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IS IT TIME TO TURN ROLLINS, NIKKI BELLA'S RETURN, WILL THE BRAND SPLIT REVITALIZE WWE AND MORE

By Dave Scherer on 2016-08-29 10:00:00

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I have seen how you guys think that Seth Rollins should not be a heel because his style is more suited for a face. I tend to agree, but I also think he's a pretty good heel. With that said, did WWE miss the boat on Raw following Summerslam? I think it would've been the perfect spot to turn him face. Stephanie could've come out and dogged Balor, similar to how they did Daniel Bryan, and tried to hand Seth the belt while Mick looks on disgusted. Seth could've stood up for Balor for earning his respect and told Stephanie that he would no longer be her lapdog. It could've been great.

I think he is a good heel too.  What I think is that he works mostly like a babyface when he wrestles.  With that said, I think that would have been a forced turn.  I also don’t like the Stephanie being overly involved aspect.  To me, the evil authority figure storyline has been going on for too long now and has lost effectiveness.  I want to see it retired for a while.  Rollins will turn face one day, but when he does I want it to be for a while.  I have grown weary of guys turning too much.

With the Monday night wars being done for over 15 years, is there any reason why Raw still goes 5-10 min past the top of the hour each week?  And with the show already being 3 hours long that's just that much more filler time not need.

USA wants them to do so.  It brings audience into whatever show airs after Raw.

I watched the Facebook interview with Joey Styles.  I thought it was a very good, and I didn't see why they would fire him over this?  His answers were honest, but I didn't think he knocked the company or said anything in a harmful way.  I was actually very entertained by the Q&A.

There are a few things that worked against him.  The big one was repeatedly saying a variation of, “I know I will get fired for this!”  He was playing off of the fact that he was shooting, but the company doesn’t find it funny when one of their VPs goes against the grain like that.  They want full company support.  When talking about Roman Reigns, he made a comment that Vince McMahon gets a lot more right than he gets wrong.  I know what he meant, but again WWE wants full support from their executives.

Do you feel over time this brand split in a way will help the over saturation of the product?  The thing I love about NXT we only get 1 hour a week of tv and the quarterly live special.  Wrestlers may not appear on TV for several weeks.  Whereas on the main roster we see the same stars and matches week after week.  It gets tiresome.  I'm hoping the brand split will really help this.

It’s too soon to say for sure but I will tell you this, Smackdown used to be an afterthought, kind of a chore for me since it broke no real new group.  That has changed and I look forward to it now.  I like it better that Raw since new people are being given exposure.  If things continue down this path, I think it will indeed.

So let me get this straight, Nikki Bella, face, returns at Summerslam as part of a heel team with Natalya and Alexa, to take on a face team of Becky, Carmela, and Naomi. Then on Smackdown, Carmella turns heel for some reason to (I assume) reassure everyone Nikki is still a face... was it all a simple case of creative sloppiness again just to get a pop for Nikki's return?

Given Eva Marie’s suspension, the company was in a strange place bringing back Nikki.  She was a face put in a heel spot.  But, I think they made the right call.  And Carmella was kind of cold on her debut.  I like that they turned Carmella.  She needed a jump start and I liked what they did with her.

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