Here
we are again my friends and as I’m hoping to bring you what will be the final
Review Corner in our history next week concerning the book can currently see as
our background, from the writer whose interview you read a few months back,
this week we’re going to take a brief look at one of the major issues
surrounding WWE this week. I say a brief look because this week I’m uber busy
with certain things. The first being a date your Wrestling God has with a
certain beauty on Saturday. It’s my first date in a long time and though I have
to take a near three hour coach trip to Leeds and stay the night, I think it
will be well worth it. Plus, I have other projects on the go so let’s get
cracking.
Sometimes
in wrestling, you get three or four things to talk about a week. This time
however I’m going to concentrate on the subject of Seth Rollins vs Brock Lesnar
at Battleground for the WE World Heavyweight Championship. And I’m going to see
if I can’t change your mind as to why this is a bad idea all around.
When
Seth Rollins cashed in his Money in the Bank contract at WrestleMania and curb
stomped Roman Reigns to capture the title, it was always a given that WWE were
have Brock Lesnar hunt a rematch for his gold seeing as he wasn’t actually
pinned. We knew that was coming. We also knew that Brock Lesnar was on a
part-time contract which meant it was unlikely he would stick around after
WrestleMania to get that shot. It transpired that WWE conjured up the storyline
that Brock Lesnar was indefinitely suspended until further notice. This gave
Lesnar the excuse to go home and await the next agreed upon date in his
contract. Not only that, but it gave Seth Rollins a chance to establish himself
as Champion before taking on his greatest ever challenge.
However,
the latter didn’t happen. Since WrestleMania, Seth Rollins has been as good as
buried by WWE on weekly television. Losing matches to people who no other
Champion would ever consider looking at the lights for. He’s lost to J and J
Security. I mean come on. When a Champion loses to two retired wrestlers then
he’s surely hit the bottom of the barrel. Away from that, when he hasn’t been
losing to anyone and everyone, Seth Rollins has been needing help to win
pay-per view matches. The overall impression is that Seth Rollins couldn’t do
it on his own and whilst that is what WWE wanted us to believe so he could
vanquish Brock Lesnar single handily, it has put Seth at a disadvantage in his
career.
There
are other ways WWE could have gone about this. Had Seth Rollins been allowed to
win matches on Raw and Smackdown and gone unaided in his victories on pay-per
view then he would have built an undefeated aura which would have suited his
feud with Brock Lesnar perfectly. On a technicality, Brock Lesnar is unbeaten
in ten months. Imagine the hype that could have followed. The unbeaten Champion
against the unbeaten challenger who hasn’t been pinned in a WWE ring in nearly
two years. It would blown the box office apart. That is if Seth Rollins had
posed a challenge to Brock Lesnar. At the moment he doesn’t.
At the
sheer mention of Brock Lesnar’s name he quakes in his boots. He backed away
from Lesnar like a coward on Raw last week and seems to need The Authority to
back him up. It’s no wonder fans jeer him. He’s been treated shoddily and made
to look like a weakling. However, had Seth Rollins nailed Brock Lesnar with the
title and driven him into the canvas with a Curb Stomp last week, then that
would have been something to back up his claim that he can defeat Lesnar.
The
last thing I don’t agree with is the setting for the bout. Battleground is a
b-list event. It doesn’t warrant an A-list main event. Surely WWE should have
dragged this out until SummerSlam where the bout would have capped the biggest
event of the summer perfectly. Now, if WWE are planning a rematch when Seth
Rollins defeats Brock Lesnar which he has to otherwise it’ll make him seem
worthless if he loses the gold back to Lesnar on his first try, then WWE will
have stripped all the magic from the bout. This should be a one time thing and
it should have happened where the world was watching. Not at Battleground.
Seth
Rollins vs Brock Lesnar could be the match of the year. In fact it may even
come close. But at Battleground it won’t get the audience it needs to thrive.
For me, this is shoddy booking by the company just obtain a large number for an
event which never usually gets one. I hope that on July 20th, that Vince doesn’t
regret what will surely be a spurned chance.
Onwards
and upwards…
