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Definitely. Riley held up his end of the bargain, but The Miz helped everything. If they have a match at Capitol Punishment, I think it'll surprise a lot of people. And again, I would actually put down money to see it. I can't say that about too many programs in professional wrestling right now.
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Cranky Kong
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I'm just going to go out on a limb and say that Alex Riley is the best wrestler on the face of the planet, hands down.
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#3 |
It's a blood match!
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I wanna say like everyone else, I too enjoyed that fuckin beat down. Also, I knew he had it in him!
I'm not counting on this to be a true face turn, maybe just for a feud with Miz then he loses, goes to Smackdown and gets bigger and goes with Orton for a while etc... It could be pretty great. |
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The only reason I would turn Riley heel is if the face turn doesn't work. If you have a chance to make money off Riley now, take it, I say.
Also, if they plan on turning Christian heel eventually, it'd be good to have some strong faces (crowd connection-wise) on SmackDown!. |
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Ball So Hard University
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Riley needs to be addressed (more) in the form of nick name. "Alex Riley" doesn't sound very threatening. That's about the only thing I can see that's wrong with him. Assuming he gets more definition of character when he's out on his own. I'd say he's pretty decent and he works very well with The Miz. This is a good angle.
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Resident drug enabler
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"John Cena" doesn't exactly sound like a huge superstar name either. Name's only matter early on. If all works out, your name's credibility follows whatever you do. Not vice versa.
I mean... The Undertaker is still a retarded wrestling name if you REALLY think about it. |
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#8 |
Over Like Rover
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![]() realMickFoley Mick Foley It's official..Alex Riley is my new favorite wrestler! A-Ri, A-Ri, A-Ri! 31 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply ow yeah |
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He made Mick a believer... I'm sold.
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How did he look during his segment on RAW this week? Glad they moved Riley back to RAW. I hope they send some guys not doing anything on RAW over to SmackDown!. The Superstars side over there could use some heels like Primo.
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He's still on SD they're just playing out his feud with Miz out for now to get him over first and so far so good.
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IMO, he looked good. Got his own entrance music that sounds good. Survived an ambush attack from behind. Sold the initial beating and worked his way to putting a whuppin on the Miz. As apposed to Cena's superman comebacks, it was a nice change to see a semi-believable fight back into a chase off.
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I read somewhere that the RAW GM bought back Riley's contract?
The segment sounds good, so to hear it played well makes me happy. I like that they seemingly want to make Riley look strong, and have him kick ass. |
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Missed that but when I last checked wwe.com he was still listed as being on SD and he was still on the intro from last weeks show too so I dunno but they're gonna need a upper card face if there gonna be turning Christian anytime soon.
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#15 |
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#1 wwf-fan, this isn't exactly your finest hour here in this thread. WWE continues to prove you wrong every week.
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If Riley stays on Raw, which it seems he might from what I'm hearing, that supports less the "Riley survived being drafted to Smackdown" argument and more the "WWE has no fucking clue what they want a month in advance" argument. I'll also use the "WWE has no fucking clue what they're doing a week in advance" argument since Riley losing to Cena to be fired and then coming back the next week under a flimsy "Oh... um... he was fired from one title, and now he has another" kinda shows them changing their mind from one extreme to another within the span of a week. It served no purpose outside of that and it still isn't an example of them being so high on him they did a pointless angle to fire and rehire him. |
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sheeeet that intro with the orchestral bit for Riley's music is hot fire |
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Yeah, Riley's bypassed the "generic theme" phase to go straight to "cool theme with lyrics"
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arrr, same lot that did Miz's theme and the cover of Dolph's
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You can't teach that
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Love the barricade dive
I like the program so far. |
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The opening of his theme and the reaction he got gave me chills.
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#22 |
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I will say that I'm enjoying what they're doing with him and I thought he actually looked pretty good last night. I never said I hated the man though or that I didn't want to see him do big things. I actually said I wanted him to be big. I just wasn't gonna use anything and everything I could find to reason him being the next big thing.
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Over Like Rover
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Notice I quoted someone. As in I replied to them. Idiot. |
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I think in 3 months Alex Riley is buried in the mid card.
Good entrance music though. |
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And yes I did read the responses... and I didn't find one of them to be a good reason why "He survived a draft" (which ended up being a moot point and showed WWE had no idea what they wanted to do) and "He survived being fired" (Which ended up being a moot point and showed WWE had no idea what they wanted to do) were valid points.
Now, if someone brings it up, I will continue to say it as long as need be. |
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You can say they don't have an idea what they are doing all you want -- but so far this angle has played out pretty fucking well. Riley has been given awesome new music, has been made to look like a star, and has been moved back to RAW because someone in the WWE had the brains to realise "Holy shit! This shit we're doing with A-Ri is fucking hot!" No one was saying Alex Riley is going to revolutionise the industry. Just that he has all the tools to be a major player (which he does), and that the WWE seems to think so, too (which they do). This has all been evidenced as you are forced to stand-by a point that is counter to something absolutely no one was saying. Now, I just laid an A-Ri-style beating on your ass. See, the guy can even be a meme. |
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Over Like Rover
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lol unreal
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#29 |
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lol. Jesus fucking Christ.
I stand corrected! |
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#30 |
It's a blood match!
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An end.
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#31 |
Cranky Kong
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In my eyes, Riley losing to Cena and being brought back under a different title was just The Miz's form of a loophole to keep him around (since he knew how important he was to his success). I feel that was the plan the whole time, and you can't tell me for sure that I'm not right, #1-wwf-fan.
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Cranky Kong
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It was actually very "Jerichoesque" from when he was a conspiracy victim.
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#33 |
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ABT, are you surmising that they used the hired/rehired angle to gain HEEL HEAT!?
Cos that's just ricockulus. |
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Cranky Kong
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I know, I go out on a limb from time to time.
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You wreckless bastard you.
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#37 |
Cranky Kong
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E-C-DUB! E-C-DUB! E-C-DUB!
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I used to respect you as a member of these here boards but you've totally "Jumped the Shark" with these insane leaps of logic.
For shame AbT, for shame. |
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#39 |
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Never thought of that tactic! Bischoff must be pissed he didn't come up with that one.
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