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Seth has one quarter of a point. It's completely undermined by the fact that one tried to play it as intentionally goofy, and the other intentionally straight.

Oh, fuck. You cracked the code, bubba.

His gimmick being horrendous is more of an indictment of how poorly he was treated than anything. You get a young dude who looks good and based on all accounts was poised to be a champ quite early, and give him a gimmick that not only was bad, but was borderline dangerous due to the real-life situation at the time, and you run him off in six months. For the overall pointing of WWE fucking with potential talent to the point they leave the industry, he counts. Dude was 24, so it's even more of a "What If?".

That one made me really sad. We could also include Muhammad Hassan too, tbh. But yeah. Rusev has a peculiar sense of humor, to the point where you can't be sure if he's trolling or serious. Looking forward to him playing Tekken 7 online!

I dunno, bubba. NXT was problematic way before it became a live show and started competing with AEW. In fact, early NXT (as in 2012-2016) feels very much like AEW does now. If we had that same spirit in today's NXT, things would be better not only for them, but for Wednesday nights as well. I'd say the things you highlighted are in a different order: it's not a cool alternative that became a corporate tool. It's a corporate tool that is trying to be the cool alternative once more.

It's not just that he isn't qualified. He was put to sleep by Dexter Lumis. I know that they're trying to push Lumis as this weird, unique character and I like him quite a bit, but Finn Balor is not doing anything at the moment. There was no need to have Thatcher be the one to take the fall.

Lol at Finn Balor being protected

"These two spending more time on the mat than Van Gogh" Fuck Mauro

I'd say that while Vince does have his faults, Triple H is much more of a culprit. Most of us are agreeing that their main event formula is shite and counterproductive, and they've hammered over our heads how NXT is Trips' baby, not Vince. HHH and HBK have been agents for their NXT Title scene for a while and the result is this melodramatic, overindulgent, full of itself mess we are seeing. Let's be honest: they only know how to book when it's the heel on top and the face is chasing the title. Rhea was white hot not four months ago and now she's... there, all because they insisted the chase was better than the catch and Charlotte neeeeeeeded one more NXT reign.

I'll always have the opinion that Balor's title reign was the beginning of the end for NXT. While Bayley had to carry the brand on her shoulders, Balor was stinking it up against Owens and Joe, and managed to build ZERO credible contenders. Balor lost his belt at a house show and from that moment on the NXT Title meant less and less. From Joe to Nakamura to Roode (remember when Itami challenged for the belt and was atrocious?) to Drew McIntyre, it was pretty bad. It took Andrade, who got salvaged from an almost irredeemable gimmick, for that belt to mean something. Ironically, it was that marvelous Almas/Gargano match which probably lead to the state we're in right now. Everything needs to follow that standard.

Nice. Didn't know you were familiar with Fernando Pessoa, bubba. He was massively influential for the Brazilian modernist movement, and we study him quite a lot in our high schools. Dude was great! Also: Rusev quit pro-wrestling. He's now a pro-streamer.

It's not really complaining about Ziggler per se, or even complaining solely about Big E's push (or lack of). It's just using both of them to illustrate an example of the racial issue at hand. I think Ziggler fucking sucks, but him getting continuous opportunities is the symptom, not the disease.

To me that is just another layer to the bullshit cake, bubba. Hear me out (or read, in this case): Dolph Ziggler got 10 (ten) title shots in that period of time, losing basically all of them; WWE is not really high on Dolph Ziggler - is cast as a loser and as a joke; WWE is high on The New Day - one of the greatest factions ever, with many classics under their belt; WWE is high on Big E, consequently; Big E never got a single title shot at the world title; Big E is more well liked by management than Ziggler but doesn't have the same opportunities; Plus there's the fact that Big E being cast solely as a tag wrestler takes him away from the spotlight, while Ziggler challenging for the belt that ofter basically shoves him into it. The absence of any title shots to someone like Big E speaks louder than if he were to lose the match. Contrast what needed to happen for Kofi to get a chance to shine to how many shots Ziggler gets DESPITE being seen as a joke.

There's the Big Bang Attack, which Vegeta uses, and then there's the Gigantic Catastrophe, used by Broly. Probably a portmanteau of the two names.

hmm i wonder how many title shots big e got

Not sure what was the point of Ali losing clean here

Dom might be pretty good down the line. Even so, bubba. Ministry of Darkness worked because despite they had more than 3 people around throughout most of its duration.

Cult leaders without followers undermines the whole thing.

KICK HER ASS SHAYNA

When he appeared at the 2018 Rumble, Cole looked just slightly taller than Rey Mysterio, and I'm not even joking. Rey had wider shoulders, though.

Adam is the geekiest man to have the Cole surname in WWE. He's not looking good regardless of their intent. Not sure if throwing a tantrum is worse than working a shoot where the host is not only not intimidated by the wrestler, but is way bigger and treating the wrestler like a child.

I dunno, but Black Hand is a cool nickname. Shame it's being used by a lame wrestler.

You mean The Cerebral Assassin, The Game, The COO, The Creator, The King of Kings, The Blue Blood from Connecticut, The Destroyer, and most importantly, TRI, is celebrating his birthday? Wow! Really cool! Happy birthday, bubba! Have yourself a sledghammering, shoveling birthday!

I don't blame you guys. I mean, it took me like 24 years to understand the pun in Paul Bearer's name. (Granted, pallbearer isn't exactly a common word and I never saw it being spoken or written before the explanation)

Wasn't it just the Catastrophe? Must have missed the Big Bang part. Also, I saw some episodes of "Home Game" on Netflix, and I gotta love how Edingwe, from the Congo pro wrestling episode, manages to have some scary shit with a low budget, while a billionaire company can't afford to have a convincing eye for the match they put together.