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Dunno about Tanahashi switching themes. High Energy is iconic (to puro fans anyway)
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Yeah, I'm with you. When the rest of the cruiserweights and 80% of the rest of the roster are doing Suicide Dives and planchas every 5 minutes, this makes Gallagher stand out.
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I really hope they go with a storyline where Rusev identifies as female and lays waste to the womens division.
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Savior, go drunk, you're home.
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Kinda want to see Rusev against Minoru Suzuki, combining the last couple posts
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For the woman's championship?
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">fun fact about braun strowman - there was a big pitch for him to have a magician gimmick. was given this before i left WWE. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wweroadblock?src=hash">#wweroadblock</a> <a href="https://t.co/9T87WgywFH">pic.twitter.com/9T87WgywFH</a></p>— elf james (@chillhartman) <a href="https://twitter.com/chillhartman/status/810659625334964224">December 19, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Should be Euroexcellence.
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Undertaker's final days as a wrestler are nearing. I should know.
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Do you want to feel...REALLY old?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G07uSy7Z-c4/maxresdefault.jpg Reys son Dominic graduated HS and he's going to start training to be a pro wrestler in January. |
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Glad to see his step father is still supporting him.
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To many Big moves do not end matches. A spiked 'white noise' should be a finisher.
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I agree with this
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Agreed. I'd like to see Cesaro and Sheamus start to rub off on each other, with Cesaro adopting the Brogue Kick as a finisher and Sheamus doing his own version of The Neutralizer.
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Probably more damning about the product as a whole:
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Good Wade Barrett was when he was given some freedom. Shocking. This word for word promo approach for the entire locker room needs to die. |
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I will go to the grave believing Wade Barrett should've been in a marquee match at WrestleMania 27. Either against The Undertaker (to which the build already started with Nexus literally burying Undertaker with no follow up) or defending the WWE Championship against John Cena, whose tenure in the Nexus would've been stretched out longer than a month.
Probably the former. They'd likely already made the decision to build to a Cena/Rock storyline to span across three Manias, so Barrett being the third wheel in that would've sucked. Undertaker going in to total Sting vs. the nWo mode and holding off the Nexus at Mania could've been a lot of fun. |
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This "independant contractor" bullshit needs to be taken to task, wwe basically OWN the wrestlers and dictate what they can and can't do which i'm pretty sure is way beyond the remit of people that are classified that way. |
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Its almost like one size doesn't fit all.
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All I'm gonna say is this: Name one legendary promo that was 100% done by a writer and handed to a worker to recite word for word.
Money says you can't do it. |
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On the flip side, how many terrible promos in the past were non scripted? A good promo guy should be able to do either. From what I understand about the scripting of promos is that guys who are identified as needing to be kept on point are given less rope when it comes to promos. A guy like John Cena doesn't have every word written for him. A guy like Foley or Flair who is constantly losing their place when they are in the ring needs to be reigned in. Also some guys today PREFER to be scripted. When you watch a show like SNL do you think they are just winging it? Everything is scripted word for word. |
it's quite easy to use critical thinking skills to tell which promos are scripted. There have also been script leaks showing promos scripted word for word. Wrestlers who work for the company also talk about how promos are now scripted word for word vs how they used to be just bullet points and improvisation.
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Austin 3:16 would have never been a thing if the promo was scripted.
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If you give a good actor a terrible script and tell them to follow it to the letter, nobody is going to believe they are a good actor.
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Can't see how that argument (that guys who need help get help) is even valid for a guy like Barrett, he was one of the best talkers in the company.
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Well, Cesaro is better in the ring but yeah, Nexus and Bad News Barrett were top tier characters.
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What killed Barrett's potential stardom was him getting injury prone and not him missing the things needed to be a big star.
Ceasaro had the better in-ring skills but Barrett was better with gimmicks and promos which is what the WWE cares more about. The King gimmick was a bust but that was because the WWE didn't care enough for it to work and the whole tournament being just a big afterthought. Ceasro could easily have been a big star by now if the WWE were actually serious with Heyman as his manager and/or not doing their best to fight the crowds who wanted him to be a big star. |
Turned on the TV..... Santino Marella apparently on the Sportsnet 360 show "Aftermath"..... just gave a "shout out" to Saskatchewan.....
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Weird hearing Santino without his accent.........
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Extemporaneous speaking
Some folks are really good at doing memorized promos. The problem is, it's really hard to say someone else's words and make them sound natural. Pro Wrestling isn't Hamlet. It isn't Friends, regardless of what Kevin Dunn wants to think. It would actually help the writing staff more if they just went with Bullet Points and an amount of time for a promo. Then the boys figure out how they want to get through the Bullet Points in their own words, how they feel like they themselves would say it. Alas, some guys aren't good at talking at all. What do you do with folks like that? Limit their talking and let someone do the talking for them (managers). Honestly, if Managers were still a thing, Enzo wouldn't ever be anywhere near the inside of the ring. |
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The other thing is you're not going to know if a guy is a good promo if he's given a script. We've seen several wwe.com exclusives where whoever is talking, whether it be Ryback, Ziggler etc, come off as miles better and more natural than what we see on actual television.
