|
https://m.france24.com/en/20180904-saudi-arabia-declares-online-satire-punishable-offence Progressive nation!
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 21:07
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 16:37 |
|
|
it's legit a miracle how well AJ Styles has been booked and protected. He had stellar matches with Roman/Cena and even beat the latter clean. Whereas almost everyone from NXT, Shinsuke included, got shoved off at some point. I guess the lesson is: if you come up through NXT, you're hosed, unless your last name is Flair. Samoa Joe maybe is the only other exception? He's consistently booked as a threat and has been thrown as everyone from Roman to Brock to AJ.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 21:09
|
|
|
SamuraiFoochs posted:-I think Drew and Dolph winning is good for the tag division. It's super annoying to me, because I get so frustrated about wastes of storytelling time and focus even when I don't necessarily like the people benefiting from it, and the fact that we spent all this time doing, un-doing and re-doing a B-Team/Revival feud only to have Dolph and Drew just waste them out of nowhere and take the tag titles with no buildup is such a narrative waste, but they're also so objectively better and more high-profile for the tag division than what's been going on with it for like half a year that I can't help being pretty cool with it.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 21:34
|
|
|
drew and dolph are designed to split up eventually so putting the belts on them and cutting the legs out of under one of the teams that's going to be in the division long term is dumb as hell
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 21:36
|
|
|
At some point in the last week it sunk in to me that, huh, it was a long, jagged road but the Revival is getting a real push here. They're probably gonna be tag champs and hey, that's kinda cool. Whoops. Drew and Dolph aren't BAD tag champs but it kinda sucks that the Revival got shafted like that.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 21:39
|
|
|
It would have been so much cooler if Braun teamed up with the Authors of Pain instead.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 21:47
|
|
|
WWE booking something that defies conventional wisdom? 
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 21:48
|
|
|
Jesus christ those Brie botches are embarrassing.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 22:04
|
|
|
Dylan McKay posted:Jesus christ those Brie botches are embarrassing. I request gifs. Does anyone have gifs?
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 22:28
|
|
|
Sandman McMahon posted:I request gifs. Does anyone have gifs? they're in the OP
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 22:30
|
|
|
Raskolnikov38 posted:drew and dolph are designed to split up eventually so putting the belts on them and cutting the legs out of under one of the teams that's going to be in the division long term is dumb as hell The tag division isn't going to be important long term though
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 22:35
|
|
|
Raskolnikov38 posted:they're in the OP Yay.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 22:45
|
|
|
Seemed like a wasted opportunity that the B Team weren't immediately destroyed by Drew and Dolph. As much as I enjoyed the dumb little B Team run they should have always been built to lose the titles in nothing short of a glorified squash match preferably to the Authors of Pain.
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 22:57
|
|
|
Raskolnikov38 posted:drew and dolph are designed to split up eventually so putting the belts on them and cutting the legs out of under one of the teams that's going to be in the division long term is dumb as hell You're not at all wrong, but the tag division has fallen so impossibly far that cutting the legs out of a longterm team is virtually impossible to differentiate from how things have been operating nominally like, thus far in 2018,
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 23:16
|
|
|
I'm amazed how no one has mentioned yet how dumb it was to take Ellering away from AOP only to turn around a few months later and put them up with Drake loving Maverick
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 23:18
|
|
|
Well, Ellering didn't want tour. There aren't really any other managers around and AoP have no personality of their own, so~ (It's still a real dumb fit.)
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 23:20
|
|
|
pressedbunny posted:Well, Ellering didn't want tour. There aren't really any other managers around and AoP have no personality of their own, so~ he denied this
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 23:22
|
|
|
Yeah, Ellering said he had no issue with being on the road, and that nobody had given him any explanation/reason for removing him from AoP. Not even to say,"We want them to stand on their own" or anything.DLC Inc posted:Samoa Joe maybe is the only other exception? He's consistently booked as a threat and has been thrown as everyone from Roman to Brock to AJ. Dunn: Hey Vince, check out that fat guy, hehehe Vince: My God, that's John Belushi! Push him to the moon! Dunn: But sir, that's no- Vince: Do as I say 
|
|
#
?
