BigJerichool222
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Post by BigJerichool222 on May 5, 2010 21:02:53 GMT -5
How did you react?
I wasn't on the forums last year but I MARKED THE F*** OUT. I was one of the only people I knew who thought Sheamus had a chance. How split were you guys?
Did the internet explode and rejoice at the same time?
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Raul
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Post by Raul on May 5, 2010 21:09:42 GMT -5
I don't remember any exploding, it was almost treated as whatever.
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barley96
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Post by barley96 on May 5, 2010 21:12:27 GMT -5
For me personally I hated it. I did want a fresh wrestler in the main event scene, but WWE picked the blandest wrestler for this. This is a moot point now, but I really wanted Jack Swagger in this role.
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Post by aress on May 5, 2010 21:12:31 GMT -5
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Post by hotshotalex on May 5, 2010 21:12:36 GMT -5
I was at TLC live the entire crowd was stunned silent.
It was like we were all collectively thinking......"Really......REALLY This guy?"
I remember I turned to one of my friends and our mouths were wide open in shock.
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Post by xxshoyuweeniexx on May 5, 2010 21:15:34 GMT -5
I was stunned.
And looking back, I'm really surpised Sheamus got over with the shit he had to work, including not beating anyone of worth until...this month, and the US Champion looking more credible than the "top" guy with the "top" belt.
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Post by Jason on May 5, 2010 21:17:47 GMT -5
I marked the f*** out. My first reaction was "Cena slipped off the rope, they're going to strip him off the belt tomorrow and say that he didn't push Cena through it."
I was half right. They kept crushing Sheamus' credibility for no reason by saying Cena lost his balance. No wonder nobody could take him seriously with the belt. He didn't beat anybody worth a damn clean until the Triple H match two weeks ago.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on May 5, 2010 21:21:39 GMT -5
I marked like crazy. I was (and still am) a big Sheamus fan, so seeing him win the WWE title was great. Sure, his title run wasn't the greatest, but he's looking good without it so far, and I can easily see him holding it again someday.
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Post by Dee. on May 5, 2010 21:24:46 GMT -5
Real happy.
I think the boards were really half/half on the idea of Sheamus as champion, and some sort of hopped off the bandwagon a couple weeks into his reign.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2010 21:27:14 GMT -5
I stll mark out when I think about it, honestly. And I still contend that, given what he had to work with, Sheamus was a damn good champion.
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Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on May 5, 2010 21:28:17 GMT -5
I was stupefied, but when that passed, I was all grins.
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Post by Soultastic on May 5, 2010 21:32:25 GMT -5
I marked like crazy. I was sure the E wouldn't go for it and I was pleasantly surprised. Not even Cole and King could ruin it for me saying that "Cena tripped", because kayfabe or not, no one trips from the top rope to the middle of the ring.
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Post by bob on May 5, 2010 21:39:50 GMT -5
I was completely shocked and happy someone finally beat Cena
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Post by The Winter Soldier on May 5, 2010 21:45:18 GMT -5
When I saw that, I marked liked crazy. I was so happy, and a plus cause I'm a Sheamus mark. I was like "Finally, SOMEONE beated Cena clean.".
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Post by WorkingInAColeMine on May 5, 2010 21:47:15 GMT -5
I'm still not sure if Sheamus was suppose to go through that table on the outside or not
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Post by The poster with no name on May 5, 2010 21:47:31 GMT -5
For me personally I hated it. I did want a fresh wrestler in the main event scene, but WWE picked the blandest wrestler for this. This is a moot point now, but I really wanted Jack Swagger in this role. Well he is in that role, and sucks just as bad.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2010 21:48:56 GMT -5
Nah, I'd say definitely not - if nothing else you can tell by how quick Sheamus's music started playing after it happened. There probably would have been one big, confused scramble to figure out what to do had it intended to be a tie, but they had his music going before the camera even showed that he didn't go through the outside table.
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Post by Lord Bendtner on May 5, 2010 22:13:57 GMT -5
I was checking out the results via Twitter as they happened, and I was shocked, then said to myself "it really does pay being friends with HHH." Worked for Batista too, and then Sheamus. Not going to take anything away from him though, he's the first WWE champion from my homeland, and I was proud. But still, was weird.
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Post by mattyzee on May 5, 2010 22:28:10 GMT -5
I had hoped and even was confident that Sheamus would win the match, his rise to the main event seemed too fast and deliberate just to set him up to lose clean to Cena. Thats why when the table match was announced my hopes grew because thats the type of match where a guy can win without making the other guy look bad. The could make Sheamus look good by winning, but still keep Cena as strong as they want him... For the record I still was shocked that it went down, because it actually made a lot of sense to do it.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on May 5, 2010 22:54:20 GMT -5
I wasn't watching the PPV, but I was following the thread on these boards live. There were certainly people predicting a Sheamus win, but I'd say the vast majority of 'Crappers (including me) expected Cena to retain.
It was... well, pages and pages of shock, awe, and bafflement. Lots of marking out, probably half for Sheamus and half for Cena losing to someone new in general, plus a not insignificant contingent of naysayers complaining that Sheamus just got it for being HHH's friend, or insisting <insert midcarder here> should've gotten the push instead.
Lots of people expected some twist where the decision would be reversed or the match restarted, or even that Cena would have a rematch later on in the PPV (based on a misinterpetation of something he'd said in a promo a couple weeks earlier). I think it took a good 15 minutes or so after Cena went through the table for it to really settle in that "Sheamus is now the WWE Champion". Heck, it remained the most talked about thing through the rest of the PPV and the other major matches; every few pages, there'd be at least one "Wait, Sheamus WON???" post.
As for me... well, it's where I got my sig from. It's one of the extremely rare moments when I genuinely felt like a mark again, and I was actually considering starting ordering the PPVs again. (Then the next night's RAW involved about five minutes of Sheamus barely being mentioned somewhere in the middle of the show, and lots of Dennis Miller killing time with "humour" that consisted of insulting people who don't occupy his and Vince McMahon's end of the political spectrum, which killed most of my goodwill, but I digress.)
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