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Any AJ bitterness in the Mecca worth posting yet?
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:Any AJ bitterness in the Mecca worth posting yet? I would be shocked if it isn't "Wow, WWE can't be successful without pushing TNA stars to the top!"
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Sep 12, 2016 18:18
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They are still stuck on Saturday. https://twitter.com/mongo_ebooks/status/775511171508166656
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Sep 13, 2016 02:48
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Obviously his career path after washing out of MMA will be to become TNA's latest acquisition.
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Sep 13, 2016 03:59
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We just need Phil Brooks
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Sep 13, 2016 21:27
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I assume there is a certain subset of fans who simply do not care at all about the actual matches. I could see not liking AJ Styles if you were one of those people. I can't imagine how watching WWE wouldn't be the most nightmarish experience possible for these people, but maybe they're the same guys who hammer nails into their dicks or cut themselves just to feel alive.
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Sep 13, 2016 21:29
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To be fair, WWE's formula for years was 5 minute undercard matches and 2.5 hours of filler and drama. If you look at the Network on Raw episodes from like 2009-12 or so (and the Attitude Era actually), those little dots for the starts and ends of matches on the seek bar are really close to each other with huge spaces in between them. So a few years back you could literally be a "wrestling" fan without being a fan of wrestling.
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Sep 13, 2016 23:43
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Even if you hate everything that happens in a ring, I find it hard to imagine why someone would see how AJ has been portrayed in WWE and find it boring. He's been surprisingly well protected and presented in a way that gives him a pretty unique character as this arrogant outsider out to get people who have offered him perceived slights. Nobody is going to say he's a great promo or anything, but as a "drama character," he's been as big a success as he has as wrestler since coming here.
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Sep 14, 2016 10:44
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Sanguinia posted:Even if you hate everything that happens in a ring, I find it hard to imagine why someone would see how AJ has been portrayed in WWE and find it boring. He's been surprisingly well protected and presented in a way that gives him a pretty unique character as this arrogant outsider out to get people who have offered him perceived slights. Nobody is going to say he's a great promo or anything, but as a "drama character," he's been as big a success as he has as wrestler since coming here. Except he has become one of the best talkers in wwe.
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Sep 14, 2016 15:30
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Miz on Swerved doing an AJ impression is still my favorite thing.
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Sep 14, 2016 15:33
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AJ's promo work has noticeably improved IMO. I used to dread anytime he had a mic but he's playing the arrogant hillbilly rear end in a top hat on the mic very well.
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Sep 14, 2016 15:46
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HOTLANTA MAN posted:AJ's promo work has noticeably improved IMO. I used to dread anytime he had a mic but he's playing the arrogant hillbilly rear end in a top hat on the mic very well. He's probably a more natural babyface as far as in ring work is concerned but his character work is definitely better as a heel imo
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Sep 14, 2016 16:21
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Thauros posted:He's probably a more natural babyface as far as in ring work is concerned but his character work is definitely better as a heel imo The Seth Rollins Effect.
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Sep 14, 2016 16:53
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it's true though it's helped by Styles being like ten times better at basically everything than Rollins
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Sep 14, 2016 16:53
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Almost every wrestler is better as a heel than as a face, which tells you that obviously most of them are probably huge assholes in real life  Cena, Bayley, Zayn, who else is actually naturally better as a face?
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Marquis de Pyro posted:Almost every wrestler is better as a heel than as a face, which tells you that obviously most of them are probably huge assholes in real life Our beloved United States champion Rusev, of course. 
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Sep 14, 2016 17:01
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AJ is playing the same character he played in NJPW. It's strange, because until then, he was terrible on the mic, but somehow turned a corner bullshitting with the Bullet Club to a series of crowds that could not understand a word he was saying half the time. Before NJPW, he was playing some kind of dark version of himself in TNA, hence the hair, his change into an overconfident jackass in Japan was amazing, and it's great that he managed to get back to that character after his relatively weak, pitbull face thing he had going on as he entered WWE.
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Sep 14, 2016 18:08
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Marquis de Pyro posted:Almost every wrestler is better as a heel than as a face, which tells you that obviously most of them are probably huge assholes in real life What if their terrible at both like the big show but seem like they're a good person.
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Sep 14, 2016 18:37
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He did a heel "ric flair protege" thing in TNA and it was awful, largely because it was hard not to pop for his moveset, and because TNA has no idea what they're doing. E: AJ, that is. Although god Big Show trying to do Ric Flair would be amazing.
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Sep 14, 2016 18:39
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From all that I saw of AJ in TNA I figured "Okay he's a great wrestler but he's probably one of those who will never be that good a talker and that does limit him a little", but somehow WWE caught him when he found his voice. Granted it does help that he no longer looks like a literal teenager.
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Maxwell Lord posted:From all that I saw of AJ in TNA I figured "Okay he's a great wrestler but he's probably one of those who will never be that good a talker and that does limit him a little", but somehow WWE caught him when he found his voice. AJ wasn't awful on the mic but yeah he never blew anyone away. Plus you could tell pretty easily when guys like him, Daniels, Kaz, and Samoa Joe completely stopped giving a poo poo because they knew TNA was garbage.
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Sep 14, 2016 18:55
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For another natural baby-face - Nakamura.
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Sep 14, 2016 19:13
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Mark Henry was a great heel and is a great smiling baby face and he's a literal Saint in the business.
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Marquis de Pyro posted:Almost every wrestler is better as a heel than as a face, which tells you that obviously most of them are probably huge assholes in real life Rob Van Dam and Rey Mysterio.
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Marquis de Pyro posted:Almost every wrestler is better as a heel than as a face, which tells you that obviously most of them are probably huge assholes in real life I liked Cena's heel work better tbh.
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Sep 14, 2016 20:38
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Marquis de Pyro posted:Almost every wrestler is better as a heel than as a face, which tells you that obviously most of them are probably huge assholes in real life Ricky Steamboat famously never turned heel. I think he said he would've liked to do a heel run at some point but promoters just didn't want to risk it because he was such a natural babyface.
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Anyway, speaking of stupid opinions https://twitter.com/ThundaHammafist/status/776141198444625924
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Sep 14, 2016 20:41
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Remember when Ziggler and Miz had the Battle of Cleveland and the loser had to be billed as from Cleveland? (That didn't actually happen that way, but I like to pretend it did.)
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Sep 14, 2016 20:46
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Mark Titus, eh?
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Sep 14, 2016 20:56
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@ThundaHammafist is a pro twitter handle
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Sep 14, 2016 21:26
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Benne posted:Anyway, speaking of stupid opinions Lebron James? Stipe Miocic? Nah, let's put all of our city's hopes on a overrated wrestler and crappy stand-up comic who used to be a male cheerleader and a caddy.
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DJExile posted:@ThundaHammafist is a pro twitter handle thank you
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loving sick of hearing about Cleveland
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Stipe can't be a hero or legend unless he successfully defends the belt two more times, in the process breaking the historic UFC Heavyweight Champ Curse
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Sep 15, 2016 00:54
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Styles did good comedy work in tna
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Sep 15, 2016 01:31
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https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/52yzuz/performed_a_modified_cm_punk_pipe_bomb_on_my_boss/ gently caress
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Solus posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/52yzuz/performed_a_modified_cm_punk_pipe_bomb_on_my_boss/ That HAS to be stdh.txt.
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