interesting, still high though with the split.
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June Wrasslin' |OT| Layin' the law, once again, prepare for war. C! Z! W!
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Just played KOTR in WM2000 last night myself. Took me 3 tries to beat gangrel in the finals
Jimmy King
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I'd say look at his opponent last night who failed to qualify for the MITB match. With the WHC there was a least a glimmer of hope for Ziggler. Not anymore. Same could be said for Sandow.
Tanner1495
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I was thinking about this yesterday, but of course he was the first to qualify for MITB so there's that.
Ziggler was dead as soon as he lost the title. He was never getting back there. ADR went from feuding with Cena to a mini feud with Batista to nothing for months now. He hasn't even been getting his weekly squashes. He's been relegated to showing up when they need a body to fill a tournament or multi man match.
Does anyone else find it weird that the US and IC champs almost never actually talk about their belts? Such an easy way to make them feel important. Just talk about greats who have held the belts before and how they will carry it with pride and defend the title and its prestige. I don't get why no one's doing this. I thought they would go that way with Big E. Nope.
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Del l rio Has been given every ball ( RR win, MITB cash in ,multiple championships) and has dropped them all it's impeccable
They don't seem to be willing to put him in the midcard for some reason. But he isn't over enough to main-event.
The old belt gave him a chance to be above the midcard without actually main-eventing.
Jimmy King
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Don't say that... Not Bryan...
You know, with Bryan out, this would have been the perfect time to get Cesaro on the belts and have Bryan vs Cesaro when Bryan returns.
But no....WWE hates money, so Bryan keeps the belts and gives us a drawn out will he or won't he give up the titles angle.
At least it's looking good that Cesaro could get the belt at MITB......still hoping that Bryan can't compete.
But no....WWE hates money, so Bryan keeps the belts and gives us a drawn out will he or won't he give up the titles angle.
At least it's looking good that Cesaro could get the belt at MITB......still hoping that Bryan can't compete.
You better hope that Bryan competes because if he can't I don't think they will give Cesaro the belt. They will give him money in the bank but not the title right now.
They do that all the time, doesn't mean shit
Yeah that's literally like the one wrestling related thing the announcers actually mention during their matches. Honestly, I think the only person who could truly elevate the titles is Cena. The accomplishment of beating Cena is far more rare than any of the championships. A Evolution-backed Rollins could maybe add some prestige too. Have Randy talk to him about how important it was towards him becoming a star so it feels like Rollind has a reason to really want it.
Rumble win got him nothing; he lost to Edge and then Christian took his heel spot to job to Orton for months.
That SummerSlam 2011 cash in, good lord. For one it didn't benefit him at all. It was all, still, about Triple H and CM Punk (and now Kevin Nash ???). Cena was miffed because he claimed ADR stole the title, he didn't earn it, and then buried his rich-man gimmick. And most of his WHC feuds were just filler spots like Swagger, Big Shoe, RVD, and Christian. Nothing ever with a primary main eventer to put him over; just guys who often lose anyway. One lengthy feud was with Sheamus and he jobbed to him for like five months. No heel is getting over like that. It's been so long, outside Mark Henry for a brief time period in 2012, I can't remember an upper midcard or main event heel who has been protected really well. They're always quickly taken down by the babyface.
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That's what new japan did. Tanahashi-nakamura fued made the IC title 1-B
I say merge the US and IC belts. Ziggler, Del Rio, Cesaro and now probably the Shield boys should all be booked around the new unified belt (probably IC).
If this were to happen, though, then they'd really need to run with that sweet, sweet TV title-esque Internet/Network Championship. Mmmm... So good...
If this were to happen, though, then they'd really need to run with that sweet, sweet TV title-esque Internet/Network Championship. Mmmm... So good...
Who? I don't mean the announcers, but the wrestlers.
Didn't he resign not long ago for like a three year deal?
Just used as a jobber now, like most of the roster. Unless Vince gets a sudden urge to push one of them randomly for a month.
Nope, I bet Cena wins if Bryan can't compete. They were hinting at that last night when I watched that segment.
A 6 month long segment, where they try a new member every show to hilarious results.
Jimmy King
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He's said these next 3 years are his last. Wish they'd still invest him but... yeah.
Big E did
I would love for them to do American Idol style, judging of who should join the shield next.
Sandow changing his hair and wearing the same hair while attempting to do the same high flying moves as Seth and failing would be hilarious
So pretty much jobber status then until the contract ends. They are probably going to just let him coast at this point.
Sandow changing his hair and wearing the same hair while attempting to do the same high flying moves as Seth and failing would be hilarious
So pretty much jobber status then until the contract ends. They are probably going to just let him coast at this point.
I'd rather see Ziggler in that role. He might be tainted damaged goods now, but at least he's not that with the mother of all failed pushes on his back. I used to like seeing ADR if only for his in-ring performance, but he's completely sapped that out of me in the past year somehow. Probably the knowledge that nothing he does matters and when it does, we have to listen to him on the mic.
Jimmy King
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Yup. Lesson learned from Henry and Punk: Don't let them know you plan on quitting.
I wish Johnny B. Badd was around today to see the reaction to him saying things like "I'm so pretty, I should have been a girl". The fires would rage between transpositive and transphobic folks.
Do you think anyone noticed the message being sent in Scorpio's entrance video with the girls in his limo wearing knee pads?
Do you think anyone noticed the message being sent in Scorpio's entrance video with the girls in his limo wearing knee pads?
Really? I don't remember him saying almost anything during his run.
your head is in the gutter old man
Jimmy King
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Triple H and Road Dogg just had a 44 minute match on RAW in WM2000, I should have watched it.
Tonight's WrestleMania Rewind is Taker/HBK from WM25, who's watching?
Tonight's WrestleMania Rewind is Taker/HBK from WM25, who's watching?
Macho Madness
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Most watched Mania of all time. with the guy who wins the main event then being booked like shit immediately afterwards. Great.
Jimmy King
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What are you talking about? Daniel Bryan won King of the Ring and just took the Tag Team Championship off The Hardy Boyz with Bruiser Brody!*
*I've decided that my WM2000 career mode is reality now.
THEY'RE BACK
Beautiful people?
NXT's version of The Beautiful People, The BFFs. They're hotter than TBP ever were anyway.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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It gets appropriately boring and directionless when his career does.
he went from being a wrestler who gets zero heat with a meaningless belt to a wrestler who gets zero heat without a meaningless belt.
didn't change him much.
ohhh ok