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Oh, when I say "give people gimmicks" I'm certainly not advocating anything like Shorty G (that gimmick was essentially what made me stop watching RAW and SD week-to-week). I just mean there's a lack of unique character to most of these wrestlers they've thrown out in the last year or two. Why is Damian Priest different from Dominik Dijakovic and why are they both different from Killian Dain? What the fuck is an "Archer of Infamy" and why do they keep saying it? What makes Cameron Grimes different from Austin Theory and why are they both different from Isaiah "Swerve" Scott? What sets Chelsea Green apart from Deonna Purrazzo and Santana Garrett? What do we know about the characters of Bronson Reed, Lio Rush, Angel Garza, Kayden Carter, Dexter Loomis, Shotzi Blackheart, Joaquin Wilde, and KUSHIDA? They can send all these people out trolling for chants and have them do poison ranas and Spanish Flys until they are crippled, but it isn't going to make me care when I can't tell any of them apart. AEW has the same problems with match layouts, but I can at least differentiate the wrestlers from one another (well, except all the damn mall-goth characters.)

AEW has the built-in support of people who want a WWE alternative. Since the USA debut, NXT has essentially been a show with "good" matches (This is subjective - I have hated nearly all of them). Storyline-wise, there's nothing there. They've come close to a breakthrough - Keith Lee challenging for the NXT title and not the worthless NA title was the move - instead it's boring stale Ciampa going against boring stale Cole. If WWE wants people to actually choose NXT over AEW, they're going to have to try harder than to just throw out similar people to have similar matches. The transition of NXT from developmental to super-indie has drained it of all of its fun IMO. Where are all the gimmicks? Everyone is a Talented Indie Wrestler - even Breeze has dropped everything that was ever visually interesting about him.

The board is full of people that do this, so if you're trying to sell the idea that it's not important, you might be in the wrong place.

It isn't about who is or isn't pissed off - the music is edited because it could potentially cost them millions of dollars. Swapping out music also doesn't irreparably alter 12 years of storylines spread across the most popular years in the history of both major companies. There isn't much point in putting old shows up on the network at all if they are restricted to that degree.

Seems pretty clear that the Time Splitters should have gotten the win that the makeshift tag team got, but I guess if Triple H is really trying to nod to the Crockett Cup it makes sense.

What a crock of shit. Re-edit the shit out of 12 years of wrestling shows or you're a profiteer, despite going very far out of your way not to promote anything about Benoit.

Must every thread be turned into creeps being creepy? Like, y'all know you can post about female wrestlers without letting us know which ones you want to fuck, right?

"It's supposed to suck" is a progressively worse excuse each time it gets rolled out for a wrestling show. Almost as bad as your part two excuse, "You just don't 'get it.'"

Also a pretty clear instrumental/Jimmy Hart Version of "Guilty Conscience." I doubt there's any deal worked out, as I'm sure it'd be prohibitively expensive. I'm guessing that no one that would care has noticed yet.

No one is entitled to touch women wrestlers in photo ops.

Isn't Luke Harper one of WWE's trademarked names? It's so normal-sounding that I can't remember.

Being positive about the product is fine, but this is ridiculous.

Both Reeves and Moss were on NXT:UK last week - Moss as part of new-to-TV team the Outliers with a renamed Dan Matha.

Glad I know who to blame for the forthcoming Adam Page turn. He should be their top babyface. I'm biased as hell but he's certainly a lot more likable to me than Kenny.

JR is in that chair until he dies or is physically unable to show up to events. What does he have to retire to? He chokes up talking about his dead wife on almost every podcast.

I feel like that's more of an indictment of the terrible follow up than an indication that Brock is a JAG.

Yeah, the only reason I see to have a problem with Austin Gunn signing is if he's stinking up the joint and better people in the company aren't getting the same opportunity. Where is all this Matt Hardy information coming from? Wiki puts Adam Page at age 28.

It's a mistake for Storm to directly interact with the idiots in the crowd trying to get themselves over by yelling out shit during promos.

I'm not sure that he ever really did. Most of the hype surrounding him was Heyman's smoke and mirrors. He basically had one good looking move and worked a bunch of garbage matches. He was enjoyable as part of the Heath Slater angle before they buried it for getting over.

Wait, what? Brock is the only wrestler they haven't treated as just another guy in the last 15 years. They've sacrificed the entire roster to make him look strong for years now.

I'm saying you're wrong.

I understood Dan's post to be about in-ring work because of the examples used: Rock N Rolls, Midnights, Fabs, Fantastics, Rockers. All generally "workrate" teams. If the conversation is to be expanded to include general stardom, you'd need to include teams that aren't necessarily darlings: Studd/Bundy, Superpowers, Shiek/Volkoff, the aforementioned Demos and LOD The criteria would also change the discussion completely when it comes to teams like: Freebirds: Hayes had the charisma, but if we're talking about in-ring work he was easily the worst of the three. Bulldogs: In-ring discussion will generally make Davey the other guy though I think it's closer than most think - discussion of basically anything outside of in-ring work would make Dynamite the other guy.

That's the time period that the variety began to taper off. The Bossman feud is when he seemed to stop switching dance partners.