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January Wrasslin' |OT2| Stop watching this garbage and get HBO Go
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You're right. You just go absent for long periods of time and we miss you.
Here is meltzer ratings for the Royal Rumble:
New Day vs Tyson and Cesaro: 2 and 3/4
Ascension vs Dx: 1 and 1/4
Usos vs Miz and Mizdow: 3 stars
Brie and Nikki vs Paige and Natalya: 1 star
Brock vs Cena vs Rollins: 4 and 3/4 stars. Same as Zayn vs Neville for the title
Royal Rumble: 1 and 3/4 stars ouch
New Day vs Tyson and Cesaro: 2 and 3/4
Ascension vs Dx: 1 and 1/4
Usos vs Miz and Mizdow: 3 stars
Brie and Nikki vs Paige and Natalya: 1 star
Brock vs Cena vs Rollins: 4 and 3/4 stars. Same as Zayn vs Neville for the title
Royal Rumble: 1 and 3/4 stars ouch
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Whether you like reigns or not, it was a bad rumble. No cool spots, super lazy commentary, and no sense of unpredictability.
Macho Madness
Member
That's generous for that shitty rumble
The Silver
Member
you can just hear that lisp
Jimmy King
Member
Well, I certainly didn't predict how shittily they would eliminate Bryan, Ziggler, Ambrose and Wyatt.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Couldn't predict, but I wasn't surprised
slightconfuse
Banned
Was swagger even in the rumble?
bean breath
Member
What about Goldberg, what gift did he have?
He was.
Unbelieveable physical charisma? An excellent entrance? The ability to say "Who's Next?" and snarl?
bean breath
Member
Sibersk Esto
Banned
A great amount of intensity, great at working the crowd, a great entrance, strong heels to work off of, a solid war-crate, and a crispness to his moves.
and being Bald was the most popular haircut to have as wrestler then
I suppose so. Bryan was on his way, but due to unfortunate circumstances it fell apart. Then other previous winners like Batista, Del Rio, Cener, Orton, pasty ass, just all felt went nowhere due to shitty booking or produced anything memorable.
I just needed a reason to to post that.
There's one thing I won't tolerate, and that's exposing the business. Roman Reigns, you're dead to me.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
The last couple of royal rumbles have been only slightly less lazy than MITB when it comes to giving someone a title match.
Marvel
could never
Sure.
Serpentine
Banned
you can kinda see it tbh
I'd say the biggest issue WWE has is that they don't have a heel who fans just really don't like. You kind of need that to help get your faces over. Lesnar's reactions have ranged from indifference to half the crowd being behind him because he's against Cena. Add that with them repeating last year's mistake in a way, and you're left with an obvious result.
It's why I was said they should've rolled with Batista all the way after Wrestlemania last year. Fans hated him so much that you pretty much have a great opportunity to use all that hate, and build an entire angle where you can eventually elevate someone. Rather than wasting time with Lesnar, they should've convinced Big Dave and built the main event angle from that. You'd still have Lesnar to build another angle too.
It's business. Maximise your opportunities. It doesn't have to be all or nothing.
It's why I was said they should've rolled with Batista all the way after Wrestlemania last year. Fans hated him so much that you pretty much have a great opportunity to use all that hate, and build an entire angle where you can eventually elevate someone. Rather than wasting time with Lesnar, they should've convinced Big Dave and built the main event angle from that. You'd still have Lesnar to build another angle too.
It's business. Maximise your opportunities. It doesn't have to be all or nothing.
I disagree with this. Apparently, even guys like Jericho who could do it back in the day are scripted word for word with those promos even though his newer stuff is awful by comparison. "I... Want... Title.... Match...." Good god, still makes me shudder and took the shine off Jerichos first return for me. Vince loves having the control so if he can control everything about Reigns, even if it makes him slightly worse, he will.
Agree with the rest though, the car crash so far has been delightful fun.
I just needed a reason to to post that.
Oh man. "Hey Rusev, we're gonna be the last two in the Rumble buddy. This will be fun"
I think it's both that and they don't know how to book faces on top of that. Bryan was an accident with a chant and one of the few people they have that go in the ring with anyone and the only reason he's that over is because it was organic. Most big faces since the late 90s transitioned their heel gimmick into face just with a subtle change because the crowd were cheering anyway. Austin, Rock, Angle, Cena, Edge
Christian
Marvel
could never
You can also see him reading his own name and that he is indeed the world heavyweight champion for reminder.
Dr Duncan Steel
Member
Man these last three Rumbles have been an IWC nightmare.
2013: Punk loses the title, CENAWINSLOL
2014: Bootista, Punk leaves, "Did someone not get what they wanted?"
2015: Bryan's failure, and....
2013: Punk loses the title, CENAWINSLOL
2014: Bootista, Punk leaves, "Did someone not get what they wanted?"
2015: Bryan's failure, and....
Jimmy King
Member
Where's the BatistaGAF OT?
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Someone should make a Febuary OT to spite Sanjuro for jumping the gun.
HOMEBOY OVER HERE
Banned
you guys wouldn't know what to do with yourselves if bryan won the rumble.
I like the guy but he would be terrible as the face of the company.
I want to see him as a heel again.
I like the guy but he would be terrible as the face of the company.
I want to see him as a heel again.
Marvel
could never
So do I, his smarmy shit was excellent.
Big Dave is my guy but Roman needs to improve a lot for me to give a shit in those 7 months, friend.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Why would you want to see Roman Reigns squashing Daniel Bryan for 3 PPVs in a row?
HOMEBOY OVER HERE
Banned
I don't like reign at all. I'd rather see bryan as a heel squash cena on ppv
Jimmy King
Member
I don't want Bryan to be face of the company. I don't want any one person to be the face of the company.
Serpentine
Banned
yo damn
HOMEBOY OVER HERE
Banned
they should save the brass ring for uhaa nation and just keep cena the top face for another three years
Perspicacity
Banned
I'm kind of sad that I've never loved anyone or anything as much as that dude loves Marvel movies
Dr Duncan Steel
Member
2013 aggressive insecure face Bryan is probably one of my favorites wrestling characters ever and I would love for him to go back to that. Especially after him losing the Rumble in such a fashion like that. I want him to have a clean slate (and hair ffs) and just do what he does best; captivating the WWE Universe.
British Monsoon
Member
The difference with Goldberg was he was well protected, they successfully accentuated his positives and disguised his negatives. But that was WCW and Nitro was a wrestling show. Goldberg never needed to go out there and waste 10 minutes with an in-ring promo, so he wasn't terribly exposed as being a bit shit on the mic.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
That's not how it works. Lesnar got to squash Cena because he's Lesnar. Heel Bryan would be booked like heel Christian.
bitesnintendog
Member
I just needed a reason to to post that.
Holy fuck.
I just needed a reason to to post that.
"hey Rusev, remember to make me look strong"
HOMEBOY OVER HERE
Banned
lovely ladies
Member
You know your state of heels are in sad shape when two of the top five are Kane and Big Show.