@HomokHarcos - you nailed it with Reigns. He would fit better being kind of like 1998 Taker, Foley, or Corporate Rock.
On Cena - I am not familiar with his current level of importance, but he had a slow build up and basically the moment he main events Wrestlemania (the one with the Mafia theme) he started to get booed. Reigns, from what I understand, DID build himself up to be THE guy while with the Shield, but when WWE moved him into Cena’s slot, so to went the crowd booes. I agree that he should go heel, have him be a Paul Heyman guy, make him cause Brock to lose, and then beat the crap out of Reigns at the end of the match.
Rousey - It’s a little surprising that WWE fans aren’t booing her knowing their trained values (as someone before mentioned) but she’s essentially the #2 biggest celebrity in pro-wrestling currently - #1 is whenever the Rock comes back for a visit. I have heard some chatter that she might have some heat due to her not being up to speed on all the etiquette, but the reality of the situation is that anyone who has a program with her is going to be elevated in the public eye... except I am not so sure about the whole Stephanie angle, it feels a little forced; a jealous Charlotte angle where she pushes the angle that she feels Rousey doesn’t deserve her spot would have made infinitely more sense - that is EASY conflict.
Moolah - the information and rumours have been around since before her death. Sweet Georgia Brown, a student of hers back in the 50s, broke the first story about the pimping allegations in 2006; but the whole story of her skimming the profits goes back A LOT earlier - and Moolah didn’t exactly hide it so much as flaunt it; it was a part of her character: her name is “Moolah” which is old-timey American slang for money. People were afraid to speak against her because of the power she had from 1960 until the early 80s. She also controlled the title, and was corrupt about it, always putting it on herself. The first real publically visible display of her corruption was the Wendi Richter screw job in November 1985 - which played out VERY similar to the Bret Hart job (although there’s speculation from Steve Austin, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, the Outlaws, and others that this was a work - and Vince Mcmahon had said some things in the past indicating that it might have been a work; I’m not saying it is! But the Richter thing was almost certainly not a work). Anyway, it was a bad idea to name it that, and I think it’s possible that Steph and Vince didn’t see her past as being relevant to the present, or perhaps were oblibivious to the weight of it given she was like the grandmother of the locker room - and they learned the hard way of their error.
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