Perspicacity
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Being good at the gym doesn't make you an athlete that's for sure.
This sounds like the opinion of someone who never goes to the gym
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September Wrasslin |OT| The one night a year when every table will be on the line
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This sounds like the opinion of someone who never goes to the gym
slightconfuse
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Budget cuts
Jimmy King
Member
PPV-specific sets would change the entire game. Characters would be more well-formed. Crowds would be hotter. Believe it.
That Mania 21 set is garbage, though.
That Mania 21 set is garbage, though.
Actually TE this year really exposed that just building a fuckton of muscle doesn't actually do much for stamina and physicality, given how quickly the roided up guys got shown up by the MMA guys.
Is it wrong that part of me wants that to happen just to hear and see the crowd reaction and the heat.
Although I honestly think its the bad type of heat and Bayley as champion is a bigger moneymaker than Eva will ever be.
Yup.
Perspicacity
Banned
lol do you think everyone at the gym is just trying to "build a fuckton of muscle"
do you think "MMA guys" don't go to the gym?
smh
Don't hate, it's bad for your complexion.
Not everyone no. A lot...yes.
Is Vince McMahon a good athlete? No.
Athletic people might be good at the gym. More than likely. But it's not always the case the other way around.
brisk tacos
Banned
NXT TV has only been a thing for 3 years and has not "always" been anything other than developmental. It should not be treated as otherwise. HHH screwed the pooch making people believe it was something bigger and better. It's traveling developmental. That's what it is and what it will always be. The majority of the roster will always be young, inexperienced talent being given time to get acclimated to working in front of crowds on TV. So, yes, Eva's in ring work is good enough to warrant that. Anyone's ring work is good enough to warrant that. Because that's the point of NXT, not to be some super indie with nothing but top talent, despite what the branding would lead you to believe.
Perspicacity
Banned
Dammit Sunflower here I am trying to build flexibility and strength at the gym when I could have been doing MMAs the whole time
Its half-traveling developmental and half indie showcase.
People need to look at Big E as somebody with no prior indie background who went to FCW and NXT. Big E needed time down there and he is really good right now.
Helps that the New Day probably write their own stuff.
Doesn't make you an athlete.
brisk tacos
Banned
I mean...you have to be athletic to be stronk in the gym. Unless athlete strictly means "get paid to compete in legitimate sporting events", then basically no wrestlers are athletes. A non-athlete couldn't do the weight training and no hands cartwheel thing Dana Brooke does.
Just because you want to believe NXT is something doesn't mean it actually is.
NXT TV is basically a small budget WWE show now where development is second to putting on entertaining wrestling. It's been this way since WWE Network became it's home. NXT TV is no longer pure development anymore. The performance center and non TV house shows are where the real in ring development happens and is exactly where Eva Marie should be.
What's the wrestlers background? Did they play sports? Amateur Wrestler? Football? Gymnastics?
Being "fit" to me means nothing. Hooray you can bench press.
Well, this sure got petty real quick.
Jimmy King
Member
tensions are running high in the WrassleGAF community
I know, friends, I can't wait for Sting to be WWE Champion either
I know, friends, I can't wait for Sting to be WWE Champion either
Hahahaha. You're too much.
slightconfuse
Banned
If you are near Montreal Speedball Mike Bailey is wrestling Rey mysterio
https://youtu.be/Zd26i99L7uA
https://youtu.be/Zd26i99L7uA
Liquidsnake
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You guys need to give her a chance man. I see somehting in her, that she has the ability to be great. She obviously works hard.
When I was taking a shower on Saturday, I thought if I ever met her, I would love to offer her some encouragement, because it upsets me to see her treated the way she is by the fans. I would tell her exactly this:
Listen don't let anyone get you down. I see the work you have put in. Just keep going after it. Don't let the fans or the crowd get you down. I see something special in you, and I think you have the potential to be one of the greats. Just keep at it.
