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March WrassleGAF |SHOW-T| Big Shoes Mean Big Appetites
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funkystudent
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-Pyromaniac-
Member
I'm actually pretty interested in Raw tonight. The one where they actually try to build a story for all the big matches.
Anyway I have a question. Do you guys think a show is hurt by it's predictability? Or do you not care as long as the matches are great. Because as it looks like right now:
Triple H wins
Cena wins (lol)
Taker wins
Ziggler cashes in
I mean that's basically all the big matches unless I'm forgetting one. I find it hard to believe anything would happen differently. Not sure whether that bugs me or not. I mean I knew Cena would beat Punk on Raw but that match was still good for 95% of it.
Anyway I have a question. Do you guys think a show is hurt by it's predictability? Or do you not care as long as the matches are great. Because as it looks like right now:
Triple H wins
Cena wins (lol)
Taker wins
Ziggler cashes in
I mean that's basically all the big matches unless I'm forgetting one. I find it hard to believe anything would happen differently. Not sure whether that bugs me or not. I mean I knew Cena would beat Punk on Raw but that match was still good for 95% of it.
HarryDemeanor
Member
This is exactly why Sports Entertainment-GAF is Best GAF.
Lambda Pie
Banned
i knew choosing a Lesnar avatar was smart, it's dual purpose.
yes. Wrestlemania is the show where all the faces win right? so all the little jimmies can go home happy? i doubt Rock x Cena/ Punk x Taker are going to put on a technical showcase, while Triple H will slow down the match to meet his old man pace.
MightyHealthy
Banned
Why not just ban the people that did it, instead of penalizing an entire community?
PopGAF was ruining threads left and right a few months ago, nothing happened to them...
Is there something I'm missing here?
cartoon_soldier
Member
Good point. WM has always made new champions and used to push guys. Gone are those days too.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
What if Punk beat taker, Ziggler leaves champion, and the young up and comer the rock defeats the unstoppable john cener?
Then it would come off as knee jerk booking to get a reaction out of fans and it would fly in the face of everything they've been doing ever.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
RIP Plywood
FallingEdge
Member
Ziggler is going to cash in the Money In The Bank in the Main Event making it a 3 way.
Ziggler wins clean with no help from AJ or Big E.
NEW CHAMPION.
Ziggler wins clean with no help from AJ or Big E.
NEW CHAMPION.
perma or no?
-Pyromaniac-
Member
see that's the thing. We have 2 possibilities, utter predictability or swerve for the sake of swerve.
edit: just checked mma thread, lots of bans (some looking like permas?), scary times over there!
Liquidsnake
Banned
-Pyromaniac-
Member
I am
Predictable is fine with me if the match is great and the booking goes well. The whole Undertaker thing here is hilarious he is draw and people come to see his matches not the result.
Everyone loved his career vs streak with shawn michaels and that was hella of alot more predictable than him vs Punk. He is not going to lose and thats fine with me.
the matches are what matters. its just too bad these most likely won't even be good. Rock cant wrestle anymore and Cena is Cena. Taker needed a year to let WWE know if he was going to wrestle. Every HHH match is mediocre and as much as i like Ziggler who even cares anymore. he's the white Kofi and his title run will be shorter than Kane's
sorry if my post is too negative for you Aiiii, but fuck predictable outcomes with people who shouldn't even be wrestling anymore
-Pyromaniac-
Member
I agree, I'm just hoping for good matches at this point but there is cause for concern. Who knows though.
Liquidsnake
Banned
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Not sure.
But MMA-GAF also went down in flames.
Not entirely sure why everyone was banned though. I just skimmed it. Something about fitness thread or something idk
Thanks Sun definitely going to look into Ketogenic diets. Thankfully I have my gear at home so I just kick my ass out of bed in the morning and make sure to lift first thing. Usually never skip out of lifting that way, but today being Monday I let myself sleep in so I could lift and watch raw. :lol Taking the first bite and having the show buffer is so purpose defeating, always hated it.
To each his own mate, but if I was you I wouldn't be watching if you already know beforehand you're going to hate it.
Seems rather pointless to get so worked up about it, why put yourself through that if you feel that way?
Professor Beef
Banned
I knew all this fitness talk would be nothing but trouble. I place the blame entirely on Sunflower. ENTIRELY. BOO HIM. BOO HIM OUT OF THE THREAD.
BOOOOOOOOO
BOOOOOOOOO
What did he post?
Liquidsnake
Banned
I honestly looked through his history, and could not find anything.
Dark Ninja
Member
It definitely detracts from it because you know when Punk hits a big move and goes for the pin attempt Takers kicking out. The finish will be visible a mile away. It was the same for the Punk vs Cena match that happened a couple of weeks ago, it was a great match but nobody cared during it cause you KNEW punk wasn't gonna win. Predictability kills the match cause you can't really get into it. Whats worse is all the mania matches are predictable.
Might have been deleted. That last page on the thread was basically a graveyard though.
D
Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
Don't boo me! I'm the man who organized Fight of Fighters 2012!
The only thing I can tell from that MMA thread is that someone who runs the site was butthurt about something? I really don't know. Something to do with fighting over a thousand fights?
IMO it hurts a lot when you can tell who's going to win and such but I still hope the matches will be great. That's a big reason why I dislike Cena. We know what will happen (usually) in his matches and we know that he puts on a good match once every 3 months or something.
FallingEdge
Member
They were making fun of a poster in the fitness thread who was morbidly obese who then lost a lot of weight and then is slowly starting to bulk up again. He posted his before and after pics and they proceeded to ridicule him because his after pic is still "fat" even though he was planning on cutting.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
MightyHealthy
Banned
mechashiva
Member
That just sends me to Cracker Barrel.
D
Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
Oh.
That really sucks. Guess y'all gotta slum it in here with us grapplin' fans, where we go with showmanship over talent :|War Diaz
Wow, that's not fucking cool. :\
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
That's fucked. I support these bannings.
MightyHealthy
Banned
That's an extremely poor summation you're going off of.
It sounds dickish, but the guy maintained he dieted and "ate clean" for three months, when he clearly did not.
Yeah, there is like no middle ground it seems.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Hey guys
TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT.
TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT.
FallingEdge
Member
Just because you "eat clean" for 3 months doesn't mean you will lose fat, especially eating at a surplus, which is what he was doing. His diet consisted of eating above maintenance.
His goal was to go from skinny fat to bulky to cut/lean to get in proper shape for his wedding.
D
Deleted member 47027
Unconfirmed Member
I'm gettin the fuck outta here before someone gets hit, me included
Godspeed wrasslin and MMA pals