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DarkstarIV posted:WWE continues the trend of really loving bad champion pictures for their website. this looks like one of those faceapp generated smiles
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Spuckuk posted:This is the dumbest loving thing I've ever seen, and I watch Mecha Mummy matches on DDT In a vacuum, if you completely eliminate Alexa Bliss and everything related to her from this and also the terrible CG walking thing before she came out, spooky clown wrestler slowly rising out of a hosed up jack in the box is a killer “big stage” one off special entrance. It makes sense that they would gently caress it up with all that other awful poo poo though.
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Kunabomber posted:It felt like Wrestlemania was actually an advertisement for the TV product rather than having proper blowoff matches that ends feuds tbh The PPVs have been like that for ages, and I'm not sure I blame them since they make most of their money on the TV/Streaming deals for the TV shows. When was the last time WM really felt like a "Season Finale"? When DB won? Even before that it feels like WM was building to TV or Backlash.
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Apr 12, 2021 15:18
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History Comes Inside! posted:In a vacuum, if you completely eliminate Alexa Bliss and everything related to her from this and also the terrible CG walking thing before she came out, spooky clown wrestler slowly rising out of a hosed up jack in the box is a killer “big stage” one off special entrance. So much of WWE is this good seed of an idea ruined by a lot of extraneous bullshit. Fun loving potsmoker who can still somehow go in the ring is a great idea for a gimmick but its so overdone it becomes farce and not good farce
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Apr 12, 2021 15:20
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Re: Alexa Alexa was a decent singles wrestler, not a great one, and I owe a lot of that to the booking. During her endless reigns with the belts they should've made her a sneaky, clever champ who always barely escapes with the belt, instead they had her dominate 80% of every match she was in despite being 5-foot-nothing. Sorry, when she's dragging around Nia it looks ridiculous. Re: Night 2 It sucked. Back to being the good ol' WWE. Just a lousy show with almost sadistic pacing- you follow up the Fiend thing with that women's tag? What in the world are you doing?
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Apr 12, 2021 15:20
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I watched the first half of both nights since my friends were watching. Only the first halves since I gave up both times and went to bed. I don't want to judge people for enjoying a entertainment product that I don't like but it is so hard not too in this case.
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Apr 12, 2021 15:24
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First night's ending was the best close to a main roster show in years, probably since the Ambrose MITB cash-in?
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Apr 12, 2021 15:29
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Lazy like a Fox posted:The PPVs have been like that for ages, and I'm not sure I blame them since they make most of their money on the TV/Streaming deals for the TV shows. That's true, but it just feels like this WM was even more egregious, especially Night 2 main event.
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Apr 12, 2021 15:30
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So I've downloaded both nights of NXT Stand and Deliver, besides WALTER v Ciampa anything else worth watching on those?
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Apr 12, 2021 15:31
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Lazy like a Fox posted:The PPVs have been like that for ages, and I'm not sure I blame them since they make most of their money on the TV/Streaming deals for the TV shows. I liked it in 2018 when WM was actually building to Backlash, which was actually building to the loving Saudi show
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Apr 12, 2021 15:32
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LionYeti posted:So I've downloaded both nights of NXT Stand and Deliver, besides WALTER v Ciampa anything else worth watching on those? the last 10 minutes of cole/oreilly
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Apr 12, 2021 15:33
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History Comes Inside! posted:In a vacuum, if you completely eliminate Alexa Bliss and everything related to her from this and also the terrible CG walking thing before she came out, spooky clown wrestler slowly rising out of a hosed up jack in the box is a killer “big stage” one off special entrance. You know it’s cheap because the theme song loops four times… And only has one verse. How hard is it to make a couplet about being friends
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Apr 12, 2021 15:33
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Golden Bee posted:You know it’s cheap because the theme song loops four times… And only has one verse. How hard is it to make a couplet about being friends God its remarkable how bad the WWE theme music has become.
