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View Poll Results: How motherfucking pumped are you for this show? | |||
So motherfucking pumped! |
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2 | 9.52% |
Pretty motherfucking pumped! |
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3 | 14.29% |
A little motherfucking pumped! |
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8 | 38.10% |
Not that motherfucking pumped! |
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5 | 23.81% |
I am not motherfucking pumped at all! (P.S. I am a loser and I have no friends) |
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3 | 14.29% |
Voters: 21. You must log in or register to vote on this poll. |
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#681 |
2 Dicks out for Trips
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Wrestlemania always delivers...but for how long? Summerslam and Royal Rumble aren't these days.
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#682 |
2 Dicks out for Trips
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Bash at the Beach and Halloween Havoc. I just want those PPVs used again. Let's go Cody
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#683 |
CodeBot Engaged...WOAAHH!
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#684 |
Doin' It Right
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When Austin hit that suplex on Owens on the stage and popped right back up. You love to see it
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#685 |
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#686 |
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Damn just saw Cody’s entrance. Looked like a megastar, big loss for AEW. Probably the biggest blow WWE could land on AEW to be fair.
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#687 |
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Side note: WWE needs to stop editing themes when wrestlers win. I get DX with the long intro, but when Steve Austin won editing out the initial glass break. They do they same with The Rock - editing out the "If Ya Smell".
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#688 |
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I think they knew exactly what they were doing with Austin/Owens. It was supposed to under-promise. They overdrlivered. If there’s a next time it will be more obvious what they are doing.
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#689 |
Feeling Oof-y
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I didn’t catch the whole show as I was watching it in bed. Woke up in time for Cody/Seth. Pretty perfect.
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#690 |
boop/bop/beep
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have only watched Austin-Owens. Was fun. Honestly as good as (if not better than) a 1999 Austin match when he was super hurt and was just doing walk and brawls. At least Owens could bump for him. Happy he got to have his proper retirement moment.
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#691 |
Hey Mister!
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So according to Bryan Alvarez, Ronda walked out on friday, when she found out she wasnt main eventing over Steve fucking Austin in fucking Dallas Texas.
I had hoped upon her return that perhaps time away to reflect, and becoming a mother would strengthen her mental countenance. But she still has the emotional sensitivity of a small child, and she does not belong in this business. |
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1-0 TPWW Chess Master
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#693 |
Best Poster
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Wow! 12/10 show.
That's how the Big Leagues do it AEW! |
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#694 |
Resident drug enabler
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Cody was a midcarder with a silly gimmick last time he was in WWE and then spent a few years in a totally irrelevant company with a bad booker and all of a sudden he’s a star. Weird.
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#695 |
Best Poster
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How can I miss you if you won't go away
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#696 |
boop/bop/beep
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No you've got it wrong. One night in WWE made him a star. Not any of the previous groundwork that was laid. Definitely not.
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#697 |
king of sucks
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#698 |
It's a blood match!
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I love it when wrestlers get upset backstage and leave.
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#699 |
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AEW feels irrelevant as fuck right now. This was the right thing to do with Cody. Think about what Tony Khan would want. He’d be hoping for a mid-carded to show up and eat humble pie. By making the presentation work on the big stage, Tony now has no leverage with anyone except the most discontented.
They were always bigger and were going to be due to the mark presentation of AEW, but by playing it bigger AND better, AEW are left holding their dick. Brilliant. |
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#700 |
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Don’t even buy the Ronda stuff. Maybe it turns out it’s true, but I’m just going to enjoy the ride with her and not let the out of touch dudes without contacts there anymore affect my interpretation. Love the idea of Charlotte beating her with a boot.
Charlotte needs something else besides just a lot of championships. It’s the quality of the reigns. That I can think of at least four people Charlotte has beaten at WrestleMania off the top of my head is…something. I think she might be the only other person besides Triple H to knock back multiple Royal Rumble winners too. It helps *her* feel like a big star, not just the title reigns. And Ronda is more interesting losing too. She’s now got somewhere to go and something to climb. Shaking off the rust when she’s already champ is whatever it is. Now she can get into it with Natalya, Shayna or even Becky over on Raw and it’s interesting because she is in it. |
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#701 |
Anger
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I also did not vote on this poll because I was pumped for WrestleMania but I am a loser who has no friends so I was torn on what to select
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#702 |
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Conspiracy theory: When AEW’s deal with Time Warner is up, WWE make their own pitch to Warner Media for those slots. It’s headed up by Cody and the idea is to do a new WCW. Uses that IP they’ve got that is just sitting there and allows them to expand and block out even more of the sun than they already do. They can also try and get it on its own streaming services while WWE prime ties up others. It seems WWE have working relationships with Peacock, Disney+ and Netflix, but it does leave Paramount+, Amazon and even Apple out there.
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#703 |
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So weird that WrestleMania is two nights now. It’s a weird state to be in. I was buzzed about wrestling, but instead of needing to wait another year for WrestleMania…it’s tomorrow. Like having two birthdays. Or there being a whole other half to the video game.