Perspicacity
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I think people are misreading me. My position is that the gym isn't about building muscles, but rather fitness in all forms.
And yes "being good at the gym" does make you an athlete. It's not the only thing it takes but it is the one trait all real athletes have in common.
The attitude that fitness and gym use is only for meatheads is really sad when I know many in this community could use it. Basically I'm tired of the #dnb attitudes in here
And yes "being good at the gym" does make you an athlete. It's not the only thing it takes but it is the one trait all real athletes have in common.
The attitude that fitness and gym use is only for meatheads is really sad when I know many in this community could use it. Basically I'm tired of the #dnb attitudes in here
Hey! First thing you do is hit the cardio. Next thing, go for full on strength training. Don't do any less than 3 sets a day. Each time change the routine daily. You'll be all muscle. I guarantee it!
He does it twice.
brisk tacos
Banned
Dana Brooke was a gymnast for like 20 years and was also a diver. Is she an athlete now? Eva played soccer for California State. The Bellas were also heavily into soccer growing up. All four of those women are actual athletes, even if you somehow want to consider wrestling to not be an athletic endeavour just because it isn't a real sport.
I was pretty darn fucking good at Yoga. For the average meat head some of that is impossible to do. I would never say that made me a good athelete though.
Running, jumping, catching, just being good on your feet really.
I guess everyone's list would be different.
The shit Cena does. Yeah that's hard. I don't think I could ever do that.
I am sure lota of folks can't do 10 push ups, but the fact that I can do them isn't very impressive.
Edit: Eva played soccer? Hmmm.
was she good?
Running, jumping, catching, just being good on your feet really.
I guess everyone's list would be different.
The shit Cena does. Yeah that's hard. I don't think I could ever do that.
I am sure lota of folks can't do 10 push ups, but the fact that I can do them isn't very impressive.
Edit: Eva played soccer? Hmmm.
was she good?
Amazing. As a former terrible trombone player and forever Final Fantasy addict, I approve so hard.
I had the quartet play this after my wedding ceremony, and I managed to get out of the room alive and with the biggest shit-eating grin on my face since I was given explicit marching orders of "no weird video game nerd music" at the wedding.
95% of the room thought it was a fun classical song, 5% of the room burst out laughing.
brisk tacos
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Okay, well Dana was a gymnast in competitions and a diver, and Eva and the Bellas played soccer. So they are athletes, right?
Jimmy King
Member
Sting is an honorary garbageman for the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Is he an athlete?
I guess you can be an athlete simply by competing. But athletic?
And even then some naturally atheltic people suck because they don't have discipline for the game.
Stuff like this shouldn't be on tv.
Considering how shit of a city Baltimore is , yes.
Considering how shit of a city Baltimore is , yes.
Liquidsnake
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Stuff like this shouldn't be on tv.
Considering how shit of city Baltimore is , yes.
Cut her some slack
Kamala or Macho
slightconfuse
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WrestlingDVDNetwork.com has revealed the following matches so far as being part of WWE's upcoming "Owen: Hart of Gold" DVD set:
most successful would be Big Show.
Why?
brisk tacos
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Lol dude. Why are you so against labeling Dana as an athlete when she's spent her entire life in athletics, only doing the weight lifting stuff in the last couple? You can't be in gymnastics for 18 years and not be athletic. She's obviously an athletic athlete. Who did real sports competition before she did weight training competitions, which is absolutely an athletic event.
Eva played on the team for California State, so I'd imagine she had to be fairly decent.
Why should I?
I got no beef against Dana. Not sure how that came across.
Eva must have been a bench warmer.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Stuff like this shouldn't be on tv.
I love how immediately after she finally kicks out you can clearly see fans starting to flip the fuck out like "can you believe this shit"
The Silver
Member
On a scale of Zack Ryder to Brock Lesnar how big of a shitstorm would this old Jericho/Steph promo stir up today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCGIhXfTPXg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCGIhXfTPXg