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We have established veteran and developed personality Edge facing Dolph Ziggler, who isn't much in the personality department beyond his association with vickie, at the Royal Rumble. Though this is possibly the worst time to give Ziggler the belt, I beleive Ziggler can be given a decent reign post-Wrestlemania. I beleive a decent reign by Ziggler (that isn't cut short before a decent climax) would be a perfect chance to inject some much needed character in the other wrestlers and why I beleive Ziggler's lack of personality isn't THAT much of a drawback.
The fundamental aspect of personality in how it applies to characters is that, though the characters with the most endearing and developed personalities should get most of the character focus (along with mic time and writing behind them), it doesn't necessitate that they are the most powerful or physically capable characters on the show. Personality sells and we all know that, but ONLY to the extent that the surrounding events of the show (overarching plots and individual character goals) are compelling as well.
The key to Ziggler as champion is that he is CREDIBLE and could conceivably beat everyone else on the show (aside from maybe Big Show) if not for WWE conditioning the audience that the guys with more personality are more credible by default. Ziggler wouldn't be a draw and I wouldn't suggest otherwise; he in reality would ultimately amount to the definitive obstacle towards the main objective. However, if Ziggler is protected enough, he would give a big boost to whoever ultimately dethorned him.
I have acknowledged Ziggler not being that interesting. The key here is that, in cohesion to the italicize earlier, though beating Ziggler would be the ultimate objective, it doesn't necessitate that all the character focus would be around him. Said focus would instead be around the faces chasing him. The key is that Ziggler must be afforded the room to beat any challenger credibly and for said challenger to not be afforded extra opprotunities at Ziggler; this would make the title scene interesting and unpredictable. Firstly, it adds a dimension to the faces who failed against Ziggler in how they may respond, secondly give creative room to build or set up feuds for down the road between the more interesting characters without needing to hot shot stuff in order to fill out a title match, and thirdly, can give the audience an idea of where midcarders may stand in regards to their ability to compete as Ziggler, assuming he's maintained as credible, could afford to be given matches with the midcarders on TV without said midcarders interfering in developing storylines.
Ziggler would be used a transitional champ admittedly; he adds to the roster, but I don't consider him having the potential to develop into a draw. But using him as a transitional champ gives the writers time to sort out and ddevelop the roster and give the higher acts more character development and even more opprotunities to work with the midcarders with future prospects without the championship scene taking away too much focus.
(Note that I am not going to hold my breath on WWE doing something like this. I just wanted to see how you forum goers would respond.)
The fundamental aspect of personality in how it applies to characters is that, though the characters with the most endearing and developed personalities should get most of the character focus (along with mic time and writing behind them), it doesn't necessitate that they are the most powerful or physically capable characters on the show. Personality sells and we all know that, but ONLY to the extent that the surrounding events of the show (overarching plots and individual character goals) are compelling as well.
The key to Ziggler as champion is that he is CREDIBLE and could conceivably beat everyone else on the show (aside from maybe Big Show) if not for WWE conditioning the audience that the guys with more personality are more credible by default. Ziggler wouldn't be a draw and I wouldn't suggest otherwise; he in reality would ultimately amount to the definitive obstacle towards the main objective. However, if Ziggler is protected enough, he would give a big boost to whoever ultimately dethorned him.
I have acknowledged Ziggler not being that interesting. The key here is that, in cohesion to the italicize earlier, though beating Ziggler would be the ultimate objective, it doesn't necessitate that all the character focus would be around him. Said focus would instead be around the faces chasing him. The key is that Ziggler must be afforded the room to beat any challenger credibly and for said challenger to not be afforded extra opprotunities at Ziggler; this would make the title scene interesting and unpredictable. Firstly, it adds a dimension to the faces who failed against Ziggler in how they may respond, secondly give creative room to build or set up feuds for down the road between the more interesting characters without needing to hot shot stuff in order to fill out a title match, and thirdly, can give the audience an idea of where midcarders may stand in regards to their ability to compete as Ziggler, assuming he's maintained as credible, could afford to be given matches with the midcarders on TV without said midcarders interfering in developing storylines.
Ziggler would be used a transitional champ admittedly; he adds to the roster, but I don't consider him having the potential to develop into a draw. But using him as a transitional champ gives the writers time to sort out and ddevelop the roster and give the higher acts more character development and even more opprotunities to work with the midcarders with future prospects without the championship scene taking away too much focus.
(Note that I am not going to hold my breath on WWE doing something like this. I just wanted to see how you forum goers would respond.)
