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Quantum of Phallus posted:The Fiend is just utter poo poo. Everyone he has matches with, with the exception of literal GOAT Daniel Bryan, has come out looking like an absolute dork. Fat guy who can't go that no sells and doesn't emote or put in any effort and can't do anything interesting in the ring with a bad finisher. But they like the entrance and the largely unrelated vignettes. The weird thing is watch the Bray Friend vs Miz match again (or don't it's still bad), he emotes like crazy, plays to the crowd, has tons of personality. So while I dislike Bray, I'm not sure it's all him.
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ICR posted:From WON: who the gently caress is watching HIAC 2019
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STAC Goat posted:Is it just me or does breaking off Big E from the New Day and having him go from a fun tag wrestler to a serious solo wrestler sound like the storyline is "Big E's depressed"? Big Ennui
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Eat My Fuc posted:Big Ennui Lol
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Raskolnikov38 posted:who the gently caress is watching HIAC 2019 Probably autoplays and people who see advertising for hell in a cell and think it's the new one
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BrigadierSensible posted:Serious question: It was supposed to pop ratings lmao
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Eat My Fuc posted:Big Ennui
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Spiderdrake posted:The weird thing is watch the Bray Friend vs Miz match again (or don't it's still bad), he emotes like crazy, plays to the crowd, has tons of personality. So while I dislike Bray, I'm not sure it's all him. I haven't seen them since they first aired so maybe it was just because it was fresh at the time, but I distinctly recall the first few Firefly Funhouses being really entertaining and interesting, and then they got lame pretty much from the point WWE started "helping" by taking over the writing and filming it all backstage during shows. Eat My Fuc posted:Big Ennui Goddamn 
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BrigadierSensible posted:Serious question: Dabba-kato
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Aye Doc posted:give goldberg the strap again and watch ratings soar This but unironically
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Grendels Dad posted:I doubt too much of it can be laid at the feet of Wyatt. What is he going to do, say "No I'm not going to have these lovely gimmick matches giving me more airtime than most of the other dudes combined"? By all accounts Bray has tons of creative freedom and people in the back legitimately think his community theater poo poo is next-level genius so they keep letting it on TV. So yes, I will absolutely lay this at his feet.
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Agreed. You don't have Vince in your vignettes threatening to fire you in puppet form if Vince isn't immediately involved.Jerusalem posted:I haven't seen them since they first aired so maybe it was just because it was fresh at the time, but I distinctly recall the first few Firefly Funhouses being really entertaining and interesting, and then they got lame pretty much from the point WWE started "helping" by taking over the writing and filming it all backstage during shows. The early ones are a returning Bray who is pretty jacked (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDD0RC0PKBM) doing fun stuff while hinting at the darker character. The minute it gets going and the Fiend is defined as what it is, he's on the road and no longer in great shape or in a position to be mysterious. Given the puppet I assume Vince was closely involved early on so I don't think the writing changed just the energy level and mystery. There's no mystery to his dark side now, it's totally confirmed he'll talk up a big game in the funhouse and then go out and have a bad match. That's it. That's the Fiend now. Goofy Funhouse vignette->Entrance->Bad Match. Before we could at least pretend it was going to be some creative and interesting.
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The Croc posted:What was Big E's last real singles thing before new day. Rusev angle involving lots of giant flag waving? ... I got 5! ... ... down in NXT
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Oct 16, 2020 23:50
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The Croc posted:What was Big E's last real singles thing before new day. Rusev angle involving lots of giant flag waving? I remember the big post AJ Lee thing was "stare at Television at an odd angle with INTENSITY." They really milked that character in the mid teens. Eat My Fuc posted:Big Ennui Effin rofflecopter.
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People complain about bray being fat but it’s categorically true fat wrestlers are better
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Vader he ain't.
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Apparently Miro confirmed on a stream that Ben Carter signed with WWE
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Dacap posted:Apparently Miro confirmed on a stream that Ben Carter signed with WWE Yeah, but during a pandemic with no work visa, getting likely signed by NXT UK seems like a decent deal. It's probably for 15 years but good luck to him.
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CarlCX posted:They've strategically devalued the poo poo out of their pay-per-views and turned NXT into a television brand, so I'm not sure what exactly the draw for the WWE Network is even supposed to be anymore Their award winning original programming
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oldpainless posted:Their award winning original programming Their documentaries are always real good even if they usually full of the wwe revisionist history.
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I would looooove to be an editor on one of their documentaries or promo packages. They're really well put together and they have so much archive footage. It'd be really fun to work on one of those.
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flashy_mcflash posted:Didn't they say they were developing something called NXT Underground which was to be a developmental feeder program for their developmental brand? Seems like a very good idea for the broken leg factory to adopt shoot fights alongside their dumb training drills. NXT UK is NXT Underground
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imo it kind of rules that the last real die hard modern wwe fans dropped watching the shows and ppv because wwe mishandled booking Bray's edgy gimmick as soon as they could multiple times
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I’m pretty sure HIAC 2019 is in the free tier of the network right now.
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Congratulations to Ben Carter on his early retirement
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HIAC 2019 should be in MOMA
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Now we wait for the best part, the horrible name they give him before he fades into absolute obscurity behind a wall of sexpests
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I keep forgetting the WWE Network has a free tier now and thinking "I should check out what's on it" but then not because its WWE.
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HidaO-Win posted:Yeah, but during a pandemic with no work visa, getting likely signed by NXT UK seems like a decent deal. It's probably for 15 years but good luck to him.
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RealFoxy posted:Has NXT UK even started running shows again? They just sent over like, everyone of value left on the roster to Florida (And some people of zero value) Yeah it's back.
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Maybe I shouldn't be sad but I'm still sorta sad. Do you think he knows he's just getting paid to not wrestle for AEW or did he drink the Kool-Aid and think his WWE career is ever going to amount to anything?
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RealFoxy posted:Has NXT UK even started running shows again? They just sent over like, everyone of value left on the roster to Florida (And some people of zero value) Yeah they setup in bt's studio near west hams ground i think and shot some shows there.
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ChrisBTY posted:Maybe I shouldn't be sad but I'm still sorta sad. Do you think he knows he's just getting paid to not wrestle for AEW or did he drink the Kool-Aid and think his WWE career is ever going to amount to anything? He has zero chance of getting a work visa for the US at the moment so maybe by the time his WWE contract is up, America will have its poo poo together and he can move over. I'm sure he'd walk into a job with AEW
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ChrisBTY posted:Maybe I shouldn't be sad but I'm still sorta sad. Do you think he knows he's just getting paid to not wrestle for AEW or did he drink the Kool-Aid and think his WWE career is ever going to amount to anything? And who knows what he thinks, but we'll probably never see him again.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Yeah it's back. The Croc posted:Yeah they setup in bt's studio near west hams ground i think and shot some shows there.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:lol no way the Japanese are letting any WWE people near their borders Not that I had faith it would've gone anywhere soon because it was like what, two years between NXT UK having their first tournament and having their first show or something ridiculously dumb (Because they wanted to sign everyone in the UK up out of fear of World of Sport lmao)
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