Extremely Happy With The Way

I like the Uso's a lot. Very talented guys and pretty over with the crowd. I hope they aren't just getting a temporary push because of Total Divas. But the show worked! My wife likes them now too.

As for Tons of Funk; Albert has always been a very good worker. I just think Brodus Clay may suck. I've seen him do 3 moves. You know he's in trouble when the Funkadactyls are bigger stars.

The Shield need to drop the belts. If they want the tag champs to be part of the Corporation angle, then the belts should be on two guys who HHH can tout around as being "good for business", not on the hired guns.

I think they should turn the Prime Time Players heel. It would be a nice subverted way to play on the hype of Darren Young coming out by making him and Titus into HHH's golden boys.


The DESIGN of the belts is okay, but I think, but I think the plates should be gold and not copper/bronze.

I like Otunga's current gimmick (though he hasn't been on TV in forever) and it should never be changed.

And I wouldn't want to see Alex Riley as a heel. I love the guy and think he's talented and deserves a push, but I just seriously don't rate his heel work at all. He's so much more natural as a face. When he's a heel he comes off as a "kid playing wrestler" on the mic sometimes. I never really got into him until he turned face. I'd rather see Riley pushed as a face, if only because I'm worried that if they make him heel, he's gonna hold himself back in the ring to avoid getting cheered (no more dropkicks, flying clotheslines, or energetic explosiveness, just restholds from now on) and it will cause his match quality to dip. I'd rather see him as a face jobber who gets to hype up the crowd with fun matches than as a heel who has to be slow, boring and "methodical".

I'd rather see Riley teaming up with a fellow face. Reunite him with Miz, not a permanent team, but an on and off alliance while both guys do their own thing. Something to give Riley a small rub, and something to keep Miz doing something when he isn't chasing singles belts. Or team him up with Santino, and let them do funny segments backstage.

Tons of Funk are being used horribly, in fact they aren't even really being used right now.



Darren Young coming out is what started their push.

Team Hell No didn't feud with anyone but each other until they got paired up with The Shield. I would agree they could work harder telling stories within the division but they don't really do that anymore for the midcard and tag division. Why can't the Real Americans and the Prime Time Players have a feud where Zeb calls out Darren Young for being gay? I mean he called out Del Rio for being an immigrant so it's not like they haven't gone there before. Those two teams could go back-and-fourth over that issue and have it be interesting for 4-8 weeks and it would keep them busy. Same goes for the Usos and The Shield. Give them something of substance to beat each other up over for a couple PPVs.

At this point though, The Shield has defeated everyone. I'm not complaining personally because I think they are an awesome tag team, but there isn't another team that's been built up to stop them. JBL said something like them being the Muhammad Ali of the tag division and all the other teams are victim to it.

I have less issue with WWE not building tag feuds than I do them not being able to build US Title and IC Title feuds. Those two belts should always have a feud around them. The Ambrose and Ziggler feud actually has some substance because of how it ties into the Corporation angle, but what has Axel done during his reign? This is why WWE doesn't have new stars hitting everywhere. There isn't an opportunity for these guys to cut promos against each other, have meaningful matches, and really stand a chance to stand out and shine. Triple H and The Rock are a perfect example of why midcard feuds are so important. Those guys leading DX and the Nation felt like a bigger deal to me at the time than what was going on in the main event. When is WWE going to push their midcard that way again? Probably never, but even the WHC fails to have a story around it 80% of the time. You can't make people care if you're not telling a compelling story, that's just the truth.

It clearly is. Titus and Darren are pretty much the two worst wrestlers on the roster right now. Pushing him just because he's gay is just as bad as firing him for being gay would be.

Titus O'Neil has tons of star quality, but his ring skills need to catch up. He's funny, charismatic, and he's a big imposing dude in the ring. He would really be a total package guy if he could work. That's why he's great in a tag team so that WWE can take some of the work load off of him but still get all his personality onto TV. I think Titus would have been pushed regardless, but they do seem to be receiving this push due to Young's coming out party imo. WWE got national exposure from it and if we've learned anything it's that WWE loves national exposure.

As a side note, did anyone watch Titus get completely wrecked by Cesaro's big spin on Smackdown last night? Hilarious. He was dizzy and stumbled all over the ring until the end of the match. I felt horrible for the guy but I was laughing the entire time.