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[klonere]

he's my hometown boy and even I am bored with him

explain his gimmick to me

what was his NXT gimmick?

Aside from the injury, why isn't Sami Zayn over as a top babyface?

fucking abysmal booking mate

 

[Kaladin]

he's my hometown boy and even I am bored with him

explain his gimmick to me

He's the underdog......from the underground.....and he wears golf caps.

 

[31GhostsIV]

he's my hometown boy and even I am bored with him

explain his gimmick to me

He's a nice dude that dances awkwardly to ska music and is good at the wrestles.

Did I mention he's a nice dude?

 

[BewareTheBatsie]

Well Alicia's reaction was fine because you would think she wouldn't want to piss off a supposed monster heel.

You think Stone Cold Alicia Fox gives a damn who she pisses off?

Outside Kayfabe Alicia Fox probably does.

 

[Mahonay]

He's a nice dude that dances awkwardly to ska music and is good at the wrestles.

Did I mention he's a nice dude?

Like, forcefully nice.

 

[imBask]

he's a nice dude, who doesn't like Kevin Owens and he gets injured a lot

it's the weakest gimmick of all time. There's your answer

 

[spindashing]

It's a miracle he never killed anyone with this considering he botched it 50 percent of the time.

You don't go into a ring with Ahmed Johnson expecting to stay injury free. He was getting talent popped before Seth Rollins was old enough to watch sports entertainment.

Ahmed doing the move and then walking around taunting instead of going for a pin is killing me

It is a pretty Ahmed(tm) thing to do.

 

[Data West]

underdog is the shittiest gimmick

'i'm shit but i'm not as shit as you think i am!' doesn't have a lot of legs

 

[klonere]

he's a nice dude, who doesn't like Kevin Owens and he gets injured a lot

it's the weakest gimmick of all time. There's your answer

that was his gimmick in NXT and it provided two of the best storylines they did in their best period

 

[Kaladin]

that was his gimmick in NXT and it provided two of the best storylines they did in their best period

Owens murdering Sami Zayn twice?

 

[slightconfuse]

Package piledriver is a great move

 

[imBask]

that was his gimmick in NXT and it provided two of the best storylines they did in their best period

Everything works in NXT because the writing is good and they focus on storylines, it doesn't get lost in a 3h show. I'll give you that, it has a lot to do about the booking

 

[BewareTheBatsie]

Repeat underdog stories are the worst. See Cena, maybe Sami and probably Bayley in six months time.

 

[Arrowgigantic]

Sami's gimmick is he got the best match out of Nakamura so far and fuck you.

 

[Kaladin]

Sami can be instantly redeemed with a Rumble win this year, especially if Owens is still champ.

 

[imBask]

Sami's gimmick is he got the best match out of Nakamura so far and fuck you.

that wasn't even Nakamura's best match THIS YEAR dawg. January happened

 

[klonere]

Owens murdering Sami Zayn twice?

Neville/Sami is the male pinnacle of NXT storylines.

Everything works in NXT because the writing is good and they focus on storylines, it doesn't get lost in a 3h show. I'll give you that, it has a lot to do about the booking

It really does. Heath Slater is a star performer with Rhyno (which NXT didn't even make that interesting) in 2016!

 

[FlammableD]

If Nia was an actual heel she'd be pissed rather than looking like Alicia spilled a drink on her.

She has that "this wasn't part of the script" look on face.

 

[imBask]

Sami can be instantly redeemed with a Rumble win this year, especially if Owens is still champ.

forget about it. You know exactly who's winning the rumble this year

Spoiler

WHO'S
NEXT

 

[FallingEdge]

that wasn't even Nakamura's best match THIS YEAR dawg. January happened

exactly

2nd best

Generico > Zayn

 

[Uno Venova]

Owens murdering Sami Zayn twice?

his climb to the top against Neville, one of the bext NXT slow burns.

that wasn't even Nakamura's best match THIS YEAR dawg. January happened

Seen Wrestle Kingdom and the Zayn match was still better.

 

[klonere]

Sami can be instantly redeemed with a Rumble win this year, especially if Owens is still champ.

This isn't happening

 

[Sephzilla]

I actually think the Sami/Neville story in NXT was better than Sami/Owens in NXT.

 

[Kaladin]

The Rumble winner this year is either going to be Cesaro or a surprise entrant by Finn Balor.

