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Aphrodite posted:Cody was always always bad. This was never the IWC until maybe shortly before he left. I never disliked him at all. Good wrestler, great heel personality on the mic, the Doctor Doom stuff was hilarious and good because wrestling heels should be kinda over the top.
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MassRafTer posted:Twitter loved that Cena match. ok but it was bad
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 05:12 |
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Jackie D posted:ok but it was bad Yeah it was boring as all hell except where cena was being insanely charismatic.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 05:15 |
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Aphrodite posted:Cody was always always bad. He was alright a few times
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 05:17 |
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Cody's feud with Stephen Amell was surprisingly fun and well done.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 05:17 |
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He made Wade Barrett into the king of space or some poo poo and that's great
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 05:21 |
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Roman Reigns is the biggest star since Steve Austin and the rock combined
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 05:24 |
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The thing is, it'd be so easy to get internet fans to like, or at least hate Roman less. Have him show some of his real personality and play some vidja games with his cousins and Xavier on UpUpDownDown. Even if he didn't do anything cool or fun, seeing him interact with the Uso brothers goofiness as a real person would soften fans views of him and make watching him win all the time easier to take. Edit: I also like Cody the dork, and am glad he is happy/happier away from the monster that is Vince/WWE
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 05:25 |
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MassRafTer posted:It's not quite at Undertaker/Kobashi level yet. Fuccccckkkk you just reminded me we never got Undertaker/Kobashi Two Burning Hammers
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 05:25 |
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Times of India posted:Having a WWE Champion from the India, will of course boost WWE's popularity in the country, but apart from that, what do you think has been the reasons for your success in such a short span of time?
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 05:26 |
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BrigadierSensible posted:The thing is, it'd be so easy to get internet fans to like, or at least hate Roman less. Based on his interviews he seems like he buys into his hype a lot.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 05:26 |
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Invalid Validation posted:If you think Roman is amazing, that’s great, just don’t complain when he has the belt and can’t single handedly hold the company up (because he’s weak). Live attendance only started cratering when Roman started losing on every Raw PPV!
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 05:27 |
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Abroham Lincoln posted:He made Wade Barrett into the king of space or some poo poo and that's great He also offered Barrett a friendship necklace and Barrett threw it away in disgust.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 05:33 |
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Aphrodite posted:Cody was always always bad. Yeah no.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 05:35 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ-0DLV8kfU Cody did this thing that was cool, once. BrigadierSensible posted:The thing is, it'd be so easy to get internet fans to like, or at least hate Roman less. He's come off as a pretty chill dude when he's on UUDD. The CoD: Infinite Warfare episode was fun because he was the only one who knew what he was doing so he just quietly went out and got a respectable K/D while everybody else got murdered over and over. But whenever he opens his mouth for an interview or tweets anything, he comes off like a spoiled jock prick.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 05:36 |
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cody isn't particularly amazing or anything, but i do love his in ring charisma. i understand that some people might not like it, but i really love the way he moves and talks and interacts with the crowd in ring.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 06:32 |
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Roman is an ok wrestler and a huge victim of booking. Even if he had good booking he spent a long time freezing up in promos and still can't perform all of his "power" moves.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 06:36 |
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Cody may not have the best workrate but he's really loving cocky and that kind of charisma draws me in. Meanwhile Roman is... just Roman.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 06:37 |
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Mulaney Power Move posted:i predict bray does something really spooky for halloween Like showing up in his Dad's old IRS gear.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 06:38 |
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Jack Anderson posted:Cody may not have the best workrate but he's really loving cocky and that kind of charisma draws me in. "The Guy" is such an awful character but probably not his fault. They did the same thing with Cena but Cena at least had the benefit of having a character before WWE decided he was a heel to the haters and a face to his fans. Cena also just has some natural charisma. Roman's booking has been silent guy in the shield, the underdog who gets every chance and has to say Vince's hand written notes, and "the guy".
