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I saw someone bring up the point that when Bayley gets called up, are they going to have to reboot her back to the character she was originally when people were asking if she was supposed to be autistic? A big part of why she's over is how the character grew since the beginning and 98% of the Raw audience would have no reason to know why this childlike girl with a side tail who hugs everyone is supposed to be a big deal?
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I've been getting the Jesse Ventura vibe from Graves for a while, and I like how he "tells it like it is" in a heelish way without going completely cartoon-obnoxious heel Michael Cole. Plus as a former wrestler, I like how the other two with no in ring background will ask him for a wrestler's point of view in a match which is something missing from WWE commentary. Also the Eva stuff is great because she's obviously a heel and of course the heel announcer would be rooting for her. He does go a little overboard with it, but I think that it's by design to a degree.
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That reminds me, I thought people talking about a backlash against Izzy were just busting balls, but there seems to be people upset that she was made part of the show. Maybe because she shares a name with my niece, but there's something really gross about someone being mad at that.
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Bayley should be a gigantic star in WWE, but the sad fact is she's far more likely to be the next Emma on the main roster. There's practically zero chance the creative team is going to handle her character properly. Sasha heeling on Izzy was great since it was a heel doing dastardly heel shit and that's almost a lost art these days. All she did was take the bow off her head and the crowd reacted like she punched her out since heels rarely do anything bad.
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I love how in just two appearances Asuka is already over as the cute girl who will kill you then gnaw on your bones.
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The downside to NXT being able to snag some top level indy talent is it makes people forget that at its core its a developmental territory and as such most of the people there are going to be not great for a while. So when a team like the Mechanics show up that are obviously supposed to be in the mold of Ole and Arn, people get disappointed/upset they aren't at that level out of the gate.
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Is TNA the worst wrestling promotion in history?
sek69 replied to Loss's topic in Megathread archive
Plus they have women in the tournament too it seems. What's sad is that Impact is still on my list of shows to record on my DVR and I don't even watch it anymore. I watch Paragon Pro Wrestling on PopTV and CMLL on 52MX yet TNA is just too pointless to watch. In fact it reminds me of a friend/family member who does drugs and after many attempts and hoping they'll clean up, you just have to wash your hands of them and just let nature take its course without being an enabler. -
Ditto, only I'll be watching my Pirates in the NL Wild Card game tonight.
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They should really cement this as the best possible honor to Dusty by having whoever ends up in the Balor Club doing a Horseman beatdown on someone.
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Actually I bet he does care since he has friends who've been active in the cause, but I'm not naive enough to believe he wasn't taking the opportunity to tweak the WWE in the process. Still, if what he says is correct (and by all accounts it is), his motivations for bringing it up shouldn't matter. I loved the people over on the WON board trying to use WWE releasing a Rise Above Cancer CM Punk shirt when he was there as proof he's a hypocrite. Knowing how corporate partnerships work, I doubt the individual wrestlers had a say in the matter. Also it's been funny to see so many wrestling fans act like jilted exes because they loved him so much yet he had the nerve to leave wrestling and go on with his life. It's the exact same thing they chastise Vince for doing.
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Anyone else think that after seeing the leather jacket entrance on last week's NXT TV they're looking to bring back the Rock n' Rolla Devitt? I liked the idea that the Shake Them Ropes guys had where if they're going to make a Balor Club heel group it should be guys the Full Sail crowd hates, so they should have Baron Corbin play the Bad Luck Fale role and carry Finn around on his shoulders
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TNA Bound for Glory Thread.... because I hate life
sek69 replied to goodhelmet's topic in Pro Wrestling
In what might be the final LOLTNA moment, Matt Hardy already has vacated the TNA title since the only footage they have left taped to cobble together a show with was taped months ago and of course he doesn't have the belt in them. -
Speaking of trios, and I know it's beating a dead horse at this point, Steph owning the New Day in a random backstage promo seemed unnecessary to the point of being a deliberate "fuck you" to the audience since the New Day got themselves over. At least with the Seth/Kane stuff there was a reason, since Seth's character is a whiny baby who needs Mom to put him in time out. The New Day stuff just seemed like a reminder who calls the shots.
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CM Punk was pot-stirring on Twitter pointing out that Komen is a scam (almost none of the money actually goes to research) and everyone was jumping on him thinking he was just sour-graping at WWE despite there being tons of documentation out there backing him up.
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The best part is allegedly Vince first soured on Bryan because they do some kind of test to gauge how motivated you are and it's all questions like "do you want to own tons of cars and live in the biggest houses". Since Bryan's worldview is pretty much the opposite of everything they asked about, he's a slacking millennial.
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Of all the things mentioned in the thread, Vince coming to the conclusion he's hurting things more than helping seems to be the least likely to happen though. I think admitting he's too old to be a regular on screen character is the closest we'll get to him having any self realization.
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I think sometimes it's undersold how much even Steven booking is killing everyone not John Cena. Winning a match on PPV no longer has any value when the loser gets their win back the next night on Raw 90% of the time.
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Isn't that pretty much what happened when the Attitude Era started when Vince said he wasn't going to insult everyone's intelligence with heels and babyfaces? They ushered in new sets, new announcers, and so on. I agree it's not something we're likely to see but it's not anything that hasn't happened before.
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WO.com just posted a report from WWE stating John Cena's taking time off for "personal reasons" after the HIAC PPV. He's been banged up for a while, but the cynic in me thinks this is just them trying to sell the "Dolph wants Nikki back" storyline from Total Divas.
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I get that, but Hunter can't seem to get past the wrestler mentality of never wanting to look bad for fear of losing their spot. He was so good at playing politics (the "game", if you weeeeeell) that he can't seem to turn the switch off. If he's going to be running things in the not too distant future, him not able/willing to get babyfaces over will be a bigger problem.
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I've been watching 1998 Raws, and it's really amazing the difference between Vince and HHH as heel authority figures. I couldn't imagine Hunter doing even 1/8th the things Vince did to get Austin over, and it really says a lot of why WWE is in the creative mess they are in. I know it's cliche to complain about Hunter and Steph cutting everyone's balls off, but it's more than that. They want to have their cake and eat it too. Bad guys on Raw, but then they show videos of them visiting sick kids. Then Hunter has to be Dad on NXT. And Steph has to be Mom to the divas division. Then they want to be the all powerful bad guys thwarting all that is good, all while reminding us the current world champ can't lace Hunter's boots. It was really stunning to be reminded of how well Vince played the role of evil owner, while still letting the good guy get over on him at every turn. Can you imagine a babyface today getting the best of HHH to the point he pisses his pants on TV? Of course not. Amazing how not stomping any potential babyface flat led to creating a group of stars that led them to their biggest boom period ever. Are they that much in the bubble/up their own asses that they can't see the reason their product is so stale is that they haven't let anyone get above midcard status since Cena?
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Also don't look now, but the latest batch of original programs on the Network (Table for 3, Legends with JBL, even the SuperStar Ink show) have all been pretty good so far.
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If WWE Films ever made a Daniel Bryan and Ryback buddy comedy, they might actually turn a profit for once.
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I like the interaction between Kane and Seth, it's just that they can't seem to help doing that mid 90s cartoon shit that makes you feel silly watching.
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Well it's hard to avoid when he's constantly put in over-long promo segments and booked to lose to everyone under the age of 56.