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So artsy. Looks great though.
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February Wrasslin' |OT2| Where TNA Careers Never Existed
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So artsy. Looks great though.
Check out Reigns' NXT promos. He OOZES Douchetista in awesome ways. I still think they're going to turn Reigns at WM and have Authority 2.0 with Reigns, Rollins, and Sheamus.
There is definitely a pushback brewing against DB fans (who are starting to suspiciously sound like the CeNation fans with how many main eventers Bryan would have beaten in a year and a half) - and I say this as a pretty big mark for Bryan (Seattle for the win) all things considered. I get why they don't want to give the Lesnar rub to Bryan - if Lesnar had committed to another year with WWE before the Rumble, I am 100% convinced we'd have Bryan vs Lesnar at WM 31 with Lesnar wrecking Bryan. But you are only gonna be able to give this rub once, and Bryan frankly doesn't need it. Having Bryan beat Reigns & Lesnar would turn Bryan into a souped up version of LOLCENAWINS. But I think not having a backup plan for Reigns not being fully ready was pretty bad. Even if it was "Lesnar beats Bryan, but gets cashed in on by Rollins and then leaves the WWE for a while"; that should have been an option.
The problem is that I don't know where Bryan fits into the card in WWE, especially with Balor / SZ / Neville / Kenta all coming up in the next year or two.
Aside: There's definitely an intriguing "what if?" going on with the injuries to Bryan / Reigns / Orton? / Sheamus as well as Lesnar still playing coy about coming back next year. If Bryan doesn't get injured, and then you go on as planned (Bryan gets wrecked by Lesnar at SSlam, and Cena gets wrecked by Lesnar at RR); and Reigns has 3 more months of singles matches to prepare him - I wonder whether we don't think this is a genius move.
lovely ladies
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It would have been lazy but they should have just directly connected Murphy's killer to OCP.
Michael Keaton's worried about secrets spilling out so that leads him to threaten to kill Murphy's wife and kid 5 mins later?
I do enjoy NXT so I can support than product without any problem.
Watching the other programming is something I would try to stop doing if there was an alternative that I liked. Like there isn't I'l skim it to see if there's anything cool or if any trainwreck happens.
EDIT: That doesn't mean I'll pay for their Network and that's all that matters to me.
BronsonLee
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Michael Keaton being a dick in Robocop was hilarious, as was him in Need for Speed being the enigmatic billionaire for no reason
KEATON FOREVER
KEATON FOREVER
Sweeney Tom
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The only person on the roster who isn't a loser in some way is Brock
which is why in 5 weeks Brock will lose
which is why in 5 weeks Brock will lose
Russev.
dream
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The ultimate karmic justice came when Dave Bautista spent the last year as an A-list Hollywood actor while Daniel Bryan spent the year in bed nursing a broken freakin neck.
I think WWE should do whatever they can to get NXT off of Hulu; I bet they could get a fair amount of ardent fans to subscribe for the network just for NXT. Right now, you can watch NXT just fine on Hulu.
dream
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Anyway, here's Kudo vs Combat Toyoda in a barbed wire exploding ring match straight out of Fire Pro.
http://youtu.be/BSdMiVV_fnQ
The pussification of pro wrestling has cost us a lot; but ladies death matches are one of the things I miss the most.
http://youtu.be/BSdMiVV_fnQ
The pussification of pro wrestling has cost us a lot; but ladies death matches are one of the things I miss the most.
BronsonLee
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Everything about Reigns screams awesome finish/hot tag. His moveset is perfect for comebacks and very good at getting crowd reactions, and he's got bags of physical charisma/the scream taunt before the spear is ace.
It's just the promos and the remainder of matches that issues come up. He's perfect for squashes or Rumbles.
It's just the promos and the remainder of matches that issues come up. He's perfect for squashes or Rumbles.
FallingEdge
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Sheamus face push wasn't stopped by Bryan. Bryan was simply pushed to the main event while Sheamus went on with his planned feud with Del Rio.
If they gave me the option to pay like 3 bucks for just the NXT stuff I would be all over it. Probably their only way to get my money right now.
Sheamus' push never stopped after WM 28, they plowed on with it. It failed because the push was terrible and Sheamus was boring/annoying.
I used to think that about Shameless but his fan approval really was torpedoed by the 18 second match at Mania. After that is when his matches started getting boring/boo'd/Jerry Lawler chants.
Liquidsnake
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhh ok now I got it. Lol that was a clever sign.
Thank you for legit answering my question.
slightconfuse
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reminds me of when WCW broke up the rock n roll express and Ricky Morton(seth) turned heel and Robert Gibson(roman) went face. such a disaster. Tho seth has done pretty for himself
Was he really over before? I don't recall his Road to Mania being anything special.
But I agree that the victory didn't help him at all.
There were two things the OCP guys did that baffled me completely in terms of logic.
1- Why do a risky upload to RoboCop's brain moments before he has to make a public appearance? This would have prevented the whole issue of Murphy cold shouldering his wife and kid, which would have prevented her from getting pissy and going to the press.
