Watching Terry Funk's post match promo after the triple threat between him, Shane Douglas and Sabu on WWE Network and it got me thinking.

How would a comedy crying gimmick go over in 2014? I can't remember it ever being done. I'm talking just a guy who is seemingly normal most of the time who just gets overly emotional at times and cries his eyes out. I can picture a new wrestler coming into Triple H's office and asking for an opportunity and when Triple H is mean to him he slowly starts sobbing while Triple H's scowl goes away slowly and he just looks awkwardly and just asks "Are... are you crying?"

Maybe he gets his first win, gets on the mic and starts crying tears of joy while thanking the crowd. He gets a random win over Curt Hawkins on Superstars and sits in the middle of the ring looking around at the crowd with tears streaming down his face saying "thank you" to the crowd.

I think it would get over as a comedy character in a Eugene, so lame you can't help but love him sort of way.

Cryin Bryan when he finally wins the big one

watching the show Strip the City on science channel and it was all about new Orleans and what they've had to do to hurricane proof everything..

I'd mark out if at WM all of a sudden..."Stand back, there's a hurricane coming through.."

Coincidentally Tropical Cyclone Kofi is headed towards the South Pacific nation of Tonga. Not quite fat and white enough to be a typhoon though apparently

Booker T on the Smackdown post-show just now:

"The Shield are like The Temptations. They're all dead but they're still selling out."

... Yep.

"4/10....fucker"

Angle sort of did it

Lol Ryback is tremendous

Agreed.

Still don't wanna see him in the main event of Wrestlemania, though.

Or in WWE at all, for that matter. :foc:

I want to see him bring back Kanye-Batista

Why did they do it on SmackDown? Seems like that should have waited for Raw. Chances are we get a variation of the same thing there anyway.

"Smackdown-rebound"

Seeing JR's tweet about his "evening with Jim Ross" shows tonight made me look into what he was doing. The fact he had to kill some inbred puppies with a hammer when he was a kid was an interesting story that he probably doesn't need to tell again.

For those who have forgotten this little gem existed:

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this was just an amazing match

New Japan vs UWF in an Elimination Match from 1986
(New Japan = Antonio Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami, Kengo Kimura, Kantaro Hoshino & Umanosuke Ueda) (UWF = Akira Maeda, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Osamu Kido, Nobuhiko Takada & Kazuo Yamazaki)

Elimination occurs by pinfall, submission, or being thrown to the floor.

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Daniel Bryan's "yes" movement essentially started this way. Over-reacting to everything. Just no tears.

Watching the German edit of SmackDown right now. Can anybody tell me why they edit the order of the segments?

Looks like they like to start with a match, which is fine if it doesn't fuck with the chronology of the story they're trying to tell. For example, this episode went straight from the intro into an announcement that Ziggler stepped up to take that challenge of Batista and that the match had been made official via the app. We then went into the Big E/Henry vs. Real Americans tag match. Following that we launched into the opening segment with the commentators tell is where we are this week, Batista enters, cuts his promo, then Ziggler comes out to accept the challenge that we'd already been told about at the start of the show.

Any German fans out there able to explain it? Surely they've noticed that the chronology is all over the place.

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A: It would go over BIG

I bet Daniel Bryan can't pull that off :shifty:

It was really good. Heel Batista is the best heel in the past decade. I love that "boo hoo" face he makes to the fans. Lol it's really great and he's gonna get major heat from the fans.

I highly dislike the flowers on Batista's back.

Check your rep, jack!

(Should have said "jock" instead of "Jack")

Scott Hall apparently made a Chris Benoit joke on Twitter.....link below

http://blogs.canoe.ca/slam/sports/sc...-go-over-well/

Gotta be honest -- didn't really dig Batista's SmackDown promo as much as everyone else seems to. I think the character is a move in the right direction. Do they turn Orton de facto face now? Considering how weak he is portrayed as a heel, it may not be a bad idea. Will the fans still shit on it at WrestleMania XXX? Probably.

Just watched it myself. Personally loved it. Per usual, Heeltista's digs about the fans needing to go back to their jobs at Hot Topic and liking some of the 190 pound wanna be's because they "look like me" lol. Good stuff.

If Daniel Bryan isn't shoehorned into the main event, Orton may in fact be turned face by default. Can't say I'm excited about it.

It was just perfect. People are going to hate him. When was the last time a heel got real heat?

Triple H was a pretty dastardly bastard back in the late 90s/2000. May be the last time. Heel Batista is going to be fucking amazing if they let him continue to rip the fans. Especially if he uses the patented Gertner "basement dwelling virgin" material.

I think a lot of this may be worked. I'm not trying to put on a conspiracy theorist hat, but Cena will want to be ready to go by WrestleMania time. I'm sure he can understand taking it easy for a few weeks so that he can have a big match with Bray Wyatt at WrestleMania. Cena will be good to go and the injury will add drama.

Fucking Cena. Groin tear takes pro athletes out for weeks if not months.