Not to mention, other than Cena, who was given freedom and even now is likely given freedom to do his thing, who's been a breakout star in the scripted promo era? |
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Ok, thanks.
I miss Santino. |
He was on the Steve Austin like a week ago.
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Ok, thanks.
I miss Santino on WWE tv. |
You guys... If you ignore CyNick it will go away. Why do y'all keep feeding that thing? Pretty soon it's gonna get cozy here and make a nest so it can start spawning. Do you want that?
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I'm watching Adam Ruins Everything and their Christmas special just buried Roman Reigns lol
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Also, Merry Christmas to anyone who gives a crap. I likely won't be on any closer to the actual day than now, so I thought I'd spread out some tactical well wishes in a pre-emptive strike than a belated clusterbomb.
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I like reading Cynicks CRAZYYYY views. Keeps me on my toes.
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It's fucking amazing. Obviously when it becomes a bit much I just ignore him and don't reply, but if I wish to engage it's because I'm enjoying his responses. |
like come on, "critical thinking doesn't hold up in a court of law" lmfao
I mean he's not wrong. |
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Masato Tanaka is essentially the terminator. How the fuck can he still go after the damage he has done to himself?
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I just think of his stuff with Mike Awesome in ECW.
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With the WWE creating a UK Championship, I hope they have a plan for it. I'd like the tournament winner to eventually drop it to a heel that jumps over from the WWE as a bit of a refresher for them -- whether that is a Jack Swagger or a Dolph Ziggler isn't too important. It'd be a nice feather in the cap for whomever they insert into that position. I'd like to see that heel unseated by Adrian Neville who then drops it to the next local guy they are trying to make. Wade Barrett then comes in, wins the belt from them and drops it back to that local guy after the local guy fights his way back into contention. The whole arc could play out over months and months.
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If they did that, you know it would be over in 3 weeks.
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I'm a big fan of kayfabe, but I suppose it is good for Bray that he gets to be a human being now. Teaming with Randy Orton can bring some fresh darkness to Randy's persona, but also humanize Bray a bit. He feels more "material" than he has in other incarnations of himself. |
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I kind of feel that Braun Strowman would be a good bodyguard for Chris Jericho. I don't know if what they are currently doing with him is working or not, so I wouldn't want to derail a decent thing, but I think there is a limit for that sort of monster in 2016/2017.
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I think they should have Braun kill everyone on his way to the title, kill Roman for the title and then go on for a year or until they find a worthy challenger. Keep the good action on the under card and the main event's short and sweet to the point we all lose our shit when someone knocks Braun on his ass and gives him a real challenge. (Cena)
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I think the idea works in theory, but does Strowman have that intangible X-Factor to hold the belt and it not get stale as quickly as it began?
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I was in the storage unit of <a href="https://twitter.com/CMPunk">@CMPunk</a> and I found his legit <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE">@wwe</a> belt. I said this is kinda cool and he said its yours, Merry XMAS. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Champ?src=hash">#Champ</a> <a href="https://t.co/JWKK08szB5">pic.twitter.com/JWKK08szB5</a></p>— DOMINO Cliff Compton (@CliffCompton) <a href="https://twitter.com/CliffCompton/status/811781374717923328">December 22, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Surprised the WWE never had Domino back.
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Yeah, they came close a few times. He was set to come back and join the Straight Edge Society but they axed it at the last minute. He was also going to be in a "Second Chance" season of NXT which could've been interesting but that of course fell through too. And loads of pitched return ideas that never went anywhere.
He could've fleshed out the midcard on one of the brands. He's 37 years old, but it's not like there's a ton of wear and tear on him. He took a year or two off after his initial WWE release and then worked OVW, ROH, and the indies. Doesn't have a huge amount of wear and tear. But it sounds like he's retired now anyway. |
I wouldn't mind him coming back to see if he's got something. He did well in the shitty role he was given. There were little moments that stood out, even though he was paired with a pretty shitty wrestler as a partner.
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I wouldn't take him over Chris Masters though. Now there is a future United States Champion we can all be proud of.
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Domino seems to be Punk's new best friend, so that alone would probably stop him from coming back. Otherwise he'd get kicked to the curb just like Colt.
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Seriously, there's hardly anybody who looks like Chris Masters in the WWE right now. He's only like 33 years old. Bring him in the post-Mania lull and have him beat Roman Reigns for the United States Title once Reigns is drafted over to SmackDown, freeing up Reigns to become the "star" on SmackDown and Masters to get a nice mid-card run beating all comers and looking like a star doing it.
I've got a feeling that SmackDown could end up being "The Shield Show" at some point next year. Rollins and Reigns go to SmackDown where John Cena is champ, while AJ Styles gets drafted to RAW where he can enter the domain of Finn Balor, who may or may not call for back-up... |
Domino should start taking pictures with the WWE belt in the fridge, watching TV with him, hanging out on the beach, etc.
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