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Astro7x posted:I don’t understand the hype for LA Knight. That’s kind of always been his deal. He was super entertaining in the NWA if you can believe that! I wish they didn’t pipe in crowd noise so much, it’d be nice to know how much of that reaction is actually real.
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Ganso Bomb posted:That’s kind of always been his deal. He was super entertaining in the NWA if you can believe that! It's all real, just like Dom's heat.
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Kvantum posted:Somehow he found a way to sound like The Rock doing a Stone Cold impression doing an impression of The Rock. My god, that's exactly it....
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I was surprised Austin Theory wasn't in the ring when he mentioned someone making videos for 14 year old girls
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yea ok posted:It's all real, just like Dom's heat. post through it…
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The Dom deniers are like the guys who don’t like Punk 🤣
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Imo the Dom heat during the Rey and Bad Bunny feud was real. Everything after is questionable. I do believe it's a combo of actual heel heat and people that think he just sucks though
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Has Dom developed the ability to do basic wrestling moves without looking like his soul wants to leave his body?
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Dom has gotten better yeah. I like LA Knight and I'm not sure why or how. But I like listening to him talk and doing catchphrase and callback stuff. YEAH
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It's funny how LA Knight got over by being in a Bray Wyatt feud, which led to kids paying attention to him and liking what they heard.
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During his first FCW run I remember a guy on the boards I was on who would constantly post how hyped he was that Shaun Ricker got signed to WWE and that if they gave him a chance he'd be huge. I hope that dude is happy right now. Kennedy comparison is pretty decent, actually, but I like LA Knight a little more than I did Kennedy. I mostly remember him leaving TNA over Tessa's title win, I think? Seems like the dude just had a big mouth that kept getting him into trouble, though it's working for him now. He's cool, the throwback stuff is cool.
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Dom was much better when people weren't reacting to him. Being a slimey little useless weasel really worked for him. But now people seem to genuinely dislike him, and are reacting to him, which is like getting really angry about a slug. They don't even have a garden the slug is eating. They haven't stepped on the slug while in socks. They're just getting really angry at a slug.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:I mostly remember him leaving TNA over Tessa's title win, I think? He didn't have a problem with the win, he thought it was legit cool for a company to give its world title to a woman (which it is, see also GCW doing it for Masha), but they booked a defense against him and he just wasn't okay with himself doing intergender wrestling matches and publicly said so, which they really didn't like the him going public about it part
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the only thing to remember about LA Knight's original NXT run was that his name was Slate Randall and he never made TV
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Gumball Gumption posted:Dom being over is really the proof for me that nothing is really wrong with WWE anymore but the product is not what I'm looking for. He's obviously over, people love it, him and Rhea have absolutely hit being mainstream famous, and I just have zero interest and it's not what I'm looking for in wrestling. More power to all the women I know who have recently gotten into wrestling because Rhea Ripley is really hot to them. you and I have extremely different definitions of the term "mainstream famous"
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Julio Cruz posted:you and I have extremely different definitions of the term "mainstream famous" mainstream famous is your coworker asking if John Cena still wrestles
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If you've hit mainstream famous that means someone on the street that doesn't watch wrestling is going to recognize you and I really doubt that's Dom or Rhea
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LA Knight getting over is the most inexplicable thing to me
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Mainstream famous means you have attracted the mythical "casual viewers" to your company's product, which I don't really see either (or both) Dom or Rhea as having done Also: Domorrhea cha-cha-cha *Beavis and Butt-Head laughter*
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Julio Cruz posted:you and I have extremely different definitions of the term "mainstream famous" For wrestling I assume anyone who my non-wrestling friends ask me about unprompted is blowing up. I've heard a lot about Rhea lately.
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someone on the street that doesnt watch wrestling might be aware of rey mysterio so they might have vaguely heard that his son wrestles too
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do bad bunny fans remember who rhea and dom are
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People I know who don't watch wrestling definitely asked me "yo who's THAT" when seeing Rhea for the first time. I have no trouble believing she could break into mainstream awareness if she hasn't already.
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I'm not sure even Roman Reigns is legit mainstream famous let alone Rhea and Dom.
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rhea is mainstream famous now because of her ig stories
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Really Technically no one is mainstream famous anymore but if you do good TikTok numbers that's similar
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yea ok posted:rhea is mainstream famous now because of the iggy, or the office
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Gang I got some good news. Next week Raw Underground is back...on NXT!
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Dana Brooke just had the most cursed match on NXT with Cora Jade. It had a fake knee injury to try and garner sympathy for Dana. It backfired horribly. Had a stretcher job where the audience actively rooted for Cora to beat her up more. And during a single leg boston crab, the audience was demanding Dana tap out. Eventually the ref just ended the match, giving the win to Cora. e: Gable Steveson is on NXT now and got absolutely no reaction lmao DarkstarIV fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Jun 21, 2023 |
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So they spent like 3 or 4 years drafting Gable to Raw every year even though he was never going to show up and then he finally shows up and he's just on NXT anyway
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DarkstarIV posted:e: Gable Steveson is on NXT now and got absolutely no reaction lmao Solution: change his name to pete dunne
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I think every time he has shown up it's been just like tonight's appearance. Backstage, quick speech to someone and disappear Also, it's Lash Legend match time! I'm sure DarkstarIV is thrilled
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DarkstarIV posted:Dana Brooke just had the most cursed match on NXT with Cora Jade. You forgot the part where Cora was gonna put Dana in a figure 4 but forgot how to do it so just did the single leg crab instead
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mooseinfants posted:You forgot the part where Cora was gonna put Dana in a figure 4 but forgot how to do it so just did the single leg crab instead Wow Shawn Michaels really is teaching them everything he knows
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zetamind2000 posted:Solution: change his name to pete dunne Do you know how long that would take!?
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Yeah I've seen people bring up Rhea in non-wrestling Discord servers because of her IG and basically every single person thinks she's hot and want to see more She's well on her way to mainstream stardom. I wouldn't say she's there just yet but I think in due time she'll be mainstream
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Codependent Poster posted:Yeah I've seen people bring up Rhea in non-wrestling Discord servers because of her IG and basically every single person thinks she's hot and want to see more Oh poo poo, is she gonna wrestle Syuri?
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Congrats to Rhea for some people online thinking she's hot, but even on the front of "attractive woman with a social media following" she has half as many Instagram followers as Charlotte Flair, who is absolutely not mainstream famous. Zero wrestlers who rose to prominence after the early Ruthless Aggression era are anywhere close to being mainstream famous
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xbilkis posted:Congrats to Rhea for some people online thinking she's hot, but even on the front of "attractive woman with a social media following" she has half as many Instagram followers as Charlotte Flair, who is absolutely not mainstream famous. there are people who are surprised when they learn that Dave Bautista was a wrestler
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