bean breath
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That's grounds for a berrial in my book, making Cole look bad.
Bye Seth.
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January Wrasslin' |OT2| Stop watching this garbage and get HBO Go
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Bye Seth.
dream
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It is excellent, and it is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVicVOH6jXA&list=PLBDC882C301948836
It's infinitely better than that WWE 24/7 shit, which is very much a perfect microcosm of this wretched company's modus operandi, in which they shit out nuggets of mediocrity to an audience who eagerly laps it up like it's locally sourced free reign chicken salad. "Ohhh look they're showing Daniel Bryan getting ready to come to the ring." Fuck that. It's chicken shit.
this is amazing.
blackaroni
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Jimmy King
Member
so nice of those two dads to carry their kids to bed
blackaroni
Member
I still don't understand why they both had to do this. I don't even understand why exist in 2015.
Macho Madness
Member
Vince McMahon said:
Oh.
I don't need to know about your fanfiction.
Paracelsus
Member
It did, by forfeit, the rest of the card was mediocre or garbage.
I loved it. Bet brother Soulplaya had a tear in his eye for his daddy and one of his long time friends.
Jimmy King
Member
dream
Member
Plus, Heel, The Mania of WrestleMania actually told an interesting story, which WWE 24/7 didn't even try to do. And isn't that just like WWE today?
It's also interesting that this documentary, which covered WrestleMania 19, was centered around Brock, SCSA, HHH, Dwayne Johnson, and Undertaker--all of whom were all over WrestleMania 30. 0 new top guys created. My god.
It's also interesting that this documentary, which covered WrestleMania 19, was centered around Brock, SCSA, HHH, Dwayne Johnson, and Undertaker--all of whom were all over WrestleMania 30. 0 new top guys created. My god.
Reaction compilation of people reacting to Taker losing The Streak at WM30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soiM-A63-0A
bean breath
Member
Ithil, as I live and breathe! What are you doing here, buddy?
BFIB
Member
Just seeing this in .gif form pisses me off.
Did WWE really point out that "some" believe Reigns is being hand picked? Way to just continue to bitchslap your audience.
bean breath
Member
The prospect of Seth being sent back down to NXT to retool his character excites me as well.
This really is the most 'WWE in a nutshell' gif I've seen in quite some time. Popular would-be stars thrown out of the ring by two old big dudes to make way for the star that Vince wants you to have.
It's the 'Hogan pins Yokozuna' of the #RealityEra
dream
Member
Heel you're really going to like the moment when SCSA retires in the ring and Dwayne Johnson thanks him. Storytelling.
You're also going to like when Brock does a SSP and lands on his head and freaks out backstage at the EMTs. Storytelling.
You know what we got on that WWE 24/7 piece of shit I just wasted an hour of my life on? Undertaker putting on his hood backstage. He walks out. They show some highlights of the match. Cut to Vince in the gorilla position asking for some help (presumably for Undertaker, but we didn't actually see him so it could have been a wardrobe fuckup for all I know). Then they show some stock footage of an ambulance while playing Michael Cole's line from Monday Night Raw Supershow about Taker being taken to the hospital.
Fucking pointless.
You're also going to like when Brock does a SSP and lands on his head and freaks out backstage at the EMTs. Storytelling.
You know what we got on that WWE 24/7 piece of shit I just wasted an hour of my life on? Undertaker putting on his hood backstage. He walks out. They show some highlights of the match. Cut to Vince in the gorilla position asking for some help (presumably for Undertaker, but we didn't actually see him so it could have been a wardrobe fuckup for all I know). Then they show some stock footage of an ambulance while playing Michael Cole's line from Monday Night Raw Supershow about Taker being taken to the hospital.
Fucking pointless.
Jimmy King
Member
Ziggler/DB at Mania would be great. Probably would be given 10 minutes but I'm sure they're both pissed off enough to wrestle an extra 20 out of pure spite.
Paracelsus
Member
So that means that by July 2015 both Kane and Beeg are gone? Awesome.
bean breath
Member
You don't have to watch, you know.
bean breath
Member
No, this is real Pro Wrestling. Feel that tension when Brock confronted Seth? You'll never find that any where else.