2- Why even keep Murphy away from his wife and kids? That does nothing but risk PR disaster.
I also dont get Keaton's reason for wanting to off Murphy. Trying to kill Murphy is exactly what causes Commissioner Gordon's character to spill the secrets to Murphy. He created his own fucking problem by doing that.
BronsonLee
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I still say the Shield breakup was best for all three members. Rollins and Ambrose are doing very well; the only issue is Reigns going too high too fast
Liquidsnake
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Did you guys like the Sting HHH set up last night?
He wasn't really that over. Mainly because he did absolutely fuck all for months before the Rumble win, and then did nothing between the Rumble and Mania.
It would have been cooler against Taker
It was alright. Sting didn't need to point at the sign so many times though. They also need to tell Sting to keep that ugly bathrobe trenchcoat at home.
Already mentioned this before but I thought Reigns did some good selling last night. Some might not agree because he kicked out of the flying knee, but he made Goat man's arsenal look pretty damn neat last night.
Good OL' Jr always keeps yammering about, "you have to know how to sell if you're going to get anywhere."
Anyhow just a thought. In some ways he was actually the more charismatic wrestler in last night's match.
Good OL' Jr always keeps yammering about, "you have to know how to sell if you're going to get anywhere."
Anyhow just a thought. In some ways he was actually the more charismatic wrestler in last night's match.
slightconfuse
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ambrose is van hammer tier jobber
regins is in luger territory
Seth is coming out the best so far
So, can we all agree that John Cena is one of the absolute worst at covering up when he's calling a match? There were at least two distinct points in his match against Rusev last night where you could clearly see his lips moving and calling the match. Dude needs some lessons.
Liquidsnake
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I agree, but HHH will pull a better match out of him. Sting was a god to me in 1997-1998
And of course in 1989-1994.
I just want him to go out like he deserves.
smh I heard his calls from the other room when my wife was watching that match.
Bryan's story until yesterday was of a guy that was trying to prove he wasn't a fluke and that was trying to regain a belt that he never lost.
That was his character story.
And that Bryan/Sheamus comparison is really dumb. Not only is Bryan a much better wrestler he also has changed is character tons of times already while Sheamus has been Cena light for more than 3 years.
plagiarize
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When he stops improving I'll so pointing out that he's still improving. He's coming along steadily. Not quickly enough to be worthy of the wrestlemania main event next month, and I will continue to stress that. But I don't see how people can be sure he won't get there. He got the look. He had some raw charisma that we've started to see refined in this Bryan feud. He's certainly got the right genes for wrestling too (and in thirty years don't be surprised when the companies top face is one of Jon and Trinity's kids).Some of the mental gymnastics I'm seeing in defense of Reigns is pretty amusing.
"He's not good at A, B, or C and is at best mediocre at D but he's not as bad he used to be at least!"
I've been watching him improve since he went solo. It's been steady. Give him some more time before shitting on him.
If anything we should feel sorry for him. Look at how good Sheamus had become in the ring and imagine where the could have been if their let him just gradually grow into a character.
Sweeney Tom
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Madusa expected to be the next Hall inductee
lol they're gonna have her apologize to Papa Vince in her speech for tossing the belt at Mania
lol they're gonna have her apologize to Papa Vince in her speech for tossing the belt at Mania
bitesnintendog
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Just received this in an email as a New York Mets season ticket holder
Tickets are $25 - $55 with $15 "VIP packages" for meet & greets
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At first I was going to make a comment about Ken Anderson being a wrestling legend but then I saw Garret being the third largest in the poster. "Wrestling Legend" Garret Bischoff.
A lot of people agree that he can get there. The problem is the push is now and it's being made at the expense of wrestlers that people like more. How hard is to get that?
His character is "vegan hobo".
Macho Madness
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Whether or not Reigns is "ready" has nothing to do with his ring work, promo work or anything like that. It has more to do with his reactions. You put him in front of a crowd, and he never comes across as someone who the people are hungry for to main event Wrestlemania. Not even the semi-main. It hasn't clicked. Not to say it won't, but there's not much time for it to.
The problems with his ring work or mic work or whatever are problems, but could be set aside as minor if he was clicking.
The problems with his ring work or mic work or whatever are problems, but could be set aside as minor if he was clicking.
Kiever Sher
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They stopped what would have been a star making angle for Hardbody, WCW dolts. Stang would've been top tier
35 seconds worth of ads on a 1:30 video? Really?
Daniel Bryan has been the same character as long as Sheamus. He's still the AJ No/Hell No character who whines about not getting fair shots. He's just cheered now instead of booed because he's booked against heels rather than faces. Or because the Bryan fans will try their hardest to prevent people from cheerign whoever they like.
...and he doesnt get fair shots
Liquidsnake
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Oh man this could be so good.
I want it to happen. For no fkn reason just walk out to the ring tonight dressed as hipster squared.
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