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are you all being sincere or sarcastic? AJ Styles was pushed fairly well from the beginning outside of having to face a jobber or two early on. The WWE doesn't have a good track record of pushing hot acts from other companies; they've messed up quite a lot of them. I feel good about correcting you
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Yeah, AJ was pushed hard from the start. It's silly to say otherwise.OldTennisCourt posted:Yeah man they'll spend an enormous amount of money to acquire the best wrestler on Earth and have him get squashed by Big Show. As we all know WWE is run by reverse-vampire demons who survive on the tears of wrestling fans. I only wish they were competent enough to be working in conjunction with the Rand Corporation 
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Reminder that when AJ first came in WWE insisted on calling the 39-year-old, 15+ year veteran "the rookie redneck." They called him this multiple times a show, for weeks on end. They absolutely did not intend to push him as a top guy until his house show reactions and merch sales forced their hand.
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They signed the most known, most famous women's MMA fighter ever and had her first singles feud be with Nia Jax, but yeah this is a company that absolutely always knows how to utilize all its talent and definitely never makes mistakes that can be called out as mistakes from the word "go"
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I mean look at the track record for the NXT call ups which is talent they've 'developed' in terms of pushes and success and yup not the best track record
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Benne posted:Reminder that when AJ first came in WWE insisted on calling the 39-year-old, 15+ year veteran "the rookie redneck." They called him this multiple times a show, for weeks on end. He got to debut in the Royal Rumble instead of on NXT, got immediately put into a feud with a top star in Jericho, transitioned from that into wrestling for the title in a feud with Roman Reigns, then had a feud with John Cena in which he only got beaten in a multi-man tag, then won the title from Dean Ambrose. All this in roughly 8-9 months from his debut, fighting nothing but top guys and being treated as a legitimate threat/star the entire time.
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Aphrodite posted:He thinks helmets cause them. This isn't as insane as you think. It's a bit of a paradox really. The idea is that the safety people feel in football equipment leads to them charging at each other faster which leads to greater injuries. http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/new...bk10tkmhxm8ayr7 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/12143470/Helmets-could-increase-brain-injuries-in-sport-warns-Concussion-doctor.html They also likely fail to prevent concussions in the first place along with giving you that extra sense of security https://www.cbsnews.com/news/football-helmets-concussion-protection/ https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/5/10919146/nfl-football-helmet-head-injuries-safety-protech-vicis
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Chris James 2 posted:They signed the most known, most famous women's MMA fighter ever and had her first singles feud be with Nia Jax, but yeah this is a company that absolutely always knows how to utilize all its talent and definitely never makes mistakes that can be called out as mistakes from the word "go" They consider Nia a top level star. That they're wrong doesn't change that they think this is a high profile thing.
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AJ Styles and his WWE Championship were the fourth or fifth most important thing in their feud at the start of the year. Also, like, why don't you go ahead and point me out any good feud AJ has had since he dropped the belt to Cena? All of 2017 and 2018 seems to have been an ongoing project to see how you can make a feud between AJ Styles and X be boring and unsatisfying as gently caress. His best booked feud was the one with Jinder for Pete's sake. My point to this is you can be a pushed guy in WWE and they'll still have you doing boring unsatisfying garbage.
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They had Daniel Bryan come back after 2 years and put him in a tag match with Shane at Wrestlemania and then made his first solo feud against Big Cass. They also fed AJ to Roman and only made him champion after the brand split. Hell, WWE can't even push Roman correctly, and he's a homegrown talent. Strawberry Panda fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Jun 14, 2018 |
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Aphrodite posted:They consider Nia a top level star. The main roster women's division in general is a mess. Unless you have connections (Nia's related to The Rock, and Charlotte is related to Ric Flair) or are blond (Charlotte, Alexa, Carmella, and probably Mandy before too long), you aren't getting featured as a top star. Or you won't get the spotlight on you for a decent amount of time. In ring talent be damned. It's a pretty big problem on the main roster. But I think the root of the problem is that Vince has a problem with the women's division as it is right now, because he's trying to find the next Trish Stratus, despite the fact that there are many women on the roster who aren't blond or have connections who could outwrestle and most likely outdraw Trish if WWE actually got behind them. In NXT it's not really an issue. It's a problem with WWE booking as a whole really. At least on the main roster. The main roster creative teams intentionally book you to expose your flaws, instead of trying to hide or fix them (like what NXT does). There are two simple ways to significantly improve WWE's product that won't cost them money. 1) Stop forcing awful scripts/segments onto talent. Give them a list of bullet points to hit, and let them write their own stuff or go unscripted. 2) Stop booking your talent around the idea that their flaws must be front and center at all times. You should try and hide them, or remedy them. DarkstarIV fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Jun 14, 2018 |
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Strawberry Panda posted:They had Daniel Bryan come back after 2 years and put him in a tag match with Shane at Wrestlemania and then made his first solo feud against Big Cass. If I were the bucks I’d look at how they’ve done basically nothing with gallows and Anderson. Edit: making bayley into just another loser too. Bayley was such a lay up that it’s impressive how much they dropped the ball with her. Faustian Bargain fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Jun 14, 2018 |
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bucks should demand $10m over 3 years each along with insurance and road coverages. in fact the baseline for wwe wrestlers should be $900,000.
