{"id":148428,"date":"2012-09-27T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wrestling.insidepulse.dev\/?p=148428"},"modified":"2012-09-25T10:23:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T14:23:39","slug":"my-pinterest-is-piledrivers-what-the-wwe-is-doing-right-team-friendship-dolph-ziggler-jbl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/2012\/09\/27\/my-pinterest-is-piledrivers-what-the-wwe-is-doing-right-team-friendship-dolph-ziggler-jbl\/","title":{"rendered":"My Pinterest Is Piledrivers: What The WWE Is Doing Right (Team Friendship, Dolph Ziggler, JBL)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello there, this is James Sawyer and welcome to My Pinterest Is Piledrivers<\/em>.\u00a0 You can cyberstalk me on twitter here<\/a>, wherein you can gain access to my thoughts 24\/7.\u00a0 Or, the 8 hours I’m awake.<\/p>\n

Potential upcoming column idea: So I have a few friends that are borderline wrestling fans.\u00a0 One, Ryan, is a filmmaker who loves and revels in the “classic” era of Big Boss Man, “Nature Boy” Ric Flair, etc.\u00a0 The other is Caitlin, a young psychology student who became a fan of CM Punk during his “feud<\/a>” with Chris “Bitch” Brown, and the last (for now) is Rebekah, a yoga teacher in Brooklyn who has been getting a kick out of the Daniel Bryan clips I’ve been showing her and joining me in occasional “Yes!\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 Yes!”<\/a> exploits around New York.\u00a0 My question to you is… what should I show them?\u00a0 I’ll probably show them whatever that week’s edition of RAW is, but should I show them things that I think they’d be responsive to?\u00a0 A mix?\u00a0 Let me know in the comments.<\/p>\n

One thing that worried me when I started this column was running out of material.\u00a0 I gotta be honest, the current product ain’t exactly inspiring me.\u00a0 I have to hand it to my fellow writers in being able to come up with material on the reg… I’m struggling with a single weekly work.\u00a0 I do want to keep up a more steady output, though, so this week I’m going to focus on an unusual topic for me… what the WWE is doing right<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, as much as I complain about it, the WWE isn’t totally unwatchable.\u00a0 They’re doing some things right… such as<\/p>\n

CM Punk still being champion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/youtu.be\/kVjw2dSyt6M<\/p>\n

Holy God CM Punk is in peak form right now.\u00a0 He really is the Best In The World.\u00a0 It’s all in the details.\u00a0 The way he holds the championship up for a minute just smirking.\u00a0 His awesome promos, some of the best in history already.\u00a0 I know a lot of the IWC can be seen as riding his jock, but the dude deserves it.\u00a0 If he retired tomorrow I think he’d be in the right to be nominated for the Hall of Fame the day after.<\/p>\n

Team Friendship<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/youtu.be\/wta7ujpxwLE<\/p>\n

The Rock and Sock Connection of the 2010s?\u00a0 Probably.\u00a0 This was likely an “accidental smart move” by Creative as they had someone with a ton of heat but no direction for it (Daniel Bryan) and someone that’s a big name with no feud to go to (Kane) with a common thread (AJ) so they concocted a comedic storyline that’s actually funny and works.\u00a0 Daniel Bryan’s latest work has been so goofy and over-the-top it works to make him a someone lighthearted figure, and Kane is such an inherently goofy concept that it’s hard to take him seriously in the more staid 2012 era of wrestling.\u00a0 I’d say a raise is in order for whoever thought of this… but that probably won’t happen.<\/p>\n

Renewed interest in the tag team championships.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s kind of sad in a way that the WWE can only get interest in the tag team championship nowadays when they pair together two singles stars (see Jericho and the Big Show or Miz and R-Truth) but whatever works.\u00a0 Maybe now that they have the Usos, Prime Time Players, Team Friendship and Kofi plus whatever other black guy they pair him with, they’ll start to build the division up again.<\/p>\n

Dolph Ziggler wins Money In The Bank.<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/youtu.be\/BmgjTpiaxeM<\/p>\n

Dolph’s been getting a lot of attention lately.\u00a0 He had a brief feud with CM Punk for the WWE championship earlier this year.\u00a0 He had an interaction with Mick Foley around that time that I thought was setting up a Wrestlemania match that, like Edge’s match, would’ve legitimized Ziggler and led to him being seen as a threat.\u00a0 That sadly did not happen, and relatively recently he must’ve been feeling particularly lost as to be campaigning for a Wrestlemania 2013 match against Zack Ryder for the Internet Championship… a match that would have been just a reheating of their late 2011 feud for a championship that’s not recognized.\u00a0 But thanks to, what I assume, Ziggler pointing out a nasty looking mole on Vince’s neck that led to an early removal, Ziggler has the rocket up his peroxide now.\u00a0 Just listen to that crowd reaction.\u00a0 And this-<\/p>\n

http:\/\/youtu.be\/pMbzOg3JxPI<\/p>\n

and this-<\/p>\n

http:\/\/youtu.be\/badNLvtkdGI<\/p>\n

and Ziggler might actually getting a shot at the big time.<\/p>\n

JBL and JR back on commentary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I know it was only temporary, but it was nice, wasn’t it?\u00a0 Nice to dream…<\/p>\n

So what do you think the WWE is doing right?\u00a0 Did I leave anything out?\u00a0 Have a good week and let a dude know in the comments section below.\u00a0 Show.\u00a0 Off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Sawyer takes a look at some of the good things WWE is doing these days…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2909,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2977,23],"tags":[114497,109931,109318,108322,113407,111042,109862,110772,108953,109774,109885,110396,117038,110706,117512,114119,100019],"zone":[121870],"series":[],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/insidepulse.com\/feed\/podcast\/inside-pulse","embedCode":"

My Pinterest Is Piledrivers: What The WWE Is Doing Right (Team Friendship, Dolph Ziggler, JBL)<\/a><\/blockquote>