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July Wrasslin |OT| The Game, The Kane, The Pain, and The Insane (AJ)
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funkystudent
Member
"your sure love wiping your snake out in front of other men"
But its not just Cena its every face in the damn company who has this problem.
No aggression, No passion. Its all just making stupid jokes about your opponent and acting like you don't give a fuck.
The only face in the company who doesn't seem to be a cocky jackass 90% of the time is Triple H. He was pretty good and wasn't just making dick jokes for most of his recent feuds with Punk, Nash and taker but I wouldn't call anything about those feuds great or anything.
Ric Flair
Macho Man Randy Savage
Scott Steiner
Bubba Ray Dudley/Brother Ray/Bully Ray
Chris Jericho
I posted this last night, but it got lost in midnight wrassle gaf madness. I thought it was really good. Paige looks like a legitimate talent.
What also struck me was how simple it seemed to get signed by the WWE! I mean, it seemed as though as long as you're good, which after 5 years training or whatever you could be, make sure you are stacked and toned (the hardest bit), and make sure you get an in to one of the UK tryouts when they tour the country and it looks like any enthusiastic UK talent would have a chance. I mean, they signed Britani on the spot! I'm sure it is much more complicated, but that really is how it seemed!
sf2fanatic
Member
Perspicacity
Banned
His Punk feud was godawful because they were both unrepentant dicks who were talking in insider termz for no damn reason
But otherwise I agree with you. Unfortunately they want every single "Face of the Company" to be a cartoon parallel of The Rock (with bits of Austin), rather than letting anyone succeed or fail as a something different.
Nocturnowl
Member
Let's not forget that Face HHH spent an entire year with HBK making dick jokes to the point there was even a "Vince loves cock" t-shirt. Maybe now he's just burnt out on his penis profanity.
But yes the underlying point tha every main event face is some smug git who treats his opponent like a joke half the time is very much true, even Sheamus just seems to chuckle away at his worthless challengers.
If you want a smug git who treats his opponents like a joke whenever he's given a mic, look no further than Kofi Kingston. Outside of his feud with Orton, his only come-back to anything a heel has to say to him is "Why don't you just shut up." It's like that is all Kofi has in his vocabulary.
TOM f'N CRUISE
Member
1997 RAW opening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQPDHoal8mc
warzone opeing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwAfMJMol2A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQPDHoal8mc
warzone opeing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwAfMJMol2A&feature=related
Right now everyone is afraid of what the WWE might do to Daniel Bryan who looks like he is turning face.
Rock
Flair
Steiner just for hilarity
Austin
HHH
Those 5 always sold me on fights. Steiner always cracks me up because he botches every promo. PEACE.
Goddammit...I enjoyed that more than I should have. lol
I think they still announce her as Eve Torres.
Well I'd say it's easier for a talented woman to get a development contract. I mean, she was a hell of a find I'm sure from the talent scouts perspective. She was attractive, already trained, young, with a very different look to most Divas in the WWE. Probably seemed like a no brainer to offer her a development contract.
They even mention in the documentary that it's very hard for men to get development deals, as even at those tryouts they have a lot of men there to see, probably not many women (I can't image the model types they recruit a lot attend tryouts, they come in through other channels).
Perspicacity
Banned
Perfect "face" or perfect "face of the company"?
I would never surround every single episode of every Raw around the same face for one. I think all they need to do is let everyone have time to build a fanbase. They're so focused on just one or two dudes moving all of the merchandise that they neglect the rest. Then the top guys have the burden of trying to be all things to all people, when they could probably move as many shirts (or more) if they didn't kill personalities at the top.
Prior to Summer of Punk I couldn't even buy one of his shirts at a Raw taping.
Poor Kane lost his last name along with his doctorate.
The best, 2002-2006(seriously, 4 years?!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUMWkSvwSYE&feature=related
Here we go, Raw 1993-2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVTRN39yXIE&feature=related
That doesn't sound like a positive thing to say about Kane.
Perspicacity
Banned
I was being sympathetic. The system is always trying to keep the Big Red Brotha down.
You're right. Damn prejudice.