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Rarity posted:I only see the Elite going to WWE if they're given the AJ Styles of treatment of instant main roster callup and instant big push. It wouldn't be worth it to them otherwise. I dream of royal rumble final 4 of Karl Anderson, Finn, AJ, and Kenny. WWE would put Roman in the final 4 instead, of course.
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DarkstarIV posted:The main roster women's division in general is a mess. Unless you have connections (Nia's related to The Rock, and Charlotte is related to Ric Flair) or are blond (Charlotte, Alexa, Carmella, and probably Mandy before too long), you aren't getting featured as a top star. Sasha’s not really Eddie’s daughter that’s just a forum joke.
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Aphrodite posted:They consider Nia a top level star. I can't believe how well her walking out on RAW worked.
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Yes cause the WWE has a real good track record of pushing super hot acts from other companies as top stars when they come in like Ric Flair's first run, LOD's first run, Goldberg's first run...oh Was it his feud with Savage? Or dropping the title out of nowhere to Bret Hart?
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OldTennisCourt posted:Yeah man they'll spend an enormous amount of money to acquire the best wrestler on Earth and have him get squashed by Big Show. As we all know WWE is run by reverse-vampire demons who survive on the tears of wrestling fans. You must be new to watching and following WWE
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Wazzu posted:I can't believe how well her walking out on RAW worked. The Rock knows how to work Vince.
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piss tape israel posted:What was wrong with Flair's first run? He won the first ever (and only?) Rumble where the WWF Title was on the line, which was a big deal at the time. Flair's first run on it's own seems okay till you realize he came in with the actual NWA belt, was the actual Heavyweight champion and the WWF could have actually booked a legit champion vs Champion feud. They turned on it quickly, never ran Hogan vs Flair and his run was probably one of the weaker Flair runs of that time period.
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just getting around to watching smackdown now... did lana totally drop her accent for a minute?
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boar guy posted:just getting around to watching smackdown now... did lana totally drop her accent for a minute? Yep, it was really noticeable and super weird.
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Jerusalem posted:Yep, it was really noticeable and super weird. it's also odd that it wasn't edited out of the west coast broadcast
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a few years ago the merest mention on omega or the bucks going to WWE would've sent people into conniptions. now everybody knows that it doesnt matter how many indie/japanese darlings the company signs, the booking remains the same.
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piss tape israel posted:He won the first ever (and only?) Rumble where the WWF Title was on the line, which was a big deal at the time. At the time, yes. Triple H would later win the title off Roman Reigns in the Rumble. ~~~~~~~~~~ Man, having Styles come in and lose a couple of matches before a push is one of the few things I actually feel WWE did right. Styles is an insanely good wrestler, and he should absolutely be at the top, but having a guy his size come in and immediately kick the rear end of your entire roster buries your own company. Not just the talent. The product itself. WWE has a luxury of having very good talent available at most parts of the card. Not everyone is an "in the know" wrestling fan. No matter how gifted AJ is, it's gonna look real bad to have everyone in your roster lie down for him from the word go. It'd be one thing if he were a Samoa Joe or a Braun Strowman or a Bill Goldberg and you could hype him as this unstoppable monster. AJ can't do that. You have to show off his skills to get people behind him. From the moment he came into the WWE, Styles has had a fantastic degree of hype/protection. Entering the Royal Rumble for a bit of solo action with the guy the company is trying to make into its top star. Giving him a good run in the rumble and having him only eventually be eliminated by one of the best heels in the company. Putting him in a lengthy feud with the previous top guy of the company, giving him two championship runs, making him the only believable threat to Brock Lesnar in over a year (Aside from Samoa Joe in the segments that weren't the actual match itself).... Styles was handled exactly right. They had him lose at Wrestlemania to one of the most respected wrestlers in the entire world, and also all time, in Chris Jericho. Oh. Darn. Compare his booking to pretty much anyone called up from NXT. If anything, dudes coming directly to Raw/SD have a huge advantage over dudes who get stuck in NXT first, even if NXT tends to put on a much better product.
