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RealFoxy posted:Speaking of Triple H, Imperium reminds me of that quote except anytime imperium are on stage I just myself "Where's Walter"
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Samoa Joe should lead a stable of badass security guards that tower over the NXT roster. Every match is a lumber jack match featuring Samoan Security as the lumberjacks who just completely manhandle the NXT developmental trainees like Adam Cole and Kyle O’Reilly who start to lose their passion for the wrestling business as a result. Eventually NXT transitions to a security guard training school for local Florida malls and events
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JUNGLE BOY posted:Samoa Joe should lead a stable of badass security guards that tower over the NXT roster. Every match is a lumber jack match featuring Samoan Security as the lumberjacks who just completely manhandle the NXT developmental trainees like Adam Cole and Kyle O’Reilly who start to lose their passion for the wrestling business as a result. Eventually NXT transitions to a security guard training school for local Florida malls and events or Samoa Joe could play Paul Blart's Samoan cousin in Paul Blart Mall Cop 3.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 13:54 |
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JUNGLE BOY posted:Samoa Joe should lead a stable of badass security guards that tower over the NXT roster. Every match is a lumber jack match featuring Samoan Security as the lumberjacks who just completely manhandle the NXT developmental trainees like Adam Cole and Kyle O’Reilly who start to lose their passion for the wrestling business as a result. Eventually NXT transitions to a security guard training school for local Florida malls and events One of their first jobs is enforcing the exclusion zone that stops Patrick Clark Jr going within 500 yards of a school.
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JUNGLE BOY posted:Samoa Joe should lead a stable of badass security guards that tower over the NXT roster. Every match is a lumber jack match featuring Samoan Security as the lumberjacks who just completely manhandle the NXT developmental trainees like Adam Cole and Kyle O’Reilly who start to lose their passion for the wrestling business as a result. Eventually NXT transitions to a security guard training school for local Florida malls and events Kevin Northcutt account spotted
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 14:43 |
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Joe's new role is an expression of a long standing problem in WWE culture: the management is more badass and tougher than the wrestlers. While its not as ridiculous as say Vince McMahon beating C show champs via gently caress finishes, it still makes the wrestlers look like loser geeks. Cole should have knocked Joe's rear end out and declared he was gonna fight Shanky or Quagmire to prove he's tougher than Kyle O'Reilly.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 14:49 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Kevin Northcutt account spotted I didn’t know about this but of course TNA already ran this angle lmao
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 14:57 |
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coconono posted:Joe's new role is an expression of a long standing problem in WWE culture: the management is more badass and tougher than the wrestlers. While its not as ridiculous as say Vince McMahon beating C show champs via gently caress finishes, it still makes the wrestlers look like loser geeks. Cole should have knocked Joe's rear end out and declared he was gonna fight Shanky or Quagmire to prove he's tougher than Kyle O'Reilly.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 15:03 |
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yeah, management clowning on the rank and file, that's why the attitude era was so successful
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 15:05 |
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Is it possible Joe went with WWE because there wasn't any interest from anyone else at a price he was happy with?
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 15:09 |
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It's 2021 and the Punk laughing at Joe on the phone cartoon is still relevant.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 15:11 |
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If that was the case and Joe is healthy to compete, I don't understand how Tony doesn't close this deal.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 15:12 |
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TV Zombie posted:If that was the case and Joe is healthy to compete, I don't understand how Tony doesn't close this deal. I think anybody who Joe has name value to is already watching Dynamite and AEW has a bucket of wrestlers as good as 2021 Joe. I could totally believe he priced himself out of going to Jacksonville.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 15:21 |
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If Joe is actually just going to stay in NXT, then this deal is probably preferable for a larger guy who probably does not enjoy squished air travel. Even when in non-pandemic times, NXT is always in Florida except for Takeovers when they're attached to a main roster event, right? So he may have essentially cut down his amount of air travel by like 95%. Even in a non-wrestling role with AEW, he'd still have to fly somewhere at least once a week. (this all assumes Joe lives in Florida, which is what I assume for most WWE folks) Wasn't one of the reasons Lance Archer left New Japan for AEW due to the long flights and how uncomfortable they were for him with his history of back issues? Sure, he still has to travel for them now but he's not doing those 16 hour flights at all.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 15:21 |
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Yeah, Finn wanted to go back to NXT for less travel as well.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 17:48 |
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I don't think Joe entertained any serious offers or was contractually obligated to hear WWE's offer first. TK absolutely would have come through with anything Joe needed to keep healthy or happy.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 18:06 |
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coconono posted:I don't think Joe entertained any serious offers or was contractually obligated to hear WWE's offer first. He made like one tweet about "Getting through this non-compete" and then went quiet pretty much immediately. I think HHH probably reached out to him quickly and he just didn't want to go through all the rigmarole of changing companies. I have a really, really hard time believing AEW wouldn't do what they needed to get Joe if the opportunity was there, whether he can wrestle or not.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 18:08 |
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fantasy booking wrestler contract offers
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 18:09 |
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jesus WEP posted:fantasy booking wrestler contract offers better than the TV shows WWE offer
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 18:16 |
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I think Joe didn’t have a ride to the unemployment office after getting fired so the company could report earnings that were like $100,000 higher 2 quarters from now and Paul Hunter asked him if he wanted to hop on the back of his motor tricycle and it was then that Joe learned who his loyal friends were
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 18:20 |
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JUNGLE BOY posted:I think Joe didn’t have a ride to the unemployment office after getting fired so the company could report earnings that were like $100,000 higher 2 quarters from now and Paul Hunter asked him if he wanted to hop on the back of his motor tricycle and it was then that Joe learned who his loyal friends were Why wouldn't he just ride the motor tricycle to the unemployment office?
