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Vince MechMahon posted:How much are we going to stretch the definition of job here? Leo Krueger was a mercenary, that's technically a job. I'd say any gimmick that is "I'm a ___" and that thing is a job counts. Mercenary/Big Game Hunter would count IMO, unless he's only a "wrestling mercenary" or his "big game" is other wrestlers.
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Jan 14, 2021 18:41
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Leo Kruger was just Kraven the Hunter and cut promos as such, but it’s not like they ever did a vignette of him hunting lions or whatever. Not sure if it counts as a “day job” gimmick.
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Jan 14, 2021 18:44
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Joey Janela only wrestlers part-time alongside his main job of selling weed to college kids
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Jan 14, 2021 18:45
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Elias? Street busker is a job.
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Jan 14, 2021 18:46
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Vince MechMahon posted:I was on Wikipedia looking at the WWEs current roster to see if any current wrestlers are job gimmicks (btw yes: it's the fiend, who is canonically a children's talk show host) and whoever added the photos here seems to hate Charlotte because they picked the absolute worst photo of her I've ever seen. I mean, that’s pretty much what she looks like now. It’s either that or use an old photo.
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Jan 14, 2021 18:49
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Tyler Breeze was a model, then a fashion cop. Fandango was a dancer, then a fashion cop. My role model Dr. Britt Baker, DMD is a dentist and a wrestler.
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Jan 14, 2021 18:50
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Wouldn't Triple H count?
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If Triple H counts as "Evil Boss" then so should Kane from his Korporate Kane days.
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Endless Mike posted:Tyler Breeze was a model, then a fashion cop. Fandango was a dancer, then a fashion cop. Does it count if the job isn't a gimmick?
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I feel like they completely missed an opportunity with Charlotte by having her win the NXT title. There was a great potential story there if they had her lose to Ripley out of arrogance and underestimating her, and having her be humbled and have to work from the bottom again to either win the NXT title or to build towards a win a year down the line against a called-up Ripley holding one of the main roster women’s belts. It would have worked great to eventually face turn Charlotte and legitimize Rhea Ripley out the gate. Is Charlotte a tier above the divas-era women’s talent? Unquestionably. But in the time since the NXT women’s division became arguably one of the best in all of wrestling and what qualifies as outstanding talent in the past isn’t as special anymore. But that would be long term storytelling and lol to expect that in WWE. Dacap fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Jan 14, 2021 |
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Jan 14, 2021 18:56
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sportsgenius86 posted:I mean, that’s pretty much what she looks like now. It’s either that or use an old photo. I haven't watched in ages but man, really? I figured this was just a combination of bad lighting, a weird angle, and a guy using a bad lens for the distance because this does not match my mental picture of her.
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Jan 14, 2021 19:08
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Quantum of Phallus posted:woman ages shocker I just looked up other pictures of her and while yes, she's aged a bit, that's still a very bad photo of her for pretty much every reason I listed.
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Jan 14, 2021 19:13
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Oh great are we back to insulting a woman based on her looks? This is always fun
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Rarity posted:Oh great are we back to insulting a woman based on her looks? This is always fun No, I'm back to saying that whoever added that photo maliciously picked a bad one to be lovely.
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Jan 14, 2021 19:15
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It's a bad photo but public domain photos can be kind of wonky you just go with whatever you have.
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Vince MechMahon posted:No, I'm back to saying that whoever added that photo maliciously picked a bad one to be lovely. it's wikipedia, what do you expect someone to pick?
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Jan 14, 2021 19:16
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who gives a gently caress what photo they used !!
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sleepwalkers posted:it's wikipedia, what do you expect someone to pick? A decent photo that is actually representative of the person, and not one picked specifically to make them look bad? I just thought it was weird and petty. I still do.
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Jan 14, 2021 19:18
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Wikipedia is very, very weird. I bet if you looked in the discussion page you'd find a 4 year long feud between folks over what JPG should be on the page. Lots of celeb pages just have some random crappy camera photo since it's fair use.
