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explosivo posted:Wait is this real? I can't believe this is real. For about a month (maybe?) on TNA, they were using his caricatures instead of photos for wrestler versus screens.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:lmao why did i never bother to look up lumis' "art" before Dexter Lumis just got 15% cooler to me
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Honestly, Dexter has been fine. He's okay in the ring. His gimmick is super confusing, but I do get a laugh whenever they show him hiding in the background. Just pretend he's Drax and he thinks standing still makes him invisible.
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explosivo posted:Wait is this real? I can't believe this is real. It's real. Real good.
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BGrifter posted:I was expecting the name Chapo Trap House Chavo Trap House is right there
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Codependent Poster posted:Honestly, Dexter has been fine. He's okay in the ring.. 
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Shrimpy posted:Chavo Trap House is right there 
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One thing I can't ever shake about Seth Rollins is the feel that he saw Loose Change in like 2008 and it changed his world.
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Codependent Poster posted:Honestly, Dexter has been fine. He's okay in the ring. His gimmick is super confusing, but I do get a laugh whenever they show him hiding in the background. Just pretend he's Drax and he thinks standing still makes him invisible. Like with many WWE gimmicks, Dexter's is improved if they played him straight but still make it clear he is kayfabe a complete idiot. It's a fine line to walk, and WWE consistently fucks up by overpushing.
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The ingredients of the Lumis gimmick could work, but the execution has to be different. You can't have him be a cold eyed serial killer who draws boardwalk caricatures. What you do is you make him a superficially jovial artist who draws boardwalk caricatures where people are getting horribly murdered and doesn't understand why they creep people out.
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It’s neat that Lumis took a break from trying to capture Michael Myers, though.
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Or maybe having a babyface serial killer is just a never good gimmick that can't work no matter what and its moving deck chairs on a sinking ship that happens to be located on a second sinking ship.
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Lid posted:Or maybe having a babyface serial killer is just a never good gimmick that can't work no matter what and its moving deck chairs on a sinking ship that happens to be located on a second sinking ship. Sorry you lack the vision to be the next Vince Russo bud.
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Shrimpy posted:Chavo Trap House is right there Chavo Traphouse has a certain “tertiary character from a Suda51 game” energy to it, which I appreciate now there’s a fellow who I bet could book some interesting WWE Content
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Rarity posted:Sources in WWE's writing room say that there is no long-term plan for Raw Underground and they are making the story up as they go along Wow who could possibly have guessed
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A Fancy Hat posted:All of these clips of WWE Underground are hilarious to me. It's a super-gritty underground fight club but there are 500 camera men down there and they make sure to put 10+ cuts into every 30 second fight. And nothing satisfying is ever going to come of this; either it'll remain a self-contained thing or one of the "legit fighters" will wrestle Seth Rollins or something and it'll be a disaster of clashing styles. Yeah and maybe I'm missing some context (doubt it), but the question is.... Why is this happening? Within storyline why is this happening? Shane just decided to start a fight club and got WWE cameramen to come to it? Vince or HHH just allows it to happen? Are they happy about it? Angry? Why put it on their show? I mean there's a kernel of a good idea in almost everything. While this was a dumb idea you could find a way for it to maybe work. Like a bunch of undercard guys get pissed, feel they aren't getting their fair shot, sick of all the rules, and decide to open a fight club to show what they can do. Heel, faces, doesn't matter. Then have them hack the Raw feed to get it to cut to them now and then. This is off the top of my head and is silly, but it's better than the clips I saw. Especially if the production was done different than normal Raw. This even works with the apparent Anti-fascist group. They could have broken into the production track and hacked the feed instead of throwing molotov cocktails at a box. But that would take a plan. Or just put on a good wrestling show. They could try that too.
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Maybe WWE should try a ChocoPro-style shoot Janken tournament next
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1glitch0 posted:Yeah and maybe I'm missing some context (doubt it), but the question is.... Why is this happening? Within storyline why is this happening? Shane just decided to start a fight club and got WWE cameramen to come to it? Vince or HHH just allows it to happen? Are they happy about it? Angry? Why put it on their show? Why spend weeks building things up when you can just jump right in? Not that this thing would be any better if it stretched out for weeks where you see performance center people going into this back room that was guarded by a tall dude, had a week where you had a glimpse inside by accident, and then finally invited the cameras in the third week. But there is no anticipation. They showed what it was and the concept was executed so horribly that I can't see a reason to see what happens next. Okay, so Hurt Company has taken over? So... Lashley and Shelton are just going to destroy jobbers next week? Or is Hurt Company done since they beat up all the jobbers?
