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Elias Samson is such a mess. Take that bumpkin gimmick back to the Godwinns.
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The Acension huh
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And good news, everyone. Tammy Sytch's WWE HOF ring is for sale.
Becky and Charlotte is the only other storyline that gets significant time to do anything and actually progresses each week.
So 1 full storyline per gender seems to be the current limits of the creative team.
I keep saying but they have KEVIN OWENS and DEAN AMBROSE in a feud and there has not be a great face to face promo segment with them. It's just been real quick backstage interviews (if that) and matches on matches on matches none of which get any real heat because the only reason they are fighting is Owens wants the belt back, a belt that means next to nothing so NO ONE CARES.
I've seen much worse. It needs time and a lot of work. That's what NXT is for.
One of the only gimmicks in NXT where I was just like "fuck off with this" was the Solomon Crowe goth troll doll that could magically hack all the video equipment. Total fucking abortion.
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Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Becky and Charlotte
Dean Ambrose and Kevin Owens
The New Day and the Usos have a random sort of feud which is pretty dumb
Roman Reigns is basically the rest of the show
They're going to have to invent shit for the rest of the card unless they expand the rumble again
Dean Ambrose and Kevin Owens
The New Day and the Usos have a random sort of feud which is pretty dumb
Roman Reigns is basically the rest of the show
They're going to have to invent shit for the rest of the card unless they expand the rumble again
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Crazy how they couldn't salvage him, either.
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That's hard times. Goddamn.
He seemed fed up after all that happened.
Might want to handle that with gloves.
Solomon Crowe wasn't salvageable because he had issues that stemmed beyond having a truly awful gimmick. He couldn't carry a decent promo. He didn't have much ring presence. His move set wasn't really that good either.
It's like I'm watching 2000 WCW all over again. WWE actively finds ways to ruin anything good it does.
It's like I'm watching 2000 WCW all over again. WWE actively finds ways to ruin anything good it does.
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Well, they don't really have any other face teams for them to fight. They already beat the Dudleys, no Prime Time Players because Darren Young is out, no Brass Ring Club.
They should have booked him as Goku
You know that somewhere in Stamford, Vince McMahon is tearing through Titan Tower on a rampage.
I mean, the only other time I can remember of a wrestler giving "away" a ring was when Flair put one on his kid as he was getting buried.
Have Usos and New Day at Rumble and have Balor, Styles, Anderson, and Gallows...hell bring Joe along. come out and take them all out and announce their arrival.
I think Abdullah the Butcher sold his.
They used to throw together upper-mid carders together for tag teams when things got thin in the division, but I guess a lot of the roster right now is too busy to wrestle while they are totally not injured we swear, Meltzer is a mark don't listen to him everything is fine.
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98 rumble next week on review a wai
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I'm sure the Full Sail crowd treated them well. But what better test for Dash and Dawson than to see if they can pull off a decent match against Konnor and Viktor, assuming this isn't a story match that gets interrupted by Cass and Enzo.
The worst part is that you can see the Samson gimmick falling apart, but they have to give it oxygen in order to see if they can make it work.
I'd say the same for Crowe, but Crowe basically disappeared from TV after a few matches. His burnt baked potato x troll doll look didn't help him, but you never got a sense of what his character was.
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Sampson has a dope elbow and that's it
Pretty much at the moment.
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Stardust and Titus are feuding, but I thought they could have teamed. But hey, there is The Ascension.
Is Big Show currently a face or a heel? Maybe he can team with Sandow or Swagger or something.
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The AV Club's Inventory column focuses on 14 regrettable gimmicks in wrestling.
Why do some referees have work and shoot names? I get that some of them were active wrestlers and kept their in-ring names when they moved to refereeing, but that doesn't explain Rod Zapata or Ryan Tran.
Why do some referees have work and shoot names? I get that some of them were active wrestlers and kept their in-ring names when they moved to refereeing, but that doesn't explain Rod Zapata or Ryan Tran.
For some reason I see Titus/Stardust's feud leading to a Titus/Cody tag-team.
Or probably I am just wishing.
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I like Tammy, sure her character has not been the best the past years but damn that sucks.
Devitt was a lot more exciting in the ring pre-Balor. Definitely worth going back and watching that stuff.
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All aboard! The Love train!
Barring BikerTaker (I didn't mind it too much, as it led onto Big Evil), no lies detected.
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It would be amazing if some heel somewhere bought Tammy's ring and showed it off.
Every version of Beefcake being on that list makes me so happy.
They forgot Konnan as Max Moon.
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Real man regal and 3 count are great
Gone home was amazing, holy crap.
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They're going to need to re-calculate the number of homes Pop reaches because apparently it's been moved from the basic cable tier.
Ciampa is back again? He will get signed one of these days right?
The Ascension back in NXT? Man these guys are a lost cause. Just release them.
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My friend. You damn right.
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They're big, God damn it, and you can't teach big.
And there's one who is slightly less bad than the other. I think that's Viktor?
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Well, this is more impressive than Roman getting clonked on the head with a briefcase.
Who the fuck knows? I have seen almost all their NXT stuff and I couldn't tell you who is who. That's how uninteresting they are.
The original Ascension gimmick had approximately 100% more potential than whatever they are doing now. Seriously, a lot of cool stuff could be done with ambiguous Illuminati extraordinarily wealthy blue eyed maybe vampires (drop the vampires bit) tag team. Much more than "they are jobber versions of a gimmick that was out of date in 1999".
Konnor and Viktor have good chemistry together. I miss them in NXT. They could be having great matches with all the teams that are there now. They still come by there every now and then, but...
edit - Konnor is the more muscular of the two. The guy that yells "YAH!" when he pummels people in the corner. And Viktor is the more slim one who is actually pretty decent in the ring. Konnor used to be pretty slim too but then he decided to work out quite a bit.
edit - Konnor is the more muscular of the two. The guy that yells "YAH!" when he pummels people in the corner. And Viktor is the more slim one who is actually pretty decent in the ring. Konnor used to be pretty slim too but then he decided to work out quite a bit.
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No idea. I played it on PC. It's often around $5 or less on PC.
Real talk: this whole thing is 100% on JBL (with maybe some help from Vince and Kevin Dunn). Obviously they took one look at these guys that Triple H brought in from NXT and they went: "lol, look at these mark ass fuckers pretending to be The Road Warriors, we'll bury the fuck out of them and have a good laugh at their expense."
That said: The Ascension was never good, who are you guys kidding?
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You don't have to be good in the ring to be interesting, their original gimmick was fascinating. And keep em as vampires.
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