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06-01-2019, 11:56 AM | #82 |
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06-01-2019, 12:09 PM | #83 |
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I don’t think Ambrose thinks he’s all that. He described being WWE champion as “cool”, not that he felt he was owed a reign.
Just that he knows his character would’ve been more compelling had he been alllwed to write his own stuff. He got signed mostly because of his promo abilities and they took the creative aspect away from him. |
06-01-2019, 12:30 PM | #84 |
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In-ring Dean isn't exactly perfect. But I think his character work will shine in AEW. I don't know if he's a "top guy" but he can be an important player IMO.
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06-01-2019, 01:20 PM | #85 |
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06-01-2019, 01:51 PM | #86 |
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06-01-2019, 02:46 PM | #87 |
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He's certainly not HBK in the ring, nor The Rock on the mic, or anything, but, 1. I think his promo work when he's more or less unscripted and his promos are allowed to actually make sense and have a purpose puts him at the top of the industry currently, and 2. I think his in ring work is good enough to be a major main event AEW player and I'm really interested to see his in ring work when he's allowed to work outside of WWE's "same match every night/week" in ring style, especially with the other non-WWE talent he's going to get to potentially work with in the ring.
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06-01-2019, 03:57 PM | #88 |
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Ambrose definitely comes off as a star. Especially in a world where Adam Page is probably gonna be the top guy.
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06-01-2019, 06:59 PM | #89 |
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06-01-2019, 07:00 PM | #90 |
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MOX was "emancipated?"
What's next, the "Connecticut compromise" (to speak-of where WWE is headquartered) and the "Underground Railroad" (to speak nothing-of Lucha Underground, which is anti-emancipation)? |
06-01-2019, 07:21 PM | #91 | |
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Austin, Hogan, 90's Shawn Michaels, they would told Vince they aren't doing it and that would be it. Not saying they were more professional than Dean, walking out clearly is not, but when they say they fought, that is the difference. Hell, even good found Jesus Shawn Michaels didn't like how they booked his match with Hogan, so he bumped like a total assailed during their match, which was amazing btw. |
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06-01-2019, 07:30 PM | #92 |
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I used to really love Ambrose. Those Shield six-men tags were great. He had this cool charisma about him. He felt like a lead presence on the shows. At some point, he just fell off this massive cliff for me. It was probably around 2016 when he got demolished by Brock and then had that shitty program with Chris Jericho.
He has never captured my imagination again. Some of the clips I saw him in with Seth Rollins were kind of endearing, but he's just been...dull. And I mention 2016 as being his falling off point, but I can't tell you anything he did in 2015. It could be a motivation problem, and WWE clearly micromanages and had this "zany, wacky" outline for him. But I'm not immediately stoked to see Jon Moxley anywhere. I don't care. His hype videos washed away a lot of the stigma I had towards him, but it's weird how up-and-down I feel about this guy I used to be a really big fan of. |
06-01-2019, 08:19 PM | #93 |
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He doesn't know how to sell
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06-01-2019, 08:22 PM | #94 | |
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It's not the same landscape. Austin has even said he couldn't succeed in this environment. |
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06-01-2019, 09:08 PM | #95 |
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He is not great at anything, but Becky Lynch isn’t either and she is the most over person (or at least was) in WWE despite them doing their best to ruin it.
Fact is, he is the biggest story in wrestling right now. If he is anywhere near as good at the creative side as he seems to think he is, he could smash this out of the park. Up to him now to prove that it was “all them” |
06-01-2019, 09:14 PM | #96 |
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I get what you're saying there, Maluco, but just because one person isn't the best at anything doesn't mean that someone else that also isn't the best at anything is going to be able to succeed. It just doesn't disqualify them from truly connecting.
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06-01-2019, 11:45 PM | #98 |
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PWTorch revealed the topics to be discussed during their part 2 interview with Moxley
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06-02-2019, 12:24 AM | #99 |
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I do think he needs to be careful making the rounds with his complaining about how bad Vince is.
It was ok for the first time he talked on Jericho's show. I haven't listened, but if Wade asked him about the stuff he said in Jericho's show and to elaborate, I still think that is ok. I think that is enough though, you don't want to make your entire narrative that Vince is dumb because he didn't use you like you would have liked and you are so good that he messed up and blah blah. Going forward, forget WWE and Vince exist, and just make your narrative that you are taking over AEW. |
06-02-2019, 12:53 AM | #100 |
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He's doing a few podcasts after years of being silent and even being criticized for such. It's fine for him to get stuff off his chest and bring people closer to him with honesty. I doubt he's still doing this same thing forever.
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06-02-2019, 12:56 AM | #101 |
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To be fair, he's not really revealing anything ground breaking new when it comes to Vince being out of touch. Just puts it into perspective all the blame he was getting as a wrestler for Vince's shortcomings and why he was losing passion working there after a while.
