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August Wrasslin |OT| The Sunday of Summer
- Thread starter Plywood
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So I was listening to the Vampiro interview on the Steve Austin show, and Vampiro mentioned how he felt he had to step in after feeling Pentagon Jr. was playing heel the "wrong way." And it got me thinking about one of the major issues I have with WWE booking in general, and that's the handling of characters.
Jim Ross brought it up during his Battleground review, which is that heels do not act like heels. Everyone is just so wrapped up in putting on a Meltzer approved five star match that no one seems to care about their characters. Doesn't matter that Rollins is a cowardly chickenshit heel, he's still going to do high risk daredevil maneuvers to please the crowd. Neither Sheamus or Wyatt don't do anything heelish at all in his matches. Owens has his suicide dive move, and still puts on his finisher spam matches where he plays exactly by the rules. Everyone has to have their WWE video game signature move to pop the crowd. If Reigns turned heel, I guarantee you he would still have his superman punch and corner dropkick.
And the reason this comes back to bite them is because nobody gets over. It encourages this feeling in the crowd where nobody has any strong feelings about anybody, because no one truly goes over anybody else.
Jim Ross brought it up during his Battleground review, which is that heels do not act like heels. Everyone is just so wrapped up in putting on a Meltzer approved five star match that no one seems to care about their characters. Doesn't matter that Rollins is a cowardly chickenshit heel, he's still going to do high risk daredevil maneuvers to please the crowd. Neither Sheamus or Wyatt don't do anything heelish at all in his matches. Owens has his suicide dive move, and still puts on his finisher spam matches where he plays exactly by the rules. Everyone has to have their WWE video game signature move to pop the crowd. If Reigns turned heel, I guarantee you he would still have his superman punch and corner dropkick.
And the reason this comes back to bite them is because nobody gets over. It encourages this feeling in the crowd where nobody has any strong feelings about anybody, because no one truly goes over anybody else.
You'd be salty too if a buncha nerds made the crowd hate you.
Sweeney Tom
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¡HarlequinPanic!
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Vampiro up for a TMF promotion in light of this interview? Was pretty good stuff
lovely ladies
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Anyone here want a dominono?
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Deleted member 47027
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I'm sure you know who will show
British Monsoon
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"PJ Black's winning the KOTM title in his TNA debut, made him more of a star than his entire WWE career"
If a tree falls in the woods and there's no one around to hear it...
*edit, same dude, holy shit. An actual person wrote this without any hint of irony;
"Bobby Lashley >>> Brock Lesnar"
If a tree falls in the woods and there's no one around to hear it...
*edit, same dude, holy shit. An actual person wrote this without any hint of irony;
"Bobby Lashley >>> Brock Lesnar"
Sibersk Esto
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get off tnamecca Boots
Have you watched and enjoyed any La Parka matches? Wondering how you feel about him considering your talk about LA Park
Also Bootaaay I need links
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La Parka for LU Season 2
He's terrible. He's the absolute worst. He feels like a caricature of WCW La Parka who's just living off the accomplishments of someone else.
Park >>>> Negra >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Parka
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Arn Anderson looks to get at the Beast
Die no. But you might pull, strain, tear, break something.
Looks like Amell is taking his training seriously
https://twitter.com/amellywood/status/631926092190715904
https://twitter.com/amellywood/status/631926092190715904
Sibersk Esto
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You might wish you were dead
La Parkas legacy will end up being the guy who gave us Pentagon Jr funnily enough
FlammableD
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VitaGaf out in force in that mascot thread.
I own a vita btw, for playing Hotline Miami on the way to work, honest
I just want to be able to do handstand pushups
that seems so cool
I wouldn't be caught dead doing this shit though:
I think I'll just replace those with normal person pull ups
anything that looks really dumb or is just a normal exercise with weird terrible crossfit form I'm just replacing with a normal exercise
overall that seth rollins workout seems pretty legit, though. only a couple of those weird, shitty exercises that look like I'm going to pull a sid vicious if I do it the wrong way
Death by BB Gun
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I wouldn't be caught dead doing this shit though:
I think I'll just replace those with normal person pull ups
I see zero proper pull ups here
lovely ladies
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Sweeney Tom
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The Champ Is Here
Lucha Dragons seems like a real weird pick compared with the others.
Ironically enough the most heel thing that anyone has done in the WWE recently was Rollins shoot breaking Cena's nose, having actual consequences with Cena not being on TV for two whole weeks. Something they'd never ever consider doing in the normal course of a Cena feud I'm sure.
The last thing that I remember being particularly evil was Rollins (again) nearly killing Edge after Survivor Series. Sadly that was all in service of getting the fucking Authority back in the picture.
FlammableD
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Catching up on NXT, when did Charlotte start goring people? It looks great.
In house move news, I had to throw out a Hybrid Dolphins shirt
In house move news, I had to throw out a Hybrid Dolphins shirt
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Most heelish thing Rusev has done is pick evil ryu.
FlammableD
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The matches are not the problem in WWE right now.
Masquerader
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Arn Anderson looks to get at the Beast
I'd be pretty scared if I was Lesnar.
Him and Hot Summer are being complete dicks to Lana right now. Hard not to feel bad for Lana when she gets a dead fish thrown at her.
slightconfuse
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Limbo training came in handy. Kind of
No need to call Ziggler names
slightconfuse
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I feel like she needs to get away from Dog Ziggler and things would be fine
Serpentine
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Yeah she apparently tried to confront Triple H at Piper's funeral then apologized for everything and almost got kicked out. There is no need to try and pull that shit at someone's funeral.
ElectricBlanketFire
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You want to see heel work? I'll show you heel work.
yeah i dont believe that