No, but you dismiss him WAY too easily. It's ridiculous to say that he would need to be built up for months to be taken seriously as a contender to any of the three champs. Pfftt... two of the three champs have been booked ULTRA WEAK. I understand the booking perspective of Edge's reign but he was jobbed out HARD to a leaving HBK, and what else needs to be said of the train wreck feud between Vince/Lashley? Both of those "world" titles are in the toilet thanks to piss poor booking, and Benoit certainly wouldn't need to be built up to contend for a title previously held by Vince McMahonespecially coming out of an extremely hot feud with MVP. Cena and his title have been booked properly on the other hand, but it still wouldn't take pushing Benoit for months just to get a title feud out of him. A: Behind the insanely protected STFU, The crossface is the MOST OVER SUBMISSION in the WWE, B: He main evented the most important PPV in company history (WM 20)and won. He's a former WHC, when it still mattered, and that is instant credibility right there.
When did world title reigns, including MOTY, constitute curtain jerking? I mean, you must know something I don't know. And ringwork does help credibility as well. Nobody looks as intense as Benoit when they perform.It gives his matches more credibility with the fans. (See Benoit/Angle RR 03) Look at Benoit's run through the WWE, there are quite a few times where he gets pulled into main events after mid carding for a year or so. Look at the Summer of 2000, look at KOTR 2001, look at RR 2003, look at RR04,, see a pattern? He's made a career as a fill-in main eventer, and also WWE booking hasn't built up a title contender for months since Edge with the original MITB and before that it was Brock Lesnar. They don't book in advance very well. They don't need to with the way Cena is booked. They just need someone to look credible for the month-two month program.
And I know Benoit tapped to the STFU, so what, so did Khali and all it took was a bad promo, a brain chop and a lousy toss slam to reheat that fued. So, if Benoit comes over to Raw, wallops Cena with a chair, slaps him in the crossface until he taps and refuses to relinquish the hold and all the meanwhile JR is doing the incredible put-over hype job on commentary, how is that not better than everything he did in the Khali program? That is ALL Benoit would need for a heat and serve feud with Cena.
I'd say Orton was still in the doghouse until Edge left, and voila, he's getting the biggest PUSH in the company. And you even say he should be feuding with Cena. Kane can be booked to get over at anytime because of the complexity of his character. He's made a career of fill-in main eventing as well. And he has bounced back from the worst booking in company history. That says something for Glen Jacobs the performer. And guess what? Kevin Nash did return. And what did he return as? A main eventer. So what point were you trying to make? The WWE books on MONEY DRAWING FUEDS, and idealistically contenders SHOULD be booked and built up for months, but they're not, and Chris Benoit certainly doesn't need to be, contrary to your beliefs, and there is money in a ready made feud between the brand champion and the new superstar that jumped from the rival brand. Your SEVERELY overlooking Chris Benoit's credibility but that's because your name says it all, you're a Cena mark.