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https://twitter.com/MojoRawleyWWE/status/1006942239837376514 Don't care if this is a repost
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OldTennisCourt posted:Yeah man they'll spend an enormous amount of money to acquire the best wrestler on Earth and have him get squashed by Big Show. As we all know WWE is run by reverse-vampire demons who survive on the tears of wrestling fans. Meanwhile, Daniel Bryan is doing a program with Big Cass, because putting one of the best in the world with a botchy idiot when he's working on borrowed time before he concusses himself again and quits when they pull his card is the Best Plan. Instead of, you know, getting in the big money dream matches.
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This is a Public Service Announcement everyone should go check out Pete Dunne and Kyle O'Reilly on the latest NXT because it's really loving good please and thank you
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I haven't even seen it yet and based on the participants alone I'm gonna enthusiastically agree.
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Rovert posted it in the NXT thread, but this match is well worth ten minutes of your time too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21KVoHjeN8c
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WWE has booked poorly for years and it takes an overwhelming amount of talent to, well, overwhelm that. Styles happens to have that exact amount of talent. Reigns is their guy and they put proportionally a crazy amount of time, effort, and thought into making him the number one babyface—a captivating protagonist that makes people want to see him wrestle—and they can’t do it. I think spiteful booking certainly exists but honestly it’s just a company that is bad at its (at this point) tertiary job of storytelling. It’s just a thing this company is not good at almost all of the time, to the point where even when they are get it right, it’s difficult to not just feel dread about when the other shoe will drop. Its primary goal is to produce content for money and they’re at a point where that content’s quality (according to two loving billion dollars) doesn’t really matter as long as it’s live. They’ve lost the onus to produce good stories because they don’t need stars to draw money, and if they don’t need stars, then they don’t need good stories for those stars. NXT has good storytelling frequently but also suffers from like the black hole aspect of the main roster. Like, when will my favorite be pulled in and torn apart by the singularity? Ahhhhh
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That's what boggles me. How are they this bad? I mean, they're basically writing on the level of daytime soap operas. Is it just that nobody with a functioning brain will work in Vince's writers' room?
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Liquid Communism posted:That's what boggles me. There are very few people capable of writing 3 hours of television every week, let alone 3 hours of television where you have to rewrite things multiple times, including the day of the show.
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Liquid Communism posted:That's what boggles me. It's a crazy amount of content, a lot of pressure from different areas (not just Vince, but networks, sponsors), a gigantic history to compete with (both in terms of trying to be better, but also not re-hashing any storylines from the past 33 years). They are still poo poo at their jobs, though.
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Whatever the reason is, the fact is that RAW is largely an unwatchable mess and whatever little good that comes from it is quickly drowned out by all the sheer poo poo everywhere else. gently caress sake.
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rare Magic card l00k posted:There are very few people capable of writing 3 hours of television every week, let alone 3 hours of television where you have to rewrite things multiple times, including the day of the show. and on top of all this, you need an inhuman level of tolerance for asinine politicking dogshit because the baroquely terrible family at the helm can only derive joy from humiliating the less powerful
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I don't think we'd be talking about the booking and writing if it were just...simply bad. The writing is bad, but also bipolar and completely without any coherence. Why do wrestling fans bring up continuity? Because it is legitimately a shocking thing for the WWE to remember, to the point where just a throwaway line nowadays by a wrestler can instantly enhance a singular match. It's beyond just bad writing. If the WWE could manage to put out bad writing, I'd be watching the product. What the WWE puts out is the equivalent of insane wall carvings of a man who eats his own feces. Shinjobi fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Jun 14, 2018 |
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Forgive me if this has already been discussed or if it is terribly naive. But given the downsides to working with WWE, (horrific schedule, no creative freedom, subject to the whims of a madman etc.), and the upsides, (potential big money, big exposure, get to 'live the dream'). Why don't more people take the Brock Lesnar option? The "I'll work part time, not give a poo poo, and take fucktonnes of cash" option. I know this option isn't offered to many, (and truth be told I don't fully understand why it was offered to Brock). But if the WWE/Vince/HHH has a big enough hard on for you and you are in the least bit talented as a negotiator then surely you could try and get that deal. And if they want you enough then surely they will offer it or something like it. Or at least point at Brock and argue that maybe you should get a little of what he has in terms of time off and/or pay.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Forgive me if this has already been discussed or if it is terribly naive. John Cena and Brock both ahve that deal, basically. Nobody else has the combination of big enough, and wanting that. Who do you think WWE/HHH/Vince has a big enough hard on for? They know not to give golden eggs out freely.
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