Tenese Sarwieh Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 I wouldn’t put it pass them having energy beams during Alexa’s transformation in her cinematic match with Asuka, you know it’s coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 Man, who the hell is backstage that has the boner for this terrible Alexa Bliss shit? I gotta believe a live crowd would have shit all over that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoS Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 Everything about the Fiend Cinematic Universe sucks donkey balls. Watching Raw is waterboarding basically. I watched Bryan-Cesaro from last week's SD. Daniel Bryan is having incredible matches in 2021, 20 years after he had his first incredible match. GOAT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 I still think Bray would be better served doing horror movies like Rob Zombie. Dude can come up with some creative ideas, they just don't translate very well to wrestling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirEdger Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 3 hours ago, sek69 said: GILLBERG So, there's actually nobody here who realized that it really was David Krumholz (Barry in NUMB3RS) who spoofed Drew McIntyre in The Dirt Sheet segment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 I had no clue who it was until I saw people mentioning it on Twitter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoS Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 LITERALLY NONE OF YOU FUCKERS WILL UNDERSTAND THIS BUT I HAVE TO SHARE THIS. THE INDIAN MALE TEST CRICKET TEAM BEAT A FULL-STRENGTH AUSSIE MALE CRICKET TEAM IN A TEST CRICKET SERIES, DESTROYING THEIR DECADES LONG DOMINANCE AT A GROUND, WHILE FIELDING A SECOND ELEVEN SIDE!! FUCK YEAH BITCHES WE DID IT, FUCK YEAH I AM IRRATIONALLY HAPPY, I LOVE ALL YOU BROTHERS SO FUCKING MUCH <3 <3 <3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dav'oh Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 @MoS Good ol' Rishabh Pant, hey? I didn't think 328 with a day to play, on a track not doing a lot, would be enough, even against a depleted Indian XI. Congrats and much love brother! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ButchReedMark Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 Congratulations. It's always wonderful seeing the Aussies take an L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KawadaSmile Posted January 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 6 hours ago, MoS said: LITERALLY NONE OF YOU FUCKERS WILL UNDERSTAND THIS BUT I HAVE TO SHARE THIS. THE INDIAN MALE TEST CRICKET TEAM BEAT A FULL-STRENGTH AUSSIE MALE CRICKET TEAM IN A TEST CRICKET SERIES, DESTROYING THEIR DECADES LONG DOMINANCE AT A GROUND, WHILE FIELDING A SECOND ELEVEN SIDE!! FUCK YEAH BITCHES WE DID IT, FUCK YEAH I AM IRRATIONALLY HAPPY, I LOVE ALL YOU BROTHERS SO FUCKING MUCH <3 <3 <3 would you say it's like maven eliminating the undertaker from the royal rumble? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 (edited) Well, thanks to Youtube I have actually watched that segment, I mean, you people made it sound like it was so wacky I could actually enjoy it. Holy fuck. This is wretched. Everything about it. I loved Alexa Bliss years ago when she was rolling over everyone. What have they turned her into ? Seriously, Bray Wyatt's ideas are like the worst shit ever. He's Russo with ambition in term of having "ideas". EDIT : and I had not seen the match where Alexa is basically inhabited by Wyatt ! This is all-time WCW level "This is not hot" garbage. Edited January 19, 2021 by El-P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 58 minutes ago, El-P said: I loved Alexa Bliss years ago when she was rolling over everyone. It produced nothing but terrible matches and killed off everyone she feuded with, but it was great otherwise. In fact, looking back, she was basically a proto-Fiend minus the supernatural garbage. This current storyline is unspeakably awful, but that's no reason to romanticize Alexa's 2017 reign of terror. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 12 minutes ago, NintendoLogic said: but that's no reason to romanticize Alexa's 2017 reign of terror. I do not romanticize anything. I loved her character work and I enjoyed the matches, which were nothing special but quite good enough for me to enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMJ Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 Yea, I'm going to second El-P on this. I found her matches with Banks, Becky, Charlotte, Naomi, and the Mania match against Nia Jax to be all quite good. And I totally get the argument that, given the same opportunities, a more experienced, more technically skilled wrestler might have performed the same exact gimmick and gotten it over even more, but its not quite fair to judge the reality (Alexa Bliss) against some hypothetical version of it that they could've done with Emma or Candice LeRae or whatever other wrestler with a similar look/gimmick. Now this shit right here, though, it just seems off by a little. I like her commitment and I do think there was, inititally, some interesting avenues to explore with Bliss and Bray Wyatt...but like most things with Bray, it strikes me that they had half an idea and then ran with it. We're now months into this weird alliance and it has steadily become less interesting. Adding her character into the mix should've meant a raising of the stakes, a new wrinkle to the mystique, or a way for Wyatt to terrorize the company in all new ways - which is what I think they meant to happen but thought they could skip steps along the way and hope that Alexa on a swing would count as character development. