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explosivo posted:I was surprised to see that Woods is allowed to go carousing on Twitch with talent from AEW. I guess he has more leeway on his personal twitch channel than UUDD. It is pretty wholesome to think about today's wrestlers getting side gigs as streamers and making it work because they have a built in audience compared to wrestlers from 30/40 years ago who just got drunk and/or high in between shows to pass the time. I think he's well beyond giving a gently caress what WWE thinks of his online activities. The guy's got his PHD, built a streaming empire, and massively increased his out of company popularity. He's got fallbacks for his fallbacks at this point and all he has to do is sit back and threaten an AEW jump every signing for more buckets of cash.
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:I think he's well beyond giving a gently caress what WWE thinks of his online activities. The guy's got his PHD, built a streaming empire, and massively increased his out of company popularity. He's got fallbacks for his fallbacks at this point and all he has to do is sit back and threaten an AEW jump every signing for more buckets of cash. Even if he never wrestled, Woods would be a massive social media get.
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Critical posted:even cole had like 500 in his channel last night. i think austin bought him a booster seat so he could use a face cam Was Cole streaming "Grounded"
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These rule https://twitter.com/PortableTrevor/status/1294762281151213573
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Eat My Fuc posted:Was Cole streaming "Grounded"
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CobiWann posted:Even if he never wrestled, Woods would be a massive social media get. Seriously what can't he do? Here's him playing the trombone. https://youtu.be/XuQQOInbF88
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smarxist posted:I mean Cody is a really good midcarder I completely agree but I can't put my finger on what it is he's missing that's keeping him from feeling like a main eventer. Mox 100% feels like a main eventer in a way I can't see in Cody.
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is pepsi ok posted:I completely agree but I can't put my finger on what it is he's missing that's keeping him from feeling like a main eventer. Mox 100% feels like a main eventer in a way I can't see in Cody. Cody was a perfectly credible main eventer (IMO) back in 2019, so I think it's really just a crowd.
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Honestly I thought Cody was upper-midcard at best until I saw him in person. Everyone at ringside was going berserk for him at All Out and he seemed genuinely touched as he celebrated after beating Spears, and at the Boston Dynamite the roof blew off when he did a speech before the Dark matches started. He really, really needs a crowd to thrive.
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is pepsi ok posted:I completely agree but I can't put my finger on what it is he's missing that's keeping him from feeling like a main eventer. Mox 100% feels like a main eventer in a way I can't see in Cody. I think it’s an authenticity problem maybe? Cody’s massively long entrance with royal family talk, entourage, and multiple stages of pyro kind of screams of wanting people to think he’s a big deal. His gear and personal styling is pure “sports entertainment” and he has his own logo tattooed on his neck. Mox walks through the stands even in an empty arena and has no pyro, I have no idea what his tron even looks like. He wears basically street clothes and has an unflattering haircut. Whether it’s true in real life or not, Mox feels like he doesn’t give a poo poo about what your perception of him is. Cody feels like he really does It’s in same way that no matter what he did, Triple H never felt like a bigger star than Austin. Didn’t matter who he beat, how many titles he held, or whatever rewritten narrative WWE put out.
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Cody is much more authentic than HHH and his feud w/Jericho alone had more awesome and memorable stuff than any of HHH's usual Raw-opening drivel throughout the early oughts. His entrance and other various hubris seem to be leading toward it consuming him further and leading to an eventual heel turn.
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Cody is a HHH that's actually as over as he thinks he is. Also, Cody seems to not be a terrible person.
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i felt that cody seemed like a main eventer around the time he beat dustin r. and the shine has worn off since then. putting people over and having ok matches, then being put over people who have never been seen in the company before is not the key to solidify your status as a top guy. seems like he should do the other thing more. important feud, great match.
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Im glad that Cody created his own vanity belt so that the guys that actually need it can win the world title like Moxley and Orange Cassidy. And Adam Page. And MJF. The list goes on. Meanwhile Cody gets to have his own thing going on for months at a time and doesn't linger around the world title. He really doesn't need it and losing the ability to go for it was a great move for him.
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HHH getting the "you tapped out" chants at Summerslam 2012 when he was so desperately trying for a postmatch reaction like Austin's at WM13 or Benoit's at the '03 Rumble still warms the cockles of my heart. gently caress that guy. Also just bringing Eddie Kingston on board makes the TNT belt a success.
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hunnert car pileup posted:HHH getting the "you tapped out" chants at Summerslam 2012 when he was so desperately trying for a postmatch reaction like Austin's at WM13 or Benoit's at the '03 Rumble still warms the cockles of my heart. gently caress that guy. and he only did that because the original plan got him the "na na na na goodbye" song
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Part of why the TNT Title open challenge has been frustrating is that while the matches are good, the programs have been about the same length as the heavyweight and tag programs happening at the same time, and it feels a little less special to have a guaranteed 3.5/5 Cody match every week when you're having 3.75/5 at worst Hangman and Omega matches every other week and a Moxley title match just about every month. Obviously COVID derailed a lot of plans they had, but they've had all their titles in a holding pattern since DON and it's been a detriment.
