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https://twitter.com/NXTUK/status/1233057404700549127 Kinky.
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Re: Tino Sabbitelli, my favorite reference to his Tampa Bay (home of Mania) NFL careerthe article posted:There's one player who will always be the worst Buccaneer I've ever seen play. The very worst one. The player who will forever be engraved in my memory as the worst football player I've ever seen start a game: Sabby Piscitelli.
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Feb 28, 2020 03:27
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Riddick Moss broke Kenta's neck doing a powerslam and Tino Sabbatelli didn't wrestle for like the last two years until just recently
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Feb 28, 2020 03:40
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karmicknight posted:Who the gently caress is Tino Sabbetelli. Former football man, who apparently sucked poo poo at it despite making the NFL, who has a million-dollar look and about 10c worth of skill in the ring.
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Feb 28, 2020 04:28
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Accident Underwater posted:Riddick Moss broke Kenta's neck doing a powerslam and Tino Sabbatelli didn't wrestle for like the last two years until just recently https://youtu.be/oF-Sxw-C_nE Holy gently caress how didn't they fire him on the spot?
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Feb 28, 2020 04:29
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Wazzu posted:https://youtu.be/oF-Sxw-C_nE Werner Herzog slowly takes off his headphones, and in a German drawl he speaks "Never, never ever, show this to Kota Ibushi."
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Feb 28, 2020 04:31
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I had no idea Kenta also broke his neck in NXT  Lid posted:Werner Herzog slowly takes off his headphones, and in a German drawl he speaks Just because this makes me laugh every time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INov9gQ2aUA
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Feb 28, 2020 04:35
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This thread title makes me mad every time I read it; thanks for listening
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Feb 28, 2020 05:19
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So is rhea a heel or why did she wait until the foot stomp portion of her intro before going to the ring?
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Feb 29, 2020 03:58
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Brand is above alignment also I am led to believe that stomps are popular in WWE during black history month
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Feb 29, 2020 03:59
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King Of Coons posted:So is rhea a heel or why did she wait until the foot stomp portion of her intro before going to the ring? She is SUPPOSED to be the top babyface. But her outstandingly lovely promos, average ringwork and having little charisma puts her below several other women. Bianca Belair and Io Shirai, who are SUPPOSED to be heels, get a stronger and more positive reaction than Rhea.
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Feb 29, 2020 04:00
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DarkstarIV posted:She is SUPPOSED to be the top babyface. But her outstandingly lovely promos, average ringwork and having little charisma puts her below several other women. Nothing about Rhea Ripley comes off as authentic, and she looks like what some corporate suit thinks is "hardcore" or whatever. "This is my brutality." gently caress off, you look like you listen to nu-metal. Even her music loving sucks. Now Dakota Kai's heel theme? Now that's entrance music you can set your watch to.
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Feb 29, 2020 04:21
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I was at tonight's NXT show in Largo and I can report that Tino Sabatelli is still terrible.
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Feb 29, 2020 04:27
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King Of Coons posted:So is rhea a heel or why did she wait until the foot stomp portion of her intro before going to the ring? WWE faces are assholes.
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Feb 29, 2020 04:34
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When a face gets beaten up, no one comes to save them. Nor do they ever come to save a victim of an assault. Unless you're Kevin Owens, Samoa Joe and the Street Profits for some reason. Heels on the other hand? You've got the Undisputed Era, Rollins' group of stupid losers that always win, Baszler and her two buddies, etc. Basically, anyone evil has loyal friends that are always willing to take a bullet for you. Hell, that's the reasoning given by Roddy Strong when he joined up with TUE.
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Feb 29, 2020 04:40
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Vagabundo posted:Nothing about Rhea Ripley comes off as authentic, and she looks like what some corporate suit thinks is "hardcore" or whatever. "This is my brutality." gently caress off, you look like you listen to nu-metal. Yeah that’s always been my hang up with her. I like her size and her strength, I think she’s a pretty good worker but they keep trying to tell me she’s this ruthless badass but we’ve literally never seen her do anything bad rear end. Everything about her persona just feels so manufactured.
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Feb 29, 2020 04:50
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As lovely as Rhea is, it's profoundly unfair to have her anywhere near the same sentence as Io Shirai, who 100% does not belong in NXT and never did
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Feb 29, 2020 19:57
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Io being in NXT was good if only because it gave us her new cooler character.
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Feb 29, 2020 21:28
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Neodoomium posted:As lovely as Rhea is, it's profoundly unfair to have her anywhere near the same sentence as Io Shirai, who 100% does not belong in NXT and never did I mean I would rather see her in NXT having good decent length matches, opposed to the main roster having to put over people like Charlotte and Natalya in 5 minute matches. Which would definitely happen. Because Bruce doesn't care about how good the women are in matches, and Vince wouldn't get what makes Io so popular so he would get bored of her in a few weeks and bury her. The main roster is pretty much death for Japanese stars right now. Asuka and Kairi are in an okay spot, but you can easily tell they aren't going to be pushed on the same level as Charlotte, Becky, and Shayna on RAW. Io is also one of NXT's more popular stars ratings wise. Dave broke it down in past Observers, but she's one of their biggest positive ratings movers for the 18-49 demographic (her segments regularly gain 50-60k viewers in that demo). As for Rhea, she barely moves the needle the majority of the time, and over the past month or two, has been losing viewers in her feud with Charlotte. WWE made a big mistake sending Charlotte down to NXT to feud with Rhea. Because Rhea on her own isn't very popular (she was warmly received at one point, but they gave her way too much way too quickly on top of being still green in the ring and terrible on the mic), but add in Charlotte whose segments on the main roster regularly lose large chunks of the audience, and yeah you have a problem. It doesn't help that Rhea has lashed out at fans several times on social media and generally acts like a dumbass on it as well. As for Rhea's character, its not something that WWE themselves came up with. She adopted this new persona shortly after the MYC 1 and talked about how it was entirely her idea because she likes that kind of aesthetic.
