in a startling classy way. No storyline or anything. Of course, let's see how Smackdown goes first, but I'm *hoping*.
I like the Zeke idea, but again the problem I see is that if we started naming people who could be moved up, the overwhelming majority of them would be heels. The Corre thing immediatly made Barrett pop into my head, but I don't want to see a face Barrett. Your point about Zeke is a good one, actually, and that's weirdly what they were doing with him upon his return (minus the manager, obviously), before they unceremoniously dumped him onto Smackdown and turned him heel. I still don't understand that, especially given how this group has been demolished.
Sigh. Looking at the roster page over at WWE.com, I can't really come up with any great quick solutions. People that I think could easily move up are mainly heels (Ziggler, Barrett, Del Rio, Swagger, McIntyre, Rhodes, Sheamus), and the only two faces that I think could step up immediatly are Morrison (if, you know, he'd stop
ing himself over) and Kingston. Kofi is easily the guy to move up on Smackdown right now, and his Orton feud really demonstrated that, given the freedom to just be himself, he can help carry a program. I, and I guarantee you people will disagree, also think that Bourne could slot into a main event program easily, especially since the title picture on Smackdown doesn't have gigantic guys in it right now.
The biggest problem with picking an 'it' guy for Smackdown is that Del Rio is untested. They seem to be running with him, but that was also under the assumption he was working against a veteran. Does this company have the balls to do a Del Rio/Kofi program long-term? I doubt it. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Rey slotted in against Del Rio after Extreme Rules.
This is a chance for WWE to not be 'safe', and I have my fingers crossed. A naive hope, but still.
@ diddy.
Nice.
