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Why do people dislike Sheamus so much?

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#1 ·
OK, I know WWE has no clue about managing Sheamus as a character (he goes from generic joking babyface to generic bully heel, when in the indies and FCW he was awesome as Sheamus O'Shaunessy, a true Celtic warrior). But the dude is a great wrestler, he can talk even if he's not the best mic worker, and the guy has uniqueness with his look-and please, don't say being pale is ridiculous because that's just stupid and almost racist. I can understand if you think the mohawk/crest doesn't look good but if it's there to match the Celtic Warrior look I am all for it- and his entrance music.

Of course you can say he just doesn't entertain you, and that's understandable. Many times there is a wrestler you cannot enjoy despite being good. Hell, I cannot care about Kevin Owens, Dean Ambrose and Cesaro and I know all of them are talented.

But I think some of you should give Sheamus the opportunity. He's pretty good and he would be much better if WWE allowed him to use his Sheamus O'Shaunessy gimmick. Honestly Sheamus as the WWE World Heavyweight Champion is the only reason I am looking forward to TLC.
 
#3 ·
He's just dull to me.

Nothing against the fella but I feel like with him he has had his time.

Good wrestler, no doubt about that but I just find him boring as a personality.

He certainly shouldn't be the main man in the company.
 
#35 ·
Yeah, it really boils down to this. Copying Russell Crowe isn't the way to go.
 
#20 ·
I really like him. His promo on Raw was better than any Rollins promo i ever heard when he was Champ and I'm a big Seth fan too. Personally i feel that Sheamus comes off as a lot more natural when talking smack than what most bad guys do. As a transitional champ up until say RR i think he'll do just fine.


Are you not entertained?:vince5
 
#28 ·
It's hypocritical.

When Sheamus was a face, many on here would always state how stale he was and that a heel turn was needed. He finally turned heel, changed his look and his heel turn was actually met with positive reviews. The problem is he has been booked like shit since he's turned heel. As a face, he was stale but he was winning every single match other than a certain few. If they gave him the exact same booking as a heel I am sure he'd be better received.

I like Sheamus as a performer, I think he is capable of putting on superb matches and he's damn strong. I just hope they start booking him this way as opposed to how they tend to book heels and that's getting the job done when needed but not looking particularly strong in doing so.
 
#52 ·
Sheamus can go in the ring, can cut a promo and he plays his character nicely, but I am not a fan. I just don't why, something is missing or it's just my bad taste. :draper2
 
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#61 ·
It doesn't matter if you were Steve Austin or The Rock, if you'd spent 6-9 months in the mid-card feuding in tag matches and the odd singles match, with next to no build regarding the Money In The Bank briefcase & 'Cashing It In' - do you think they'd get over? Of course not. The same applies for Sheamus..

The audience/crowd aren't stupid. They want to see logical storylines and characters that they can believe in. They want a sense of realism to this pre-determined sport we all love and know called: Professional Wrestling. Personally, I've never seen Sheamus as a prolonged Main Event caliber talent, but you can't blame him either for the way that he's been booked and handled. I'm no Sheamus fan by any stretch of the imagination, but it has as much to do with Vince & the creative team/writing-lackeys as it does with Sheamus.

Do I think he should be the WWE Champion? No. Do I think he's a solid mid-card talent? Yes. Hell, I wouldn't even mind to have seen him occasionally challenge for the WWE Title, but just come up short in the end. He's got the size, he's got the physique, but there is nothing regarding his character that makes him any different from any of the other (and very limited/few that are left) heels that WWE has to work with. He's kind of just... There. I'm also no Roman Reigns fan, but a Reigns heel turn to win the Championship would have been more beneficial for the product as opposed to running with Sheamus winning the Title. Just my opinion, though.
 
#68 · (Edited)
They haven't really put any effort into building him up. He has mainly been doing jobs in random tag matches ever since he came back with the new look.

