Originally posted by Dr Unlikelywe could be looking at Dean Ambrose as the Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion being stalked by a fully-powered Bullet Club (led by AJ Styles, having just beaten and killed John Cena, backed by his protégé The Demon Finn Balor and Anderson/Gallows, who just killed The Dudley Boys), with the crowds practically begging for the Shield to reunite to help Ambrose while Rollins is consumed by jealousy and Roman sulks in his tent like Achilles if Achilles' Achilles heel was that he's not allowed to turn heel.
One of the lost stories of the summer -- in concert with burning off the long-awaited Shield threeway on a nega-build with one guy vanished -- is that I would've considered it a lock that they were building to "The Club" vs. Shield as idea 41.3C for getting Reigns moderately not disliked. That seemed like such an obvious direction that the Club vs. Reigns & Usos program was just laying the groundwork for while waiting for Balor to arrive and Rollins to return. Instead we learn that all along they were and are deadset on getting back to heroic hero Reigns vs. slimy mean man Rollins for the title, the best and only idea regardless of who gets booed, cheered, sympathetically injured, or disgracefully suspended.
I'll never forget the catharsis of Ambrose's title win, but I kind of resent not getting to see Reigns still getting booed even while draining mothereffin' beers with his two best friends through Vince's increasing desperation of "fine, how about this? isn't this what you animals liked?"
My other solution for the Universal Champion title: pull BRAUN off TV, paint his skin blue, dye his hair red, shave the beard and re-debut him as the actual Champion of the Universe from Marvel.
At first I read this as BRAUN becoming that Avengers villain Imus Champion, which I was also immediately on board with.
Fun alternate reality trivia from the Observer, one happy and one sad.
- Balor vs. Owens and then Balor vs. Owens vs. Jericho were planned to be the next two PPV title matches. thus why they went over Enzo and Cass strong at Summerslam. (great, put the title on Owens then!)
- as had been pretty well known at the time, Raw was originally supposed to keep the real title for a Reigns/Rollins Summerslam program, but the Reigns suspension got Ambrose in play and Reigns temporarily demoted. Styles was supposed to defeat Cena to become the first Universal champion, which could conceivably bode well for him in his upcoming title shot.
I can't be the only one who wants Ambrose to fully evolve as a heel. He's been more interesting in this past month than the year prior. Thing is, I prefer heel AJ as well.
Styles needs to take the title, but I'd prefer it take a few months. Let Ambrose use heel tactics to hold on to the belt with DQs and things like that before AJ finally wins. Hopefully Ambrose emerges stronger and during the feud a hot face can emerge on the SD roster to challenge AJ.
Originally posted by RudoublesedoublelI can't be the only one who wants Ambrose to fully evolve as a heel. He's been more interesting in this past month than the year prior. Thing is, I prefer heel AJ as well.
Styles needs to take the title, but I'd prefer it take a few months. Let Ambrose use heel tactics to hold on to the belt with DQs and things like that before AJ finally wins. Hopefully Ambrose emerges stronger and during the feud a hot face can emerge on the SD roster to challenge AJ.
This is exactly why Smackdown needs a Cesaro or Zayn. This is a group that is heel heavy with AJ and Bray as heels now and Ambrose and Ziggler possibly better as heels. Someone like Cesaro or Zayn could get a deserving push to the top on Smackdown. I don't think that either is ready to win the title but a title match at Wrestlemania when the Raw title match and some other special event will probably be ahead of it on the card? I could buy that. And either one of those guys would have pretty spectacular matches with AJ.
I've also got this thread going on in Random - since it's not *officially* wrestling. Then again, much of what happens on Raw and Smackdown! is not wrestling, either.
Steph