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Elephant Ambush
Nov 13, 2012

...We sholde spenden more time together. What sayest thou?
Nap Ghost

Lid posted:

To add to everyone else, especially those pointing to that her and AJ Lee were the bridge between the divas era and women being taken seriously, is that she was presented as the anti-diva. In a time of nearly all blonde models there was this pseudo-goth leather second generation (third?) woman from SHIMMER that used holds from joshi and while very attractive was not the WWE type of attractive in being as pale as milk and jet black hair.

Here she is with a very young Becky Lynch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93nBkPSV1-k

Haha I'm in this video in the audience. Shimmer was always good times

It's crazy seeing Saraya as a huge star now because after she got called up to WWE I stopped watching all wrestling for a while and I completely missed everything she did in WWE so I have no context for her popularity. I really appreciate people explaining it

I'm really happy for her being back in the spotlight and I hope she's able to wrestle. Shame about her garbage boyfriend but that's not going to affect her on-screen persona at all other than the lovely entrance song and I barely ever pay attention to entrance music except for a few bangers like Jamie Hayter's and The Butcher and the Blade's and a couple others

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MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

xbilkis posted:

Tony should have gotten Numb as Saraya's entrance music to further cement AEW as the official promotion of the music scene circa 2001-04

The Saraya/Lyoto Machida alliance would be sick.

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

Elephant Ambush posted:

Haha I'm in this video in the audience. Shimmer was always good times

It's crazy seeing Saraya as a huge star now because after she got called up to WWE I stopped watching all wrestling for a while and I completely missed everything she did in WWE so I have no context for her popularity. I really appreciate people explaining it

I'm really happy for her being back in the spotlight and I hope she's able to wrestle. Shame about her garbage boyfriend but that's not going to affect her on-screen persona at all other than the lovely entrance song and I barely ever pay attention to entrance music except for a few bangers like Jamie Hayter's and The Butcher and the Blade's and a couple others

Yeah there is the darkside of this is that Saraya is known for her relationships, she dated Alberto el Patron for a very long time who was Alberto del Rio in WWE. their relationship can be described as mutual coke addiction, abuse both physical and mental, and it pretty much derailed her career for years. It was bad and why some are a bit hesitant on her because while she was the bridge she didn't wrestle into the crossover era despite being younger than nearly all of them given how early she debuted.

Testekill
Nov 1, 2012

I demand to be taken seriously

:aronrex:

https://twitter.com/Best4Business15/status/1573143841896554499

lol, what a bitch. Bodyslam wrote an A+ headline and he's having a sook.

Big Dave
Nov 6, 2009

Friends don't shake hands, friends gotta hug!


When i saw Saraya on the tonytron i thought it was gonna be her mom

JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

https://twitter.com/ringer/status/1573070131839877123?s=46&t=_OnhBONrMYt4op0w0V1S-w

Ganso Bomb
Oct 24, 2005

turn it all around


Sloppy reporting. Is he the head or the face??

Power Windows
Dec 29, 2004

Brasky used to ride upon a steed, perchance to spy a lady.

The head includes the face

little munchkin
Aug 15, 2010

Viewers will be surprised to hear it's actually for reasons other than marrying the bosses daughter followed by the boss getting ousted for gross sexual misconduct (or as the interviewer calls it, "very good reasons"). Funny how there's so many coincidences in life.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
Every episode of Wrestling Done Right; Grading on a Curve is worth a click just to see the rooms in his house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZApeh-gLBA0

Seams
Feb 3, 2005

ROCK HARD
Grantland ruled. Why does The Ringer suck so bad .

davidbix
Jun 14, 2016

Wow, Bix. First K.Rool, then Steve and now SEPHIROTH? Your dream game is real!

KungFu Grip posted:

not her matches really, which honestly were fine, but more when she was called up. it was the end cap of the divas era of wwe pretty much, so there's a lot of diva stans that love her, plus part of the early mainstream womens wrestling evolution with AJ Lee and Emma in NXT when it first started. She was pushed hard as THE face of the womens division in WWE before her first injury and other life issues took her off TV that girls that probably watched her gowning up 10 years ago might be into AEW now. To a lot of people she is also a very attractive young woman who made a lot of money off of twitch mostly by being attractive.
I feel like you and others here are just completely forgetting how good she was in the month when she came back sober before she got re-injured? She was every bit as good as the best workers in the division, if not better. The Sasha Banks match on Raw was fantastic and easily better than everything else she had done in WWE up to that point.

Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012

davidbix posted:

I feel like you and others here are just completely forgetting how good she was in the month when she came back sober before she got re-injured? She was every bit as good as the best workers in the division, if not better. The Sasha Banks match on Raw was fantastic and easily better than everything else she had done in WWE up to that point.

A whole month of being good four/five years ago probably isn't the answer to the original questions about why she's so over or why this is a good idea for AEW.

bebaloorpabopalo
Nov 23, 2005

I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me.
she is really popular so it's good for your show when really popular people are on it

Thanlis
Mar 17, 2011

Seams posted:

Grantland ruled. Why does The Ringer suck so bad .

Simmons ran off all the good writers.

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

bebaloorpabopalo posted:

she is really popular so it's good for your show when really popular people are on it

source?

bebaloorpabopalo
Nov 23, 2005

I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me.
another NecroEric classic

https://twitter.com/istomatoafruit/status/1573528004940251136

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
He's the best.

https://twitter.com/Necroeric/status/1573082878921289728

https://twitter.com/Necroeric/status/1573529754766118912

bebaloorpabopalo
Nov 23, 2005

I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me.
https://twitter.com/Necroeric/status/1573529754766118912

edit: drat

The_Rob
Feb 1, 2007

Blah blah blah blah!!
I love that this dude made up something completely off the top of his head got proven wrong and then still criticized it. Just a master of the craft.

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
https://twitter.com/spencerblack347/status/1573492322435743745?t=E904SlKYh7V8F6RUCfaB3g&s=19

https://twitter.com/spencerblack347/status/1573496393771139085?t=cFa-PsFSO3fOlwRTys6HJw&s=19

https://twitter.com/spencerblack347/status/1573497010098954240?t=ONha9a_OJDuJ65qkNf-cog&s=19

https://twitter.com/spencerblack347/status/1573526574003064832?t=KMIP57bZcWknEFZyFSx6dw&s=19

Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible




Update:

https://twitter.com/spencerblack347/status/1573527907556855811?s=20&t=nZeu0buwXlXBKuR9DlDfUQ

1glitch0
Sep 4, 2018

I DON'T GIVE A CRAP WHAT SHE BELIEVES THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS CHANGED MY LIFE #HUFFLEPUFF
I doubt HHH is dumb enough to start promoting Bray without having everything signed but imagine if Tony grabbed him right now.

TheIncredulousHulk
Sep 3, 2012

The dumb ARG has been very funny to rubberneck so far because people are trying to decode "clues" but if it's an actual surprise and not just Bray Wyatt, it's gonna make most of the people investing energy into it really mad

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

IT'S LIKE I CAN TOUCH YOU!

Is this Bobby's burner account?

Ganso Bomb
Oct 24, 2005

turn it all around

This reply really is something

https://twitter.com/lfrd94/status/1573673383082037249?s=20&t=-9fNni9E-wqlRISMxDOJJA

(noted ex-WWE people Brody King and Julia getting buried)

Elephant Ambush
Nov 13, 2012

...We sholde spenden more time together. What sayest thou?
Nap Ghost
@RealWillHobbs please become AEW world champion


Boy I wish it was that easy

1glitch0
Sep 4, 2018

I DON'T GIVE A CRAP WHAT SHE BELIEVES THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS CHANGED MY LIFE #HUFFLEPUFF

TheIncredulousHulk posted:

The dumb ARG has been very funny to rubberneck so far because people are trying to decode "clues" but if it's an actual surprise and not just Bray Wyatt, it's gonna make most of the people investing energy into it really mad

Maybe, but I think the type of person who'd get into a lazy WWE ARG would also be the type of person who would LOVE Bray to come back.

TheIncredulousHulk
Sep 3, 2012

1glitch0 posted:

Maybe, but I think the type of person who'd get into a lazy WWE ARG would also be the type of person who would LOVE Bray to come back.

