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Destroy My Sweater
Jul 24, 2009

yes...very strange...very odd...hope everything is okay...

https://twitter.com/WWEGareth/status/1476297236485132292?s=20

https://twitter.com/Mikey_3count/status/1476296125967704070?s=20

https://twitter.com/bernardomayne/status/1476295303422783493?s=20

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Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012

Orton is another bright flame Vince snuffed out. Imagine someone with his natural talent coming up as AEW was starting. What could of been, what a shame. Another body on the side of Vince's highway

Ganso Bomb
Oct 24, 2005

turn it all around

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

I wasn't calling you out, I was responding to that guy's dumb take. Sorry if it came across the other way!

Gotcha, no worries!

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
It's 8 a.m., I just woke up, so this might be driven by being half asleep but it looks like boot tastes real good.

https://twitter.com/XBOXimp8783/status/1476298060103917576
https://twitter.com/SuiysWrld/status/1476297517331537924

Hoss Corncave
Feb 13, 2012
Tony Khan doesn't care about the women's roster which is why he introduced a new women's belt and had a tournament to crown the inaugural champion where individual matches were the length of the entire women's tournament that WWE just did.

Yeah, makes perfect sense.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

I don't know how anyone could look at the push Ruby is getting and go "No woman from WWE should go to AEW"

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
If this was years ago and WWE was still pushing new women to the top and giving them lots of TV time, then you'd have a point, but it's clear the current WWE direction is to go back to the age of charismaless meat men and Divas.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Hoss Corncave posted:

Tony Khan doesn't care about the women's roster which is why he introduced a new women's belt and had a tournament to crown the inaugural champion where individual matches were the length of the entire women's tournament that WWE just did.

Yeah, makes perfect sense.

He's just doing it to make dunb marks like you think he cares about women's wrestling.

Obviously

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Two weeks time they'll be calling her a disloyal bitch who couldn't get over on the main roster despite feuding with Charlotte.

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.


WWE can never fail. WWE can only be failed.

Spiderdrake
May 12, 2001



Gonzo McFee posted:

Two weeks time they'll be calling her a disloyal bitch who couldn't get over on the main roster despite feuding with Charlotte.
If not in two weeks then when they start running the hard to work with / troublesome backstage / had issues gameplan they'll line up like good little boot lickers to parrot it

Kaveman
Jul 25, 2009

NEVER!!!


Toni Storm is another victim of WWE's raid of the UK scene. She was so exciting before she got snapped up, like she was about to hit her stride and then she's been kept in limbo for years.

No brainer for TK.

Sydney Bottocks
Oct 15, 2004

Kaveman posted:

Toni Storm is another victim of WWE's raid of the UK scene. She was so exciting before she got snapped up, like she was about to hit her stride and then she's been kept in limbo for years.

No brainer for TK.

Yeah, on the list of people I hoped would escape Vince's clutches, Toni Storm was definitely top 5. I'd only seen some of her work via YouTube, but she has all the makings of a star.

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

IT'S LIKE I CAN TOUCH YOU!
How long til we get the "She was Always Bad" takes?

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Drakkel posted:

How long til we get the "She was Always Bad" takes?

i thought you read the AEW thread, its already happening on this forum

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN

Drakkel posted:

How long til we get the "She was Always Bad" takes?

Glad you asked!

https://twitter.com/jamesie_2015/status/1476294459163824137

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

Alaois posted:

i thought you read the AEW thread, its already happening on this forum

You see, it's because of her skin and hair color, and furthermore

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Where's the lie?

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Rarity posted:

Where's the lie?

A) ***+ according to who?
B) Io Shirai World of Stardom match in 2017 alone is a ****+ match

Storm is absolutely over-rated by a segment of fans because she was a foreigner in Stardom (her average rating on Cagematch is 8.49, which means she's higher rated than Sarreee & Becky Lynch, which is comical), but she's also definitely had good matches though, although she was the weaker wrestler in most of those, like with Shirai, Iwatani, Kagetsu, Satomura, Viper, Mercedes Martinez.

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
Also Storm has charisma and is only 26, so there's still a lot of untapped potential with her

Testekill
Nov 1, 2012

I demand to be taken seriously

:aronrex:

Toni is going to get the always bad treatment as opposed to being called ungrateful.