I’m ruminating on what this WrestleMania “means”, but it’s context might shift completely in less than 12 hours now. But there’s this weird little state between both being in the books that lets night one stand on its own. Very cool. |
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#704 |
Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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Real interested to see how Bianca does from here...
Even winning the Rumble and winning the title in the "main event" of Wrestlemania (night 1), she was not really "established" as a star and would have had to be made a star whilst already champ. Instead they took the title off her and put in on a star and built up to their rematch at WM and now Bianca's win felt like a "star making moment" rather than just "a moment" like it was with her first title win. Time will tell if she can hang with Becky and Charlotte as the only two legit stars of the women's division.... |
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#705 | |
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#706 |
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Looking at night one in isolation: This has got to be the best WrestleMania in ages, right? One of their best. I think it might actually be #2 or #3 in terms of building my emotion throughout the show. Bit I wasn’t that pumped, but have left feeling really good about their product. But that’s just night one, lol.
In terms of overall quality? I liked WrestleMania XXX, but a lot of what made it cool didn’t matter right after it (and who knows how this one will hold up). Outside of Bryan/Triple H, Cesaro winning the Battle Royal, The Shield looking strong, the streak ending (in a pretty poor match) and the main event moment — I can’t really remember what else happened. Seriously think this might be the best Mania they’ve done since…21? Am I sleeping on anything in there? And who knows how night one could help or hurt that position. |
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#707 |
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It’ll be interesting to see how the crowd holds up tomorrow. Will they be buzzed and bringing it or burnt out and easy to disappoint?
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#708 |
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Really seems like they’re trying to make some of these people interesting. I want to see what happens next with so many of the participants in this show. Way more than I normally would be after a WrestleMania. They’re in “star-making mode.”
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#709 |
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Lol, Logan Paul might end up being a regular WWE wrestler. What a fucking world.
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#710 |
President of Freedonia
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They announced New Day vs. Sheamus/Ridge was moved to night 2. So either one match is going to be very short or they've realized they need to cut down on some of the length of the video packages. Like why was there a five minute Lashley video package on a night he wasn't even wrestling?
They won't have to do stuff like introducing Gable Steveson or the HOF class either. The HOF thing usually takes all of 2-3 minutes but Undertaker stood out there alone for 5 minutes, because it's the Undertaker and obviously he was always getting a sustained ovation. They should have plenty of time to fit everything in tonight without all the extra stuff but we'll see. |
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#711 | |
Resident drug enabler
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#712 |
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I presume they put the video packages of the people on night two on night one to promote them and give them a presence on each show. You’ll almost certainly see a night one recap to do the same thing for the people on tonight’s show tomorrow. And honestly, some of those trimmings is way more important than a New Day match right now.
It wouldn’t hurt if it was on the pre-show or something. |
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#713 |
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One of the matches that has me the most intrigued across the whole weekend is Austin Theory/Pat McAfee. I’m hoping that is something that catches people off-guard. I know how I would do the match, but we’ll see.
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#714 |
Anger
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#715 |
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Night 1 had about 100 minutes of bell-to-bell action. Let’s look at night two:
Edge and AJ are probably getting 30 minutes right there. Cole and McAfee got 16 minutes for their Takeover match. It might be less here, but I’ll give them that. Brock and Roman may not actually need long, but it is what everything has been driven by. I’ll just block out 20 for that. Another 20 for the Raw tag. 10 for Omos/Lashley (and that’s being generous). 10 for Zayn/Knoxville. That seems about right. But I’d be doing New Day on the pre-show so you don’t end up bumping them again. I’d rather the Raw tag get the perfect amount of time it needs than be rushed. Same with Theory/McAfee. |
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CodeBot Engaged...WOAAHH!
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#717 |
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And when you think about the time that some of those matches could get tomorrow, and that you might get hit by Theory/McAfee, the Raw tag, Edge/AJ and Brock/Reigns all in a row? Fuck me.
This is the order I would do tomorrow night: * Women’s tag. Gives the women the opening spot. They can go out there and get that focus instead of being middle of the show. * Lashley/Omos. Probably not going to be pretty, but doesn’t need to be long and might have some sizzle. You don’t want this too deep. * Zayn/Knoxville, which will be fun, but it isn’t meaty enough to need to go later. * If you’re doing New Day vs. Sheamus & Holland, I’d do it here. * Theory/McAfee, which is where things go from being “fun” to really, really good (I hope). * Raw tag, which is hopefully going to be as good as I hope it is. * Edge/AJ as semi-main, they’re going to do what they’re going to do. * Brock/Roman to close the show. Fuck me, that’s a pretty good card with a really strong flow to it. |
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#718 |
Resident drug enabler
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You’ll have to look for someone else to help with your “you’re a fucking idiot” masochist fetish, bud. I can’t be here for you 24/7.
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#719 |
Resident drug enabler
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That being said “BUT CM PUNK…”
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#720 |
CodeBot Engaged...WOAAHH!
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