Momentum is everything in wrestling. Once it's gone, it's really hard to get back. Take Bray Wyatt for example. During his biggest push, he was never given that one big, clean win that would have solidified him as a legitimate threat. To date, he's basically defeated Dolph Ziggler and Ryback fairly. Nothing too impressive for the old resume. In his biggest "win" he needed the help of a small child to scare John Cena from walking down two steps, but only after being manhandled by him. A long time gripe of WWE storylines is that Cena can not be made to look weak for long. When Brock Lesnar destroyed him, he got a visual pin in the rematch. When Rock pinned him, he shrugged it off. When Owens beat him fairly in his first match...he complained that he didn't respect him, then beat him, and afterwards claimed he now had his respect. Owens is so good that he's likely to overcome a handful of losses, but another win under his belt against a Cena, Randy Orton or Roman Reigns would help create a next top star soon, which the company is in desperate need of. Watching WWE get cold feet on a young wrestler again would be worse than dropping an ice cream cone on a summer day.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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