ElectricBlanketFire
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Not even the Orton one?
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Not even the Orton one?
Perspicacity
Banned
He's an all time great
I think WWE forgot there can be different kinds of faces. It's been like this for almost a decade now. At least, that's how it feels like.
Everyone defaults to goofy cornball when they reach the top. It's the template.
Because they want him to be the top guy, and have an extremely specific idea what "top guy" entails. This includes talking a lot, which he can't do at all, and being very family friendly Cena-esque, which doesn't work for him at all.
So in a manner of speaking, the same very specific narrowminded thinking that got them to peg him as the next top guy is the same thing that's causing them to book him in such a way that he never will be. They want "Cena 2". They forget none of the top guys have been a copy of the previous top guy, and those attempts that were failed.
aspiegamer
Member
Via schadenfreude, yes, actually, but that's beside the point. It would indeed be the ultimate heat.
You "think" that? Because I know you know better. But in all seriousness, I do agree that even the WWE is wise enough to not do it. It'd be the biggest possible insult going out. Funny thing is that if Cena came out I'd find it sincere. Triple H coming out for some hugs would be nice.
The rest of RAW is going to be terrible because no one is going to care about any of it, no matter how hard anyone else tries.
Deadly Joker
Member
Goosebumps.
Ravensmash
Member
Reigns needs the old school Batista booking. Keep your words short and sweet, and just go and murder people out there every week. It worked then, and it even worked before then for others like Goldberg. It'll work now too. It always works.
Look at Barack. He's basically getting that, and it's worked really well. Fans went from being indifferent to genuinely liking him. Granted, he's only there about 12 times a year, but it's similar in principle.
You can't be an underdog with no emotions or reactions and a badass at the same time. Pick one. In this case, the latter fits Reigns.
Look at Barack. He's basically getting that, and it's worked really well. Fans went from being indifferent to genuinely liking him. Granted, he's only there about 12 times a year, but it's similar in principle.
You can't be an underdog with no emotions or reactions and a badass at the same time. Pick one. In this case, the latter fits Reigns.
slightconfuse
Banned
Well always have mania 30
When were fans indifferent to Brock?
When he was putting over Cena and HHH. Brock's modern run really didn't take off until he squashed Cena.
Pretty much all the time after his first match with Cena. He basically became irrelevant until Joan Cena was squashed by him two years later. Crowds didn't react, and were mostly either silent or giving him that light interest reserved for the jobbers on the roster.
It was all about his opponents. It's a huge difference compared to now when it's pretty much all about him.
"Now you're going to want to pick a durable brand of trash bag to cut up for your tights, here's the brands I've found to be best..."
Liquidsnake
Banned
Wow I don't remember it that way at all.
Tater Tots!
That's a name I'm surprised to see there. Carniest promoter that ever carnied if you ask me.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
I still maintain the opinion that Brock's best match of his modern run was the one against Punk in 2013. That match also had the best buildup of any other modern Brock match. Punk vs Brock was hype.
He came back and F5'd Cena, people were hot for Brock, then he lost to Cena at Extreme Rules. After that he was kayfabe breaking HHH's arm at minor PPVs and then losing to him at Mania. Outside of one really good match with Punk, his return run was really unremarkable until he squashed Cena at Summerslam.
funkystudent
Member
So how do you think they handle the Bryan stuff later?
Save it for the end of the show? Get it done at the start and just do a regular RAW for the rest of the show?
No matter what the crowd is going to be chanting his name for most of the show.
Save it for the end of the show? Get it done at the start and just do a regular RAW for the rest of the show?
No matter what the crowd is going to be chanting his name for most of the show.
Punk/Taker and Punk/Brock were legit great.
Punk heeled the fuck out for that Taker storyline and STILL got half the crowd to chant his name against Taker in a WM match.
It's funny because it looked like Cena was legit getting his ass kicked in that match.
The Cena-Brock first match back for him was a good one. More believable than the one against Punk. The ending was terrible, but you expected that from them since he left them like he did and he went out and succeeded without them. The first Triple H match was alright though the last two were terrible. It came down to the whole thing with Triple H-Taker of while he lost, he wanted to still keep himself on their level. "You won the battle, but I won the war!" ??? Fuck off.
I think right at the beginning in an attempt to shut the crowd up.
Bryan chants will be strong the entire night. He's fucking retiring in his home town. Even if Bryan wasn't on the show in any capacity there still would have been chants.
avengers23
Banned
La Sombra is sitting there, "Hello darkness my old friend" playing in his head.
Perspicacity
Banned
John Cena had a horseshoe up his ass in that Extreme Rules match and two years later Brock pulled it out and beat him over the head with it
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
Probably near the beginning, like they did with Michaels and Edge. Doubt he's getting the Flair treatment with the whole locker room coming out.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Did people actually watch that Brock Cena match at Extreme Rules? Cena may have won, but Brock looked like a fucking monster and was booked almost exactly the same as the rematch where Brock beat Cena for the title. Cena has a comeback at the end with use of a chain and steel steps. For the rest of the match Brock was murdering him. It wasn't until Brock fought HHH that Brock looked like a human, and even then he broke his arm and won. Lost at Mania but got the win back immediately. Brock looked very strong even early in modern run.
The show was 2 hours back then and they did the edge retirement at 10pm. The show is now 3 hours so I don't know when they are going to do it now.
UberTag
Member
Edge's retirement announcement wasn't in his hometown, either. It was in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Not sure they can wait here because they announced the news in advance.
Perspicacity
Banned
The booking was so similar to Mir/Lesnar I and II that Dana probably had grounds to sue
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
This made me laugh. Very true.
Conrad Link
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-...zealand-pro-wrestling-live-show-in-five-years
WWE announce they're finally coming back and doing a show live in my country (New Zealand) for the first time in 5 years...
...on the same day my favorite wrestler retires.
I'm really quite upset over the Daniel Bryan stuff. I always held out hope he'd at least be HBK and come back randomly years later for another awesome run. Really just have such an empty feeling.
It is not fair at all.
WWE announce they're finally coming back and doing a show live in my country (New Zealand) for the first time in 5 years...
...on the same day my favorite wrestler retires.
I'm really quite upset over the Daniel Bryan stuff. I always held out hope he'd at least be HBK and come back randomly years later for another awesome run. Really just have such an empty feeling.
It is not fair at all.Ravensmash
Member
I don't really think this is a work at all, but it's interesting that wwe still have Bryan scheduled in for signing appearances towards the end of Feb.
TimeEffect
Member
He also looked pretty fallible facing CM Punk.
slightconfuse
Banned
Arrowgigantic
Member
Can't they have Bayley just hug him until he's better?
I am in the bargaining stage.
I am in the bargaining stage.
Professor Beef
Banned
Just move to acceptance like everyone else did before the Rumble.
That video still gives me goosebumps. That and the fact that even after that segment Vince was going to do Sheamus vs Bryan at Mania.
UberTag
Member
I'm still convinced that's the direction they would have run with had CM Punk not gone AWOL.
Arrowgigantic
Member
Professor Beef
Banned
Then have fun being sad, I guess