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KawadaSmile Posted January 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 Yeah, when they first started with the Alexa/Bray alliance, it was actually decent. She was pulling off some stuff like looking hypnotized or under a supernatural influence, and most important, it was the development of a storyline. Now, she apparently gets +20 to all her stats under pink lights much like Bray got his boost under red lights. Asuka, who was built for years as a world beater is now scared of maybe the lightest of the lightweights in the division, and she can't handle her offense. I get the idea, but it's so poorly executed. It also highlights one of the worst things regarding Alexa's run. She's often the smallest person in the match and many, many times, she's booked to have the upper hand going against her opponents straight up. Nia had to sell her offense and that's less than ideal. But truth be told, RAW has been an absolute black hole of ideas. NOTHING progresses, or it does so at a snail's pace. It's the worst kind of program you could have. SmackDown doesn't even seem to be under the same company umbrella at times, such is the difference in creative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Cy_Qlh7VM&t=30s I think of this video a lot when I think of WWE's booking for the last few years. I don't want to get into a debate on what the author of the video is saying (Snyder's filmmaking vs. Marvel movies). But, I think WWE's issue is what he talks about here. They are trying to create moments, and that's it. They've always done this, but the moments used to come at key points in a story. Take the Megapowers story, for example. There are multiple iconic moments in this story. First, there's Honky Tonk Man throwing Liz to the ground. Then, there's Liz leading Hogan down to save Randy. Then, there's the ridiculously amazing handshake between Savage and Hogan. Then, there's Hogan with Liz on his shoulder. And so on... Now, it's like they have the moment in mind, but don't take the steps to get there. Like @DMJ said up there, they think Alexa on the swing is enough. Why is she on the swing? How did we get there? WWE wants to have that shot of Wrestler X pointing to the Wrestlemania sign. They'll show it week after week in video packages. I don't think they put too much effort into getting that wrestler to the point where we really care that they're pointing to that sign, though. I was glad Drew won the Rumble last year. Mostly because it was someone fresh. But was I invested in him winning and pointing to that sign? No. He'd won a few matches maybe leading up to it, but he didn't have a story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 For my money, it doesn't get much worse than a dominant heel who beats all her opponents clean after burying them verbally, especially when that heel is the smallest and most fragile woman on the roster. It was everything people complain about with Charlotte except ten times worse. Charlotte at least has physical credibility and is capable of having good-to-great matches with good workers. And as terrible as that Asuka/Alexa segment was, Bayley: This Is Your Life was at least as bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 Is there anything worth watching on Raw this week? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 OK, OK, hear me out... Who is better in wrestling, The Fiend or... The Boogeyman. I mean, Boogey isn't any good, of course, but he wasn't around for very long, wasn't stink up the main event & was never WWE champion. Nor did his nonsense spread to other characters in the way like The Fiend has possessed Alexa or whatever the fuck. Boogey had shit stuff too though, like when he bite the shit off Jillian's face. Oof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 Boogey would have been just as bad if not worse if he was positioned as a main eventer that we were supposed to take seriously. As a midcarder terrorizing other midcarders there was little harm that could be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 The Fiend would be fine if he were simply a supernatural Boogie Woogie Man or Godfather who existed in a separate universe from the real wrestling on the card. Not that mid-2000s WWE creative was any great shakes, but I have to imagine that Vince was still lucid enough at that point that anyone who suggested putting Boogeyman in a main event title match would have been fired on the spot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 1 hour ago, WingedEagle said: Is there anything worth watching on Raw this week? AJ vs Ricochet was very good, especially the finish. Hurt Business vs Riddle/Lucha House Party was solid. They seem to be moving toward Mustafa Ali vs Kofi Kingston in the future. I thought Orton did well with his promo. Him being the serious one in that messed-up story helps a lot. Honestly, if Fiend/Alexa were removed from the show, RAW would be average. Nothing to write home about, and there would still be some dead weight on the airwaves. But nothing to level of the Fiend taking the entire program down with him. Fiend shouldn't be anywhere near a title, let alone the top prize. Even if you don't like Seth Rollins--I'm no fan--having him cry over Bray in a mask killed his face run. Absolutely brutal. It feels like they're moving toward Fiend and Alexa being a championship couple from Hades. UGH. If you're on Smackdown, consider yourself blessed not to be around that potential black hole.- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoS Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 10 hours ago, KawadaSmile said: would you say it's like maven eliminating the undertaker from the royal rumble? It's like if John Cena showed up in 2000 after a couple months of training and beat HHH in a HitC match Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 The best part is that the Fiend wasn't even physically on the show. Instead we had GHOST FIEND on the swing set with Alexa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 With WWE Studios still being a thing, I have no idea why they haven't given The Fiend his own horror movie yet. That would be a much better, more logical way to use him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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