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 06:47 |
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The problem with Roman is that he's very good at having WWE Main Events and that's not a thing I enjoy or want to watch.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 07:01 |
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Roman bores me on screen, in terms of both his booking and himself as a performer, and he's always been a dickhead in interviews with other outlets, way before it could be justified by "Roman's kind of a dick" becoming his on-screen character. He was moderately cool in the original Shield run (though even then I'd say he was the weakest character, and by far the worst wrestler, of the three) but since he's been on his own the only entertainment I've gotten from him is the idea that he's a holocaust-denying wank pheasant. I don't see the point in dissecting his timing or anything. I don't find him entertaining or appreciate his presence anywhere at any time, and ultimately that's really all that should matter to any viewer. He can have all the 4* WrestleMania headline matches he likes; I'd still rather watch Dana Brooke. And she's gently caress-awful. Cody is also really boring, but it's good that someone took their ball and left. I wish Stardust had been given more of a real chance 'cause the first 2-3 weeks he was doing it it seemed like a really great way to continue a retiring, iconic WWE character. Bray will add a flanger to his vocoder and commentary will sell it as the Earthly manifestation of Beelzebub.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 07:06 |
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Roman Reigns is very good at wrestling, it's not his wrestling that's the problem. It's that he's not a natural babyface and probably won't be until they change his gimmick away from knock off Biker Taker.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 07:26 |
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Roman doesn’t really have much of a personality. His promos are horrendous and cookie cutter-ish. Some of that is on Vince and the writers, but most of it is on Roman. People love Braun Strowman. Why do people love Braun Strowman? Because he’s an impossibly gigantic hoss of a human being who does nothing but hurt other people in exciting and new hoss ways. He just destroys people. And then people cheer for him because people love wanton violence. He doesn’t have to cut promos. His actions are his promos. Even then, “I’M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!” is a thousand times more over as a catchphrase than “This is my yard!” or various “Big Dog” horseshit. If they just made Roman into Samoan Brock (who shows up more than 10 times a year) from the get go, I feel like a lot of his weaknesses could have been masked. And despite being related to him, he’s not the Rock, and he likely never will be. It could be said that it’s unfair to think that anybody could replicate the Rock, and that’s probably true, but Roman’s charisma deficit certainly isn’t helping him in the “appeal to the fans via the mic” department. If he takes yet another long nap at the Rumble next year, and still wins it, no amount of crowd sound editing will be able to fix the backlash. Like somebody said earlier in the thread, putting him back with Seth and Dean might endear him to crowds again, but if it doesn’t, then i’d hope that Hunter and Stephanie have a long discussion with Vince about perhaps stepping down. Because “Get Roman Over: Year 5” is not something anybody should want to witness. Gonzo McFee posted:Roman Reigns is very good at wrestling, it's not his wrestling that's the problem. It's that he's not a natural babyface and probably won't be until they change his gimmick away from knock off Biker Taker. “Turn Roman Heel” could have fixed all of this, but I think it might be too late, now. Roman Reigns has become the human manifestation of that old Sears air-conditioning commercial that everybody hated because it played 37 times per hour. Gonz fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Oct 16, 2017 |
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Incessant Excess posted:Rusev should be part of and on top of the Cruiserweight division as he is under 205 kilos. I'm really happy that Rusev keeps taking time off to hang out with his wife, because it has limited how much lovely booking he's gotten.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 07:49 |
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Roman is fine at wrestling a WWE main event style match and has the look of a guy that belongs on the top of the card. I don't like him because his character and promos remind me of Biker 'Taker. Who despite having some great matches was the lamest incarnation of 'Taker.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 07:52 |
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Gonz posted:Roman doesn’t really have much of a personality. His promos are horrendous and cookie cutter-ish. Some of that is on Vince and the writers, but most of it is on Roman. If you step back and really look at the content of them, Braun's promos actually are loving terrible. The stuff he's being made to say is honestly almost every bit as putrid as the stuff Roman has to say. There was a promo before No Mercy where he basically said "Well, I'm not gonna complain about this, but [proceeds to complain about it for five minutes]." It was loving unbelievably stupid. But Braun is one of those guys, like Neville or Alexa or Miz who can take WWE's terrible writing and deliver it in a really convincing way. This after, what, a year of being on his own and cutting his own promos? His delivery and facial expressions are already top notch. Compare it to Roman who still sucks at those things after doing it every week for three years. You can't blame it on the terrible material forever because guys with fewer chances than him to get better at it are way better at it than him. In 2017 alone, I can think of like four or five segments where the dude got completely outclassed and outshined on the mic and only about half of those involve Cena ruthlessly dunking on him. Joe and Miz have also made the guy look like a jackass on the regular.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 08:23 |
