spykelee wrote:Agreed on the heels always cheating to win Improper. I think WWE needs to add some legitimacy to their product from time to time... Like Miz get's 2 other rostered talents and Maryse at ringside? Alexa just blatantly get's counted out and retains... This stuff is a stupud joke and really degrades the product IMO. Heel's can win clean once in awhile and we don't need like 60% of title matches to end in DQ's. The rule is **** (Please Use More Appropriate Word) to begin with, so change it. Make the product at least a bit more legitimate, please. James Ellsworth in MITB, Jinder (your WHC) beating Randy with one move after he beats on the singh brothers for 10 minutes outside the ring while Jinder recovers... There's countless more examples like this. Guys and girls would be that much more over if they had more legitmiate matches and legitimate finishes.
For the record, I am perfectly fine with Miz cheating to win. I think it fits his character perfectly. Miz's character is a guy who isn't good enough to win on his own, so he has to cheat. That's fine. That makes sense. It even fits the long-time IWC view of Miz as a bad worker, although I think the majority of the IWC has come around to Miz as a worker over the past year or so, as he's continued to put on great matches with a wide variety of guys (aside from Ambrose, but every Ambrose match is mediocre to bad these days). You just don't do that if you're a garbage worker.
But, again, it fits his character like a glove, so I am okay with it.
The problem is that this extends to every heel on the roster. We didn't see a single heel win without shenanigans last night aside from Cass, and everyone knew Enzo wasn't winning that one. Neville had to resort to the low blow. Wyatt needed the eye poke. Cesaro and Sheamus used a variety of dirty tactics to win their match. Bliss got herself counted out to retain the title. The Miz cheated basically the entire match. And while Joe didn't win, he attacked Brock before the bell and gave him a low blow during the match.
And look, I'm fine with all of these
in a vacuum. Heels are bad guys. It's okay if they occasionally cheat to win. That's what bad guys do. They cut corners. But the problem, as always, is when it happens every match. When you literally cannot win without cheating, it's a massive problem because it devalues you as a wrestler. It makes you look weak and unimportant. This works for Miz, because we're not supposed to value him as a wrestler. His whole gimmick is that of a guy who isn't a great wrestler (although he really is very good these days), but who pretends to be and constantly cheats to win to validate himself. But that's not Joe's character. That's not Bliss' character. That's not Cesaro and Sheamus. That's not Wyatt. All of these characters are vastly different from what Miz is doing, but yet they all get booked exactly the same.
It's also a problem when a single show overuses finishes like that. It's fine if one or two PPV matches end like that, but when they basically all do, it doesn't work.
It's also no mystery why the two heels (although Braun isn't really a heel in his feud, but still) who came out of this looking the best were Cass and Strowman. Cass just demolished Enzo and proved that Enzo was holding him back. Braun came out of the PPV looking like a beast. He beat Reigns, and then walked away from a vicious car crash. Neither guy needed to cheat or cut corners to win, and thus they both came out of the event looking great. Meanwhile, every other heel came out of it looking like crap.
