Go2Sleep
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I won't go to Gregg lengths to praise the Owens/Ziggler, but I do highly recommend it if you're a fan of Kevin Owens. You can tell he was like "Welp, I'm on Main Event, guess I'll do whatever I want."
Also shoots a rather large hole in the "wrestlers these days don't know how to work a hold" talking point.
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1 minute ago, Vader does my taxes! said:
Phone? Just to be safe, Swagger needs to throw himself in the ocean. Rent some scuba equipment, jump off the pier, live underwater among the fishies for a few weeks. Vince will never find him there.
Don't know if that's gonna work so well...
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2 hours ago, Burgundy LaRue said:
And Titus O'Neill is a pick 'em bet.
Doesn't Titus still have to accompany someone to Disney World or something? I think he's safe.
Darren Young would've been an easy release if it wasn't such a bad look for the company. Who would've picked him and Slater as the last Nexus guys standing (presumably they'll outlast Ryback)?
Gotta imagine the Ascension are gone based on the quality of the releases thus far, and one of them getting a wellness violation.
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It also doesn't help that the group the Wyatts were going to feud with broke up in their absence.
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There's a probably more than a few technical nitpicks you could make about the No Mas match, but it was a very effective spectacle. If you ever wondered what "grabbing the brass ring" is, it's what Sexy Star did in that match. She went from a lukewarm 40/60 crowd split to having everyone going crazy for her win. Say what you will about the rest of her work, but that was the performance of a lifetime.
Dario ruled all night. In an age where nobody wants on-screen authority figures in wrestling, he makes it work.
Hopefully this isn't the end Moth and Mariposa, I've really liked their work together. Unfortunately this show does look like the end of Cuerno. We lose him and get Chavo back, woof.
Which disciple is getting the singles push? Is that Mandel or Mariachi Loco?
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6 hours ago, JCM said:
Has Sasha's picture been put on a milk carton yet? I really can't wrap my head around taking the most over person in the division off tv just because you want to give her the belt 4 months from now. Roman didn't disappear after Mania last year. They could run Sasha & Becky vs Paige & Emma.
She was on the E/C show this week at least.
I'm starting to wonder if she's hurt, because there really isn't a reason to not have her at least working some throwaway matches on Smackdown and Superstars to keep her sharp and fresh in people's minds. And that's just if you're completely unimaginative, a non-title feud with Paige or Emma would be beneficial not just for them, but for the entire division since you could show it's possible to have an important women's feud without the title. What's the plan for her now, come back "out of nowhere" and "make a statement" exactly like she did at the Royal Rumble?
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I think a pay gap would be less of an issue if WWE covered things like travel and health insurance. Sure from a corporate standpoint, John Cena is worth a lot more than Heath Slater, but Heath Slater still has to get the same shows and put his body at similar risk.
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"You look like Dolph Ziggler... Except for the stack of money."
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5 minutes ago, JohnnyJ said:
Legit question: who was more over at their hottest: ryback or reigns?
Ryback, because Roman at his hottest was a heel in a heel stable.
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34 minutes ago, Hail Sabin said:
Vince is probably the target audience.
That's the vibe I got from the first episode. I mean we all know the guy has a bad, bad sense of humor, but he was the only one that seemed to care about the show. Everything else from the animation, to the writing, to the non-wrestler voices was just so bush league and amateurish that it's hard to imagine why a company that's so image-conscious would want to be associated with it.
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This has to be the most inspired writing WWE's had since before WM 30. Plus with all the roster turnover, everything just feels so fresh right now. I actually watched every segment on Raw this week for the first time in god knows how long.
The Shane/Steph dynamic would be perfectly fine if there wasn't this impending cloud of "Shane vs. HHH: featured angle" hanging over it. As far as authority figures go, they're pretty tolerable. Shane kinda favors the faces and Steph kinda favors the heels so there's no imbalance. Plus they're not really fighting with each other yet, so there's no one-upsmanship where every decision becomes about their feud instead. Really wouldn't mind if they ran the show like that for a while.
The IC 4-way feud is kind of hacked together, but it's 3 elite workers and one decent worker who knows his role, so I'm into it.
Even the Goldust/Truth/Breeze/Fandango segment wasn't bad. Kind of reminded me of an attitude era "everybody has an angle" angle. Hopefully they can rehab Tyler.
The tag title segment was a lot of fun. The concussion has added some legit heat to this feud and gives the fans a real reason to dislike the Vaudevillains. New Day's still going strong, Cass delivered in Enzo's absence (though anyone who follows NXT knows he's a pretty good promo himself), and Bubba Dudley was great at being a total jackass.
Ambrose was being such an asshole to Steph, I didn't mind when she kicked him in the balls at the end of their segment. I thought Jericho was done for a while, but I guess there's not much else for Dean to do at the moment.
