{"id":4042,"date":"2016-03-08T14:20:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2016-03-08T14:08:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:08:49","slug":"pruetts-pause-wwe-raw-sami-zayns-debut-made-me-sad-shane-mcmahons-punches-made-me-mad-and-a-j-styles-made-me-glad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2016\/03\/08\/pruetts-pause-wwe-raw-sami-zayns-debut-made-me-sad-shane-mcmahons-punches-made-me-mad-and-a-j-styles-made-me-glad-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruett&#8217;s Pause: WWE Raw &#8211; Sami Zayn\u2019s debut made me sad, Shane McMahon\u2019s punches made me mad, and A.J. Styles made me glad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-1183279478\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-82 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Logo_Raw_dn-300x300.png?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"Logo_Raw_dn\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Logo_Raw_dn.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Logo_Raw_dn.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Logo_Raw_dn.png?resize=70%2C70&amp;ssl=1 70w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Logo_Raw_dn.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>By Will Pruett<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Full disclosure: To retain his sanity, Will Pruett watches the 90 minute edit of Raw on Hulu. He has no regrets.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I have mentioned in this space multiple times how much I love Shane McMahon. It probably isn\u2019t healthy. I know I have a problem and I freely admit it. If there\u2019s one active wrestler I love more than I love Shane McMahon, it\u2019s Sami Zayn. I once braved a 100+ degree fever on a January night to see Sami\u2019s lucha counterpart El Generico (who is now retired and helping the orphans in Mexico) wrestle his final PWG match. I cried when Sami finally achieved his dream in NXT and won the NXT Championship from Neville. On the short list of wrestlers I believe in, Sami is at the top. Comparing Sami and Shane is like comparing apples and superkicks, but the two are linked in my mind (and not in a positive way).<\/p>\n<p>It looks like WWE is planning another multiple man match for the Intercontinental Championship at WrestleMania. We\u2019ve seen Kevin Owens feud with and\/or trade victories with Neville, Dolph Ziggler, Sami Zayn, and others going into the show of shows. We saw his last year with a hilariously bad \u201cbelt theft\u201d story revolving around Wade Barrett\u2019s title. The Intercontinental Championship was hung up in a Ladder Match and seven wrestlers had a crowd pleasing dangerous match to capture the title. None of those seven wrestlers have significantly improved their place in the last year (one of them retired).<\/p>\n<p>This match is being filled with the wrestlers WWE expects fans to see in main events on house shows, in featured matches for 11 months out of the year, and in long six man tag matches during the third hour of Raw. Shouldn\u2019t we care about these wrestlers and their struggles? Shouldn\u2019t we be told, during the most important period of the year, these individual feuds matter? What does a multi-man ladder fiasco do, aside from make the fans yell while the wrestlers take extraordinary risks?<\/p>\n<p>I understand the appeal of this type of match at WrestleMania. Money in the Bank began the tradition of lazily booking the upper-mid-card into a five, six, seven, or eight way crazy match at WrestleMania. It\u2019s easier for WWE\u2019s storytelling machine to take and randomly pair these talents without a story. Live fans get into it because people fall off of tall things (sometimes, they fall with style). It\u2019s the perfect train-wreck to open WrestleMania and, when it was gone (WrestleMania 27-30), people missed it. I understand all of this.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, there is a suffering mid-card in WWE. There is an absolute lack of main eventers. Three key injuries hurt the WrestleMania card this year, but WWE also failed themselves. They didn\u2019t have the talent waiting in the wings to take on the role of the injured main eventers. They didn\u2019t have a well-protected Intercontinental Champion to take on Brock Lesnar. The didn\u2019t have a well-protected wrestler fans were dying to see take on The Undertaker. They didn\u2019t have a natural WWE Champion or challenger to fill a role. This is an issue.<\/p>\n<p>WWE\u2019s roster, as far as wrestling talent goes, is probably deeper than it has ever been. They just added A.J. Styles and are adding Shinsuke Nakamura. They have Samoa Joe and Finn B\u00e1lor killing it in their feud on NXT TV. They have the talent depth to tell stories fans care about up and down the WrestleMania card. They have misused a lot of this talent for over a year. They have annually pushed this talent to the side for Undertaker, Brock Lesnar, a McMahon family member, The Rock, and anyone else returning. It\u2019s no wonder they aren\u2019t growing a TV audience. Fans are taught not to care about individual feuds not involving these wrestlers.<\/p>\n<p>I love Sami Zayn more than I should, but this sort of multi-man match is the exact reason Shane McMahon had to make a nonsensical (and wonderful) return to face The Undertaker in the biggest wresting storytelling non sequitur in a decade. I\u2019m personally happy for Sami Zayn getting a spot on the WrestleMania card, but I\u2019m also sad about what his spot means.<\/p>\n<p>WWE storytelling and star-making has been poor for a long time. Roman Reigns (who was hardly mentioned on this show, despite being less than a month away from main eventing the biggest show of all time) is a victim of it. Kevin Owens has become a victim of it. Neville (who had a fantastic match with Owens) is a victim of it. Now, this sort of disappointing storytelling is coming for Sami Zayn as he is thrust into the fifty-fifty mid-card mix.