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Christian Update
As we all saw by now, Tommy Dreamer is now ECW Champion. He pinned Jack Swagger at Extreme Rules to fulfill his "dream". While it was nice to see, the problem is that Christian will be going against Dreamer and possibly Swagger again at the Bash.
Since Christian made his return, he had feuded with Jack Swagger as we all know. He eventually won the ECW Title from him and then started having a "friendly" rivalry with Dreamer. The issue is that you can only see these three men rival each other for so long.
It was not handled well, and even though Christian is the top guy on ECW, it looks as if he could be moving to another brand.
The rumor for Christian to begin with was that he would be the Jeff Hardy attacker upon his WWE return. He would rival Hardy and go into Wrestlemania and probably have an Extreme type of match.
However, the Friday before the Royal Rumble they switched it up and had Matt Hardy be the attacker. Everyone expected Christian to be at the Royal Rumble to cost Hardy the WWE Title, but his brother Matt showed up instead and hit Jeff with a chair costing him the WWE Title.
Many believe the rivalry was very good, especially with it being a last minute thing for them to set up.
The rumor got out, so of course the WWE had to surprise us by not bringing Christian to Smackdown. Instead they debuted him shortly after on ECW.
This killed more than one thing for the WWE. Something they didn't realize when they decided to move Christian to ECW. They wanted to give Christian the ECW Title of course, but didn't realize they had no where to go with him after Swagger.
Which is why they brought Dreamer into the fold, to help liven it up a bit. Many thought it was weird to see a mid-carder like Dreamer in the ECW Title hunt, but I guess the WWE didn't.
They decided to bring a storyline with Dreamer's contract in to it, to make it an emotional thing for his fans. It was a good idea, but it made it to easy to suspect Dreamer would be champion. However, the WWE didn't change that. Weird right?
Smackdown Writer Michael Hayes begged Vince to bring Christian to Smackdown, because he knew he could work with him well. He had many ideas, the first was the attacker storyline.
Edge was on Smackdown too, so obviously he would be a key member in storylines with Christian. The Hardys were there too, and we all know the history Christian has with them. You have others like The Undertaker there too, which would have been nice to see a storyline with those two wouldn't it?
So there was a lot you could do with Christian there as you may have figured out. Which was why he was slated to go there to begin with until Vince put his head up his butt and decided to put Christian on the C Brand to make him the top guy there.
We all know Christian is not liked by Vince McMahon, however, wouldn't you think that if they payed Christian all of that money that they would use him right?
Also, because Christian was in TNA and he went back to the WWE, wouldn't you think Vince would have pushed Christian into being a top guy in the WWE instead of just the top guy on ECW?
It would make it more alluring to other TNA guys because they would see how well Christian has been doing. It would help to kill the competition that TNA has been bringing slowly but surely.
Vince loves to crush the competition, so to see him not do that is kind of weird to see.
But back to Christian.
He is not liked by Vince, but is loved by all the writers and creative team because he can do well in pretty much all the storylines given to him.
However, he is dying on ECW. And because he can do so much on other shows like Smackdown, he may be going there. Word has it that Hayes has been on Vince's tail about bringing Christian over.
They would probably do a trade angle to not have the same concept of what happened previously with Matt Hardy, who just left ECW and went to Smackdown.
It is not certain if it would happen, but they feel it would be something to freshen up both brands.
Many think CM Punk will go heel after cashing in Money in the Bank on Jeff Hardy, so therefore a face position would be open on Smackdown. If Hardy leaves, then this would not be an issue.
However, since Jeff Hardy has been saying he wants to resign and he is close to a deal with the WWE, he looks to be staying.
We are slated to see a CM Punk vs Edge match for the World Heavyweight Championship on RAW next week. So unless they want to add Hardy, we may see him take time off.
There is no one on SD! he can rival right now except for Punk or Edge, so if both are rivaling each other, it wouldn't work for him.
So I see him getting into the fold soon. Most want to see a Punk/Hardy angle, if that is the case then Edge would be left out. And you cannot leave Edge out of anything on Smackdown, which is where Christian would come into play.
They could still have Christian do work on ECW, but also go to Smackdown, eventually we would have to see him on just one show. Which would end up being Smackdown.
But everything is up in the air until Vince decides on what he wants to do. If he wants to move Christian he could easily do so.
Most fans have been wanting to see something with Edge and Christian since Christian has been in the WWE, so why would they not build on that? I would find it strange personally, when they easily could. We will have to see what happens, but I can safely say I would not be against seeing Christian on Smackdown.
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