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Okay I'm kinda kramer-ing into the thread not having read the last 10 pages, but I want everyone to know I had a great time both nights live-posting with everyone for Wrestlemania, it was consistently hilarious reading everyone's posts. I haven't seen tonight's RAW yet (although I have it PVR'd), but my ultimate thoughts from a very very casual wrestling fan that watches Mania, the Rumble, and maybe 2 WWE and 2 AEW shows a year (kinda organized by when they aired): -The 1-hour preshow was painful both nights - the recaps felt like they went on forever, the commentary wasn't particularly insightful, and they just felt too long. I real-life cringed when Lawler said that homeless people should just "buy a house". -The impromptu promos at the beginning of night 1 were eye-opening, to see who could actually improvise/act. It was something we don't see very often, with how scripted everything feels. I really liked Kevin Owens' and Seth Rollins' promos most. -The rain delay was funny/sad; I know WWE wants to have these huge, massive attendance outdoor events but I don't think they work well here. There was a slip on the ropes with Lashley/McIntyre and I winced when I saw it happen; glad no one was hurt -The fukken giant skeleton and the comments in the thread around it slayed both nights -Night 1 was so, so fun to watch, with some great matches. Belair/Banks was an incredible match, although I don't watch as much as most here. I was very pleasantly surprised how fun Bad Bunny was. I am happy to report that night 1 of Wrestlemania 2021 was an excellent event, and even the bad stuff was (mostly) funny-bad. -Night 1 low point was 100000% the women's tag match thing - I don't know what the plan was here, but it was an unfun match to watch, the announcing was awful, I don't know why Natalya/Tamina went through -Speaking on announce team, I can not remember ever hearing so many bad/wrong calls in one show before, let alone a wrestlemania. -Night 2 was very funny, but for exactly the opposite of Night 1. Matches were boring and plodding. The announce team seemed scared of saying the wrong thing after probably getting chewed out night 1, and I felt a LOT more dead air. Owns/Zayn in particular had a LOT of "empty air", which made it feel very cold. I commented on the finish in particular for this if you watch it again. -Fiend/Orton was among the funniest poo poo I have ever seen in Wrestling. I truly stand behind it being "so bad it wraps back around into good". Trying to explain the match to a friend:  I genuinely think Alexa Bliss' demon look thing is cool and I hope it sticks around, please don't slip on face oil -Actually bad: Jax/Baszler/Natalya/Tamina was painful, also where was Reginald. -Still bad: The Nigerian Drum Fight had a million Chekov's drums around the ring, and they used none of them. The Nigerian Gong (wat) made the cool sound when it was used. I don't know why they couldn't let Big E in the charity outfit at home win the match. -Always bad: I was very in to Asuka/Ripley, but I once again don't understand the booking/finish here. Good idea to bring up more credible wrestlers is good, but it didn't seem to make sense to me if anyone can just challenge a champion without any action to make it earned. Again I don't watch as much as others but this was weird! -Good...and then bad: I really, really enjoyed Bryan/Reigns/Edge up until the end. I was very very happy with so many of the fun 3-way spots: to see WWE ACTUALLY HAVING FUN with the "everyone gets to try a submission hold", the DOUBLE submission hold against Reigns - the silly stuff worked so well. I don't understand Reigns winning again, though. I know Edge is probably unable to commit/work a big road tour/weekly shows all the time, but it doesn't mean he has to keep the belt long after the night. I also didn't notice the "Edge was on top of Bryan" thing others brought up after at the time, but in retrospect it's dumb. I haven't seen tonight's RAW like I said if they addressed it already. -The vibrating Roman Reigns CGI thing is the hardest I've laughed in at least a week Anyway, in conclusion, watching with everyone here absolutely made the night for me, and you, the person reading this, are a funny person with good opinions!
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I used Wrestlemania weekend as the test to see if after my six or eight or whatever months of not watching the weekly television it was time to come back. It is extremely not time to come back.
