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Wrestlemania XXX Week |OT| We are all legit shook
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So does JBL.
cr_blah_blah
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They should bring Regal over finally. He's terrific on NXT.
BronsonLee
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Impressive.
The crowd kept kinda fucking up on that, but that first one was absolutely insane. Good lord.
Dagobert Duck
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A FU to Punk? LOL you must be out of your mind if you think that was a FU to Punk..."oh you left us behind, look at the Untertake losing his streak" :-D
Conrad Link
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Yea I legit hate the commentary, I liked it better when they just shut up and let the moment do its own work (only because they're so bad I mean).
JR would have been screaming "BAH GAWD DANIEL BRYAN'S 15 YEAR JOURNEY HAS TAKEN HIM FROM THE BINGO HALLS TO CHAMPION ON THE GRANDEST STAGE OF THEM ALL! AS HELL AS MY WITNESS ALL THAT IS HOLY AND MOSES HE DID IT DANIEL BRYAN'S DREAM IS HAPPENING RIGHT IN FRONT OF US!"
JBL is like "Well look Maggle the farm animal managed to stand upright."
:| I have so much hate towards them.
While the best Cole can ever manage is a "Oh my!" in enthuasm, I enjoyed his 'real' shitting on HHH's BS shenanigans.
JR would have been screaming "BAH GAWD DANIEL BRYAN'S 15 YEAR JOURNEY HAS TAKEN HIM FROM THE BINGO HALLS TO CHAMPION ON THE GRANDEST STAGE OF THEM ALL! AS HELL AS MY WITNESS ALL THAT IS HOLY AND MOSES HE DID IT DANIEL BRYAN'S DREAM IS HAPPENING RIGHT IN FRONT OF US!"
JBL is like "Well look Maggle the farm animal managed to stand upright."
:| I have so much hate towards them.
While the best Cole can ever manage is a "Oh my!" in enthuasm, I enjoyed his 'real' shitting on HHH's BS shenanigans.
I can't remember. Did they even try to make the WM3 parallels after that?
"27 Wrestlemania ago, Hulk Hogan shocked the world by picking up and slamming Andre the Giant! Tonight, Cesaro picked up the world's largest athlete and threw him over the top rope to win the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal! What a moment! What a display of power! Tonight, Cesaro has cemented himself into Wrestlemania history!"
Something like that.
HerbertFish
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Need Joey Styles back. I'd say Heyman too but he's too good of a manager
Just woke up. Was I dreaming last night?
Or did Taker really drop the Streak in a meaninglessness mid card match with no build up in New Orleans? Did I really watch Vikki standing on a podium screaming at a clusterfuck of 14 divas right after the Streak was broken?
Is this real life?
Or did Taker really drop the Streak in a meaninglessness mid card match with no build up in New Orleans? Did I really watch Vikki standing on a podium screaming at a clusterfuck of 14 divas right after the Streak was broken?
Is this real life?
Conrad Link
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They didn't even know who D-Bry was bringing into the ring during the celebration, its like fair enough maybe that wasn't in the script but could at least mention it means so much to the man, the pure emotion, able to share it with family or something.
They just sat there going uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
They just sat there going uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
LanceVance
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The commentating sucked last night. They need to bring in some new fresher talent in that area. Hearing Michael Cole go WILL BATISTA TAP WILL BATISTA TAP WILL BATISTA TAP a thousand times gets pretty grating after the second time
UberTag
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I wouldn't force Joey into that role as he's clearly happy working for WWE.com. Hell, Cole and Regal as a 2-man team without Vince manning Gorilla would be light years ahead of what we have presently.
The fans need to stop enabling this shit, too. Instead of wasting all their energy jeering Mr. Same Old Shit Cena as he proceeds to inevitably not put over yet another guy, they should be throwing some of that heat on to the commentary crew.
Instead all we hear every damn taping is cheering for Lawler and JBL as they come down to ringside and chants of their names when the fans are tired of chanting for Punk to amuse themselves.
abstract alien
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The legit keeps hittin' :- Raw is going to be a must see tonight. Can gaf hold it together?Nearly 12 hours later... still legit shook.
I wonder what Htown is thinking right now...
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I don't want commentators to be heel or face.
As I said, that's the dream. Michael Cole won't be retiring for a long, long, long time.
Still, I would throw Regal and Renee in the booth with him instead of Lawler and JBL who are the biggest part of the issue here.
Let's face it, Cole can be decent to good. He just needs a color guy who can back him up and work with him instead of two color guys who go off on their own tangents half the time.
They're always going to get cheered because they're one of the first "name" people to come out at the tapings and it means Raw/Smackdown/whatever is about to start. Heck the WCW announcers got cheered up until the end.
Conrad Link
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As a Total Divas fan when I saw Ariane's top had busted open during the match all I could think was "Giiiiiiiiirlbye Sandra!" then I go to her Twitter and she posted pretty much that same thing lolz.
Maybe all their tops busted open thats why like a thousand of them were stuck outside the ring unable to break the hold while AJ won.
Maybe all their tops busted open thats why like a thousand of them were stuck outside the ring unable to break the hold while AJ won.
Ill never understand why Vince turned so hostile to treating commentary like its a real sport. Once he became obsessed with the sports entertainment not wrestling bit all of a sudden commentary became useless in his eyes as far as following the actual matches.
