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DeepDickPizza posted:I saw some of the Cody/Punk promo while I was wrapping up at work. It was pretty good, by WWE standards. Wasn't the completely lifeless schlock most WWE I've seen recently is. damning with faint praise
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If you didn't think that promo was good seek help
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RBX posted:If you didn't think that promo was good seek help It was good, but Big Coffin Hunter posted:damning with faint praise
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https://twitter.com/FAR_5222/status/1749633545998344431?s=20 It's pretty good. His debut stunk, but Punk is much better when he actually has someone to promo to. And the company is rear end, but these two are pros.
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Let me edit It was good, but... I'm sorry, it's just lifeless as hell and doesn't actually feel like the top of what either of these weird passionate fuckers can do but they're holding back due to scripting in the company fashion while one needs money and the other needs to keep running after the promotion flown in front of his face. Big Coffin Hunter fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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Yeah that wasn't like terrible but it didn't convince me that either of them meant it or actually had skin in the game.
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It being lifeless, rehearsed, quiet is what makes it good. That's what workers are supposed to do.
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Punk's end is delivered pretty good but lmao at whoever wrote him to say he's the one who can separate business from personal
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DeepDickPizza posted:https://twitter.com/FAR_5222/status/1749633545998344431?s=20 
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I feel for that frog.
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DeepDickPizza posted:https://twitter.com/FAR_5222/status/1749633545998344431?s=20 It's mid, but mid is good in HGH's WWE
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The problem for me is that a showdown in a 30-man match is a weak setup for a 1v1 promo like this. I get that there's an aspect of "Only one of us can win a main event in WrestleMania from this," but the thing is, that isn't really true — there are gonna be two main events, and the average fan expectation is that both men are going to end up in one of them separately, so those stakes aren't really there. Both of them are playing face, so for the better part of 14 minutes you're getting really tepid material like "I'm going to throw you out of the Royal Rumble if I have to" — drat, no poo poo, you're planning on trying to win the match you're entering? The Dusty backstory is some perfunctory "We have shoot history" that people love to lean on these days, but "Dusty told me to watch out for you in developmental and you were fine" is super loving boring backstory. Eventually (8+ minutes in) it heats up a little with the "I'm more American Dream than you" "I'm more CM Punk than you", but the transition to get there is clunky. Punk is talking in circles and it feels like he loses his place and has to reset at one point; you have him saying "I didn't see you as a nepo baby, in fact having your father's last name was a burden" both before and after he's saying "I didn't have a famous dad UNLIKE YOU!!". Cody's bit is a more polished but less fun version of the promo he cut two years ago in AEW. Punk's bit about Cody having the full CM Punk experience when a bigger star waltzes in to steal his spot is the strongest part of the promo by far, but ultimately it ends without feeling like you've put all that much more heat on the prospect of them interacting in the Royal Rumble than you already did by putting the words "CM Punk" "Cody Rhodes" and "Royal Rumble" in the same sentence. We already knew only one of them could win, we already knew they were big stars. Without them having to eventually settle things 1v1, there's no sense that you're actually going to get any big payoff where one meaningfully comes out on top of the other. Whoever loses the Rumble is just going to be seen as The Guy Who's Obviously Winning At Elimination Chamber xbilkis fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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Y'all are trying really hard, I commend you.
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Hogan changes the booking of the rumble mid-match so he only gets pulled under the ropes. This results in one of his legs being pulled off Zack Gowen style but he still makes it back into the ring to smirk and roll his eyes at Cody/Punk cutting a victory promo.
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Very polite audience for that Punk/Cody promo. Was this filmed in Japan?
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DeepDickPizza posted:https://twitter.com/FAR_5222/status/1749633545998344431?s=20 They’re both losers sadly. Big fat losers who should be blown up by a laser or have heads cut off by laser. Just my 2c
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RBX posted:Y'all are trying really hard, I commend you. RBX posted:AEW has Edge who can't even bare to look at the hard cam side because it's always fuckin empty and people are actually wondering "WhY wOuLd AnYoNe SiGn WiTh WWE????". Not every wrestler cares about doing heatless "bangers" in front of nobody or being friends with unfunny cringe California dudes.
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DeepDickPizza posted:https://twitter.com/FAR_5222/status/1749633545998344431?s=20 it'd be a good promo in a company i'd want to invest time and energy into but unfortunately it's for the stamford supermax
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edge dealt with that like his whole career lol
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Congratulations to new member of the TKO Board of Directors, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
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The Punk/Cody promo was good, I liked it
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RBX posted:Y'all are trying really hard, I commend you. Glad someone is willing to Stand Up For WWE™
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ThePariah posted:Congratulations to new member of the TKO Board of Directors, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Does this make him Triple H's boss?
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You know someone's a true WWE fan when they use the phrase "heatless bangers" as an insult earnestly.
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The Rock is becoming Vince McMahon.
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ThePariah posted:Congratulations to new member of the TKO Board of Directors, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Lol he uses "having a seat at the table" in the article.
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quote:According to sources with knowledge of the deal, it is valued at at least $400 million per year and is believed to run for more than five years. By comparison, sources also say WWE’s current five-year deal for “Raw” with NBCUniversal is worth approximately $250-260 million per year.
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Netflix is actually going to air something once a week instead of insisting they tape eight weeks worth of episodes to release at once?
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I was told Punk and Zaslav were going to stick the knife in Toney Khan's back and WBD was going to pick up Raw.
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