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For anyone curious about Big Dave's ratings an excerpt posted:The main event was perhaps the worst main event in pro wrestling history where the fault doesn’t at all lie in either of the competitors. They worked hard. They didn’t miss spots. They didn’t work a boring style. But between the tinting of the visual, the overly long match, the babyface who the crowd was rejecting more-and-more and a finish that can’t be explained, it’ll likely win worst match of the year, in a year where Undertaker and Bill Goldberg seemed to have that clinched.
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Oct 11, 2019 02:12
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Vince's celebrity chasing has always just been the saddest thing From last page, but I agree with this entirely, and would like to add that WWE rarely goes after celebrities that are actual wrestling fans. They go after "celebrity of the week", or whoever they can get. So instead of getting someone who cares about wrestling, and would be excited to be there, they get dead eyed b listers treating it like another press junket as they smile and wave and awkwardly say their lines. It's why when actual cool and fun celebrity/wrestler interaction happens, (I am thinking the Hugh Jackman match where he teamed with Zack Ryder), it is the exception rather than the rule. And speaking of awkwardly saying their lines: Whilst I know it's because they are all written by Vince 5 minutes before air time, but one would think that with the amount of turnover that WWE has in writing staff, we would have seen a bunch of different writing styles over time, or at least noticed when their is a change in the writing room. Instead we have a generic house style, both of promos, interviews, and booking/storylines that no matter who is in the writing/booking room, always reeks of a "good poo poo". Related question, years ago I once knew a couple of writers for a TV sketch comedy show, and they said that they got paid depending on how many of their sketches made it to TV. Is it the same with WWE writers? So therefore does Vince throwing away your scripts not only demoralise you and hurt your feelings, but also hurt your earnings?
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Oct 11, 2019 02:19
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I dunno about "no fault lies with either of the competitors", Seth was a putz and Bray looked pretty much completely unengaged and his bumping was godawful. Can I blame him for that? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE.
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Oct 11, 2019 02:24
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Machine Gun Kelly and Kevin Federline both totally owned, they should swim in the white rapper pool more. Hell, it's the gimmick that launched their biggest recent star!
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Oct 11, 2019 02:28
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Anon was the best Raw GM ever.
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Oct 11, 2019 02:29
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Hugh Jackman was the best guest host.
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Oct 11, 2019 02:33
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Seams posted:Hugh Jackman was the best guest host. Bob Barker
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Oct 11, 2019 02:35
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poo poo, Meltz was being too kind to the HIAC main event. It’s probably the worst match of the decade and I wanna put Bray Wyatt/Fiend in the same metaphorical dumpster I put Zack Ryder in.
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Oct 11, 2019 02:36
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I think just being a main event on the scale that it was, and ending the show in boos and chants for another company it's gotta be right up there with the worst. Maybe one of the lucha companies has done worse but if so, I haven't seen it and the level of overproduction at HIAC is pretty unmatched.
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Oct 11, 2019 02:40
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Abroham Lincoln posted:For anyone curious about Big Dave's ratings I like that if you reverse the order of the matches (not counting preshow) it builds to a solid card with a great main event.
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Oct 11, 2019 02:47
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The most embarrassing hell in cell match since the one with all the dogs humping and making GBS threads, and not nearly as entertaining.
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Oct 11, 2019 02:51
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that was a KENNEL from hell match and is not canon!!!!
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favorite celebrity guest host will always be rob zombie for saying like four things and making a face at edge then bailing
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Oct 11, 2019 02:54
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It's going to be cool for all the celebs to visibily not give a poo poo and make fun of the product.
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Jackie D posted:Bob Barker Jericho coming in mad at Barker but then being co-opted into the game show and starting to have a good time in spite of himself as he started winning absolutely ruled 
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Oct 11, 2019 02:59
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Riding the high off the fiendish hell in a cell match, Vince books a match to determine the number one draft pick. A match between a wrestler that has a brand title, and a wrestler that does not have a brand title. That's not how any of this works!
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Armitage posted:poo poo, Meltz was being too kind to the HIAC main event. It’s probably the worst match of the decade and I wanna put Bray Wyatt/Fiend in the same metaphorical dumpster I put Zack Ryder in. Ryder is capable of having a good solo match. I mean, it was almost a decade ago and with Christian, but it was good. The only semi-decent solo match Wyatt has ever had was on the Hardy Compound and required extensive editing. Otherwise he's the drizzling shits.
