Thought of the Day – It’s Been Awhile
Looking at why this rematch with Undertaker is being better received than Lesnar’s other rematch.
One of the keys to Brock Lesnar is spacing out his matches as well as you can. Since he’s been back, Brock has had the following matches:
John Cena – Extreme Rules 2012
HHH – Summerslam 2012
HHH – Wrestlemania XXIX
HHH – Extreme Rules 2013
CM Punk – Summerslam 2013
Big Show – Royal Rumble 2014
Undertaker – Wrestlemania XXX
John Cena – Summerslam 2014
John Cena – Night of Champions 2014
John Cena, Seth Rollins – Royal Rumble 2015
Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns – Wrestlemania XXXI
Kofi Kingston – Beast in the East
Seth Rollins – Battleground 2015
Now, and of course this isn’t an exact science, the two times that people seemed to be getting annoyed with Lesnar’s booking was during the HHH trilogy which never stopped and the Cena feud. The Cena feud is where I want to focus though, as people didn’t seem to mind Cena getting a rematch, but moreso that he got so many in a row.
That’s the key to most of Brock’s feuds and the reason the Undertaker rematch is being fairly well received: it’s been a year and a half since the first match, so Brock has had a chance to fight other people. Brock is still a featured attraction and we want to see him against a variety of opponents. Of course he’s going to have rematches, but you need tp space them out instead of just doing them all in a row. Imagine Rock vs. Austin on three straight pay per views. Sure the matches would be great, but waiting two years instead of four weeks was a huge improvement.
That being said, I’d love to see some extra time between regular feuds too. So many title matches would be better received if we hadn’t seen it just a month earlier.
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How do you see the match playing out? It’d be pretty disappointing to see Brock have to lose to Taker.
I could see it going either way but I can’t imagine they job Lesnar. It just doesn’t make sense.
It really doesn’t, which is why it’s probably likely to happen.
Quality grammar in the title there matey.
I constantly get those things wrong. I’m pretty sure at least awhile is right here though.
It’s “A While” here. The easy way to remember it is substituting “awhile” with “for a while” and then seeing if the sentence makes sense while sounding crispy.
Hey at least you don’t “alot” and mess up your yours and theres.
I thought awhile was used for some indistinct amount of time, which is what I was going for here.
Yeah the others I learned a long time ago. I’ve never been great with grammar though. Also, it’s nice to see someone not referring to me as an idiot for screwing up something like that. I’m an idiot for far better reasons than that.
We’ve talked about this before, but people were more annoyed at the Triple H feud because it was Triple H doing Triple H things.
See: John Cena v Randy Orton
I swear I’ve seen that match more than any other…