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Apr 12, 2021 15:35
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LionYeti posted:So I've downloaded both nights of NXT Stand and Deliver, besides WALTER v Ciampa anything else worth watching on those? Men's tag match, the gauntlet match
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Apr 12, 2021 15:35
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I will say, everyone is really looking like a dumb motherfucker when they face Roman right now and don't bring a counter to Jey Uso.
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Apr 12, 2021 15:46
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Main event finish doesn't bother me too buch, because at least it's the current biggest heel in the company going over. Jobber with a random gimmick reset getting the IC title is way worse IMO. At least there was kind of an actual feud there but I just hate it. Feels like when JBL got his rich guy gimmick and then won the title within a month. I know I'm a chump to get annoyed over the IC title but I guess I'm just a big Big E mark  Also how in the hell does Tamina get booked in TWO wrestlemania matches 
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Apr 12, 2021 15:47
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Second night was mostly garbage (particularly compared to the first, where every match other than Braun/Shane and the Women's Tag Team mess was very good), but I guess I'm not getting the hate for the main event, which was honestly pretty enjoyable? Maybe it would have been better to let Sasha and Bianca headline night two so that night two wasn't a series of heel wins and we could have gone home on the happy, feel-good moment, but Roman as a dominant heel has been good and Smackdown has a lot of rising faces to take a run at him (Cesaro and Big E both seem well-positioned, and they finally seem to notice that Cesaro actually exists, but I'm not gonna get my hopes up). In hindsight, the decision to put Bryan in the match is kind of a confusing one if you don't want him to win or eat the pin so Roman can lose the title without being pinned, but it makes sense if they wanted to hedge against Edge not being able to carry a full main event match on his own or if they just decided the three had good chemistry and wanted some variety on a card that was almost entirely singles matches. If they had stuck it on Edge it probably would have been in limbo until Summerslam and putting it on Bryan would have let him face...I dunno, Rollins? Him and Zayn would be fun I guess.
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Apr 12, 2021 15:48
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There's nobody who's a credible challenger to Roman right now. Big E lost a lot of steam with this neverending Apollo feud that probably still isn't over.
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Apr 12, 2021 15:51
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motherbox posted:Second night was mostly garbage (particularly compared to the first, where every match other than Braun/Shane and the Women's Tag Team mess was very good), but I guess I'm not getting the hate for the main event, which was honestly pretty enjoyable? Maybe it would have been better to let Sasha and Bianca headline night two so that night two wasn't a series of heel wins and we could have gone home on the happy, feel-good moment, but Roman as a dominant heel has been good and Smackdown has a lot of rising faces to take a run at him (Cesaro and Big E both seem well-positioned, and they finally seem to notice that Cesaro actually exists, but I'm not gonna get my hopes up). In hindsight, the decision to put Bryan in the match is kind of a confusing one if you don't want him to win or eat the pin so Roman can lose the title without being pinned, but it makes sense if they wanted to hedge against Edge not being able to carry a full main event match on his own or if they just decided the three had good chemistry and wanted some variety on a card that was almost entirely singles matches. If they had stuck it on Edge it probably would have been in limbo until Summerslam and putting it on Bryan would have let him face...I dunno, Rollins? Him and Zayn would be fun I guess. the spot where bryan and edge both had a facelock on roman and started headbutting each other was pretty good. i think the night 2 main was good, but not as good as night 1.