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1glitch0 posted:Like a bunch of undercard guys get pissed, feel they aren't getting their fair shot, sick of all the rules, and decide to open a fight club to show what they can do. Heel, faces, doesn't matter. Then have them hack the Raw feed to get it to cut to them now and then. Nah, for that to work they would need to spend months establishing that a disgruntled midcarder is able to hack into shows at will!
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For a serial killer gimmick to work he needs to kill people tho
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Astro7x posted:Why spend weeks building things up when you can just jump right in? This is a pretty good idea. Like if a month ago midcarders' music would hit and they would no show. Like once or twice a show. And the question becomes where are these people?? Then, yeah, like you said, a camera sneaks it for a glimpse of fight club, and then the next week the cameras are there and it's revealed Shane is running a fight club. And they keep hacking into the Raw feed until after a few months all of the fighters team up Nexus style and burst into Raw and gently caress everything up. I don't know if that's a great storyline, but it would be a GOOD storyline especially during these trying times.
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1glitch0 posted:This is a pretty good idea. Like if a month ago midcarders' music would hit and they would no show. Like once or twice a show. And the question becomes where are these people?? Then, yeah, like you said, a camera sneaks it for a glimpse of fight club, and then the next week the cameras are there and it's revealed Shane is running a fight club. And they keep hacking into the Raw feed until after a few months all of the fighters team up Nexus style and burst into Raw and gently caress everything up. I don't know if that's a great storyline, but it would be a GOOD storyline especially during these trying times. Isn’t that basically how Chikara did it?
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Dacap posted:Isn’t that basically how Chikara did it? They did it with pretty much all trainees, so if they doubled down on the Babatunde and other performance center folks murdering people and then like Chad Gable disappearing to join the underground fight club it'd make more sense. Instead, here's Dolph Ziggler.
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oldpainless posted:For a serial killer gimmick to work he needs to kill people tho Maybe he's a serial thriller
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Ganso Bomb posted:Maybe he's a serial thriller I dunno, have you seen his matches?
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oldpainless posted:For a serial killer gimmick to work he needs to kill people tho It boggles my mind, because it should be the easiest gimmick in the world. Make him walk slowly wherever he goes. Have his entrance be just following his opponent to the ring. Give him matches with jobbers where it's incredibly obvious the jobber "disappeared" from the locker room, and he wins by forfeit. I know the difficulty is in making this pay off at some point, but they haven't given a poo poo about long term plans since the 80s. Like, Jesus Christ, just think, WWE writers.
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They won't even commit to the idea that's a serial killer or whatever, he's just a "tortured artist". They're the stupidest loving company because they put all these weird constraints on themselves about the content of the show and then constantly try to do things that don't fit in those rules they made up.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I dunno, have you seen his matches? I refuse. Meanwhile, WWE is banking on the success of a Khan to turn things around for them: https://twitter.com/WONF4W/status/1291013597431119875
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Alaois posted:Sam Shaw was literally a caricature artist at Universal as a side gig when he was wrestling for TNA From now on I'm going to believe all the TNA "home grown" talent were guys they pulled from Universal Studios and asked if they wanted to be wrestlers.
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Aug 5, 2020 15:21
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Astro7x posted:Why spend weeks building things up when you can just jump right in? Alvarez has been screaming for maybe a decade or more now that WWE far too often rushes to the turn or payoff instead of building to something in a way that might actually garner interest. Of course when they DO try and do a slow burn, Vince gets bored and develops cold feet, abandoning it after 3 weeks...
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Gumball Gumption posted:They won't even commit to the idea that's a serial killer or whatever, he's just a "tortured artist". They're the stupidest loving company because they put all these weird constraints on themselves about the content of the show and then constantly try to do things that don't fit in those rules they made up. Tortured artist is up there with Lunatic Fringe and Devourer of Worlds or whatever the gently caress. It's a cool sounding buzzword that their fanbase doesn't give a poo poo about. You don't have to call Lumis anything. Just have prison guards walk him out in a prison jumpsuit, and let the viewer put it together.
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Spiderdrake posted:I mean this seriously I'll take his art over the awful poo poo they slop out now i legitimately like it and i like that even if it is something like caricature artist, like, idk its a cool thing to have in addition
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Someone please get Vince to see this video so we get a Dexter Lumis: King of Sting gimmick. https://youtu.be/wUY_i5Tco68
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