Anything to save us from these boring ass Ambrose matches. At least AJ should get something good out of him on Sunday.
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They have no one on SD that can deliver moty matches till RR
Its as transitional as Jericho, Eddie, Rey, REDACTED were. They give the internet darlings their 2-3 month reign but it doesn't mean they will be contenders regularly.
Ive grown too cynical in my old age
What?
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She hasn't had a match in some time, right? Shit maybe I always skip em...
Its as transitional as Jericho, Eddie, Rey, REDACTED were. They give the internet darlings their 2-3 month reign but it doesn't mean they will be contenders regularly.
Ive grown too cynical in my old age
aj is gonna be 40 in 9 fuckin months, just give him the title for god sake who knows how long we're gonna have him.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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We'll see on Sunday. My hunch is that will be a great match; that match AJ had with Reigns at Extreme Rules was aces, afterall.
The difference with them is I really think they see AJ as at worst the #3 star on Smackdown. With Cena out for the rest of the year, he's definitely at least #2, even in the eyes of the guys that run the show.Its as transitional as Jericho, Eddie, Rey, REDACTED were. They give the internet darlings their 2-3 month reign but it doesn't mean they will be contenders regularly.
Ive grown too cynical in my old age
Edit: I'm also not convinced that AJ is holding the belt for Cena, either, after he's been so intentionally pushed out of the world title spot at the last three WMs.
AJ is 39? O_O
Yeah, he did wrestle for wcw after all.
I'll have to ask my jazz master professor coworker dude what he thinks about it.
yeah. i know he looks 5 years younger and moves like a 25 year old but he can't be going like this forever. the man's hitting 40 this coming june.
if he really is a genetic freak who knows, maybe we get 5 years out of him in WWE at this level, but i wouldn't bet on that, i'd bet on giving him his big time run sooner rather than later. the people are ready. the cena program is there. dean is trash in the ring for sure.
it's so frustrating cos i'm all about mic work, and dean is definitely the best on smackdown for that, but damn, we gotta get that belt off dean. he's had 1 single good match in a year against triple h at roadblock and the rest has been unwatchable filth.
It had been a few months maybe. Wrestlers certainly get pulled off TV for longer than than that and aren't just forgotten about.
Edit:Looks like she was last on TV around late June.
Professor Beef
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WHAT
slightconfuse
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Celebreating punks debut by eating a beef sandwich and listing to the lapsed fan mitb 2011
Bluekaveli
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I downloaded but still have yet to listen to it. I'll do it Saturday to keep me occupied
Mitb 2011 is probably my most watched WWE ppv. It is so good.
Bluekaveli
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There's no discipline for women in that company. Then you have total divas which fucks them up more.
Most most WWE PPV is WrestleMania 9.
Vince_Russo
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Its a big problem for WWE
Theyve hired styles, roode, joe, aries, etc. but they all old af already
But how do you feel about the historical importance of bra and panties matches?
Thanks old man.
Bluekaveli
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They're young wwe wise. They don't have the mileage on them. They have like ten years left. If they were in WWE when they were 27, then I'd say they're old. The travel ages you more than anything.
Sweeney Tom
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRZqtmGjlF4
Sunny, I'm going to miss you. Remember us fondly for the next year
Sunny, I'm going to miss you. Remember us fondly for the next year
shinsuke's only 36 so could last years, although who knows if he'll stay there that whole time. joe is the type that can work into his 40's, he's 37 now. he'll be fine too.
aries + roode i haven't seen much of, and they're both closer to 40, so yeah on them. they both look great though, look in their prime.
NXT's main event region is heavy with 35+ guys right now.
see the issue is they are bring these guys in who are IN their prime, and then holding off on them. but maybe that's the plan, maybe it's to keep NXT seeming important. NXT would be looking utterly bereft of names right now with them - so sure, keep these guys hanging around, propping it up, and build the next stars in the meantime.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Sounds like someone got to the Blood-Starved Beast. >=)
I was in the arena when Spike ripped up the petition. Place went bananas.
I would have said the same thing about the Bellas a few years back and Mark Henry 20 years ago.
Brie was still awful as fuck before she retried, but yeah Nikki improved massively.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I don't see the issue with propping up the business with guys who may "only" 5 years left in the tank. That's a lot of time you can use to build up the next class of young guys, and really, it's fine to even make some guys in his late 30's your biggest star. When you consider how much time Austin was out with injury, he was really only THE guy for about 4 years. And I think chasing that 10+ year Cena-esque dynasty has been an albatross hanging around the WWE's neck, and the big reason why they refuse to turn Reigns heel.
Don't give up, it's one of the harder bosses IMO
Has ECW aged the worst?
So, from what I can tell, it has three forms or whatever. The first is cake. I've made it through that segment without taking damage. And then it gets faster and more aggressive and starts poisoning my balls off and things get ugly. I made it through that once to get to crazy third form, which was just nonsense.
Iunno. I'll try again in a day or two. Good to know it's one of the harder bosses.
I think people forget 4-5 years is a pretty significant period of time. They only had Austin for 5 years full-time in the ring.
And couldn't agree more about WWE spinning their wheels trying desperately to create another Cena.
SallyIsNow
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I've beaten the game 6,000 times
never drew a dime
Last thing she was prominently featured in was the #DivasRevolution failure
They got Bayley and New Day. Latter is trash, but all of them are over. Its not soo bad. Not "have to rely on a Rock cousin" bad
Ratings were going down before he turned heel. It's silly to blame low ratings on one of the few interesting things happening at the time. Even though most of us appreciated Austin's heel work, I think all of us know 2001 was nowhere near as good as 2000
Sans-licensed music on the Network? Yes. It's been stripped of half of it's personality as a promotion.
Data West, Decider of Good Things, did you watch TNA even in its darkest days?
It's hard to say. I guess. Just because of production values. But they all get pretty disgusting at times. It's weird because southern wrasslin' WCW would be the classiest fed if it weren't for Vince Russo's run.
Spirit of Jazz
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I think Joe would have been a great monster champ who an up and comer could have galvanised themselves as the next big by overcoming his reign. As it stands he was used as a transitional champ for another vet when he'll never have a place on the main roster. The show as a whole is way too focused on older workers right now from guys like Roo who have nothing going for them beyond a meme entrance theme and guys like Aries who don't stand a chance on the main shows outside of the cruiser-weight division which is currently populated by far more entertaining, far younger workers.
To be honest I think the women's roster looks much better than the men's right now. You have Asuka as the vet and then a few experienced indy workers with a lot of years left and a bunch of inexperienced talent. It feels like we'll get to see the workers grow over the year where as you look at incredibly talented guys on the main roster like Cien who are just being wasted for the sake of TNA hasbeens.
What's considered its darkest days? I watched from the Fox Sports era up til the Fortune storyline I think and got bored up until the Matt Hardy storyline.
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