Not blaming AJ, just explaining my apathy as a fan towards it and why I think it is stupid booking.

He is a breath of fresh air and 38 years old. His time should be now. 3 straight PPV losses off the bat and straight into a feud with Cena.

That's gotta be crazy for Rollins considering 10 years ago..

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Well yeah no doubt, but let's get realistic here, they have what they want to do and how they want to do things, and as a performer like AJ Styles, you can either sink or swim... which means hanging in there while they fuck you over with bad writing. We all know Stephanie or Shane will be making "The Club" look weak within the month but all you can do is ignore that drivel and hope for some good segments.

CyNick doesn't post here anymore so we don't have someone trying to convince us how much of a genius Vince and Stephanie are so we don't need to bring out how befuddling the creative direction is. You're at a 1/5 success rate with the company, but that one out of the five can be pretty alright.

Come on man, that doesn't sound Dastardly at all, that sounds like Defeated Dale Newstead :$

I wasn't a big Daniel Bryan fan, but if it showed one thing, it is that the fans can win out. I hope Reigns continues to be booed, he is a terrible, boring character, a charisma vacuum. He puts me off watching Raw so much.

There is a place for a more polished Reigns in the future, but the time should be now for the guys that are over now. Who knows, if people keep voicing their opinion, we could get something special again soon.

But DB didn't prove that at all. If anything it proved the WWE right in that fans were fickle and would forget about him overnight (which they did.) The "YES!" chants have become a parody that isn't even associated with him or his revolution anymore.

He's retired due to injury. Fans can't YES a clear health. They did not forget about him at all. If anything the YES chants are a permanent reminder of what he did.

He didn't have the look, size, mic skills or any "style" that WWE actively encourage, yet he rose to the point where he was a focus of television and then beat two of the biggest stars of the last 20 years in one night to be the champion of said company.

You can argue about the length of time he would have stayed there if he were fit and healthy, but you can't argue that he didn't reach the top of the tree on the back of the popularity the fans gave him.

Point being, if the fans weren't vocal and just accepted what was happening, his story and wrestling history would have been very different.

Accepting that this is the way it works and just enjoying the scraps in amongst the crap they are serving up, could deny someone like AJ a moment like Bryan's.

Only big concern I have about the Styles-Cena feud is The Club becoming Nexus 2.0 in the sense of losing their first two big feuds back-to-back.

Nexus lost a lot of momentum with the Cena feud and then Orton finished off whatever real value the group had left with the next feud.

With the feud against Reigns, Gallows & Anderson looked more like somewhat useless lackeys than as an Outsider-like group the sheets were teasing the WWE planned for their debut and group formation.

they already are useless lackeys

Even after he won the title the second he lost it fans started getting less and less involved. You started seeing more an more "haters" popping up all over the place, and the chants got less and less prevalent. By the time that Roman won the Rumble people were broken to the point that they didn't even care anymore. That all happened before he retired, dude. WWE proved that they could break the fans will with Bryan. They bent for a bit, but as soon as they were able WWE crushed the little "revolution" and went back to their old ways without a single fuck given. Same thing happened to Cesaro and Ambrose to lesser degrees. All the Daniel Bryan experiment proved was that in the end WWE always gets what they want.

As for the YES! chants they have nothing to do with what Bryan did anymore. People chant them for anything they remotely like now. Hell, they chant YES! for people that embody exactly what Bryan's movement stood against. Even Roman has elicited YES! chants in the past.

I'm not arguing that Bryan didn't accomplish some amazing things in his career, but to say his little revolution succeeded is just false. It barely got him over the hump, and it hasn't helped anyone else reach that level either.

I think they're good so they'll get good reactions, but WWE booking jobs anyone that isn't their own... so there couldn't be a solid outsider faction

People will never get behind AJ the way they did Bryan. Hell, I'd be willing to bet we'll never see another phenomenon like what we saw with Bryan again (at least not for a very long time.) What happened with him was a fluke, an oddity. Mainstream wrestling fans are too complacent and stupid to change long term.

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Will you feel the same way when Styles beats Cena at MITB and then Cena gets his win back at Battleground and then they trade some tag match wins back and forth on Raw/Smackdown and then at SummerSlam we get the OMG RUBBER MATCH!?!?!

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Lol, yes, a million times yes:lol:

Come on guys, we know Cena wins the 7 rubber matches than the 3-1 handicap match vs the club

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This is for those of you who trash talk backyard wrestling...

And it is still trash.

Oh come on it's high quality entertainment.......For the five people watching

Should have replaced Rassling Q&A Forum with Backyard Rassling Forum

You misspelled "Backyard Gymnastics" mate.

PPV: Cena will win by DQ
PPV 2: Cena will win by Pinfall
PPV 3, 2 out of 3 falls: AJ gets pinned and submits.

Artistic Combat

getting tired of all this backyard shit in here.....

lol just try not address it, it may go away

Why does it always have to have awful music? Maybe if you changed it from Death-core to classical music, more people might be forthcoming of it.

Nah, it's always going to be trash, just a bunch of dangerous dicks looking to break others necks with some flippy floppy twirly move.