Paracelsus
Member
Bryan as a heel right now would work, because it would be an Eddie Guerrero in 2003 heel, more of a tweener, especially since he's going after a guy people don't want.
every single one of those jabroni marks are worshiping brock lesnar right now
bean breath
Member
They're sending a powerful message.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
Watching Sting vs Ric Flair from the final Nitro on the network. Forgot how goddamn awful Schiavone is.
What the frick? That isn't what "24" means in the context of sports entertainment programming as popularized by Floyd "Money" Mayweather Jr., and they fricking know it.
bean breath
Member
Roman has a game plan, believe that.
dream
Member
To be fair, we got clips of Alexa Bliss, Charlotte Flair, and bomb dotcom getting dolled up to be HHH's tramps and Ric Flair cried because his baby girl got her WrestleMania moment. Hard hitting, compelling, and real.
Jimmy King
Member
Bryan would in reality be the face in the eyes of everyone except Vince
dream
Member
We also got SCSA and Dwayne Johnson talking to Hulk about getting the name of the arena wrong. Far more interesting than following SCSA as he walks into what he knows is (but hasn't revealed to be) his last match. Or Kurt Angle walking in to fight Brock with a broken freakin' neck at a time when he's finally found peace with his family and wants to be able to raise his baby girls without pain or paralysis.
bean breath
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He represents us.
Dr Duncan Steel
Member
They'll make him murder his own dog in front of the audience if they want to. What's Bryan gonna say, No?
funkystudent
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TBH I dont know how they save this mania.
Putting Bryan in the main event again as the 3rd man just seems lame and returning to the well.
But on the other hand no one else is suitable for that.
Its Rock Cena 2 levels of not giving a fuck all over again
Putting Bryan in the main event again as the 3rd man just seems lame and returning to the well.
But on the other hand no one else is suitable for that.
Its Rock Cena 2 levels of not giving a fuck all over again
bean breath
Member
Sorry, don't believe you.
Reigns heel
Jimmy King
Member
It's sad how entertaining this clusterfuck has become: no signs of Reigns alleviating any doubts and no signs of WWE abandoning ship.
JPeeples83
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This was such a refreshing show. Beyond having JBL do the weather, they should really consider putting at least one full PPV match on a post-PPV Raw show. They've already budgeted PPV buys as zero, and by only doing one match (and not always having it be a main event), you don't piss off Network subscribers. The sitdown interview stuff was so great too. Seth put himself over as a top guy and then did a deal with Brock that should logically lead to a Brock match at Fast Lane. They're already giving away Cena-Rusev and a HHH-Sting confrontation for that show, so you might as well go all-in and get one more match out of Brock if you're determined to sacrifice so much of WM's card. Have Seth-Brock in a one on one match to cement Seth, even with a loss, as the top dog. Hell, I'd have Seth beat him and either do a triple threat with Brock cashing in his rematch and saying it's a chance to beat up two guys again, or do Brock-Bryan and calling it a number 1 contender's match.
They seem to think that Brock's leaving, although if I was WWE, I'd look into a dual contract with UFC. It seems insane given that WWE is such a control freak of a company, but they do allow him to have sponsors and UFC does allow Josh Barnett to do IGF matches. UFC has far more to gain with Brock being exposed on WWE's TV than just being on their currently-struggling TV setup and it would be best for both companies to have Brock's services right now. WWE needs the roster depth and star power, and the same holds true for UFC. Having him do one fight per year for UFC and then long before and after that doing a match for WWE would work for the companies and allow Brock to line his pockets like never before.
The Roman interview was a disaster. Between the audio issue at the start and Roman offering up patty-cake responses, he came off as doomed. The weirdest bit was them bringing up him being hand-picked by the higher ups, who in storyline are opposed to him as evidenced by the end of the Rumble match, and he thanked them for the opportunity. LOVED LOVED LOVED the Arnold parody bits - Paige and Ryback shined, while Vince probably went through his personal collection for the bodybuilding pics. Loved Dean walking and hitchhiking to the building, then asking "Hey, you guys got any posters of me I can look at!?" Bryan's interview with Renee was a great way to set up a Brock match in the future. They've really got more matches they need to get out of Brock - shame they wasted three matches on a year-long feud with HHH. Heyman cut among the greatest promos in history with Roman Reigns here. This promo was worth every penny they've paid Brock since 2012 if it winds up helping Roman out. If this was just in a vacuum with nothing else until WM, it would be a million buys.
