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April Wrasslin' |OT2| The Coronation of The King of Swing
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I often wonder how much better WWE would be if they didn't have to dedicate gimmicks and angles to John Cena. Like who would have won the WHC title to prepare for the title unification? Who would have won the Money In The Bank match to challenge Punk for the WWE title at Raw 1000 to do the Rock bs? Would Rock have still won the WWE title? Would The Nexus have had a run like The Shield has?
And boy, there are way too many examples of where Cena has been the direct cause of ruining shit on WWE.
Macho Madness
Member
Still crying about the Nexus in 2014?
Nocturnowl
Member
The highlight of Cena's short lived Smackdown tenure from that draft was his Kofi boom clapping.
Living up to his name I see.
Lambda Pie
Banned
i have a couple of really raw "viking" metal demos online:
https://soundcloud.com/z-carlos-10/prose-edda-02-ravens-carry-the
https://soundcloud.com/z-carlos-10/...-with?in=z-carlos-10/sets/prose-edda-tales-ep
Nocturnowl
Member
He's fine right now, until he reclaims the cursed IC title that is.
Getting the titles really for nothing else stands out. Notably recently when he lost to Bryan at SummerSlam, returns to face ADR for no reason and cleans him out (good way to build a heel, not like they lack those). Or when Punk did his one week absence in 2011 after the MitB PPV, they did a tournament to call for a new WWE champion, and he won that handily over Rey.
Wade Barrett is doing a little better right now than he has for a couple of years. Daniel Bryan is main eventing stuff. Darren Young is never going to be anything, especially with his current injury, but maybe he wasn't going to be anything anyway. Skip Sheffield is doing okay and his failure or success as a main eventer has very little to do with his Nexus run. Michael Tarver left in 2011, but who cares. Justin Gabriel is fucked, but probably didn't really stand a chance anyway, and might not even have had a main roster run without the Nexus. Heath Slater is way better at what he does right now than what he was when he was a more serious character. David Otunga wasn't going anywhere. Husky Harris is going to main event stuff. Michael McGillicutty had a shot as a new character and fucked up anyway (although a lot of people love him backstage for reasons no one really understands). Mason Ryan is fucked.
So overall the only people really hurt by the Nexus storyline falling apart were Mason Ryan, Darren Young and maybe Justin Gabriel.
This doesn't mean the storyline itself didn't suck as it happened, though.
So overall the only people really hurt by the Nexus storyline falling apart were Mason Ryan, Darren Young and maybe Justin Gabriel.
This doesn't mean the storyline itself didn't suck as it happened, though.
Spider from Mars
tap that thorax
Does Cena have time to put Rusev in his place in 2014?
They could have easily swapped in guys and replaced them, namely guys like Otunga and Gabriel who weren't really suited for those roles. Gabriel had a babyface look and moveset, so he was destined to part ways. Otunga's role really isn't in wresting, but out of the ring type of work. By properly building them up, giving them a proper tag team, enforcer, and so forth, it would have done many of the members better than what they've had for the past few years. And if so, they could have brought guys up from NXT. Barrett was perfect in that role of being a mouthpiece and really didn't do anything except be stuck in midcard hell trading meaningless titles back and forth with Kofi and Miz.
Macho Madness
Member
Never got the appeal of Wade Barrett. Still don't.
Marvel
could never
He has a cape.
There is none. He's British Miz.
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Marvel
could never
You can sit next to me at lunch.
Great talker, great wrestler
A good big man wrestler with great speaking ability.
Macho Madness
Member
Ding ding ding. I think you hit it.
Really can't. He's on the exact same level on the mic and in the ring as Miz. I can barely even remember any of Wade's moves other than his everchanging finisher.
Marvel
could never
Macho Madness
Member
Terrible indy shit.
What about the cape though, do you at least like that?
slightconfuse
Banned
i like wade. solid look, good wokrer , cool cape.
seems to have got his groove back
seems to have got his groove back
Marvel
could never
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
I loved that "Let's Do This?" sign recently. I think it was post-WM Raw.
What a weird moment in the Edge documentary. They act like Edge's first promo on that Smackdown pilot was the moment where everyone could tell he was going to be a star and Mick Foley claims he came up to him afterwards and said that... but that's a fucking terrible promo. It's the "beware... take care..." one and the crowd goes quiet out of indirect shame of Edge's shaky voice.
British Monsoon
Member
What always irks me about Wade is that he has a striking finisher yet his strikes suck. Sure, Dolph made it look awesome the other week, but it's Dolph.
Yep, for such a 'legit' brawler, he looks weak as fuck. Combine that with the fact that he's got no bulk, he looks like a joke. And why would a 'tough guy brawler' wear a fucking cape? Bad News Brown came out in plain black tights and wore no flair because the whole point was that he wasn't doing all the flashy wrestling shit.
Wade comes out in his special made trunks and his fucking cape.
Dragonzord, just because you have roses doesn't mean you're not a tough guy.
What about him?!
slightconfuse
Banned
Wade is like heavy D from KOF
Actually, Cena wasn't in that tourney. Rey won the tourney (in first match of the night on the second RAW after MITB), then fought off a cash in attempt by ADR, then HHH told him he'd have a second match against Cena for the title that night. It was clearly a rush to get that Cena-Punk faceoff at the end of the night, but it's still bad writing because it makes Cena look like an undeserving blowhard which clearly wasn't the point. That and it rushed the payoff to Punk leaving, which also sucked.
He also has a special podium built so he can troll the entire audience for no reason. Besides, a straight tough-guy gimmick is taken by Brock Lesnar. Wade's gimmick is two steps closer to typical wrestling gimmicks than that, he just uses strikes. Or a strike.
FallingEdge
Member
I love Wade Barrett. I bought an action figure of his yesterday. Complete with cape!
bean breath
Member
Why oh why did I subscribe to the WWE Network?
I'd rather have 20 Jack in the Box tacos a month instead (it'd actually be 38 tacos because I do the surveys on the receipt for free tacos, that's hard times, daddy!)
I'd rather have 20 Jack in the Box tacos a month instead (it'd actually be 38 tacos because I do the surveys on the receipt for free tacos, that's hard times, daddy!)
That's not hard to do honestly, but yeah their tacos are p good
bean breath
Member
No. They're deep fried and the "meat" is the consistency of paste.
-BUT
They're two for 99¢. I think Taco Bell charges upwards of $1.30 for one taco. When you're broke and hungry, JITB tacos are like a gift from God.
Dudley wouldn't call himself a tough guy. Wade would.
bean breath
Member
Pretty standard Mexican fair. Deep frying tortillas is how you get Doritos, perro.
Carnby
Member
From what Mic said on a Round Table episode, they didn't plan for Edge to do a promo. Doc was interviewing Gangrel, and it was going so bad that Doc asked if Christian and Edge had anything to add. Christian refused the mic, but Edge did his best to cut a impromptu promo.
I don't get Doritos.
I stay Doritos.
It was a stupid idea to expect a pretty average talker to cut a promo with plastic fake vampire teeth.
