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Ozz81 posted:Knowing WWE, they'd have done vignettes with Cara as a superhero, doing all sorts of crazy parkour flippy poo poo through Mexican 'hoods and taking down bad guys. Which, in a weird way, sounds kinda cool...until you realize WWE has made a habit of loving up good things over the last few years. This right here is fantastic. This new dude Avenero is it? Have him doing a similar thing; Steal a lollipop from a toddler, kicking sand castles over on the beach, pulling chairs away when someone is about to sit down and I'm sold.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 15:58 |
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Remember when they gave the Highlanders what felt like months of vignettes building them up and did nothing with them? That was really weird, was that their plan all along?
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 16:01 |
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Same with poor Spivey as Waylon Mercy. I thought that character really had legs.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 16:08 |
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Gatts posted:I think it could Cody who seems to prove he's worth moving up a slot and I don't know how much he can stay in the midcard or Wade because he owns and would do magnificent things with a MitB briefcase and has shown he deserves to be in the main event. I initially thought it could have been Cody, but if his feud with Bryan continues then Bryan will be essentially feuding with the champion and I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon, if ever. I wish they'd give him a gimmick besides "bland guy" 
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 16:18 |
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flashy_mcflash posted:Same with poor Spivey as Waylon Mercy. I thought that character really had legs. They did nothing with him because he received a career-ending injury during a match with Nash.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 16:20 |
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Ozz81 posted:Knowing WWE, they'd have done vignettes with Cara as a superhero, doing all sorts of crazy parkour flippy poo poo through Mexican 'hoods and taking down bad guys. Which, in a weird way, sounds kinda cool...until you realize WWE has made a habit of loving up good things over the last few years. Mr McMahon & His rear end vs Sin Cara y Sin Culo?
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 16:30 |
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flashy_mcflash posted:Same with poor Spivey as Waylon Mercy. I thought that character really had legs. Imagine my surprise when I learned that Andy from Tough Enough is apparently cousins with Dan Spivey.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 16:34 |
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Wouldn't Sin Culo be someone afflicted with that no-rear end condition that Hank had on King of the Hill? BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE AMAZING
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 16:35 |
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If there was a list of all of the things WWE has screwed up after a promising start since WCW died it would probably be really, really long and amazing.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 16:36 |
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Mr. Carlisle posted:If there was a list of all of the things WWE has screwed up after a promising start since WCW died it would probably be really, really long and amazing. Wouldn't it just be easier to make a list of things that WWE has gotten right?
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 16:50 |
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Fushin posted:Wouldn't it just be easier to make a list of things that WWE has gotten right? Easier yes - but not nearly as fun to read and laugh at. Or be depressed about. Either way.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 16:56 |
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Mr. Carlisle posted:Easier yes - but not nearly as fun to read and laugh at. It'd be scary the amount of times a "WWE did it right" and "WWE did it wrong" are within minutes of each other. Right: ECW re-forms during Invasion Wrong: ECW reveals it is owned by Stephanie McMahon and now a part of the Alliance Right: Christian wins World Heavyweight Title Wrong: Christian drops WHT after a few days Right: NXT guys come in and destroy the WWE Wrong: Daniel Bryan fired the next day
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 17:09 |
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It's scary how long that list would be overall. With almost every single guy on the roster you can come up with two or more times they've had something going (or at least started) and completely hosed it up. Making money in spite of himself indeed.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 17:12 |
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Right: Nexus destroy the WWE set. Wrong: Nexus are chased out of the arena by the likes of Santino and Mark Henry.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 17:19 |
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Right: A great worker with weak mic-skills is paired with the biggest heel in the company to rebuild his heat Wrong: Angle ends in an anti-climax with no face turn and the relationship is never mentioned again Swags 
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 17:22 |
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Sugar Blaster posted:Right: Nexus destroy the WWE set. Isn't that when Mark Henry actually ran past one of the Nexus members as he gave chase? Still funny to think about but not in a good way. Edit: Haha, he laps like three of them. So awkward. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSvDKIc0ekw
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 17:23 |
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Sugar Blaster posted:Right: Nexus destroy the WWE set. And Sheamus, and Randy Orton, and John Cena, and R-Truth, and William Regal, and Jerry Lawler, and Evan Bourne, and possibly others that I couldn't see. So it was 7 on (at least) 9 with one side having Orton, Cena, and Sheamus, and guys like Henry and Regal are certainly good enough to run off guys like Darren Young or David Otunga. If they hadn't had the locker room clear out and run Nexus off, we would've had people complaining about how stupid it was that nobody else came out. It made sense to have this happen and then have Nexus be quicker and more selective in their attacks going forward.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 17:37 |
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Sugar Blaster posted:Right: Nexus destroy the WWE set. Can we please stop talking about this angle as if John Cena, Edge, Randy Orton, and Big Show weren't also part of it Yes it was stupid to have them get chased off by ANYONE a mere week after debuting but it's not like it was ONLY the jobber squad out there.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 17:37 |
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Tyma posted:Aaron Aguilera is an invincible killing machine from Up North I'm sorry, wrong Aquilera. This is Jesus, Carlito's short lived bodyguard who stabbed Cena.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 17:43 |