Nice of him to just stand there on the ropes waiting forthe move.

Maybe he lost a contact lens.

Oh, hang on.

I almost agree with this. Since PPV 3 is SummerSlam, I can't see them going 2/3 Falls. But I think a Cena DQ win is the only way to book MITB.

Sadly I give The Shining Stars the same amount of time. I think they are great talent, but the WWE hasn't known how to use talent from that region in the world in a long time.

KIKCOUT AT TWOOOOOO

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lol what the hell

ONE TWO HE GOT HEEEEEM NO HE DIDN'T

Too much backyard, not enough backside.

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Ricochet VS Will Ospreay II
Vader finally approves.

I enjoy that booty :)

As for the back yard wreslters, the guy landed feet first.

Some say his new gimmick is "El Hijo de Zack Gowen"

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The vast majority?

Do you realize it is 2016? There are 9 year olds who can google search "asian blonde anal gangbang with carrots" and incur accurate results and get educated on that particular subject.

If you really think that people who have seen AJ Styles in WWE and have liked his shit (who hasn't?) ARE NOT going online and pulling up his old infamous indie/TNA matches, then you're crazy.

My previous post not withstanding, I do agree with you on this. AJ should not be losing as much as he is. Frankly, they should not have turned him heel so soon into his initial run, as he was easily the biggest face in the company up until a couple weeks ago. I guess that's the point though. No one can overshadow Reigns.

Not saying most fans aren't on the internet, but have you see the numbers TNA draw?

Lots of fans are interested in the here and now of WWE, but I think it is fair to say, and obvious to look at numbers, that the vast majority don't watch wrestling outside WWE.

Sure, some are probably looking at a few older matches out of interest, but I would still maintain that the vast majority know 90% of AJ Styles from how he has been presented in the WWE.

Even if they did look at matches from the past, it would have little to no effect on how they perceive him in WWE.

I'm also iffy on the timing of the AJ heel turn and putting him back with The Club so soon. The more I think about it, the more I think that Ric Flair should still be with Charlotte too. Jason Agnew had a great point about it on one of The LAW's podcasts. Charlotte is already a heel and getting great heat. The Charlotte/Dana dynamic worked better with Flair in there too.

fun fact, one of the original co-hosts of the LAW (this is literally from like 17 years ago) Big Daddy Donnie Abreu was a substitute teacher at my high school as well as a basketball coach in the community. He was also kind of a dickhole.

I think Jason Agnew was either the fill in producer or regular producer when Donnie was on the show.

Jeff Marek used to host it as well with Dan "The Mouth" Lovranski. Jeff went onto become a hockey guy, but he was really fucking good with wrestling... but it was nice ot have a legit sports journalist do wrestling.

The LAW was the reason I became an internet wrestling mark.

Seriously, it was no worse than Lucha Underground.

I've wanted AJ as a heel since he showed up so I thought it was time for the heel turn. Didn't think they were going to do it at first but was happy with how they did it. Totally had me going with the Cena/AJ teaming against Gallows and Anderson and when he attacked Cena it was about the most amusing thing that had been on WWE television for a while. As far as Charlotte I think her leaving her dad was perfect timing. Ric is a legend but he doesn't need to be on TV. Rics been horrible and I'm glad Charlotte dropped him so she can develop more without ripping off her dad so much.

Teddy Long and Smackdown, am I right?

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lol

Of course Punk is fighting somebody named Mickey Gall

Is there a WWE wedding Punk could also ruin? Then they'd be even.

Paul Heyman will have a 1 on 1 interview with Brock Lesnar at in 30 minutes on his you tube channel. 7:00 EST


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The problem with AJ being a heel is that he is more popular than the faces when he's in the role. I'm sure it will allow him to be an even better performer, but I'll be surprised if they can keep him booed for a whole calendar year.

Ric Flair has been one of the most entertaining things about WWE television recently for me. I think it makes sense to have him out there and cause distractions that allow Dana to get physically involved.

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My life is now complete.

Is that Tomko?

KICKOUT AT TWOOOOOOO

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Buzz Sawyer?

Another WWF Did You Know

Paul Ellering's puppet "Rocko" in the WWF was originally supposed to be "Freckles"

Cody Rhodes will be part of the Battle of Los Angeles in August.

Some AAA news in regards to the Lucha World Cup:

Holy shit. That might be the greatest sell to a punch I've ever seen.

I'd be fine with Becky Lynch doing training videos with Mick Foley when they do the brand split.

Becky Lynch has quite a fascinating way of running.

Not enough Becky Lynch running GIFs on Google Images.

I know WTF!!

I could make a much better design for free.

Needs the Brazzers logo.

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17 years ago.........

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Here's a great story from the most popular guy in the current locker room apparently.

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Doctor Luke Festus Gallows is my new favorite person.

You're talking to the #1 Festus Fan rn. He's the best and his wife wrestles in ROH, she rocks the Bullet Club attire. That dude has killed at every gimmick he's been given. I hope he gets another singles run to really shine. Karl Anderson looks like a fuckin bald vegan Eugene

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Get that Joey Ryan shit out of here.

This thread is about Doctor Lucas 'Festus' Gallows.

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