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Jethro · 02-07-2010, 05:25 AM

There has been a lot of talk about Sheamus' WWE Title reign so far, about how the writers have turned his reign into a fluke because he luckily beat Cena and Orton etc. Now instead of complaining about it, I would like to know how YOU would have booked his title reign in which he does look credible and in which he does get elevated to main event status. You obviously have to start at the TLC PPV with the match against Cena and from then on you're allowed to use any opponent from RAW, so you're not restricted to a match versus Orton at the Rumble. It has to be realistic, so you need to keep Cena a credible main eventer because the WWE would never devalue Cena considering the amount of merchandise he sells, and you cannot bury someone like Randy Orton 'cause they want to keep his main event status and he's about to feud with Legacy. So this will be a tough cookie....

Get to bookin'!

ronnygreen · 02-07-2010, 05:35 AM

First of all, I think I would have had Cena on hiatus for a while, so his return was really hyped up.
Sheamus would stop with the Celtic Warrior stuff and adopt a simpler persona of a no-nonsense bully who began to almost hold Raw hostage. He'd have few actual matches, to cover up his shortcomings. But would interfere in matches that had nothing to do with him, attacking commentators and referees just because he could.
Basically, it would make an average wrestler look like a cool, monstrous heel. Maximising his strengths whilst hiding his weaknesses.
Have him berate Cena, week in and week out. Maybe bring out an impersonator to squash. Just keep piling on the pressure until Cena returned. Sheamus is a place-holder. But that doesn't mean he shouldn't do anything memorable.

**Pyro™** · 02-07-2010, 05:39 AM

I would've started by having him win the ECW title, and having Christian make the move instead, and him becoming the WWE champion, moving the guy who was ready to move, and giving the WWE title to a fresh champion, but rather than a farce of one who has no credibility, to an over, fantastic mic worker who can wrestle virtually anyone and get a decent match out of them.

Sheamus is worthless and deserves nothing that holds any merit.

And there is no way to make Sheamus look good without burying Cena or Orton, because Sheamus doesn't have heel credibility like JBL and Jericho do to make himself a top star by his acting ability alone. He has to absolutely obliterate everyone or no one takes him seriously. That's the mark of a BAD wrestler.

bme · 02-07-2010, 05:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Pyro™

I would've started by having him win the ECW title, and having Christian make the move instead, and him becoming the WWE champion, moving the guy who was ready to move, and giving the WWE title to a fresh champion, but rather than a farce of one who has no credibility, to an over, fantastic mic worker who can wrestle virtually anyone and get a decent match out of them.

Sheamus is worthless and deserves nothing that holds any merit.

And there is no way to make Sheamus look good without burying Cena or Orton, because Sheamus doesn't have heel credibility like JBL and Jericho do to make himself a top star by his acting ability alone. He has to absolutely obliterate everyone or no one takes him seriously. That's the mark of a BAD wrestler.

Christian would have to be build up to be taken seriously as WWE Champion.
if Christian was given a World Title fresh off his ECW title reign, it'd be the same as Punk 1st world title reign.

**Pyro™** · 02-07-2010, 06:05 AM

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Christian would have to be build up to be taken seriously as WWE Champion.
if Christian was given a World Title fresh off his ECW title reign, it'd be the same as Punk 1st world title reign.

It wasn't Punk's build up that prevented him from having a good title run, it was having no character. WWE invested no time into letting the fans get to know him before he turned heel. All he did was come out and wrestle, and frankly, it's amazing that he was as over as he was given that situation. It shows how much Punk's charisma shines. Christian does not have the character problem.

JBL's title run was the best title reign in the last 10 years, Jericho also had a great reign in 2008 without serious build up, and was midcarding prior.

