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WWE Summerslam 2016 |OT| The Flo Rida Concert Is Canceled
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MetalFearSolid
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SymbiantXenos
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They need to redesign that belt yesterday though.
StylesClash
Member
When Jojo said Finn Balor all fast I was confused then when she said the demon king I was embarrassed.
He can shit on the crowd all he wants, they're just calling a spade a spade.
Also, isn't he supposed to be a heel?
His matches really aren't that good though. He reminds me of HHH in that he has all the tools but the end result is unremarkable more often than not.
LOL, I love you Seth but fuck off.
He ain't wrong tho
funkystudent
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Current top description of it is someone on Twitter saying that it looks like they made it from Nakamura's jacket
BewareTheBatsie
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The belts just too bad and utterly awful. I'm not gonna blame the crowd at all.
Ninja Scooter
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Jesus has spoken. Shame on you, New York.
Uno Venova
Banned
I really like Balor. I even liked the Demon gimmick on NXT. But I dont think it works on the main roster. The leather jacket look is just fine and is much better. Also, WWE pushing the demon king thing down our throat is not helping. The match was almost ruined for me by how many times the commentary mentioned it.
OriginofHysteria
Banned
Not when he's engaging in UFC 2 tournaments with The New Day and the Usos.
billy beane
Banned
The next day after that tweet, Andre the Giant passed away.
blackaroni
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Lol. He's pissy because people cared more about the belt that their match.
dream
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I don't think he's wrong, though. This is yet another example of fans trying to "hijack" a show to make it all about themselves, utterly disrespecting the fighters in the ring.
He ain't wrong though. That was pretty disrespectful of the crowd
Now this is a legitimate concern. They even fucking had the ring announcer call him "Finn Balor, THE DEMON KING!" in his ring intro tonight. Like, just stop, please. WWE main brand has no chill and never seems to know when enough is too much.
Finn's demon persona should only be used on roughly the same schedule that it was in NXT. Like 4-6 times per year, tops. Wrestlemania, Summerslam, a couple other PPV events at major moments in feuds. That's it. Any more than that is overexposure.
Meh, they paid their money and crowds trying to make it about them is nothing new. If the match had been more engaging maybe they wouldn't have done it.
StylesClash
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Crowd was shit. Seth isn't wrong.
blackaroni
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The crowd gave that match all of the attention it was worth.
SymbiantXenos
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They should've just revealed the belt after that match. It would have solved the crowd issue.
Better than sitting dead silent for the match, because it was nothing special.
People calling it a "classic" on Twitter smh.
People are so easily entertained these days
/oldmarkrant
StylesClash
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So what the hell happened with that move with Charlotte and Sasha?
Ninja Scooter
Member
if that same exact match happened on NXT the crowd would be shitting themselves and chanting "THIS IS WRESTLING!" at every opportunity.
Yeah I felt bad
Good match, but the crowd was intent on booing the belt for most of it
That said, this was a rough show. They really need to trim the fat, you really feel every bit of the 5-6 hours of these things by the end.
It helped that the last 40 mins or so was mostly dreadful for the fans.
It seemed to have peaked with the Cena match, and thought they were having all of these heels win early for a major babyface win, which I guess was Balor... but that was buried under like 2 other matches that just kind of killed people's interest. At least mine.
Seth knows how bad brooklyn sucked tonight
Lan Dong Mik
And why would I want them?
That was fuckin great lol.
Jimmy King
Member
Rollins got worked into a shoot, brothers. I love it!
Uno Venova
Banned
Yep.
Tired of people demanding attention for underwhelming matches, with poor builds for a terrible looking new title.
Shitting on a belt design during an inaugural title match between two established superstars when they match had barely even started was super disrespectful to the two wrestlers and as a viewer was extremely distracting because the chants and shit did not pertain to the match itself. That shit was worse than Full Sail tier bad.
NXT shows aren't however long this PPV was.
If you want shows that are 7 hours or whatever, you have to earn it.
Is he wrong though? Must feel bad to have the crowd ignore your match just to shit on the (admittedly terrible) belt. While a part of me is glad the fans made their feelings on that belt heard, that definitely wasn't the time or place. It was disrespectful to both Rollins and Balor, and I don't blame Seth for being upset.
You know what, you're right, they did start shitting on it too early.
Still though, that thing is hideous.
MetalFearSolid
Banned
Seth vs. Finn was a good match though. It was the 2nd best match after AJ vs. Cena.
Ziggler vs. Ambrose was an embarrassment of the highest order.
Well at least this is the end of any Ziggler push ever.
Ziggler vs. Ambrose was an embarrassment of the highest order.
Well at least this is the end of any Ziggler push ever.
billy beane
Banned
There will never be a championship that looks better than the WCW World Heavyweight Championship so the look of the belt doesn't matter anyways. Who holds it does.
Well yeah, it was a fucking ugly belt
Jimmy King
Member
Shit I'd be pissed if I were them too, but I wouldn't tweet that.
The Albatross
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I think his gimmick works when in this day and age. First, it's a PPV only gimmick (right?). Like normally he wrestles as Finn Balor, and then at PPVs, he wrestles as "The Demon King," which is basically the same thing but just more fired up and psychological.
1) The crowd was way into his intro and it was an awesome intro
2) Seth Rollins played it really well... He was doing the "I'm not intimidated by this... [but is obviously intimidated by it]" selling job.
I think that works now. Someone having a gimmick isn't necessarily a bad thing. Like, maybe 90% of guys have normal personality gimmicks. It isn't a bad thing for 10% of the guys to have a special persona during PPVs.
Let's just remember the highlight of the night.
This was literally the only good thing that happened tonight.
People who called that show good need better standards. A match isn't good unless it appears like they're really fighting each other and trying to win, it's believable, and it makes you invested in the outcome through the story of the match. If you don't have that, then it's just two people doing moves. You do not care about Seth fighting a Demon King, a bland wrestler in bad makeup. I refuse to believe it.
OriginofHysteria
Banned
Balor's celebration with the belt was pretty short. As someone had pointed out, he wouldn't raise that thing above his head.
SymbiantXenos
Member
I hear Beckys hat is still flying.
HeisenbergLannister
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Hate the belt, whatever, but once the crowd started with the chants and booing the title during the match, it was like "okay, shut the hell up already".
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