This Monday column for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is answering some popular questions currently in and out of WWE. Here’s an excerpt:
The past week has been one of the busiest in professional wrestling. Coming off WrestleMania 32 week, with all of the activity, a lot of questions and topics came my way asking for input. So, with no attribution to one person because they are repeat questions I get from social media or fans I’ve met in person, here are some answers:
Q: Why did Zack Ryder only get a 24-hour Intercontinental title reign? Doesn’t he deserve more?
A: This situation is an easy promo for needing to read my Monday and Friday columns for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. In my WrestleMania reaction column, I said I wouldn’t be surprised if Ryder’s title reigns was only a day long. This turned out to be true. The reason being is Ryder winning the title provides a hot start to WrestleMania and surprise. Everybody likes him and they should. He works hard in and out of the ring. He’s a veteran in WWE who has been loyal even when he could have left and made good money on the independent scene, where he could call the shots for his career and keep all of his merchandise money.
Ryder winning provided a surprising start but also presented a great opportunity for a heel to spoil the title reign quickly and gain a lot of heat. The Miz is someone WWE wanted to get momentum back with after a decline in focus in his storylines in 2015. Also, The Miz’s wife, Maryse, has returned to WWE and will be joining the “Total Divas” reality show. All those thing considered, The Miz beating Zack Ryder a day after his WrestleMania moment gets The Miz’s momentum back on track, and Ryder gets television time.
Q: Why do you like Sheamus so much? He’s terrible.
A: This is the paraphrasing of several versions of the same question. It took me a while to realize the people asking are serious. First, I don’t like Sheamus, but I appreciate him. I’m not supposed to like Sheamus the character. He’s a heel, and that’s what those who have overanalyzed things to an unfortunate point forget. You’re not supposed to like Sheamus. You’re supposed to boo him. If you’re doing that, then he’s doing his job and playing along.
Don’t give me this nonsense that you want him to go away and that’s why you boo him, but not because he’s a good heel. That’s so ridiculous. When you hear boos, you don’t hear motivation but just the boos. If you really want him to go away, then go to the bathroom and make an empty arena when he wrestles. When he wrestles, there isn’t an empty arena, the seats are filled with people disliking him. Job done. The “smartest” fans analyzing the most are usually the easiest to work and the most sensitive in denial that they are being worked because they feel they are above that. Talk about no fun. So, I love to not like Sheamus the character because that’s the idea. I do, however, appreciate his physical style and character attributes that are so easy to dislike.
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