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Even if you wanted to keep them a group that fought other groups, the "there was no one left on the roster to fight" thing doesn't make sense to me because The Shield were, themselves, a random assemblage of dudes they just pulled out of the semi-NXT ether and convinced everyone was important, and around the time they broke up is when NXT was first really going into indie-superstar-collectathon mode. Around the time of/within a few months after the breakup the NXT roster had Pac, Sami, Finn, Owens, KENTA, The Revival, The Ascension before they became a joke, even fuckin' Baron Corbin if you wanted to be all Vince McMahon about it. It would've been the easiest thing in the world, and a way to cross-promote a still-new NXT, to have Triple H get revenge for the slaying of his old friends by bringing in an army of his shiny new superwrestler toys the same way they had with The Shield in the first place.
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yeah, the way that basically every single even moderately successful group in WWE history has some story about how they were fighting this constant pitched battle to keep from getting broken up on a weekly basis is really distressingly indicative of why our conversations about the better ways they could do things are basically meaningless
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Aug 1, 2020 20:10
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What insane eldritch power is at the heart of the XFL that it keeps possessing the minds of men with too much money.
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Aug 3, 2020 17:31
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They succeeded in getting me to watch a weekly show for the first time in months and that show succeeded in getting me to not want to watch a weekly show for years.
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Aug 4, 2020 04:06
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fatherofmustard posted:How did the Raw thread get so many replies tonight? There was a huge twitter kerfluffle about how the show was being rewritten under massive chaos earlier today and a big part of it was about this insane rumor that Shane McMahon was bringing back the Brawl 4 All or something, and we all wanted to see how stupid this new thing would be, and we all committed the great fallacy of assuming it would just be stupid, rather than stupid and boring.
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Aug 4, 2020 04:13
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MJeff posted:I cannot stress this enough. Not only did they do this, they had a match involving Sasha end in an Asuka-related DQ and cut to commercial in the middle of the ensuing brawl, and when they returned from commercial they returned straight into that very lengthy recap package with no preamble, after which they came back to Asuka giving an interview about what happened last week rather than what had just happened now, and then Sasha and Bayley had another theme-music-and-all entrance despite having just been in a DQ brawl before the commercial break started.
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Aug 4, 2020 04:32
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Jerusalem posted:Oh God I'm so sorry I didn't catch up on the thread properly and see you'd already done this! Thank you and yes I legit would have thought you made this up I thought of you, J-Ru, when they introduced the 24/7 title match and spoke aloud the sentence "the rules of the 24/7 title are suspended for the duration of the 24/7 title match"
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Aug 4, 2020 06:16
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I cannot get over that they gave Adam Cole the longest world title reign in NXT history, had his stable dominate the company for even longer and put him over everyone from Johnny Gargano to Daniel Bryan, and their first post-championship storyline capitalizing on all of that time and effort is a feud with Pat Buck, Part-Time Backstage Guy
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Aug 6, 2020 08:56
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Alaois posted:oh no its not I actually knew the name part and messed it up because I have made the crucial mistake of posting while half-awake, but wait, I thought Cole's Pat was that dumb rear end in a top hat who hosted the youtube watchalongs and poo poo and got yelled at by Michael Cole for wearing shorts that one time
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Aug 6, 2020 09:03
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It took me like a year to feel really okay watching Daniel Bryan wrestle again and that was just because of concussion and numbness problems, I cannot fathom how long it would take me to not be wincing and half-covering my eyes every time Tyson Kidd got in a ring.
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Aug 9, 2020 16:55
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Jerusalem posted:There's plenty to mock WWE about, but Asuka getting title shots against Sasha and Bayley ain't one of them. That rules. Bayley, Sasha and Asuka all rule, and whatever they do will rule, but it was already a salient point that the WWE had put every single women's championship on the main roster into the Bayley/Sasha angle and wrapping both of them up with a single challenger only makes that feel worse. I was halfway through typing "I'm assuming Sasha will help Bayley retain her title and then Asuka will win Sasha's belt when Bayley doesn't return the favor" before I remembered there's another pay-per-view a loving week after Summerslam so it's just safer to assume nothing will happen.
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Aug 15, 2020 03:13
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Rusev talked WWE again on Ryback's show and it's all bad but this is the keeper:quote:I give it a one go, then a second go. I said, ‘Vince, we have sold out all of our merchandise. We are beating Roman. We are beating AJ. We are beating everybody.’ He said, ‘what do you mean?’ I said, ‘the shirt is sold out, the merch is sold out’ and he said, ‘well maybe they didn’t make enough.’