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So I didn't watch Raw, are Alexa and Bray just going their separate ways now? Was that Mania match just Vince breaking up another team? Is Alexa still magic? Is THE LORE OF ALEXA different from THE LORE OF THE FIEND now?
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CarlCX posted:I used Wrestlemania weekend as the test to see if after my six or eight or whatever months of not watching the weekly television it was time to come back. It is extremely not time to come back. Are you familiar with T_BAR or MACSE? they're both in the hurt locker now nad it's gonna be a PRETTY interesting backlash if you ask me
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LMAO did rhea actually bounce her face off the mat on that ddt, what a loving shitshow this match had 42069 botches holy poo poo
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Apr 13, 2021 04:21
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CarlCX posted:I used Wrestlemania weekend as the test to see if after my six or eight or whatever months of not watching the weekly television it was time to come back. It is extremely not time to come back. wrestlemania now extends until wrestlemania backlash so you're in for a few more weeks i'm afraid
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The Raw after Wrestlemania where anything can happen. What did we get? Viking Raiders return. Charlotte return (wasn't she only gone a month?) uh, that's it? I guess they are not doing any NXT call ups this year to surprise us
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Astro7x posted:uh, that's it? I guess they are not doing any NXT call ups this year to surprise us who would be called up tbh
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BaronVanAwesome posted:-Always bad: I was very in to Asuka/Ripley, but I once again don't understand the booking/finish here. Good idea to bring up more credible wrestlers is good, but it didn't seem to make sense to me if anyone can just challenge a champion without any action to make it earned. Again I don't watch as much as others but this was weird! The match didn't get much build because it was probably plan C. Plan A was Lacey winning the title from Asuka at Elimination Chamber and then facing Charlotte at WM over who gets to gently caress Ric Flair (and the title, maybe, who cares). Lacey got shoot pregnant, so gently caress it, onto plan B: Asuka vs Charlotte... oh wait, Charlotte got the covid because 80% of the roster is anti-maskers who think the pandemic is a hoax. So onto Plan C: have a bad match with no chemistry at WM that is somehow better than the previous two options.
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Astro7x posted:The Raw after Wrestlemania where anything can happen. i dunno man the LORE OF THE FIEND just got deeper and deeper deeper and deeper
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graph posted:who would be called up tbh Is adam Cole ever getting called up? Balor? Io??
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Astro7x posted:The Raw after Wrestlemania where anything can happen. Perhaps you missed TBAR and MACE
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Astro7x posted:uh, that's it? I guess they are not doing any NXT call ups this year to surprise us There really isn't anyone too call up that isn't involved in something. The 2 call ups they did do were at the Rumble with Rhea and Damien Priest. Maybe they call Io up for Smackdown? or Finn comes back but he doesn't count and probably stay at NXT. Cole still has more matches with the former members of UE.VVV oh they totally will Digital Jedi fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Apr 13, 2021 |
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Professor Funk posted:Is adam Cole ever getting called up? They're going to run the UE Breakup into the ground like Gargano/Ciampa Balor is probably more of a Smackdown guy they feed to Roman if anything.
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I actually thought the logical continuation for Damien Priest was to feud with Sheamus, and have him come out at Backlash to a new unique song Bad Bunny made for him, to make Damien a star. Instead, lost a handicap match.
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Apr 13, 2021 04:35
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Alaois posted:praying for Slapjack WHERE THE HELL IS SLAPJACK
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Apr 13, 2021 04:36
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Professor Funk posted:Is adam Cole ever getting called up? HHH wouldn't be able to save Cole from the height jokes and the burials to come Finn explicitly asked to be sent back to NXT Io's ceiling would be current-Asuka where there's ideas for her only as a backup option to the backup option when everything else has gone wrong Gargano and Ciampa already got called up and made a joke in record time
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Apr 13, 2021 04:37
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Apr 13, 2021 04:39
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Chris James 2 posted:Alexa Bliss says she doesn't need the Fiend to realize her potential, and reveals new friend Lily the doll who does a jump scare to the camera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4mf35D7K_8
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Apr 13, 2021 04:43
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Maybe actually do something with the 6,000 people already on the main roster instead of just calling up more randos to do nothing
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Apr 13, 2021 04:44
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This is like a 3 hour show but i managed to finish it in an hour thanks to DVR fast forwarding, and i feel like i lost nothing except for an hour of my time
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Vandar posted:https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1381792878435917838?s=20 It's so hard because I know Charlotte and Roman are good wrestlers (I'll even go very good for Charlotte). But their characters went from "Is The Best" to "Is The Best Cry About It" and that's just it. Roman's has the Tribal Chief thing (that kinda lost steam), sure. They can both talk. They can both go. It's like Triple H Syndrome on steroids. They're B+ wrestlers pushed like SSS tier wrestlers and it's exhausting. Because EVERY TIME someone else gets like half their push, they're to the moon with it. Becky, Bayley, Sasha, Bianca, Lashley (and I don't even LIKE Bobby!), Ambrose, Owens. I dunno. For all of the positive vibes I've seen from Wrestlemania there's just so much that reminds me why I had to quit.
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Apr 13, 2021 04:50
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that was the worst post Wrestlemania raw since they decided post Wrestlemania raws were a thing against all odds they continue to care even less about making a good product
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Apr 13, 2021 04:53
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Benne posted:Maybe actually do something with the 6,000 people already on the main roster instead of just calling up more randos to do nothing The Raw and SD women's division could actually use more people, and NXT could use less. But then they sent Ember and Martinez back to NXT, so what the gently caress do I know
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So if I read the RAW results correctly, Alexa Bliss is no longer with The Fiend, but is still a spoopy creepy sexy girlywoman, but now has her own doll. So essentially she gets to keep all the bad part of the poo poo she was doing, but is now solo? Will she be doing spoopy feuds with women wrestlers now? Totally independent of the Fiend? Does she still light people on fire? Does she still have black goo powers? Will she get new spoopy powers?
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Apr 13, 2021 05:00
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it looked like bray wyatt is gonna become brother love
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Kunabomber posted:it looked like bray wyatt is gonna become brother love So leaning into Sweater Bray? Is he still all kiddie-show friendly, or is he leaning in a new direction?
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Apr 13, 2021 05:02
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sorry i was just making a flip remark because he was going crazy with evangelist preacher talk
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Bray looked like he was about to have a breakdown and instead started to hoedown I kinda liked it, the Friend is nonsensical fun Shinjobi posted:WHERE THE HELL IS SLAPJACK Eat My Fuc posted:I didn’t watch tonight i’m sure it wasn’t terrible it’s Asuka
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seriously this raw was insane with the amount of botches, i lost it when braun had to sell a lovely neckbreaker edit: actually looking at it again, it looks like he forgot to sell and then did it well after the fact
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Kunabomber posted:seriously this raw was insane with the amount of botches, i lost it when braun had to sell a lovely neckbreaker https://i.imgur.com/RO4GTBL.gifv
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Kunabomber posted:seriously this raw was insane with the amount of botches, i lost it when braun had to sell a lovely neckbreaker Yeah that one was completely on Braun
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Kunabomber posted:seriously this raw was insane with the amount of botches, i lost it when braun had to sell a lovely neckbreaker
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Apr 13, 2021 05:10
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Nick Jr. Face posted:why braun
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Alexa's new doll, Lily
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Nick Jr. Face posted:why was braun wrestling with a shirt on same reason any wrestler does https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZqo4OZ0Pqs
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Chris James 2 posted:PostMania Raw, what was once the highlight of the year https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-results/wwe-raw-live-results-raw-after-wrestlemania-37-338541 Wait is this the new name of the ppv? That's poo poo.
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