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Ok, thank you. It just seems to be this thing that is never addressed while similar things get crucified. Though I guess there is a difference when it comes from the brain of somebody who treats minorities as an onion ring in your order of large fries at best. (One onion ring: ok I didn't want this but maybe it could be good. Two Onion Rings: I ORDERED FRIES NOT loving ONION RINGS). But I'm moving on to a point I started making in the AEW thread and am moving here but it makes more sense here. We talk about guys who get released from WWE landing on their feet elsewhere but...how do you land on your feet once you're kicked out of WWE-land? Especially now that AEW is approaching capacity. The pro wrestling landscape has been largely barren of other opportunities since the days of the territories. If you're say...Mace what can you actually hope for right now? Do you want to just get this charade over with and escape back to whatever the gently caress it was you were doing? Do you want to get shot out of the airlock in hopes of somehow making your mark under Sinclair media, Billy Corgan or Anthem for 1/5th the money? Or do you hope and pray that SOMEHOW this stupid-rear end bowl of lemons you were handed can somehow be turned into lemonade? There are few real options and I have to think that of all the things Vince doesn't know, he knows that. He knows his contractors are hosed and without real options so he can keep making them dance while Fox and USA showers him with money he doesn't have to share. He doesn't have to be equitable, he just has to pay more than anybody else. There is an opinion of 'purge the bloat' which is valid. But then what does the bloat do? ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Sep 30, 2020 |
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ChrisBTY posted:Ok, thank you. It just seems to be this thing that is never addressed while similar things get crucified. Though I guess there is a difference when it comes from the brain of somebody who treats minorities as an onion ring in your order of large fries at best. (One onion ring: ok I didn't want this but maybe it could be good. Two Onion Rings: I ORDERED FRIES NOT loving ONION RINGS). it's ok to have multiple minority wrestlers! they just all have to be in the same storyline together. that way you can replace them with each other when people get hurt/can't be on t.v. and "nobody will notice"! (because vince mcmahon does not notice)
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Seams posted:They think they’re getting him over. this still stings so loving much because they absolutely wanted to make an example of DDP, a guy who wanted to get back to work so bad he took cuts in pay to be on TV. His first promo there was SO good and they buried him so bad to the point where he never ever recovered. Fortunately he went on to do much cooler poo poo with his life but man, it sucked that DDP and later Booker T had to work so hard to get over while they just tossed in loving Goldberg like it was nothing and beltfed him championships Also HHH beating Sting but that's another thing entirely.
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DLC Inc posted:this still stings so loving much because they absolutely wanted to make an example of DDP, a guy who wanted to get back to work so bad he took cuts in pay to be on TV. His first promo there was SO good and they buried him so bad to the point where he never ever recovered. Fortunately he went on to do much cooler poo poo with his life but man, it sucked that DDP and later Booker T had to work so hard to get over while they just tossed in loving Goldberg like it was nothing and beltfed him championships Goldberg was a way bigger star than DDP and Booker T's peaks combined, and still had to lose to HHH and do stupid segments with Goldust to establish how he wasn't REALLY a top star and a badass.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:How the gently caress did Gargano/Ciampa win Feud of the Year in 2019? It didn't, Gargano/Cole did. Which might be worse?
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There was a real good Gargano Cole match at Takeover just before Mania that year.
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They had one 40-minute match, then they had another 40-minute match Wow such a deep and compelling feud
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rare Magic card l00k posted:I think the question of is it problematic boils down to 'does anyone think Sami would dare play the character in 2020, or AEW would present it?' yea lol i dont think anyone is trying to cancel sami, sami's cool, i just really really dont see him going back to a gimmick that relies on him speaking 8 words of broken spanish in any way lol he'll wear the generico mask for entrances and everyone will be happy.
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https://twitter.com/WWENXT/status/1311357473937330177 Still might be a kayfabe injury (though you'd think they'd pick something other than a torn ACL) but if this is legit this might be it for Tegan.
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Tegan was pretty good on commentary during the NXT Combine last year.
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How about, and hear me out here, Sami gets the gimmick of having so many concussions that he becomes brain damaged and is a special needs sports entertainer from now on... unless he hears a trumpet, which triggers something inside him and he dons the El Generico mask and becomes super-capable in the ring.
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Grendels Dad posted:How about, and hear me out here, Sami gets the gimmick of having so many concussions that he becomes brain damaged and is a special needs sports entertainer from now on... unless he hears a trumpet, which triggers something inside him and he dons the El Generico mask and becomes super-capable in the ring. Okay Vince Russo.
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Grendels Dad posted:How about, and hear me out here, Sami gets the gimmick of having so many concussions that he becomes brain damaged and is a special needs sports entertainer from now on... unless he hears a trumpet, which triggers something inside him and he dons the El Generico mask and becomes super-capable in the ring. 
