I interpreted this as 3 wellness violations...
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WrestleMania 33 Week |OT| The Ride Never Ends.
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BewareTheBatsie
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A pregnancy announcement is tame compared to the insane last year those two have had.
serenewarfare
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Crazier things have happened. There are stories of women and men who are surgically infertile still conceiving.
Very unlikely, but possible.
PHOENIXZERO
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I don't know, I have mixed feeling on it, I know in some ways it'll probably get better, including certain underlings of Vince probably getting the boot, maybe trying to get back closer to the days of pro-wrestling being sold as "legitimate" at least on the programming with less dumb TV stuff that doesn't make sense. But on the other I'm concerned Triple H and Stephanie won't be as receptive to constructive questioning or challenging their ideas by talent as Vince has had a history of being while taking Vince's pettiness to another level.
gray_fox224
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Echoing Rhaknar's question.
HarryDemeanor
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I can't wait for Roman to change his name to Romaine Reigns after he retires Taker.
serenewarfare
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I think there's pretty much zero chance of that. Triple H has been much more willing to change course in NXT than Vince ever was on the main roster. I mean, look at Becky Lynch. Her debut was a terrible Irish stereotype and didn't get over, so they immediately switched her up. And when Corbin wasn't getting over as a dominant face/tweener, they almost immediately turned him heel and let him be more of himself. And as far as challenging goes, Triple H has made it clear that the reason he hires a lot of trainers and scouts is because he knows that he doesn't know everything about everything in wrestling. He trusts the guys around him like Regal and Matt Bloom.
I mean maybe everything he's done for the past five years is a huge facade and as soon as he gets power he'll regress and be terrible, but there's no actual evidence to draw that conclusion from.
Authors of Pain vs DIY vs Revival will probably be something special if I were a betting man.
That's what Raw does to a wrestler.
Godammit Xavier.
serenewarfare
Banned
Asuka vs. Ember Moon should be a great match. Nakamura vs. Roode in San Antonio was fantastic, so look out for the rematch.
serenewarfare
Banned
That;s BS. His character work has been fine and he's been booked well. The biggest problem is just that he doesn't have a dedicated Mania program, so they can't really put him too deeply into anything. He came up at a bad time (pre-WM) and the feud they had planned for him (against Seth) fell apart on night one. He'll be fine post-WM once they pick the Seth feud back up.
I don't think a match at WrestleMania even matters. He hasn't been shown as a serious threat. Feel like Big-E or Big Show could beat him.
travislopes
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I'm sitting next to Brock Lesnar Guy at Takeover. This should be something.
serenewarfare
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How so? He hasn't lost at all on the main roster. He almost always has come out on top of any encounters he's had too.
What could they be doing differently?
Doesn't he hang around with Frank the Clown?
excelsiorlef
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What?
He is booked more like Big Boss Man when he first came back. A stooge who isn't nearly as important as the arc around him.
travislopes
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Not tonight.
My condolences.
BewareTheBatsie
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Please tell me he isn't wearing the shirt.
Just look at him and say "If this was the 90#, you could have been Vince Russo.". Then don't speak or look at hom for the rest of the evening.
gray_fox224
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serenewarfare
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But how is he booked like a stooge? Give examples. Because no facts of how he's actually been booked support that. He always wins and generally does it by destroying people. I mean hell, he beat Sami by TKO, which we never even see anyone else do.
BewareTheBatsie
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Joe's squashed Sami twice. Sami isn't booked the best but he's still treated as a great competitor unless he isn't faced against someone like Strowman. He's being booked fine it's just Seth's re-injury has messed up his position on the card.
He came out on the orders of HHH. Has a suit. Since then, been on Sami duty.
travislopes
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serenewarfare
Banned
His working for Triple H has been such a small part of his treatment though. It's just the framing of why he's there. His actual actions (the things it's logical to judge him by) have been strong and well-booked.
And Sami isn't nobody. He's not the main event, but he's treated legit enough. Joe being dominant over him means something. And again, he's only with Sami because of Seth's injury, which is out of everyone's control.
Nice seats!!
That's why I compared him to Bossman 2.0.
I have no reason to think he is a threat for the title, has any sort of plan, or he has escaped his corporate grip.
wild wild rice
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Takeovr pre show lets go
travislopes
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Heavy Machinery d. Bollywood Boyz in the first dark match.
Nice view!
Tom Nook
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Everything goes here.
BewareTheBatsie
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Nice view!
I don't get why he keeps wearing the shirt. It's been like five years dude. WWE don't care about you and Brock definitely doesn't even know who he is.
Mortimer Brewster
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He's the guy who became famous for appearing on tv when Bork returns and seemingly travels to a crazy amount of WWE events a year, usually front row and centre. He is either a trust fund baby who travels all over the country attending every major WWE event and the tv crew and IWC have picked up on it or he is a paid plant to keep the front rows animated for the cameras and get positive chants going for Vince's boyfriend Roman.
Cheat Code
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WrestleMania gets Pitbull.
Takeover gets Baroness.
Winner already established,
Takeover gets Baroness.
Winner already established,
serenewarfare
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But how does his motivation make him a non-threat? If anything, the fact that he both works for the guy in charge and can destroy people in the ring should make him seem like more of a threat. Like the idea that he's less of a threat because of that makes no sense to me.
ShadowSwordmaster
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I'm ready.
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