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I was at NXT this past Wednesday, after a new co-worker gave me a ticket he couldn't use. It was my first time attending, and my first time even watching NXT. (I watched WCW starting in 1998, then switched to WWE when they took it over and stuck around until 2005, and then AEW recently drew me back into following wrestling.) I had a great time, especially running into a colleague who goes almost every week, who was filling me in on the characters and angles. I knew who Finn Balor and Charlotte Flair were, but that was about it, since I've been out of it for so long, and if I'm home early enough on Wednesdays, I'd tune into AEW instead. The women's division seemed to be the most impressive part of NXT. We were also treated to an excellent dark match between Shotzi Blackheart and Aliyah. I'm always disappointed the women don't get more screen time on AEW Dynamite. Big Bad Voodoo Lou fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Mar 1, 2020 |
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Mar 1, 2020 20:59
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DarkstarIV posted:As for Rhea's character, its not something that WWE themselves came up with. She adopted this new persona shortly after the MYC 1 and talked about how it was entirely her idea because she likes that kind of aesthetic. Honestly, I'm not surprised. Still looks like try-hard bollocks though. The whole thing with her taking ages to get to the ring to run off Charlotte looks dumber too when you consider how that sort of thing is usually played for laughs, e.g. Glacier in 2000 WCW taking forever to get to the ring to save Norman Smiley from a beatdown, to the point that the assailants have already left by the time he gets there, or on a random episode of SmackDown when Kane got jumped by Ziggler and Big E, fighting them off successfully, then Daniel Bryan comes running in, and demands Kane thank him because "I saved you" leading to another argument.
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Mar 1, 2020 21:58
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The 'must do your entrance the same way every time' thing is probably a WWE-mandated thing
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Seams posted:The 'must do your entrance the same way every time' thing is probably a WWE-mandated thing
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Mar 2, 2020 13:11
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This could have all just been avoided by Rhea making her entrance by power walking down to the ring and just glancing at a broken Bianca's body instead of the narrative trying to be she was "saving" Bianca but had to stop and make her entrance pose. She doesn't have to give a poo poo about what Flair is doing to Bianca, but Charlotte is on her Instead what we got was a hotdogging Rhea who almost cares about Bianca and isn't mad enough about Flair being in her ring so she just looks like an idiot. RealFoxy fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Mar 2, 2020 |
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Mar 2, 2020 13:16
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jesus WEP posted:It is. It leads to really stupid stuff like people not selling a recent beat-down because they have to do their regular pose. It’s not *always* done and there are plenty of counterexamples, but it happens a fair bit. Aleister Black sold a beat down during his entrance on Raw last week and it worked really well
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Mar 2, 2020 13:28
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Yeah that was the exact counterexample that came to mind 
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Mar 2, 2020 13:51
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When Miz came out to fight the FIEND, the literal demon who had threatened his wife and child he just had to come out in his sparkly robe and do the spin and point.
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Mar 2, 2020 15:40
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Seams posted:When Miz came out to fight the FIEND, the literal demon who had threatened his wife and child he just had to come out in his sparkly robe and do the spin and point. A few months ago there was that angle where Shane was trying to get the match with Roman so Shane was beating up Romans cousin for like 5 minutes. Romans music hit and he very slowly walked down the ramp.
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Mar 3, 2020 17:06
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Roman has a lot of cousins.
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Mar 3, 2020 20:02
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The_Rob posted:A few months ago there was that angle where Shane was trying to get the match with Roman so Shane was beating up Romans cousin for like 5 minutes. Romans music hit and he very slowly walked down the ramp. Are you talking about Hobbs and Shaw?
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Mar 3, 2020 20:07
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Big Huski Boi posted:Are you talking about Hobbs and Shaw? Roman was perfect in Hobbes & Shaw. didn't speak, just stood around being intimidating or was fighting baddies.
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Mar 3, 2020 21:55
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the escape goat posted:Roman was perfect in Hobbes & Shaw. didn't speak, just stood around being intimidating or was fighting baddies. It was hilarious to watch so many random samoans get lines, and Roman Reigns very pointedly did not. Like if you don't know Roman Reigns and were really watching the movie, it was probably baffling that he was silent.
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Mar 4, 2020 14:37
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That was a clever ending to the cage match. Yay Dakota!
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Mar 5, 2020 02:22
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Keith Lee is so much better than anyone else that it doesn't seem like he has any credible challengers.
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Mar 5, 2020 02:46
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So...............Roddy is going to kill Dream isn't he?
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Mar 5, 2020 03:41
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Don’t you love how wins and loses don’t matter?
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Mar 5, 2020 05:32
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The main was actually pretty smart in terms of working with the cage escape rule. Dream shoving Roddy out of the cage to get his hands on Cole was sold well by Mauro.
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Mar 5, 2020 05:56
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Ok I need to be brought up to speed on Cameron Grimes. I remember Trevor Lee being a big name in PWG and the indies, so is it really good heel work thus booing? Or have they absolutely hosed him over?
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Mar 6, 2020 08:12
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Gargano's interview was comical. He's just incapable of coming across as anything but a dork.
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He has near Ricochet promo skills.
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