Looks like The Club is getting the 50/50 booking!

I haven't been this interested in a WWE storyline in a long time. So no I would say right now it's not trending towards them dropping the ball.

We'll see. I honestly haven't been able to let myself get fully invested in it yet, due to WWE's track record for... shall we say... crapping the bed. Frequently. Horrifically.

Maybe, just maybe, it actually is a 'new era'. Or, maybe they'll feed them all to Reigns clean in a couple months. It's all a waiting game.

While I'm intrigued by Styles, Gallows, and Anderson, I have the feeling they're being fed to Reigns to make him look stronger. And once Reigns is done with them, they're going to fade into the midcard oblivion.

However, I certainly hope that isn't the case.

I love AJ Styles, but I don't get the hype for Gallows, he never done anything impressive the last time he was in WWE.Just cause his big doesn't mean his great.

This is absolutely disgusting. This isn't 50/50 booking. Don't look at it as "But AJ won the 6 man tag!" He was still slaughtered after the match and it's been happening on both Raw and Smackdown to Gallows and Anderson every week.

Raw 5/9/16 - Reigns beats and takes out Gallows and Anderson

Smackdown 5/5/16 - Reigns beats and takes out Gallows and Anderson

Raw 5/2/16 - Reigns takes out Styles/Gallows/Anderson in a brutal fashion

Smackdown 4/28/16 - Reigns takes out Styles/Gallows/Anderson

Raw 4/25/26 - AJ stands tall BUT Reigns takes out Gallows and Anderson (TWICE)

I'm so sick of people saying "50/50 booking." It's like that's the newest "insider term" people have learned and now constantly have to use it. And I don't mean to target anyone in particular, I'm just saying this in general.

Gallows and Anderson have been made to look less than impressive though. I hate how the Club keeps losing to Reigns and the Usos (in my opinion the most complacent and uninteresting tag team in WWE right now).

WWE was totally incapable of booking the NWO in 2002. Why, now that Vince is even more disconnected from his audience, would anyone think he knows how to book the 2016 version?

You can't form a dominate (heel) faction and not make them look dominant. End of story. WWE has already failed this city. But look on the bright side, Roman Winz LOLZ!

Maybe I'm looking too into this,and giving Creative too much credit, but I'm seeing something drastically different from most of you.

I see a team that has not yet gelled because they're following two different missions. AJ wants to be respected and cheered (He said so prior to Payback).Gallows and Anderson want to win at any cost, and want OLD NJPW AJ Back.

This is like when Sting teamed with heel Luger pre-NWO days. They were tag champs, but they came close to losing many many many times because Sting would admonish Luger, get distracted, and almost succumb to a pin. They were established main event players at the time so that accounts for their wins. Point is, their constant admonishing of each other led to them not being a dominant team.

So, until AJ decides to embrace the Club or untilt he Club adopts the AJ mentality, the so called domination won't happen until then. Maybe that's not the story WWE Creative is coming up with, but it's what I've been picking up on. Until they are aligned mentally, they aren't going to dominate.

Ditto.

I honestly compare them to Doug Furnas and Phil LaFon. I literally know nothing about them, but understood the two to be an awesome tag team that randomly showed up to help the Hart Foundation. I was young at the time, so I didn't know my history, and, frankly, didn't put much stock in wins and losses since I saw them on TV a lot. Thye lost and won, but they weren't as dominant as they were hyped up to be I guess despite getting major air time.


Same thing applies here for me. Never saw Anderson and Gallows really go at it, but always understood MG Anderson to be the better of the two, and the two in general to be a dominant force. They're thrown in a main event angle, and are fulfilling their role by making the best of what they have.

I stand by initial feeling about AJ, Nakamura, and Anderson and Gallows. They're talented individuals. If they're given stupid gimmicks, they'll make it work. Cream always rises. Look at Daniel Bryan. Look at DDP. Look at Steve Austin. Look at the Rock. These guys suffered ridiculous gimmicks, and made a career out of it. No one remembers DDP for his stalker days. They may make fun of him for it, and make fun of the booking, but no one is saying DDP wasn't a legend. They may make fun of Sting's WWE booking, but no one is taking anything away from his wrestling career. Daniel Wyatt. Rocky Blue Chipper Maivia. Stunning Steve Austin. bad gimmicks given to good/great wrestlers, whose full careers overshadow that time period. Another example: Jericho's first reign as the Undisputed Champion. Shoddy booking did nothing to take away from his legacy.

Same goes for AJ. We make fun of him for the Claire Lynch storyline, and the Lil Naitch storyline, but he's one of the best wrestlers period.

The only ones that can really dump on their own legacy are guys who ruin their personal lives (Benoit Murder/Suicide). But even then, we might ignore it (Stone Cold vs. Debra; Eddie Guerrero's demons).

So, in short, AJ will be fine. BC will be fine. It's already miles ahead of the inVasion, and better handled than the "We may be the nWo, but we're really just marks like you guys. Hey Rocky, lets get a picture" angle.