I hope, anyway. Poor John if he is indeed hurt. I've really been digging him since his return from injury last year and without him holding the WWE Title. It seems like he's got something to prove to himself. Would love to see him work with not only Bray Wyatt, but Luke Harper as well.

I'd put Wyatt over Cena at WrestleMania in a No Holds Barred Match after Wyatt breaks his word and has Harper and Rowan attack Cena as it looks like Wyatt can't quite put him down. Cena wants another shot at that treacherous Wyatt, but Bray makes Cena go through both Erick Rowan and Luke Harper en route to a match with him. Perhaps Cena even faces both in a Handicap Match at Extreme Rules and wins by the skin of his teeth so he can get Wyatt inside Hell in a Cell. You could even have Wyatt attack Cena as it looks liek The Family have him beaten, and Wyatt can claim that he wants to take Cena to Hell with him.

<font color=goldenrod>Orton going face again seems like a terrible idea, he's just not a natural face and he's been rather outspoken about how he hates playing the face role. He's way better at being a heel, he's just been booked badly during this Authority angle.

But they probably have no other choice since Orton vs. Batista does seem like it will happen and one of them has to be the face. I just can't see them adding a stip to Bryan/HHH to make it a triple threat, Bryan didn't even mention wanting to be the champion once during Raw and only cares about making HHH tap.

Punk is probably the only other guy that could be shoehorned in to the title match. I think meeting his final goal of being in a WM main event would be enough to get him to come back, but really what kind of message would it send that the guy who walked out and basically acted like a baby got his way? Not gonna happen.</font>

If Cena can work, he's more than likely going to face both Harper and Rowan in singles matches prior to Mania. As much as I'd love to see a no holds barred match where Bray somehow goes over, we all know the chances of Cena jobbing to Bray at Mania are slim and none. Probably not going to happen.

With that said, as long as it's a good match, I could give a shit. Cena feuding outside of the title scene is always refreshing.

Don't think Punk getting into the main event at Mania makes sense, even if he does come back. The Triple H match made a ton of sense, but that's clearly not going to happen now.

I just don't see why people love Orton as a heel. While he can have some solid matches, I just can't stand his heel persona. It's boring. The methodical, walking in circles around his opponent for 20 minutes, with tons of rest holds, is boring. His last face run, starting at the end of Legacy through his turn this past Summer Slam, I thought was his best collection of work. He's too boring as a heel for me.

The only way I see them turning Orton heel is for HHH to turn on him in favour of Batista, but that kinda puts him in the role Bryan should be playing and I'm not sure the fans will role with it.

I agree with Orton, by and large, being a very boring heel. He spent a lot of time as a face being directionless, but he was so fucking good in the ring as a face. Yes, a lot of his stuff becomes routine, but then again, so does Daniel Bryan's. When he's with the right opponent, Orton can shuffle his shit up and make it compelling. I'm not sure Batista is that opponenet, but whatever.

Daniel Bryan will probably be added if the fans don't get white-hot for Orton right away.

Orton hasn't exactly been the favored the son of the Authority. And, prior to the recent sucking up, he has been pretty anti authority himself, in a whiny, bitchy sort of way. I dunno. If the plan was for him to eventually turn on the Authority, seems kind of rushed to do it now.

Tweener/Face Viper was fucking awesome when he has his fueds with Christian/Mark Henry. After he dropped the belt to Henry, he floated to his eventual MITB win/current title run.

Agree with Vito about Orton has been better when he's a heel/tweener than as a face although also agree with Noid about this heel run for him being pretty bad overall.

He's had some great matches during this run but the whole Authority stuff has been a big mess for him and basically everyone else not Triple H or Steph.

Assuming Batista really is turning heel, best would be to shift Orton as a tweener and Bryan stays as the face for the on-going Authority storyline. Less risk of another "Big Show" moment occurring to Bryan again and Orton can go all in with his Viper persona.

Goddammit, I thought I was the only one. The way he played with the crowd as a face was fucking fantastic. This current heel run has been pretty bad (I'd put most of the blame on the booking being absolute shit) but just go back and watch his matches on Raw during that spell when he was without a story against guys like Jack Swagger and David Otunga. His "cocky face" mannerisms and the way he'd get the crowd going despite having nothing at all to do character-wise was amazing. Especially near the end of the match when he'd start leading up toward the RKO.

Jeff Jarrett & Kevin Lawler
-Kevin is of course Jerry's other son who wrestled and refereed
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I can see WWE teasing a Orton face turn only to wipe it out immediately after the match with Batista, Orton getting another "See, I can make you people love me any time I want" moment.

How about this for an idea:

* Daniel Bryan keeps campaigning for a match against Triple H at WrestleMania XXX.

* Randy Orton keeps developing suspicions that The Authority wants to back Batista as The Face of WWE.

