do you imaging that? people leaving a soon that match is about to start?
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January Wrasslin' |OT| The Assassination of Daniel Bryan by the Coward Vince McMahon
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do you imaging that? people leaving a soon that match is about to start?
Booked after the Slammies. They only finalized the PPV locations the other week.
Leaked L4D3 and someone tried to dox him or something.
I think their experience with Ziggler (fans like him...but they don't love him, and he's really never been over enough to carry the brand) helped cause them to get the wrong idea about Bryan. On the surface they look similar, but it's two radically different circumstances.
BronsonLee
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Lololol oh jeez, he's fucking toast, Valve plays for keeps
oh so that's what that pic I saw on reddit was.
sometimes I'm conflicted into thinking maybe it's really wrong to do that sort of thing and leak out those pictures.
I never liked that little spy.
Dr Duncan Steel
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Ok Road Runner parody but with Vince as Wil.E Coyote and Bryan as the Road Runner needs to be a thing.
slightconfuse
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Mania needs to end with taker celebrating in the ring , then boom light go out and there is a baseball bat in the ring .
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It's not that far-fetched.
Batista coming back was weird - you don't know how the crowd will receive someone coming back like that until it happens. When he came back on the Raw before the rumble, it was...well, weird. Wasn't sure how people were going to feel at the event itself, and that's the big issue. Didn't help that plans were to have this a legit surprise before a radio station leaked it, so WWE had to scramble to announce it - and I think that worked in their favor, Batista drew numbers for Raw.
I believe the WWE felt that Bryan got a good match (nay, a great match really) earlier and was done, and thought people would then focus on the Rumble - but didn't count on the crowd just dying to see him come out late. It was a good Rumble, in general - worked real well, and it was one of the better Rumbles they've had - but people wanted Bryan at 30, and that's why Rey got a steaming turd thrown onto his head when he came out.
I can see how it CAN catch WWE off-guard, but I don't think they should have. They should have been paying more attention and realized the "risk" like this. Shades of Misawa going over, but it didn't happen.
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get all his dox, all his files, find out who that fool is and make him. expose him. all skeletons. open it up bobby!~
MAGGLE WE GOT DOXED
UberTag
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Clearly he's been surrounded by "yes men" who either told him the fans were chanting for someone else that he booked to be over himself or who placated him incorrectly by saying that the chants would die down and that it was just a phase they were going through (or the 'ole Bizarro Land argument that used to plague wrestling audiences in Toronto and elsewhere).
Is that like having all the numbers?
Lambda Pie
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reactions to Bryan won't die down till he's champion.
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and it's fucking stupid, because then what? Worthless.
BFIB
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Problem is, that won't be the case if he's properly built right. But the problem is this is current WWE, who can't build right.
Mr. Luchador
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Daniel Bryan was cboat. I knew it!
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3 hour Raws can be fine if they structure it right. Make the first hour something different, then at the 1hr mark, switch to full-time Raw and make that shit special.
Plus I doubt most people can build it right with only 1 ppv in the way. The turkey can't be cooked before Mania, guys!
Plus I doubt most people can build it right with only 1 ppv in the way. The turkey can't be cooked before Mania, guys!
Lambda Pie
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it's crazy cause it's a cycle. Bryan becomes champion, becomes one of the 2 type of face champions WWE can book:
- Cena style: no-sell, overcome the odds, boring and obnoxious pandering promos (this last one Bryan already does)
or
- Rey style: made to look like shit, job every week
either way people will get tired of their toy, 50/50 audiences, "man, someone else should get the title, tired of seeing Bryan slap the lock out of nowhere" complaining, Bryan gets demoted and Vince goes "see, i was right all along".
UberTag
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Big Dave looks like shit. And, unlike a good number of you, I've been down on his return since it was first announced.
Looks like the WWE has decided to take a page from Matt Stone & Trey Parker and book one of their biggest matches of the year at the absolute last minute...
Backstage News on WWE Royal Rumble Match Changes, Head Agent of the Match
It's not even JUST that. It's that they book these 10-15 minute matches and they don't lead to feuds getting built. Nobody gets pushed. It's just a filler match with uninvested commentators who act like they could give a shit about the product and that they're just sitting there to goof off and call a nothing match with no story until the next fucking commercial airs.
RAW is intolerable garbage.
Mr. Luchador
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... I thought the actual Royal Rumble match was decent.
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I always knew Jamie Noble was white trash.
HHH repeatedly got guys over as Champ by barely squeaking out clean title wins before Foley elevated him. Bryan could easily do that as a face (heck, look what that match on Sunday did for Bray.)
Perspicacity
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If Punk had disappeared forever after July 17th, 2011 it would be remembered as one of the best wrestling storylines ever.
The problem with wrestling is that the story has to continue past the climax because we've got another show tomorrow night in Cleveland.
The problem with wrestling is that the story has to continue past the climax because we've got another show tomorrow night in Cleveland.
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Yeah. It can't lay still for long. What they've been doing with Lesnar is nothing short of a miracle. The machine NEVER stops.
The Rumble this year had a LOT of downtime where too many guys were in the ring clogging it up.
Sure, I felt there was like five minutes between the last guy entering and anything happening, but highlights would obviously cut out those parts. I feel like there were probably three or four highlights they could have shown. Kofi, Goldust eliminating Cody, Reigns eliminating his partners, Kofi II, Batista doing something I guess?
Dr Duncan Steel
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You want him to have wrestling matches? Puh-SHAW!
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Am I the only person here who thinks Lillian Garcia is smoking hot?
you like horses brah?
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UberTag
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Vince McMahon watches My Little Pony. What?
No, because that storyline fucking sucks if the guy doesn't return for the big payoff match against the new champion. Just ask Dixie lol. They ruined the angle by rushing the aftermath and inserting Nash and Hunter into it, but that has nothing to do with him not actually leaving.
BFIB
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I'd like to roll with her in the hay.
spindashing
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Spring-Loaded
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how much raiders fanfiction have you written?
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"The Raiders and Indiana Jones Chase for the Lost Ark" - Lovingly Crafted by Sokantish. 700pages. Rated MA for hardcore fucking and docking scenes.
Is that a thing that exists? Raiders win and no one dies?