the problems were the booking of the WHC and no brand split.
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January Wrasslin' |OT| The Assassination of Daniel Bryan by the Coward Vince McMahon
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the problems were the booking of the WHC and no brand split.
Sweeney Tom
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If Bryan isn't booked or used for Raw at all tonight, I'll actually have to admire the balls on Vince for being so openly against what others want.
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Deleted member 47027
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Yep, also the home invasion as well. Great stuff. Orton and Legacy had ridiculous heat.
THE SALT.
#heel
Bwahahaha! I forgot about the home invasion. Brilliant.
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I'd pay a good amount of money for Baptista to hijack the Yes chants using his middle fingers.
It's not very hard to have him straighten his hair and beard that day, and tie them in ponytails. You can make anyone look presentable if you want to, so that excuse is bullshit.
He'd do it using his thumbs.
Officerrob
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THE SALT.
He's a natural douchebag, he needs to be turned heel ASAP
bean breath
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BFIB
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THE SALT.
Guardian of the WWE Universe.
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Dr Duncan Steel
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Watching the morning show with Dean and Seth, they rolled footage of them HAVING MATCHES. If you present footage of Daniel Bryan wrestling in Monday Night Raw, it gets the message of who he is and what he's capable of. So yeah if you say Daniel Bryan is a WWE SUPERSTAR (TM) on a morning show and have nothing to show for it then yes people aren't gonna buy into it. It's more about WWE's unwillingness to get the message across of what Daniel Bryan can do. It's not fucking rocket science.
Can't wait for countless boring matches between those two....
Batista heel is a good idea. Orton back as a face is not.
WWE, we do not need to see this match. Think of something more interesting pls.
bean breath
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Here's the deal:
Wrestlemania is held in football stadiums now. Not MSG, not the Trump Taj Mahal, not Caesar's Palace. WWE needs to sell 60,000+ tickets. Do you seriously think Daniel Bryan can do that?
Don't make me laugh.
Can't wait to see Dave Batista tonight.
#WWENowThenYesterdayForever
Wrestlemania is held in football stadiums now. Not MSG, not the Trump Taj Mahal, not Caesar's Palace. WWE needs to sell 60,000+ tickets. Do you seriously think Daniel Bryan can do that?
Don't make me laugh.
Can't wait to see Dave Batista tonight.
#WWENowThenYesterdayForever
spindashing
Banned
For real. I like that they debuted him with an attitude at least but he would benefit more as a heel.
WhoaIsThatMars
Member
Lololololololol
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Where have you seen this? The plan is and has been face Batista vs heel Orton at Mania. What you saw was Batista reacting after cameras cut off how Batista would always react to a crowd he felt was acting disrespectfully.
I am 50/50 with this idea. It could do wonders tho
Do you seriously think Randy Orton or Dave Batista could do that?
I don't think any one person sells tickets to WM. Wrestlemania itself sells tickets. They're sold out before a card is even hinted at.
Merge the US/INT titles. Re-introduce the cruiser/lightweight title or the Television Title. Other option is for a mix tags-title to get the divas more opportunity on TV. But they need to keep the WHC and WWE title merged -- they're redundant.
Yeah, having two world titles was stupid especially since the "split brands" thing faded away years ago. The WHC was always viewed as a secondary meaningless world title anyways if Cena didn't have it.
I'd only merge the IC/US titles if another title is going to fill the void with one of those. Personally I'd love for the hardcore title to come back, but WWE is way too play it safe for that now.
Who was just pinned by Bray Wyatt, the same wrestler going to wrestlemania to face John Cena.
I was playing a heel .. and then I played a face .. and then I played a kiss ass .. you're welcome
You just made a serious reply to bean breath. Are you drunk again?
Sweeney Tom
Banned
AHAHAHHAAHHAHHAHAHAHA
Post on WWE's FB page said:
No. But in general, everyone talks about having to have these giant matches for WM every year in order to sell these big stadiums, but tickets go on sale and sell out before matches are ever announced because WM is what sells.
That's the long term plan for after Mania. Whether they rush it is another thing depending on if Batista continues to get booed.
BronsonLee
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Yes, it's clearly a fucking SEC violation
I also seriously doubt they did all that for freaking India
I also seriously doubt they did all that for freaking India
bean breath
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The Rock singlehandedly sold out Atlanta, Miami, and New Jersey.
Jred2k, don't eff with me. I know what you look like in real life, boy.
Look, you can't just ignore him okay. Who knows what new gimmick he'd come up with then!