* Triple H, on a whim, gives Orton & The New Age Outlaws a six-man tag against Daniel Bryan & The Usos. If Bryan and The Usos win, Bryan gets Triple H at Mania and Jimmy & Jey get a Tag Team Title match. Orton turns on Billy Gunn during the match and hits him with an RKO. Road Dogg asks him what the hell he is doing and gets an RKO for his trouble too.

Orton essentially turns on The Authority before they have a chance to turn on him. He doesn't change his character, he simply lashes out against the bad guys -- reminding everyone of everything he's done and how he doesn't need any back-up. Triple H is fuming against Orton, and Randy says "Let's be honest, Hunter -- the reason you're mad at me right now is because you know, like I know...you can't beat Daniel Bryan."

Orton putting Bryan over as the toughest opponent he has ever wrestled is an instant way to get him face momentum.

Orton could even beat Batista at WrestleMania and keep his World Title reign going until Bryan ends it.

You're not the only one. I was a huge mark for face Orton. His mannerisms, move set, and ability to sell like crazy for heels made him amazing, even when he wasn't doing anything. And, like you said, he controlled the crowd beautifully.

His recent booking has been shit. He's been made to look like a God damned fluke, who whines and bitched and complains and scrapes by. Is this the worst heel title run going into Mania since 2002 Y2J?

Pretty ok Dolph Ziggler promo from the WWE App on Friday: http://www.wwe.com/videos/playlists/...es-feb-28-2014

Jesus, Husky looks like Jack Black there for some reason.

"I DO NOT NEED.... A MICROPHONE... MY VOICE IS FUCKIN'... POWERFUL!!!"


Also, came the the realisation that I have compared The Shield in street clothes to the Beastie Boys on more than one occasion.

3MB has a truly great theme. Why did they put so much effort into something that they clearly have no plans for? Crank this shit, seriously.

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I like you, Noid, but your perception is seriously askew.

Would it have been better if Bobby Eaton or Doug Basham cut the same promo?

Really think Regal could have made the jump to the main event during this period. This could have been the start of something great.

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Val Venis.

I agree with Hanso on Regal. That was a great time for him.

Also, another great theme for no reason:

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Fun fact: I used Axel's theme as my alarm today and did his pose when I woke up.

Lol Axel's theme has been my ringtone for a month

Seriously though...how can Big E have such a wack ass theme/name and they apparently love him...but 3MB and Axel get some serious jams? Makes little sense to me.

los matadores' theme is also great

Would be real funny if they made the main event of mania a triple threat by inserting Alberto Del Rio in it since he beat Batista on Raw.

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up there with WrestleMania 3, turning heel and pinning Sheiky for Hogan right here

Feel like I should watch this every day when I wake up.

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4MBrother

That was the best 12 minutes of my life

I just remember thinking that a "Dastardly Evil Man" like Regal being that same heel character but as a face fighting for something good (like Eugene) was such a brilliant change.

thats sort of what worked for Orton as a face.

Tank Abbott sold it the best to be honest. :lol:

did i miss the tipsters results for elimination chamber?

I loved the multi color reversible vests. But that early stuff was god awful.

Don't remember that

Diesel style bro.

Fucking Hogan looks like a wax statue from Madam Tussauds.

that's him in hd

I've died an gone to heaven

Punk is supposedly showing up on Raw.

If he does, they should take the time to have fun with it.

Barrett should come out to Punk's theme and have some bad news..

AJ Styles should change the name of his finisher to "The English Neckbreaker" :shifty:

SummerSlam tickets go on sale next Saturday. Excited to get them.

That's awesome, is there a story behind this?

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Another one injured because of a botched Styles Clash...

That sucks. Although, it seems like if anyone is to blame for a botched clash it's the guy taking it.

Someone with training school me on this if I'm wrong.

Looks like that guys head got knocked off

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Yeah, both guys taking the Clash were blame for the botches. Roderick Strong was hurt in January too, but that was clearly Strongs fault as he tucked his head at the last minute for whetever reason.

Lionheart was the latest victim, neck broken in two places last night, I believe.

http://www.tnawrestlingnews.com/head...yles-involved/

The guy can now rip off Kurts "broken freakin neck" routine

I will say this much...I always thought the Clash was a bit of an unimpressive way to end his matches. Especially back when he was super flippy-McHighspot. A lot of his move-list is more high-impact and visually appealing than the clash.

Yeah, my presonal fave was the Peyley kick out of nowhere.

I remember it was in one of the smackdown vs raw games and it was super weak even as a finisher

OH MY GOD YES.

Seriously it doesnt look like it hurts at all. Sure thats me sitting on my couch. But to watch him kick out of a canadian destroyer then hit a 450 splash and then a pele kick and then a "Air something flippy of the top" and then to end it with the Styles Clash? No thank you.

The only time I like it was it was a Smackdown vs Raw 2004 move I could give my CAW that had a built in PIN animation.

Hey fuck you I didnt read this before my post.

Eat a fatty! It was kick ass for 3 way matches!