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bean breath
Member
#GiveDivasAChance was about hijacking a movement started by R-Truth by slimy and racist NXT fans to divert attention from him and onto the Divas division. But only the Divas they want.
slightconfuse
Banned
Good interview with leva bates(Blue Pants)
http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/...-queen-moves-from-the-clearance-rack-20150714
http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/...-queen-moves-from-the-clearance-rack-20150714
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
They pretty much had 0 heat from the second they stepped on the stage, so yeah, its not surprising they're buried.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
The Ascension got buried HARD. Did they slap HHH's kid or something?
Fans gave them the worst response of any NXT call up. Emma looked like Hoke Hokgan in comparison. They weren't even getting pops when they were legend killing.
They weren't very good in NXT. They've been in developmental for probably a decade combined. They attempted a throwback gimmick and it came off lame as hell.
They needed a Raw after Mania type reaction like the one that New Day got to salvage them as a team.
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
It was probably going to happen either way, but...yeah.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Wait until the main roster, friend.
That heel turn, where she tears off the pants to reveal red pants underneath, is going to leave everyone in the world legit shook. All heroes fall in the end.
Liquidsnake
Banned
They are such a bad team. There is nothing cool about them at all. They look like they are dressed up for Halloween as the LOD, its bad, its real bad.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
I remember the Ascension debuting and having a soft ass baby match with Miz and Mizdow because Miz was tired
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
He really was incredible. Still gets those sympathy pops, but he was on a whole other level in the late 90s.
Some recent ones:
-Punk comes out at MITB 2011
-Cena comes out at MITB 2011 (loudest boos ever?)
-Lesnar returns to murder John Cena
-Ziggler cashes in
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
They're all fine moments, but they really can't hold a candle the late 90s pops
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Has anyone nominated hhh returning with a denim jacket pop?
No doubt. Rock, Austin and even guys like the New Age Outlaws were getting reactions that loud on a weekly basis.
Austin coming out on Jan 4/1999 to help Mankind win the title is probably my favourite pop of all time. So great.
British Monsoon
Member
Inoki was very high on him and he was really popular in the late 90's, but the MMA shit happened and he became an afterthought. They were setting it up so that his eventual win over Kensuke would be a big deal, maybe for the title, but it happened a year or so too late with little fanfare.
Liquidsnake
Banned
Cena has received the loudest boos I can remember.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
I'll give the new age outlaws shit but their pre match spiels even had grandmas going along with them
Yeah but who didn't have an MMA period during those days. Even Muta was doing that fucking armbar.
The Ascension had no change of getting over from the minute they changed their gimmick, had the commentators shitting on them every week and got nothing to do.
They were never great to begin with, or even really over at NXT but their main-roster debut was really really bad.
But not every NXT person is going to get over anyway, the way NXT gives their talent a chance and protects them allows for way more people getting over than Raw does. NXT also has some continuity and embraces weird things quickly (like Blue Pants). Not that the Ascencion's fall was because of that, I mean this more in a general way.
They were never great to begin with, or even really over at NXT but their main-roster debut was really really bad.
But not every NXT person is going to get over anyway, the way NXT gives their talent a chance and protects them allows for way more people getting over than Raw does. NXT also has some continuity and embraces weird things quickly (like Blue Pants). Not that the Ascencion's fall was because of that, I mean this more in a general way.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
That was the craziest part. JBL shitting on jobber squash matches had me slack jawed, I've never heard that from a commentary team.
I miss the days where creative would find a way to get a new wrestler over to the crowd. The last time something like that happened was with the Shield debut. It was fresh, new and original compared to the Ascension getting the worst type of segments and JBL burying them to the center of the earth. It was pathetic.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Having your lame Road Warriors ripoffs expressly call out the Road Warriors was the worst idea since showing up to a party with a boner in sweatpants.
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Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
Worst? That's not a bad idea
Liquidsnake
Banned
The crowd didint even know who LOD was, but it really killed them with the back, it had to have been a rib..
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The wrestlers get themselves over on the mic. Pretty much everyone in NXT and WWE is better as a wrestler than Dean Ambrose is, but that doesn't actually matter.
I honestly don't know how you make tag teams not boring nonsense. In any case, I wouldn't have them trot out with an intentional Road Warrior rip-off gimmick talking about how much better they are than them and Demolition, etc. Sure, 3/4 of the fans don't even know who that is, and the 1/4 that does thinks its lame.
Serpentine
Banned
jobbers
I wouldn't, friend.
Sometimes action speaks better than words, as you can see with them shitty segments of the Ascension. Honestly, they should have beat down the usos or something to atleast get them a head start with getting over to the crowd.
Sounds about right.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
WWE has long been fans of booking the tag division as being full of teams which are two guys who have the exact same gimmick and act the same at all times.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
So make them the group of bags who talk shit about dead wrestlers. Sounds like it would be reaaaaaaaaaaaal popular.
dream
Member
This works...
Now this...fuck this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yXhn_8xJto
and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWRpQOeWvS4
This comment section is absolutely amazing.