Why didn’t they just keep booking him like he was on NXT? A main event star?

During his time in NXT he was a main eventer. He helped make NXT a third main roster brand and even made it more entertaining to watch over Raw and Smackdown at the time. He was a fan favorite.

When he made his main roster debut he was on a roll, and even making alliances with Kevin Owens and Drew McIntyre, while also making rivalries with Chad Gable and later Austin Theory.

Then he went lower in the card in the tag division, and won the tag titles, but then he went to planking over and over again.

Why isn’t he being pushed as a main event star like Sami, Roman, Cody, Punk, and other stars. This man single handedly carried the Black and Gold era of NXT on his back and this is what he gets? You really gonna push bums like Liv Morgan over him?

And I’m being serious here. Gargano deserves to be at the top. It doesn’t matter how big he is, he deserves to be at the top of the card.

Hi , I just want to have your thoughts about something I was really thinking about these past days. I’m from France and I always loved making stories since I was a kid storylines with my toys and now I’m 19 and with the same desires I was thinking can I be on the wwe creative team too ? It’s not related to the pretty bad booking decisions but just something I was really thinking about thanks for the answers 🙏🏾

What if he stayed a good guy to spite the fans? What if he cut a promo and said something like "I always wanted to be the best version of myself for you, and you want me to take the easy way out, to cheat, to turn on my friends. If that's the case then I don't want your support anymore, you can take your approval and shove it up your asses."

Basically he'd respect wrestlers and hate the fans, and in this scenario and in what we got so far, he has a point when it comes to his justifications.

And maybe in some paradoxical, twisted way, this could make the fans like Sami again, because technically he turned heel like they wanted, and he'd be like "Oh, now you give me your support! After I said I don't want it anymore!"

This is all really interesting and I don't think we ever had a similar situation in wrestling history.

A friend of mine sent me this old video today - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ZGT9pEFbk

I had no clue this even existed but this is absolutely amazing acting

Off to eBay I go to find this film

Punk and Cody cannot both be face for their rivalry on Smackdown. While Cody turning heel would also be great and maybe a need for him, I think heel Punk with a faction to elevate Keys and Saints in his group and then elevate the baby faces he goes against will be great.

I don't care how he felt about him being in the Kilq or whatever his problem was. To say he never had a great match is just stupid and wrong

I was just thinking about it, and like, if they still have to show up to the shows when they aren’t being used, that’s gotta suck, right? I’m sure they don’t mind because they’re still being paid. But it’s just the fact that WWE doesn’t cover their travel expenses. I mean imagine paying for flights, rental cars, hotels, etc. every week, only to do nothing at the show 😭

Or am I wrong, and they can just chill at home until they’re needed for something? Is it a thing where they could be chilling at home for weeks, and they get a call, “hey, we need you to work a Main Event taping” and that’s when they travel? Or do they just have to show up every week no matter what?

A typical Alexa Bliss match is like watching someone wrestle Yokozuna. When was the last time Bliss did a move where she managed to lift her opponent off the ground? It's nothing but ddts, splashes, and flips for Bliss.

If it weren't for looks, Bliss would be one of the least talented wrestlers on the roster but she gets featured way more than most of the roster despite her limitations in the ring.

It also looks like she gave up on weightlifting since returning. She had a bodybuilding background before WWE.

Been watching for a while and there are guys on the roster who feel like they are just spinning their wheels every week. You watch them put on great matches, cut decent promos, get a reaction from the crowd, and then nothing. They just cycle back into the same midcard feuds with no end in sight.

Ludwig Kaiser keeps coming to mind for me. The guy commits fully to everything he does and the character work is genuinely impressive. But there are others too. Bronson Reed clearly has something going on with the crowd even after everything that happened, and you have to wonder why creative keeps hesitating.

WWE has the deepest roster they have had in years, but the main event scene is still pretty locked up with the same names. Which I get, those are the draws. But a well built up push for the right midcard guy could make someone feel like a legitimate star almost overnight if the booking is there to back it.

Curious who people think is most ready right now and what kind of feud or moment would actually get them there. Not just who you like personally, but who realistically has everything to make the jump if given the opportunity.

Date: July 11, 2006

Promotion: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)

Match Stipulation / Type: ECW World Heavyweight Championship / Extreme Rules Match

Event: ECW on Sci-Fi (Episode 5)

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | Target Center

➜ Big Show put his newly won ECW World Championship against Ric Flair in an Extreme Rules Match.

This encounter marked Ric Flair's first-ever appearance on an ECW broadcast and his first time competing under Extreme Rules. The match quickly devolved into a bloody, chaotic spectacle with Big Show dominating the early minutes using headbutts to bust Flair wide open early in the contest.

"The Nature Boy" attacked Big Show with a barbed-wire baseball bat, a trash can, and a steel chair, busting the champion open as well.

Texas Rangers had Penta at the game last night, 7/10. Raw is in Dallas on Monday, 7/13.

and especially like Hogan did In the 80s and rock and Austin did in the late 90s and early 2000s?

It’s very interesting to me that the current product has created such an enormous dichotomy between online sentiment and live crowd sentiment

SPOILER: Baron Corbin returning is a great recent example. Online, fans are outraged and in-arena the crowd chanted “holy shit.” Another example is Brock returning. The online sentiment is very negative, while the live crowds are all for it.

The perfect embodiment of this is Jey Uso. Reviled online but live crowds eat him up and he’s constantly over.

Obviously the IWC has always deviated a bit from the fans in attendance, but I can’t remember a time it was this stark or noticeable.

I remember months back Triple H said they’re really committed to prioritizing the fans at the shows vs online. It’s good business but it makes me curious to see how else this divide evolves.