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Resident drug enabler
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I am the cheese
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Resident drug enabler
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I am the cheese
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President of Freedonia
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I did like Asuka slapping away Ronda's hand though. It was like her saying "you're taking away my moment, fuck you"
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I am the cheese
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Reupped the network for mania season today. May drop it after that.
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I am the cheese
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GONNA SLEEP ON IT
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3 Dicks Out For Trips
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We all know Asuka is challenging Alexa too considering Ronda looked directly at Charlotte and said "See you at WM"
So much for Cole's "What does this mean!?!?!?!" schtick. |
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President of Freedonia
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Vince backstage when booking this show: "THEY WANT NEW JAPAN, I'LL GIVE THEM A NEWER JAPAN DAMMIT"
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EATER OF HOT POCKETS
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Wrestling fans are the worst part of wrestling.
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boop/bop/beep
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RIP SABU
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EATER OF HOT POCKETS
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boop/bop/beep
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the right crowd for Asuka and Shinsuke to win. I didn't think the women's rumble was bad. Was pleasantly surprised.
Thought Rousey stuff was a bit flat though. Crowd liked her well enough but meh |
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3 Dicks Out For Trips
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They need to combine the Rumble with War Games next year and have both Rumbles occurring simultaneously!
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Former TPWW Royalty
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Guess on the bright side, ESPN is reporting Ronda signed a full-time deal with the WWE and likely isn't just showing up for a one-off at Mania like Taker or barely be around like Lesnar.
Still should have just held off till Monday for her debut if she wasn't going to do anything at all at the Rumble. |
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I am the cheese
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Following that logic rousey challenges on raw for the exposure, asuka off to SDL.
Match wise its for the best probably. |
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President of Freedonia
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Could see Ronda and Asuka both having undefeated streaks going into WM35 where they finally meet up
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I am the cheese
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Shoulda put rousey in and let her go over. Woulda been more logical. But fan has a good point. Asuka is nothing. Rousey is money.
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boop/bop/beep
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i thought rousey "wasn't money", destor. you spent a whole thread talking about how she's a lame duck now.
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I am the cheese
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Resident drug enabler
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Asuka winning was the right call but if they didn't have Rousey come out to end the show, it would have felt like the middle of a Raw episode ending a major PPV.
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Spammy Certified
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Too much complaining... it was a fine show.
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Trickster Demon
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Triple A
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Yeah I liked the show overall and the order was good other than the Raw tag match.
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Trickster Demon
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Anyone else watching the special on the Network r/n...trying to figure out if Taker is retired or not
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President of Freedonia
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Definitely think the women's Rumble will be an annual thing........but I will say two full fledged Rumbles makes for a long night.
Next year I'd make the women's Rumble a 20 person match since it's obvious they felt they needed half of the field to spend ages outside the ring. |
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I am the cheese
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Doing a womens match annually is a challenge because there are so few viable participants
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I am the cheese
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You almost have to reduce the field otherwise you have the same match next year
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Former TPWW Royalty
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Originally it was rumored WWE was looking at just 3-4 for Legends and the rest from NXT for this year but ended up going with almost a third of the Rumble being Legends. I get why they did it because of the historical nature of this Rumble. |
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Resident drug enabler
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Not gonna lie, even as I kinda marked out for Rousey, a small part of me was saying "No, outsider. You don't get to point to the WrestleMania sign. That's our thing. Stop that."
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Blander Than Ever
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Probably covered earlier in the thread but man that Ziggler return was very flat... Felt like he missed a few spots and no one cared.
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Resident drug enabler
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Oh yeah. That was fucking silly. Guy drops the title and walks away from the company mysteriously only to return at the rumble for a couple minutes? What was the point of all this?
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Let's be honest... Chris Kreski has been dead for years and was essentially mocked by Vince and co. Which is a damn shame. The guy was the best writer the WWE ever had. |
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President of Freedonia
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This behind the scenes thing for Mania is absolutely fantastic. Loved seeing how they snuck the Hardys in only an hour before they were going out for their match.
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Quark is Less Impressed.
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Nobody was ready for Asuka
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Resident drug enabler
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I am glad they didn't taint Asuka's streak by having Rousey enter and win though.
Just like how they have the ability to make a smark crowd feel like they've "won" by having Nakamura win because they're still gonna do the same matches they planned at the Rumble anyway, having 2 women's titles gives them the same luxury. Rousey winning would have fucked up Asuka's undefeated streak and turned people off while still having the same two women's titles matches the presumably have planned anyway. Really makes the rumble matches feel pointless but... if you're gonna have a lame 2 title situation, they might as well take advantage of situations like this. |
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I am the cheese
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Would asuak losing a battle royal hurt her streak?
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Resident drug enabler
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I mean... it would literally taint an "undefeated" streak. We can argue all day about the semantics of whether losing a Royal Rumble would "count" as a defeat or whatever. But why fuck with it at all when you don't have to?
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Large Marge sent me
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Not to me, but some seem dead set that it would. Gonna reach for an analogy....you know those games on the Price is Right where they have a rolling cash prize rather than just a trip/car or whatever? Like, if the top prize is 100k and the contestant walks away with 50k are you supposed to call them a loser?
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