Post by Swarm on Jul 18, 2013 18:21:12 GMT -5
Jul 18, 2013 18:12:31 GMT -5 @switch said:
Looking at the bracket, Elgin vs. Steen is likely going to end up as a semifinal. I wouldn't have Steen beat Elgin again. Elgin's had too many big losses to be fed another one and still be a credible threat to the title. Cole's going to the finals, there's nobody else in his block that's believable other than Mark Briscoe and I don't even think he'd make it to the finals. Cole/Elgin is a fresh matchup in ROH's main event scene. If Steen wins the title it's nothing but back to the same type of stuff he was doing for a year against the same guys and it's not going to work near as well now because Steen's been champion. The whole reason people liked his first title reign was because it was finally him as champion and he beat a champion everyone turned on. If he wins the title again, especially beating (in theory) Elgin and Cole, you're pretty much killing two new main event guys and giving the belt back to someone with nothing to do with it.Almost sounds like they should have just bypassed the whole tournament and put Cole and Elgin in a best of 7 or something. I just hate the idea of one of these guys as champion when Jay beat Steen for the belt. I think the belt should go back to Steen and let Cole and Elgin fight to become the no.1 contender. I could think of a lot of cool things to do with Steen as champ again. I'm actually a bit shocked to hear Cole is this close to the belt. He sure doesn't come off that way. I think he'd make a great champion but he doesn't come off like a top guy, yet. Elgin needs a huge win to get over that hump imo. That's why I'd have them both chase the proven guy, Steen. I understand ROH is past the SCUM era now, and is probably looking for a new face of the future, but Steen is still the most credible choice imo at this point in the year.