slightconfuse
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It's crazy but only HBK can save Bryan at this point.
Also DM raw is in Miz country tonight I know you are excited.
Also DM raw is in Miz country tonight I know you are excited.
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January Wrasslin' |OT| The Assassination of Daniel Bryan by the Coward Vince McMahon
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I had a feeling someone was going to gif the wiggly foot.I really love this gif.
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Deleted member 47027
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Rusev feet gif is good.
UberTag
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I find it amusing that Cleveland is also Ziggles country but he's never associated with Cleveland the way the Miz is.
Any crowd is a great crowd for Bryan Danielson
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Sting tonight, friends. It'll wash that taste right out of your mouth.
Lambda Pie
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between DM and YT you have almost every match of his.
i'm watching the W1 tag match from 2013 and Rene Dupree comes out to Living on a Prayer. stunning stuff, amazing.
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Please elaborate.
spindashing
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Can't argue with that Kane pic. Great stuff.
Officerrob
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Such a horseshit argument. Any main event level guy who basically disappears from the WWE product for four years, and then is promoed for weeks leading to his return is going to pop a rating. When was the last time Orton popped a rating?
Lambda Pie
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Oh god you jumped to 2013
oh god Rene Dupree
i'm jumping around the timeline.
after the W1 tag match we go back to 2007 for Sapp vs Lashley, then even further back to 2002 for Sapp vs Minotauro and we end up at 2008 with Sapp vs Akebono at HUSTLE.
WhoaIsThatMars
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I hope they put corporate Kane in 2K15 lol
TheWarrior
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In 2014 Kane looks great, Batista looks awful
Ratings are always increasing in January than they are against MNF as well. It's stupid.
Funny if they're truly trying to re-create the PPV crowd. When Hogan cheated Sid Justice out of the Rumble in the 1992 the crowd began booing, but if you watch a WWF/E copy of it now, it is quite different.
Funny if they're truly trying to re-create the PPV crowd. When Hogan cheated Sid Justice out of the Rumble in the 1992 the crowd began booing, but if you watch a WWF/E copy of it now, it is quite different.
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
Odd that Bryan was booked to look like shit on those RAWs and the big figures on Batista's return was directly after Bryan's big RAw finish. Will be interesting to see how their respective advertised segments draw.
Was the botched spear Botchtista's fault or was reigns out of position?
Lambda Pie
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lol.
WhoaIsThatMars
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EC is in MN. D Bry gets his hometown love in Seattle at Extreme Rules after Mania. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't even put him on the card.
Realistically, he'll do what Punk did last year and not appear on tv until the ppv because he's going to be on his honeymoon after mania...maybe he wins/steals the belt at mania somehow and runs? Lol nope
Officerrob
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Like I said last night, the writing is on the wall about what's going on in the WWE:
NAO= new tag champs while being old as hell
Orton= WWE champ while barely being over (even that is debatable at this stage)
Nash= Collects a PPV paycheck when nobody was looking for him to be a surprise
Batista= Wins the Rumblle
Sheamus= Returns and gets to the final 3
Flair= Collects a PPV paycheck while JR was fired for Flair being drunk
HHH is just taking care of his boys, nothing else.
NAO= new tag champs while being old as hell
Orton= WWE champ while barely being over (even that is debatable at this stage)
Nash= Collects a PPV paycheck when nobody was looking for him to be a surprise
Batista= Wins the Rumblle
Sheamus= Returns and gets to the final 3
Flair= Collects a PPV paycheck while JR was fired for Flair being drunk
HHH is just taking care of his boys, nothing else.
Nameless
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Not only this, but I think last week's number was due to a combination of Batista's return, Bryan's huge face turn the week before, it being the go home show before a buzz heavy Rumble, and of course no MNF becoming habit.
Batista sure as Hell didn't bring those people back.
Conrad Link
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Just depressed all those months ago when D-Bry got screwed its like its ok he'll just win the Rumble and get his huge moment. They're just being smart and slow building things.
Fast forward all those months and NOPE LOL. Obviously we knew ages ago that plan was done as he got screwed over and over then shuffled into a 'nothing feud' just to get the Wyatts legitimised. But there was still always hope, hope they'd listen to the chants. Hope they look at that amaaazing slow Yes! orchestrating imagery from the cage match the other week and think holy shit this is awesome - imagine it at WM! But again NOPE LOL.
