Sheetz from Double Talk: Plans for Corbin, Paige, Jinder da Juicemane, Broken Matt and more...

[Lord Scion]

Regarding the Hardys, right now the plan is for them to go to the Broken gimmick with the idea that it’ll be a major merchandise mover. WWE is attempting to make a deal with Anthem so everything is on hold when it comes to that until the sides come to an agreement. When Matt did his interview on Raw, he was speaking like the old Matt Hardy but did a very quick tease of the accent of the character and they legally can’t stop a guy talking with an accent. So the idea is teases until they have the rights to do it.

It's a well-known story that the song “Glorious” was not written for Roode, and that it was written for another wrestler, who turned it down. So it was sitting there and Roode was given it and it’s really made his career. The identity of the wrestler who turned it down hadn’t come out, but it was Nakamura. Nakamura was hands on when it came to his music, felt the song didn’t fit him, and was a big part of putting together the song “The Rising Son” which is the most played of all the current WWE themes. As it turned out, fate was good because, and maybe this is because we’ve seen it, but the song fits Roode better and Nakamura may not fit the song. In both cases, the music they ended up with have helped both tremendously, making them both superstars and allowing them to get over toning down their in-ring work with both nearing 40.

Goldberg’s contract has expired but they have a longer period of agreement allowing them to sell merchandise. Since there is nowhere else he’s going to wrestle at, because nobody else can pay him anywhere close to what he made on his WWE run, and WWE has no immediate plans for him, there’s no rush to make a new deal. The one thing is that in his last program, Lesnar was his angel in the sense that Lesnar always went to bat for him to have things done to make him strong because in the end Lesnar was winning the Mania match and wanted Goldberg as strong as possible for the match. The navigation may not be as easy with another opponent, because then the writing crew and creative could get involved in the ideas and direction. Because Goldberg trusted the long-term and Lesnar, there wasn’t the issues in worrying about creative. But in another program , you’re not going to have the power of Lesnar, who pretty much is going to get what he wants because he’s Lesnar and has options to make millions elsewhere in one night should he want to, which ended up making sure Goldberg came across like the old Goldberg.

Paige is not figured into any plans going forward after her neck recovers from surgery unless things change. Everything that’s happened is the reason. The only thing that could save her is the Dwayne Johnson movie. And nobody knows if she wants to come back anyway, since it’ll be tough on her relationship being constantly back on the road.

One of the plans coming out of the roster split is for Corbin to be pushed as the lead heel on Smackdown and to be built up as the big opponent for Orton down the line. They are looking at ways of changing him up with new music and talking over other changes.

In looking at the six guys, Mahal would have probably been the least likely, but none were strong since Smackdown really only had Orton, A.J. Styles, Owens, Corbin and Shinsuke Nakamura as top singles stars. Any questions regarding who they saw as the key star on the brand is has been answered since Nakamura has been the key babyface in the dark match every week at the tapings, the old position of John Cena. The guy in that spot is the one who the company believes would be the best at keeping the crowd from leaving during 205 Live.

^^He also speculates Jinuwine's push was originally meant for RuRu.

Mauro was told at the time they brought him in that they wanted him to be himself, because they wanted Smackdown to have a different feel from Raw and come across more like a sport. Of course, there was the usual stuff of banned words and phrases. For a few months, everything seemed fine, until Vince McMahon wanted him to be more like Michael Cole, essentially the exact opposite thing he was hired to be.

And please remember brehs... "plans change"

 

[Spartan]

Corbin's theme is good, no need to change.

So Orton is going to hold the strap for a decent amount of time. Take the strap off him and turn him heel. Dude is lazy and boring.

 

[R=G]

Corbin needs alot..got the old selfish Edge/Cripple H character.

 

[Breh Obama]

So push Jinder just so he can be fed to Orton?

 

[Rack4K]

So according to this, tall boring white dudes will continue to be in the main event scene while dudes like Big E and Kofi Kingston twerk ass in the midcard.

*Hasn't watched WWE since December and will not return*

Let me know how they treat Nakamura.

 

[DoubleJ13]

I mean there's nothing surprising about a big Corbin push, but the part about building for Orton down the line is the shyts. Means Orton is staying a face & unless they really fast track Corbin, Orton is holding that belt for a while

Was hoping they'd turn Orton, do him vs AJ at SummerSlam for the belt, have him drop it there, & drop out of the main event scene.

 

[NoMorePie]

So in order to sharpen up Corbin.. they want to change one of the best things about him

 

[RammerJammer]

The age of the WOAT reign from Orton continues..

 

[CJ]

Still don't understand how Randy is face. Gonna have to work hard to get the crowd behind him vs a heel Corbin. I expect boring chants. Rather have just kept AJ heel then and let him beat the brakes off Randy for the strap at Summerslam. Wonder what else is in this "I'm sorry" loot bag from Vince from the Brock beating?

 

[R=G]

So according to this, tall boring white dudes will continue to be in the main event scene while dudes like Big E and Kofi Kingston twerk ass in the midcard.

*Hasn't watched WWE since December and will not return*

Let me know how they treat Nakamura.

Nakamura has been given the dark match attraction spot that Rock/Leaner usually are in when they are on the show. He's gonna matter.

 

[SpacelySprockets]

Paige is not figured into any plans going forward after her neck recovers from surgery unless things change

 

[Spyro]

They need to have more managers. Someone like Corbin is the perfect example of looks like a star (ish), good in the ring but garbage promos/on the mic. Bring back some heel managers and it'll help some of these guys greatly

 

[TransJenner]

Corbin's theme is good, no need to change.

So Orton is going to hold the strap for a decent amount of time. Take the strap off him and turn him heel. Dude is lazy and boring.

Deep six by marlin manson and hell got over quick

 

[Bob Loblaw]

They need to have more managers. Someone like Corbin is the perfect example of looks like a star (ish), good in the ring but garbage promos/on the mic. Bring back some heel managers and it'll help some of these guys greatly

Pair him with an inactive Bully Ray

 

[Hey_zeus]

This Kkklandy reign has already been too long.