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07-02-2018, 11:11 PM | #282 |
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Bobby Lashley has the opportunity to beat up Roman Reigns at Extreme Rules. He gets to beat up Roman Reigns. They could potentially position him as the biggest babyface ever. A SummerSlam match between Brock Lesnar and Bobby Lashley could be established as huge. Now it feels like it would need to rely on everything Lashley has ever been outside the WWE -- which is smaller-scale stuff.
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07-02-2018, 11:11 PM | #283 |
Cranky Kong
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It was in a toilet, too.
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07-02-2018, 11:12 PM | #284 |
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Ride Along has Rusev Day and the IIconics, if anyone gives a shit. Hearing Lana speak normally is jarring.
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07-02-2018, 11:13 PM | #285 |
2 Dicks out for Trips
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07-02-2018, 11:15 PM | #286 |
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07-02-2018, 11:19 PM | #287 |
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It was outside. Kevin was hiding in it. Braun figured it out and taped him inside before dragging the port-a-let to ringside and shoving it off the stage.
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07-02-2018, 11:20 PM | #288 |
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The IIconics are playing 'Fuck, Marry, Kill' on this Ride Along.
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07-02-2018, 11:26 PM | #289 |
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Only logical explanation is the spirit of SD shit in RAW's port a potty
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07-02-2018, 11:29 PM | #290 |
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How many people is Roman even feuding with right now? Lashley, The Revival, Ziggler, McIntyre, the Raw Management apparatus, the ghost of Brock Lesnar....
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07-02-2018, 11:44 PM | #291 |
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07-03-2018, 02:05 AM | #292 |
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I actually wouldn't mind that as a little gimmick in a game. Makes playing with him far more rewarding.
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07-03-2018, 02:29 AM | #293 |
I W C DEEZ NUTZ!
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07-03-2018, 02:45 AM | #294 | |
I W C DEEZ NUTZ!
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No, really asking, because I haven't seen the show yet. I just now came across a "full show" and not a bunch of WWE sancioned, super abridged clips. I feel mixed emotions, honestly. I said I hoped for exactly this last week, but it was really in jest because I didn't really think they'd do it. I actually figured they would just use "therapy" as a way to write Bayley off of TV for a couple of weeks until she changed her look and they Nakamura'd her music upon the next Sasha beatdown. Bonus if she says exactly that in her promo. |
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07-03-2018, 02:53 AM | #295 |
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Pipe dream WWE would never do: Ziggler, Drew, and Revival claiming the mantle of the Horsemen.
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07-03-2018, 03:41 AM | #296 |
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I heard that Bayley "snapped" and turned heel or whatever, which is bittersweet. But then I heard she was going to be sent to get therapy or whatever. My first thought was "I hope they just shit all over this and bring back Dr. Shelby." Best character the WWE has introduced in the last six years, but that's not a good thing.
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07-03-2018, 03:46 AM | #297 |
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Although watching these segments, they are absolutely awful and character-killing. I cannot believe the WWE wants an Emmy.
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07-03-2018, 03:52 AM | #298 |
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Oh god, I watched the Braun vs. Owens segment.
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07-03-2018, 07:28 AM | #299 | |
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Now-a-days it seems really hard to slow build into a heel turn. Also, Braun should be forced to go into therapy. |
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07-03-2018, 09:53 AM | #300 |
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07-03-2018, 01:09 PM | #301 |
Inno Knows.
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in the membrane?
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07-03-2018, 02:19 PM | #302 | |
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07-03-2018, 02:55 PM | #303 |
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WWE attempting comedy.
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07-03-2018, 03:47 PM | #304 |
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Raw has been nearly unwatchable lately. Just terrible stories and bland matches.
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07-03-2018, 06:42 PM | #305 |
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I'm half watching waiting for a segment I'm actually interested in, but it just isn't coming.
I just find myself not caring through the entire show. I just watch out of habit. If someone like me, who has been watching wrestling for almost twenty years, struggles to watch this stuff, how the hell are casual fans still watching? |
07-03-2018, 11:11 PM | #306 |
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07-04-2018, 07:58 AM | #307 |
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They have either forgotten or don't know how face/heel dynamics and turns work. Bayley has had her turn, but they are going to try and get too cute by having her tease being better so they can turn her again and no one will care.
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07-04-2018, 08:00 AM | #308 | |
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1) They're not. The demographics reveal that it's older fans that still watch and keep this thing alive. 2) I think the idea is that younger generations are so used to gentrified and passionless wrestling without any sort of alternative that they accept it. They won't have any framework for what is good or interesting anymore, and they will be easy to cater to, because anything will do. |
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07-04-2018, 09:45 AM | #309 |
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Sounds like Orton-Rollins all over again. Remember when Orton got curb stomped and then made his return like a one man wrecking crew to get revenge on Rollins and then he just... re-joined The Authority so he could turn face again? It's crazy how the simplest storytelling is like brain surgery to them.
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07-04-2018, 09:51 AM | #310 |
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It's like they wanna hotshot everything but also go with a mind-numblingly slow burn at the same time. It doesn't make sense.
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07-04-2018, 05:18 PM | #311 | |
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It's sad they've gotten Bayley to the point where they've had to turn her, anyway. I'm not her biggest fan, and there are obvious holes in her game (big ones, actually), but the goodwill with the niche live audiences was there. You book around her and try and tell a story of her needing to adjust to the main roster -- the sort of stuff they are giving to Ronda Rousey now to take away her bad-ass edge. She really should have been a babyface for YEARS until they get to the point where her heel turn is genuinely shocking and should have been comparable, if obviously not as big, to the Hulk Hogan heel turn. "Good Girl Gone Bad" should have been a teaser on magazine covers after she turned. Instead it's just another failed NXT gimmick switching allegiance. And then they try and throw a wet blanket over that the following week. |
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07-15-2018, 11:42 PM | #312 | |
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How dare you keep watching our shit! We'll show you! |
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07-16-2018, 03:14 AM | #313 |
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They think what they do is good storytelling. It isn't. It's bad.
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