Don't think I can stand it anymore, tired of HHH flip-flopping around the place, I'm a bad guy now I'm a good guy haha, I'm angry at Orton this week next week I help him. Sick of their crap. Feels worse than the nWo always winning, HHH's shit always wins.
Even Cena has seemingly been bumped down. Man I think the crowd is sick of Cena we better do something NEW. Hey what is Dave doing? Him and Orton should feud for the belt LOL book it!
D-Bry and CM Punk are the most over guys in the company and neither get to do anything interesting. They should be versing EACH OTHER. Stop bringing back old guys desperately and reward some of the guys who do the work every other week of the year.
Ugh. Only saving grace is the crowd. I know they'll be in mark territory and Vince can go back to being oblivious but man its soooo good seeing the pure despising from the good ones. Foley is right, I just don't understand why they do it, do they actively hate the fans? They don't want to give them what they want?
I miss WCW and wrestling feds competing with each other.
Fast forward all those months and NOPE LOL. Obviously we knew ages ago that plan was done as he got screwed over and over then shuffled into a 'nothing feud' just to get the Wyatts legitimised. But there was still always hope, hope they'd listen to the chants. Hope they look at that amaaazing slow Yes! orchestrating imagery from the cage match the other week and think holy shit this is awesome - imagine it at WM! But again NOPE LOL.
Don't think I can stand it anymore, tired of HHH flip-flopping around the place, I'm a bad guy now I'm a good guy haha, I'm angry at Orton this week next week I help him. Sick of their crap. Feels worse than the nWo always winning, HHH's shit always wins.
Even Cena has seemingly been bumped down. Man I think the crowd is sick of Cena we better do something NEW. Hey what is Dave doing? Him and Orton should feud for the belt LOL book it!
D-Bry and CM Punk are the most over guys in the company and neither get to do anything interesting. They should be versing EACH OTHER. Stop bringing back old guys desperately and reward some of the guys who do the work every other week of the year.
Ugh. Only saving grace is the crowd. I know they'll be in mark territory and Vince can go back to being oblivious but man its soooo good seeing the pure despising from the good ones. Foley is right, I just don't understand why they do it, do they actively hate the fans? They don't want to give them what they want?
I miss WCW and wrestling feds competing with each other.
WhoaIsThatMars
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Idk. Reigns was going to do his superman punch. You can't really sell a spear in that position. Maybe if Batista had hit him a little higher it would have looked better
slightconfuse
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HBK vs Bryan was a wrestle mania match at one point, all HBK ha to do so say yes . It's obvious he said no.
That's not at all what Meltzer said. He said WWE thinks they gave Bryan a chance and he didn't pan out, when in actuality they never gave him a chance, they gave him a half-assed push and then used confirmation bias to adhere to their idea that he "can't be a top guy" because he doesn't look like what they want. He definitely criticized this mentality as a load of nonsense, but it's unfortunately what WWE thinks.
Meltzer said Bryan should have won the title at HIAC, and should have been booked as a proper top contender, none of this "B+, troll, not worthy" garbage. Then he would have been build into a draw and a top star. He has the talent, he has the support from the audience, all he needs is the proper push.
But he's apparently supposed to start popping huge ratings, selling out house shows, outselling Cena's merch, all BEFORE he gets that top contender push that would cause him to do said things, before they will consider pushing him like that. It's chicken or the egg bullshit.
no they wont. as in, they wont fix it, and they wont lose you. We have all danced this dance before
spindashing
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If I had a penny for every person who said this and continued to watch WWE after WrestleMania, I'd have pennies coming out of my ass. Hell, even I've said it in the past.
Perspicacity
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I'll admit that I do feel a bit bad for Mysterio. His music sucked the air out of the arena and killed the crowd, so people could give him no reaction other than to boo the fuck out of him a la Sheamus at Wrestlemania 28.
Actually as I think about it, they should have put Ryder in the 30 spot to achieve maximum troll.
Actually as I think about it, they should have put Ryder in the 30 spot to achieve maximum troll.
slightconfuse
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spindashing
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I don't feel bad for Rey Mysterio in 2014. Dude's obviously making a lot of cash by not doing much at all. Whoever decided to put Rey in as number 30 was a real idiot, though. Hell, I'd even like Batista to be number 30. Rey has not been relevant in the WWE for the past 5 or so years...
