To clarify, is it better to push someone by having them squash the lower/midcard guys (like Bo Dallas) before moving them to main event status once they have proven themselves? Or is it better to push someone by having them immediately interact with the main eventers (like Roman Reigns).
Personally, I'm not sure myself. Part of my problem with the slow burn push is that it becomes predictable and runs out of steam, especially if the company is short on jobbers. I got sick of Rusev for awhile because I was tired of him squashing Zack Ryder for the thousandth...because apparently third means thousandth...time. It's gotten so bad that both Bo and Rusev have started squashing other heels, which at least is kind of interesting.
The bonus to this is WWE is able to gouge how effective the talent in question is before taking a huge risk, while not bloating up the main event seen. The bad news is...as I said, it becomes predictable and pointless after awhile.
Roman Reigns technically isn't the best example for the fast push as he at least had quite a bit of experience as a tag team performer, but he barely had a handful of singles matches under his belt before contending for the championship. But I also don't know what else they could've done with him at the time. I hear Alberto del Rio was forced down the audiences throats, but I wasn't watching wrestling when he was introduced. The good news is that it's easier to get over when you're established as a credible challenge to the big dogs of the company. The bad is that said company is taking a huge risk that might backfire. Another issue is that creative team has to decide whether to put them over established stars- who might not like that. The Big Show was introduced by fighting with Stone Cold, Mankind, etc but they couldn't let him win that quickly so they resorted to DQ's. Almost immediately, WWE ran out of ideas for him and the push quickly burned itself out.
Oddly, that didn't happen to him in WcW, when his first match was winning the gold from Hogan. His career only began to fizzle when he joined the nWO because he was more-or-less playing the henchman for guys like Hogan and Nash.
So which model do you think is more successful? The slow burn push or the strong push? For me, I think WWE needs to start finding middle ground. They need to give the jobbers like Heath Slater, Fandango, Ryder or Sandow more victories so when rising talent defeats them, it means something.
Personally, I'm not sure myself. Part of my problem with the slow burn push is that it becomes predictable and runs out of steam, especially if the company is short on jobbers. I got sick of Rusev for awhile because I was tired of him squashing Zack Ryder for the thousandth...because apparently third means thousandth...time. It's gotten so bad that both Bo and Rusev have started squashing other heels, which at least is kind of interesting.
The bonus to this is WWE is able to gouge how effective the talent in question is before taking a huge risk, while not bloating up the main event seen. The bad news is...as I said, it becomes predictable and pointless after awhile.
Roman Reigns technically isn't the best example for the fast push as he at least had quite a bit of experience as a tag team performer, but he barely had a handful of singles matches under his belt before contending for the championship. But I also don't know what else they could've done with him at the time. I hear Alberto del Rio was forced down the audiences throats, but I wasn't watching wrestling when he was introduced. The good news is that it's easier to get over when you're established as a credible challenge to the big dogs of the company. The bad is that said company is taking a huge risk that might backfire. Another issue is that creative team has to decide whether to put them over established stars- who might not like that. The Big Show was introduced by fighting with Stone Cold, Mankind, etc but they couldn't let him win that quickly so they resorted to DQ's. Almost immediately, WWE ran out of ideas for him and the push quickly burned itself out.
Oddly, that didn't happen to him in WcW, when his first match was winning the gold from Hogan. His career only began to fizzle when he joined the nWO because he was more-or-less playing the henchman for guys like Hogan and Nash.
So which model do you think is more successful? The slow burn push or the strong push? For me, I think WWE needs to start finding middle ground. They need to give the jobbers like Heath Slater, Fandango, Ryder or Sandow more victories so when rising talent defeats them, it means something.
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