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HerraS posted:JBL loved Eddie Guerrero more than any other human being on the planet and has never had problems with lucha dudes and other mexicans, you're getting worked He has problems with universally beloved child of God Mil Mascaras. loving racist.
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I like that not only did JBL lose quickly, but also that his hair stayed immaculate during the match too.
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Jun 28, 2016 01:55
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Because you haven't made one.
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MassRafTer posted:He has problems with universally beloved child of God Mil Mascaras. loving racist. I thought everybody had problems with Mil Mascaras
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Jun 28, 2016 02:02
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Benne posted:I'll admit I might be getting worked here. Still seems a bit weird to me that JBL, who by all accounts had a huge locker room presence and therefore must've had some say in his booking, would let his retirement match be a comedy squash at a Mania. JBL himself said that it was how he wanted to go out. 46 minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqX-TZpG-xk
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Regrettable posted:JBL himself said that it was how he wanted to go out. 46 minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqX-TZpG-xk This answered a lot of my questions, thanks!
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Alakaiser posted:I wonder if they're telling talent in advance who's going where. I could kind of see them pulling a JR-to-Smackdown on New Day and splitting them up. It's an awful idea (especially given Kofi's feelings on the whole thing) but it's exactly the kind of thing I can see someone trying to make happen. I wouldn't be shocked if they put Kofi and Xavier on one show and gave Big E a singles push on the other. I also wouldn't be surprised if both Kofi and Xavier walked. Or add a 4th member and split them up so there's a New Day tag team on both shows and they talk to each other through video promos on the Titantron about how much they miss each other.
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Jun 28, 2016 08:04
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sticklefifer posted:
Is this what making Darren young great again is leading to
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Jun 28, 2016 08:42
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It's funny how JBL's match was seen as appropriately hilarious comeuppance while Daniel Bryan's 18 seconds was seen as a burial.
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if a wrestler I like loses if is a burial ok?
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Alexander Hamilton posted:It's funny how JBL's match was seen as appropriately hilarious comeuppance while Daniel Bryan's 18 seconds was seen as a burial. Haha yeah a guy asking to retire by being squashed and a guy booked to be squashed to kill his heat are totally the same
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NameHurtBrain posted:It was an extension of a storyline. Not exactly a huge one, but it was built up to. Just a minor correction, neither was in the Rumble. JBL was going up against Cena at the show and made sure Michaels wasn't in the Rumble match itself so he could be focused in his corner. It was a great dick move. I was a huge fan of that whole angle. I especially liked how it was bookended well. It all started because of a segment where Charlie Haas -- who was doing impressions at the time -- showed up dressed as JBL to make fun of him to his face. Instead of angrily clotheslining him into oblivion, JBL just went in a weird daze and left the ring, as if saying, "I used to be a champion and now I'm a joke. What the hell happened?" Then after months of using everything he had to be relevant when he needed it the most, he lost to Rey in seconds on the biggest stage and ended up standing there in the exact same daze.
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:Larry Sweeney ICHIBAHN posted:Cena has done twice as many great promos as Pilman ffs Platypus Farm posted:Also, macho man? I mean I love macho, but his promos were just as nonsensical and over-intense as warriors. Hell, I don't even know which one was less intelligible. Also DiBiase should be way closer to the top. MassRafTer posted:He didn't spill some crumbs, he covered the thing in chicken juice and hosed up the gear inside. It was a really stupid, disrespectful thing to do. Big Coffin Hunter posted:i agree but a lot less people are currently familiar with bockwinkel's work than most of the others on that list
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Halloween Jack posted:
They didn't acknowledge who it was, because by that time Benoit was persona non grata.
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Jun 28, 2016 16:43
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sticklefifer posted:I wouldn't be shocked if they put Kofi and Xavier on one show and gave Big E a singles push on the other. I also wouldn't be surprised if both Kofi and Xavier walked. Yeah, I could see them keeping the group together and having ND members from one brand be on the other show in a promo capacity but not a wrestling capacity, and then paint the whole thing as "we found a loophole". Also ghere is legitimately zero reason why you couldn't give Big E a singles run while still part of the New Day. It reeks of Cena-itis to assume that all singles wrestlers must be friendless sad sacks.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:They didn't acknowledge who it was, because by that time Benoit was persona non grata.
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bradzilla posted:Haha yeah a guy asking to retire by being squashed and a guy booked to be squashed to kill his heat are totally the same I was pretty new to wrestling for that whole storyline and I didn't read the sheets or anything but I never felt that Bryan was booked to kill his heat (most of heat at the time was heel heat since he was really good at being a smug vegan rear end in a top hat boyfriend). It lined up perfectly with the story they had told; Bryan had spent almost 6 months avoiding a fair fight and he got more and more full of himself and then when he finally got into a fair fight, his arrogance got him squashed. It was a good storyline with a solid payoff. People just reacted badly to it because they were convinced Bryan was going to get squashed after that. Maybe Meltzer said he was or something, I don't know.