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Pylons posted:There's nobody who's a credible challenger to Roman right now. Big E lost a lot of steam with this neverending Apollo feud that probably still isn't over. A wrestler not being credible has never stopped them arbitrarily being shoved into the main event before
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Apr 12, 2021 15:53
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If Babatunde replaces the military officers, at least it will lower the racism quotient of Apollo by 20%
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Apr 12, 2021 15:55
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Rarity posted:A wrestler not being credible has never stopped them arbitrarily being shoved into the main event before e: the other 10% is MITB cash-ins
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Apr 12, 2021 15:57
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Cesaro vs Reigns with Nakamura protecting against Jey Uso would be a match I'd watch. edit: i just want reigns being swung around like a fool
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Apr 12, 2021 15:57
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sound guy during rheas entrance: this is my brutality *turns off lip-sync track*
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Apr 12, 2021 16:14
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It's just always amazing what WWE chooses to focus on for building characters (Fiend, Head of the table Roman) and everything else is "yeah I guess you're doing this for the next couple of weeks, sure".
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Apr 12, 2021 16:19
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Golden Bee posted:You know it’s cheap because the theme song loops four times… And only has one verse. How hard is it to make a couplet about being friends the way the singer drags out "lo-o-nely" bothered me so much
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Apr 12, 2021 16:25
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The lazy lyrics are the absolute least of the problems with the entire Alexa Bliss part of that segment. You could write her the greatest theme song in all of wrestling and it wouldn’t save whatever that is supposed to be. People keep saying Harley Quinn but it’s like they’ve only ever had Harley Quinn explained to them by way of a bunch of paedophiles playing the telephone game or something.
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night 2 absolutely stank, what a pile of poo poo Michael Cole was absolutely terrible, worst I've maybe ever heard him
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History Comes Inside! posted:The lazy lyrics are the absolute least of the problems with the entire Alexa Bliss part of that segment. ok it's still lazy though
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Cavauro posted:someone on this page accidentally outed themselves as a wwe wrestler in their post but i won't say who Minidust posted:
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Vandar posted:I mean, to be quite frank, the rest of the Raw women's division ARE a bunch of chumps. Best women's roster in the world, separated into 4 subpar rosters with only one of them (NXT) being somewhat decent. I know people poo poo on AEW women's division, but AEW is currently doing a better job than Raw, Smackdown, or NXT UK individually. The only real faces that could fight Rhea are Becky or Charlotte at this point, because they haven't completely ruined them like the rest of the roster. On the flip side, the only heels left to have faced Asuka would have been... literally nobody. I know they are not against taking the tag champs and having them face the Raw champ, but maybe Shayna would have been Asuka's next credibly opponen. Likely scenario is that they do what they did with Carmella returning and quickly try to build someone up for MITB. Like Peyton or Nikki Cross. But who am I kidding, they'll probably bring Chalotte or Becky back tonight
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I really liked Nikki Cross back when I was regularly watching PPVs. Sucks that they've done gently caress all with her since Extreme Rules, basically.
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Pylons posted:I really liked Nikki Cross back when I was regularly watching PPVs. Sucks that they've done gently caress all with her since Extreme Rules, basically. Hey now, she was sacrificed for the greater good...expanding THE LORE OF THE FIEND. On a serious note, RAW's women's division is a dumpster fire and Rhea as champ isn't going to fix any of the problems it has.
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bless you wrestlemania streamables for teaching me who the hell darkstar's avatar isKunabomber posted:lol vince is gonna live for another 20 years vince will but dunn wont
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i don't think dunn has been in charge of the cameras for a few years now. he has some guy who is relatively young as an apprentice who does all of those shaky zooms and such. This was told to me by Bix or he might have said the exact opposite that this guy wasn't the one doing it. but there is a guy at least, and it might not have been Bix who said anything about him
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Pylons posted:I really liked Nikki Cross back when I was regularly watching PPVs. Sucks that they've done gently caress all with her since Extreme Rules, basically. i remember being stoked when they brought her to the main roster because i thought her nxt character was cool the few times i watched it and drat did they totally ruin her.
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ASenileAnimal posted:i remember being stoked when they brought her to the main roster because i thought her nxt character was cool the few times i watched it and drat did they totally ruin her. Now where have I heard this one before?
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Apr 12, 2021 17:08
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Just the amount of mental gymnastics you would have to do for those lovely camera cuts would make you exhausted.
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