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triplexpac posted:Whatever you think about the current booking, it's insane that I can pay $20 a month and get every WWE PPV and NJPW PPV, as well as all the archives. It's insane that we are literally 5 years from having to do tape traders for any puro and DVDs of Indies were $20 a pop.
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Yuriy posted:has bryan ever wrestled HHH because that would be kinda sweet and id give more of a poo poo about that than sting/hhh or whatever theyre building to nah, HHH lost a career match and isn't on the active roster. They'd never put him in a match now.
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Red posted:I just don't understand why they hate money. The guy moved t-shirts, why make him an unshaven clown? Because only one person is allowed to get over a decade, and this decade's lottery winner is
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fatherdog posted:I like watching Seamus matches, especially when he gets into hoss-offs with other stiff-working dudes (he had some cool matches with Cesaro) it's just hard to care about him because in the entirety of the time I've been watching he's never been in a memorable angle or possibly an angle at all as far as I can tell. If he actually had an interesting feud with somebody I would probably get psyched for it a bit until it inevitably descended into midcard back-and-forth. Man I'm trying to think of the last storyline Sheamus had since I started watching again (TLC 2012) and I want to say it was a feud with Sandow that happened solely on Smackdown, way back for Payback 2013, and even then it was the preshow match. His feud with Christian I guess pre WM 30 but that was such a wet feud that just so happened to have awesome matches. Aside from those only storylines he's had are the ones where he's involved with the main event angle at the time (MitB, Survivor Series tag match, Elimination Chamber). Blooming Brilliant fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jan 27, 2015 |
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Marquis de Pyro posted:1 million is still way below what it was supposed to be and I bet a bunch of people will cancel and they'll freak the gently caress out right after Mania, which is exactly what happened last year I think 1 million in the first year was the stated target.
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xNarUtoRKOrton420x posted:Man I'm trying to think of the last storyline Sheamus had since I started watching again (TLC 2012) and I want to say it was a feud with Sandow that happened solely on Smackdown, way back for Payback 2013, and even then it was the preshow match.
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My name is Vince McMahon. I have been in the sports entertainment business close to 40 years and I can't wait to see the return of Sheamus.
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I genuinely wonder how the Miz feels about seeing Damien Sandow mimic his moveset and having it look so much better than when he does it.
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Jan 27, 2015 21:34
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Fiveace Attorney posted:They had a feud where Sheamus bullied him which has been Sheamus character for like three years now, squeaky clean babyface who bullies heels That feud was pretty good though, Sheamus kicked a computer, and it ended with Sheamus beating Sandow with potatoes.
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Jan 27, 2015 21:35
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Blasmeister posted:I think 1 million in the first year was the stated target. 1.25, actually. I expect they'll hit it for Mania. Then, what after?
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Maybe this is just to build Sheamus as a guy who Prince Devitt rides to the ring.
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Jan 27, 2015 21:36
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I can only remember 4 things Sheamus has done in his career. he won the title when John Cena put himself through a table, he had matches with John Morrison, he wore a horned crown and a cape for a while, and 18 seconds.
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I cancelled my subscription to Shave Sheltzer's rag of lies.
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Blasmeister posted:I think 1 million in the first year was the stated target. 1 million was the break-even number if I remember right. Making back your investment within the first year of a risky business venture seems pretty good to me but I don't know poo poo about business.
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flashy_mcflash posted:Maybe this is just to build Sheamus as a guy who Prince Devitt rides to the ring. And I looked and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Finn
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Omally posted:I can only remember 4 things Sheamus has done in his career. he won the title when John Cena put himself through a table, he had matches with John Morrison, he wore a horned crown and a cape for a while, and 18 seconds. He also feuded with Alberto del Rio forever but that's worth forgetting.
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Omally posted:I can only remember 4 things Sheamus has done in his career. he won the title when John Cena put himself through a table, he had matches with John Morrison, he wore a horned crown and a cape for a while, and 18 seconds. I remember more things about Sheamus' appearances on Conan than I do about his RAW appearances. And I like the guy.
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This isn't a WWE question but I don't even care: Is NJPW going to do more events with English commentary?