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Also it meant we missed out on a Daniel Bryan match instead of missing out on a JBL match.
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MassRafTer posted:He has problems with universally beloved child of God Mil Mascaras. loving racist. The dump I took this morning has problems with Mil Mascaras
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HerraS posted:The dump I took this morning has problems with Mil Mascaras It figures poo poo would have problems with someone so good.
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Alexander Hamilton posted:I was pretty new to wrestling for that whole storyline and I didn't read the sheets or anything but I never felt that Bryan was booked to kill his heat (most of heat at the time was heel heat since he was really good at being a smug vegan rear end in a top hat boyfriend). It lined up perfectly with the story they had told; Bryan had spent almost 6 months avoiding a fair fight and he got more and more full of himself and then when he finally got into a fair fight, his arrogance got him squashed. It was a good storyline with a solid payoff. People just reacted badly to it because they were convinced Bryan was going to get squashed after that. Maybe Meltzer said he was or something, I don't know. That may all be true, but the important question is why Daniel Bryan (or anyone that you would see a future in) was booked to be the 10,000th cowardly heel champ who can't ever look good in a row in modern WWE or get a real match at the biggest show of the year. I mean, I would not doubt for a minute that Team Hell No's original purpose was to relegate Bryan to bit player/Goldust status. Comedy gimmicks are not meant to help guys climb the ladder, if Vince wants you to do that he will just book you to win a million matches in a row.
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It wasn't even the concept of him losing, it was how he lost. A lot of people expected Bryan to lose at Mania given the storyline at the time, but they assumed he would lose a really good 10 or so minute match. The fact that it was the exact opposite was what pissed people off.
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Jun 28, 2016 21:40
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MassRafTer posted:It figures poo poo would have problems with someone so good. If hes so good why did he never win the only championship in history that matters, the WCW world title? 
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Halloween Jack posted:Who's Bobby Herman? I just counted the votes man Platypus Farm posted:Also, macho man? I mean I love macho, but his promos were just as nonsensical and over-intense as warriors. Hell, I don't even know which one was less intelligible. this is loving ridiculous
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Jun 28, 2016 22:33
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I always wondered if Savage had some sort of bet with people in the back that he could pick up something off the craft service table right before doing an interview and still make it relevant. I've seen him use a coffee cup, a bunch of creamers, etc
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:this is loving ridiculous  Savage said some wild poo poo but it all meant something and there was a consistency to the madness. He also could do coked-up fun promos just as well as intense coked-up murder promos. Randy Savage was one of the best promos ever. Warrior was just Conan-esque word salad.
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a retard posted:It wasn't even the concept of him losing, it was how he lost. A lot of people expected Bryan to lose at Mania given the storyline at the time, but they assumed he would lose a really good 10 or so minute match. The fact that it was the exact opposite was what pissed people off. For me, I was wanting to see what the hype about this Daniel Bryan guy was all about, because I stopped watching from 2010 - 2012 but would still buy the Rumble and Mania. So you're pretty much right on that I was expecting at least like a 10 minute match, so was pissed at what they gave us. Also opening the show in that fashion left a real bad taste in my mouth and then the rest of the show was bad too.
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Jun 28, 2016 23:18
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a retard posted:It wasn't even the concept of him losing, it was how he lost. A lot of people expected Bryan to lose at Mania given the storyline at the time, but they assumed he would lose a really good 10 or so minute match. The fact that it was the exact opposite was what pissed people off.
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Jun 28, 2016 23:20
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The Macho Man loving ruled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4lK41SX-Q
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i'm glad the wwe tried to bury daniel bryan, if they had stuck to their guns maybe he'd still be alive today
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Jun 28, 2016 23:46
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HerraS posted:If hes so good why did he never win the only championship in history that matters, the WCW world title? Politics due to his 40 year reign as the IWA World Champion.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I always wondered if Savage had some sort of bet with people in the back that he could pick up something off the craft service table right before doing an interview and still make it relevant. I've seen him use a coffee cup, a bunch of creamers, etc Or the best: the small plastic trash can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7xTAnUCLek
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Shine posted:The Macho Man loving ruled. Savage could improv like a motherfucker. "*cream falls off of his head* On balance, off balance, doesn't matter."
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Jun 29, 2016 00:24
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Sionistic posted:We will never have another Macho Man will we? Adam Rose tried his best.
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https://youtu.be/dyiNiTONRP4
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exploding mummy posted:Adam Rose tried his best. drat son.
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