The Chris Masters Appreciation Thread
 

Seriously, this guy is good. Charismatic and entertaining. He's taking a gimmick that's been portrayed a billion times to a new level. Furthermore, he has the sickest entrance in the WWE.

Use this thread as an opportunity to say nice things about the man...the myth...

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The Masterpiece.

The most outstanding work an individual can achieve has a name. Michelangelo chiseled granite with his bare hands to make it. Mozart labored in poverty to find it. Hemmingway took his own life when he could no longer write it. One man has gone beyond them all. One man has truly produced a work that humbles those who stand before it. His name is Chris Masters. And he is “The Masterpiece.”

The guy seriously can get heat. He makes me hate him so easily. I want to hate his gimmick, but I can't because he just does it so damn well, and I KNOW, I'm going to mark out huge when someone breaks the Masterlock. Just very well done so far.

I dont have a problem with him...it just WWE used him for a few Raws and then he was missing for like 2 weeks.

I cant wait till someone breaks the masterlock.

Hey, remember this?

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That blood looks so real!

When he stops injuring people, then I might like him. However his entrance his cool.

I've loved him from day one. I admit his ring work is not quite up to scratch but surely it can only improve. :y:

When his back is turned to the camera when he poses at the entrance he sorta looks like a roided up version of Orton.

I think Masters will be very good in the near future.

Come on though he's been around for 2 months it's too early to do an appreciation thread.

You should know better Thrila

Don't blame Chris Masters for injuries in wrestling. They happened long before he ever laced up his boots. It's just one of the risks anybody takes in stepping in the ring. Masters was trying to make his offense look good, and Richards did an amazing job of selling. Too amazing, really.

Too bad he doesn't look cool when he does it. He makes the same facial expressions the retarded kid in school used to make before he SHIT HIMSELF.

I can't make an appreciation thread, but there can be threads like "HOW CAN THEY HAVE MASTERS GO OVER STEVIE RICHARDS?!?!?!? THAT SON OF A BITCH!?!?!?!".

There hasn't been much love for Masters on the board. He's the man and I appreciate him. So here's a thread.

So shut up.

Where was the Masters appreciation in this post?

So amazing he broke his own face. Proving how great a guy Stevie is. Most of those pussies only blade to look hurt. Stevie Fucking smashes open his face and goes out for reconstructive surgery.

I was CLEARLY trying to state that it was contrary to his massive coolness.

Yeah, that Stevie sure is swell. But enough about him...

Remember when Chris Masters had that match with Val Venis? That was sweet.

Yeah, shitting yourself usually is contrary to pretty much everything.

As much as I love Masters, his match was poor on Monday.

I think YOUR match was poor on Monday, Haz59! :mad:

Besides, Hulk Hogan's matches were ALWAYS poor, and look what he did for himself.

I can't believe I botched that arm drag :$

But Hogan wore red and yellow, that's friendly to the younger audience. Thus why all the kids liked him and thus why he wipes his ass with $50 notes.

Masters has nice mic skills/charisma but not a lot of wrestling ability (at least on RAW... supposedly he was better in OVW or something..).

Think about it, Corkscrewed. It's easy for someone to have their moveset limited by the WWE (see: Nova/Simon Dean). Maybe he's getting the same kind of treatment, but people aren't as upset about it because they never even knew the guy could wrestle.

Masters is a brawler. His style fits his character well.

He's alright. He dooesn't bother me much anymore.

He's okay..

I appreciate Chris Master's ability to give me a reason to leave the room during Raw.

He is a decent heel, not that bad on the mic even, but needs more in-ring experience and work, just like any other rookie would.

He is green, but is more impressive after every week. Only 22, so still has time to develop into a top-tier star.

Chris who? Isn't he Canadian?









:shifty:

He's getting more entertaining every week.

In time i think Masters will improve.

Obviously injuring a Smarks favourite wrestler is not the best start to anybody's career.

I wish nothing but a life of unhappiness unto masters. The human piss break is quite possibly the worst thing to have cursed a wrasslin ring since mantaur and the gobbledegooker. I can honsestly say, the only reason I dislike him is because he is such a pathetic thing. His ring work is disasterous, his mic is even worse, and I can't possibly fathom why they are jobbing good wrestlers like Stevie Richards and Val Venis to this piece of shit.

Masters is wicked, he gets bashed a lot for some reason.

Entrance: unreal

Finisher: unique

Look: tough

Gimmick: interesting

Fuck it if he isn't the greatest wrestler.

Enterance: Dull

Finisher: Barely worked in the 80's

Look: Stupid. He looks like a retard eating ice cream.

Gimmick: What gimmick? He's a hoss that Vince is desperately trying ot push because he is big.

He isn't the greatest wrestler... He is the worst thing to ever happenen to WWE in the history of time.

(edit: And then, the negative rep flowed my way, because I disagreed with what was written by a member who has been on this board for longer than I have. Community forum? I think not.)

Take it easy. Why the fuck would I care what you think?