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Aug 15, 2020 04:55
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I know "the WWE did something completely insane" is old hat as a concept but they keep finding new ways, it's like the visual equivalent of a schizophrenic breakdown
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Aug 21, 2020 00:12
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RealFoxy posted:Vince wants mainstream attention but is stuck in the WWE bubble he has no idea what mainstream is anymore. He's just senile. He wants the mainstream attention, but he also doesn't want any of his people getting popular enough with the mainstream that they could have leverage over The Brand, so he actively refuses to make anyone enough of a marquee figure that they could become a big star and nearly all the mainstream attention they receive is accidental and immediately run into the ground.
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Aug 22, 2020 05:54
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I had Takeover on in a corner during AEW and it bugs me that Pat McAfee looked good.
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Aug 23, 2020 01:48
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he's such a weird Triple H vanity project
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Aug 23, 2020 01:57
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Is it me or does Keith Lee seem weirdly flat tonight?
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Aug 23, 2020 02:12
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Eat My Fuc posted:Literally or figuratively There ain't a diet or workout plan in the world.
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Aug 23, 2020 02:14
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Jerusalem posted:I love Keith Lee but he's one of those wrestlers I feel definitely works much better with a live crowd (a real crowd, not Performance Center hostages). That's definitely part of it but he also looks kind of winded and off-balance, like he took that DDT bump more like he was collapsing than bumping.
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Aug 23, 2020 02:16
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Eat My Fuc posted:i’m not sold enough on Kross to get into the match unfortunately. His entrance is silly and he’s just a guy his whole schtick is so unfocused He's a big stalking power guy except he's also a hardcore martial arts guy except he's also a goth occult guy edit: that might be my first double post in the entire goddamn time I've been here, it is tragic NXT is reduced to this
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Aug 23, 2020 02:18
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of COURSE they did.
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Aug 23, 2020 02:22
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Codependent Poster posted:Why would they book Keith Lee to lose? Because Karrion Kross is CarlCX posted:a weird Triple H vanity project
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Aug 23, 2020 02:28
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sportsgenius86 posted:I would not be at all surprised if Keith Lee is called up. This is one of the biggest weaknesses in the NXT->WWE pipeline right now, Keith Lee was white-hot earlier this year and they did the right thing and put a rocket on him, and then they gradually took his cool stuff away, and then they had him look like a doof on the south side of a completely random feud, and now he's just gotten his rear end completely kicked and looks like a loser, and now that 100% of his momentum is gone, this is the most pragmatic point atwhich he can be called up to the main roster.
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Aug 23, 2020 02:49
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Jerusalem posted:He doesn't think there's anything more that needs to be said? How about explaining why they didn't contact the person actually making the claims against Dream? I would wager he EXCEPTIONALLY does not think there's anything more to be said about that, and he would very much like you to agree with him and ask about why he's so cool.
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Aug 23, 2020 03:34
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https://twitter.com/WWENetwork/status/1297405713904533504 they took the title off keith lee and goku got mad and now kross is injured and might not be able to wrestle
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Aug 23, 2020 06:38
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I occasionally need to be reminded that the WWE has one of the most incredible physical specimens and performers in the history of the sport in Cesaro and the highest-profile thing they've ever done with him is have him lose a championship match to a ten year-old at Wrestlemania
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Aug 23, 2020 17:57
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"Everyone's career will go through ups and downs," says Triple H, the Cerebral Assassin, the rear end-Kicker, the 14-time world champion
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Aug 24, 2020 01:33
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It's really funny to me for some reason that they've spent weeks doing this angle about an evil antifa gang that's wrecking all the shows and causing chaos, and then at the biggest show possible they don't show up for even a second, but the WWE does run a professionally-produced video package to let you know you should care about them.
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Aug 24, 2020 03:10
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Roman's gonna win the belt at Payback before audiences return so Vince McMahon can pipe in the thunderous ovation he's been craving for half a decade.
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Aug 24, 2020 04:25
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JOHN CENA posted:before each show if they're a platinum Inside Crew member ($1,000 a year), they can take a photo with a WWE Superstar (that wwe chooses.) someone out there with a decorative WWE mantel display with 52 weekly photos of Sheamus
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Aug 24, 2020 23:21
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Intruder posted:Didn't Ronda call Becky Rebecca Quin once? Or was that just on twitter? she did, which was then followed by the segment where she explained why Becky's armbar finisher was a fake pro wrestling move because pro wrestling is fake
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Aug 31, 2020 03:02
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Critical posted:Did the ring break the exact same way it has the last four times? Exactly the same with the sole difference being the ref instead took a melodramatic bump to the outside. Which didn't actually make sense because that meant he had to bump in the opposite direction of the ring breaking.
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Golden Bee posted:It’s anyone, but maybe no way Jose is the archetype of “here to have fun”? He tells a story about how disappointed he was when they gave him the name. He knew. I was an honest to god No Way Jose fan, he gave that dumbass gimmick his all and on the rare occasions he was allowed to turn it up and show intensity he was actually a decent brawler and he was real, real good at connecting with a crowd. But no, the second he agreed to the dancing idiot gimmick his career was over.
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