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El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
I could hate any gimmick if they give it a lovely name and have Michael Cole overexplain it constantly and they book them to cheese their way to a title and then lose every match pathetically

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El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

Lid posted:

Adam Cole has lost his passion for wrestling and is off to make movies like CM Punk and Dean Ambrose

He's just going to be a Twitch streamer from now on like Rusev

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

Vandar posted:

You idiots that worked in 2014 when people still hated Cena but the dude is popular now! This isn't going to make anyone happy!

Vince: Wait, what does wrestling have to do with making people happy?

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

Davros1 posted:

SPOILER:

https://www.pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.php?id=150045

WWE has confirmed that Becky Lynch is now a heel. Despite everyone cheering for them.

OK, someone has a magic copy of TEW2020 that takes over real wrestling promotions as they play it and is intentionally making the worst possible choices for WWE as a deliberate joke

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
When I read 'Cole' I still think of Michael Cole so if everyone could type ADAMCOLEBAYBAY in full each time they refer to him

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
The high water mark of NXT for me is Owens powerbombing Zayn on the apron

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

Blaise330 posted:

Which time

The first time, but they're all highlights

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

This is the ugliest poo poo, god drat, WWE is usually at least good at making stuff look slick

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

karmicknight posted:

It's such a weird affectation. Like it's the lazy version of an already weird concept.

Was it ever good? Like, Piper had a good one, right?

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
Annoyed that NXT wasn't a funny disaster, but hilarious that Triple H will be further humiliated

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

KungFu Grip posted:

Breakker looks like a loving typo every time i see it lmao

It reads like it should rhyme with 'squeaker'.

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

xbilkis posted:

This vignette ruled. It was this guy talking about the psychological advantage of being a professional poker player and how he brought those skills to the wrestling ring, but all the B-roll footage was just him in a lovely vest and one other faceless person at a big table in this void of a room where the guy had to deal the cards himself

WWF shotgun spraying gimmick ideas is unironically the best strategy for producing (mostly ironically) watchable content

I'm not even against it as a booking philosophy, if it's going to be WWE's new identity, I'd just prefer if it was consistent. But it feels like this style has failed before.

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
Live wrestling is always super fun even when it's bad.

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
They don't make any extra money off of selling more PPVs any more, so how can they milk them for profit? Make the entire event a loving ad for Netflix and Pizza Hut and merch

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
Deception rules, I don't care what anyone else says or correctly points out objective facts

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

The Commie Gobbledygooker is gonna hatch out of that golden egg.

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

Karma Tornado posted:

the best thing about Bad Bunny doing these spots is guys desperately trying to square the circle of him being popular while making their millionth "Vince just heard uh the fuckin Beach Boys for the first time yesterday" posts

I assume Bad Bunny is a WWE fan and he approached them about him doing something, then they Googled his social media numbers and decided to go with it.

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
I fired up watchwrestling to have a curious peek at the Chamber show, and the first thing I see is the lovely CG Roman and I laugh so loving hard as he screams to the heavens and lovely anime speed lines appear behind him

Man, when you're not acclimated to the WWE any more... it's loving weird

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
fuckin logan paul

wwe is truly dead to me

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
I hope whatever he wants from them he gets written into the contract.

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

That feels unbelievable, in a way. I remember watching WCW at that time, and thinking Hogan & co were washed up and over the hill. But Vince has normalized main eventing old geezers to a point where it's just normal now. They're all in their 40s.

Bischoff was right about that. Vince was cutting them off way too young. Hogan was a key part of WCW doing so well years after Vince thought he was too old. Daniels is doing excellent work in his 50's. It's way more common in other countries, it was always this ageist thing Vince had that didn't really make business sense. The WWE's problem is they have no choice but to push older guys.

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
I hope WWE ends the brand split, because it would make everything worse and piss off their television partners

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
How did they never do any "lash out" stuff with Bobby Lashley

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

Fish Of Doom posted:

This whole segment is so wacky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4OV-aeOx0M

When did Joe Gacy go from annoying sjw to supernatural psychopath?

we have bray wyatt at home

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
The Miz deserves to be in the WWE Hall of Fame, in the same way that The Room deserves to be in the Bad Movie Hall of Fame

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
WWE: Dignity for No One

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

DarkstarIV posted:

Everyone pay their respects to THE JUDGEMENT DAY which imploded tonight. And now Rhea and Damien are aligned with Finn. Considering how big of a loser Finn is...yeah probably not a good kayfabe career move for them.

Wow that died immediately

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
lol

lmao

roflmao

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
Creative is all I care about, but hell, that's something. Makes anything else seem more likely.

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

Davros1 posted:

Vince is still in charge of creative, apparently. He's still going to be there daily.

Yeah. The dream is that someone other than Vince takes over creative, and this is not that, but this makes that seem more possible.

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

Lamuella posted:

Austin Theory wakes up, strapped to a chair. Before him an old CRT television flicks into life. It's Vince in a hospital gown, head shaved.

"Hello, kid. You're probably surprised to see me, and possibly wondering why I picked you out all those months ago. It's not the muscles. Anyone can have muscles. It's the strut. You got that McMahon Strut. And when I'm you, you'll have so much more."

The video flicks off, replaced by a shot of a bone china teacup being stirred. Theory feels himself descend into darkness, the real world retreating to a far off square.

He's in the Sunken Place.

Ahh, Vince is an Orokin, and Austin Theory is a Yuvan. Got it.

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

ThePariah posted:

Tanahashi can have the Interim AEW title, Goto should challenge for Interim CEO.

Gedo should. :devil:

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

Tato posted:

It's been a long and winding road, man. Did any of us suspect in 2005 that Kerwin White's affable caddy would still be on WWE programming today? As I've grown and matured throughout the years, I've had a lot of feelings regarding Mr. Ziggler. I've gone from excitement to frustration to boredom and apathy and back around again, over and over as the cycle repeats. When I was a younger, angrier man, I would be upset by the annual Dolph Ziggler return/title picture push. But now I'm reassured by it. Like the chirping of the birds in spring or that first drop of snow in the winter, Ziggler's annual return is a welcome sight in a crazy world.

I still see Dolph Ziggler as emblematic of everything I hate about WWE booking. I don't hate him as a performer or, obviously, a person, but he's got massive go away heat with me as the universal example of the WWE should've been. Dolph Ziggler is an ugly, hateful lie told again and again in the arrogant expectation nobody will ever catch on.

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
Usually "Vince's favourite" doesn't work out as a gimmick, remember when Drew McIntyre was the chosen one?

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

Rarity posted:

Out of time, so say goodbye
What is yours now is mine
I DREAM BROKEN DREAMS I'll dream them for youuuuuuuuuuu

I made this a long time ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-LvQjTCwYw&t=67s

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.

kidcoelacanth posted:

check this one out y'all:

Kevin Done

I loving love this with all my heart

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

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a.lo posted:

Kevin Dunn for the HOF

If that's what it takes

El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
I will totally go back to skipping through the shows to watch the parts I'm interested in if WWE becomes, say, 80% as good as AEW is now.

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El Generico
Feb 3, 2009

Birds revere you and consider you one of their own.

You are welcome in their holy places.
I watched a little Smackdown just to see the Stephanie thing, and then the Street Profits were there, and I was like "Oh, I like them", and then Austin Theory came out, and I was reminded that he's just called 'Theory' now, and I shut it off.

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