Loss Posted August 22, 2013 Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 Shawn will be a total babyface. He'll talk about how all the stuff Vince says about DB was said about him at one point and it took him years to make it to the top. I'd be shocked if that wasn't the direction they took with his involvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slasher Posted August 22, 2013 Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 Shawn will be a total babyface. He'll talk about how all the stuff Vince says about DB was said about him at one point and it took him years to make it to the top. I'd be shocked if that wasn't the direction they took with his involvement. I am not really arguing that I guess, but I will point out that Shawn was a much more attractive looking guy during his rise and his run on top. Not that DB is hideous or anything but he is too wild man looking for what the WWE generally looks for. Triple H was Shawn's butt buddy for years. It would stand to reason they have a generally similar vision for what wrestling is. I do like the idea cm funk laid out of HHH going mad with McMahonism for that to work though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted August 22, 2013 Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 I will point out that Shawn was a much more attractive looking guy during his rise and his run on top. Not that DB is hideous or anything but he is too wild man looking for what the WWE generally looks for. Triple H was Shawn's butt buddy for years. It would stand to reason they have a generally similar vision for what wrestling is. This is a work. It doesn't have to be 100% true to be used in the storyline. People just have to believe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted August 22, 2013 Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 Beard Solidarity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slasher Posted August 22, 2013 Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 Silly me, I knew I was missing something here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ButchReedMark Posted August 22, 2013 Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 I'd say Shawn looking like Lucky Kleinschmidt with a beard would go in DB's favour in this kind of situation. But I'm just dreading when HHH does HBK over and we have to suffer Michaels doing his best Dick Shawn "acting". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeCampbell Posted August 22, 2013 Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 I like the scenario that Loss laid out, especially with the 'Bryan earns his title shot by doing the impossible' angle. And, AFAIK, Roman Reigns is still undefeated, except by DQ. So, it's the perfect setup to make him run the Shield gauntlet of Rollins, Ambrose, and then finally Reigns. What worries me, though, is John Cena is now expected back sooner than expected. I know we all think it's possible, but do the powers that be think that they can get Punk and Bryan over as big enough babyfaces that they'll actually turn Cena heel to side with HHH and his goons? He could make the surprise return, with everyone expecting him to help Bryan out and then lay him out, in revenge for Bryan beating him in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowboy hats Posted August 22, 2013 Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 I thought the CW was Cena-Undertaker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWOOD Posted August 23, 2013 Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 Great action this week on the C and D shows. Loved the Shield/Osos/Kofi match. Great energy throughout and loved the logical spot where Rollins rolled in one of the Usos to distract the ref and then took the time to do something devious. NXT was even better. Great 2 out of 3 match between Cesaro and Zayn which was all you would expect from it. AJ had a fun match with a developmental girl who seems to have the gimmick of being a psychotic mark. Really entertaining. She calls Dusty "Mr. Dusty" and whatnot. Too bad I dont remember her name haha. Dolph worked a match with a monster heel. Dolph worked the quite impressive little match here. It seems as if he was sent down Full Sail to work on his face offense . There was still a lot of heel stalling but the NXT crowd ate that shit up. The developmental guy is (possibly gimmicked as) from Bulgaria with a sumo background. Great stuff. Havent finished Smackdown yet but the opening promo between Bryan and Orton was pretty funny thanks to Bryan and I can't really see a cage match blowoff between Bryan and Barrett tonight being *not* entertaining. Have a great weekend guys, cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted August 24, 2013 Report Share Posted August 24, 2013 Read some news item today that WWE is planning to turn Ryback babyface again soon after he "done" with his bullying skits. Is there anyone they've wanted to make a star but booked worse than Ryback in the last few years? Guy was getting over as a babyface and then they have him lose a bunch of matches and he cools off, then he turns heel on Cena, loses some more and stumbles into a great bully character so I guess it's time to flip him back babyface to kill that momentum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted August 24, 2013 Report Share Posted August 24, 2013 From the moment Cena was hurt and couldn't work that PPV against Punk they badly fumbled the ball with Ryback. They didn't want him to lose, so they never should have stuck him in that spot where he HAD to lose when they had already had everything planned out with Punk, Rock and Cena. Then he became the guy who lost via screwjob every show because of their wishy-washy booking where they were trying to protect him but kept putting him into impossible spots he had no business being in, and it killed the aura they built up. When Cena got hurt they should have taken someone they didn't haven't big