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Spammy Certified
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Wrestlers you hated but now like...
Gene and Masters have really improved in my eyes if there was a European championship I'd put it on one of them.
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love yourself
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JBL when he first went to the JBL gimmick. If I am correct, everyone did.
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love yourself
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now we love him
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GO HABS GO!
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JBL sucks.
To answer the question, my response would have to be Viscera. As Mabel he did nothing for me. |
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So long, Eddie! miss you.
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Shawn Michaels.
as the heartbreak kid (early 90's), i used to despise him. - now, i really enjoy his work |
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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I've spoken highly of JBL for his mic skills since the gimmick was born. And equally willing to pan his ring skills...
Let's see... Kane: Never liked him early on. Oh look, a bland mirror undertaker. Talking unmasked serial killer Kane rocks. The Hurricane: Thought this gimmick was so stupid. Now I enjoy it. Heidenreich: The guy's gold. Unintentionally funny gold, but isn't that why Snitsky's still around? Triple H: In hopes that Vince'll fire him to screw the Smarks. Jeff Hardy: Because Shadow's got a gun to my head. |
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Herp a derp, and so on
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Eugene and Hassan: I wasn't too sure about their gimmicks at first, but then I grew to love them, mainly as wrestlers, not really gimmick-wise.
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The Satanic Mechanic
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It's Clobbering Time!
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JBL
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The Great Pink Hope
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I cringed when I first saw Eugene, but then his character and work in the ring (straddling La Resistance and riding them like a horsey -
![]() I suppose Christian would be the other one. In E & C, he was always the sidekick of the group, but now he's a badass mo fo. |
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Tîm Defaid
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Tîm Defaid
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I used to think Carlito was pretty crap in the ring, but lately I've been much more impressed with him, and he's now my favourite RAW guy at the moment.
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The Great Pink Hope
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I swear I was the only guy cheering for him in the entire MEN arena when Smackdown came over last October. It was only his second week and I feel priviledged that I got to see his first televised defence of his title. ![]() |
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Tîm Defaid
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Yeah, I've always loved Carlito's promo's, he's a really entertaining guy on the mic, I just found his wrestling a bit, you know, at first. But I find it a lot better now.
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Dave Youell 4 M O D
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when i was little i hated flair and loved rhodes but now i'm a huge flair fan
as far as the newer guys christian...there was a time when i despised him now i'm a huge fan carlito...same as christian heidenreich...i'm starting to really enjoy the big goofball angle...i could'nt stand him when he debuted but that only lasted about 4 months and i became a huge angle fan and still am today |
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Kurt Angle
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Yipee Kai Yay!!!
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Im gonna have to go with...
Hassan-I think everyone hated him in the beginning...it was only natural but now that hes gone everyone loves him and wants him back. Masters-For some reason im a fan of his...I dont know what it is. |
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Self-pity is my hobby...
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Chris Jericho
Christian Shawn Michaels |
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L.G. Fuad
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After seeing Masters live and in person wrestling i've actully started to like him, And i'm also starting to like Viscera.
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So fucking sexy.
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The Rock.
When I started really watching wrestling, Kevin Kelly was there, and the first interview I saw, Rock kept interrupting and calling him a hermaphrodite. In fact, the Rock was interrupting everyone and basically just being a dick. I could not fathom how he'd obtained a fanbase. I never really got used to it; I just noticed that the guys he fought were bigger dicks than he. Same with Austin. I was like...Why are you cheering this guy? If you walk up and say, "Hey, Steve, good match Monday," he'd give you a stunner. |
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I believe in Joe Hendry
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Christian and Carlito
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King K Cool
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Rey Mysterio.
When he first came to the WWE I hated him, I dunno why, I just did. But I sat down and watched him and I like him now, but that storyline he's in with Eddie, that really sucks. |
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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I still hate Rey Mysterio. KIDS should not be wrestling.
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Bastard Deer
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William regal.. Couldnt stand him originally
I think i changed my mind after lasts years Promo against Triple H. Was sheer gold now i really like him. |
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The Great Pink Hope
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When DDP's motivational speaker gimmick first aired, I was like
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The Franchise
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Edge
a month ago I absolutely despised him, but after that promo on RAW that he cut on Hardy I started to change my opinion a bit. Then I realized that Matt Hardy sucks and is followed by a bunch of marks. He also thinks he's the second coming of Jesus |
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The Great Pink Hope
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Edge is completely the opposite for me. Since E & C, all he's done is either smile (as a face) or growl (as a heel). He's limited in the ring and is a proven asshole out of it.
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JBL
Snitsky Viscera (ever since he got Mark Henry's gimmick, except he does it a lot better IMO). |
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One Man Horror Show
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Hei-den-HEIDENREICH. Hei-den-HEIDENREICH. He's a crappy wrestler, but he has really grown on me. I actually don't mind him carrying the tag belts for a while. The guy's got great promo skills. The feud with MNM brought out some pretty funny moments.
Hassan. OK, I don't agree with a lot of the Hassan apologists on the board here. In fact, I wasn't much a fan of Hassan before he came to Smackdown. Then came the terrorist angle. Tacky, yes. But it was one of the few wrestling film clips that I downloaded and my brother and I enjoyed. (Of course, most of the time, we were just laughing about how "wrong" the whole thing was.) The reason I don't agree with the apologists: while a lot are claiming that Hassan wasn't a terrorist and was never meant to be a terrorist, I lean toward the line of thinking that the WWE was headed toward the path that Hassan WAS a terrorist. So of course I was far more intrigued to see how that angle would unfold, maybe more for the "Can't keep my eyes off a train wreck" sort of aspect. Kurt Angle. I didn't even think of this until someone brought it up a few lines up. I really didn't think much of Angle about four or five years ago. I thought he was bland and he would never be able to match the top three trinity of Rock-Stone Cold-HHH. I'm more interested in the "entertainment" than the "sport" part of wrestling myself. Now with his bald look and his incredible real life commitment to wrestling (sometimes to a point of life-threatening risk like in WM19), I have more respect for Kurt Angle than anyone else in the ring... except maybe for Eddie Guerrero. And even there it's a toss up. Stick him in the crappiest angles, but Kurt is still the man. |
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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Tedious Inevitability
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The Rock
Chris Jericho Kurt Angle Chris Benoit Randy Orton |
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Spammy Certified
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Instant Credibility
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The one prime example for me personally was Bret Hart. I was a huge British Bulldogs fan as a kid, so I couldn't stand him as a tag wrestler, and it took me a while to warm up to him once he turned face and went solo. I finally came around after his match with Piper for the IC belt.
And seriously, to anybody who says Masters is "growing on you:" What exactly is winning you over? The god-awful matches or the incredibly dull promos? Is it just that you are enjoying the peace and quiet of a completely dead audience right in the middle of Raw...sort of a lull in the chaos to collect your thoughts? Tell me, what is it about Masters is winning you over? Because if I understand what you all are seeing, maybe I can understand why Masters just went over Shelton Benjamin. Maybe. |
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The Great Pink Hope
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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to PureHatred again.
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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Kiss the blade
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I dont wanna know...
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The Reckless One
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Shadow Conspircy leader
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Eugene. I hated the thought of a retard wrestling. Now I live to see a Eugen invitational if only for Cheerleader Christy.
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