The Pro Wrasslin' Thread (WWE, WWF, WCW, TNA, ROH, NWA, NJPW, etc)

[Jumpin]

JWeinCom said:

Jumpin said:

From what I’ve seen, it looks legit. If Seth Rollin’s injury is a work, it’s a lame execution with no real obvious way that this improves existing storylines.

Usually a worked injury fits neatly into a storyline, to cover a real injury, and involves some serious over-the top stuff (Running Austin over with a car, doing some guillotine stuff with chairs, or a massive bloody beat down).

Depends what you're trying to achieve.

If we assume this is a ruse by Rollins to get the champions to let their guard down, while also making the fans genuinely believe that he's not making a return, than none of those things would make sense.

If your objective is to get the fans to believe it, getting run over by a car is obviously not the way to go, because nobody is going to believe that actually happened. 

Sure. But it's not so much the what and the how of a ruse, or getting fans to. The thing that I'd question is the why? Does it build up Seth or his stable (I'm a bit out of the loop) to take him off TV to surprise people weeks later? Does it gain him more heel heat? Does it help build anyone else? Is there really any entertainment value for the crowd that they can't equal or exceed by handling things other ways?

There are other mechanical issues. If Seth takes the Smackdown Championship at Summerslam, then that breaks his stable since (as far as I know) they're on RAW and Cena/Cody are Smackdown.

I don't watch the show anymore/right now, Maybe I'm missing something.