By putting Bryan in the Intercontinental belt picture and Cena in the U.S. title picture, it’s plain to see that WWE is trying to rebuild the credibility of those championships. If Lesnar remains world champ but works part-time, WWE can use its B-level belts to headline based on who has them/wants them.
I don’t know what they do with Reigns. It just didn’t work. More than anything, Reigns just can’t handle the 20-minute talk segment to open Raw. (Can Lesnar do that as a babyface, and without a manager? Good question.)
Seth Rollins and Rusev have been well built and well positioned. (Credit Lana for the latter. Great look, great character.) Bray Wyatt has been diminished. Dolph Ziggler and Bad News Barrett have to dig out. Dean Ambrose is dead in the water. It’s tough to mangle somebody that talented, but WWE did it.
If only Ambrose could throw a punch.
Given its participants, The Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal should be subtitled “A Cautionary Tale.”
WWE should #GiveDivasAChance by letting the Bellas v. A.J. Lee and Paige go 15-20 minutes. If they can’t cut it, there’s your answer.
More than anything, they need to keep Lesnar and keep the world championship on him. Lesnar should keep talking about unifying the WWE and UFC titles. Call UFC cowardly for refusing to let Lesnar participate in both. Lesnar is real, so it’s easy to believe he’s real. In 2015, real = over babyface.
Reigns didn’t blow it. He just didn’t do it.
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