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Dot Net Member Adam Dunn attended WWE Raw in St. Louis, Missouri and sent the following report.

Half the upper deck was tarped off. I've never seen that before.

The crowd was red hot to start the show. Lot's of noise for the Bray Wyatt and John Cena opening segment, which came across simply amazing live.

The Uso's winning was very well received too.

Either I've gotten old or they have turned up the audio on the shows to deafening levels. I never remember it being that loud for the dozen or so events I have been too. Every commercial break and entrance theme was like a rock concert.

The crowd was dead until Daniel Bryan came out, and then they were dead for the remainder of the show. There was just an empty feeling in the arena with simply too much filler.

Overall, it was probably the worst wrestling show I've been to. And that includes a godawful Smackdown in 2004 where Josh Matthews was in the main event. Unless someone gives me ringside seats, I won't be at the Survivor Series in November.

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But, here is where it broke down for me: with the dozen plus colorful characters by Rose’s side–-I couldn’t take my eyes off of the “Easter Bunny”. I don’t know, he was just mesmerizing to me. Maybe it’s a TRIX fetish from back in the day–-who knows what goes through my twisted mind any more.

HulkaMatt posted:

I agree, WWE should book WrestleMania to be a joint show with a place like All Japan in the less than 2k seat arena, Korakuen Hall.

Shine posted:

sticklefifer posted:

Why not just burn them in that case.

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Wrestling Forum posted:

After witnessing the mediocrity of Nikki Cross and Ruby Riot, I'm inclined to declare that NXT Women's match a disgrace of the highest order. Up until Bayley's title reign, I looked forward to NXT Women's matches the most at Takeovers because they were traditionally one of the best, if not THE best match on the card. Since Bayley's reign and transitioning into Asuka's, the matches have been average to good. Tonight's match was a travesty. I'm disgusted that these two emo goth girls were allowed to show themselves on a live special with that half assed performance. It's like they were selected because none of the performance center girls are believable, (mostly due to the stupidity of the booking team) so they threw in the girls with the most indy cred. That's not going to cut anymore.

We knew this would be a filler match, so why not spend the last month building a PC girl instead of wasting everyone's time? It's like they want to rush Ruby Riot so she can siphon off what's left of Paige's fanbase. There are plenty of girls who have been sitting on simmer for at least a year that they could've used to put on an equal or potentially greater performance than what we witnessed tonight. I don't care if Mandy Rose is a heel. She's made the most noticeable improvements and people want to see her pushed. Use her. Build Liv Morgan. Work with her on promos. Invest in your current talent instead of running to the indies everytime people stop giving a gently caress about NXT, otherwise, this cycle is destined to repeat itself forever.

Baron Corbin, Luke Harper and Erick Rowan should form a Biker Gang called "The Lone Wolves" and hospitalize the GM Daniel Bryan posted:

These guys are wreaking havoc on Smackdown Live and cause chaos by interfering in matches to cut their promos and ruining title matches just for shits and giggles. Corbin threatens to cash his MITB contract with these ruthless motorcycle buddies on his side for intimidation.
So Bryan says if you disobey the rules one more time you're suspended without pay. So they drag him kicking and screaming into a room and take turns beating up on Daniel. The report is Bryan has to go to hospital for internal bleeding and physical/emotional trauma. The rumor is they took turns raping him.
Now nobody is going to gently caress with the The Lone Wolves.

Bryan Jericho posted:

What complete crap. Having people on the ramp applauding? GTFO. The women are thrilles because maybe the division can get back to actually meaning something and not have to deal with this "Oh Asuka is undefeated" BS. Should have lost it to Ember before she left, but nope she just got to make every woman down there look awful and then leave. Great job there HHH. Hope she loses her first Raw match to Dana Brooke.

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PC barbies and WWE agents limiting her doesn't cause her to be one of the worst selling veterans in the whole company, they don't cause her offense to be 70% kicks and 25% rear end attacks, they might have caused her kicks to be weaker, but it's her fault for not adjusting her offense if they don't let her kick the way she's used to. Kairi is faster, crisper, a better storyteller and has a more interesting and versatile offense, Kairi's going to be wowing people while Asuka is still throwing those same 4 weak, sloppy kicks, doing 5 rear end attacks per match and no selling everything like the Terminator.

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Her bumping was tremendous but her selling was atrocious, rewatch the match and see how quickly she popped up after every one of Ember's impact moves, look at her facials and how she seems more tired than pained, notice how she takes repeated shots to a body part and never hold that part until after she wins at which point she always holds her stomach.

WadeBartender posted:

Is it because they dont like Asuka because im gonna be completely honest, you're starting to make me not like her as well

Feminism's effect on WWE disgusts me posted:

It's bad enough we get the "women's revolution" garbage shoved down our throats but now we see Carmella having James Ellsworth on a dog leash, acting like a dog.

It's funny how in a PG era, that is acceptable but there is no way in hell that would fly if the roles were reversed. Let's see how well that would go if someone had Bayley on a leash, treating her like a dog barking on all fours. Yeah, I know Trish did that but that was the attitude era, before SJW cucks warped society.


There is equality for you in 2017. gently caress this planet.

Maxwell Lord posted:

So is the forum normally that loving regressive or what

Jerusalem posted:

How the gently caress does anybody watch the Wonder Woman movie and take away from it that it was a tits and rear end film?

Gaz-L posted:

You can't just say that poo poo in this thread, man, let's see this idiocy!

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I find it hard to believe Asuka would hold the title for a year. Are they really are hung up on this non English speaking woman? Interesting how the match between Asuka and Alexa, the audience gave barely a hoot on Asuka winning. Now she's everyone's darling and savor.


I'm starting to believe Asuka thinks this whole thing is real. WWE management doesn't have the heart to tell her it's not real that your winning all the time. Not only dosen't she speak it, probably dosen't understand English either. Watch her with the Miz. She looks at him like he's a pinwheel. Didn't understand how to sell that the Miz was making fun of her. I was laughing at her complete disconnect to what the Miz was saying.

Marquis de Pyro posted:

I mean, she does speak English, right? I didn't imagine the times that she did that? Soooo, even outside of the argument being stupid, it's not true.

ShootaBoy posted:

What, has TJP done something lovely or something? I don't bother looking at dirtsheets (or the cruiserweights ) so I only ever find out about this poo poo at random times.