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Alors que Big E n’est plus dans le portrait en tant que champion de la WWE, après avoir perdu le titre aux dépens de Brock Lesnar à Day 1, deux légendes du ring ont tenu à réagir publiquement.
Sur son podcast Hall of Fame, Booker T soutient que Big E a été solide en tant que champion, même si son règne a été plutôt court, soit 110 jours. Il affirme que ça l’a rendu meilleur et que ça l’aidera dans sa carrière, ajoutant que Big E aura la chance de se reprendre, ayant au moins cinq ans devant lui, peut-être huit à dix ans, avant sa retraite.
“I thought Big E had a good run and I thought the championship made him better.
“It was almost one of those things to where I always say, when you win the title it makes you a better performer normally just because you know that you’re the world heavyweight champion.
“You walk a different way, you feel a different way. I don’t know what it is but that effect definitely got a hold of Big E and you could see him falling into that role as being the WWE Champion.
“He believed he should have been a WWE Champion. So, I thought he did a great job.
“We didn’t get a chance to see Big E have a whole lot of classic matches as champion or anything like that but I think there again that’s more — I think Big E has a chance to come back and capture it again [and] grow.
“I think Big E is gonna be in this business for at least five to perhaps eight to ten more years maybe. Not the WWE but in the business but he has a chance to literally grow over this time and really become the performer that he wants to be.”
De son côté, Bully Ray – alias Bubba Ray Dudley – a affirmé sur les ondes de SiriusXM, à l’émission Busted Open Radio, qu’il n’est pas contre l’idée du changement de titre, ajoutant que les fans aiment voir Big E en tant que celui qui est à la quête d’un titre, et non nécessairement le champion.
Il soutient que les fans aiment s’investir émotionnellement pour des “faces” comme Big E qui visent le sommet, mais sans nécessairement souhaiter les voir champions à long terme.
“A lot of these babyface champions who are built the right way, you will pay to see retain.
“Big E is one of those talents where I feel like you pay and you invest your emotion to see him chase another one of these guys, much like a Kofi Kingston where you feel like he’s been working hard for so long and he deserves better, thus you get behind him because of the chase.
“Then once it happens and the chase is over, alright fine we got what we want. Do we really wanna invest our — let’s forget about time and money. Do we really wanna invest our emotion in seeing Big E retain?
“Yeah, there will be some fans who wanna do that but the majority? I’m not quite sure.”
Bully Ray ajoute par ailleurs être déçu de constater que, bien que Brock Lesnar soit un très bon choix comme champion avec tous ses accomplissements, Big E est entré en quatrième place – avant Lesnar – pour le match de samedi, alors qu’il était encore champion.
“That’s something that really pis*ed me off when I saw it. I understand that Brock Lesnar is the biggest star in that match; you can make an argument that Brock Lesnar is the biggest star in WWE right now. This is the man who defeated The Undertaker, ended The Streak, a five-time – up until the other night – world champion, a guy who does what he wants, when he wants.
“But he was not your WWE Champion. Big E was. If we know that Brock is going to win the championship, and he’s going to have his moment, he’s going to have his beauty shot at the end of the show, why would you have Big E come out fourth? Why would you have Brock come out last? There is absolutely zero reason. ZERO!”
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