Sydney Bottocks
Oct 15, 2004

Testekill posted:

Toni is going to get the always bad treatment as opposed to being called ungrateful.

The fact that Cole and O'Reilly let their contracts expire and left WWE for AEW already broke the brains of a lot of the people whose tweets get posted regularly ITT. I can only imagine that Toni Storm voluntarily asking for her release from WWE is going to make those people's heads explode, Scanners-style :psyboom:

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

Lid posted:

It's 8 a.m., I just woke up, so this might be driven by being half asleep but it looks like boot tastes real good.

https://twitter.com/XBOXimp8783/status/1476298060103917576
https://twitter.com/SuiysWrld/status/1476297517331537924

yeah now I'm convinced these are astroturfed.

Dr. Baker
Jan 25, 2012

Numb me, drill me
Floss me, bill me
My man, SRS, is going off on Marie Shadows.
https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1476437970232172545?t=TomZuwsQdQ0zrgESkhNDjQ&s=19

Lead Pipe Cinch
Mar 10, 2003

Heavy Metal Bakesale



My favorite one of those screenshots is the guy like “Let’s get a solid answer on this Sean” about whether or not Vince McMahon is selling his house.

Dr. Baker
Jan 25, 2012

Numb me, drill me
Floss me, bill me
https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1476442239945617408?t=3kufNZhzr9THd78BHhLt5g&s=19

bebaloorpabopalo
Nov 23, 2005

I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me.
booking anyone like they booked toni storm on the main roster is a fumble and not sure that being just kind of average in one of the highest level promotions on the planet is a disqualifier from being in WWE considering they re-hired eva marie

Destroy My Sweater
Jul 24, 2009

Testekill posted:

Toni is going to get the always bad treatment as opposed to being called ungrateful.

https://twitter.com/wwe_wwf_Junkie/status/1476563928721330176?s=20

https://twitter.com/HecBitw/status/1476564509565276165?s=20

https://twitter.com/Piemanpauly/status/1476565547768762371?s=20

Shard
Jul 30, 2005

These bunch of pussies. I hate people that talk down to folks for not being tough or badass like them and you just KNOW they are projecting. It's always projection!

heel turn
Jan 6, 2004

Some boy tried to step to me at the county fair. I said son u clearly have no ideal what creek im from

https://twitter.com/Marie_Shadows/status/1476407013416521734?s=20

what is wrong with this person

flatluigi
Apr 23, 2008

here come the planes
'the aew refs are too distracting' is a little less bizarre in how omnipresent it is as a weirdo criticism when you realize it's usually about aubrey and often comes with stuff like calling out her lipstick and makeup

if it's not about aubrey it's about bryce (in much smaller numbers) and I can't imagine hating bryce either

SG Bamboo
Aug 21, 2013

Smile. Win. Yay!

Eh, Bryce sometimes took me out of Chikara matches with his flailing, but annoyance never turned to dislike

D.N. Nation
Feb 1, 2012

AEW refs going full vaudeville levels of pantomime is a nice WCW throwback and I won't hear anything else.

flatluigi
Apr 23, 2008

here come the planes
Bryce is a special case bc he does a lot of stuff that's unique to him including selling moves the wrestlers are doing as if they hit him, but it's endearing imo

plus if he didn't live the matches so hard the treasure that is the invisible man vs the invisible stan match wouldn't exist

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
I found Bryce pretty annoying 10 years ago but he's a little better at it now so it's mostly fine.

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

Imagine having opinions on referees one way or the other.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

flashy_mcflash posted:

Imagine having opinions on referees one way or the other.

Why not they are a performer on the show. TNA had some really terrible refs where it would be impossible not to think Referee "Slick" Johnson didn't suck.

Thankfully AEW refs are mostly good.

flatluigi
Apr 23, 2008

here come the planes

flashy_mcflash posted:

Imagine having opinions on referees one way or the other.

nah after a long time of wwe treating referees as disposable and faceless I definitely prefer how aew does it. they're minor characters, still, but you know their quirks and they add to the flow of the matches by being there

flatluigi fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Dec 30, 2021

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Was Slick Johnson one of Russo's friends because he first seems to pop up as a terrible heel ref in late 99 WCW and then immediately pops up in TNA after

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Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
I feel like ref liveliness is one of those things your brain learns to ignore/accept after a while. It was quite distracting when I started watching AEW, but I don't really notice it anymore unless someone points it out.

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