Glad the Emma/Becky feud was finally allowed back on tv. They should probably find a way to get Sasha back on tv too if they plan to push her at some point. Is she still feuding with Summer? Can't believe she's not at least on Smackdown or Superstars every week.
The AJ/Roman stuff is really good. I love how they're not forcing the face/heel roles too much and just letting things develop organically. Night and day compared to Roman/HHH, and not surprisingly, the product is all the better for it. Kinda feeling like the Balor club unites and costs AJ at Extreme Rules, which won't leave too much time to kill before Rollins comes back to chase Roman.
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Enzo's injury reminded me of a hit Trent Green took when he played for the Chiefs. It was against the Bengals, I'm sure you can find it on youtube. Good to see he's up and out of the hospital.
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Camp WWE was definitely as bad as it looked. The show doesn't work at all unless every wrestler does their own voice. The Cena, HHH, Truth, and Austin were dreadful.
Could tell Vince was having the time of his life, though.
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Just re-watched One Night Stand 2006, and that show is a forgotten classic. I guess your mileage could vary slightly depending on you feel about some the vestiges of ECW culture, but the crowd was nuclear all night and pretty much every match delivered. I think it belongs among the top shows of the decade for WWE.
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It was a competitive squash that involved Dana doing a little more than just standing there and taking moves (which is a skill unto itself anyway). Yeah it probably would've been worse if it was as long as the Eva match, but it still shows Asuka can handle working with green wrestlers. Dana didn't exactly look like the next big thing before this match.
I don't think "having a good match with Eva Marie" should be a standard we evaluate anyone by because as of now, that would mean there are zero good women wrestlers in WWE.
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On 4/28/2016 at 0:00 PM, Cristobal said:
Asuka is great, but slowing down to match a green opponent is not a skill I've seen from her in NXT.
One of her best matches in NXT was against Dana Brooke.
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The Cage/Mundo match was really good. Loved the sequence with Mundo using his parkour to dodge the kendo stick. The match was worked exactly as it should with Cage always pushing forward, and Mundo being crafty enough to get some good shots in but ultimately getting his ass kicked. Despite all the nasty moves and bumps, the match had a very old-school cage match feel where the face finally got a big decisive win over the chickenshit heels. The screwdriver as a super-finisher for Cage is pretty cool too.
The trios match was supremely disappointing. Just way too many guys in there for most of the match, and when it got down to two teams the chemistry wasn't great and the finish was abrupt. Some good spots here and there, but no real rhythm and consistency. That said, I do look forward to lots of LU-Babyface-Evolution trios matches.
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2 hours ago, RIPPA said:
The interwebs is saying that the WWE released Rich Brennan
He was the worst announcer on the roster whose last name doesn't start with L.
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Aaliyah looks like she has some promise. She already looked way better than Eva, and at worst equal to Carmella.
"Jamoke #2" needs to be a regular jobber. That guy was hilarious and got the crowd into a routine squash.
I'm glad they'll be heading back to Full Sail now, though. These last few shows felt pretty mailed-in and the crowd was bad too, nothing like the Takeover crowd.
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9 hours ago, JohnnyJ said:
What I don't get is you've created an above set tv network with no commercials. You have the pressure of producing content to grow your subscriber base and keep your subscriber base happy. A cartoon like camp wwe looks expensive and how many subscribers are you going to bring in? 10? Does the market for this even exist?
Yeah, I don't get the logic behind this show either. I would guess you could gain/retain way more subscribers just by paying one guy to upload finished wrestling shows you already own. I'm not a businessman, though.
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I'm vainly hoping they don't re-introduce Steph and HHH as authority figures. This has been the most compelling stretch of Raws in over 2 years, and they're gonna go back to why the shows were so bad during that stretch? I wouldn't even be opposed to HHH and Steph on screen, just not in the authority role or vying for the authority role.
Wouldn't be surprised to see Gallows and Anderson help AJ win at Payback, then turn on him the next night and unite behind Finn. They didn't file for a trademark on Balor Club just to put it on Finn's tron.
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I really hope E&C's geography skills were a work.
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10 hours ago, The Natural said:
This is a great picture.
Also, didn't they used to run Raws in that building in the mid 90s?
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I feel like the first episode was explicitly made for Vince McMahon to watch if he ever wanted to check out what was going for some reason. After that, they moved on to what they really wanted to do.
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WWE HOF? Easily if he stays on good terms with the company. He'll be one of those Godfather-esque mid-week reveals before Mania 51, and you'll be like "Oh shit, The Miz. I remember when he was the host of Smackdown during the first brand split."
Also Bo Dallas isn't going anywhere unless he wants to with those family connections.