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If everyone that viewed Charlotte Flair's Wikipedia page donated just $3 we would be able to supply beautifully accurate portrait of The Queen for years to come for less than the price of a cup of coffee
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Jan 14, 2021 19:27
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are we talking about wikipedia photos because if so it lets me post my favorite wikipedia photo of all time, that of former mediocre NFL QB Anthony Wright
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Alaois posted:are we talking about wikipedia photos because if so it lets me post my favorite wikipedia photo of all time, that of former mediocre NFL QB Anthony Wright It's like a surveillance photograph
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Jan 14, 2021 21:44
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Yeah, Wiki requires public domain photos and sometimes you don't have a lot of options, it's hard to claim it's malice.
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Butcher and the Blade are actual butchers according to AEW Lore. I assume that Dexter Lumis is getting paid for his commerical art work for NXT, but is that more of a Two Contracts gimmick?
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Endless Mike posted:Yeah, Wiki requires public domain photos and sometimes you don't have a lot of options, it's hard to claim it's malice. I never knew this, this would explain why for like 10 years every comedy actor's picture was them looking washed out and sweaty on the red carpet for the Tina Fey vehicle Baby Mama
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Jan 14, 2021 21:58
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Don’t forget the spirit squad
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NienNunb posted:I never knew this, this would explain why for like 10 years every comedy actor's picture was them looking washed out and sweaty on the red carpet for the Tina Fey vehicle Baby Mama haha
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Jan 14, 2021 22:17
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ChrisBTY posted:Charlotte was a huge part of a group of women who put an unprecedented spotlight on women's wrestling in the United States. The Four Horsemen almost remind of the Beatles in that sense. Nameless Backstage Interviewer: Would you say Charlotte is the best wrestler in the world? Bayley: Charlotte's not even the best wrestler in the Four Horsewomen!
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Jan 14, 2021 22:41
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Remember that time Charlotte assaulted one of her co-workers on camera and faced no consequences from either her employer or the media? I see she's once again characterizing herself as the constantly aggrieved one. I wonder if there's a connection.
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MJeff posted:Remember that time Charlotte assaulted one of her co-workers on camera and faced no consequences from either her employer or the media? holy poo poo this actually happened?
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Hiram posted:holy poo poo this actually happened? believe that is referring to when asuka and kairi sane faced off vs charlotte and becky lynch and kairi at one point was clearly concussed while charlotte simply kept trying to continue the match, to the point where becky hit kairi under the ring to protect her. i would add that this probably wasn't out of malice but rather due to the fact that WWE trains people to never ever go off script in any circumstances and charlotte has no experience in wrestling outside of the WWE system.
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Jan 15, 2021 00:31
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Yeah Charlotte powerbombed a ragdolled Kairi who was clearly barely conscious and seemed pissed off that Kairi wasn’t doing her part
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ItohRespectArmy posted:believe that is referring to when asuka and kairi sane faced off vs charlotte and becky lynch and kairi at one point was clearly concussed while charlotte simply kept trying to continue the match, to the point where becky hit kairi under the ring to protect her. It crossed the line into malicious when she slapped her, for me, anyway.
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MJeff posted:It crossed the line into malicious when she slapped her, for me, anyway. i can get that, I just wanted to highlight that it's a problem that is likely endemic to WWE itself and is probably inevitably going to happen again.
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not sure about intentions or anything else but charlotte calling out how tough kairi is during an unrelated promo on the next show was someone's idea of trying to lower the online heat, which looks quite bad. wrestling companies pretend otherwise, but us "onliners" are the only ones they care about to the point of obsessive disdain and the feigning of disregard. yet there is very often a paradoxical begrudging acknowledgement. Charlotte or her fat cat minions in suits are constantly making GBS threads their pants about how she is viewed. If you remember there even used to be plants on here trying to make it look like misogyny to speak ill of her. I was approached to sell my account to one but said no.
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Yes, it became malicious. And it's directly a result of WWE training, a lovely attitude, and a lack of basic empathy. The greenest of greehorns would know better than to not check on someone during a match.
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