Neg rep? Who gives a shit?

:mad:

You can't seriously compare Hogan to Masters

I agree with his Enterance being great, When he poses and the loud DONG's happen.. then the soft sound... then BANG cool soft smooth beats :cool:


are you saying Hogan is better than Masters :|





:shifty:

In terms of actual wrestling ability, sure I can. I know people have a problem with noticing greatness when it's happening right in front of them and not 20 years ago, but trust me on this one.

I don't mind Masters as long as he doesn't break people's noses. OK, that was an accident. But that's not all.

His match with Venis this week. Did you notice how close Venis came to fall on his own head after trying to do a 10-punch? He could easily have killed himself. And whose fault is that? The bastard who threw him down so carelessly.

Masters sucks... a lot. In the ring, that is. I don't mind the gimmick or mic skills. But really, he's nothing special.

^ BUT HE CAN IMPROVE. And I hope he does.

:love:

What I would like to know is how many people's opinions are affected by the Stevie Richards incident. Then I would like to know if those opinions would be any different if it would have happened to somebody like Bob Holly instead of Richards.

You just might be retarded.

Entrance: Pretty good, would work better with someone who lookedlike a Masterpiece. However, you could slap any retarded chimp into that entrance and it'd work.

Finisher: Oh yeah. It's unique. And you know what would make it even MORE unique? If he did a leg drop! I know, his finisher could be a superkick! :rofl:

Look: Bland.

Gimmick. Would be interesting if it weren't a rehash of a rehash.

How would you make it better?

Dangerous is dangerous.

His mic skills are blah, and he has come close to killing a couple of people since he fucked up Richards. I don't get it. ECW workers can't work stiff, finishers get banned, but if you're reckless and endanger other wrestlers...

True enough, but accidents are also accidents.

Also, I see people making jokes about how they wish Bob Holly would break his neck again and such. I think that a few people (who have posted in this thread) may have different opinions of Chris Masters had it not been Stevie Richards who was injured by him.

I thought the Val Venis spot was sick (in a good way). Dunno how much of a botch that was, really, seeing as to how they sold it as the precursor to the Masterlock.

Probably. And the Val Venis-near-incident didn't help.

I don't have to. I'm a consumer, dammit. They pander to me, not the other way around. Well, they should. That's the nature of entertainment.

I really don't think that was a near incident, though. I thought that was Val selling well. Are there reports otherwise?

I was asking just for the sake of discussion. I'm not saying that you should have to do anything.

And when Lesnar botched that Moonsault, that was just a CLEVER SPOT, not a possibly career-ending injury...

When did Lesnar botch a moonsault? You've lost me in your Kane Knightish way of never really saying exactly what you mean in favor of trying to make people look stupid. If you're referring to the Bob Holly injury, I thought that was from a powerbomb. If you're talking about something else, enlighten me.

No, but watching it he damn near landed on his head.

I'm just gonna say this.

I've yet to see anything impressive about Masters yet. All I see is him posing on the stage each night. THen he goes to the ring and says soem boring stuff on the mic, not aht well I might add, then if there happens to be a match then it isn't even that good.

Overall Masters is just average. HIs look is that of a muscle bound guy is all. his gimmick has been done so much, and better at that.

his finisher is more generic than HOgan's leg drop. I mean Holly tried using that finisher for goodness sakes.

and as far as it being HOlly instead of Richards being injured. I could careless. An injury is an injury. Although I wouldn't mind as much if itwas Holly that had his nose moved a bit on his face instead of RIchards the bottom line is that even if it was Holly Iwoulda said somethin cause this is still their livlihood and this guy is still green. This guy is average at best.

YEah there is time to improve but for right now, I can't see a single reason to appreciate this guy.

You gotta sell it, baby!

SSP. So I called the wrong move, someone with common sense would have been able to piece it together. Lesnar/Angle? Off the turnbuckle onto his head? WRESTLEMANIA? IS any of this ringing a bell?

And please, stop playing the martyr. I'm hardly trying to make you look stupid, I'm arguing a point.

:lol:

ok heyman

Then I guess you haven't read this thread. There are plenty reasons given to appreciate him.

He had to... for his own sake...

Seriously, any inexperienced wrestler could have landed on his head. Val's a veteran, he managed to just flip a little to land on his shoulders, not on his head. It might not be it, but I'm pretty much convinced that we've nearly seen a major incident.

Right. Well that's what I thought you were talking about, but I guess I failed to see its relevance to Chris Masters.

So let's recap: Landing on your head=selling. Breaking your face=selling. Wrestlemania is an obscure event, and nobody will remember you landing on your head in what could have been a career ending spot.

nah I read the thread, the entire thread from post 1 to this post, and so far the only thing that I garnered as a reason to appreciate him is that he gives you a reaosn to take a piss break

Blah blah blah. If that's what you thought I meant, why did you bring up Bobcore instead?

God, you're a piss poor liar.

