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Sorry to keep talking about The Miz. And I say this as someone who unashamedly likes him: One of the big knocks on him is that whilst what he does well he actually does do very well. That thing is very narrow. He can't work face. At all. And over a 15 year career his character has barely evolved from annoying entitled arsehole, to annoying entitled arsehole who wears sunglasses. I will also agree that his best position is in the mid card, and posit that because he has been pushed as a main eventer far too many times, that he looks worse than he actually is. Also, whilst his in ring work is at best mediocre, I would also posit that is because he is the embodiment of WWE style. And he might be a little better than that *if* he wanted/was allowed to wrestle outside those parameters. But saying all that, I am still always baffled at the amount of spite and venom he seems to get directed at him. Coz as I see it, at worst he is mediocre, blah, meh. But to people who hate him, they REALLY hate him, and project all their hatred of the mediocre WWE-style onto him. Which I think is a tiny bit unwarranted. But then also maybe I am biased, coz I do unironically like the Miz and find him entertaining. What is going unsaid here too is Maryse is also very good at what she does when she gets a chance to do it. Or, at least I think so.
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Drakkel posted:Von Wagner??? That sounds vaguely correct.
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NXT 2.0 Finish to Mandy vs Ember https://streamja.com/EZA2n Halloween Havoc returns to NXT on October 26th "Challenge Accepted!" Bron Breakker vs Tommaso Ciampa for the NXT Title https://streamja.com/kqA0y "Are those his measurements?" https://streamja.com/4WLEd Superstar scores a huge upset https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/q29qym/nxt_spoilers_superstar_scores_a_huge_upset/ Tony D'Angelo makes his entrance https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/q2a4x9/nxt_spoilers_tony_dangelo_makes_his_entrance/ Finish to Tony D'Angelo debut match https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/q2a6zo/nxt_spoilers_finish_to_tony_dangelo_debut_match/ Finish to Mei Ying vs. Indi Hartwell https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/q2acia/nxt_spoilers_finish_to_mei_ying_vs_indi_hartwell/ Finish to NXT Tag Team Title Match - MSK vs. Grizzled Young Veterans vs. Carmelo Hayes & Trick Williams vs. Josh Briggs & Brooks Jensen https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/q2axbp/nxt_spoilers_finish_to_nxt_tag_team_title_match/ Next week -Tommaso Ciampa vs Joe Gacy. If Gacy wins, he's added to the NXT title match at Halloween Havoc -Kyle O'Reilly and Von Wagoner vs Pete Dunne and Ridge Holland -Isiah "Swerve" Scott vs Santos Escobar, NXT North American title match Digital Jedi fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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Digital Jedi posted:Tony D'Angelo makes his entrance God drat it, I said Tony should buy the best friends that Goosebumps theme. This is not what I asked for
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Tony D'Angelo is even more of a stupid outdated stereotype than I even imagined it could be. Wow. Watched the clips on mute for now, is his move a Fisherman Neckbreaker because his opponents sleep with the fishes? I love how the crowd is all doing the hand sign because I assume they all also know how loving dumb this is and are just sarcastically cheering for him. Ganso Bomb fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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The only TV I've been watching since mid August has been wrestling and the sopranos and the streams are starting to cross
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Bononi said the same thing Chris Hero is unrecognizable but at least he looks happy
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Hoodslam's James C did it better
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Pamela Springstein posted:Chris Hero is unrecognizable but at least he looks happy He looks like the guitarist of a grind band who practice in a basement covered in empty Hamms cans.
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Pamela Springstein posted:Bononi said the same thing You shut your mouth. Fat Chris Hero has always been the best Chris Hero.
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I think WWE relies too much on its history. For example: Once at a dinner party, the woman sitting next to him said she bet that if she wasn't down with that, he had two words for her. Coolidge then famously responded: "Suck it".
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Friendship ended with mafia guy, now poker player is my favourite nxt 2.0 wrestler.
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It really is like NXT got sucked back into like 1994
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MassRafTer posted:I love that we needed NXT 2.0 so people could get characters and stories and of course that means really cheap looking gimmicks. Vince is back. This vignette ruled. It was this guy talking about the psychological advantage of being a professional poker player and how he brought those skills to the wrestling ring, but all the B-roll footage was just him in a lovely vest and one other faceless person at a big table in this void of a room where the guy had to deal the cards himself WWF shotgun spraying gimmick ideas is unironically the best strategy for producing (mostly ironically) watchable content
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tony d'angelo has nothing on the f.b.i. where's tony mamaluke when you need him?
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WWE finally has signed The Gambler Jr. and I am here for it.
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who give a fuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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Drakkel posted:It really is like NXT got sucked back into like 1994
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xbilkis posted:This vignette ruled. It was this guy talking about the psychological advantage of being a professional poker player and how he brought those skills to the wrestling ring, but all the B-roll footage was just him in a lovely vest and one other faceless person at a big table in this void of a room where the guy had to deal the cards himself I'm not even against it as a booking philosophy, if it's going to be WWE's new identity, I'd just prefer if it was consistent. But it feels like this style has failed before.
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being a poker player is useful in wrestling cause what if your opponent notices your “im gonna hit my finishing move on this guy” face and counters you
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some random quotes from the F4W writeup of this show:F4W posted:It is hilarious that Breakker is a Steiner with a capital S, looking like his father, wrestling like a Steiner and cutting promos just like Scott, yet everyone on TV is banned from stating the obvious. The WWE Universe is a universe completely disconnected from ours. So that sounded like an unfun trainwreck. I give NXT 2.0 a year from now before it's cancelled. Venomous fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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They should have called up every single person in NXT that was there before the 2019 prime time move. So basically if you’ve been in NXT for two years, you’re going to Raw or Smackdown. There is just no need for them. They all seem out of place with so many new green people.
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Venomous posted:some random quotes from the F4W writeup of this show: hahaha @ you thinking it's gonna last a year.
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Taya is already losing matches? Huh. Congrats to Santos Escobar on his upcoming title win.
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Tony D'Angelo is everything I ever wanted from wrestling
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Nick Jr. Face posted:If they find a way to get Phil Hellmuth involved with Duke Hudson I might start watching this garbage You gave me a bad beat, now I’m going to give you a bad beating! -Bill Filmaff
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