6. Too Little. Way Too Late. And Too Weird.
So let me get this straight, we're supposed to go from The Wyatt Family getting destroyed by Kane and Undertaker, to having them feud with the ghosts of ECW's past for months to suddenly being threatening enough to win the Royal Rumble. Huh. Okay, got it. Brock Lesnar is the biggest draw in all of WWE, he has the most mainstream appeal, and, well, hes better than every other wrestler on the roster right now at what he does. So its weird that the company has no problem having him take a beatdown, when it was destroying people which got him over. WWE doesnt like to plan ahead, so they gave us no reason to believe anyone but Brock or Roman Reigns could win the Rumble. On the go-home edition of the pay-per-view they tried to get us to entertain the possibility Big Show and Jericho both have a shot. Yeah, at 43 and 45 I dont think this is their year. And then, there was The Wyatt Family. Out of nowhere, we are expected to buy them as legitimate threats again. Maybe some forward planning would have made that easier to swallow. But having them stand tall on Raw as the last big sell for the Rumble was more odd than exciting. So the three favorites to win this year are a man who won last year that no one wants to win, an extreme part-time wrestler, and a guy who wrestles like twice a year and will someday own the company. These are our choices. This is our destiny. This... is not good.
Andrew Soucek
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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