Okay, I was comparing a guy landing on his head to another guy who nearly landed on his head. You can't see what this has to do with it, it was disproving the notion that it was just selling a sick spot.

I was totally kidding about Richards selling well by getting his face busted, for the record.

And what Brock did was all under his own power. Can't blame Chris Masters for that. :shifty:

I dunno wtf it is with that guy...like he's okay, very average if you will :rant:

But I dunno I've marked out a few times for him. Like the time he killed Richards...like it was the worst thing ever, and required no skill, but it was still one of the best things I've ever seen on TV, because he fuckin killed him.

The Masterlock is also pretty convincing, he does it pretty well.

And I want someone to break it :rant:, so clearly he's doing his job. I will mark out when someone breaks it too, I think the whole arena will go nuts...which means he's a decent heel.

Yeah but he does kinda suck, though his match with Val was pretty good...but Val stiffed the shit out of him lol, thus making it entertaining.

Possibly a reason for Masters to work more reckless than usual?

Masters was reckless since match 1

Lesnar injured Holly, right?

I thought that surely you would know the difference between a moonsault and a shooting star press, so while the botched move was my first inclination, I guess I gave you too much credit. My bad.

HOlly scrweed himself in that match where he got hurt. instead of jumping with the powerbomb he wanted to make Lesnar look bad and be dead weight. that's why Holly scrweed Holly in that instance

Thank you

but Richards didn't injure himself in that match. Masters swung to wildly and actually connected.

Much like that GOldberg/Bret insident. Goldberg kicked wildly and actually nailed Hart hard in teh head. NOthing Bret could do about it when it happene.d NOthing RIchards could do when Masters nailed him. Holly could have helped the incident but he decided to be a rpick there is a difference.

I didn't even bring up Holly for the nature in which he was injured or who's fault it was or anything. I was simply saying that if Masters would have injured a less popular wrestler, people might think differently about him.

some would, others like me wouldn't

We decided that many posts ago.

I know

He'd have to not work recklessly (or at least less than this match) for it to be a valid argument.

Wait. So It's too much credit to assume I wouldn't screw up two similar moves, but it's safe to assume that two vastly disparate incidents might be comparable?

Wow. That's what you call retarded logic.

Isn't there a thin line between 'reckless' and 'intense' though?

And that's the thing.

Holly tends to bring these moments on himself.

I just didn't catch your reference. It happens. Didn't know it was retarded, but I'll make a note of that.

That's why I hate just having words for discussions like this. Voice inflection really would've eliminated half of the misunderstanding in this thread, I would imagine.

There are so many factors one can use to distinguish between the two, whether internal like skill on the mic or the ability to work the crowd; or external, such as the climate of the wrestling business. Sure, Masters could have got himself over with what he's got ten or fifteen years ago. But in the modern age, a top tier guy needs more than just one attribute, looks aren't enough.

Yes. The thin line is professionalism.

I don't care if he stiffed Richards, Flair, Christian, Benjamin, or even Thelma and Louise.

I still would think he's a boring piece of shit.

Boring? OK. Piece of shit? How do you figure?

Masters is so boring i can't be bothered to read the 2nd/3rd page of this thread.

Only good thing about him is his entrance(which looks rather similar to Randy orton's), but then after that i have a sudden urge to switch the channel or leave the room.

Because it wouldn't be fair if I said he had the personality of a rock.

Because then I would be insulting that rock.

I reallly dislike this guy. He is not good in the ring at all and his entrance annoys the hell out of me. When I see him raise his arms as the music hits that certain point, I become very upset. This guy needs to remove himself from my television screen for good.

I think we can put the injuring Richard's thing to bed now. Wrestlers get injured, sometimes it's more one guys fault than the other's. Some wrestlers are just stiff workers, whether its Masters or RVD. And it's strange but I've never saw any criticism for Mr. Van Dam on this forum.

The reason I just don't get Masters is that he's bland, dull and he doesn't contribute anything to the product. Sure, maybe he's got potential; maybe he's being held back by his gimmick, but at the moment he's not doing enough with what he's been given to prove he can be someone.

There's Hardcore Holly stiff and there's Chris Masters stiff. Holly can afford to be stiff; he does it to teach new wrestlers a lesson or perhaps to extract "justice" on something a wrestler said or did backstage. He's been around for 10+ years.

Chris Masters really can't afford to be stiff for much longer. He had injured Stevie Richards TWICE already. Once is understable, twice is just ridiculous. If Masters can't wrestle, he is surely NOT the "greatest". He's the worst, a shit stain on the WWE's jock strap. (I KNOW, jock straps can't get shit stains...that's how bad he is.)

I say we kill him! KILL HIM! :p

Bloody hell

you just weren't around at the time but there was definitely times when there was harsh criticism tossed at RVD for working stiff as well.

I get upset when ANYbody works stiff. Whether it be Holly, RVD (as much as I love him), or Masters, there's a reason why the Tough Enough kids were taught to NOT be stiff and they were taught the right way to work, which in essence means thinking about the safety of your opponent as much as your own.