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The Landstander posted:He also feuded with Alberto del Rio forever but that's worth forgetting. somebody please post that picture of del rio getting madder and madder
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MassRafTer posted:They do it in tournaments (although not so much in this year's G-1) and will do it with outsiders sometimes. They work much more in a guy gets push, wins a lot until push ends, then guy loses a few matches to set up another guy. If a main event player loses a match that seems odd it will usually set up something in a few months. If a guy's getting built up for a title shot it's pretty common to see whoever he beat to build him up get their win back on him a couple months later also. You do get some pretty questionable booking of undercard guys though. Just in this past year Shibata was set up to win the New Japan Cup then loses to loving Shelton Benjamin of all people and Bad Luck Fale who nobody cares about ends up winning. Ishii was built up big with his NEVER title run but then kinda floundered as he lost the title, won it back, then lost it again and also failed to get a big G-1 win. Honma got some incredible crowd responses as the lovable loser and then when he finally gets his "big win" it's in a total nothing tag match. I think all three of those guys are less over now than they were at points in the past year. In fact I would say 'parity booking' of everyone underneath the top 3 guys and title holders is pretty common. That's still leagues ahead of WWE though. Spermgod fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jan 27, 2015 |
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Red posted:WWE has enough comedy characters, and they're rarely actually funny. Besides which, don't serious characters draw more business? I don't get why every face in the company who gets over has to transform into someone who makes corny jokes all the time. It's like once they find something cool it has to be transformed into what a 69-year old grandfather thinks is cool. I'd say the same thing about Reigns. If they had just kept him as some quiet badass who comes to the ring, kicks rear end, and then leaves, he'd probably have a lot more support. Basically I wish WWE could have different types of faces in the company besides goofball.
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Blasmeister posted:I think 1 million in the first year was the stated target. It was, they revised it to 700,000 after the cutbacks. If they can maintain 1,000,000 they'll be profitable this year.
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Umbra Dubium posted:It is an established rule that you are also eliminated if you don't make it into the ring before the next number comes out. Jastiger posted:Did not know that many pages back but this is not true HulkaMatt fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Jan 27, 2015 |
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the established rules of the royal rumble are whatever wwe wants them to be on any particular year to better serve their angles and storylines
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Aren't all the rules just made up and changed regularly? In the 90's someone who was eliminated couldn't eliminate someone from the Rumble. But now that can and does happen regularly.
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this is true. last year we saw someone get dq'd in a tag match for hitting a big boot.
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The rules for the Rumble are pointless other than you have to go over the top rope and hit the floor with both feet. You could technically low blow people and use garbage and your buddies to win but for some reason people just have mostly the same style match every year
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Remember, no closed fists. BIG SHOW WITH THE KO PUNCH
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Jan 27, 2015 22:17
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The most ridiculous Royal Rumble-specific rule was that one year where Finlay got eliminated for using a weapon. Definitely a long way away from Terry Funk entering the ring with a chainsaw.
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Jan 27, 2015 22:17
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Fiveace Attorney posted:The rules for the Rumble are pointless other than you have to go over the top rope and hit the floor with both feet. You could technically low blow people and use garbage and your buddies to win but no one does HE'S TRYING TO LIFT THE UNDERTAKER God the '92 Rumble owns
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I could've sworn a ref botched a tag-in during the New Day/Cesaro and Kidd match. He saw it, called it out, but kept going because (I think it was) Kofi was already way ahead of him. So yeah. Rules get changed up or ignored regularly, even during a match.
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Fiveace Attorney posted:The rules for the Rumble are pointless other than you have to go over the top rope and hit the floor with both feet. Macho Man did that and was allowed back in because he wasn't supposed to be eliminated yet.
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ayn rand hand job posted:HE'S TRYING TO LIFT THE UNDERTAKER
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Didn't Al Snow get DQ'd from a rumble for coming out too early once?
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projecthalaxy posted:Didn't Al Snow get DQ'd from a rumble for coming out too early once? Nah, the refs just held him back until the countdown ended and his number came up.
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Alakaiser posted:The most ridiculous Royal Rumble-specific rule was that one year where Finlay got eliminated for using a weapon. Definitely a long way away from Terry Funk entering the ring with a chainsaw. Hey hey hey. Cactus Jack already brought chairs to the ring. Besides, what else would Chainsaw Charlie bring to a ring?
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projecthalaxy posted:Didn't Al Snow get DQ'd from a rumble for coming out too early once? Technically Finlay was DQ'd for coming out too early and not for using the shillelagh. The real issue from that Rumble was that Hornswoggle was not thrown over the top rope and was somehow eliminated. 
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Sheamus was awesome in that Money in the Bank match where I think RVD potatoed him, so he grabbed a ladder and went on a loving rampage until Punk finally took him down with a ladder senton. Then Punk took a bow.
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Omally posted:I can only remember 4 things Sheamus has done in his career. he won the title when John Cena put himself through a table, he had matches with John Morrison, he wore a horned crown and a cape for a while, and 18 seconds. Who ate all the pies?!
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