Phantom Lord 1,454 Posted March 22 6 hours ago, L_W_P said: If Daniel Bryan is Ric Flair then Mustafa Ali should be his Steamboat. Also; Harper as his Luger. Ricochet as his Sting Owens as his Dusty Strowman as his Vader Since Owens is now the "common man" since he goes bowling and uses a stunner, I'd be all for him bringing back the bullrope match. I'm sure there's some Canadian gimmick they could do with it. Strowman as Vader just proves my theory that his finisher should be the powerbomb. Strowman doing like Sid & Vader and just decimating jobber after jobber. He would just need a Harley Race or Col. Parker to gleefully bring a stretcher down to ringside. One thing that annoyed me about the gauntlet match while I was watching it. I was like why the hell is Kofi trying to out wrestle people? He should have been going for Trouble In Paradise right off the bat with Sheamus and instead he wrestled like 20 minutes with him. The whole match was just bizarre in that regard. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
West Newbury Bad Boy 9,273 Posted March 22 (edited) 12 hours ago, Phantom Lord said: Since Owens is now the "common man" since he goes bowling and uses a stunner, I'd be all for him bringing back the bullrope match. I'm sure there's some Canadian gimmick they could do with it. Excuse me! Canada has both bulls and dumb cowboy games! We know what bullropes are! Edited March 22 by West Newbury Bad Boy 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peachchaos 23 Posted March 22 any excuse to get Owens to carry a cowbell around is acceptable tbh Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mystman 197 Posted March 22 Kevin Owens in a cowboy hat is money. Guaranteed. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RonL21 527 Posted March 22 On 3/20/2019 at 3:39 PM, jaedmc said: I don't really care for the racial direction just because it discounts some important moments in history, while at the same time not acknowledging the current state of the titles. Mark Henry and Booker T were world champions. But I guess those don't count because it wasn't the WWE title. So from this perspective we're acknowledging the truth that the world heavyweight title was lesser than the RAW title. Which is fine, I guess, but sucks for those guys who felt like they did something special. To be fair, if you include WCW and both versions of ECW, along with WWF/E the only Black world champions have been Ron SImmons, The Rock, Booker T, Mark Henry, Bobby Lashley, and Ezekiel Jackson. And including Jackson is generous since the ECW Title was discontinued the same night he won it. That's only 6 world champions in nearly 110 years total of product and only Ron Simmons and the Rock had what was considered that "A" belt 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eivion 2,514 Posted March 22 (edited) 1 hour ago, RonL21 said: To be fair, if you include WCW and both versions of ECW, along with WWF/E the only Black world champions have been Ron SImmons, The Rock, Booker T, Mark Henry, Bobby Lashley, and Ezekiel Jackson. And including Jackson is generous since the ECW Title was discontinued the same night he won it. That's only 6 world champions in nearly 110 years total of product and only Ron Simmons and the Rock had what was considered that "A" belt Only if you focus on the US and men. You could add three more if you include the AJW's WWWA World Title which Sandy Parker, Amazing Kong, and Aja Kong held. Edited March 22 by Eivion Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GodzillaPerez 620 Posted March 22 2 hours ago, mystman said: Kevin Owens in a cowboy hat is money. Guaranteed. 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Overly Critical Man 3,530 Posted March 22 27 minutes ago, GodzillaPerez said: He looks like the parody Stan Hansen a WWE heel would bring out to make fun of Hansen, who Stan Hansen would then give a lariat to. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
odessasteps 10,987 Posted March 22 21 minutes ago, Overly Critical Man said: He looks like the parody Stan Hansen a WWE heel would bring out to make fun of Hansen, who Stan Hansen would then give a lariat to. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Web Conn 2,452 Posted March 22 (edited) 6 hours ago, peachchaos said: any excuse to get Owens to carry a cowbell around is acceptable tbh I found this on Google. Sheriff Owens is a license to print money. Edited March 23 by Web Conn 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HumanChessgame 2,222 Posted March 23 23 hours ago, West Newbury Bad Boy said: Excuse me! Canada has both bulls and dumb cowboy games! We know what bullropes are! Calgary Stampede Bullrope Match 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nice Guy Eddie 19,144 Posted March 23 2 hours ago, HumanChessgame said: Calgary Stampede Bullrope Match Don't forget that Bret was a cowboy early in his career. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Execproducer 830 Posted March 24 On 3/21/2019 at 4:08 PM, L_W_P said: Strowman as his Vader More like his El Gigante. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brian Fowler 13,105 Posted March 24 12 minutes ago, Execproducer said: More like his El Gigante. Maybe something in the middle of those two... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HumanChessgame 2,222 Posted March 24 1 hour ago, Brian Fowler said: Maybe something in the middle of those two... You mean like a Ye-tay? 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Execproducer 830 Posted March 24 (edited) 2 hours ago, Brian Fowler said: Maybe something in the middle of those two... OK, I'll concede he is better than El Gigante but he isn't anywhere close to Vader. He could qualify as Bryan's broomstick. Edited March 24 by Execproducer 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lawful Metal 1,158 Posted March 24 So ... what's wrong with going ahead and booking a match and just do training montages? Why do we have to have all of these shenanigans? 2 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JonnyLaw 2,680 Posted March 25 5 hours ago, Lawful Metal said: So ... what's wrong with going ahead and booking a match and just do training montages? Why do we have to have all of these shenanigans? Because they have a writing staff. If the writing staff didn’t write stuff, they wouldn’t have jobs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
odessasteps 10,987 Posted March 25 Training montages make it feel too much like real sports. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nice Guy Eddie 19,144 Posted March 25 (edited) 2 hours ago, JonnyLaw said: Because they have a writing staff. If the writing staff didn’t write stuff, they wouldn’t have jobs. Most of what makes air leads me to believe the majority of the writing staff is fingerpainting and eating glue. Edited March 25 by Nice Guy Eddie 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HumanChessgame 2,222 Posted March 25 8 hours ago, Lawful Metal said: So ... what's wrong with going ahead and booking a match and just do training montages? Why do we have to have all of these shenanigans? Because none of those are MOMENTS pal! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Greggulator 3,127 Posted March 25 Because wrestling is a morality play and a soap opera. And a training montage doesn’t really tell a story that can keep viewers wanting to see more on a week to week basis. The Rock and Lesnar has a killier training video segment in 2002. But that was the video used to promote a match that happened after Brock did a lot of heel things (like attack Hogan) to get at Rock. It was a great add-on that built the seriousness of the match, but it wasn’t the feud. The most famous training segment in any medium is the one from the first Rocky film. That was done to build Balboa’s underdog status and to make the audience believe he had a chance. But we saw a bunch of his character and backstory first. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
