04-16-2019, 04:39 PM | #1 |
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Harper has requested his release
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04-16-2019, 04:49 PM | #2 |
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A good talent, arguable should have been in WWE Title match at WM33.
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04-16-2019, 04:52 PM | #3 |
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I'm far from being of the mindset that AEW should just sign up every former WWE talent, because then you just turn into TNA.
But Brodie Lee is somebody who adds something different to the table for them. He's a big dude compared to most of the roster there, but he still moves really well for a guy his size and I think he could work well in a variety of roles. |
04-16-2019, 04:53 PM | #4 |
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Imagining Brodie Lee vs. Pentagon in a hardcore match and fuck that would be fun.
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04-16-2019, 04:54 PM | #5 |
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I'm going to start betting on the least popular guy in the group from now on because every time I faction starts up it's the people you never expect who end up staying Heath Slater Erick Rowan and at one point we did think Seth Rollins was going to be left behind in The Shield.
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04-16-2019, 04:55 PM | #6 |
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Absolutely SHOULD have, from a story perspective. Somehow, a bunch of writers, who SHOULD have some idea of what storytelling is, couldn't figure out why Harper got over with the story as it was told. But, because he wasn't Orton or Wyatt, who the official story as it was written was about, he gets a 6 month vacation.
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04-16-2019, 05:10 PM | #7 |
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Here's one of the more infuriating Vince stories I heard: he wasn't sold on Harper as a singles guy after his initial split from the Wyatt Family because he couldn't do a southern accent, and "a guy that looks like that needs to have a southern accent"
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04-16-2019, 05:21 PM | #8 |
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I hope his contract is about up
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04-16-2019, 05:27 PM | #9 |
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Yeah, I don’t see WWE granting him a release. Probably gonna have to wait til his contract is up
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04-16-2019, 06:21 PM | #10 |
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Great talent who deserves better. Him and Rowan as the Bludgeon Brothers was pretty fun.
Unless he's going to be another one-off release like Tye Dillenger, he's probably stuck until the end of his contract. |
04-16-2019, 06:35 PM | #11 |
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Brodie Lee vs. Minoru Suzuki
Just hook it to my veins |
04-16-2019, 06:44 PM | #12 |
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It made no sense that he was off TV just because Rowan was. Then the fact that Rowan came back to a solid spot, while Harper was stuck doing nothing was absurd. It is even worse considering he is the worker that carried Rowan in the tag team.
It's a shame WWE didn't give him better. All accounts are that he is well liked and a good dude, so hopefully WWE will do him a solid like they did for other likeable good dudes Tye Dillinger and Hideo Itami. |
04-16-2019, 08:59 PM | #13 |
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04-16-2019, 09:01 PM | #14 |
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Harper is one of the most talented guys that have and had an honorable run in an environment not for him. I hope they grant him a release given his age. If not, I hope they appease him with a push.
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04-16-2019, 10:20 PM | #15 |
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Love Luke Harper. He’s one of those guys who fits too well as a pro wrestler to be stuck in WWE.
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04-16-2019, 10:25 PM | #16 |
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Nah, BB was a shit gimmick. I hope to see Luke in AEW where he isn't a mute redneck horror character.
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04-16-2019, 10:32 PM | #17 |
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Bludgeon Brothers was a fine old school tag team but had no hope in today’s WWE where everything is hotshotted and has a 2 month shelf life at best.
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04-16-2019, 10:38 PM | #18 |
2 Dicks out for Trips
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you're better at the words. i agree
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04-16-2019, 10:44 PM | #19 |
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04-16-2019, 11:10 PM | #20 |
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I don’t know if I’d go THAT far. Bray was a master at making meaningless, directionless bullshit sound creepy and cryptic. He probably made the most promo-wise out of WWE’s nothingness storylines and character development over the past decade.
If that man had any substance to work with, he’d be a legend already. |
04-16-2019, 11:14 PM | #21 |
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Sad to see Harper go. He's turning 40 this year so I guess of he's gonna leave, now is the time.
