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DarkstarIV posted:WWE has made no mention of Jinder invoking his title match tonight, on social media or on their website. They may have nixed it. I know they talked about it at Survivor Series, but plans may have changed. The only mention of a WWE Championship Match I can see is Jinder vs AJ for the title in a Houston Street Fight, which is almost certainly a dark match. The ad says "Will Styles encounter the Maharaja?!" and instead hypes a Charlotte/Natalya title match. They're not doing both a women's and WWE Championship match on the same show and wouldn't advertise the title match below the women's title match.
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Sanguinia posted:If Charlotte/Ronda is set in stone, I would say almost zero. Alexa is set up as a cowardly unworthy champion and they've planted several specific seeds about how Asuka Wants To Kill Her and she's indignant about it to cover her inadequacies and need to constantly cheat and hide behind better wrestlers to keep the gold. It's an oldschool story and they've put work into it, I don't see them dropping it. With Ronda being around and the women's division getting a massive push I think they're going to want Asuka v. someone good because Ronda's not going to be great. I think she's getting either heel Sasha or Charlotte.
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Tato posted:They should do the US Title as an open challenge ladder match. Can Truth overcome his acrophobia and defend his precious title? He overcame it already when he tried to bring a ladder into the Royal Rumble (or some other gimmick match that wasn’t a ladder match, I forget). He’s gonna do an open challenge at WrestleMania and his hero John Cena will come out. (Please)
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Venomous posted:‘Where’s the drat briefcase?’ It was the 2016 Royal Rumble and he cut a promo the next day saying he overcame his fear of ladders.
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STAC Goat posted:I'm just really cracking up at the idea that WWE said "We have to induct a woman each year" and then like 5 years later realized "We ran out of women we ever gave a poo poo about, pick a random one." I’m legit surprised they didn’t pick Paige
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They put in one person/group of relevance a year and then 4 people whose names 35 year olds remember, then one person some historian remembered. It’s the same formula every year. Next year it will be Batista and 4 people you vaguely remember and one person who is really old and probably dead and possibly never wrestled for WWE outside of like one house show in 1985. So like Batista, the Nasty Boys, The Model Rick Martel, Molly Holly, and like Giant Baba or something. Most of the actual people of relevance who would make sense don’t stop wrestling so they don’t ever become “eligible” like Jericho, HHH, the Hardy Boyz, etc. Although for whatever reason Kurt Angle just does random episodes of Raw as a wrestler where he loses most of the time for basically no reason whatsoever. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Mar 3, 2019 |
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DarkstarIV posted:Dave said on WOR that Lacey Evans is expected to start a feud with Natayla soon. And go over. Well yeah there’s no reason to start your first feud and then lose
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If they were putting Lacey in that match she would be wrestling by now. I’m guessing Sonya and Mandy in a handicap match for Asuka.
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Gumball Gumption posted:Miz feels like he's a great worker but not a great wrestler. Like, his character work is great and he can raise himself to the level of talent that he is working with but he's safe and boring on his own. Everything he does looks obviously worked. He can elevate a match and makes people look good but he's not a name that makes me want to watch a match. The thing is, that being a basic-rear end WWE-style wrestler can get you to really good matches, but Miz still doesn't do that. The most athletic move Becky Lynch does is a dropkick from the top rope and she has some good-rear end matches. No matter how good Miz is on the mic, nothing he really says makes me want to see a match with him in it. He is entertaining on his own, but I don't know that the "promotion" part of his promos works simply because he has a very long history of matches nobody cares about and which weren't particularly memorable.
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There’s something funny about the fact that Miz, Roman and Cena are all pretty over as babyfaces.
