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god drat aleister black just looks so awesome. may the dark lord bless wwe for just letting him do him. i mean the left hand magick tattoo kinda demands it. e: two things 1) between nakamura's goodbye promo and him on talk is jericho, he can speak in english at length to a degree that's pretty impressive since japanese and english are about as foreign as languages get. i just hope they let him actually get some mic time on smackdown, cause i mean, they let baron corbin do promos and he's terrible at delivering scripted lines. 2) did drew mcintyre just get a lot better outside of wwe or something? i can't figure out why he got the jobberino role for his first run, he's tall, well built, can speak pretty well, and looked really fluid in the ring. like, i get why jinder was heath's lackey but not so much drew. shiksa fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Apr 13, 2017 |
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No Irish Need Imply posted:Holy poo poo Drew is good. I hated him years ago. This guy rules now. he improved a ton very fast after he got released, especially at carrying himself like a star. i figured he'd be back in wwe eventually and he's still young so i hope he gets another real shot at being something. Cardboard Box fucked around with this message at 08:43 on Apr 13, 2017 |
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shiksa posted:2) did drew mcintyre just get a lot better outside of wwe or something? i can't figure out why he got the jobberino role for his first run, he's tall, well built, can speak pretty well, and looked really fluid in the ring. like, i get why jinder was heath's lackey but not so much drew. He didn't, they initially gave him a big push. But he was not ready at that point and didn't get over at all, which tainted their view of him. He's much better now and far enough removed from his jobber days that he can be taken seriously again.
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Drew was always good but they wanted him to work as a chickenshit heel for most of his initial push so he never got to show what he could do, up until that eimination chamber match where he just cut lose. Unfortunately right after that he had the stuff with Taryn Terell go down and got depushed and punished as a comedy jobber.
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Team them up, then replace Enzo and Cass with Oney and Drew.
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Aphrodite posted:Has the WWE ever done the polite guy with rage issues thing before? It seems so obvious and simple but I can't think of any. That was pretty much bob backlund's entire original run. Polite midwestern man who, if you pushed him too far, went loving nuts. See: his 78-79 feud with peter maivia
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Drew Mcintyre was always good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKe5482xhTI
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Aphrodite posted:Has the WWE ever done the polite guy with rage issues thing before? It seems so obvious and simple but I can't think of any. yeah silent rage from tough enough 2011
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gently caress a Shield reunion, I want 3MB with fiery babyface Slater, roid monster Jinder and indie hoss Drew. It's like I've of those gritty reboots of a silly 80s franchise.
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Aphrodite posted:Has the WWE ever done the polite guy with rage issues thing before? It seems so obvious and simple but I can't think of any. Alex "The Rage Man" Riley.
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spudsbuckley posted:Alex "The Rage Man" Riley. There was nothing polite about him. Even during the Owens vs Riley feud, he pretty much acted like a dick all of the time. Go with what you know, I guess.
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Capsaicin posted:everything about dylan miley is pretty great I hope they push him as a face, but I agree. WWE needs more throwback giant muscley hgh monsters.
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rovert posted:NXT tapes TV again this Wednesday. Unless I'm mistaken, won't this be the last set of tapings before the next Takeover the day before Backlash? I imagine the upper card will be Bobby Roode vs Drew McIntyre for the NXT title, and Asuka vs Ember Moon for the NXT Womens Title. I have no clue who the AOP will face. If they compete at all.
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Thought they were doing Itami/Roode at Takeover?
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Welp, looks like The Revival are gonna redebut after Bad Blood
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looks like itami broke his face https://twitter.com/aprilismissing/status/854083432435068931
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Super No Vacancy posted:looks like itami broke his face Goddamnit Itami you can barely stay healthy and now you're hurting other people too?
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well you guys kept saying he just needed to go back to being KENTA so it logically follows that he'd start beating the poo poo out of developmental talent
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man that sucks for itami he got hurt and was out for like two years, then got hurt and was out for a few months, was replaced by nakamura as the breakout asian star, then broke one the jaw of one of the most hyped callups of the year i have to imagine he's on the list for consideration for cutting
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That DICK! posted:itami sucks anyway. pretty much.
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Go RV! posted:was replaced by nakamura as the breakout asian star, How, are Asian wrestlers Highlanders or something? Itami would be on 205 most likely, he's 5'9", 182.
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sticklefifer posted:How, are Asian wrestlers Highlanders or something? In WWE they are usually a checked box
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beggar posted:In WWE they are usually a checked box exactly. itami is japanese, hits hard, and comes off a legitimate threat. tozawa does this in 205 already, plus is getting over by yelling a lot. nakamura fills the niche, and has the added bonus of being the most charismatic man in existance. now, its definitely possible that there could be two prominent japanese guys at once, especially with having two brands, so you never know, but i'd say chances are low
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If Ibushi had signed they probably would've pushed him a fair bit too. Still, I don't think One Requisite Asian is really a historic thing as much as people say. WWE's roster has usually had more than one, sometimes several under contract at a time. I can't really blame anyone for not noticing though, as most weren't really prominent. But in the early/mid-2000s for a span of several years they had Taka, Funaki, Ultimo, Tajiri, Yang, Sakoda, Gail, Kenzo & Hiroko, and Batista, and in the eras before there were usually a few at a time. Again, not all were prominent and some they screwed up royally (Ultimo in particular) but their track record honestly isn't that terrible.
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Go RV! posted:man that sucks for itami It's not like he did any of these things on purpose. people have done worse to others (samoa joe, seth rollins) or had multiple injury stretches (rollins). getting hurt happens. it's not like AJ was on any kind of shitlist when, in his debut, he chopped the tooth out of Miz's mouf. if anyone is gonna make the call to quit it'd probably be itami over NXT at this point.
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Itami was hurt by bad timing more than anything else. He signed back when Bryan and Punk were using his signature moves, and WWE has a bug up their rear end about multiple people doing the same finisher, so he had to water down his moveset. His debut angle was a one-sided beatdown from the loving Ascension, which was ultimately a vehicle to get Balor over. By the time he actually got to cut loose and be KENTA (and he was getting over, don't let revisionist history tell you otherwise), he blew out his shoulder. They brought him back in a hot feud with Aries, but whoops, Aries got hurt and hosed off to 205 Live, and then Itami got injured by a green-rear end rookie, so now he's back but creative has nothing for him. Now what the hell do they do with him? It shouldn't be too hard to rehab his crowd reactions, but it'll be an uphill climb. Benne fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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He should do what Chris Hero and Sammi Callahan did and just duck out, go on and put out the best matches in the indies, and maybe come back when he's a more exciting commodity again rather than endlessly spinning his wheels in NXT
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RealFoxy posted:He should do what Chris Hero and Sammi Callahan did and just duck out, go on and put out the best matches in the indies, and maybe come back when he's a more exciting commodity again rather than endlessly spinning his wheels in NXT Itami would have a tougher time of that in America because visas and family issues, but it wouldn't shock me at all if he's going to return to Japan. It's tough to guess if he'd be loyal to NOAH or go to the higher-profile New Japan slot, more likely the latter because NOAH's kinda in the shitter at the moment.
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