Official Wrasslin' Thread (renamed to reflect the discussion)

GrandAdmiral said

Stars know how to make booking work, even when it's bad booking.

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I'd point to multiple points in Sami's career of him turning chickenshirt into chicken salad.

Haitch messed up on two fronts...

1. He messed up on not booking Gable as the one to beat Gunther. Chad had earned that from his performance leading up to and after the match.
2. Using Gable to try to build up Sami to "reward" him for not beating Roman. Hell, he basically used Gable's story with his family to do so. It's clear they likely to finally put Gable over to win the title, but frankly, the damage has already been done to Gable and the IC title. Every singles title run with Sami has been meh.

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I don't disagree here. For as much credit as he gets for pivoting the Cody/Rock/Roman angle based on crowd reaction, he totally missed the opportunity to do the same in the Gunther/Sami/Gable angle.

Sami's singles title runs have consisted of an NXT title run that ended at the first PLE after he won it, in the first non-rematch defense. His first IC run ended with a forced vacancy after refusing to compete during early COVID, and after defeating Daniel Bryan at WM. He then dropped the IC the second time after 2 weeks to Ricochet. There is no overcoming that booking.