I can't see him holding the belt for long, WWE just wrote themselves into a corner and saw Sheamus winning the belt as the best option.

They had a chance to re-establish Sheamus as a threat on RAW, by creating a monster faction consisting of him, Barrett and Rusev, but they already got beaten up by Roman Reigns 3-on-1 so there's not much to that either. Like Rollins, he's just holding the belt warm for Reigns, until they decide that Roman is finally over enough with the crowds to pull the trigger.
 
#10 ·
I think he has a good look, solid in the ring with a unique hard hitting brawler style, which not to many have these days. I just don't think he's a main event talent at this point, he had his time in the main event and it was a bit underwhelming. Overall I just think there were far better and more intriguing options for a champion right now than Sheamus.
 
#18 ·
I think Sheamus in-ring wise is a great talent. His matches with Randy Orton were some of the be- I'm kidding, but really he is a good talent in the ring. And I think he isn't a bad talent outside of it either.. he also has one of the best entrances hands down currently (minus the FELLAAAAAA he does, if he still does that.) Not only that but he takes SERIOUS bumps, dude went through a ladder from the top rope if I recall correctly at MITB last year, and it was vicious. He wrestled the next night too, with this massive bruise on his leg, then went away for healing.

So what's the issue? Ah yes. Well, one he was given literally no build up for his win at MITB, he just randomly won, and not because he was better, but because Wyatt was like "Nah son just gon interfere again."
So that's a huge black mark. Then you have the fact that when he WON the MITB he literally was given zero push, they used it as a championship title (which means he lost more than he ever has) and was even on the pre-show too iirc. At SvS he was in a random ass match which he said "WE'RE GONNA GET JIGGY!!!" Real great. So the fact that he successfully cashed in just had everyone going "What?" in a more "Oh yeah Sheamus." Lol.

Really I think Sheamus CAN be a main event heel, but the way they've built him for this is just appalling. This is going off of him currently, not his superpush during his debut.
 
#27 ·
I'm a fan of his and he certainly has a spot in WWE and could excel at that, but I personally just don't think he's been the slightest bit interesting since his return and subsequent turn, and him as champion now completely shines a huge light on that. I don't think there has ever been a WWE world champion that has won the belt and come into being champion as cold as Sheamus has, and that can just hurt him.

I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt due to realising that complaining about something I can't change only affects me, so I'm willing and hoping it will be good, and I honestly have nothing against him, I just don't think him as champion is an interesting prospect at the moment.
 
#36 ·
@Badbadrobot - Last stop: Total Hypocrisy! People remember back in 2012 when they complained about Sheamus winning matches like a good old boy babyface because of the 18 Seconds at WrestleMania 28 vs. a heel Daniel Bryan and AJ Lee. It was supposed to lead to a Sheamus-Bryan double turn, but it didn't happen, and Bryan eventually became a popular babyface on the back of the YES! chants and his makeshift tag team partnership with Kane without Sheamus involved just so Fella can remain face until early 2015 when he was still Good Fella.

And now that Sheamus cut his spiky hair into a mohawk, he turned heel and his 2015 heel turn was met with some positives at first, because Fella is a natural heel. No fan can cotton on to Fella, even if the WWE Machine paints Fella as a Good Fella, with the same old real-life short temper management issues.

But as 2015 went on and some smarks started liking Sheamus again, Evil Fella had a losing record on his own, and Fella is now aligned with The Authority as a replacement for the now injured Seth Rollins. However, I would be a real stop gap option for The Authority if I were Fella, because Fella is from the same Lost Generation as The Miz and Heath Slater. And Rollins was the New Modern Generation guy.

If only WWE had better booking for heels, not just treat them like throwaway fodder for John Cena and Roman Reigns while everyone else trades wins like jobbers with even stevens booking..

