Has anyone noticed that the WWE's Authority is suddenly larger without any new members being announced? That's right, it now includes Jamie Noble and Joey Mercury as the stooges that do the Authorities bidding. This is a GREAT thing, and here's why.
By including Authority figures that are glorified jobbers, like the original stooges in Patterson and Brisco, it allows a talent working his way up the ladder, ala Steve Austin, to get over with the crowd without ever having to diminish the face of the Corporation, aka Mr. McMahon back in the day, or Triple H, Randy Orton, Kane, or anyone in the Authority today.
This move allows the ascent of one of the newer superstars, Dean Ambrose to get himself over, because he keeps getting one over on the scrubs, instead of making people that don't job to just anybody have to on a weekly basis, thus diminishing their value, as well.
Steve Austin on his rise to the top went through EVERYONE. He went through Brisco, he went through Patterson, he went through Sgt. Slaughter, Jim Ross, and then finally...FINALLY...got his Stunner on McMahon on a September night in Madison Square Garden. We all know that "Austin 3:16" was coined at the King of the Ring, but that didn't really create the ascent of Austin as we are supposed to remember it. Did it get people talking? Sure. Signs were written, people began to cheer the anti-hero, but it wasn't until he stunned McMahon in NYC that it all started to meteoric status.
Now, with a thinned main event roster, no champion in sight, and John Cena's tired but true schtick (think of him as the Bret Hart when Austin started climbing), it isn't right to make Randy Orton, a top talent consistently look stupid to Ambrose, so the use of Noble and Mercury allows for comedic, entertaining moments, and strangely enough, will get those two guys over more than they've ever been, in silly gimmick matches on Ambrose's way to the top, in front of Rollins, Reigns, Bryan or anyone else.
Allow him to continue to get over on these two for a month, have it build to a match with Kane... Have him get through that, then another month of stooging the stooges, to get to Randy Orton. Have Triple H get so mad, that he insists Ambrose come to the ring, get in line, and align himself with the Authority.Add the fact that HHH says he's not allowed in the Royal Rumble until he says "Ok." He'll say sure, start shaking hands of Kane, Randy, and HHH, but when he gets to Stephanie, he pulls her in, double arm DDT, and Triple H goes ballistic, leading to the biggest Royal Rumble match in years, HHH vs. Ambrose, and if Ambrose wins, he's allowed in the Rumble...as #1... He defeats Triple H, wins the Rumble, and you now have the BIGGEST OVER SUPERSTAR SINCE STEVE AUSTIN... and he can defeat Brock Lesnar for the title at Mania, while allowing the Rock to come in, make fun of Triple H for allowing his wife to get DDT'd, and you have your secondary main event at the biggest show of the year.
Ambrose would have built up on a slow burn on the "when will he..." moment, it plays on the Lunatic Fringe mantra, and "Bah Gawd" WWE will finally have someone to build the future on.
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