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Oh absolutely. Braun’s promos are very bad, writing wise. But like you said, it’s the visual manner in which he delivers them that redeems them. Whereas Roman always sounds like he just got done memorizing an index card. Don’t even get me started on that “suffering succotash“ promo.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 08:26 |
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wwe is bad at booking babyfaces
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 08:33 |
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The other one I can think of is when Braun was cutting a promo about people hiding behind computers or some poo poo (unlike him, A REAL MAN), and it was just the most intensely stupid thing in the world, but he had this incredible sneer and the way he said it, at the end I was just like "drat, that was great!" It's honestly one of the most frustrating things in WWE. If you gave these guys a story they could sink their teeth into, it'd probably make for incredible TV, but instead you get the aforementioned Braun promos and Alexa having to try and carry garbage like that This Is Your Life segment or "lol Mickie you're old :iamafag:" based solely on her own charisma, which is like asking her to drag a loving boulder up a hill with her teeth.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 08:34 |
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Seams posted:wwe is bad at booking babyfaces This is 100% true and cannot be stated enough. When Vince either steps down or dies, there needs to be a vigorous spring cleaning throughout the creative department. The thing is, Vince is an insane workaholic and probably won’t stop doing any of this gracefully. He’d probably book Raw via Skype after a heart attack while having stents implanted on the operating table. Steak & ketchup wraps for dinner afterwards, obviously.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 08:36 |
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It’s going to be super exciting to see how they gently caress up Asuka’s booking. And by “super exciting” I actually mean *pretends to put a gun barrel against the roof of my mouth*.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 08:42 |
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Roman's a decent-to-good wrestler, but until he's capable of doing something like Cena did with Khali and just carry someone to a great match that just doesn't have it anymore (or never did) I can't truly put him in the really good or better territory. That match he had with Taker at Mania was eye-opening, they knew that match was going to happen for months, had all sorts of time to agent and plot it out, and it was still terrible. It was a worse match than the year before when Taker was fighting the owner's 46 year old son, and a man 15 years his junior in much better shape with far more in-ring experience couldn't put on something better. The crowd the next night on Raw wasn't epically hostile just because of Roman's latest crowning match, but because the longest tenured wrestler on the roster, someone who's been around since most of us were kids, went out in such an embarrassing fashion. If Cena had Taker's retirement match he WOULD have carried him to something decent like Michaels did with Flair, the crowd would've been a fraction as hostile because Taker's exit would've been respectful.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 08:52 |
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Also I still have no idea why they keep having Roman come out and brag about retiring Taker. It's never gotten a positive reaction and just comes off as the heelest drat thing for the top babyface/The Guy should be saying. What on earth is Vince thinking with that I'll never understand.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 08:58 |
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Trying to push Roman as an underdog was always strange too. Dude is in no way an underdog. He's a handsome athletic wrestler who has had the companies blessing from day one. Who the hell is going to buy him as an underdog.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 09:03 |
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The_Rob posted:who has had the companies blessing from day one. Remember when Roman won some number one contenders match (maybe it was even the Rumble?) and Triple H and Steph came out making angry faces like we were supposed to buy that THE AUTHORITY were upset about Roman getting the title shot?
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 09:17 |
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I wonder how many people who complain about Roman and his limited moveset also jizz themselves over Ishii matches
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 09:24 |
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I've never see an Ishii match but Roman literally has 4 moves and can barely pull one of them off
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 09:39 |
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No joke, but if they gently caress up Asuka's debut, that might be my breaking point for main roster poo poo. I'll keep watching NXT and 205, but I'll find something better to do for RAW and Smackdown. I'm already wary after the continued loving up of Nakamura, so running that back with Asuka just might be too much. It's like I keep telling myself there's no way they'd be stupid enough to have her lose her RAW debut match, but WWE has proven stupidity knows no limits.
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# ? Oct 16, 2017 09:43 |
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I can't even really think who WWE's closest equivalent of Ishii would be.... Sheamus?
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