Cristobal Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Chris Hero is doing an AMA. Just started. Here In 33 minutes, he has yet to actually answer a question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Well, in all fairness. AMA just means Ask Me Anything, not I'll Answer Anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Going back a few pages, does anyone know if there's any truth to the rumor that Flair wanted to manage Ziggler but had his request denied? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Miz is a also a victim of WWE miscasting. He's pretty good as a chickenshit heel. But they keep trying to make him out to be a badass and it's laughable. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 If that was true then it's the most coherent decision he's made in awhile, sadly. Does Kane trump Bradshaw in the name-change + character tweak category? If not he's not far behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyJ Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Miz is the special combo of average stature and weak looking offense. Nothing he does looks like it hurts. When he was rising up the ranks he got by with his mouth. Once he was put in the main event the top guys looked silly selling for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 It's really easy to forget, but when Miz was doing his 'undefeated streak' over an injured John Cena, he was probably the most interesting thing on Raw. Granted, that probably says more about the quality of raw at the time, but it was easy to see why he was viewed highly. I would also say that of all the people who have been asked to change their character to 'Chris Jericho Impression', Miz is the only one I can think of that actually stayed over and ran with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Miz is a also a victim of WWE miscasting. He's pretty good as a chickenshit heel. But they keep trying to make him out to be a badass and it's laughable. All he needed was an out-of-nowhere lights out finisher and he could have been amazing...winning matches where he clearly didn't deserve to. But the move he had was too complicated and required him to beat the other guy up first. So they replaced it with a submission that requires you to beat a guy up even more. I mean, I know a great easy finisher would get anyone over so this is kind of a dumb argument..but man, with his mouth and image and shittiness, something like a stunner or an RKO would have been huge. "Can the real wrestler avoid that sneaky move long enough to outwrestle that little snake???" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nature Boy Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 I always feel like Miz would've benefited from a Honky Tonk Man style reign as WWE Champion. There's NO WAY he should've been booked to even try to be strong. It also probably hurt him that his first championship feud was against JERRY LAWLER of all people. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bourdain Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Miz is the special combo of average stature and weak looking offense. Nothing he does looks like it hurts. When he was rising up the ranks he got by with his mouth. Once he was put in the main event the top guys looked silly selling for him. Pretty much described Punk there 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 I kind of like the corner clothesline thing. it might be the only move any WWE guy does that's actually helped by the shitty camerawork. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Z Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 I always feel like Miz would've benefited from a Honky Tonk Man style reign as WWE Champion. There's NO WAY he should've been booked to even try to be strong. It also probably hurt him that his first championship feud was against JERRY LAWLER of all people. The Lawler feud was a ton of fun, and a great callback to when Lawler was one of top stars of the 80's in Memphis. Both guys did a great job of creating scenarios where you could easily suspend disbelief and picture Lawler in his prime at the Mid-South Coliseum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nature Boy Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 I always feel like Miz would've benefited from a Honky Tonk Man style reign as WWE Champion. There's NO WAY he should've been booked to even try to be strong. It also probably hurt him that his first championship feud was against JERRY LAWLER of all people. The Lawler feud was a ton of fun, and a great callback to when Lawler was one of top stars of the 80's in Memphis. Both guys did a great job of creating scenarios where you could easily suspend disbelief and picture Lawler in his prime at the Mid-South Coliseum. It was great in a bubble, but I don't think the average WWE fan even knows that the Mid-South Coliseum exists. All they saw was the old announcer guy who used to be a wrestler beating up the WWE Champion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Z Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 I always feel like Miz would've benefited from a Honky Tonk Man style reign as WWE Champion. There's NO WAY he should've been booked to even try to be strong. It also probably hurt him that his first championship feud was against JERRY LAWLER of all people. The Lawler feud was a ton of fun, and a great callback to when Lawler was one of top stars of the 80's in Memphis. Both guys did a great job of creating scenarios where you could easily suspend disbelief and picture Lawler in his prime at the Mid-South Coliseum. It was great in a bubble, but I don't think the average WWE fan even knows that the Mid-South Coliseum exists. All they saw was the old announcer guy who used to be a wrestler beating up the WWE Champion. I remember them doing a good job of promoting Lawler's past and pushing the idea of one final run for Lawler in gaining the major national title he never held (and while I really liked his 1988 AWA title win over Hennig, that was not a major title at that point). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Wasn't the deal that he never even had a WWE Title shot before that or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nature Boy Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 i think you're underestimating how much the average fan would've bought Lawler as a WWE Championship threat. Regardless of what WWE tried to tell its audience, we were still watching an old man beat up the WWE Champion. I'm not even sure if Ric Flair could've pulled off being a credible title feud at that point. A one off match is fine but dragging it into a feud was a bit much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 It was either that or prolong the feud with Orton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nature Boy Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 It was either that or prolong the feud with Orton. The Lawler thing could've been salvaged if they had bothered to book him as something more than an afterthought in his own WrestleMania main event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristobal Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Lawler looked like a credible threat against Miz. Do you think he would have looked that way against Cena, Orton, Punk, etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebbie Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 1) Don't any of y'all pretend your weren't rooting the fuck out Lawler to beat the Miz. Your Miz hate had nothing to do with it. It was more Lawler proving why he is still a king in Memphis. 2) WWE.com has their yearly "Let's remind people of what a bad ass Wade Barrrett is in real life by showing off his horrible scar and story" reminder up. http://www.wwe.com/inside/the-scars-of-the-superstars/ Man, some of those scars are for pussies. Some of them are products of stupid shit done in matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Cool article. I feel like the editor should've fixed Dean's entry, to make it 1997. You know, to save face there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 I wonder how much Barrett is kayfabing that back story if at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 I had no clue Ryder had cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Why do I feel like Miz's title run exposed him and ruined his career? I don't remember him being as awful or hated before he won the WWE Championship. He wasn't bad before he won the title. I don't know what it was, but after he lost the title he became terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Lawler should have gotten a one day title reign out of the Miz feud, but WWE has no guts. And he would have looked credible because Lawler is an all time great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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