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Punk's longwinded promos have fallen into this territory for me as of late.

Show's lack of hesitation seems to be his story finally progressing a little bit, though I question the decision to do it in Miz-hating Smarkville, where he got a big pop for it. I guess it's better than him crying for 3 hours.

Don't know where the RVD hate is coming from, I thought him selling his arm on that back cartwheel was a nice touch. Did Rollins legit knock Darren Young out? He had trouble getting him into pin position and it looked like his shin came right down on the neck/face. Harper's beard having bits of grey in it makes him seem like much more of a dangerous backwoods motherfucker. Steph, as others mentioned, has been gold, but I still don't get the point of her towering over/intimidating AJ, who, despite confusion, still seems to be portrayed as a heel. Is "abeyance" the new WWE buzzword? I don't recall hearing "vacant" one time. Serious Miz is much, much more likable than jokey Jericho Miz and he should have been portrayed this way from the initial face turn. Where's Kaitlyn? Superpunk being able to fight off both Ryback and Axel doesn't really sell that PPV match to me at all, and a completely unsurprised Michael Cole yelling "IN HIS HOMETOWN!!!!" as Ryback botched the table throw just took me entirely out of the segment. Why is WWE still running 13 PPVs a year? Everything about Battleground looks thrown together, I can't imagine they do that much better with NoC/Battleground/HiaC than they would with a well-built NoC and HiaC.

He looks like they used the Tim Allen Santa Clause effect on him.

The second-to-last one, too. Was he trying to Death Drop him on the chair, or did he just not see it there?

Fandango and Tyler Breeze can become a womanizing (but possibly closet) team. If you want to get really into it, a feud with the PTP where Darren Young becomes a role model for "comingout" could get some press. God. Stop.

Maybe not a lot of people, but I for one don't need much to happen on a wrestling show outside of wrestling. That is to say, "nothing" happens in that there has been maybe one match in the program's history where it wasn't apparent who was going over and how before the bell rings - the one match being the Intercontinental or US title switch involving Kofi or Miz or Barrett or whichever interchangeable placeholder was holding whichever interchangeable seventh-tier title. Which goes to show you how memorable it was. I'm sure anything Cesaro's been involved in is worth looking into, but I don't know what else could be. (No, Christian isn't slipping my mind, he's incessantly boring) I don't think the Raw discussion has fallen off at all - and I'd chalk that up to the big storyline making people care what happens again. Does anyone know exactly how the ball started rolling on getting Main Event on the air in the first place? Who thought it was a good idea for WWE to have even more prime time TV time when they've been scrambling to fill the existing time?

I personally stopped watching SmackDown when I noticed the last match/promo/angle/anything that they didn't just re-do on Raw was the Sandow/Cody briefcase deal two months or so ago.As far as Main Event goes, there's nothing to discuss. Quality matches or no, nobody is going to care about a show where nothing happens.

Probably true, but if that's the case then they should change the booking to humiliate Dusty without getting physical, or give him the ol' Christian phantom beatdown. The divas go out and do their best every week, and they still make the stuffing look like shit.

Mark. Horribly executed, but still non-serious. Carry on.

It has looked great before; probably depends on who is taking it. The one on Dusty looked terrible even before Show cuddled him to the ground.

Raven also had the capability of winning titles more prestigious than the Hardcore title, which AJ doesn't have. Really, fuck Meltzer and anyone else giving AJ a hard time for loving the business enough to actually care that she won the most prestigious belt she is eligible to win. You people deserve Kelly Kelly or whichever fitness model on your television screen week in and week out. Also, every single person that posts on this board is a mark, including myself and every worker. I thought as a board we were past the serious use of that word, but apparently not. You're posting on the internet about pro wrestling. You're a mark. Let's move on.

Isn't that kind of, like, the distant past by now?I wish that would stop people from still calling him "Generico" five years from now.

Jerry Lawler was awesome as the hometown hero King of Memphis. If you want unlikeable 1980's faces, go no farther then the Von Erichs in Texas."But he's awesome" doesn't really answer my question, but I have been meaning to check out old World Class stuff.Lawler is still a terrible face. To this day.

Wrestling fans might actually be the worst audience to try this in front of. Sounds like it would go over about as well as an anti-racism angle in 1960's Alabama.

Charli is 21. Can't speak for the others, but I don't see anything racier in that video than, say, 15-year old Britney Spears in "Baby One More Time."

Fuck that. If Lawler can't take a few stiff shots without having a heart attack, he has no business being in the ring. As far as Lawler's Memphis role, could you expand upon what you mean? I feel like you might be addressing my post in the other thread, which was not the thread I intended to post it in anyhow.

So I've been watching a lot of old Memphis on YouTube, and I've been having trouble getting into it because Jerry Lawler is the most unlikable face that I have ever seen. Every promo, every angle. Worse than Hogan, Sheamus, Rocky Maivia, Del Rio, anyone. Nothing he does makes me root for him and everything he does makes me wish someone would just beat the shit out of him...how was this sustainable in the territory for as long as it was?

No way, the Jersey Triad was one of the few bright spots of WCW 1999.

He could easily be shifted into a sporadically appearing legend role so as to avoid the bad press involved in giving him the boot.

NUMERO UNO AMIGO! Now back to alternating woman-hating and hand-wringing.

Yeah, but doing so against his family's wishes wouldn't go over so well. Isn't that also the reason Owen isn't in?

It had to do with them wanting a title shot at Money Inc. and Jimmy Hart managing both teams, so the Nasties turned because Jimmy was showing favoritism, or something like that.

...and job it out 6 days later. So let me get this straight: You whiny folk want Bryan to win the title on Monday, job it back to Orton at Night Of Champions, and never win it again? That's better booking than the last few weeks of WWE?GIVE THIS MAN THE BOOK I said nothing like that. All I did was refer to the moment where Lex finally got a total victory over the nWo and had the locker room celebrate with him without having it ripped away from him through the usual nWo bullshit. But nice to jump to wild and stupid conclusions. And please get new material...you've used GIVE THIS MAN THE BOOK on me already. Sorry, pal - I won't rest until your flawless booking strategy is implemented. Now, pardon me, I have to go die laughing at the notion that, 24 pages in, *I* am the person in this ridiculous thread that is jumping to stupid conclusions.