A) This past week on Raw we heard about the offer JBL made Shawn Michaels, and it looked like he's accepted it. JBL wants HBK to come and work for him. In this promo, JBL insinuated HBK was struggling financially, and played on Shawn's love for his family. But are we really supposed to believe the man we've seen headlining Wrestlemanias and tearing the house down every night has no money? Nothing in a bank, or no other skills? This is going too far for the WWE, and I think most fans will find this a stupid concept to grasp.
Wasn't Shawn's career supposed to be over during his last feud, that every match was a career risk for him? It's a storyline people. Obviously Shawn's career was not over yet and after they were done they slipped him back into regular matches on RAW even though they made a big honking ass deal that Shawn's career was just about done. Shawn being broke is just another storyline and once that ones over, no one will ever speak of Shawn being poor again. Besides, it's something JBL can work with, being a rich character and all, you got to play to the characters strengths. JBL is rich, Shawn is old and broken down, hence he can be portrayed as poor.
B) People have recently started calling HBK 'boring'. Do you wonder why, when this is the most recent of his angles? To stand in the ring and cry? People want the old HBK back, the flamboyant excited man everyone loved. Instead we have this broken shell of a man who's acting cowardly. if this is the way Vince is going to go with HBK from now on, it's stupid. It doesn't suit him.
What do you think this is, 1996 again? or 2003 when he made his comeback. Shawn is old and appears most weeks like he's in some sort of constant pain and that he's just not into it as much as he was years ago. Shawn can't play the cocky, excitable young Heart Break Kid character anymore. Instead he plays a more realistic character, an aged wrestler who is in the final stages of his career. I admit, Vince is throwing it down real hard, making us all sympathetic to Shawn, but that is the most realistic character Shawn could play now. There making him into the old underdog who's supposed to always be hurting, but still somehow always pulls it out and wins.
C) JBL is one of the most boring men on the mic ever. He just has no emotion in his voice at all. When I was watching Raw I was just thinking about how boring he sounded, how I'd have probably been a sleep if I had to listen to it much more.
I don't have mush argument. I for one don't mind JBL on the mic, but I can see where others might. Not saying that this is the best feud for Michaels, but it's something the WWE hasn't done yet. With JBL, Shawn won't have to do an incredible amount because there is little JBL can do, that matches will won't be hard on them and maybe both may benefit from them. JBL's job isn't to put over young talent like Shawn has done. JBL is to give main eventers pushes by attacking them on the mic and losing to them in the ring. Is it successful? No, it didn't matter to me if Cena beat JBL once or 50 times, but it's Michaels turn to go over JBL now.
D) HBK Vs Morrison would be great for both of them. I won't go into that in too much detail because thre's a thread solely for it, but it'd be so much better than the JBL feud. Who's benefitting from that really? Shawn is one of the best in the ring, and right now he's supposed to be helping the talent of the future become as good as him. Not crying in the ring over some old, boring idiot.
I still wouldn't close the books on that yet. I made a thread about them, as you pointed out, in the RAW section and I stated that the feud could happen within the next 6 months of when I posted it, and I still believe it could, just after this one. Why jump right into a HBK/Morrison feud right off the bat when the crowd knows Morrison ain't ready. Let JBL and Michaels wrestle at Armageddon, then have a newly crowned IC champion Morrison attack Shawn during or after the match. Let Morrison work with JBL and slowly get under the skin of Michaels, proclaiming himself to be a better Shawn Michaels than Shawn Michaels was. Have Morrison enter the Rumble first, last a while till a returning HBK comes and eliminates Morrison and himself and they brawl as the ref's pull them off, then the two of them can have a match at NWO. To me, that'll probably work better than feeding Morrison to HBK now. WWE's on the right level here. Let's build up feuds and stories slowly, and have them run a long while and get passed along, like how Jericho was probably supposed to pass Michaels to Cade, JBL will pass Michaels to Morrison.
