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Ganso Bomb posted:I mean Punk is a giant boob and idiot so I can see a surface level comparison to Warrior, but Warrior was also a hateful bigot so there’s a pretty wide chasm between the two. I feel like his bigotry only became a ‘problem’ (in the sense of rightfully impacting his public image because everyone realised he was a huge piece of poo poo) after he’d already retired from the ring, so in the sense of “guy throws away millions of dollars in potential earnings because he can’t get over himself” he’s very much in the same mould as Punk.
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It's especially funny considering how hard Punk buried Nash as being only in it for himself and not putting over younger talent earlier in his career.
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History Comes Inside! posted:I feel like his bigotry only became a ‘problem’ (in the sense of rightfully impacting his public image because everyone realised he was a huge piece of poo poo) after he’d already retired from the ring, so in the sense of “guy throws away millions of dollars in potential earnings because he can’t get over himself” he’s very much in the same mould as Punk. And there's a reasonable amount of evidence that he didn't make the change from "rear end in a top hat" to "bigoted rear end in a top hat" until he retired and remarried. Comparing Punk to 1998-era Warrior makes sense.
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Chris James 2 posted:Again, I thought this thread was for bad takes It is the context of CM Punk making GBS threads on Kevin Nash in WWE years ago and now... Well, we all know how it went for Pepsi Man
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Lurks With Wolves posted:And there's a reasonable amount of evidence that he didn't make the change from "rear end in a top hat" to "bigoted rear end in a top hat" until he retired and remarried. Comparing Punk to 1998-era Warrior makes sense. For sheer entertainment value I think it's a much bigger loss not seeing what would have happened with Warrior in WWF during the Attitude era than it is not seeing Punk anyone in AEW in 2023.
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Okay I get that these absolute weirdos love to snitch-tag Cornette and Dutch and all the other weird Anti-AEW guys in the industry but why is he tagging AEW, Jericho and FTR Bald?
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Drakkel posted:Okay I get that these absolute weirdos love to snitch-tag Cornette and Dutch and all the other weird Anti-AEW guys in the industry but why is he tagging AEW, Jericho and FTR Bald? Well Bald is a Punk guy, AEW to wave the "truth" in their face and jokingly I guess Jericho is a conspiracy guy. It's funny to tag Hey Hey in it because Conrad is all about that sort of thing.
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Drakkel posted:Okay I get that these absolute weirdos love to snitch-tag Cornette and Dutch and all the other weird Anti-AEW guys in the industry but why is he tagging AEW, Jericho and FTR Bald? Probably the the "Notice me senpai" thing. It's like when specific people that slag off AEW most of the time, yet the moment they actually get a response from someone actually there like when TK responded to Alfred and Bowens added to that Ibou guy they become so polite and complimentary towards them. And then the moment they don''t get another response it's back to slagging them off again.
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I'm currently writing reviews for a film festival to which I'm given access to screening tickets in exchange for reviews/coverage (not necessarily positive, obviously). I guess I'm in the pocket of Big A24 and Netflix, dang
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Guillermus posted:https://twitter.com/righteouspunk/status/1700952159360029038?t=sbmhEkhGCCB-DEKIeo2Xcg&s=19 "what if Christian made a dead dad joke about Chris Benoit" is this month's "why the gently caress would you fantasy book that" that makes you glad they're just fantasy bookers; see also, Alvarez thinking Adam Cole should've hate crimed MJF in the All In main event
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TinTower posted:see also, Alvarez thinking Adam Cole should've hate crimed MJF in the All In main event excuse me what
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mooseinfants posted:excuse me what After MJF told the story about bullies throwing quarters at him and calling him Jew boy, Alvarez suggested that Cole do his heel turn by hitting him with a loaded punch using a roll of quarters. I think it was more a ‘didn’t think that through at all’ situation than an ‘Alvarez thinks antisemitism is just good poo poo pal’ one, potentially fuelled by vague memories of someone else doing the roll of quarters loaded fist recently in AEW (I wanna say it was Juice?).
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mooseinfants posted:excuse me what MJF did a story about having quarters thrown at him when he was on his high school football team by the other players and verbally abused for being Jewish. Alvarez wanted the main event of All In to end with Cole turning on MJF by hitting him with a roll of quarters and then Cole, Britt, and Roddy becoming a new heel faction. I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm glad we got the ending we did.
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Oh right I remember that now. I guess I'd forgotten since Alvarez hasn't spent the month since insisting that idea was the best one ever like he usually does with his ideas. Curious as to where Deonna thinks she's gonna end up when her Impact contract runs out. She's talented but it doesn't really seem to me like there's room in either WWE or AEW for her. mooseinfants fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Sep 10, 2023 |
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Not defending Alvarez, but he was also far from the only person to suggest this in wrestling media; the guys from...I think WrestleTalk were the first ones I heard say it, and Bully Ray and Tommy Dreamer threw the same idea out on Busted Open. It was terrible every time.
