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Cranky Kong
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Damien Sandow's current gimmick is the wackest shit of all time.
He's literally playing the role of an annoying child. This can't be expected to get over, can it?
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Quality Meme Producer
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I thought it was more of a send off to his wacky stuff. We should be getting a ladder climbing personal Sandow now and it feels good. I could see him doing battle with Sheamus and BNB, kind of liven the midcard up a bit.
*I didn't watch SD! so I don't know, just gauging my response off RAW* |
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#3 |
Cranky Kong
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Did you watch Smackdown?
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Quality Meme Producer
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oh no, I didn't, I will watch the DVR this weekend. Is he going Santino on us?
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Cranky Kong
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Santino without the charm, really.
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Resident drug enabler
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WWE has a knack for finding out that something is over and then taking all the fun out of it by pushing it in the wrong direction. So the fact that they watched Sandow get crazy over over the past few months and then took from that "Hey! We should have him do the Pee-Wee Herman copycat thing that kids did in the early 90's because that's exactly how he got over in the first place!" doesn't really surprise me.
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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Love his sweet new theme, though.
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#8 |
Cranky Kong
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#9 |
Do Unto Others...
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Thing that baffles me about this is that its not like any of this is getting over with the audience at all. Its flat and played out, and nothing screams that these guys are geeks with no personality more than the impersonation act, and thats a shame in Sandows case because he was a solid midcard heel. I think hes always had a ceiling on him, but dooming him to opening match comedy for life is weak. Even his babyface promo on Raw where he was himself exposed how the crowd didnt truly give a shit, they just laughed at the comedy.
It felt like the Mizdow turn momentum was lost weeks before Mania anyway, to be honest. |
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Reigning Tipsters Champ!
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It was all down to the way they turned him. It was meek and had no build and was very flat. On a preshow, at the wrong moment, with no heat or followup.
It could have been an intense feud with heat that built up Sandow as someone who could do it alone, but there was literally no effort put into it and it was lost on a throwaway moment. Hate to he so negative, but it is that laziness that tipifies their booking |
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The "fued" he had with the Miz certainly didn't help. Guy was super over, him splitting from the Miz should have been a big moment.
Same could be said for Goldust and Stardust. Neither feuds really led to anything. |
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Celestia's Left Hand
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Yea I'm loving hi theme feels like something from Final Fantasy or Chrono Trigger
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#13 |
Cranky Kong
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How can they be so oblivious all the fucking time? The Miz vs. Sandow could have been a PPV match. Can't believe they had the blowoff on Raw, and I don't exactly understand why Summer Rae had to be shoehorned into it either. Neither The Miz nor Sandow seem like they will benefit from any of it. Real shame.
Sandow's theme is boss, but so is Alex Riley's, so... |
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Celestia's Left Hand
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Yea I know a kickass theme does not a superstar make(it helps though)
and as for how they can be so oblivious VINCE McMahon |
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Grim Fandango
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It's like Vince has a rule where anything that gets over more than it's "supposed" to must subsequently be turned into horseshit until everyone starts cheering for Roman Reigns.
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Cranky Kong
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Roman Reigns' matches have been quite good as of late. Even his match with Big Show at Extreme Rules was entertaining as hell.
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Grim Fandango
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Shame they pulled the trigger on him early really instead of only actually building him up after he was already in the main event of Wrestlemania.
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Celestia's Left Hand
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Yea this reverse build up is weird they are doing now what thy should've done to begin with he's still kinda boring though.
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I did not enjoy it. It was very bad.
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I had a feeling this would happen. Mizdow was a great gimmick but it had zero shelf life and impossible to transition after his run with the Miz was done.
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#21 |
Resident drug enabler
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Yeah. I'd prefer they transition him to another character he could shine with instead of trying to so a form of the same gimmick that has none of the same charm and just wastes the guy. I hope once they see it's not working, they'll figure something else out. He could get over with a face version of the intellectual savior. That gimmick still had plenty of legs anyway.
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Yeah I thought the best thing that could happen is Him and Miz get put in a fatal 4 way for the IC title, Miz getts superstar A in the figure 4. Mizdow follows suit with Superstar B. SuperStar B taps first.
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#23 |
Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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Was really digging his promo on RAW until he started copying Axel
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#24 |
Wrestling Marks Rejoice!
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He should just become X-Pac full time. He was already "hired".
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If this is the best they have for him just release him.
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#26 |
Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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I hate to be "that guy", and I know they don't exactly have the best track record at all... but....
Come on. It has been literally one week. Let's see where he goes from here before damning him forever. |
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I gave up once his big break up feud with the Miz happened during repetitive Raw matches, which Summer Rae somehow got thrown into for no apparent reason.
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She was thrown in because both she and Miz are in the Marine 46235135413
Die Harder Tomorrow: Merica |
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Skibbidy Lock Jaw
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#31 |
Resident drug enabler
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Just had the thought of Damien Sandow doing Sean O'Haire's devil's advocate vignettes. Seems like he would be mind-blowingly good with that gimmick.
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Sandow's version would end with "I'm not telling you anything that you already know"
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Cranky Kong
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If I thought he was bad before, he's abysmal now. Do any of you find this Mega Powers bullshit entertaining?
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Yup.
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MVP Mark
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He could be so much more than a jobber/silly gimmick but it is entertaining.
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Grim Fandango
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Meta Powers is a jobber gimmick that has taken all Sandow's momentum and somehow turned him into the guy who always eats the pin in a tag team with Curtis Axel.
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king of sucks
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well he makes axl entertaining and that is hard to do.
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#39 |
Cranky Kong
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It's not even funny.
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RIP SABU
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Look. I don't think he's hilarious or anything, but I do occasionally get a chuckle from watching The 'Meta-Powers' or whatever they're called.
Now, I know some will probably disagree wity me here, but IMHO, it's kind of like when Jay Lethal had the "Black Machismo" gimmick, only Mandow has Axel to play Hogan to his Savage. It's not nearly as awesome as tge Black Machismo gimmick, but let's not shun these guys just yet. |
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