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Originally Posted by Vastardikai
My thing is this: Would anyone even know who the fuck Ospreay was if Vader's rant didn't go viral? I doubt anyone would have even had any kind of reaction towards his high impact tumbling routine with Ricochet without it. It would get seen by a few people when aXs TV showed it on New Japan, but folks wouldn't have gone out of their way to see it.
People to a lesser extent know who Ricochet is, but I still can't pick Will out of a lineup. I saw highlights of the match with Vader, and Vader gave him more than he should have, considering he didn't sell all the chokeslams he took.
And the punchline is this: Vader uses Social Media better than 80% of the WWE. He made people care about this nobody AND got himself a bigger than usual payday in 2016.
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To be fair to Ospreay, his name pops up in internet circles a lot. I'd heard of him, but never bothered to seek him out, since the spotty stuff isn't my cup of tea. Vader did seem to be responding to the hype around the match, and not so much vice versa.
But holy fuck did Ospreay/Ricochet match suck? I get some people go in for that sort of thing, but I could not get through it. Still, I'd book it if I were a promoter, because you take the money of people willing to pay to see shit like that. I'll fantasize about an in-his-prime Vader walking down and destroying both guys though.
I completely agree with you about social media. How easy would it be to set up a feud using Twitter? You could get yourself so over. You talk shit about a person and make us on the internet think it's real.
"Hey Zack. It's coming up to your 10 year anniversary on the main roster. Still waiting for you to hit 1 year of relevancy though, bro."
How easy is that? It's amazing how many guys and gals get themselves into trouble by saying something stupid, or completely give their whole mystique away. If the company makes you have one, just use it for kayfabe shit.
"If you haven't been in the ring with Kalisto you can't comment on my loss to him this week on SDL. Also I just found out I have a shattered ankle in three different spots. But a good effort from Kalisto."
A lot of the younger guys in wrestling don't really seem to get...working. For lack of a better term. I heard a shoot from Kevin Owens once, and I may be remembering incorrectly, or taking it out of context, but he came off as confused that someone would be pissed off at him in the back and then go out to the ring and cut a promo about how great they are. It may have even been Jim Cornette. But I remember it shocking me that this guy couldn't understand that the real person behind the curtain might be different to the presentation you see in front of it. I just...couldn't believe it. But there you go seeing it in Ospreay too. This whole "Like, Vader was bullying me. Like full on. And then, and this will get everyone on my side, get this -- it was all fake."
