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Sheamus is the Most Boring Champ Since Face Orton

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#1 ·
I know this will piss a lot of people off, but I really believe that Sheamus is the worst WHC we've had in a while. The way he won it (18 second!) was disgraceful, to start it off. He then did absolutely nothing Bryan became one of the top 5 on the current roster in terms of sales and overness. Then he teams up with the Fink and in another disgraceful moment squashes D-Bryan. Also while Bryan is having a great feud with AJ, Sheamus is regressing to Cena like lack of variety in promos and matches. His matches have been boring. Also this whole ref thing is ridiculous and is a repeat of the whole COO angle that happened last year.

Then finally last week Daniel Bryan got some steam by beating up on Sheamus. This was a relief as it was almost certain Sheamus would win at that point and finally Bryan got some momentum.

Well anyway I'm done bitching and hope Sheamus will lose the WHC and the Yes Man will retain it.
 
#26 ·
WWE has botched the first month of Sheamus's reign quite badly in terms of capitalizing on how over he was and how much the audience was behind him pre-Wrestlemania. Bryan's surge in popularity, the "YES!"-mania, the large segment of the audience that was turned off by the 18 seconds incident, the shoddy way they book the World Heavyweight Championship on Smackdown in general, the lack of promo time/character development for Sheamus... It's all conspired to harm him. His stock has actually gone down after winning the championship and Bryan's has curiously skyrocketed since losing it.

However, if there's a brain to be found backstage in WWE, they can invent a way out of this. (Cue Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower.") Let Bryan and Sheamus open Extreme Rules up with 30 minutes to tear the house down with. Bryan just ever-so-narrowly loses, earning Sheamus's respect because he didn't "hide behind AJ" or whatever, Sheamus offers him his hand and Bryan accepts, shaking it. Having Bryan as the top heel on Smackdown isn't going to work when they're in smart mark cities and he's cheered, or even receiving split-to-largely-positive reactions as he has in at least a couple of non-smart mark cities now. Then trade Miz to Smackdown and build him up for a month or two as the smarmy asshole he's so good at being, taking cheapshots at Sheamus at every opportunity, etceteras. Once Sheamus has barely withstood Miz for a month or two, have Del Rio feud with him for a solid month, issuing a bounty on the head of Sheamus for the entire Smackdown roster. Every heel on the brand is going after Sheamus at this point. Well-earned sympathy for your babyface isn't a bad idea. Having him encounter and persevere in the face of overwhelming odds helps your face. Making him indestructible and invulnerable typically doesn't. Once you reach the road to Summerslam, I'd commence Mark Henry's retirement angle, which is a nearly four-month feud with Sheamus for the championship, concluding at Hell in a Cell in an almost brutally barbaric match.

Meanwhile, keep Bryan going strong as the brand's #2 face (I think Orton's Raw-bound this summer), and then after Sheamus has a monster reign that concludes at Survivor Series, have him drop the championship to a resurgent Wade Barrett coming off from his injury time off with a revitalized character and presentation (and new theme, for God's sakes). Bryan continues being built as the plucky "Yes!" babyface of the brand, who fights his way, one way or the other, to challenge Barrett at Wrestlemania XXIX. They could hype and play up their shared history dating all the way back to NXT 1, three entire years earlier, and contrast them from one another. The heat for a Bryan/Barrett match at Wrestlemania, with so many English fans and so many smart marks who worship Bryan, could be positively immense with the proper booking and build going into it.
 
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#39 ·
His booking has been bad, but as far as I'm concerned it matches his talent. The guy is decent in the ring and on the mic but outside of his look, he's never struck me as anything special. Funnily enough, all of his world title reigns have been awful (mainly booking wise) so far, with his second reign still, in my opinion, one of the worst booked reigns in history. He took a backseat to the Nexus storyline, did absolutely nothing of note, and was pinned by Heath Slater after a clothesline for fucks sake!

In comparison, the booking for this reign has been much better, but yes I agree he's still been even more dull than usual. They haven't given him any mic time: we're supposed to cheer for him because he's a face, apparently. But that doesn't work. We have no reason to care for him right now, whereas Daniel Bryan has been catching the eyes of not just smarks but casual fans as well right now.