Sep 4, 2018 23:33
|
|
|
yea ok posted:he denied this Jerusalem posted:Yeah, Ellering said he had no issue with being on the road, gently caress WWE. Have we said that enough yet? If not, gently caress WWE again. gently caress them. I know it's not new that they resent both tag teams and managers, but gently caress them anyway. Oh god, I just remembered Sanity, too. gently caress WWE.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:00
|
|
|
Hot take: The B-Team were an absolute dead end act. Nothing was going to change that.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:08
|
|
|
I legit forgot that Sanity exists. They might have had a quicker path to irrelevance on the main roster than the Ascension.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:08
|
|
|
It feels like NXT is like little league. They want you to succeed. They'll coach you, give you advice, and change things up that aren't working. WWE main roster is like marine boot camp. They purposely try to encumber you. You think you can get over that mountain?? gently caress you, take this 90 lb backpack with you. You need a manager to talk for you? gently caress you, we're taking him away from you. Oh, and if you don't get over you were never any good to begin with.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:10
|
|
|
SamuraiFoochs posted:Hot take: The B-Team were an absolute dead end act. Nothing was going to change that. who cares. everything is a dead act. ziggler and mcintyre are also going nowhere plus they suck. the B Team was funny and novel. for gods sake
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:10
|
|
|
Wouldn't be surprised if WWE thought Ellering was too old to put on TV.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:12
|
|
|
Baron Corbin posted:who cares. everything is a dead act. ziggler and mcintyre are also going nowhere plus they suck. the B Team was funny and novel. for gods sake this. mcintyre became a dead man walking the moment he was paired with ziggler
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:12
|
|
|
Mixed Match Challenge is coming back apparently. https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1037114075023466496 Miz & Asuka Braun Strowman & Alexa Bliss Rusev & Lana Jimmy Uso & Naomi Finn Balor & Bayley Bobby Lashley & Sasha Banks R-Truth & Carmella Jinder Mahal & Alisha Fox AJ Styles & Charlotte Kevin Owens & Natalya There are the teams this year.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:16
|
|
|
There ought to be some robots gimmicks and their manager is a slave to them.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:17
|
|
|
DarkstarIV posted:Mixed Match Challenge is coming back apparently. welp gently caress that r-truth carmella story they've been setting up then
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:18
|
|
|
SamuraiFoochs posted:Hot take: The B-Team were an absolute dead end act. Nothing was going to change that. I don't think anybody disagrees (or ever disagreed) with this. It's also another example of WWE doing the thing where they make a comedy act (face or heel) champions or involved in a match with somebody legitimate, and it's clear to all involved that they're out of their league.... then make the match 15 minutes long with the loser/joke wrestler/team holding their own or even dominating until the person they're facing who is supposed to be legit only barely manages to eke out a win. Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Sep 5, 2018 |
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:18
|
|
|
Honestly I feel like Miz should be tagging with Maryse for this upcoming Mixed Match Challenge. She's going to be having a match at Hell in a Cell, and likely Evolution as well. It would let her get rid of ring rust and maybe improve.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:28
|
|
|
Jerusalem posted:Dunn: Hey Vince, check out that fat guy, hehehe Well, to paraphrase the tag line for the accurate and much beloved John Belushi biopic Wired, for Samoa Joe every night was Tuesday night.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:32
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/TDC1987/status/1037117160781504512 Congrats to Smackdown for having 40% of the arena tarped off.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:38
|
|
|
Baron Corbin posted:who cares. everything is a dead act. ziggler and mcintyre are also going nowhere plus they suck. the B Team was funny and novel. for gods sake  completely
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:38
|
|
|
Finn and Bayley forming Abs of Steel
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:40
|
|
|
The Revival are boring
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:40
|
|
|
Worth noting that the Mixed Match Challenge tournament this season will have two matches per episode, and is in a round robin format. It's still 30 minutes per episode though, so expect the matches to be fairly short.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:43
|
|
|
The B Team were loving terrible
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:43
|
|
|
DarkstarIV posted:https://twitter.com/TDC1987/status/1037117160781504512
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:45
|
|
|
DarkstarIV posted:https://twitter.com/TDC1987/status/1037117160781504512 Your future Flagship WWE Show
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:46
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 16:37 |
|
|
It's about the fans you don't see.
|
|
#
?
Sep 5, 2018 00:48
|
|
