02-21-2021, 06:23 PM | #1 |
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Wade Barrett should have been a Superstar!
It dont matter who did what to who at this point. The fact is, we went to war. And now there aint no going back. It's what war is you know? Once you're in it, you're in it. If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie, but we gotta fight! |
02-21-2021, 06:37 PM | #2 |
They/Them
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Yeah but Vince doesn’t like accents.
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02-21-2021, 07:45 PM | #3 |
President of Freedonia
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They dropped the ball so fucking badly with him multiple times. Nexus got mismanaged, he was made to look like a chump before 2010 was said and done.
And then years later they reinvented him with weeks of vignettes depicting him as a badass bareknuckle fighter and he was promptly running scared from R-Truth. |
02-21-2021, 09:02 PM | #4 |
Tongue my Fartbox
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Lol Cena
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02-21-2021, 10:22 PM | #5 |
Bad Bunny's biggest fan
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Wade Barrett is no Bad Bunny
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02-21-2021, 10:30 PM | #6 |
Higher. Further. Faster.
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Never underestimate the creative team's ability to make the term 'creative team' a fucking joke.
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02-22-2021, 12:43 AM | #7 | |
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02-22-2021, 05:03 PM | #8 |
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02-23-2021, 12:57 AM | #9 |
3 Dicks Out For Trips
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I used not to like Wade Barrett early on. But he grew on me and I realized he had super star potential and was actually pretty awesome, especially on the mic. They really dropped the ball hard with him. He should be in the WWE main event scene to this day and still doing the bad news gimmick. That gimmick was fucking fire and I can not think of anyone who would have played it better than him. I always hold out hope that he will show up in the Rumble one day and become an active rassler for a few years again. Or maybe even just have an active run in NXT again. Much closer to happening now that he is on commentary in NXT instead of out of the company. At some point him and Joe both have to rassle again don't they?
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02-26-2021, 06:13 PM | #10 |
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Eh, he can talk and was alright with some size. The League of Nations sucked, but he would have gotten a chance if he stuck around.
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02-26-2021, 06:25 PM | #11 |
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I bring this up whenever Barrett comes up. He probably would have never been a huge star but remember when he was returning from injury and they ran vignettes promoting him as a bad ass underground street fighter? Great way to build up a potential main event heel.
Then his first night back in a ring, a face (can’t even remember who) ran in and he ran away like a pussy immediately making the vignettes completely pointless. And that’s WWE in a nutshell. |
02-27-2021, 07:47 AM | #12 |
TPWW's #3 Peep
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He had a good look, good in-ring skills and a great talker. Should have been a top level heel but yeah... WWE happened.
Bad News Barrett was getting over massively with face reactions so that squashed that... WWE happened again. Ah well. |
02-27-2021, 11:42 AM | #13 |
Shelly Martinez = Ratings
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Didn't help that they got rid of his sweet scissor lift thing due to "budget cuts."
Man, that Bad News gimmick was good. |
02-27-2021, 11:47 AM | #14 |
In His hands...
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Coulda been really good man. |
02-27-2021, 12:12 PM | #15 |
Resident drug enabler
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Seriously, why even go through the trouble of filming the vignettes?
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02-27-2021, 06:38 PM | #16 |
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Would have liked to have seen him get a run as a face. It would have been nice to see him become the lesser of two evils and cut promos that made him a bad-ass, but one with a possible hidden heart of gold creeping in. William Regal-style, but with Barrett’s voice.
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02-27-2021, 09:20 PM | #17 |
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The bare knuckle stuff was good, but man the bad news gimmick was getting really over. Thought he was hitting his stride in both look and work. Fucking shame he never made it far.
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04-07-2021, 08:51 PM | #18 | |
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Outside of this however, I agree that Barrett was solid. Loved his Bad News stuff. |
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04-07-2021, 10:13 PM | #19 |
I'm all there is
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Dude he was so money . He had it all and they completely bungled it. He was one of the best talkers they had and he could go. And shit the dude was a legit tough guy
How do you fuck that up Also his voice is amazing . |
04-07-2021, 10:22 PM | #20 | |
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Get a long run as IC champ (after having lost to Cena), and developing his character a bit before moving into bigger and better things. Agreed that the WWE should have used him better however. |
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