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January Wrasslin' |OT| It's a New Year, Yes It Is!
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Sweeney Tom
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It's on the old TV Guide channel. Half the stations that have it have programming only take up half the screen at most
serenewarfare
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Would have said the same about the SHIELD guys. It's all about how they debut and how they are treated in the weeks and months after. That's why it makes sense to debut a guy like AJ at the Rumble. That crowd will be full of people who know who he is, and he'll get a great reaction.
Good point. That would be a perfect place to debut.
Which is exactly why it wont happen.
avengers23
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Somewhere, Amber Gallows is wondering what else she has to do to get signed.
serenewarfare
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Actually the rumor right now is that the Rumble will be the debut for AJ.
If you put him out there and he gets a great reaction, then you have him get to the final five or six with the rest of your top guys, he'll gain a ton of credibility with the casual audience.
El Pescado
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I've never watched TNA anyway. I just wanted to see if I even had the channel.
AJ and Balor would be both be fine starting off as singles. AJ's probably the most known guy out there who hasn't been in WWE (outside of a couple squash matches he lost) and will be over at a midcard level.
Nakamura would need to be booked right and you'd need to let him do his thing, hype him up as a champion and the "best wrestler in Japan". Unless he starts in NXT it'd be easier to just stick him in the "Balor Club" group for the main run of the stable.
Anderson/Gallows would be backup and the muscle. They shouldn't appear until the stable gets formed.
Think you need at least one other big hoss guy (Corbin?) and another potential upper-midcarder type (Joe? Turn someone from the main roster?) on top of those five to make a group that would be a threat to the Cenas and Reigns of the world given how they've been booked.
Dr Duncan Steel
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And it's the Rumble, you're gonna get AJ Styles chants the second Lillian Garcia or Eden presents the rules.
Yes.
Sweeney Tom
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Fantasticamania cards sound INCREDIBLE. Virus vs. Dragon Lee, Dorada vs. BUSHI, Cavernario vs. Titan, Jay White/Dragon Lee vs. Virus/Hechicero, VIRUS VS. LIGER
I honestly can't think of a dumber move.FUCKING LOL
This fucker was over in NXT and he said her feather work TNA and high school gyms with Scott Steiner and a comatose Brutus The Barber beefcake.
Even if the pay was less you at least still get to live in Florida and who knows what happens.
I bet you he left when Billy Gunn got busted with HHHs steroid stash.
Well ill be damned. This would be pretty awesome. I dont know shit about any of these guys, but ive heard all of their names from people here on GAF as well as on LAW radio.
I just hope they can bring those same qualities that make them so likeable to the main roster in WWE.
James Storm isn't even the dumbest part of that segment. They rehired BRAM.
TheStruggler
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they prob going to make gallows a wyatt *shudders* the red sheep
R Truth gets on TV too much to be in that group.
serenewarfare
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Do yourself a favor and track down Nakamura vs. Styles from a few days ago. It's not hard to find. And you'll know all you need to about why everyone is excited when you're done watching it.
Sweeney Tom
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It's sounding less that he walked and more like he had to come crawling back. Expected a lot more money than WWE was ever realistically offering him, regardless if he was going to the main roster ever
serenewarfare
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Goddammit Hunter, sign this woman. And not as a jobber.
Well when they left ROH they also left the cameraman from New Japan as well.
The last segment had...four wrestlers in micro skirts.
UberTag
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I think the WWE has the right idea by not acknowledging TNA while acknowledging every other wrestling organization on the planet.
R-Truth makes Vince laugh. Ryder is safely in NXT.
I think Sandow and Fandango's days in WWE are numbered.
HerbertFish
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Hidden One
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Goddammit Hunter, sign this woman. And not as a jobber.
Who the hell is this lady O_O?
They didn't lose anything, in fact they gained Kenny OMEGA as a top star. Weeaboo dreams come true.
Nakamura is a pretty heavy loss for them.
El Pescado
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Bram is Charlotte's ex-husband that was arrested for domestic violence, right?
And someone please get Matt Hardy's baby a haircut. That baby had Shawn Michaels' current hairline.
serenewarfare
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I fins it strange that people are saying "NJPW will be fine! They are great at building new guys!" and use examples like Shibata (age 36), Ishii (40), and Goto (also 36). The only young guy they've actually built at all the last few years is Ibushi, and even he is already 33. Meltzer has specifically pointed out over the past year how bad NJPW is at actually cultivating new talent, and how they are especially bad compared to WWE, with the PC and NXT.
I think the Young Lion promotion stuff is a prime example of the fact that it's a problem and they know it.
I think the Young Lion promotion stuff is a prime example of the fact that it's a problem and they know it.
Hell you will be getting AJ and Nakamura chants every single RAW from now on
serenewarfare
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Evie. She did the job for Nia Jax's debut, and looked better than Jax in the match. She's one of my favorite women out there right now. Her strikes are great.
I was trying to be generous, but yeah. The only thing they really did was push him into the heavyweight scene, and that was more because he was so over already than in an attempt to get him over.
Dr Duncan Steel
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Think about that, would it have been better if this really was kept in the hush hush, or would you rather softly get the word out there and generate interest for the Rumble for the possibility of an AJ Styles debut? Granted a small audience would even know about the news but hey it's something.
Sweeney Tom
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