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Hirams Bitch posted:And Sheamus, and Randy Orton, and John Cena, and R-Truth, and William Regal, and Jerry Lawler, and Evan Bourne, and possibly others that I couldn't see. So it was 7 on (at least) 9 with one side having Orton, Cena, and Sheamus, and guys like Henry and Regal are certainly good enough to run off guys like Darren Young or David Otunga. If they hadn't had the locker room clear out and run Nexus off, we would've had people complaining about how stupid it was that nobody else came out. It made sense to have this happen and then have Nexus be quicker and more selective in their attacks going forward. Agreed. The issue wasn't who they ran them out but that they were run out. It made sense when SD united immediately to ensure that Nexus didn't have a chance to take over their show because they saw what selfish individualism did to Raw. But Raw was proven to be broken up in cliques with guys only caring about themselves and so many of them caring more about stabbing a guy in the back than saving him. Nexus had power because they exposed that on Raw. They had strength in numbers because nobody was willing to co-exist. The same thing happened in WCW with the nWo. There was over 100 people on the WCW roster and the nWo at its biggest was less than 20 but you couldn't rely on Ric Flair to not stab Sting in the back.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 18:21 |
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Lone Rogue posted:but you couldn't rely on Ric Flair to not stab Sting in the back. Well that is like trying to domesticate a tiger. They might seem like a sweet pet but sooner or later they're going to eat you.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 18:30 |
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Rumor going around is that Jerry Lynn beat Abyss for the X-Division title at last night's Impact taping
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 22:17 |
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That's not in the spoilers that I read. Unless they did some on Wednesday?
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 22:18 |
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The Wise Teen posted:I initially thought it could have been Cody, but if his feud with Bryan continues then Bryan will be essentially feuding with the champion and I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon, if ever. I could see them just jobbing out Ted to Bryan while Cody does the "I've got a briefcase nah nah nuh nah nah" thing with Orton.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 22:26 |
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ALso Matt Striker stared at me and we made awkward eye contact. I don't know why.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2011 22:43 |
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Rick posted:ALso Matt Striker stared at me and we made awkward eye contact. I don't know why. You and him are soul mates now. Congratulations.
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Rick posted:ALso Matt Striker stared at me and we made awkward eye contact. I don't know why. Are you a mound of ebony flesh? Because he's a big fan of those.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2011 00:58 |
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What WWE did right: Giving Miz the WWE title What WWE did wrong: Making Miz look like the worst champion since Rey Mysterio's first title run
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| # ? Jul 1, 2011 01:30 |
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Point: Miz is loving awful in the ring and can't carry others to a good match. He's a star regardless and I suppose to the WWE the ring stuff doesn't matter anymore.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2011 01:41 |
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SalTheBard posted:What WWE did wrong: Giving Miz the WWE title Fixed that for you.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2011 01:58 |
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Let it go already.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2011 02:13 |
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Hirams Bitch posted:Fixed that for you. this gimmick is the TL Hopper of PSP
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| # ? Jul 1, 2011 02:16 |
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Gatts posted:Point: Miz is loving awful in the ring and can't carry others to a good match. He's a star regardless and I suppose to the WWE the ring stuff doesn't matter anymore. you suppose??? have you heard of Great Khali or post-2008 John Cena.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2011 02:17 |
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I read the Impact spoilers and realized this is the second time I somehow completely missed Steiner turning heel in TNA. Seriously when did it happen 
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| # ? Jul 1, 2011 10:17 |
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To me, Steiner is always a heel. Just sometimes he is a heel to other heels which makes him more babyface-ish than usual.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2011 11:50 |
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He turned heel on Matt Morgan awhile back for the usual Steiner reasons. "You think you're hot poo poo, I'm the Big Poppa Pump." Then last week he faced Bubba in BFG match and Bubba cheated to win, Steiner went after him backstage and Bubba offered him a spot in Immortal to save his rear end. Steiner accepted it this week to go double heel, I guess.
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triplexpac posted:To me, Steiner is always a heel. Just sometimes he is a heel to other heels which makes him more babyface-ish than usual. I kinda look at him like an early Stone Cold, or maybe an old-school Jake Roberts - there's really no clear good or bad boundary, he just kind of does what he wants, regardless of reaction. I wonder if he uses his Steinermath to figure out the probability of getting boos compared to cheers in order to sway him towards being good or bad based on the person he's feuding with and the town TNA has their show in.
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Scott Steiner turned into Scott Steiner.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2011 20:41 |
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STAC Goat posted:He turned heel on Matt Morgan awhile back for the usual Steiner reasons. "You think you're hot poo poo, I'm the Big Poppa Pump." Then last week he faced Bubba in BFG match and Bubba cheated to win, Steiner went after him backstage and Bubba offered him a spot in Immortal to save his rear end. Steiner accepted it this week to go double heel, I guess. Scott Steiner swerved himself, we are through the looking glass.
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DannoMack posted:Well he specifically said that "if CM Punk walks out of Chicago with the title you're fired" which means punk COULD win, then the mitb cash in could happen, as some of speculated. The Allstate Arena is in Rosemont and not Chicago. Punk could win the title and never step foot IN Chicago.
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