Bunch of former writers, employee, and wrestlers have mentioned similar things about Vince's terrible creative habits and work environment for years. |
06-02-2019, 01:44 AM | #102 | |
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06-02-2019, 01:46 AM | #103 |
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I do think there is a lot of truth to this, but I also believe that Ambrose (along with many other wrestlers) simply weren't maximized to their potential due to improper logistics (i.e. being given scripts that do not match their characters, not having proper creative freedom, etc.). It will be interesting to see how Ambrose does in AEW.
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06-02-2019, 05:09 AM | #104 |
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Since I've seen a couple of people posting their opinion on Jon Mox as a worker, star etc... I thought I'd give my two cents. There was always a way to describe Mox as a cross between Piper and Funk or whomever, Pillman, Austin, whomever. But I think we will see that he is really one of a kind. When I've seen him live I swear there is something about him ever time, no matter what bullshit he was booked to do. When I saw him in the ring live he had an electricity to him that I've only really seen from Rey Misterio Jr...
When Mox hits the ropes, or takes a powder, or is laying in punishment or even taking it. There is a charisma there that I can only describe as very (Terry) Funky. He's lucky as hell he got out at this time and had such an amazing impact on AEW on their first show. All of the things he is saying now, it needs to be said by someone who has been there like he has. We all know it but it needs to be said so maybe something can start to be done. Some awareness that Vince is actually ruining wrestling. |
06-02-2019, 06:21 AM | #105 |
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Moxley gets a lot of points from me for being a unique character in an era where it's really not very common.
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06-02-2019, 11:25 AM | #106 | |
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It obviously doesn’t mean that anyone can succeed, but it does mean that the chains are gone and that there should be no barriers in working hard and forcing people to notice. Especially with this attention he is getting straight out of the box |
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06-02-2019, 11:41 AM | #107 |
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I have faith in new Mox, shortcomings in the ring or not. There's a lot of guys who've been worse than him in the ring who've done quite well for themselves.
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06-02-2019, 02:16 PM | #108 |
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That's one point people are making that I disagree with completely. Yes he in unorthodox in style, but that is by no means bad. In fact I think that is what makes him better. I've never once doubted his in ring ability, different is a major plus.
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06-02-2019, 06:13 PM | #109 |
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There’s things he does I like. Others I don’t. Overall he is solid - just tended to miss during marquee moments where he could have set himself apart. I think he will be much more clutch in AEW.
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06-02-2019, 06:49 PM | #110 |
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I love Dean Ambrose and he was horribly misused. He has me very interested in AEW by himself.
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06-02-2019, 06:56 PM | #111 | |
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Then the Austin interview happened, and he kind of biffed his own push, so much so that they took the title off him they next month. Had he not botched so badly that interview, where he came across as very mid card, he probably wouldn't have been pigeon holed into the glory crazy guy. |
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06-03-2019, 01:52 AM | #112 |
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Lol The Austin interview had nothing to do with anything. He got the same half-assed push everyone who gets a title run nowadays gets.
I’m tempering my expectations for AEW but I have full faith in Moxley. He has... something. There’s an aura there that is rare nowadays. |
06-03-2019, 03:43 PM | #113 |
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06-03-2019, 04:24 PM | #114 |
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His rebound clothesline got slower and clumsier every time he did it. Like RVD's stepover spin kick.
Like, it's so slow now that it's comical seeing his opponent just watch him bounce off the ropes and wait there for the clothesline. It looked fucking awesome when he first did it though. |
06-03-2019, 04:27 PM | #115 |
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Also, selling is a WWE problem rather than an Ambrose problem.
I'd say the majority doesn't sell. Which makes me wonder whether it's the wrestlers themselves or if it has something to do with who is plotting out their matches. |
06-04-2019, 07:57 AM | #116 |
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It might be a company philosophy, but it might also be largely that some people just can't do it well nor see the importance in it. It's not really en vogue on the indies. It's probably a multi-faceted problem where the company is to blame for a lot of it, but the wrestlers also have their share in the responsibility, and many of them probably couldn't sell even if they wanted to.
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06-04-2019, 09:30 AM | #117 | |
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Some of it may have to do with how unmotivated he was as his run kept petering out. |
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06-04-2019, 09:50 AM | #118 |
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I remember feeling so weird when he signed with WWE in the first place. This is a guy who had made a name for himself working a lot of violent, deathmatch-style matches and his promos, while brilliant, were far from PG. Lots of F fucking bombs.
Like, he deserved to be signed but it shocked me that they had interest in him but it seemed like they were destined to have a clash of ideas. They were actually going to reference this. He was supposed to be Mick Foley's "last feud ever" in 2012 with Dean blaming Mick for a generation of fans mutilating themselves via deathmatches and backyard wrestling. No idea how they'd have pulled it off in a PG climate which is probably why it got axed in the first place. Probably for the best, Mick probably would've felt the need to take one last big bump despite being 47 years old at the time. |
06-04-2019, 09:57 AM | #119 | |
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Couldn't you imagine Vince telling Mox he's throwing that clothesline to fast and he needs to "SLOW IT DOWN, PAL" so the audience can take it all in? |
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06-04-2019, 12:13 PM | #120 | |
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