Showing posts with label Elias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elias. Show all posts

Monday, August 26, 2019

The WWE Is Ruining...The Miz

The Miz is an A-Lister, but the WWE does not seem to be treating him as such. He transitioned a successful movie career into his own reality television show, but still the WWE seems to be doing everything they can to ignore his greatness. I can’t believe that I’m not saying this facetiously, because The Miz figured out how to be pretty great.

Basically, The Miz is what Jon Moxley is trying to become. Neither guy is dynamite in the ring, but they are serviceable, but it’s the character that they bring that will help make them stars. Obviously, these characters diverge to go on very different paths, but they bring you in enough with their character work that you can overlook some sloppiness in the ring, because you are invested in the story. They’re both a little more old school in that way.

The Miz was one of the hottest acts they had last year, and then they put him with Shane McMahon. Usually, that lone is a death sentence, but The Miz actually found a way to get it over with the crowd, and he became beloved. Finally, Shane McMahon turned on The Miz, and The Miz got his revenge by losing cleanly...repeatedly.

In a match, there is a winner and a loser. At least I thought so. After doing this series, I am convinced that every match must be a fatal four-way, because I swear that there are three times as many losers as winners in WWE. Before a couple weeks ago against Dolph Ziggler, when do you think was the last time that The Miz got a win on TV that didn’t involve Elias? That would be March 5 against Jey Uso, and that was just to set him up to lose in the tag title match at Fastlane.

Luckily, there is an easy fix. Let him feud with someone important and give him time to build a feud. He made a Shane McMahon feud interesting, just imagine if he had someone talented to go up against. He’s also shown that he can be a heel or face, so it wouldn’t be that hard to transition him against anyone on the roster. I mean, would it really be that hard to put him in a World Title feud with either current champion?

The Miz is versatile enough to fill any role the WWE needs right now, but he deserves a better role than trying to get Shane McMahon over. Honestly, it may be time for some piddly feuds to build up to a Daniel Bryan match at WrestleMania. That would be giving the people what they want, so for WWE, I guess that means it would have to be at Takeover instead.

Other Wrestlers WWE Is Ruining
Akam

Ali
Alicia Fox
Andrade "Cien" Almas
Apollo Crews
Bayley
Big E
Big Show
Bo Dallas
Bobby Lashley
Bobby Roode
Braun Strowman
Brock Lesnar
Carmella
Chad Gable

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

The WWE Is Ruining... Elias

Elias should probably be a star. He has a good look, plenty of charisma, and immediately got over with his ability to write songs that insult the town that he is in. And instead, he’s in limbo, not even good enough to be Shane McMahon’s main cronie.

They have absolutely no direction for him as has been shown in how he has been used in the month of July. He just keeps teaming up with random people which include, Samoa Joe, Randy Orton, Sami Zayn, The Revival, and that doesn’t even include the people that I thought he was with, Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre. He’s basically the WWE jester as he can go out, perform a song, get thrown out there with some random wrestlers, lose his match, and all of that turns into a giant pile of nothing.

Even with that, Elias is pretty good, surely, he must win about 50% of his matches, right? No, well at least 40%? 30%? 20%? No, Elias is currently 8-53 winning just 13.1% of the time. Elias loses almost 90% of his matches, so it’s pretty tough for even his most diehard fans to want to walk with Elias.

What he really needs is kind of what the WWE just did with Shinsuke Nakamura where they gave him a win over Finn Balor, but I just wish they would have done it better. Elias needs that big name win, and if it’s for a belt, that is even better. I think he has the potential to be a very good secondary champion. I mean, he’s not Kazuchika Okada in the ring, but he’s also not as bad as Dean Ambrose so if you put him in with top talent, he can put on good WWE-style matches.

This should be a fairly easy fix, because the fans are still giving him strong reactions and have started to enjoy being browbeaten for living in such crummy cities. I would like to see him come up with a cool catchphrase like, “This is the least fun city I’ve ever been in,” you know, something totally original like that. Then if he just started winning, it could really set something off where WWE has another legitimate superstar.

And everyone in the crowd will put on our New Balances and Walk With Elias.

Other Wrestlers WWE Is Ruining
Akam

Ali
Alicia Fox
Andrade "Cien" Almas
Apollo Crews
Bayley
Big E
Big Show
Bo Dallas
Bobby Lashley
Bobby Roode
Braun Strowman
Brock Lesnar
Carmella
Chad Gable