Cristobal Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I get what you're saying there, but it's not just his job to help prop up the GOOD matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go2Sleep Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Can you come up with any examples of good matches that he diminished by obviously not caring about or bad matches that he made more watchable because he cared enough to give some incredible commentary? I don't know if it was a product of not caring, but one example of him hurting a match that springs to mind was Bryan/Usos vs. The Shield from SD last year where he and Cole spent the first 2/3 of it having an agonizingly circular argument about the Scott Armstrong situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyLaw Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Apparently, WWE wrestlers really like Outback and Waffle House. Roman Reigns: Chipotle. Love Chipotle. Could eat Chipotle like three times a day, for sure. I do the burrito bowl, black beans. Sometimes some rice, depending on if I just worked out. Triple chicken. That sets everybody off. They're like, "Whaaat? Triplechicken?" Cheese, the corn salsa and a big ol' scoop of the guac. Give this man the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. RIGHT NOW. I lost it imagining him saying "Whaaat? Triple chicken?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodear Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Imagine what happens when he goes on dates. Double Triple Chicken! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Dan Ackroyd and Roman Reigns for Blues Brothers 3! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Mann Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Dan Ackroyd and Roman Reigns for Blues Brothers 3! "...and a Coke" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEN! Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 On the flip side - our dreams of Reigns wrestling a bear seemed to be dashed He's the only one that understands that bears are shoot wrestlers and not sports entertainers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Jackie Moon understood that. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie M. Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I'd be hard pressed to find something more overrated than Chipolte. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MORELOCK Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I actually thought JBL was terrible in Brock/Taker. Felt like he was giving away the finish, honestly. If you thought he was terrible, fine, but he didn't even kind of come anywhere close to giving away the finish at all and it's ridiculous to say otherwise. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 How was it ridiculous? He was all but declaring the streak over the entire match. He telegraphed Taker losing from about the halfway point on up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 His commentary wouldn't have changed even if Undertaker went over, so I'm of the opinion that it was just JBL playing the heel announcer role and downplaying 'Taker (the face) and boosting the heel (Lesnar). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 His commentary wouldn't have changed even if Undertaker went over, so I'm of the opinion that it was just JBL playing the heel announcer role and downplaying 'Taker (the face) and boosting the heel (Lesnar). I assumed he went the route he did because he assumed (like we all did) that 'Taker going over was a certainty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 How was it ridiculous? He was all but declaring the streak over the entire match. He telegraphed Taker losing from about the halfway point on up. Because the audience had always been trained to not believe the heel announcer and you know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 It's 2014 though, there is not such thing as a true heel announcer anymore. Nowadays, the audience is trained to think that the announcer is burying people if they speak ill of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 For some reason I always wondered how WWE would've booked Rick Rude after his loss to Warrior? He was coming across as alot more serious leading up to the cage match at SS and Heenan was moving away from managing so if he had stayed would he had turned face soon after? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 So was RandomAct really surprised when Daniel Bryan won everything after JBL said it was impossible? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caley Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Or that there is actually a flying goat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 For some reason I always wondered how WWE would've booked Rick Rude after his loss to Warrior? He was coming across as alot more serious leading up to the cage match at SS and Heenan was moving away from managing so if he had stayed would he had turned face soon after? Rude was being set-up for a feud with Big Bossman, and Bossman was having a hot run as a face (even replacing Tugboat as Hogan's second at SummerSlam) so Bossman was definitely winning that feud. Either Rude would have just continued the downward slide and been just a random heel at WMVII (maybe wrestling Bulldog or Von Erich) or they could have pulled the trigger on a potential Rude-Perfect feud that seemed to be hinted at when Perfect accidentally eliminated Rude at the Rumble. But the immediate plans were Bossman-Rude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 RE: Jesse Neal. Apparently the average Wal Mart wage is something like $18,000 a year. So if he really is making way more than he did in TNA...yikes. He should be praised for moving on with his life, though. The people trashing him over this are cretins. Yeah, God forbid he doesn't want to end up like Virgil or Sunny and lurking around conventions or taking sexy photos with obese guys for $10. But..he is a big guy and has tribal tattoos. Can't he be a bouncer or something? It's better than Wal Mart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristobal Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I'm not sure "multiple concussions" and "bouncer" are a great combo. Also, as for bouncing being better than Wal-Mart: Depends where you're bouncing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Who is trashing him?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 As an obese male, I can get a sexy photo with Virgil for only $10??? 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 So was RandomAct really surprised when Daniel Bryan won everything after JBL said it was impossible? There is a difference between obviously being the Authority shill/playing a character in one match and doing a poor job of building suspense in another. I don't recall King and Cole feverishly going out of their way to come to Undertaker's side like they did for Bryan, to counteract what JBL was saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidKash202 Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 On Jim Ross's podcast with Robert Florez of ESPN, he made a great point. Why have the rules in wrestling so lax? Punches are allowed. Kicks with the front of the boot are allowed. Rules need to be stressed more because without rules, you undermine the role of the heels because they have nothing to break. I have heard him say this before but he was really passionate about this just now. GO listen http://podcastone.com/program?action=viewProgram&programID=619 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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