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Even with his "giant" booking Mark Henry is painfully slow these days. His last notable TV feud was with Big Show, and somehow Show didn't gas first. Combine that with the constant injuries and it's just pitiful watching him in 2015. He really should've hung up the boots by now.
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There was also his awesome fake retirement versus Cena.
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And that was two years ago. If there was ever a time to put the strap on him, that was it, too, but he was feuding with Cena and nobody gets over on Cena.
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I was mostly using new, young talent to broadly refer to the guys that haven't been on WWE television for 2 decades.
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Benne posted:Even with his "giant" booking Mark Henry is painfully slow these days. His last notable TV feud was with Big Show, and somehow Show didn't gas first. Combine that with the constant injuries and it's just pitiful watching him in 2015. He really should've hung up the boots by now.  Watching him during the Elimination Chamber debacle was just sad. 20 years in the business and he handled it the worst by far. He kept breaking up pins in an elimination match and he seemingly had no clue how to improvise and just kinda stood there for the most part while the others tried to salvage the match.
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I actually liked the Show/Henry tag team from a year or two back, short-lived as it was.
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Pretty Lady Blob posted:
I tried to give him some slack in that match since his pod busted open and the ref just went  so he entered the match early. Still, he was an anchor on the match and kept barging in on other guys' planned spots -- at one point Dolph literally yelled "don't move, Mark" before he did a corner splash on Barrett. That match was a disaster.
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Benne posted:I tried to give him some slack in that match since his pod busted open and the ref just went I'll be shocked if there's a match in a major promotion that is considered worst than that
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Aug 17, 2015 12:09
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Testekill posted:I'll be shocked if there's a match in a major promotion that is considered worst than that Villanos/Psycho Circus from TripleMania this year got MINUS FIVE STARS from Dave. Trust me, it deserved that rating.
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Testekill posted:I'll be shocked if there's a match in a major promotion that is considered worst than that As bad as the EC match ended up being in execution, it was planned well. It's just that once Henry's pod popped open, the planning got thrown out the window, and the match sucked until it was down to 3 guys. Then it actually turned the corner and was a decent match again. He was inserted into the match too early, and it really hurt that Sheamus was going to lock himself in the pod until he was ready to come out. Compare this to the Villanos/Psycho Circus match at AAA Triplemania XXIII which was a) not planned well, b) should not have been booked, c) should not have even gone on for medical reasons, and d) was executed absolutely terrible. As bad as the EC match was, and if you want to say that Henry's breaking down, it didn't feature a 63 year old stroke victim trying to wrestle.
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Aug 17, 2015 12:35
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thats only 15 years older than fellow stroke victim yoshihiro takayama
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Spermgod posted:thats only 15 years older than fellow stroke victim yoshihiro takayama He's a spring chicken compared to the Villanos
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Testekill posted:I'll be shocked if there's a match in a major promotion that is considered worst than that IF you seriously think a couple of minutes of confused walking around in an otherwise fine match is comparable to, say, Jeff Hardy showing up to the main event stoned out of his gourd, wandering around for a bit and then getting immediately rolled up by Sting then I don't know what to tell you.
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Testekill posted:I'll be shocked if there's a match in a major promotion that is considered worst than that Watch more (bad) wrestling.
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Rodney the Piper posted:Watch more (bad) wrestling. Watch NECW on YouTube if you really hate yourself
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Lethal Lockdown 2010 is worse than Jeff Hardy being too stoned to wrestle and the villanos being old and immobile. It is a powerfully stupid match.
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oatgan posted:Lethal Lockdown 2010 is worse than Jeff Hardy being too stoned to wrestle and the villanos being old and immobile. It is a powerfully stupid match. Not even the worst finish involving Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and TNA in 2010.
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oatgan posted:Lethal Lockdown 2010 is worse than Jeff Hardy being too stoned to wrestle and the villanos being old and immobile. It is a powerfully stupid match. From a pure wrestling standpoint maybe, but honestly something about knowing Jeff Jarty is too hosed up to actively compete and, instead of helping the man, proceeding as normal before finally deciding maybe Sting should just end it as quickly as possible is way more disgusting to me.
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Aug 17, 2015 15:13
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TNA went like 5 years before doing matches as good as that EC.
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Jeff Jarty
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Spermgod posted:Jeff Jarty Jefe Harby.
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Testekill posted:I'll be shocked if there's a match in a major promotion that is considered worst than that Watch Victory Road 2009
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I know stuff from this board isn't supposed to be brought up in this thread, but sometimes people say something like "That weak Chamber match is probably the worst match ever in the history of major national wrestling" and it's hard to ignore that. It might be the worst Elimination Chamber ever, though; I never saw December to Dismember so I have no frame of reference for that one.
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DynamiteKidd posted:I know stuff from this board isn't supposed to be brought up in this thread, but sometimes people say something like "That weak Chamber match is probably the worst match ever in the history of major national wrestling" and it's hard to ignore that. The worst regular EC ever. December to Dismember's was really bad, but had the right finish (Show losing) and was just one (big) clusterfuck on a PPV full of them.
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It's stupid too, because all the ref had to do was lock Mark Henry in the only other open pod.
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sticklefifer posted:It's stupid too, because all the ref had to do was lock Mark Henry in the only other open pod. I'd have to go back and rewatch, but I think Truth was laid out in the pod at the time. IIRC Truths pod opened first, Barrett immediately attacked him for a minute or two and left him laying there, the Wade worked over Ziggler and sent him crashing into Henry's pod with about 30 seconds before Ryback entered. You're hosed no matter what happened, Henry struggling with the ref is going to distract from Ryback babyface heat entrance, or they all watch, which does about the same. Plus Truth is still laid out in it I blame Big E for getting shoved into that same pod twice in the Tag EC match for ruining the IC EC. 
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Spermgod posted:Jeff Jarty Jeff Harvey
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Broke a million bones, never drew a dime
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ayn rand hand job posted:I'd have to go back and rewatch, but I think Truth was laid out in the pod at the time. Tell me you wouldn't mark out for Sexual Chocolate angrily chucking Truth out of the new pod he's forced to relocate to.
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If theres one thing I appreciate, it's that Mark Henry has become WWE's ubermensch, evolved beyond the concepts of good and evil because, one assumes, his morality is so totally alien to our own.
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DynamiteKidd posted:If theres one thing I appreciate, it's that Mark Henry has become WWE's ubermensch, evolved beyond the concepts of good and evil because, one assumes, his morality is so totally alien to our own. I wanna see Henry do the Yog Sothoth gimmick.
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TheJoker138 posted:I wanna see Henry do the Yog Sothoth gimmick. blah blah thousand gibbering mouths eating all the time
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DynamiteKidd posted:blah blah thousand gibbering mouths eating all the time Instead maybe he could do the Azathoth gimmick...but then who would be his idiot fiddlers? I vote for those jobbers Ambrose and Ziggler.
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http://flavorwire.com/533288/how-professional-wrestling-raised-a-legion-of-nerdy-feminist-fans This article is hilariously terrible but this is my favorite line quote:In the next episode, Gethard sat with another wrestling fan who’s regularly costumed as a character named Vacation Jason — and beside his guest, there was wrestler Eddie Kingston, who wrestles as a teenage punk character inspired by both AFI and Tupac. 
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That is an extremely hilarious description of eddie kingston
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Y'know, their optimism is kinda endearing in an Of Mice and Men sorta way.
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We Just Need Spike Again
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NomDePlume makes my optimism and/or delusion depending on perspective look like loving Eeyore, holy Christ.
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Trust the people who will want to spin it the best way possible, ignore logic.
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