noumenon
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Shelton. Which way to go?
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Shelton has only one perpose on the WWE roster... to hit all the spots in the Money in the Bank matches....
He is a great athlete but his image is aweful, character is weak and he is possibly the worst mic guy of all time... His poor mic work was the reason for the old school pre-recorded promo's that air on SD and ECW every week!
He is also one of the dullest guys I've ever watched. He is in the same league as Lance Storm... despite what he can do in the ring he is so fucking boring!
Even if Vince pushed him hard and he won the Rumble, won the gold at Mania against Taker and ended the streak... Shelton Benjamin will never get over!
He is a great athlete but his image is aweful, character is weak and he is possibly the worst mic guy of all time... His poor mic work was the reason for the old school pre-recorded promo's that air on SD and ECW every week!
He is also one of the dullest guys I've ever watched. He is in the same league as Lance Storm... despite what he can do in the ring he is so fucking boring!
Even if Vince pushed him hard and he won the Rumble, won the gold at Mania against Taker and ended the streak... Shelton Benjamin will never get over!
noumenon
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But you see... they managed to capitalize on the fact that Storm was boring and actually turn it into a gimmick for him which worked quite well.
Kizza
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Yeah, Storm actually had a gimmick that suited him, the quiet guy that let his wrestling do the talking. Shelton is just a spot monkey really, and unless something changes quickly, Morrison is heading down that path soon too.
seX-Power
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Morrison's being given promo time though, and judging by his reactions the WWE obviously think highly of his personality. Besides, it's not like the casual fans are judging his mic skills, and management probably think he has enough of them to get by with his character. But I agree, he either needs to be heel or be carried to look good on the mic.
Kizza
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Hometown Kid
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Yes. Shelton is a spot monkey who has no technical wrestling ability whatsoever. Proven by all of his high flying moves during his matches. 
There's his top rope base jump and...>_> He's a lot like that Lucha libre Undertaker with his rope walk. (Shelton also does a springboard blockbuster rarely though.)
There's his top rope base jump and...>_> He's a lot like that Lucha libre Undertaker with his rope walk. (Shelton also does a springboard blockbuster rarely though.)It's easier to work face than heel if you suck on the mic because of the cheap pops.
Morrison just needs to find his place/character, once he does that he'll be a main eventer! Take a look at guys like Bret and Shawn who cut the worst promos during their tag team days... once they found who they were meant to be and got promo time they improved and during the time threy fueded 96-97, they were probably the best mic guys on the WWE roster at the time... JBL did the same... never held the mic for 2 mins at a time in his APA days, became JBL and worked the shit out of the mic every friday from then on.. Finding the right charater brings along the other aspects of the persona... ie: appropriate move sets, mic work, dresscode, hell sometimes even the way that certain charcter walks...
Dustin Rhodes for eg: as the Natural was an entirey different guy to Goldust, who walked, talked and wrestled differently... he even stood differently...
Shelton has and most likely will never find the right fit for him... Morrison will... maybe he already has? Who thought HBK was the right fit for Shawn Micheals when his slightly homo character debuted??? remember his first entrance music?
Yes. Shelton is a spot monkey who has no technical wrestling ability whatsoever. Proven by all of his high flying moves during his matches.
with Shelton, do any of the fans really care about what he does? when a casual fan thinks about him, the first thing that comes to mind is how he does flips off ladders and jumps really high, not about how good of a character he is. it's almost like the Canadian Destroyer. Other than that move, fans won't care that much, no matter how good he is.
Morrison needs swag, it doesn't matter if it's on the mic. He just needs to learn how to get the crowd involved without being lame.
Hometown Kid
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H4H, that's just ignorance on the "casual fan's" part then. Anyone who says he's a spot monkey and can't wrestle does not watch his matches. They're just going back to MITB, which he does crazy shit in every year, that's true. But in his regular matches he is as grounded and as much of a storyteller as anybody.
Saying he has no character or charisma is fine because he's not exactly a complex character or anything. Anyone who is a fan of his is not because his mic work. (although I think he has improved.)
Saying he has no character or charisma is fine because he's not exactly a complex character or anything. Anyone who is a fan of his is not because his mic work. (although I think he has improved.)
Kizza
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If he went back to his 03-06 wrestling, i would agree that he is much more technical based. But he's become a really one dimensional character now. When he had someone else with him (Haas, Angle, Momma) etc he was at the top of his game because he had someone to play off of. Haas is the better of the two wrestlers (imo of course) but he couldn't jump on the top rope or fly off a ladder like Shelton could.
I was really hoping that they could do something with Elijah/Shelton where the two kind of became two bad ass wrestlers who didn't take shit from no one but after something ridiculous like three weeks, they completely left it alone. Now, Shelton isn't really able to tell a story in the ring, and although his spot monkey status hasn't quite reached that of Morrison (who has done very well to overtake Shelton in less time), he's soon going to take back his status.
Might as well hire Jack Evans ;D.
Funny, if you didn't have Shelton's name in this post, I would have thought you were talking about Morrison.
That's the same thing that Shelton needs as well. The thing with Shelton, they make it so you don't care about him. Sure he's won a lot of titles, but that don't mean shit when you lose all the time. That don't mean shit when you only say something 2 or 3 times during your 3 or 4 month title reign.
And they drop the ball with him many times. They show that they don't care. When he came to ECW the 1st time, he was agressive. Just as what Kiz said, him and Burke could have been something big. He was doing good there. They pull him off for him to do shit on SD. He goes back to ECW, they have him lose by one move by a newbie, he's pinned the ECW champ before his title match at a ppv and follow-up on it, he's bounced back and forht from heel to face being a different one for 3 or 4 weeks. Why should the fans care about him when they WWE isn't giving them a reason too?
Kizza
Guest
It's cos he's lazy. He gets a chance, like an IC title or an ECW title, and he seems content with it. He's one of those guys who isn't going to push himself to improve and become the next big name breakout star. That could have been him 6 years ago. But he didn't take his chance.
Hometown Kid
Guest
How the do you know that he is lazy? Look at when they did something with him with MVP right before MITB. He was getting bigger reactions than anybody and stepped up his charisma big. He should of won MITB and he has improved. Bones is exactly right. Nobody cares about a loser. There is a difference between "dropping the ball" and getting undercut by management.Kizza
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You just have to watch him to know he's lazy. His best times have been when there is someone else with him. By himself, he's been a big load of nothing.