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Originally Posted by Fragile X
The thought of Lars, Braun & The Authors of Pain all on the main is exciting. We need bigger bodies to balance out all the small guys. Too many small guys.
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The problem will be the execution. Guaranteed.
Think about every other "big, meaty monster" that has come into WWE even just stopping at Vladamir Kozlov. We think of guys like the inital repackage of Ryback, but fail to notice most end up like Jackson Andrews. Hell, even just since the revamp of NXT. Bronson, Big E Langston, and Alexandr Rusev come to mind (hesitant to count Baron Corbin, but he got that kind of push). Now think about how the company has pumped them up in a very short run, just to cut their nuts off shortly after the new car smell has faded. Bronson's gone, Big E got a hotshot to IC status then dropped, and we all know the holding pattern of nothing Rusev has been in- he has done more for his career on twitter than anything they've done for him in booking.
Someone like Braun Strowman or Kevin Owens has been the exception and not the rule. Hell, Braun was/is getting huge reactions, and instead of "holy shit, we got something here", it is still full steam ahead on Roman being THE GUY, and after Strowman eventually gets seated by Brock, what is left for him? Some program with Samoa Joe seems likely, and some eventual battle of giants match with Big (C)ass, but then what?
AoP and Heavy Machinery seem like perfect specimens to spice up either tag team scene which is devoid of nearly any talent in spite of having multiple teams. How quickly will they collide on the main roster losing that money build? Or be split up for no reason? Or take a backseat to the nothing that is going on with RAW or New Day/Usos chapter 311-b over on the blue show?
We're supposed to be suckered in by size and throw money at the company by osmosis, and when it isn't an immediate reaction to them like Andre used to get, they start jobbing too much to be percieved as threats, or becoming comedy acts, or playing second fiddle to love interests and such.
TL;DR unless the stars align just right, I see Lars becoming yet another "what happened to that one guy?" cautionary story of inept booking after his jump to the main roster, even if he runs roughshod over NXT and gets an Asuka-like championship reign.