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What tribe are you supporting?
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Team Raw 2 2.30%
Team Smackdown 17 19.54%
It's the same company, Jerusalem :rolleyes: 68 78.16%
Total: 87 votes
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Sanguinia
Jan 1, 2012

~Everybody wants to be a cat~
~Because a cat's the only cat~
~Who knows where its at~

If Sami and Owens are on the men's singles team, I may never stop laughing.

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Sanguinia
Jan 1, 2012

~Everybody wants to be a cat~
~Because a cat's the only cat~
~Who knows where its at~

tweet my meat posted:

Elias always brings out the most entertaining commentary and that guitar shot finish is always exciting.

Ain't he great?

Sanguinia
Jan 1, 2012

~Everybody wants to be a cat~
~Because a cat's the only cat~
~Who knows where its at~

Spiderdrake posted:

I actually kinda wonder if there's a way to end that match that actually accomplishes their goals. Obviously that wasn't it.

Not the way they built the match. To be reductive about it, the only way they could have gotten what they wanted is if fans wanted Roman to win, or be unsure as to who they wanted to win going in and then rely on the match performance to win them over to Roman's side. That was never going to happen because they made Cena an audience surrogate with the specific criticisms he levied during the build. By saying "what we're all thinking," John gave the audience what they wanted, and he did it every week leading up to the match. This meant when he lost gave Roman the post-match RESPEK, the message was those criticisms were wrong. It was inevitable the audience would reject it because they don't think they're wrong and thus can only interpret the storyline telling them so as WWE insulting their tastes and intelligence, just as they have interpreted almost every part of Roman's push from Rumble 2015 forward, if not earlier.

They needed a totally different build, or they needed Roman's actions during the build to put the lie to Cena's words BEFORE they fought (which arguably they were trying to do, but failed at horribly if that was the case). Having Cena lose and raise Roman's hand was the wrestling equivalent of Telling rather than Showing.

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