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Old 01-08-2024, 01:03 AM   #55
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Originally Posted by Ben Rodrigues View Post
This is my issue. I want Punk to be champion. But I also want Cody to finish the story. I also want LA Knight to be made by winning the title. I also want Roman Reign's title run to keep going as we're never going to get a reign like this again.
Aside from the irony that part of the reason why Roman's... uh... reign... is so long was partially to scrub CM Punk's long run (same reason why Nikki Bella just happened to have a title run like one day longer than AJ Lee while doing little of note while she was champ), the biggest thing here is finishing Cody's story. That is the more immediate thing with the highest stakes and the most to lose, since not obtaining it twice in a row would make him look like the biggest shithead ever, and not in a "justified heel turn" way, but in a "fuck him, he sucks" way. Like, in the way that the Buffalo Bills went to four consecutive Super Bowls and lost all four times, and it didn't matter how they had to win their conference and run the table every playoff. They lost the big one, and that made them just as bad as whatever basement dwelling teams were happening back then. The setup needs the payoff, especially after pissing the bed last year.

Punk doesn't need the title to be compelling. Eli Drake has way more time to start racking up his title wins that he assuredly should get. Roman has supposedly been about to fuck off and do other stuff outside of WWE and/or recollect himself for health reasons for some time now.
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