Nocturnowl
Member
Cut the man some slack, he gets like 10 seconds every 3 months to do a promo, not much time to say anything but "yeah well, screw you pal!"
I wouldn't say he was very smug about it, he tends to pout.
this truth upsets me
Kofi sucks, and as long as he has no gimmick (a West African pretending to be Jamaican?), he's going nowhere. I even thought his work during the Orton feud sucked. Beating up a stock car? So?
Perspicacity
Banned
NXT replaced ECW.
Superstars was originally intended to be a Saturday morning wrestling program featuring top-tier but not quite main event level stars. Then it just became the lower midcard show that they keep producing to meet international commitments.
Rey Mysterio does about the same thing....I think that was his entire part of the script for his feud with Punk and the SES if I remember correctly.
they seem to use the lower camera looking up as the primary camera angle. i wonder if thats because the smaller arena?
haha A Rye's entrance has him come out and tosses dust into the air.
Professor Beef
Banned
I hate how he breaks up his promos by speaking in spanish. That shit just SCREAMS "look at me, WWE Universe! We're pandering!"
Nocturnowl
Member
Hey Orton loved that car he had for all of 10 minutes, I bet he was going to cruise around town with one of his fake wives and Kofi denied him that joy, plus he leg dropped him through a table, SHUT UP SOUL! I STILL BELIEVE IN KOFI KINGSTON!
This is funny because i'm now running through various Rey feuds and promos in my head and it's either him wailing in terror or saying those generic lines about "why don't you come down here and i'll hit you with the 6-1-9! Realize the size of my heart!"
that and as Beef said inserting bits of spanish mid sentence which is jarring as fuck.
Professor Beef
Banned
AUGH, I can hear him pausing between each number, too! I just wanna chuck him across the ring, but I know he'll just hop out of the ring, run away and pose on the entrance ramp, then point to all the kiddies while his theme plays.
Perspicacity
Banned
Rey's daughter did more in that feud to build heat than anything Rey Rey did.
I own a cabinet of this game.
This is fantastic. :lol
if you "chuck" him across the ring he will simply bounce off the middle rope and you find yourself hitting your face on the mat thru a tornado ddt.
BOOYAKA BOOYAKA
Nocturnowl
Member
ARGH THE EVENT IS PLAYING IN MY HEAD AND I'M POWERLESS TO STOP IT!
Oh god, he's back now and while this means good ppv matches from the man it also means this shit happening every week, i'd fall over in despair if I didn't end up in the second rope.
Kofi is even blander than Cena.
Yeah, I imagine the majority of girls that turn up are useless or "ugly". I'm looking forward to seeing Paige's progress. She struck me as a pretty endearing person.
Nocturnowl
Member
You keep this up Soul and you're gonna "wake up in a bad man place".
WWE creative do jackshit with him, lobbing a midcard belt on him and then giving him no actual storylines or opportunities to develop any character, he's probably one of the most shafted people on the roster in this regard.
Professor Beef
Banned
You'll be on the second rope which somehow depowers all wrestlers and makes them groggy, even if they were in the ring for a simple promo. Then Rey will gently push your face away with the
SIX
ONE
NINE
and Rey will once again celebrate and point to the crowd, all the while BOOYAKA BOOYAKA blares through the arena AS WE TAKE YOU TO THE BACK WITH JOSH MATTHEWS.
True, but considering all the other talent that they have, he's still behind a bunch of people in needing a chance.
I will say, though, his heel turn will be great.
It sucked! I still don't get what's so great about that feud. Orton was so bland at the time, and them trying to make Kofi seem "edgy" and "dangerous" seems silly to me. Beating up a stock car? Oooooooooooo
Professor Beef
Banned
I know that I try not to anymore, otherwise my rage will build up again from how Orton stopped that push.
Nocturnowl
Member
Stop predicting the future which is also the past dammit! You're not even safe outside the ring.
You just wait, his heel turn will be like Rocky Maivia becoming the Rock. Kofi Kingston will become "The King" and it will be glorious.
And while his style is of an acquired taste I am a big fan of his "controlled frenzy" and jumping theatrics.
Reneledarker
Banned
TNA at 5 or 6?
