avengers23
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We had the Kevin Owens/John Cena series of diminishing returns, the Cena US Open Challenge matches, and New Day shenanigans. It hasn't been a total waste ofa year.
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October Wrasslin' |OT| Celebrating 20 Years of the YET-AY!
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We had the Kevin Owens/John Cena series of diminishing returns, the Cena US Open Challenge matches, and New Day shenanigans. It hasn't been a total waste ofa year.
Bluekaveli
Member
Those years at least had HBK, Edge, Taker, and Jericho feuding. We have nothing at all now.
slightconfuse
Banned
Agreed. Plus after seeing CENAWINSLOL happen to Rusev, Owens, and Rollins the open challenge has simply turned into typical Cena booking with a few more false finishes and finisher spam. The only way the open challenge would surprise me now is if we got someone like Rock to show up and answer the challenge. Or have Real Ass Stone Cold show up and beat him while calling him a dumb sunnova bitch for stealing his move.
Nocturnowl
Member
The triple threat match at the rumble was the only other thing to come to my mind as well.
The whole Reigns/Rock thing was hilarious but for all the wrong reasons.
To continue putting nails in WWE's 2015 coffin...
- Remember the elimination chamber match which crumbled to pieces as a boring and organised mess that Dolph Ziggler of all people had to try and save mid match by directing traffic as they say? almost as lacklustre was the following weeks MitB match which while not as slapdash was incredibly rote and won by the one man in the match who would garner the most indifference.
- Speaking of Ziggler, his feud with Rusev was the drizzling shits and a prime contender for the worst of the year.
- The divas revolution
- They brought back the King of the Ring tournament, rushed through it to crown Barrett king and then job him like they'd never jobbed him before, also axed the bad news gimmick because it was gaining traction.
In a way I think it says it all that one of the recurring highlights of this year has been John Cena and his US title run, the very man who stagnated so heavily over the last decade is one of the better things about 2015.
The ultimate damnation, very valid as well.
Now consider the amount of time you've invested into watching RAW, et cetera...
Nocturnowl
Member
Valid point, can't quite forget the 2006 Smackdown era of eternal tag team match playa featuring Booker T, Finley, Lashley and Batista.
We should've known something was up when Raw after Mania ended with a whimper.
real_slime
Banned
A year ago Kane was in prime physical condition, when he was doing fuck all ring wise. Now he's back as the big red machine and it looks like he's got a dang gut going on. Guy needs to plan that gym schedule better.
Anyway - excited for Stone Cold and Brock tonight!
Yeah even with that in mind, it is the only compelling thing about HiaC or Raw tonight. Cena has to drop the belt while he's gone (unless lolcena) and I feel they'll want to do it on Raw so they can drive that as SOMETHING that happened on live, free TV instead of this endless upsell to mediocre PPVs.
I still can't get over them putting Orton on the pre-show. ORTON. Ambrose, whatever they clearly don't give a fuck about anybody new that's not named Roman Reigns but Orton is a good hand wherever he's put and is a golden boy for them. If I was either or Orton or Ambrose I'd be pissed.
what would you say was year 1 of said period?
I thought the period when I started watching (HiaC last year) till the Rumble (ignoring the Rumble itself) was fine.
Mania was saved by the cashin and an RKO gif, The build was awful and everything after has been defined by an inexcusably terribly booked WWE Champ and the failure to get Roman over.
I've voiced before that 2006 was the start of this oddly booked very underwhelming build to big matches era.
Yeah there are bright spots but so much at the time left a lot to be desired. 2013 was a weird year, 2009 and even 2004 was quite dull.
sf2fanatic
Member
Cena's next challenger should be
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HHH
Or Hogan, Piper and Macho Man still main eventing wrestling shows...oh wait
They should unironically do this. Give the world title to Kane, US to HHH, just get rid of the Inter title without ever mentioning it and put the tag belts on the Dudleys.
Old men. Running the world.
Enjoy tonight's show!
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Enjoy tonight's show!
Notice that Austin isn't on that....
He's not gonna be on Raw is he?
I still can't believe this is real
Kinda odd when Ambrose is supposed to be The Guy when Cena is gone.
Or so the interweb told me,
I was going to say Better to burn out than fade away...but fuck I miss Piper and Savage.
Why do we lose Piper, Savage, Henning, Pillman, Guererro, Rude...etc but still have what we have.
The higher powers must be doing some goat level booking and events.
Perhaps doing this one early because they will all get involved later....
Probably too laid back to even care too.
he gets paid to do the same rope-to-clothesline spot every day and he comes home to Renee Young. He's doing just fine
Is it your mission in life to have the worst opinions
real_slime
Banned
I still can't believe this is real
It doesn't matter, though. The PPVs/LIVE EVENTS have been devalued, wins and losses don't matter, the champ has lost every match he's been in bar 1 for months. It doesn't matter where you are or what you're doing, as long as the brand is intact and strong.
They probably put them on cos the fans who go will want to see Orton and Ambrose, but they forgot to book anything decent for them this month. So they're on first in a match which is called the 'pre-show' but it'll be in the same arena, have wrestling, and people will be watching it on the same WWE network anyway so it's really just, uh, the show.
I'm not being facetious when I say I think it is absolutely part of the plan to make shows except Wrestlemania now unremarkable, to have WWE entertainment be something that is just constantly on, and one minute of it is the same as the other. They're on a deep branding expedition.
meh, I don't HATE Ambrose, just like I don't HATE Bayley, I just don't like their characters. Ambrose is the CUHHHRAAAYZE one ohohohoho! and it's really boring... it got old super fast
his matches against rollins were great, but the storyline went in a dumb direction and died the instant he became the Mustard Spraying Joker
Most of the ppvs are just extended Raws.
Only Rumble, Summer Slam and Mania matter.
Survivor Series used to be great, and a big deal and they buried that all to hell years ago.
Didn't you hear? It's already real life, and also not boring.
slightconfuse
Banned
See? It's already beginning. Every time he squashes someone he should tell them "This is real life"