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Tato posted:Ryder is capable of having a good solo match. I mean, it was almost a decade ago and with Christian, but it was good. Daniel Bryan Royal Rumble
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Oct 11, 2019 03:58
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Remember the ring of fire match though
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Between the abysmal showing last weekend, lack of Attitude-era guest stars to draw in lapsed fans and the first pitch of NLCS game 1 being thrown at 8:08 PM tomorrow night, how hard are the ratings for Smackdown on Fox going to tank in week 2? On par with Dynamite's decline this week or worse? (It's going to win the 18-34 demo; probably the 18-49 demo as well, but I think the total viewer number is going to see a sharp decline.)chinesemethdragon posted:favorite celebrity guest host will always be rob zombie for saying like four things and making a face at edge then bailing My favorite celeb GM was Criss Angel, whose big MIND FREAK of the night was "Not slamming his hand through a knife." I'm still loving furious about this almost a decade later. (Gotta respect Ken Jeong for being willing to take a bump and getting concussed in the process. Also Sharlto Copley for playing along to plug the A-Team movie when Bradley Cooper peaced out after the first 5 minutes and Liam Neeson couldn't be bothered to make even a Titantron appearance.)
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Daniel Bryan Royal Rumble Well yeah, but AmDrag can drag a good match out of a literal corpse.
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JethroMcB posted:My favorite celeb GM was Criss Angel, whose big MIND FREAK of the night was "Not slamming his hand through a knife." I'm still loving furious about this almost a decade later. His Vegas show opens with a 20-minute preview video in which some announcer voice guy tells us repeatedly how cool Criss Angel is, and how lucky we are to see Criss Angel, and how he's way better than every magician who isn't Criss Angel, and here are a bunch of newspaper headlines about how awesome Criss Angel is.
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Oct 11, 2019 04:15
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I can't believe that Undertaker and Bill Goldberg also happened this year. They will have the Worst Match of the Year awards all locked up.
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Oct 11, 2019 04:25
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The Seth/Corbin match with Lacey as the heel ref will only be the second worst WWE match of the year, would not have guessed that at the time.
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Oct 11, 2019 04:26
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Tokamak posted:Riding the high off the fiendish hell in a cell match, Vince books a match to determine the number one draft pick. A match between a wrestler that has a brand title, and a wrestler that does not have a brand title. That's not how any of this works! Why can't Roman be the standard bearer for Smackdown? Just because he was only sent there randomly in the shake-up a few months ago and they immediately invented a brand-split-destroying rule to justify having him never stop appearing on Raw? Poppycock!
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Oct 11, 2019 04:29
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Ya'll, it's to get Roman cheered. They're counting on the heat from the cell match to get Roman cheered loudly solely to spite Seth. My guess is Roman is facing the Rock at Mania, and at some point Rock is going to win a title on Smackdown TV.
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https://twitter.com/TheBarrylad/sta...362635737731072
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https://twitter.com/WWEonFOX/status/1182522400300097536Eat My Fuc posted:Ya'll, it's to get Roman cheered. They're counting on the heat from the cell match to get Roman cheered loudly solely to spite Seth. You say this like people haven't multiple times before happily just decided to turn on a Roman match entirely if they happen to hate the other guy in it. GRANTED, I don't think the crowd has ever hated anybody Roman's gone up against quite as much as Sacramento hated Seth.
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Oct 11, 2019 06:18
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A bit weird to base the Rock's look on his appearance as the Scorpion King in The Mummy, but that's their call.
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Jerusalem posted:This loving looks like one of Abroham Lincoln's faceswap posts i actually showed that tweet to a friend earlier today, who said it looked like miz cosplaying as the rock 
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Oct 11, 2019 06:32
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Jesus Christ did The Rock and Jason Statham have a teleporter accident on the set of Hobbs and Shaw? 
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Okay this was good 
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Unit lost.
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Oct 11, 2019 09:46
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Good God, it was only five months? I could've sworn it's been like this a year.
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El Generico posted:Good God, it was only five months? I could've sworn it's been like this a year. Someone in a thread last week or so was talking about the back-shaving stuff with the Revival and Usos being last year and I was like.... buddy, that was a few months ago. Raw is so bad it warps time.
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Oct 11, 2019 09:59
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CobiWann posted:Unit lost. The wrestling gods show no mercy. Amen.
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