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April Wrasslin' |OT| 2017 Season Premiere
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BewareTheBatsie
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doing the job on her last night of raw before jumping to sd along with being dropped right onto her neck
her and nia are really good friends in real life though so maybe she'll be cool with it, even if she was lucky to not end up with a broken neck
I'm from the camp people boo Roman because he is boring, overpushed AND over exposed. Vince logic will change to justify his actions. Regardless of how the crowd reacts, he will make sure to be "right", even if a character's "popularity" comes from the crowd wanting such character gone.
Majukun
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which doesn't make much sense since they are both after the title
BewareTheBatsie
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Everyone wants to be HBK so bad with this kicking out of the finishers constantly nonsense.
non-kayfabe wise the point of the spot was to have someone catch undertaker
and as you can see given snuka's son botched it, taker goes right down on his head
Majukun
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Everyone wants to be HBK so bad with this kicking out of the finishers constantly nonsense.
always found finishers in modern wrestling a bit silly..they are supposed to be powerful moves,but they can't be always the end all..especially when you see wrestler that uses someone's "normal moves" as finishers...why a bayley to bailey should hurt more than a belly to belly done by any other female wrestler?
or that cruserweight (if i remember correctly) that has Style's ushigoroshi as a finisher,while aj uses it as a normal (but powerful) move.
BewareTheBatsie
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I agree.
It does make me laugh when HHH does the same at 27 like he was trying to copy the hype (which he basically does because there's no fucking coincidence in his BBF having two great back to back matches with Taker at Mania only for HHH to do the same).
HBK's entrance at 25 was awesome too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHvw3H8FueU
SomewhatGroovy
Banned
Yeah I actually really like her as a person and think she comes off as one of the more sincere and nicest people back stage (her twitter page is legit awesome). I was an early fan of hers and was rooting for her. Still do but i do not deny she keeps taking steps backward and not forward. I hope she figures this out.
I did not care for Taker-HHH at 27. It especially didn't help that WWE aired these types of videos for weeks after the match too. I thought their match at 28 (End of an Era) was better.
We already had months of this before JBL got drafted to Smackdown last year.
He spent a good chunk of time literally wishing death upon Saxton
"If you were on life support I'd pull the plug to charge my iPhone."
"I wish you were never born ever..."
etc etc
Maybe this move is to make JBL finally snap on air so they can fire him.
It was really good. If I had to rate it for the local newspaper, I'd give it four and a quarter starz. Imagine how cool it would've been had kicking out of finishers not become commonplace. It was still effective, but it could have been more meaningful. That was the kind of match you should save that foolishness for. Ah well.
Yep.
Apparently when Angle first got the title, HHH complained that Angle was too short. Gerald Brisco then said that HHH should try to take down Angle. HHH decided not to.
One of my favorite backstage stories. Also, tere was the Steph, HHH and Angle story in which HHH told the writers that it wouldn't be believable that a woman would leave him for Kurt, and thus, for credibility's sake, it had to end.
HHH was/is so full of himself, man.
RecRoulette
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People saying Raw is going to be a better show after the Shakedown....
That got a legit laugh out of me.
Hahaha, 5,000 Romans walking down the ramp would be hilarious.
I was always under the impression that it ended because the writer left and WWE had no idea how to end it on their own. But that'd be hilarious if HHH ended the storyline for that reason.
Kayfabe is that the wreslter whole move set is to set up there finisher a move that they have been perfecting for years.
TarpitCarnivore
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Bringing Angle back as a manager for Team Angle 2.0 would have been way more fun than GM Angle. Now we'll just get catch phrase city
RecRoulette
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Raw has had some of the best segments in years (Festival of Friendship, The Assassination of Roman Reigns by the Hero Braun Strowman). I just hope the people they picked up get a better chance to shine than on SmackDown.
People saying Raw is going to be a better show after the Shakedown....
That was hilarious. Dasha was not hyped!
Braun is indeed a character with enough pull to make me want to tune in, even if I don't care about anything else on the show.
I can withstand finishers being kicked out of once in a while, but they do it every single PPV and even on the weekly TV show. It's total nonsense.
He's probably 5'10" or something (never go by WWE's claimed height and weight). Throw in neck injuries over the past decade, it's gonna drop him in size. Hogan had the same problem with his back.
SomewhatGroovy
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I don't want to be THAT guy, but Roman deserves every bit of kudos for putting himself on the receiving end of that beat down to give fans what they want.
Majukun
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so hogan "perfected" the leg drop? or the rock "perfected" the elbow drop?
never really saw finishers as something the wrestler has perfected more than other poeple... but no one ever gave me the kayfabe manual
"I've never seen anyone kick out of that before!"
According to Dave Meltzer, that WAS the reason haha
THEN STOP BEING THAT GUY!
Roman has always sold well enough, and he takes an ass kicking like no one else. He still sucks.
RecRoulette
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Yeah, edited stuff aside, he got fucked up during the first part of that brawl lol
SomewhatGroovy
Banned
But Caderfix, I'm not a good guy, I'm not a bad guy...I'm THAT guy
The only thing that a wrestler cannot kick out of is being hit by:
I really doubt that getting kicked by BronsonLee is going to hurt anyone.
BewareTheBatsie
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Roman bumps like a motherfucker. He threw himself about fifteen feet when Braun Strowman shoved him on the ramp that one time.
You know, unless they went ahead and used pre-shot footage for tipping the ambulance, I think it would have been safe for Roman to be in there when it was tipped over.
Majukun
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no he doesn't
he is just doing his job..and an easy part too
and even after that beatdown,he is stil in a better spot than other better wrestlers....i mean there are guys that job to nikki bella, those deserve a pat on the back
RecRoulette
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For sure, I meant the stretcher bit. I refuse to believe anything other than Braun tipping that ambulance over through pure strength.
Roman sold VERY well, it's not something common at all, only a few guys are actually capable to sell an "injury" and Roman is one of them. As for it being easy, taking bumps is far from it.
"Can he do the impossible?!"
Continuing my Raw festivities in late '96. Sunny... >_>
King on the Maivia match: "Good job there, pineapple head."
There was no assistance there. Dude was a former strongman champion.
Backlash 2009 will tickle your fancy.
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