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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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    Liked this episode too. However it really underscored the handicap the lack of a brand spilt presents to introducing NXT talent. Not a definitive list but I feel the following talent run against each other too much:
     
    Daniel Bryan vs Sami Zayn
    Fandango vs Tyler Breeze
    Wyatt Family vs Ascension
    Damien Sandow vs Aiden English

     

     

     

    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.

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    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.

     

    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?

  5. Does anyone else feel that wrestling discussion has been pretty dead in the IWC for the last few weeks or so? Nobody has been watching Main Event and fewer people than usual have been watching NXT/SD.

    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.
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    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.

    Mark.

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

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    Speaking of WWE, am I the only person who thinks Big Show's knockout punch (WMD) looks terrible.  I've heard the stories about Show tearing doors off their hinges and I don't doubt that he could legitimately cave some people's faces in, but I think the WMD mostly looks terrible.  Especially when he throws it against non-wrestlers like McMahon and Dusty.  To me, it looks really unconvincing as a legit punch.

     

    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.

  8. 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.

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  9. 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?

    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.
  10. I really think there is money to be made with a homophobic heel, particularly if it ends in with the heel getting beaten and learning something about inclusion and the importance of difference. I don't think, however, and major promotion has the subtle and care needed to pull it off.

    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.
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    Please tell me everyone in this video is over 18 otherwise we might be having a larger conversation

     

    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."

  12. I wish that they had spent some time putting memphis and the weekly loop and Lawler's role there in better context. I think most fans don't understand it at all.

     

    Uh, past that?

     

    Poor Dolph. Lawler basically went out and said "Dolph Ziggler gave me a heart attack since he's too shitty a wrestler to get over without really dropping elbows on people ten times."

     

    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.

  13. 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?

  14. Wait, Lanny Poffo gave WWE permission to put Savage in the HOF without his permission?

     

    Leaving aside the self-contradictory nature of that statement, couldn't Vince legally (as opposed to morally or ethically) do so regardless of what Lanny wants?

    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?

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    The difference is that Lex Luger actually got to walk out of the building with the title instead of being knocked out by Randy Anderson.

    ...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.

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