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So what's the Miz's new finisher going to be since Rollins killed it by kicking out of it twice after Miz hit it clean twice? Also how dumb is Nia Jax that she went for a second rope version of her finisher when just doing the regular version worked?

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35 minutes ago, Brysynner said:

Also how dumb is Nia Jax that she went for a second rope version of her finisher when just doing the regular version worked? 

Seemed kind of obvious she was trying to do a repeat punishment of Alexa like she did at WM only for it to be used against her.

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1 hour ago, JCM said:

 In 1997 WWE was fighting for their survival against WCW. In 2018 they have no competition, and are coming off their most profitable year ever.

Even after the Rock's last run in 2002 when he started getting boos, they turned him heel again. Then again, Heyman was one of the bookers at the time. That was how we got that Rock heel run in 2003. 

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43 minutes ago, Brysynner said:

So what's the Miz's new finisher going to be since Rollins killed it by kicking out of it twice after Miz hit it clean twice? Also how dumb is Nia Jax that she went for a second rope version of her finisher when just doing the regular version worked?

I don't know. What should Cena's new finisher be since everyone kicks out of at least 1 AA?

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On 5/3/2018 at 11:09 AM, West Newbury Bad Boy said:

I'm just getting the popcorn ready for when non-title Roman matches close over AJ's world title matches. Maybe not this Sunday, but soon. 

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Thank you, Drama Gods. 

Loved the opener. Seth is on some kind of tear right now, and Miz is also fantastic. I bought the second Skull Crushing Finale even though I knew Miz had no chance. Really good stuff.

17 hours ago, Rick said:

But he'll send Alexa away for a tit job in the name of empowerment

Wow. Also: Inaccurate. 

So I look at every Daniel Bryan match these days as kind of a Christmas present. They're special to me and there's always a lot of anticipation. Well, this match against Cass was socks. 

AJ vs Nak was also really good. Long, but it came across as very, very physical. And I thought it was nice of them to wrestle their match in loving memory of Yadier Molina, right down to ball shots keeping both men from competing. 

Sami wanting to run off and KO trying to convince him to stay and fight has to be the start of a long-overdue Owens face turn, right? Please? As far as potential top faces go, I think anti-authority Fight Owens Fight has some real potential (even though we'd likely have to suffer through more evil GM/commissioner shenanigans). 

Roman vs Joe seemed fine, but I was out of it after the fuck finish to AJ-Nak. Their matches on Raw have always been pretty good. Maybe I'll watch one of those later.

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That's a point that was discussed on WOR when Dave talked about the financials. WWE is at a point where they don't have to cater to their audience. They've been doing whatever they've wanted to do for awhile now and they've never done better. To them, if subscriber numbers keep going up and they keep making more money then why change what they're doing?

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5 minutes ago, Wyld Samurai said:

It's really just them being free to write their own story. If JK Rowling listened to her fans then you'd have a vastly different ending to Harry Potter.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the entire WWE creative staff, including Vince, is about 1/10th as talented as J. K. Rowling is when it comes to crafting a story and that's being generous.

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Going back to my last comment about the strength coaches - It's really weird to me that 5 matches on the card all had 'selling the knee' as a plot point.

Jeff (probably legit) hurting his knee/leg to sacrifice himself trying to win.

Alexa & Bryan both 'chopping down' their bigger opponent.

Charlotte & Rollins both 'tweaking/jarring' their knee and it playing into the finish.

Aren't the agents all supposed to sit down and work that out? Its one of the scenes I remember most about The Wrestler when one team are all "Oh you guys are working the leg?". Another sign of a poorly constructed show with no real communication or flow in the booking.

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43 minutes ago, Craig H said:

That's a point that was discussed on WOR when Dave talked about the financials. WWE is at a point where they don't have to cater to their audience. They've been doing whatever they've wanted to do for awhile now and they've never done better. To them, if subscriber numbers keep going up and they keep making more money then why change what they're doing?

*See WCW

Eventually the ball will drop. the audience will eventually go away and it will be very difficult to come back. Theres a large portion of WCW's audience that never came back. My old man is one of them. He stopped watching after they cut Flairs hair in June of 2000 and he hasn't watched regularly since.

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2 minutes ago, Web Conn said:

*See WCW

Eventually the ball will drop. the audience will eventually go away and it will be very difficult to come back. Theres a large portion of WCW's audience that never came back. My old man is one of them. He stopped watching after they cut Flairs hair in June of 2000 and he hasn't watched regularly since.

Not even when he lost a "kiss my ass" match to Dusty? That was such a modern take on old school it was absolutely fantastic.

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2 minutes ago, Wyld Samurai said:

OOC- Why would people be trying to access old shows?

Not old shows - the radio show that he and Alvarez did post PPV (And then I am guessing Alvarez did another show later in the day if they followed their normal schedule)

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I really don't get the "Rollins was carried" argument, since that match was like exactly the same as every other Rollins babyface match. No one's giving him credit for leaning into Miz's strikes (which are normally pretty light) or making the SCF look good which hardly anyone can do either. Saying Rollins was carried is perhaps even more idiotic than the non-existent people saying Miz was carried. Both guys brought it and it clicked for one of the better main roster matches of the year.

That was about the only thing worth a damn on this show too. Both women's matches were bad for the first time in a while on WWE ppv. The Nia babyface experiment isn't going well several weeks in, and Carmella hasn't improved in the ring since NXT. Alexa being hurt might be a blessing in disguise since it seems like the only way to get her away from the title for a while and potentially allows her to come back with a long overdue face turn.

I don't think anyone is surprised at WWE misusing Roode, but did anyone have him pegged as a smiling dancing babyface?

The low blow escalation in the AJ/Nak feud is so ridiculous I'm expecting them to recreate the torture scene from Casino Royale to escalate to their (hopefully) blowoff match.

I'm gonna take it that Raw's two best heels, top face, and a freshly-returned big name all being in a throwaway tag match isn't a good sign for the future of the show.

Roman/Joe would've been great without the 15 minutes of restholds despite no one caring about Roman. They can believably refer to the ref not calling him out in the choke as a make-up call from TGRR.

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The "Rollins was carried" argument is almost as dumb as the Bryan Alvarez's of the world that think everyone is carrying Miz in the last 2 years.  Both groups need to be locked in the Observer message board and stuck there 

 

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Let me make sure that I understand this correctly, the year is 2018 and we have progressed to bitching about there being too much wrestling in our now free PPV (formerly $29.95). It's a funny old world, ain't it?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

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