Lol, I'm good. I'm just saying.
Or Khali.
Deadly Joker
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Which Raw after WM was it when the crowd was super hot for Daniel Bryan? Like they basically made that Raw great on their own?
Was it 2012 or 2013?
I want to say it was the one where Lesnar debuted at the end and destroyed Cena. Not sure though.
Was it 2012 or 2013?
I want to say it was the one where Lesnar debuted at the end and destroyed Cena. Not sure though.
I'm not sure if I should sub to WWE Network to get away from current WWE not pushing their hottest guy in years or if I should stay away from WWE Network because all of their current PPVs are going to continue with them not pushing their hottest wrestler in years.
Both? The crowd was red hot for Bryan after the Shaemus match and also for last WM.
Both? The crowd was red hot for Bryan after the Shaemus match and also for last WM.
Spirit of Jazz
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He should have come out to Bryan's theme.
UberTag
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Just what we need after last night. More 50-year-old farts.
spindashing
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I wonder how Reigns' babyface attire will be.
It'll probably go all out Samoan, but his ring name is far from it.
It'll probably go all out Samoan, but his ring name is far from it.
Hey man, if the NAO can be tag champs in 2014, Sting can still give horrible Sharpshooters to the younger talent!
May as well just dig Savage up now and have him challenge for the US Title.
I have liked NAO coming back saying that, they can still go fairly well.
Reigns' getting all those eliminations and lasting until the end was just as good as him winning it. He wasn't getting a main event title shot this year at Mania anyways, but those main event shots will be happening this year for sure. He's getting catapulted up the ladder very quickly - need to hope Rollins and Ambrose don't become the Kofi-Ziggler's of the midcard in the next few years.
Speaking of Dolph, the crowd loved him last night. Even after doing little to nothing for the past several months.
Speaking of Dolph, the crowd loved him last night. Even after doing little to nothing for the past several months.
Conrad Link
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CM Punk's elevation and D-Bry's emergence were the reason I got back into wrestling hardcore to begin with.
They've gradually whittled away my interest since then, its starting to feel like back when I lost interest last time (Cena, Orton, Batista), wow. :|
Punk had the hottest thing going, ruined.
D-Bry most over thing in years, everyone fan and legend can't understand what the fucking problem is, ruined.
If they seriously think that main event 'run' was giving D-Bry a chance then uhhh GO FUCK YOURSELF.
That 'story' was supposed to just be the build to the actual main event run that was supposed to happen now and would be so much more awesome and intense because of the screwy shit that happened before.
HOW ARE YOU THIS MORONIC YOU DUMB SHIT COMPANY???????
Not even Sting can cheer me up now.
They've gradually whittled away my interest since then, its starting to feel like back when I lost interest last time (Cena, Orton, Batista), wow. :|
Punk had the hottest thing going, ruined.
D-Bry most over thing in years, everyone fan and legend can't understand what the fucking problem is, ruined.
If they seriously think that main event 'run' was giving D-Bry a chance then uhhh GO FUCK YOURSELF.
That 'story' was supposed to just be the build to the actual main event run that was supposed to happen now and would be so much more awesome and intense because of the screwy shit that happened before.
HOW ARE YOU THIS MORONIC YOU DUMB SHIT COMPANY???????
Not even Sting can cheer me up now.
sf2fanatic
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Wasted spots last night,
Khali
Nash
JBL
El Torito
Mysterio
Kane(Yes I said wasted spot. He was worthless..)
Shoulda been <insert name>
Khali
Nash
JBL
El Torito
Mysterio
Kane(Yes I said wasted spot. He was worthless..)
Shoulda been <insert name>
Lambda Pie
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spear to an airborne opponent? it can work, you just need to know how to do it.
Perspicacity
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Tonight would be a good time to bring back Brotista.
They accidentally wrote themselves a compelling story if they were to go with Daniel Bryan as the everyman wrestler up against the douchebag movie star. Shame that they won't actually use it.
They accidentally wrote themselves a compelling story if they were to go with Daniel Bryan as the everyman wrestler up against the douchebag movie star. Shame that they won't actually use it.