RIPPA Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 3 minutes ago, The Natural said: Usually Money in the Bank is June, July time. They announced a few months ago that they had flipped Money in the Bank and Backlash - hence why MITB is now May 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyWhioux Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 1 minute ago, Craig H said: I had a similar experience. The shit that Graves was saying really made me think that this was Vince trying to portray these dudes as actual vikings that arrived here from the past. So to me, that's their gimmick. They're actual vikings. This is why I think that they're only months away from having a dumb as fuck eating contest against Otis before permanently entering jobberville. I mean, if they want to surprise me by proving me wrong, then hey, more power to them. Also, maybe it's me being a little overly sensitive after watching the wedding Rowe and Sarah had, but saddling them with this real vikings gimmick just feels super insulting. It's a little punk-ish in that there's a lot of DIY to it, but they do a lot of shit outdoors, the culture is clearly important to them, and all Vince can do is just portray them as some LARPers or something. Vince's long history of rib gimmicks based on people's real lives justifies your sensitivity 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 3 minutes ago, West Newbury Bad Boy said: I'm stunned they're running that Shield thing on Sunday. Ain't nobody got time for that. Well again - they were already running the RAW and SDL house shows - they are just airing the Shield match (and the Finn Balor IC title defense) as filler It does seem like an intentional strategy to do "live" programming on Sunday nights since they did When World's Collide on Sunday night, now this (to go along with the PPVs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Swift Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 This thread is moving fast. Samoa Joe is absolutely a dumb name. Think of the equivalents - America Terry, or Canada Bret. If they had brought Cesaro in as Switzerland Claudio you'd all be laughing your asses off. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Just now, Swiftian said: This thread is moving fast. Samoa Joe is absolutely a dumb name. Think of the equivalents - America Terry, or Canada Bret. If they had brought Cesaro in as Switzerland Claudio you'd all be laughing your asses off. You say that as if America Terry isn't an amazing name. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Swiss Tony is a great name 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 3 minutes ago, Raziel said: You say that as if America Terry isn't an amazing name. If you're making a Japanese wrestling video game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 1 minute ago, Swiftian said: If you're making a Japanese wrestling video game. You still haven't dissuaded me yet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Hero Morganti Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 4 minutes ago, RIPPA said: Swiss Tony is a great name Agreed. It's even his Upupdowndown handle. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 America Terry would be an amazing CMLL rudo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 I like that in the process of trying to show that Samoa Joe is a dumb name, you gave us other good names. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Netherlands Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caley Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 36 minutes ago, Craig H said: Graves said something along the lines of, "these guys are really vikings! They make their own weapons and eat raw meat!" I sat there after hearing what was obviously fed to him and thought it was the dumbest thing I ever heard. Don’t forget that they make their own clothes ! That said, the name is dumb, we all agree. But it’s not going to hurt them any. It reminds me of When Strowman debuted and you guys spent interminable week’s mocking the name. And did it hurt him? Once he started doing cool things, everyone forgot about how much they mocked the name and went right along with it. Most WWE tag names are dumb really. Authors of Pain made some sense with Ellering but mostly sounded like pissed-off self-publishers. The Bar is taken from a truck commercial. The Revival sounds like a Southern Baptist pray-a-thon. The New Day is bad too. But they all did well enough that people accepted them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 10 minutes ago, Dewar said: America Terry would be an amazing CMLL rudo. America was pretty great with CMLL backinaday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Club America knockoff wrestler >>> Chivas knockoff wrestlers. Germany Wally New Zealand Fale Japan Okada Guam Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf&Subs Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Oh crap I just saw clips of The Viking Experience. That name does not roll off the tongue at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Ireland Stephen. India Dalip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 43 minutes ago, RIPPA said: Holy Shit - Money in the Bank isn't until May 19???? God that is gonna be a whole lotta filler May 19? We know who's coming back for MITB, don't we? 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted April 16, 2019 Author Share Posted April 16, 2019 2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said: May 19? We know who's coming back for MITB, don't we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overly Critical Man Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 28 minutes ago, Raziel said: You say that as if America Terry isn't an amazing name. That is an awesome name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 2 minutes ago, caley said: Don’t forget that they make their own clothes ! That said, the name is dumb, we all agree. But it’s not going to hurt them any. It reminds me of When Strowman debuted and you guys spent interminable week’s mocking the name. And did it hurt him? Once he started doing cool things, everyone forgot about how much they mocked the name and went right along with it. Most WWE tag names are dumb really. Authors of Pain made some sense with Ellering but mostly sounded like pissed-off self-publishers. The Bar is taken from a truck commercial. The Revival sounds like a Southern Baptist pray-a-thon. The New Day is bad too. But they all did well enough that people accepted them. I sometimes regret starting the whole Space Mutiny thing for Braun on here, but Cristobal or someone else put together a list of all the names we came up with and I thought, man, I'm so proud of you all. Even still, Braun Strowman was a BAD name per se. It felt like it was a randomly generated name, but it was still ok. The tag team names you mentioned all sound fine to me. The Revival is the revival of good tag team wrestling. No one thought the New Day gimmick was bad, people reacted to them like the heels they were, and I think I first saw it on here but someone said that Kofi and Xavier were doing too good of a job of being heels that they would inadvertently turn themselves face, which is exactly what happened. The name was fine, the gimmick was shit especially because they were supposed to be faces at first. The Authors of Pain did make more sense when Paul Ellering was their manager, but it's still a pretty metal sounding name in the vein of the Legion of Doom or the Road Warriors. I'm not aware of the truck commercial you're referring to for The Bar, but I remember when they came up with that name they mentioned grabbing the brass ring and setting the bar and then said that they are The Bar, so in that sense, that makes sense. The Viking Experience is just actively bad, especially when coupled with Corey's explanation of them. Even weirder was how much Corey and Cole went out of their way to not mention they were the War Raiders in NXT. And I guess this is where the double standard comes into play...If these guys came over from WCW and their name was the War Raiders over there, I could understand calling them the Viking Experience and going out of your way to avoid referencing who they were before. But that's not the case though. They came over from NXT and beyond saying "you may have seen these guys on NXT," you'd think from how they were announced that Vince wants you to completely forget they came from NXT and who they were before, but it's all the same company. It's just...weird. Even weirder than normal. It's the type of own goal you'd expect from TNA, and now you're seeing it more and more with WWE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Just now, Overly Critical Man said: That is an awesome name. Spike really dropped the ball. All those years ago they could have named Hulk Hogan "American Terry." 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overly Critical Man Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 13 minutes ago, caley said: That said, the name is dumb, we all agree. But it’s not going to hurt them any. It reminds me of When Strowman debuted and you guys spent interminable week’s mocking the name. And did it hurt him? Once he started doing cool things, everyone forgot about how much they mocked the name and went right along with it. He’s still Barack Sandwiches to me, damnit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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