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Grendels Dad posted:How about, and hear me out here, Sami gets the gimmick of having so many concussions that he becomes brain damaged and is a special needs sports entertainer from now on... unless he hears a trumpet, which triggers something inside him and he dons the El Generico mask and becomes super-capable in the ring.
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MJeff posted:It didn't, Gargano/Cole did. I'm going by the list posted on page 111 that everyone else has quoted.
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In other news, 37-year-old, 6-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight champion, and 2-time Best of the Super Juniors winner Yujiro Kushida is apparently still learning the hard cam down in the minor leagues. https://twitter.com/ConnorCasey_CB/status/1311362377066196993 Benne fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Sep 30, 2020 |
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I hope that youngster comes good some day, he has potential
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He's here for the money
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Allegedly there's a Takeover this week, which is the first I've heard of it. Finn Balor(c) vs. Kyle O'Reilly, NXT title Damien Priest(c) vs. Johnny Gargano, North American title Io Shirai(c) vs. Candice LeRae, NXT Women's title Santos Escobar(c) vs. Swerve Scott, NXT Cruiserweight title Kushida vs. Credibly Accused Child Groomer Velveteen Dream Kushida has been in NXT since April 2019. This is his first Takeover match.
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Good for Kushida. To think that he could have been slumming it with the likes of Hiromu, Ishimori and SHO instead.
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Benne posted:Allegedly there's a Takeover this week, which is the first I've heard of it. 39 vs 33 38 vs 33 30 vs 35 36 vs 30 37 vs 25 Literally one person on the card is < 30 (and he's a goddamn pedo).
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Johnny Gargano may be 33 but he’s got the bump card of a 40 year old easily
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Here’s my favorite (amongst all above) https://twitter.com/wonf4w/status/1311370238127206411?s=21 Because heaven forbid you mention another company by name. That’s saying a cuss. Can’t even mention a wrestlers past so when a 51 year old PCO debuts someday, maybe they’ll go “He’s a brand new wrestler, never wrestler anywhere. A rookie. We wish the kid well here. Good luck, kid.” And of course the NO MOM WE WERE HERE FIRST. IM FIRST. HELLO I WAS FIRST! IM NOT MOVING WAHHHHH!! LEAVE ME ALONE I WAS FIRST!!!!!!!
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Who the gently caress is swerve scott and what the gently caress kinda name is swerve scott
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Just call up Velveteen Dream already so he can be in a tag team with Matt Riddle.
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oldpainless posted:Who the gently caress is swerve scott and what the gently caress kinda name is swerve scott he used to be Shane Strickland, or Shane "Swerve" Strickland, then he signed with NXT and became Isaiah Scott, or Isaiah "Swerve" Scott, and now I guess just Swerve Scott
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oldpainless posted:Who the gently caress is swerve scott and what the gently caress kinda name is swerve scott Used to go by Shane Strickland with the nickname Swerve. Was also Killshot in Lucha Underground.
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oldpainless posted:Who the gently caress is swerve scott and what the gently caress kinda name is swerve scott Killshot.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I'm going by the list posted on page 111 that everyone else has quoted. Well then you can pretend I was quoting the list on page 111.
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Gargano/Ciampa won in 2018, Cole/Gargano won in 2019. I think that's where the confusion is coming from.
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2019 is whatever, New Japan didn't have any super feuds and AEW hadn't quite gotten going for long enough but if it did win 2018 too that would be kind of wack, especially given how bad those finishes sucked after the first one.
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Given HHH’s comments on Kushida, you’d think that they didn’t watch his non wwe stuff but that can’t be right.
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TV Zombie posted:Given HHH’s comments on Kushida, you’d think that they didn’t watch his non wwe stuff but that can’t be right. I think it was on the Gallows and Anderson podcast where they revealed a bunch of poo poo about the WWE where they said that nobody at WWE knew they were IWGP tag champs.
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Well duh, obviously nothing exists outside WWE and even if it did it wouldn't matter.
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Pylons posted:https://twitter.com/WWENXT/status/1311357473937330177 gently caress, I was really hoping it was kayfabe but seems like it's real. I hope she doesn't retire but drat that's some bad luck.
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Pylons posted:https://twitter.com/WWENXT/status/1311357473937330177 Sounding like it's legit and they did the Candice attack so she could be written off before having the surgery Turns 26 in November and already has had 3 ACL tears. Sucks
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That really sucks if trues. At her rate she might past Dom Cruz's injuries which is really bad thing.
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Very sad for anybody to have 3 surgeries on the ACLs. That sucks.
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Ganso Bomb posted:Has she had problems with both knees or has it been the same knee every time? Both knees.
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