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HE'S ON A ROLL, BABY!
http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/ptv0z9xmgjba96whobfjrlrd6lepafx0
WWE 24 - WM 30 -
WWE built this up pretty big and while it was really good, it was greatly hurt by time constraints and painting as rosey a picture as possible for things. It was Connor-heavy, which is fine but Steph saying they invited him to WM to give him something to live for came off as one of those self-congratulatory lines that they throw out. It was nice to have Warrior's family in this, but if you didn't know otherwise, you wouldn't know he passed away since that didn't get a graphic while Connor did.
The biggest letdown here was the Taker-Brock stuff. We got the briefest of glimpses of Taker backstage and I loved the hug with Vince, but they didn't even talk about what caused the injury or Vince going with Taker to the hospital. They went with a surface-level approach to everything and I get why they would do that from a corporate perspective, it did make the special a lot worse than the Mania of WrestleMania/WrestleMania: The Movie this was patterned after.
http://jayreviewsthings.blogspot.com/2015/01/wwe-24-wrestlemania-30.html
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http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/x3wu9hds6oknfkj7ugrnasccartfibsf
They seem to think that Brock's leaving, although if I was WWE, I'd look into a dual contract with UFC. It seems insane given that WWE is such a control freak of a company, but they do allow him to have sponsors and UFC does allow Josh Barnett to do IGF matches. UFC has far more to gain with Brock being exposed on WWE's TV than just being on their currently-struggling TV setup and it would be best for both companies to have Brock's services right now. WWE needs the roster depth and star power, and the same holds true for UFC. Having him do one fight per year for UFC and then long before and after that doing a match for WWE would work for the companies and allow Brock to line his pockets like never before.
The Roman interview was a disaster. Between the audio issue at the start and Roman offering up patty-cake responses, he came off as doomed. The weirdest bit was them bringing up him being hand-picked by the higher ups, who in storyline are opposed to him as evidenced by the end of the Rumble match, and he thanked them for the opportunity. LOVED LOVED LOVED the Arnold parody bits - Paige and Ryback shined, while Vince probably went through his personal collection for the bodybuilding pics. Loved Dean walking and hitchhiking to the building, then asking "Hey, you guys got any posters of me I can look at!?" Bryan's interview with Renee was a great way to set up a Brock match in the future. They've really got more matches they need to get out of Brock - shame they wasted three matches on a year-long feud with HHH. Heyman cut among the greatest promos in history with Roman Reigns here. This promo was worth every penny they've paid Brock since 2012 if it winds up helping Roman out. If this was just in a vacuum with nothing else until WM, it would be a million buys.
Screens -
HE'S ON A ROLL, BABY!
http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/ptv0z9xmgjba96whobfjrlrd6lepafx0
WWE 24 - WM 30 -
WWE built this up pretty big and while it was really good, it was greatly hurt by time constraints and painting as rosey a picture as possible for things. It was Connor-heavy, which is fine but Steph saying they invited him to WM to give him something to live for came off as one of those self-congratulatory lines that they throw out. It was nice to have Warrior's family in this, but if you didn't know otherwise, you wouldn't know he passed away since that didn't get a graphic while Connor did.
The biggest letdown here was the Taker-Brock stuff. We got the briefest of glimpses of Taker backstage and I loved the hug with Vince, but they didn't even talk about what caused the injury or Vince going with Taker to the hospital. They went with a surface-level approach to everything and I get why they would do that from a corporate perspective, it did make the special a lot worse than the Mania of WrestleMania/WrestleMania: The Movie this was patterned after.
http://jayreviewsthings.blogspot.com/2015/01/wwe-24-wrestlemania-30.html
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http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/x3wu9hds6oknfkj7ugrnasccartfibsf
funkystudent
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You do that during the match though right?
Not before. You have to have Paul turn on Brock during the match and cost him.
Or actually yeah. Since Brock is gone after WM maybe you do that before so you dont leave any loose ends.