Friday, September 25, 2020

WWE Is Ruining... Mandy Rose


Blonde fitness competitors are basically Vince McMahon's ideal WWE female superstar. When he is truly looking for a prototype, he is looking for Mandy Rose. She's attractive, athletic, and has enough personality where you can develop the on-mic skills for her. She's clearly been an important part of WWE television lately, but I'm actually a little surprised she hasn't accomplished more. 

To be fair, a lot of talent with her experience may still be in NXT figuring out their way in the business, but after just two years developing her skills after losing Tough Enough, she was brought along to the main roster with her fellow Tough Enough contestant, Sonya Deville. 

Still, despite being on the main roster for three years, she has yet to find her way to a title reign. Despite that, I think the WWE has done a really great job of advancing her. Starting her in a tag team to hide some of her flaws paid off for her, and she has developed more confidence in delivering promos while her in-ring work continues to improve.

Currently, she finds herself in a romance with Otis, which I thought would be a terrible idea, but even if I don't love every direction they have brought that, I have to admit that I was wrong and it has overall delivered an amusing product. My only real issue is that since she beat Sonya Deville, there really hasn't been any push for where she is going next as she has not had a match in over a month. She just got sent to Raw, but I'm not totally sure where this should lead. I can't see her feuding with Asuka, and putting her on Raw Underground seems less than ideal. So I think it's going to be a wait-and-see approach with Rose, and although I disagree with a lot the WWE does, I think they have done a good job showing patience while bringing her along.

I'm looking forward to seeing what Rose can do when she's in full bloom.

Other Wrestlers WWE Is Ruining
Aiden English
AJ Styles
Cedric Alexander
Cesaro
Chad Gable
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Thursday, September 17, 2020

WWE Is Ruining... Angel Garza


Is there anybody out there that doesn't just love the horniest wrestler since Val Venis? I mean, Angel Garza is constantly trying to get it. No female is safe with Angel Garza around, and I am all for it. 

They have tried to shoehorn Angel Garza into a threesome with Andrade and Zelina Vega, but it's pretty clear that Garza is a more of a one-on-one situation sort of guy; it's just that the other one changes any second that a new female walks within 1000 foot radius of him.

As for his in ring work, it's very good. He is a phenomenal heel as you really do want to punch him in the face. Part of this is likely jealousy, but hey, it works for him. He's gotten a good amount of exposure on Raw, but they haven't seemed to fully go in on him quite yet to give him a true push up to the next level of WWE Superstars. 

It appears the whole group, even Zelina Vega, is going the singles route, but although Vega has already seemed to pry her way into a title match without wrestling, it's still unclear who is really going to get that initial push forward between Andrade and Angel Garza. I'm not sure who I want it for more as it's basically choosing between children. They are both phenomenal talents that deserve to be in a World Title picture down the line. 

Since this is my focus on Garza, let's get him pushed forward by injuring Dominik Mysterio. Mysterio needs some time to refine, and six months away would not be a bad thing. This can propel Garza into a feud with hero of the people, Kevin Owens. I think those two can gain some steam and have Owens go over to take on The Hurt Business as a quality US Title Challenger.

After that, Garza has become a guy, and maybe it's a feud with Keith Lee, but he can be the dastardly heel that overcomes size disadvantages by just being an overall scum bag. And also, if he's going to flirt with anything that moves, give him a new valet every week. I don't care if he wins or loses, I just want this man to go full pervert-scumbag and embrace his natural heelness.

Other Wrestlers WWE Is Ruining
Aiden English
AJ Styles
Cedric Alexander
Cesaro
Chad Gable
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Tuesday, September 8, 2020

WWE Is Ruining... Seth Rollins


The WWE LOVES Seth Rollins. Roman Reigns may be their superstar, but Seth Rollins is their guy. Even if he is not in the main event, he will always be important. He is their reliable guy who can take up 15-20 minutes every week through promos and matches and keep producing. Is it always great? It is not, but nothing in WWE is always great (maybe the IIconics, RIP). 

After WrestleMania, they did something very interesting with Rollins when his real-life fiance, Becky Lynch, left wrestling to have a baby. He basically decided to murder Rey Mysterio because he is a Dad. Then they just went off to the side for a while where he feuded with Aleister Black and Humberto Carrillo, and Kevin Owens popped in for a while, and then he took Rey's eye, but his eye was put back in. Then he beat Dominik Mysterio a couple times but lost to Rey and Dominik while tagging with Buddy Murphy, and they never really brought up the Dad stuff again, so what does any of this actually mean?

I know that was a meandering paragraph, but that seems to be what's going on. And now there's really nowhere else for this to go, so the whole personality change from the expectant Dad seems to have been tossed off to the wayside, and now we're left with...