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OctoberCountry posted:Bryan vs Miz ended up being really lame though Yeah but now we can get babyface Miz against Heel Daniel Bryan 
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Venomous posted:Miz/Bryan was only bad because they gave them, like, two minutes I'm sure faceMiz v. heelShane is gonna rule 
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I mean, showing up randomly like 3 weeks before WrestleMania to get into a mid-card ladder match is a thing Sami Zayn does
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Gaz-L posted:Oh gently caress, I forgot about the Wrestlemania Intercontinental Ladder Clusterfuck. Welp, that's what BRAUN, Sami, Balor, Corbin, Lashley and I guess Rush are doing. Braun is doing a power spot with the SNL guys
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I bet Sami would rather get a WrestleMania paycheck than show up in the place he already lives
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Aphrodite posted:lol he’s not going to Wrestlemania. If he shows up on Monday, I assure you he is. Gaz-L posted:So why do they insist on trying to cram everyone and their 50 year old son on to the card? Because you do still get paid for being on a PPV
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Djarum posted:Yeah I think that is what they are going to ultimately going to have to do, or just have off seasons for people so you have SummerSlam and maybe Survivor Series top tier shows where you rotate stars in and out. They’re never doing that
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They’re not doing it anyways
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Yeah, I'm sure HHH was sitting alone in his house crying into his cheerio's asking himself how he it would ever be possible to have an NXT TakeOver in New York City compete with G1 Supercard
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VJeff posted:Levesque Fears Meij And I'm sure HHH no longer gets any sleep when he wonders how the main roster can compete with the insane star power of Cody Rhodes, Kenny Omega, a comedy tag team, 50 year old Jericho and a metric ton of people neither WWE or NJPW considered good enough to sign during the last two years of signing virtually everyone with even a glimmer of hope to get on television. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Mar 18, 2019 |
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VJeff posted:I mean obviously they could make it a shorter, more tightly paced event but at no point in the last three years have they shown any interest in that. They stress "time spent watching the network" as a metric they care about. They're trying to produce as much loving content as possible, they might as well go all out and just have two long-ish events on back-to-back days instead of one horrifying gauntlet where you're wishing for death by the end of the night. It's not "righteous indignation" to have a differing viewpoint that isn't even offensive. Relax. I have no interest in AEW failing because I'm a fan of wrestling and unironically enjoy it in general; I would love for it to be a huge success, really. I just see things that look a bit dicey given their stated goals. I'll give you that it's not exactly the correct thread for that discussion. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Mar 18, 2019 |
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Draxion posted:who are you responding to, nobody's talking about AEW It's going to be bad because it's going to be 8 hours long which isn't the main reason why WM34 was bad, WM34 was bad because the entirety of the similarly long show was matches nobody gave a flying gently caress about. A match with Stephanie McMahon in it was literally the best match on the show and was in the first hour of the show. I would be highly surprised if WM35 was actually somehow worse with Rollins/Lesnar, Bryan/Kofi, Becky/Charlotte/Ronda as the three featured matches.
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Tomahawk posted:m8 are you back on the sauce Using an alcoholic-in-recovery’s addiction issues as a pithy insult to win an online wrestling discussion seems cool and not at all an actual rear end in a top hat move. What actually happened was I confused the AEW guy with the NJPW guy. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Mar 18, 2019 |
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:The WWE title match going on within the first two hours of the show is a good thing because it'll be before the death slog truly kicks in, so people will actually be into that match and pay attention. Per Dave, card position isn't finalized until the week of the show, but I would be surprised if the WWE Championship match isn't basically where Bryan's match last year was - sort of the second half of the show but not right up against the billed main events. I have doubts that Kofi Kingston is going to take higher billing on the card order than Roman Reigns is. I have absolutely no evidence in support of that, it just seems like how they'd do it, particularly if Roman is going to lose (which he should, Raw needs a true main event heel and they can explain it away by saying Roman wasn't at full strength, and also Drew McIntyre kicks rear end) and the three big babyfaces are going to win. Seems clear to me that the Triple Threat is closing the show to the point I would consider it absolute insanity if they didn't. Everything they're doing looks like a setup to put over Becky as the coolest person in the entire universe, Ronda's playing an unbeatable asskicker who hates the medium wrestling and its fans, and it's been the main story of both brands. That is like the definition of a main event. Have Becky's reactions cooled down? Sure. I don't think it's because she's actually less popular than she was before though, I think it's more a predictable consequence of not having her do awesome poo poo every single week. Regardless of what people think of the pre-Fastlane build to the match, I'm pretty confident the match will be extremely hot if it's put in the main event slot. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Mar 19, 2019 |
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:To be fair, only one of the big three matches should go on last, and we know it isn't going to be Daniel Bryan/Kofi Kingston because of how WWE works. And with how much emphasis they've put on Becky/Rhonda(/Charlotte, I guess she's there too) being THE MAIN EVENT they shouldn't bait and switch it with Brock/Rollins unless Rollins is going over and even that is a maybe. The match has cooled off a little but Becky winning will still be hot I don't think it matters at all whether Rollins is going over or not. It simply isn't the "main event." Unlike Reigns, Rollins has never received particularly nonsensical booking to push him as the top star and he frankly isn't the top star. Rollins/Lesnar doesn't gain anything from being last. The point of main eventing is to put over a match as the biggest match in the company and make the people in it look like massive stars. Rollins has a 0% chance of ever doing anything as cool as cashing in at WM31 and Lesnar main evented like 3 times and still doesn't show up.
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Jiro posted:Kind of disappointing that they're just doing a massive wall of video screens than a unique physical set. I think the video screens can physically move around. I remember Muse had a stage setup that was like that, it could rearrange into like pyramids or whatever on the fly in between songs. I guess it could just be a bunch of TVs, which would be kinda lame, but they usually seem like they put a bunch into the WM stage setup. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Apr 5, 2019 |
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Destroy My Sweater posted:subject to change “Plans change”
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achillesforever6 posted:charlotte wasn't -600 she was +600 though now is at +550
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