Sorry to break it to you but you watch wrestling, you're a mark too.
The fact a community based on enjoying fake athletics somehow loves to belittle others within it is quite amusing.
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January Wrasslin' |OT| Big Month John
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Sorry to break it to you but you watch wrestling, you're a mark too.
The fact a community based on enjoying fake athletics somehow loves to belittle others within it is quite amusing.
HazySaiyan
Banned
Sit down mark!
BewareTheBatsie
Member
Yeah I'm a lot more happy over how backstage just seems to be everyone playing video games instead of taking drugs or getting into fights with each other all the time.
Professor Beef
Banned
Mase Gumble
Member
Nah, 'Heath Slater has major heat backstage after being found to be cheating at Madden' isn't half as good of a scandal as 'Heath Slater has major heat for turning up lit and pissing in John Cenas bag' is it?
Alberto Del Rio is single handed lay keeping the hot ass rasslin gossip game alive at the moment.
Professor Beef
Banned
Wrestling gossip isn't always a good thing.
So good
Sin Cara is the best of both worlds
HashtagLapsed
Member
If a roided up freak from the 80s was given the same terrible promos in the same terrible storylines with the same language nobody anywhere uses, scripted to fuck, as they are today they won't get over either.
I don't know about that. Cocaine is a helluva drug and they'd likely go off script.
HashtagLapsed
Member
Well then, I suppose that may be true.
Yeah. I could totally envision Apollo Crews, Seth Rollins, or Cesaro cutting that Randy Savage promo and having it just as intense and dramatic - if not more!
HashtagLapsed
Member
I'm not saying those guys could do that. Not many could. I am more curious how a Savage or someone would manage in the current professional environment.
The Silver
Member
there's pretty much nowhere you can go nowadays that cultivates real promo building skills. Yeah WWE has classes and shit but they're "modern WWE promos" where you don't talk like a real person, forced to always use the correct corporate vernacular, it's hard to grow and find yourself in that kind of system.
literally the best example of this is whenever anyone had to interact with anyone else on the show (and that's pretty much all of the time) in the buildup to Roadblock, they always had to say "Roadblock: End of the Line" and in some cases "WWE Roadblock: End of the Line". try giving a back and forth promo without having to say it 5 times
its the same thing with "WWE <insert championship here>" everytime they're referring to a belt. just from a literal dialogue standpoint it's horrendous. "branding" over all else
What's really silly about that is they just had to reuse Roadblock as a name twice in a year even though it made far more sense as a "ppv" before Wrestlemania and not some random ppv at the end of the year. Like anyone gives a shit about them just making new names up. It's not like you can view entire years of PPVs at once anyway so it's confusing no matter how they display it on the network.
UberTag
Member
Most of it is nonsensical rules and branding, too. Can't say wrestler or belt. Must refer to Kane as The Demon Kane or Balor as The Demon King. Can't say audience... nope, that's the WWE Universe. You're lucky to get away with a "you people" these days.
I mean, I'm all for doing away with the rigid scripting and getting all of these guys proper improv training but they'd be rigidly handcuffed by all of these nonsensical rules regardless.
avengers23
Banned
The countdown clock to Brandi and Cody breaking up just started thanks to those TNA spoilers.
FlammableD
Banned
fuck sake
TarpitCarnivore
Member
Earthquake managed to cut awesome promos because the dude had an intensity to him. It was wonderful. And every single one of them amounted to them basically saying "I hate you, I'm going to crush you". There something to be said about simplicity w/ intensity.
Now? You just get forced acting or wrestlers flipping personalities through their promo (sasha w/ the boss)
It's okay. It's been a year and a half. That's enough time to cure racism.
Oh god, they're going to have Hogan become an honorary member of the New Day, aren't they?
Cured by the power of positivity, brother!
TarpitCarnivore
Member
Never. New Day have way too much pride in what they've accomplished to just roll over and do something like that.
I know they do. But what happens when Vince will "owe you one, pal"?
Oh god, I just thought. Hogan gets in, Titus doesn't. Titus makes it a race issue.
Titus vs Hogan.
Titus
O'
Neill
vs
Hulk
Hogan
And Hogan goes over
In
2017.
giancarlo123x
Banned
Holy shit that is sad, hasn't it been like a month or two only?
UberTag
Member
Racism is cool now and doesn't need to be cured.
The WWE has amnesty now that one of their Hall of Famers is in the White House.
FlammableD
Banned
Don't do it man, huge disappointment. Just wait for it to hit The Network.
FlammableD
Banned
wild wild rice
Member
Hyped for Shibata/Ballerinaspreay
Dato gets it.
Thank FIFA for curing racism during Hogan's absence.
TarpitCarnivore
Member
Think about the stuff New Day members tweet out or do on UUDD, they would not roll over on this.
This may be a reach but WWE needs New Day more than New Day needs WWE
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I defaulted to the generic CAW pose.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
I missed Recall being a mark 😞
SomewhatGroovy
Banned
Those pictures are awesome. FE and Bronson are a couple of cutie muffins.
PartTimeWarrior
Banned
"Brother I wanna go over the new day when I come back. I can pin all 3 at the same time and get my heat back, dude"