They can't be that silly, surely. Batista going heel is the right thing since there are too many faces and no good top heels. But if that is indeed the plan, why not just have Batista beat the shit out Bryan after he becomes champion at Elimination Chamber or something? Simple, effective, and you've a long program to take you to Summerslam right there.
UberTag
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Incidentally, you can still do that without tuning in and subjecting yourself to RAW.
I have to assume that the WWE is assuming that wrestling fans have much more disposable income than they're presently spending on Mania tickets if they can also fork out money to catch indie shows the same weekend.
Which means they'll find new things to monetize during the weekend at Axxess / Fan Fest and/or they'll be raising Mania 31 ticket prices exponentially.
Triple H punching bag is a nice touch.
This is beautiful .. lol
real_slime
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I am not really a wrestling watcher. I was into it during the attitude era as a kid like everyone I knew was, but I guess my view is that the storytelling capabilities of this kind of thing are too limited, and the surrounding culture is pretty boring as well - especially now that it just seems like a bunch of musclehead white guys bumping up against each other with no funny or interesting gimmicks. So I doubt I'll ever really watch it regularly - actually I HOPE I don't waste too much time on it, as the internet generally leads people to do with things which aren't really stimulating but are hypnotising.
Having said that I was on a nostalgia thing watching some old Mick Foley and Undertaker things - just looking up cool entrances, big moments like Hell In A Cell and so on, when all the CM Punk stuff and this Daniel Bryan stuff caught my attention since it seemed to be what people are excited about now. So I watched some of the Royal Rumble last night.
Pretty crazy crowd! It was really entertaining to see them just insult the show for most of the second half of the night. The surrounding drama about lack of Daniel Bryan has been entertaining, too. So I'll be watching Raw tonight to see what happens - I don't know enough to know to expect that it will be a load of nothing, so I'm hoping there is some kind of improvised reaction to the hostile reception last night. Regardless of the reception not being what was probably intended, though, this is a really good storyline - scripted or not - at the moment which I think is shown by how much reaction there is to it. I want to see some kind of success for Daniel Bryan on Raw tonight, but I appreciate that as soon as that happens this thing is over and it goes back to wrestling as usual.
It is strange how little has changed about wrestling in 15 years, though. The plotting all seems exactly the same as it was 15 years ago. On the surface, it's all just less crazy and varied and therefore less interesting. I don't really enjoy the wrestling matches themselves that much, except the crazy ones, and it feels like they've stripped it down to just vanilla matches with vanilla characters.
Anyway that's my input for some perspective on what I see not having watched wrestling since I was a kid, and showing that regardless of what is really going on with Daniel Bryan, it peaked my interest over the past few nights.
Having said that I was on a nostalgia thing watching some old Mick Foley and Undertaker things - just looking up cool entrances, big moments like Hell In A Cell and so on, when all the CM Punk stuff and this Daniel Bryan stuff caught my attention since it seemed to be what people are excited about now. So I watched some of the Royal Rumble last night.
Pretty crazy crowd! It was really entertaining to see them just insult the show for most of the second half of the night. The surrounding drama about lack of Daniel Bryan has been entertaining, too. So I'll be watching Raw tonight to see what happens - I don't know enough to know to expect that it will be a load of nothing, so I'm hoping there is some kind of improvised reaction to the hostile reception last night. Regardless of the reception not being what was probably intended, though, this is a really good storyline - scripted or not - at the moment which I think is shown by how much reaction there is to it. I want to see some kind of success for Daniel Bryan on Raw tonight, but I appreciate that as soon as that happens this thing is over and it goes back to wrestling as usual.
It is strange how little has changed about wrestling in 15 years, though. The plotting all seems exactly the same as it was 15 years ago. On the surface, it's all just less crazy and varied and therefore less interesting. I don't really enjoy the wrestling matches themselves that much, except the crazy ones, and it feels like they've stripped it down to just vanilla matches with vanilla characters.
Anyway that's my input for some perspective on what I see not having watched wrestling since I was a kid, and showing that regardless of what is really going on with Daniel Bryan, it peaked my interest over the past few nights.
BronsonLee
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Spoiler guys:
THIS IS THE YES MOVEMENT
THIS IS THE YES MOVEMENT
Someone in India uploaded a video to instagram and the crowd was muted during the Cena/Orton match. I'll try to find it again.
bean breath
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Spoiler tag that shit.
slightconfuse
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WWE should buy the life theme from UFC and have Brian come out to it. Because it's not like UFC is Doing anything with it .
Also get the crazy pride announcer while your a it!
Also get the crazy pride announcer while your a it!
Triple H punching bag is a nice touch.
oh wow lol
YES!