<\/p><div id=\"prowr-3945980431\" class=\"prowr-content-4 prowr-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: prowrestling_incontent_2 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"prowrestling_incontent_2\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"prowrestling_incontent_2\", slotId: \"prowrestling_incontent_2\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>How much longer will WWE rely on nostalgia and affinity for partially retired stars during their biggest season of the year instead of making their current stars feel important? I love Shane McMahon. I love Sami Zayn. We shouldn\u2019t need Shane this year, though. If WWE was telling stories the right way, we wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Sami Zayn\u2019s return on this show both depressed me and delighted me. I am a wrestling fan in conflict with myself.<\/p>\n<p><i>And now some random thoughts:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; How great was the A.J. Styles and Chris Jericho vs. Big E and Kofi Kingston Tag Team Championship match? Seriously. How great was it? I\u2019ll wait while you tell me how great it was. Cool? Cool. It was one of the best Raw matches of the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A.J. Styles proved to be on another level while it came to wrestling in this tag match. When he is in the ring with guys who can match his pace (like Kofi and Big E), he delights. A.J. didn\u2019t have to slow down and we found out why he is the best in the world today. The turn of Chris Jericho (presumably leading to a WrestleMania match between them) was well executed. My only concern is A.J. having to slow down for Jericho. Jericho hasn\u2019t looked to be in his best shape in previous encounters with Styles. Hopefully he can summon the ability to keep up with A.J. for one night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Shane McMahon was on this show and his dancing and promo ability delighted me once again. His punching ability was less than amazing. I wouldn\u2019t have had Shane do anything physical until Undertaker closed the Hell in a Cell door at WrestleMania. It\u2019s not just because Shane is bad at punching, but because him getting physical should be part of the mystery. WWE can\u2019t help but remove the mystique from its characters sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Did Shane McMahon actually say Roman Reigns\u2019 push would stop if he won? WWE outright scripting a credible protagonist to call their current storytelling bad is something else. I\u2019m not sure what exactly I should feel about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Vince McMahon probably still has the negatives for that picture. I\u2019m not worried about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Triple H and Dean Ambrose should feel like a natural feud. Ambrose is the anti-authority rebel with a cause. Triple H is the stuffed suit using his power to prop himself up. It should be an easy story to tell. I have been shocked by how throughout unenjoyable Triple H and Ambrose\u2019s segments together have been. The promo between the two was simply depressing. There isn\u2019t any sort of magic between them. Ambrose is trying too hard to be funny. He isn\u2019t treating Triple H as a serious opponent. It hasn\u2019t worked for a few weeks and will hopefully end on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Charlotte laying out Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks made sense on this show. Hopefully the build to this triple threat match gets better as WrestleMania approaches. I\u2019d like to see less painting by numbers and more unique storytelling. This match should be positioned as a top three WrestleMania match.<\/p><div id=\"prowr-3195572989\" class=\"prowr-content-5 prowr-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: prowrestling_incontent_3 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"prowrestling_incontent_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"prowrestling_incontent_3\", slotId: \"prowrestling_incontent_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&#8211; Big Boss Man is a perfectly fine WWE Hall of Fame member.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Dean Ambrose vs. Bray Wyatt filled time admirably.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Neville vs. Kevin Owens and New Day vs. Styles and Jericho were highlights on this show and absolutely need to be watched.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chanting C.M. Punk at a wrestling show is a stupid thing to do. It\u2019d be different if he wanted to be there and was fired. He\u2019s not interested in being in WWE. It\u2019s not like they fired him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I hope we at least get a video package about the Owens and Zayn feud in the next week.<\/p>\n<p>This was not my favorite episode of Raw, but a hot crowd combined with some good wrestling made it delightful. Critical as I may be of how Sami Zayn is likely to be used, I\u2019m still happy to see him make the WrestleMania card. Maybe Roadblock has been a literal Roadblock for WrestleMania build and we will kick everything into gear next week. If not, WWE is in some WrestleMania hype trouble. I\u2019d hate to see them go into WrestleMania with a major disappointment like last year.<\/p>\n<p><i>Got thoughts on this show or my review of it? If they aren&#8217;t super annoying thoughts (and please don\u2019t ignore this and post super annoying thoughts), hit me up with them! Check <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/itswilltime\"><i>the Twitter @itswilltime<\/i><\/a><i>, leave a comment,\u00a0or email me at itswilltime@gmail.com.<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"prowr-345969000\" class=\"prowr-after-content prowr-entity-placement\"><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/pwboom\" data-resource=\"show_id=3275525\" data-theme=\"light\" data-playlist=\"show\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"340px\">Listen to \"Pro Wrestling Boom Podcast\" on Spreaker.<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Will Pruett Full disclosure:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,27,76],"tags":[97,138,109,104,38,565,56,39,101],"class_list":["post-4042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mustreadarticles","category-viewpoints","category-willpruett","tag-aj-styles","tag-dean-ambrose","tag-kevin-owens","tag-raw","tag-sami-zayn","tag-shane-mcmahon","tag-vince-mcmahon","tag-wrestlemania","tag-wwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pruett&#039;s Pause: WWE Raw - Sami Zayn\u2019s debut made me sad, Shane McMahon\u2019s punches made me mad, and A.J. 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