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 18:35 |
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after watching some actual Nigerian wrestling, I can confirm the Nigerian Drums match was racist as gently caress.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 18:53 |
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coconono posted:after watching some actual Nigerian wrestling, I can confirm the Nigerian Drums match was racist as gently caress. Quite the scoop
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 18:57 |
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coconono posted:after watching some actual Nigerian wrestling, I can confirm the Nigerian Drums match was racist as gently caress. From the last 31 years of being Nigerian, I can also back this up.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 18:58 |
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MJeff posted:From the last 31 years of being Nigerian, I can also back this up. Did you go to the show in Abuja last sunday?
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 19:01 |
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Samoa Joe in 2021 doesn’t bring anything to AEW that isn’t already there It’s tragic that he missed out on getting to be in AEW back in 2005 or so
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 19:21 |
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rotinaj posted:Samoa Joe in 2021 doesn’t bring anything to AEW that isn’t already there how about a good 2nd commentator
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 19:26 |
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AEW really could've used someone like Joe back in 2005.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 19:26 |
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 19:32 |
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no thats the fiend
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 19:33 |
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Quantum of Phallus posted:how about a good 2nd commentator they had goldenboy but couldn't keep him cause his schedule is just way too busy
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 19:33 |
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coconono posted:Did you go to the show in Abuja last sunday? 2nd gen, I should be clear. rotinaj posted:Samoa Joe in 2021 doesn’t bring anything to AEW that isn’t already there Joe's too smart and too good to not bring something. Manager, commentator, coach, whatever, he's a guy you find a place for.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 19:34 |
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MJeff posted:2nd gen, I should be clear. That's the thing, though, anywhere he comes in, he displaces someone else. On a show that's overflowing with talent to the point that they are already wasting folks, I'd rather let Joe stay in NXT and do his thing being an authority figure and pulling a paycheck to wear a suit on TV. If it were 2005 S'Moe Joe coming into AEW and kicking Lance Archer out of his spot as third-best monster, I'm down, but post-TNA stairs bump Joe might as well rest up and feather his nest egg with WWE money. Take WWE for all it's worth until something changes there, or AEW gets a second show. Edit: I will admit defeat on commentary, though. Joe in as commentator would be pretty great.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 19:53 |
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joe did a shitload for the business and if he's happy with being a backstage goon who occasionally wrestles more power to him imo
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 19:57 |
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AEW found use in signing Sting, Christian Cage, Paul Wight, and Mark Henry. It seems silly to presume they had no interest in a generational talent with friends and peers in the promotion who has always been regarded highly in multiple aspects of the business and can maybe still go. Its ok to lose some. Its ok to speculate that maybe they hypothetically missed out on a talent they wanted. Who knows? But lessening Joe feels unnecessary.
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 20:01 |
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Jeff Hardy going through another rough patch, huh
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 20:06 |
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jobbing to jinder mahal in a 3 minute match while his brother re-invented himself again as one of the best heel acts in current memory edit: twice back-to-back Kunabomber fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Jun 16, 2021 |
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Kunabomber posted:jobbing to jinder mahal in a 3 minute match while his brother re-invented himself again as one of the best heel acts in current memory This is the buildup to Disassembled Jeff Hardy
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 22:08 |
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overmind2000 posted:This is the buildup to Disassembled Jeff Hardy now I want him to do a short circuit gimmick where he thinks he's a robot
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# ? Jun 16, 2021 22:29 |
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Kunabomber posted:jobbing to jinder mahal in a 3 minute match while his brother re-invented himself again as one of the best heel acts in current memory More than exponential growth. By SummerSlam they’re gonna be putting on a 60 minute classic
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