That's what I meant, though I didn't word it very clearly. It's funny to me because Bray is by far the most obvious option to the point that it renders "decoding clues" pretty meaningless, but in the event that it's leading to someone else instead and the clues actually do matter, it's probably going to go over like a lead balloon

Put another way, the chalk pick is just to glance at this poo poo and say "oh it's Bray Wyatt being vaguely ominous" and not think about it further. If it turns out to actually be some ornately crafted mystery and the effort people are putting into solving it is a genuine surprise, it's going to be received worse than the obvious answer. Like imagine putting up all these giant online corkboards with all the red yarn you could want and then when it's finally complete, the guy in the middle is Karrion Kross lol

TheIncredulousHulk fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Sep 24, 2022

JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCir...utm_name=iossmf

Translation: “I can’t wait until someone in AEW breaks their neck so I can say I told you so”

DarkstarIV
Apr 6, 2010

OFFICIAL RACIST
https://twitter.com/robbelair/status/1573504480229957636

Context: Shotzi forgot her spot with Iyo during the brawl on Smackdown (and commentary even buried her for it), but it's somehow Iyo's fault. The guy above got called out for it, just to double down and claim that he has every right to blame Iyo because "people unfairly criticize women like Lash Legend but will praise Iyo, Bayley, Becky, etc".

DarkstarIV fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Sep 25, 2022

beepo
Oct 8, 2000
Forum Veteran

JUNGLE BOY posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCir...utm_name=iossmf

Translation: “I can’t wait until someone in AEW breaks their neck so I can say I told you so”

Legend has it AEW had a match where one wrestler kept punching at his opponents head. Now he didn't actually hit and injure his opponent, but imagine if he had!

Also, if you mention how wrestling is intrinsically dangerous or how other promotions have injuries on a regular basis too, that is whataboutism and it makes you a bad person.

The_Rob
Feb 1, 2007

Blah blah blah blah!!

beepo posted:

Legend has it AEW had a match where one wrestler kept punching at his opponents head. Now he didn't actually hit and injure his opponent, but imagine if he had!

Also, if you mention how wrestling is intrinsically dangerous or how other promotions have injuries on a regular basis too, that is whataboutism and it makes you a bad person.

Yeah we can’t bring up that a majority of WWE’s top stars are out with injuries. I’m just worried about AEW and they’re too reckless.

Drakkel
May 6, 2007

IT'S LIKE I CAN TOUCH YOU!
As we all know, AEW is the only wrestling company where anyone ever gets hurt

TheIncredulousHulk
Sep 3, 2012

JUNGLE BOY posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCir...utm_name=iossmf

Translation: “I can’t wait until someone in AEW breaks their neck so I can say I told you so”

Wild seeing people in the replies dismissing the Big E botch as a tragic fluke while putting over WWE and the PC for promoting safety. A guy they themselves trained broke a dude's neck on a spot they told him to do because he hadn't been trained to do the move properly

It wasn't like his foot slipped or something. He made multiple technical fuckups that were entirely within his control

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

TheIncredulousHulk posted:

Wild seeing people in the replies dismissing the Big E botch as a tragic fluke while putting over WWE and the PC for promoting safety. A guy they themselves trained broke a dude's neck on a spot they told him to do because he hadn't been trained to do the move properly

It wasn't like his foot slipped or something. He made multiple technical fuckups that were entirely within his control

WWE cannot fail it can only be failed

Cult of Pies
Oct 2, 2021

Web Jew.0
May 13, 2009

I just saw this too hahahaha what

Dimebags Brain
Feb 18, 2013





JUNGLE BOY posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCir...utm_name=iossmf

Translation: “I can’t wait until someone in AEW breaks their neck so I can say I told you so”

Just an entire thread of people shouting about how they're not worked. These people would have been clamoring for Ox Baker to be banned from wrestling for his recklessly dangerous heart punch.

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Power Windows
Dec 29, 2004

Brasky used to ride upon a steed, perchance to spy a lady.


You know how Trump is a poor man's idea of a idea of a rich man?

Stuff like this is a basement dwelling loser's idea of how a "chad" talks.

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