Read an article the other day on JR and it went into alot of detail on why he was so impressive at it. While he always went in knowing how a match would end he refused to be told anything about what would happen during the match so he would see it happen just like us and sell it accordingly in his commentary.
Read an article the other day on JR and it went into alot of detail on why he was so impressive at it. While he always went in knowing how a match would end he refused to be told anything about what would happen during the match so he would see it happen just like us and sell it accordingly in his commentary.
HerbertFish
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That's lame. Heel commentators are great.
Did you ever hear Bobby Heenan call a match? What about Jesse Ventura?
Both were great at putting over the heels while the main guy deflected. It's natural to have some conflict on the commentary, but you have to have a group that can pull it off and play off each other, JBL, Cole and Lawler don't.
djplaeskool
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Oh man, when he was on his knees, offering himself to get steel chair'd by Cena, all the while the crowd was singing and swaying in the background.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is entertainment. Holy shit.
I thought the crowd were chanting "Boring" at first, the Wyatt started playing up like an Orchestral conductor and I realised how awesome it was.
Not even one mention. IN AN ANDRE THE GIANT MEMORIAL MATCH.
Nicktendo86
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What? The streak ended? Oh mah gawd I can't believe I didn't bother to stay up and watch. Anywhere with a good rundown of what happened last night?
LanceVance
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Undertaker looked old and tired. Bork dominated him and hit him with the f5 three times and pinned him for the victory. Crowd was legit shook.
ElRenoRaven
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OMG. Guys guys I had the worst dream. I woke up and I had dreamed that the streak had ended. OMG it was a nightmare.
I really can't understand why they ended the streak like that. Shocking for the sake of shocking is stupid. The streak ended with:
- A shitty match
- A shitty feud with no hype behind
- A part-time old wrestler
- A shitty commentary
- And it wasn't even the main event.
Great booking. A historic moment that felt like an unwanted fart.
Fourth Storm
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Get Dusty Rhodes back on commentary. Problem solved.
I honestly don't know who they have that is any better than Cole and King, but I agree, they've been awful for a long time now. Even Booker T is more fun to listen to. And JBL? Could he ever work a mic? How did he get that spot?
Cole will inevitably get replaced by Matt Striker or the other former wrestler whose name I can't recall atm.
I honestly don't know who they have that is any better than Cole and King, but I agree, they've been awful for a long time now. Even Booker T is more fun to listen to. And JBL? Could he ever work a mic? How did he get that spot?
Cole will inevitably get replaced by Matt Striker or the other former wrestler whose name I can't recall atm.
Nicktendo86
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He didn't even put up a fight? What was the point? Such a sorry end to an amazing career...
Nocturnowl
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I'm imagining an alternative take on Taker's match where Brock just straight up annihilates him within minutes and wondering if that would have gone down better as a match then shambling Taker going through his usual spots at half the pace he did in previous years.
djplaeskool
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Basileus777
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It would have at least told some sort of comprehensible in-ring story.
Joe Prodigy
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Calling it. Tonight on Raw they're going to find out that Lesnar drugged the Undertaker before the match and that last nights match didn't count.
I'm still in shock.
I'm still in shock.
LanceVance
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He put up a bit of one, hit Brock with a chokeslam and a Tombstone, but you could tell his age has really took a toll on him now. Compare his performance last night to 5 years ago and it's crazy how much less energy he had last night.
Yeah, I had the same dream. Also in mine, cena wins, lol.
Nicktendo86
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That's really sad, I was going to try and watch it somewhere later but don't think I want to see that, should have just faded into the background rather than going out (if this is indeed the end) like this. Real shame.
Conrad Link
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Watching Cesaro's first WM moment again just makes me so happy.
Everyone lost their shit, what an amazing sight and sound. The audible gasp and holy shits.
Between his 'arrival' finally and Daniel Bryan getting his I'm truly here (see that crowdyes.gif) main event rub on not just WM.... but such a special WM.
Everything feels ok now.
Everyone lost their shit, what an amazing sight and sound. The audible gasp and holy shits.
Between his 'arrival' finally and Daniel Bryan getting his I'm truly here (see that crowdyes.gif) main event rub on not just WM.... but such a special WM.
Everything feels ok now.
GringoLOCOo
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I would not have minded if the streak ended to someone that is there everyday working their ass off BUT having a part timer like bork lesnar break the streak makes no sense at all .
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So this morning I didn't read the thread to avoid spoilers, but it guessed from the title that something big had happened. Genuinely never occurred to me that it could be the end of the streak.
GringoLOCOo
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Fourth Storm
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Yeah, it's sad, but it's great for business and I'm sure it's what Taker wanted. Nobody is going to believe UT at near 50 is going to take out a former UFC champ. Taker probably promised to do the job for Lesnar back before he attended that one match. He has respect for the guy, even if many of us here don't, at least from a sport entertainment point of view.
Lesnar hasn't performed as much as others but he has still had little feuds against HHH, Punk, Henry, Big Show and the Undertaker in the past year. Hopefully he gets to be legit full time now as I am sure Heyman is going to milk this victory for months and months to come. Lesnar needs to get title shots otherwise he will never be legit full time. Without the belts the only thing lesnar is good for is to just injure people and send them on vacations like he did with Henry lol.
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