2010 Pro Wrestling Thread

It'd be hilarious if he had his car keys in his pocket and grabbed those instead ...

 

Now THAT would be my luck.

 

I just hope they don't screw this up by having Miz defend the briefcase, and losing to someone like Orton or Edge. They've been pushing the young guys. Here's hoping they give one of the best of them the biggest push of all.

 

They can help push two young guys here if they so desire. After all, if Miz is going for the main belt, he's gotta drop the U.S. title eventually...right?

 

Maybe he holds the US belt until he wins the big belt and, a la Goldberg, gives the US belt up the night after winning the bif belt.

 

OR maybe he regains half of the tag team titles, keeps the US title and holds the heavyweight title as well. He is the Miz and he is awesome, you know.

 

The problem I'm seeing here is that I absolutely love the Miz, but I can't take him seriously as a world championship kind of guy. I can't see him going toe-to-toe with guys like Cena, Undertaker, Batista, or even Sheamus, and winning the title cleanly. He's just not big enough or good enough in the ring.

Which isn't impossible to overcome, you just have to let him win the title cheaply with his MITB briefcase, then defend it for awhile with a series of heel moves. Cheating to get the pin, cheating to get DQed and hold onto the belt, walking out on a match and getting counted out, that sort of thing.

But we're right in the middle of Sheamus doing that sort of thing, so it'd be weird to jump straight into Miz doing it. I suspect we'll see him hold that briefcase for at least six months.

 

I've often wondered why they just don't let the guy hold both belts, and defend one, or the other, or both for a short while.

To me, it would add some short-term excitement, say, to have the champ defend the U.S. or IC title one week, the World title the next, and in big events, defend both in one match or have him work two title matches. Eventually, you have him lose one or the other.

 

If the belts were more relevant today, The Miz would be the perfect guy to hold on to the US/IC Belt and carry the upper mid-card division for years.

Speaking of small wrestlers, how come no one ever mentions Rick Rude as a smaller guy? I know his upper body was jacked (assuming he was totally juiced), but if you look at his lower body, the dude had the frame of a cruiserweight.

 

Probably because he was 6-3, and when healthy, in the 250-pound range.

 

Like when HBK was WWF champ in '97 and defended his European title?

 

Yeah like that, without the whole "I'm not doing any jobs," thing.