Seamus hasn't had a real feud and hasn't even had a chance to... well, do anything so far. So I agree that his reign has been really dull, and while I don't care for him anyway, it certainly isn't all his fault. In my opinion he never needed to win it in the first place. They seem to just keep tossing this title around hoping someone sticks, yet all it does is devalue the title in the first place.
 
#10 ·
I'm no big Sheamus fan, but it's a crime to say he's not a good worker. He's not just a musclehead, guy can go. At least he's entertaining with his accent.
 
#20 · (Edited)
They aren't doing him any favors with how they are booking him. I mean he's booked strong as hell, but what's his character? Those he's in a "feud" with Bryan, Bryan just running around being a dick has been given far more attention than anything to do with Sheamus. Sheamus is just "the champion" at this point. That's his character. Maybe he can really mix it up and get some good things going with Del Rio, but since nobody seems to give a shit about Del Rio, maybe not.

EDIT: As for the decline of the WHC, I think the Punk/Jeff feud was the last time it really felt like it mattered. After Punk unceremoniously lost to Taker, it was all down hill from there. WHC Jack Swagger, an incredibly long Kane title reign, a Dolph Ziggler title "win" where he won without pinning anyone, and a six-month feud that consisted of Randy Orton destroying a hapless opponent (keep in mind that Orton was the face in this scenario), were all just nails in the coffin.
 
#22 ·
If you wanna truly compare, Sheamus is way more boring than Orton ever was as champion.

Hell, Orton wasn't even boring as champion...he was just really frustrating to watch. Then again, I'm still bitter about Christian's run lol.

Currently, Sheamus is the vanilla babyface champion. Nothing special, nothing exciting. Just a white meat babyface.
 
#27 ·
The booking of Sheamus is craptacular. No character development, not using his uniqueness or his original Celtic Warrior gimmick, not giving him interesting stories or feuds. They simply put him appearing with his shitty Great White shirt, winning and lefting. WWE should be ashamed turning into shit a guy with the in-ring potential, charisma and who created his own creater like Sheamus is.
 
#28 ·
I really don't get why Vince isn't pushing Daniel Bryan as the face of Smackdown right now. Face it, he's the most over (and by that I mean gets the most consistent, loud reaction each week...be it cheers, yes, or boos) guy on the brand. Now maybe this yes stuff will disappear (It won't. But maybe.) but until it does strike while the iron is hot. Push D-Bry as a bad ass tweener (American Dragon, not that chicken heel crap) against faces and heels and let the crowd decide. If he starts to falter fall back on Sheamus. Bryan is never gonna be big if he's not booked right. Imagine last year if CM Punk told everyone he was leaving the company with the belt, then walked into the PPV and Cena beat him clean in a matter of minutes. Would any of the regular fans even remember Punk now nearly a year later? The hard part is done with regards to Bryan. He's made a connection with the audience. Now just push him in a credible way and you got another star literally falling into Vince's lap.

The fact that creative won't put Sheamus and Bryan in a ring together with a mic is telling. Hell he isn't even the main focus of his own world championship storyline...AJ and Bryan are.
 
#29 ·
Wwe is trying to make every baby face appeal to kids and that destroys them, that's why heels are better. Sheamus should have been like ultimate warrior or Goldberg, few words, no cute smiles and all intensity . I bet that he would be much more over ( the crowd was almost dead in raw when he appeared ) and sell some merchandise too .
 
#31 ·
As soon as Sheamus turned face his character was royally fucked, they cut out every single factor that made him a good heel and now he's a fan pandering "aw shucks bullies aint cool" type of moronic ass kisser. Dont get me started on his godawful Irish tales that they force him to spout
 
#32 ·
Gotta agree here. It's as if WWE forgets why some of their characters got over in the first place.

I remember when he got that big pop last year at Money In The Bank and destroyed Sin Cara. I saw massive face potential in Sheamus as the serious, take no bullshit type of babyface.

Now, he's just a happy generic guy.
 
#33 ·
I agree. Heels Orton and Sheamus were so entertaining. Orton and Sheamus as babyfaces bore me to tears.
 
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