What They're Saying About Sheamus

What is the web saying about Sheamus' elevation last night?

Good Ol' JR

Sheamus has found himself in a great spot to help begin building his long term foundation in WWE. I read where some pundits felt the incident between the young Irishman and John Cena was "flat." I disagree. Obviously, the crowd sitting in their seats over three hours is challenging, has an influence but isn't the real reason. However, let's all remember that Sheamus hasn't been on Raw in any significant role for, what, a month, 5 weeks? Sheamus has not even been in a long term personal issue with a main event, Raw wrestler yet...until now. Bottom line is that Sheamus' persona is still evolving and the next two weeks and then TLC is highly important to Sheamus' development. At worst, the WWE has made a new, fresh main event for a PPV and from where I sit that is a good thing.

JR has the same outlook as me on this. Great minds think alike!

Interesting to note from the full blog piece, JR doesn't think that The Rock will put the tights on if he hosts RAW. Dang...

Todd Martin

I would have absolutely raved about this show except for the ending... To me, the three big keys to sustained success in wrestling are wrestling ability, speaking ability and charisma. I’m cool with pushing anyone who has any of these elements. But to me, Sheamus has none. He hasn’t shown he can talk. He’s not a good wrestler. And I don’t think he has any charisma. He’s just a big stiff with a gimmicky look. The wrestler he most reminds me of is Mordecai, complete with basically the same finisher. If you don’t remember Mordecai, well, there’s a reason for that. I know Vince will always have the size fetish, but it’s so frustrating that here they are determined to put a new guy in the top picture and it’s this loser instead of one of two dozen more talented and entertaining performers.

I disagree about the assessment of Sheamus, but an opinion is an opinion.

Jason Powell of Dot Net

The beatdown angle left plenty to be desired. For that matter, the table match announcement was flat. The crowd was pretty dead by this point, but I can't blame them for not getting excited about a table match stipulation being used for a pay-per-view World Title match. Overall, though, this was a fun show. There were some frustrating moments (see anything involving DX), but it's cool to know that we're finally getting a fresh title match at the next pay-per-view.