Wasn't his idea. Creative/Vince insisted he go over, CM Punk even suggested that Roman should beat him.

 

Yeah I guess you think kindly like that when Cena buries people too? :laugh:

 

And he did mention in the podcast that he wanted to lose.

 

Punk gets a pass because of Indys...but Cena just gets hate for anything similar, even though the person who made the call for Punk to job out the entire Shield is teh same guy who books Cena to win...

 

Are you kidding? The Shield got one of the strongest pushes I have ever seen. They beat everyone from Cena to Orton to Taker to Triple H.

 

It was part of the break-up of The Shield angle. He won at TLC by Reigns spearing Ambrose. And he lost to Reigns on RAW a few weeks later.

 

Punk also buried The Ryback. CM Punk was only in business for himself.

 

Agreed.

I would have bought if he beat one member of The Shield.

But all 3 of them, in the same match.

Must be the burial of the century.

 

lol

 

@Brock

 

It's literally impossible for it to be 'the burial of the century', when they didn't move down the card at all. They went on to have huge matches vs The Wyatts and Evolution, one of them is the world champion, one of them main evented Wrestlemania and won the Rumble, and the other is currently the number 1 contender. They have huge plans for all of them, and you can tell they're intentionally being set up as the future of the main event, either all 3 of them or some combination. That's pretty much the exact opposite of a 'burial'.

The worst thing about this forum is people who see a word, and instead of finding out what it means, apply it to any situation they decide is appropriate.

Anyway, at least this match gave us that classic bit of the podcast.
"If you want him to look strong, why doesn't he win?!"
"We don't WANT him to beat you... but you have to make him look strong"

 

The only thing that needs burying is this thread. The Shield was so buried. fpalm

 

Didn't he win because Reigns speared Ambrose?

 

I'm convinced that half of this forum get so angry about wrestling, because they don't actually understand what they're watching.

If you have no perception of long term storytelling, or have only seen the result instead of watching the match, build up and fallout included, I can maybe see why this would seem like a big deal. Maybe.

 

So you wasn't watching at the time, watched a random match, saw the result and now you determine that as a burial, that term itself should be banned from this forum at times it gets overused that much.

Listen to Punk's podcast and the actual reasons why this happened. Other users have clarified it enough, but it was meant to be the start of the Shield break up at the time, and Punk didn't go into Vince's office and demand this win.

The bigger question is; How in the known universe was The Shield buried when they continued to have a massive push, beat EVOLUTION twice on PPV, and look at them now. One is the champion of the damn company.

Learn the facts and research might be in order first instead of just spouting out conjecture.

 

Try and be a bit less subtle next time yeah.