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Cody is the feel good story of Vince jamming someone in the midcard and resisting that before finally striking out on his own. Going on a journey with all of us, out into the wrestling world, having his eyes opened. Seeing its all bigger and more special, and bringing that feeling with him as he joins with big biceps Tony to build a new company that has that spark unlike the soulless WWE. And through that journey and improvement he's done it, he's become your favorite midcarder. It's touching!
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Critical posted:and he only did that because the original plan got him the "na na na na goodbye" song Refresh my memory, when did this happen?
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CobiWann posted:Refresh my memory, when did this happen? I might have it backwards and summerslam was where he got the chant and thus had to try to get his win back at the following wm after lesnar broke his arm on raw
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Dango Bango posted:Scorpio and Brandi are cousins?? I look forward to his nightmare family face tattoo.
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And then they had a third match in a cage where he had a hidden sledge hammer in the cage top portion or whatever it’s called. All three matches weren’t good but I remember the cage match being the best one.
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I'm trying to think of the alternate reality where Charlotte Flair was the one who branched out to lead a company and it just doesn't work the same way that Cody does. Cody was one of those guys putting way more than he needed to into midcard bullshit in the WWE and when he left tried to put in the work to prove he was top guy worthy. Cody can come off as try-hard at times, but his heart is in the right place and he legitimately does listen to and react to fan reactions (As evidence by people digging on him for being in a World Title match as an EVP and losing the stipulation he'll never compete there again, or bringing in guys like Warhorse) He still does teeter on that Triple H line of giving himself very gratuitous entrances entrances and matches, want to be at the top but he's more than willing to put over the rest of the roster and pull them up with him rather than push them down because of insecurities but he's still on that really fine line right now since AEW is in their infancy. The best long-term would probably be a slow-burn Cody heel turn, positioning Hangman to be the top face, and then another slow burn where whoever the new 4 Horsemen are turning on Cody because after all, he's still a Rhodes. The seeds are pretty much there already, since Cody has almost zero interactions with the rest of The Elite anymore.
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Miching Mallecho posted:And then they had a third match in a cage where he had a hidden sledge hammer in the cage top portion or whatever it’s called. Was it the Wrestlemania match where HHH survived minutes in the Kimura Lock and worked over Brock Lesnar's diverticulitus? That poo poo was hilarious.
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I was there for that match. The fact it came right after Taker vs Punk and the crowd was completely and utterly dead just made it funnier
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hunnert car pileup posted:can we have a Dynamite thread on Wednesday dedicated solely to ripping HHH?
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hunnert car pileup posted:can we have a Dynamite thread on Wednesday dedicated solely to ripping HHH? Hopefully MRT's back by then 
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Orange Carlisle posted:Wait did MRT get probated again? I believe they just didn’t return after the last probe, and as far as I know WSAE who was probed with them but actually deserved it also didn’t return. I would like them both back even though I do not think either liked me at all, the more the merrier 9 times out of 10.
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Orange Carlisle posted:Wait did MRT get probated again? No, just never logged back on after that one, even after it got (thankfully) reversed. Didn't respond to my message attempt during all that, hasn't posted since so I'm assuming he hasn't logged on since, and I don't have Twitter or anything else I think he might be on so I can't say everything got better/cleared up. With it being nearly a full week now, it's worth noting I hope MRT's not gone for good. Very valued member of this community, always appreciated their posts and insight Also on a far more minor note if that ends up being the case, I can't commit to making the weekly threads because I really don't know how available I'll be able to be overnight the next few weeks at least (especially on the nights the show's been rescheduled for)
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I don't want to see any good posters get run off MRT's probation was wack so I don't blame him for taking some time away CJ2 you continue to be transparent and informative in your dealings with things, thank you Orange Carlisle fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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PSP has developed a habit of running off decent people while giving too much of a leash to actually bad faith posters for a while now.
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MRT is still tweeting regularly and streaming stuff on PSP-TV, maybe he's just taking a break from the forums
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MRT forgot the password to log in. i told them the password but i guess it's different for each user as it was explained to me. i don't want to argue
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https://twitter.com/MATTHARDYBRAND/status/1295212749757259778 Matt really knows how to turn a hosed up chair shot and spin it into gold.
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RealFoxy posted:PSP has developed a habit of running off decent people while giving too much of a leash to actually bad faith posters for a while now. Yeah.
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I like(d?) Sock as a poster and thought they at least meant what they said, even if it was incorrect sometimes. I don't know how they acted before I got here, though.
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