plans for who could afford to lose to Punk and put them in that spot. If they'd done it with....I don't know.....someone like Kofi Kingston.....it might have elevated the guy and been a fun change of pace. They could have done Hell No against Punk in a triple threat and it would have been a fun dynamic and neither of them would have been hurt by losing. There were a lot of things they could have done, putting Ryback in that spot was about the worst thing possible. At the time of all that it seemed to me like they building to Ryback beating Cesaro for the US title as they had matches where Cesaro would take countout and DQ losses and then got beat non-title, at a time when Cesaro was a strong champ before he started getting jobbed down the card, and I thought they were going to slow build Ryback and give him the Ultimate Warrior push with the secondary title and put him in a big WWE title match a year down the line or so. One of the worst decisions they've made in recent years putting him in there with Punk, for a guy like who you said they do seem committed to pushing, and he still hasn't recovered from it. As it stands now he still hasn't won a title and still has no major victories on his resume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted August 24, 2013 Report Share Posted August 24, 2013 It could be a blessing in disguise. Bully Ryback is fucking great. I have no clue how they'd transition it into being a good guy. Unless someone small stands up to him. Knocks him out, Ryback realizes the error of his ways and he and the little guy become a tag team like the Warner Bros. cartoon with the bulldog and the little yip yip dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slasher Posted August 24, 2013 Report Share Posted August 24, 2013 Well I think Ryback makes for a natural big man foil for the McMahon regime. DB can't be all they focus on, ultimately. I know Cena is a guy Vince has said he doesn't really endorse, but Ryback can easily slide in that powerhouse babyface role a la...well, Goldberg vs nWo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Waco Posted August 24, 2013 Report Share Posted August 24, 2013 The Ryback/Cesaro series was one of the unsung series of the year. Not great but good and they seemed to be building to something significant. And then it ended and in a way I think it hurt both guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted August 24, 2013 Report Share Posted August 24, 2013 Ryback could be the guy who Vince picks for Mania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted August 24, 2013 Report Share Posted August 24, 2013 This video of Big Show & Mark Henry hanging out is great: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted August 25, 2013 Report Share Posted August 25, 2013 This video of Big Show & Mark Henry hanging out is great: I would like to spend a week with Show and Henry. I'd talk shit to anyone and everyone I came into contact with. None of them would say a word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted August 27, 2013 Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 Ted Dibiase Jr. has announced he won't be re-signing with WWE. He's one of the second generation guys along with Cody Rhodes and Curtis Axel that I've seen certain pockets of the internet claim were "mis-used" and "deserved a better push" but never really seen anything out of them to deserve the rep. Pretty much I think if the guy had a different last name he'd have been gone a long time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Waco Posted August 27, 2013 Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 I'm not going to extol the virtues of Dibiase but I actually think he has a lot more potential than Cody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted August 27, 2013 Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 The thing about DiBiase was that he is a damn good hand but I really don't know if his heart was always in it. His lack of push for the last few years killed his spirit for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted August 27, 2013 Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 They teased a Legacy breakup and had Ted wrestle Orton on Raw once. He showed a nice babyface fire in that match. Would've been perfect as a white-bread 80's face. Nice dropkick, etc. They put him back with Orton quickly, and he kinda stagnated from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted August 27, 2013 Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 The segment with AJ & Total Divas cast was fascinating on many levels and it's now turning into a shoot angle on Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chief Posted August 27, 2013 Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 That doesn't surprise me about DiBiase. I've heard from his dad in quite a few interviews that he doesn't want to be on the road now that he's a father. He never struck me as anything special, but he looked to be improving towards the end. He had a really nice series with Hunico of all people on Smackdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted August 27, 2013 Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 So I have Time Warner and USA has been frozen on a One-a-Day women's pill commercial for the last 15 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted August 27, 2013 Report Share Posted August 27, 2013 The promo by AJ was amazing because she was completely destroying the show and the people on the show. Unless they are turning her back face it didn't make much sense. The worst part of the promo was that baby face side of the Total Divas crew actually took the promo seriously while the Bellas and Eva Marie (the ones who quite frankly was the hidden target of the promo) are screaming and yelling like 12 year olds. Made them look completely stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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