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04-16-2019, 11:15 PM | #22 |
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I think people exaggerate how often Bray Wyatt’s promos were jibberish. Yes, the nonsense promos do exist, but more often than not, there was clear message there.
Love Wyatt promos. Fight me Triple A, you fuck. |
04-16-2019, 11:23 PM | #23 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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04-16-2019, 11:25 PM | #24 |
boop/bop/beep
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04-16-2019, 11:34 PM | #25 |
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Speaking of honorable run, he seems the type likely to show up at ROH.
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04-16-2019, 11:39 PM | #26 | |
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Based on a recent tweet, seems Alexander Wolfe might have also requested for a release and have his be granted.
EDIT: Never mind, he's staying according to a report from Pro Wrestling Sheet. Ryan Satin reported that the "Goodbye WWE" part is likely due to him getting pulled from the main roster in favor of going back to NXT. Quote:
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04-17-2019, 01:44 AM | #27 | |
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I'd say if they want to try hard to keep him, they need to do something like having him work with Hosses. Seriously, how much would a Baron Corbin benefit from having someone like Harper teaching him? Maybe he'd be something other than aggressively bland. If not, he will be fine. A guy that big who can talk, work, and play a believable gimmick will never be unemployed for long. |
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04-17-2019, 01:49 AM | #28 |
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04-17-2019, 01:53 AM | #29 |
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Quite a bit of that was making him look like shit in presentation, though. FCW/NXT Bray Wyatt was a scary and dangerous individual who had the big men with him, but was just as deadly, if not moreso, than his heavies. Main roster Bray was a glorified manager and usually did jobs and "babbled".
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04-17-2019, 01:54 AM | #30 |
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04-17-2019, 05:10 AM | #31 |
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It's a shame, as he's a solid worker for a man his size. But aw well, I'm so used to people being misused in WWE that I'm just not really phased by it anymore.
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04-17-2019, 05:51 AM | #32 |
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If their not gonna use him then they should just grant the guy his wish.
Makes good sense to send Alexander Wolfe back down to NXT, as much as I enjoyed Sanity very much there, their is no point having them as a collective if they are not used. EY will wrestle in Main Event, Wolfe to NXT, Killian Dain is an interesting one. The monster heel spot will be taken up by Lars Sullivan, which doesn’t leave room for him, maybe they could team him up with Nikki Cross. I’d even suggest sending him across to NXT UK so at least he gets to wrestle. |
04-17-2019, 12:39 PM | #33 |
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wrestletalk said his contract is up in November so I see him out till jan next year.
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04-19-2019, 05:07 PM | #34 |
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I was sort of hoping this stuff with the buzzard puppet (and now doll) was leading to a Harper return rather than a Bray thing in a bit of a swerve, and that maybe Eric Young moving to Raw would allow for Harper to recruit Sanity as his “family”, guess not on either count.
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04-19-2019, 05:10 PM | #35 |
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No, they should put their foot down and hold them to the contract. Keep them frozen until the end of the deal or release with conditions of no AEW for the length of the rest of the contract.
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04-19-2019, 05:13 PM | #36 |
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04-19-2019, 05:17 PM | #37 |
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Like, it'd be one thing if Harper was getting booked in shit storylines and wanted out. I wouldn't blame him for asking his release but would understand the company be like "hey, at least you're getting screen time" and playing hard ball to keep him under contract.
But he's not even being booked at all. He's been cleared for months and they've given him one house show, one Axxess match, and the Andre Battle Royal for which his return had zero follow up even during the Superstar Shake Up when they were debuting and re-introducing characters. Dude's nearly 40. Either use him or let him go. |
04-19-2019, 08:34 PM | #38 |
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Just let talent that don't want to be there go. Fuck.
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04-19-2019, 09:21 PM | #39 |
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I wonder if harper will sit out till November or will he job out on main event till then.
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04-19-2019, 09:26 PM | #40 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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Khan should pay you guys for the amount of ball washing you are doing for AEW.
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