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Adam Cole also has priors tbf https://youtu.be/Rl0YdDVfLhQ
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I like the idea of Tony "randomly deciding" to buy ROH. Like it wasn't even a thing he had considered but he got bored and called up Dave Honor and one day and made him an offer.
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Also ROH was going out of business, she wouldn't have even had anywhere to be champion of if he hadn't bought it
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bebaloorpabopalo posted:luckily this tweet was posted as images and they stayed cached I like when this comes up and someone points out they were paid by an employer to go or expensed the trip as part of their business and the dummy says it's still the same as tk comping a ticket, because it wasn't personally paid. As if in their mind reporters are shelling out the cash to buy their own news vans and paying for gas to cover something
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mooseinfants posted:Oh right I remember that now. I guess I'd forgotten since Alvarez hasn't spent the month since insisting that idea was the best one ever like he usually does with his ideas. I doubt she'd want to return to the WWE anyway after last time.
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TinTower posted:https://twitter.com/aewfulwrestling/status/1700277064803168464?s=46 lmao at this take immediately after AEW revealed Bryan Danielson is part of creative.
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I also love the idea that you had to have been a huge star to know how to book. Lots of great wrestlers were terrible bookers.
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Just to build on this timeline: April 2018: Deonna Purrazzo is offered and accepts a WWE developmental contract. May 13, 2018: Deonna wrestles her last ROH branded show to date, losing to Kelly Klein, pulls out of scheduled ROH appearances including the first All In. April 15, 2020: Deonna is released by WWE May 26, 2020: Deonna debuts for Impact Wrestling after signing a multi-year deal August 14, 2021: Deonna beats Faby Apache to become the AAA Reina de Reinas Champion September 12, 2021: Rok-C wins a tournament to become the inaugural ROH Women's Champion October 27, 2021: Ring of Honor announces it will be "going on hiatus" after Final Battle 2021 December 12, 2021: Rok-C defeats Willow Nightingale at Final Battle to retain the ROH title, is confronted by Deonna to set up a title vs. title match January 9, 2022: Deonna beats Rok-C to win both the ROH and AAA women's titles on an episode of Impact January 10, 2022: ROH announces their next card will be Supercard of Honor XV over Wrestlemania weekend on April 1, 2022. No matches are announced. January 27, 2022: Deonna starts defending the ROH title on various Impact shows February 27, 2022: Rok-C wrestles her last indie match and cancels upcoming indie dates March 2, 2022: Tony Khan announces that he is buying Ring of Honor. March 10, 2022: Impact announces that Deonna Purrazzo will be at their April 1 "Multiverse of Matches" show issuing an open challenge for either her ROH or AAA belt. March 17, 2022: Rok-C is announced as signing a WWE developmental contract April 1, 2022 (part 1): Since Deonna is not available for this show, Mercedes Martinez and Willow Nightingale have a match for the interim ROH championship. Mercedes wins. April 1, 2022 (part 2): Deonna's open challenge is answered by Faby Apache and she successfully defends the AAA title against Faby. April 23, 2022: Taya Valkyrie beats Deonna for the AAA Reina de Reinas title in the second match of the card of "Rebellion 2022" May 4, 2022: Tony Khan's purchase of ROH is finalized, clearing the way for ROH branded matches to appear on Dynamite. May 4, 2022: Mercedes Martinez defeats Deonna Purrazzo in the main event of AEW Dynamite to unify the 'real' and interim ROH women's titles So I guess in this person's story, Deonna was mad that she won the belt after ROH shut down but before Tony Khan bought the company? And they created an interim champion because the company (not ROH) that she had a long term contract with kept her off of the ROH show on Wrestlemania weekend? And she was pre-emptively mad knowing that a month in the future, she'd drop the belt in the main event of a show?
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Yeah because Tiny Con engineered the whole thing, duh
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Yeah, you read The Death of WCW and it’s amazing how many times post-1997 where the end result was “and then Hogan and/or Nash then decided that didn’t work for them, brother, so they changed the ending”. I think the only stinker where Hogan and Nash weren’t involved was the Arquette fiasco, which was mostly down to the suits leaning hard on Russo and Bischoff to promote Ready to Rumble and not listening to sense from anyone, including Arquette.
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Deonna should go to Stardom and be in Club Venus for a while
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Elephant Ambush posted:Deonna should go to Stardom and be in Club Venus for a while That's probably not happening.
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Pylons posted:That's probably not happening. I know but I want it to happen
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The Bucks and Meltzer are backstage, taking Percocets right now, and laughing at all of us marks who didn't get on this grift train.
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It's true, here's the proof
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Joey McChrist posted:big sexy is once again correct
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Endless Mike posted:It's true, here's the proof much to think about
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https://nodq.com/opinions/time-for-aew-to-change-wholesale-five-steps/
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got one paragraph into their solutions and they cited Big Swole yeah nah i clicked the authors name and wow he managed to even make a memorial bad WWE opinion too https://nodq.com/opinions/its-time-for-rhea-ripley-to-go-solo-away-from-judgment-day/ if you know WWE this is such a loving dumb idea its insane
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