What was bad in Starrcade 85?
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Uno Venova
Banned
It's the fortieth birthday of everyone's favorite CBO.
More importantly, it's Daria's birthday, the next NXT Women's champion.
That's not how you spell Billie Kay or Peyton Royce.
Good point. Conceded.
Actually Caudle was on the show so he was asleep half the time.
Uno Venova
Banned
What the Universal title should actually look like.
Hello ladies and gentleman, welcome to Starca....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Bluekaveli
Member
Menome cursed them anyway
I watched Starrcade 85 before they even covered it and it's fucking crazy how bad he is at commentary.
Yet he is still better than Cole.
Somebody who literally could have died on the broadcast and nobody would know better is more respected than Cole who may go down as the wrestling announcer with the most airtime ever.
Cole is fine when he's given more freedom, and is not saying things like Cesaro vs Cesaro, or saying that Charlotte is pinning Charlotte.
Canadian Stampede.
4 matches. 4! It is the perfect A as a show. What exactly dragged it down? Or is an A a show where all matches are 5 star classics, which doesn't exist and is unreasonable to expect.
It didn't get a B, it got a B-.
I just want to get to know you Zach.
- I didn't love Mankind (at the time) or Hunter Hearst Helmsley and probably thought the match was just okay.
- Sasuke vs. Taka was probably fun, but wasn't presented as anything meaningful.
- The Undertaker pretty consistently bores me and Vader was past his prime at this point.
- The main event was hot fire.
- Sasuke vs. Taka was probably fun, but wasn't presented as anything meaningful.
- The Undertaker pretty consistently bores me and Vader was past his prime at this point.
- The main event was hot fire.
Bluekaveli
Member
That would be the title if Goldust won it 😄
Uno Venova
Banned
Bluekaveli
Member
It's not like the other guys on Raw are bringing in ratings, just give him a respect run.
They need to start hiring guys like The Brooklyn Brawler at this point so Smackdown has bodies.
Uno Venova
Banned
No seriously, I'd rather see that than another Seth or Roman run.
He's been picking up the slack from the other Shield members, it's a shame to be without him.
And yet they'll still call up everyone on NXT to Raw.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
Yeah, that moment was still awesome.
Why should literally anybody care what wrestlers' political views are? We pay them to throw themselves at the ground for our entertainment.
There's a long history of most wrestlers being absolute shit bags. We should definitely be almost normalized to it at this point.
Bluekaveli
Member
It's this that rumour site? Because if it's now being confirmed it's really dumb. Unless they're expecting people to be interested in brittle body Orton v Styles. Also the whole part time comments dean made about Cena would automatically be void.
I waste far too much time just going through wikipedia pages on old PPVs. I'm looking at the first year of In Your House's, the Diesel is champion era - and here I'm discovering Kane played a guy called Issac Yankem and feuded with Bret Hart, and Rikishi was known as Fatu.
What a rabbit hole.
What a rabbit hole.
And you can experience all again on the WWE Network for only $9.99!
Wasting time briefly reading up on past PPVs?
You don't know what wasting time is, sir.
Zach knows the true darkness.
Cesaro not going to Smackdown was the first sign that WWE was going to be up to a lot of the same old shit.
Bluekaveli
Member
What if maybe Cesaro decides to take his title shot to sd Instead of raw? Could be cool.
This would be the best outcome.
Agreed.
There is no downside as when it comes to Smackdown Cesaro would work well in that upper mid card spot having actually rivalries with Cena, Orton and Styles.
Uno Venova
Banned
We're going to be linking to Kevin's win in SHOOTmember two years from now when we hate him.
Bluekaveli
Member
Just imagine that match, plus maybe Cesaro can shoot more on the microphone
Zayn not going to Smackdown was an even bigger fuckup, imo.
WWE kinda want kids to see wrestlers as role models so it'd be cool if their political views weren't shitty
But are they the same characters on Twitter as they are in the ring? Are they even characters? Which is the real Ziggler? Everyone has their own political view so everyone should be allowed to respectfully display it. Do 8 year olds use Twitter?
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Nocturnowl
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Smackdown just keeps leaking wrestlers.
All the apparent big names from the draft have been a bit all over the place, Cena is on and off right now, Orton got (briefly) concussed, Del Rio is done, Ambrose now potentially off filming.
Elsewhere Wyatt still stung from a lifetime of jobbing, Ziggler is Ziggler, Kallisto's out and the bone thrown to them from Raw is Jack Swagger.
The only constant is AJ Styles
...and Kane but that goes without saying.
Yet it still manages to be better than Raw, who'd have thought good writing and a less endurance run time span would make all the difference.
Uno Venova
Banned
It sucks, now he's going to be involved with another Owens storyline for the next couple months.
lmao the thread is like 95% indie wrestling for the few pages I read on.
How things change.
Bluekaveli
Member
I thought almost every kid started using Twitter at 5 tbh.
avengers23
Banned
You see, Terry Bollea is the raging racist.
Hulk Hogan is the Real American, brother.
Dolph Ziggler is fine, but Nick Nemeth is a Gadsden Flag wearing lunatic.
I don't know if 8yo do use Twitter, but to me you're a kid until you're 16-17 so my point still stands
UrbanDandy
Member
You see, Terry Bollea is the raging racist.
Hulk Hogan is the Real American, brother.
Dolph Ziggler is fine, but Nick Nemeth is a Gadsden Flag wearing lunatic.
The duality of man