And regardless of build up, anyone who doesn't admit that his reign would AT LEAST be more successful than Sheamus's is an absolute fool.

bme · 02-07-2010, 06:33 AM

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It wasn't Punk's build up that prevented him from having a good title run, it was having no character. WWE invested no time into letting the fans get to know him before he turned heel. All he did was come out and wrestle, and frankly, it's amazing that he was as over as he was given that situation. It shows how much Punk's charisma shines. Christian does not have the character problem.

JBL's title run was the best title reign in the last 10 years, Jericho also had a great reign in 2008 without serious build up, and was midcarding prior.

And regardless of build up, anyone who doesn't admit that his reign would AT LEAST be more successful than Sheamus's is an absolute fool.

- JBL's reign (no matter how great it was) was that of a fluke champion, a man who (i the fans eyes) should'nt have gotten a title shot in the first place.
From beggining to end, JBL was always seen as a guy who just BARELY got away with the gold.

- Jericho was built from his heel turn and fued with Michaels.

i see Christian in the same way i see The Miz,
both would need huge build up to even be taken seriously facing guys like Cena, Taker & HHH.

**Pyro™** · 02-07-2010, 06:37 AM

It didn't take JBL long to be the best heel in the company. He was over and delivering golden promos on a weekly basis. If you have the kind of heel credibility he had, being a jobber champion doesn't matter. That was actually the point, and he made it work.

Jericho was never really built. He was midcarding, threw Michaels through the Jeritron, got humiliated by HBK and then won the title out of absolutely nowhere.

Christian beat Randy Orton at Survivor Series, it's not unfeasible to assume that he can have a competitive match with Cena or HHH, regardless of outcome. Regardless, only 1 person can be the most credible face and heel in the company, so based on that logic, no one else should ever hold the title but whoever they are.

bme · 02-07-2010, 06:51 AM

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Christian beat Randy Orton at Survivor Series, it's not unfeasible to assume that he can have a competitive match with Cena or HHH, regardless of outcome. Regardless, only 1 person can be the most credible face and heel in the company, so based on that logic, no one else should ever hold the title but whoever they are.

Actually, Christian almost... pinned Orton.
Yeah, he'd have a great match against em but he'd have to pin someone.
That's the problem with Sheamus, he does'nt have enough (ANY) credibility for even the idea of getting a win against guys like Orton and Cena to be taken seriously.

Les Turrey · 02-07-2010, 07:01 AM

I would've made Sheamus' title reign a Kane-style title reign and have him drop it on Raw the next day.

SCUK07 · 02-07-2010, 07:23 AM

I lve it how fickle wrestling fans are..................I know because im the same. We want change, we want different, but when we get it we moan about it and eventually want things to go back to how they were.

I was of the opinion that the HHH-Orton-Cena title merry-go-round needed to be broken, give somebody else a run with the title. And i'll admit it when they gave the title to the ginger kryptonite i was kinda happy with, a new, fresh young talent getting a run with the title.....It was what we all wanted, because at the end of the day had HBK, Jericho, Edge, Show (to a lesser extent) taken the title we would have moaned about because we'd seen it before.

So theyve given the title to Sheamus at TLC (great new blood) but its not who we would have chosen.......Kofi, Swagger (the new mr kennedy), Miz, Christian moving to Raw, even Rey or someone would have been a better choice, but they went with Sheamus. Built him (slightly) as a demolition machine (retiring Noble, destroying everyone in front of him) then have him go over the biggest name in the company and get the title. This is where i would have changed things, yes have Sheamus take the title, but then have him drop it at the Rumble...........but not to Orton, to DiBiase who's turned on Orton left Legacy etc.

So we had our break from Cena-HHH-Orton had 2 new fresh faces ghold the title.......if the E want a bigger match at Mania, have DiBiase drop the title inside the chamber.....to Sheamus if they really want HHH-Sheamus at Mania, but Personally I would have DiBiase going into Mania as champion to face Orton....Legacy Grudge match for the title. Or have Edge (rumble winner) taking on DiBiase, again a fresh match up, Edge is one of the best champions ever, so he can take the title keeping up the "rumble winner, wins the big one" trend.