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  1. I was thinking that Liv cashing in is kinda weird because the male winner wouldn't have the same opportunity, and then realized Roman just wasn't defending either belt. So I looked it up.

    WrestleMania was three months ago as of Sunday. Since then, the entirety of Roman's televised matches has been a six man tag at Backlash and a defense against Riddle on SmackDown.  The last two PPVs (is that what they're still called?) has had neither of the top titles defended at all, and without comment. Not counting house shows (which Roman hasn't done for a month now anyway), there's been one defense of the titles at all in the past three months.

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  2. 1 hour ago, TheVileOne said:

    I'm not a huge Brandi fan or anything, but if fans have run her off Twitter by being nasty to her, I think that's pretty horrible and mean-spirited.

    I don't feel any sympathy for someone trying to charge women $50 a year to post on a message board.

  3. 20 hours ago, West Newbury Bad Boy said:

    Quite the opposite. I've long since made my peace with those reactions and think they're super useful. They create the best atmospheres and the biggest big match feel of anything in WWE. Everyone should aspire to get reactions that visceral and raw. Cena and Roman matches (especially before the cancer) were better off because of just how nuts those guys drive a large segment of the audience. Hopefully as Mania season goes on, Charlotte can get some of that Corbin heat. 

    Super useful hostile crowd reactions? How's that working out?

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  4. That Brock section of the Rumble was indistinguishable from watching someone else play the Rumble on a video game. It was worse than that time Big Show and Kane just unceremoniously started dumping guys out.

    Even if you think it was important for Lesner to run through guys, that was the least interesting way of doing it.

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  5. 3 hours ago, TheVileOne said:

    Paul Heyman is the Executive Director on Raw. Whether Vince has final say or not, he deserves some of the blame for the creative issues.

    Is Executive Director higher or lower than Constable of RAW?

    The show has been the exact same kind of awful for 20 years now. Vince and Kevin Dunn are the only constants during that time. Blaming someone else is dumb.

  6. Is that five years at $300k per year, or $300k over the five years ($60k per)?  Because $60k a year, as an independent contractor, that has to pay for their own travel when they travel 100-200 times a year, all hotels, all meals, and whatever the insane health insurance premiums a professional wrestler has to cover, is some fuckin' bullshit right there.

  7. I was running on entertainment fumes from the Monday Night Wars until 2003.  I was getting progressively more and more exhausted and fed up with the show, but felt that I had watched for this long and I probably should just keep it going.  Then, literally the moment Hogan came out as Mr. America, I turned the TV off and stopped watching WWE outside of individual matches I heard were good until 2009, which I only started watching again at that point because of how awful it is and I have some friends I do Mystery Science Theater 3000-style viewings of bad movies and the WWE shows fit into that quite well.  I probably still wouldn't be watching to this day otherwise.

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  8. 49 minutes ago, West Newbury Bad Boy said:

    The decade? 

    Do I just not understand wrestling anymore? 

    If you don't know that wrestling fans are basically dogs that go to the extremes of OMG BEST EVER or BARK GROWL HATE THIS on everything, then yes, you don't understand wrestling any more.

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  9. 4 hours ago, Goodear said:

    Think of it this way.  He has been on television for more than a decade.  Do you remember him ever saying anything funny?

    In a backstage segment, he (pretended) to be on the phone, and quickly said something to the effect of, "Hi, mom.  Yeah, I lost again, but it's okay. I tried really hard."

    I'm not defending Ziggler, but let's be fair.  He's said the funniest thing on RAW in the last decade.

  10. Here's an opinion nobody is going to agree with me on:

    Renee is obviously better than Coachman.  But you never knew what idiotic shit Coachman was going to say. You know exactly what Renee is going to say. I think the unpredictability of Coachman (and again, to be clear: he's unpredictable because he's a Goddamn idiot) is more valuable than the serviceable, anodyne Renee on a show that is infamously known for being predictable already.

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  11. 2 hours ago, Edwin said:

    It's one of the hottest angles in the companies recent history and the Miz is a great heel and Bryan is one of the best baby faces they have. I'm sure they can drag this out until WM and have Bryan get his big win on the biggest stage they have.

    While you're absolutely correct, you realize that the ability to "drag this out" isn't a laudable ability, right?

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  12. 2 minutes ago, Craig H said:

    No one's wishing a career ending injury for him, but he needs to go away for a handful of months. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that. The only way Roman is going to get that break is from some kind of recoverable injury. Doesn't make anyone a monster for thinking that.

    We've been absent of Randy Orton for a couple months now. How much more pumped are you for his return now compared to when he went out? 

    Absence isn't going to heal Reigns. Reigns has been rejected by the fans at a level that is totally without precedent in professional wrestling. Roman Reigns is going to have to be completely re-invented if he has any chance of success at this point.

  13. 9 hours ago, RIPPA said:

    Meltzer noted on the radio show this morning that the WWE is cutting down on PPVs at least through Mania

    From now until at least April (and possibly through May) will only have one PPV a month

    So the schedule is

    • Nov: Survivor Series
    • Dec: Smackdown
    • Jan: Royal Rumble
    • Feb: RAW
    • March: Smackdown (Dave said it is possible they don't have a PPV in March at all)
    • April 8: Mania

    It's so weird that he frames that as "cutting down" since, at the beginning of November last year, the schedule through Mania was:

    • Nov 20: Survivor Series
    • Dec 4: TLC
    • Dec 18: Roadblock (does this count?)
    • Jan 29: Rumble
    • Feb 12: Elimination Chamber
    • March 5: Fastlane
    • April 2: Mania

    So, they cut a grand total of one show, and that's only if you consider Roadblock a dyed in the wool PPV.

  14. I would like to talk about Lesnar / Goldberg from a narrative perspective.

    At Survivor Series, Goldberg shocked an overconfident Lesnar.  At that point, it could be a fluke. Then, in the Rumble, Goldberg shocked him again.  At this point, the story is going fine. A flaw has been exposed in a dominate force and it can no longer be considered a fluke. However, at in this match, Lesnar changed nothing. He wrestled the same match he always does, absorbed all the same punishment as before without having any answer for it, and just overcame it. The character learned nothing and didn't have to grow at all. It is an incredibly pointless and nihilistic story. It's the story of someone failing their driving test twice and then, doing no studying and changing nothing about how they approach it, take the test a third time and manage to pass it. Who could care?

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