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April Wrasslin' |OT| 2017 Season Premiere
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there have been in the past, dunno how many now. one guy has a nick named after it.
i was listening regularly until the AWA episodes (didn't care), haven't checked back in since, but i probably will again.
heard they took a shit all over this year's mania though, which i can't really be bothered listening to, since i thought it was all right.
SomewhatGroovy
Banned
Have you, Bluekaveli?
slightconfuse
Banned
In case you missed it DDP getting worked into a shoot.
He starts cursing on ESPN
He starts cursing on ESPN
http://www.complex.com/sports/2017/...s-at-dan-le-batard-during-live-espn-interview
So shit on every week?
The best there ever was, actually.
The Strokes
Banned
Nah, the goat.
Damn Silly
Member
So I've continued the Mania rewatching while I still have the Network, and I've got to say, I did get a twinge of sadness hearing Taker's theme.
Also Roman should totally team up with Jinder and they can be called Roman Veins. Why yes, I do just base tag teams out of whatever shite puns I think of.
Also Roman should totally team up with Jinder and they can be called Roman Veins. Why yes, I do just base tag teams out of whatever shite puns I think of.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
Oh shit.
Jesus Christ. I guess this is about what you can expect from someone as carney as DDP.
[GWF FRONT OFFICE OFFICIALS ARE TRYING TO SIGN BLUEKAVELI IN ORDER TO MAKE THE BLUE VS ZACH ANGLE HAPPEN]
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm sure Jinder doesn't give a damn if some fat fan thinks he's too buff given that most of us never will or could get that buff.
The real comedy is when Rusev comes back, the fans are happy to see him and Lana and he immediately goes into some kind of "fuck america" promo and we realize he's still a heel for no real reason.
HazySaiyan
Banned
God Sami is so fucking great, they've just completely wasted the poor guy.
BewareTheBatsie
Member
I fear we're never going to see Kane wrestle again.
I mean that more in a way that he'll never get a proper send-off kind of way.
I mean that more in a way that he'll never get a proper send-off kind of way.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The thing I was thinking yesterday after Raw is that Vince might have a point at this juncture to not turn him heel. (He didn't for the last three years)
Turning him heel isn't calculated to do anything but make him get less of a reaction.
Turning him heel isn't calculated to do anything but make him get less of a reaction.
I really wonder if someone in the company thinks Sami should be having Daniel Bryan popularity by now.
Only way I could get that big is juicing. No way am I taking anything more then protein drinks and creatine.
blackaroni
Member
Looks like someone needs to sign up for some DDP yoga.
BewareTheBatsie
Member
They most definitely do. I've said it before but WWE are basically giving Sami booking to intentionally be a Daniel Bryan underdog, completely missing the fucking point that people like Daniel, or Zack or on the woman side Becky or Bayley were underdogs because creative just genuinely had nothing for them but they managed to gain support nonetheless.
The Strokes
Banned
Every time I remember the pop he had in the Raw after Mania last year I cry.
HazySaiyan
Banned
They probably thought that constantly treating him like shit would get him over as an underdog, but forgot that Bryan got over naturally, in part because he WAS the underdog. All they've done with Sami is make him look like a jabroni.
My favorite pic from SDL this past year.
Soulless brother just standing there
BewareTheBatsie
Member
How can someone be a favorite when it involves Ziggler?!
blackaroni
Member
It's Ziggler getting berated. I'll allow it.
HazySaiyan
Banned
Ziggler's the butt of the joke though so it works
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
My favorite pic from SDL this past year.
Where did you find this?
Did you know in 1984 Vince didn't poach talent, buy TV time, book arenas just to fuck with competition (even if he didn't have the card for a show) but he also filled the airwaves with over 9 HOURS of TV per week. In 1984! You had 3 syndicated shows (3 hours), All American (1 hour), Tuesday Night Titans (1.5 to 2 hours), Prime Time Wrestling (2 hours).
Time is a flat circle.
Time is a flat circle.
FlammableD
Banned
Clearly this means Roman Reigns is working intended.
Speaking of the 80's, does anyone know exactly what factors contributed to so much drug abuse back then?
Watching matches of that time, while they clearly still took bumps, they definitely seemed a lot tamer and slower than modern times, but painkiller abuse was as rampant as ever.
So why is it not as bad today? Better medical services? Less wrestling in general? More attention on how to take bumps better?
Uno Venova
Banned
HAHA I saw what Matt posted on Twitter. Broken gimmick confirmed dead.
Speculation of them slowly bringing it back never made sense to me either, older people are too informed these days.
Speculation of them slowly bringing it back never made sense to me either, older people are too informed these days.
Medical advances plus the WWF schedule in the 80s was absolute insanity.
Seeing as Vince wanted to be EVERYWHERE immediately, he didn't just do it in nice, set out tours like they do nowadays. Whenever he saw an open arena booking in a rival territory he would just take it and just make the boys work it be-damned if they had 2 shows the day previous half way across the country.
And of course, mental health stigma/be a man/stiff upper lip leading to people carrying injuries far longer than they should have.
Rip Matt and maybe Jeff.
slightconfuse
Banned
Working non stop and being on the road 300 days. There was no guaranteed money unless you wrestled so guys would put all sorts of shit in their body
BewareTheBatsie
Member
I think the Hardy's are fine with the nostalgia run while also basically getting chants related to the Broken gimmick. And it seems they've got the okay to encourage the Delete chants.
The Strokes
Banned
The Hardyz will do fine, the Broken gimmick is too attached to them at this point people will continue to cheer for them and do their chants.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
What is the next SD PPV? From what I can tell they don't have one scheduled until Backlash in mid-May.
Ah thanks, wasn't so sure about the intensity of the schedule back then but that makes perfect sense.
BewareTheBatsie
Member
Backlash.
Edit: Shit, didn't see your edit. Sorry, my bad. Yeah it's Backlash. With Payback at the end of April and then a couple weeks until May.
So they've got more then a month of just Smackdown's. Makes me wonder what stuff they'll do.
Uno Venova
Banned
A nostalgia run that will get old in a few months, and no more fun promos or video packages seems like a complete net negative for wrestling. That return pop wasn't even close to worth it.
ramoisdead
Member
WWE would probably have Matt brought the Broken gimmick to the organization down the road but since it's caught up in legal ties, makes no sense to risk it.
Which is probably why the Hardys agreed to work in the WWE since they were planning to do it over at ROH until that C&D from Anthem was released. Might as well get more money if they are just going to be doing the ol' Hardys' shtick. Like I said before, Matt is very creative so who knows if he can cook something up during his time with WWE.
I will not lie, I am impressed with what they did considering the hype of the Final Four finals. (I am not a fan but it was a thing).
I think that next week will be interesting after this last Raw was so solid
I still say WWE will do their own version of the broken gimmick. As it was, the broken gimmick would have never worked in WWE. They would never have got the creative and production freedom they had with it and they would have never went on the world tour thing collecting all the belts with it. I think WWE can do their own thing with something like that and be as successful without being a copy of it.
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