Anyway, it seems like it's time for their reliable guy to take some time off. Considering when Becky Lynch announced, she's got to be at least six months pregnant, so maybe let him hang out in Iowa, help with the last few months of pregnancy and the first months of raising a child. Maybe bring him back for the Rumble or even wait a month and just give enough time to build to a WrestleMania storyline. 

I know this series is all about how WWE is ruining talent, but Rollins fits perfectly into the new system. He's a WWE Superstar, and it's no wonder that he stands up for the organization that has given him every opportunity available, and although you can nitpick here and there, they have utilized his strengths pretty damn well. Right now, he's in limbo, but he's built up enough credibility that he's always just a match away from the main event picture. 

And that's enough to make him the greatest athlete in the history of Davenport West High School, barely beating out Kenny Shedd, who had 16 career receptions in the NFL.

Other Wrestlers WWE Is Ruining
Aiden English
AJ Styles
Cedric Alexander
Cesaro
Chad Gable
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Wednesday, September 2, 2020

WWE Is Ruining... Kalisto


I have discussed Lucha House Party before, and it seems as though the WWE signed three great talents but had no clue what to actually do with them. They put them together, which is okay, temporarily introduced Lucha House Rules where they got to take on tag teams 3-on-2, which was less okay, and they occasionally bring it back as it seems like the three of them are currently challenging Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro. In all fairness, them being at a numbers disadvantage should be the only way that tag team could lose.

But today is not about the trio, only Kalisto. Kalisto seems to be the easiest guy to find a successful path forward. Admittedly, the WWE had this idea earlier in his career but abandoned it in favor of LHP. Just make him your new Rey Mysterio. Small high flyer who can do ridiculously cool things while always being the underdog will never go out of style. 

And that's the real beauty of a guy like Kalisto. You can treat him like a jobber for days, weeks, months, years even, because when he steps into any ring, he's automatically the underdog. But all it takes it that one massive upset, and you can buy into the momentum of the fans getting behind him and turning him into a star. Masked guys are great at selling merchandise to little kids and nobody is better designed to do that than Kalisto. 

There is no need to reinvent the wheel when a Rey of sunshine can show you the way.


Other Wrestlers WWE Is Ruining
Aiden English
AJ Styles
Cedric Alexander
Cesaro
Chad Gable
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Tuesday, September 1, 2020

WWE Is Ruining... Matt Riddle


This is my fault.

I said it was impossible, but I should have known to never underestimate the WWE.

If anyone can fail a can't-miss superstar, it is them, so I only have myself to blame for the latest development in Matt Riddle's storyline.

When the #SpeakingOut movement took over the pro wrestling world, likely ending the careers of many professional wrestlers, Matt Riddle was also accused of sexual assault. This is a complicated subject, because I do think that you need to take every accusation seriously, but it seems more likely than not that Matt Riddle was not guilty of sexual assault. I have talked to a lot of people to make sure that me really liking Matt Riddle as a pro wrestler is not skewing my view of the situation, because I really don't want to be that guy, and it seems like he's likely innocent, although there is no way to fully prove that.

What Matt Riddle was guilty of was having an extramarital affair with this woman. That's not great, but I'm not one to judge other people's relationships. So the WWE did what anybody would do when you are trying to get a babyface over as the ultimate good guy, have the bad guy bring up that he cheated on his wife. I mean, who wouldn't want to cheer for our polygamous protagonist?

I don't know what the hell they were thinking, but I don't see how it advances ANYTHING. It's just stupid and in poor taste. I would say that maybe this makes me think Riddle is more innocent, because there is no way they could be this tone deaf if there was any chance that the sexual assault allegations were true, but considering their handling of Velveteen Dream's accusations, that is giving the WWE way too much credit.

I mean, just imagine if instead of Roddy Piper crushing a coconut on Jimmy Snuka's head, he instead brought up that Snuka, the babyface hero, allegedly murdered a woman in a hotel room. Oh man, Piper would have been hated, and Snuka probably could have had a World Title run with the crowd fully on board with the guy who murders women.

To top off the stupidity, Riddle, who should be full of anger at Baron Corbin for bringing up his most embarrassing moment, beats Riddle with a flip off the top rope. This is a man who is known for absolutely brutal submissions where he twists his opponent's bodies and elbows them in the face, and to settle this grudge, he hits a flip to get the three-count. Not exactly retribution in my eyes. 

Hopefully, the WWE is smart enough to drop it immediately and never mention it again. They inexplicably drop all kinds of thoughts and ideas, so it wouldn't exactly be a shock. 

But come on, WWE. Riddle has so much natural charisma and incredible in-ring talent that this should be about the easiest slam dunk in history. The only thing you need to do is get out of the way and let him be a transcendent superstar and world champion. 

Although the name may say otherwise, this isn't a complicated Riddle, Bro.

Other Wrestlers WWE Is Ruining
Aiden English
AJ Styles
Cedric Alexander
Cesaro
Chad Gable
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