 

[BewareTheBatsie]

I actually think the Sami/Neville story in NXT was better than Sami/Owens in NXT.

Sami/Neville was a brilliant feud and story all around.

 

[slightconfuse]

Stop find it hilarious that Miz cuts the promo of his life and gets stuck with Dog Ziggler

 

[Kaladin]

I actually think the Sami/Neville story in NXT was better than Sami/Owens in NXT.

It's the only time Sami really showed some fire behind his actions.

 

[Toki767]

Stop find it hilarious that Miz cuts the promo of his life and gets stuck with Dog Ziggler

Probably one of the main reasons why Miz has virtually stopped trying to improve.

 

[BewareTheBatsie]

Stop find it hilarious that Miz cuts the promo of his life and gets stuck with Dog Ziggler

Ambrose proved everything right about what he said about Ziggler in the build-up to their match at Summerslam and how he's gonna fade back to the background once he gets his ass kicked. Then he also gets his ass kicked by AJ.

But hey, he really deserves an IC title match. Miz vs Ziggler for the IC title. Never been done before, right? /s

 

[Professor Beef]

Cesaro is just a taller Apollo Crews, he ain't winning the Rumble.

 

[Deleted member 47027]

Sami's gimmick is he got the best match out of Nakamura so far and fuck you.

You mean AJ got the best out of Nak America, pal

 

[Uno Venova]

The Ziggler program still opened Smackdown, hard to say if he's fading into the background just yet.

 

[Kaladin]

 

[Toki767]

I was right about them not explaining what's going on with HHH right away.

 

[Bluekaveli]

That main event match.

 

[slightconfuse]

ESPN is really good at PR

Check out @WWEonESPN's Tweet: https://twitter.com/WWEonESPN/status/773183717103853572?s=09

 

[Kaladin]

I was right about them not explaining what's going on with HHH right away.

Gotta build the story of Stephanie breaking Mick's heart up first.

 

[BewareTheBatsie]

Cesaro will be lucky at this rate to win a midcard title once more before his WWE career is over, no way in hell he's winning the rumble.

 

[justjim89]

Where is that sit down with Raven, Foley, and RVD talking about hardcore wrestling at? For the life of me, I can't find the full thing on the network.

 

[Lmo911]

Aside from the injury, why isn't Sami Zayn over as a top babyface?

He wears race flag checkers. It's immediately a -10 charisma.

 

[Uno Venova]

Marks don't even seem invested in trying to get Cesaro over anymore. Everyone knows this is as far as he's gonna go.

 

[Deleted member 47027]

Where is that sit down with Raven, Foley, and RVD talking about hardcore wrestling at? For the life of me, I can't find the full thing on the network.

Might be an old Wrestling Round Table or a Table for 3. Don't remember Raven being on any of those, so maybe it was an ECW doc?

 

[Toki767]

So post-Raw.

Rollins comes out to help Reigns get rid of Jericho and Owens.

Then Reigns spears Rollins.

Your top face everyone.

 

[slightconfuse]

Cubs fan had this match

https://youtu.be/cYGF_njBYBg

 

[Deleted member 47027]

So post-Raw.

Rollins comes out to help Reigns get rid of Jericho and Owens.

Then Reigns spears Rollins.

Your top face everyone.

That's how dark matches work, it doesn't matter

 

[slightconfuse]

Where is that sit down with Raven, Foley, and RVD talking about hardcore wrestling at? For the life of me, I can't find the full thing on the network.

History of the hardcore title DVD that just came out

 

[Bluekaveli]

Where is that sit down with Raven, Foley, and RVD talking about hardcore wrestling at? For the life of me, I can't find the full thing on the network.

Hardcore Championship dvd

 

[Hex]

So this is the inspiration for Hell in a Cell or what? I've heard a lot of hushed, excited whispers about this in the last few days but not a lot of details. A tape thought lost forever? Ellering had it but forgot to tell everybody?

They used to have matches like this alot back in the day.
Hell Jim Cornette probably had his own personal cage he was in one so often. Same with JJ Dillon.

 

[justjim89]

Might be an old Wrestling Round Table or a Table for 3. Don't remember Raven being on any of those, so maybe it was an ECW doc?

It's a newly-released thing. But it's not under any of the obvious feeds you'd expect it to be under.

Edit: Ah, thanks.

 

[Kaladin]

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