Thinking back to last nights events i've got to wonder why WWE wasted two perfectly good star building victories in recent years of bloody Big Show of all people.
Last year Mark Henry was an absolutely top notch monster heel that charged you for air and you damn well paid the man less your wig get split. Golden Boy Orton who usually wins everything put him over two months straight cementing the fact that Mark Henry was not going to be some chump heel champ or so I thought.
In came Big Show having broken free from the hall of pain exhibit and coming for revenge and suddenly Henry was damn near running scared each week, shades of Kane's WHC reign decline the previous year.
But during all of this Henry had a sidestory with Bryan going which was really getting interesting, fortuntaely Bryan got over in the end anyway but a clean and hard earned win over the unstoppable monster Henry would have been a huge boon to any upcoming face, instead Big Show just punches the guy and wins to an almost non reacting crowd, of course when Bryan cashed in minutes later they were pretty pumped so safe to say Henry's loss was wasted on Show.
Moving onto this year, Sheamus is damn near undefeated this year (only clean loss was CM Punk at Main Event the other week I think and who the hell saw that?), he wins the rumble, squashes Bryan to win the belt and sits atop the Smackdown throne pushing back the constant attacks from Del Rio and Ziggler with a jolly grin, his finisher has become the new RKO to boot (ahahaha).
Suddenly Big Show enters the fray because...well fuck knows, he wasn't doing anything I guess and just got back from a break, but Sheamus has thwarted all challengers, he's the new Cena, he is Super Sheamus.
Alas he can't kick Big Show and thus he is finally defeated by a punch, the reign is over.
Meanwhile Ziggler has been gunning for Sheamus for like months it seems and then there's Wade Barrett whose elbow finisher could certainly have served a similar role in that match and could use some extra credibility, plus he's also been around Sheamus as of recent weeks.
But nope, a big heel victory to halt Super Sheamus clean with no shenanigans is wasted on Big Show of all people who will go on to have an uneventful reign no doubt.
The IC title at WM was basically wasted on Show with him dropping it back the following month (a WM moment it was not), the first money in the bank cash in failure was simultaneously ruined by Cena and Show, I mean damn I don't hate Show but they keep squandering some prime opportunities for other upcoming wrestlers on some guy whose main gimmick is being big and angry or big and jolly, the fans don't come to see him and don't even react much to anything he does.
Basically fuck WWE and their Big Show booking, he doesn't need any sort of rub, he's a flipping giant, he'll always be considered a threat to an extent.
Giving credit where it's due Show has had good matches when the titles at stake in both 2011 and 2012, must be that extra motivation.