..maybe Sheamus would recapture a small solid spark of what he once was. Just feed Sheamus guys like Jimmy Uso, R-Truth, Kane, Dolph Ziggler, John Cena, Titus O'Neill, Randy Orton and Roman Reigns while Ambrose takes on Heath Slater, Wade Barrett, Kevin Owens, Alberto Del Rio, Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston and Big E Langston before Ambrose and Sheamus square off in the ring.

Instead of just having Cena and Reigns as WWE's key players, maybe the E will have reasserted Sheamus and Ambrose as WWE's key players like Cena and Reigns. However, I will not lose sleep over those who get too much Superman booking. I'd be happy with even stevens booking for the whole roster.

And if I were Vince McMahon, I would cut down on my 300 days on the road a year schedule. Instead of forcing every full timer to do house shows, I would do what Gregg Popovich of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs does to his players. Give certain select wrestlers (upper midcarders and main eventers) some rest maybe five times per month within a year.

Anyone please try to keep this thread alive as I suggest to my fellow WrestlingForum peers, both friends and foes, that Vince should take an approach a la Gregg Popovich to rest certain overexposed wrestlers, give them equal treatment in bookings, and replace Lilian Garcia with Nikki Bella as a Special Guest ring announcer while she heals from neck surgery.
 
#40 ·
Because he's so average. He has a look sure, but he's not a good enough in ring wrestler to be compelling, he can deliver a promo, but he's never made me care about an angle he's in ever. He's sort of just the definition of a midcarder who while a decent guy to have on the roster seems out of place beyond that.
 
#46 · (Edited)
His boring, dull and uninteresting he can never hold my interest in anything he does character wise and promo wise plus his overpushed more than he deserve dude is far from a draw and was a failed Irish John Cena really good in the ring I like his hard hitting style but thats not enough for me I don't recall a single memorable promo from him all of it are meh.

His a failed pet project from the machine that is still pushed despite getting xpac heat time to move on. His character is weak and is Mic skills are boring but in The WWE that means his a main eventer just go ask Alberto Del Rio and Roman Reigns. Meanwhile guys with a character and Mic skills will remain in the midcard WWE Rules 101.
 
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#48 ·
I think him winning the WWE championship so early in his career left a permanent dislike for him with some people.

Personally I don't mind Sheamus as a heel, but I still don't want him as the world champion. He's mid card standard.
 
#55 · (Edited)
I don't hate him at all, it's quite the opposite.

Most (90%) of the things he does, receive no reaction/emotion from my perspective as a spectator. He's...nothing'd. Almost. He is by no means a bad wrestler, or a bad talent to have on the roster...but if he was gone tomorrow, I wouldn't notice, nor would I care.

They've tried to make him interesting by trying different things with him - but I just don't care. He just doesn't have the ability to hold my attention.
 
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#56 · (Edited)
Bigger Guy- check

Alleged friend of HHH- check

Currently being pushed- check

Sheamus is another one of those guys who already comes with a stigma. So his booking needs to be damn near flawless and as we know flawless is something the WWE just doesn't do. Booking takes a guy a lot of fans already don't care about and goes "here care even less"

It's funny though because there was a lot more optimism and why can't they use him right discussions last year when he was a face midcarder. It seemed like people wanted him as a serious heel and wanted him to be a good part of the show. But WWE high key fucked up his return when they had him in a "kiss my arse" match that he lost. Like why bring him back to be the "beat your tiny favorites" bullies just to have him lose and do a weird finish.

I can't blame anyone not excited about this version of him. They book MITB winners like jokes then expect the switch to serious champ to make sense on the drop of a dime. If they spent the last 6 weeks or so making him look like a bully who was on fire maybe folk would give a damn.
 
#57 ·
There's a bit of a blandness about him, not sure what it is. I'm just rarely entertained by him.

If there's one thing i can give him credit for, it's that when he's actually in proper heel mode and not saying that his team should get jiggy on these fools ( fpalm ) he's actually one of the few proper heels in the WWE, and is more than capable of drawing heat.
 
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