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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jun 5, 2012 1:17:20 GMT -5
...RAW ended three hours ago, and no one's made a thread about it. Or discussed it at all, really.
That in of itself pretty much sums up how successful this run's been, IMO.
My only regret is that they gave the rub, however minor, of being the first one to beat him to Cena, at a time when WWE really needs to work on establishing some other babyfaces as significant draws.
At least the meme can finally die, now that we don't have to talk about Tensai getting ruined in the future-tense anymore.
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Post by kidglov3s on Jun 5, 2012 1:25:35 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to start a countdown on Action Zone/Curtain Jerkers of days since Albert's been brought back until he is fired.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jun 5, 2012 1:26:30 GMT -5
Honestly if Tensai got released in a month it wouldn't shock me, though I'd guess they'd probably keep him as a lower-mid-card monster if just to get some use out of him.
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Jun 5, 2012 1:27:35 GMT -5
Now not only is Tensai was not getting over enough, the monster push problem starts. He's going to become a comic gimmick, mark my words.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jun 5, 2012 1:31:11 GMT -5
Now not only is Tensai was not getting over enough, the monster push problem starts. He's going to become a comic gimmick, mark my words. I'd mark for a tag team of The Funkasaurus and The Hip Hop Hippo. A veritable animal kingdom of fat guy dancing, tattoos and squashing jobbers.
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Post by jimmyjames on Jun 5, 2012 1:33:14 GMT -5
Now not only is Tensai was not getting over enough, the monster push problem starts. He's going to become a comic gimmick, mark my words. I'd mark for a tag team of The Funkasaurus and The Hip Hop Hippo. A veritable animal kingdom of fat guy dancing, tattoos and squashing jobbers. And don't think they wouldn't be over too.
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Post by Sc on Jun 5, 2012 1:48:42 GMT -5
I kinda want someone to start a poll thread about "Will ____ save the Tensai gimmick?"
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Jun 5, 2012 1:54:01 GMT -5
I kinda want someone to start a poll thread about "Will ____ save the Tensai gimmick?" I don't see how Snitsky will help Tensai at this point.
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Post by Nic Nemeth on Jun 5, 2012 1:59:32 GMT -5
Did John Cena defeating him ruin the Lord Tensai gimmick?
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Post by ededdneddy on Jun 5, 2012 2:01:53 GMT -5
Did John Cena defeating him ruin the Lord Tensai gimmick? Yes it did....even him kicking out after the Baldo Bomb while Cole was pinning him ruined the gimmick.
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Jun 5, 2012 2:02:23 GMT -5
If it means the end of that annoying meme, then at least there's some good that can come out of this.
As far as the topic at hand goes, just turn him back to A-train and make him like he was on Smackdown at the time he was there. or turn him back into the Hip Hop Hippo and put him with Brodus so he can spend time with his son here in the US and make some money before Japan calls for him to go back. The reinvention has obviously failed.
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Jun 5, 2012 2:22:58 GMT -5
I kinda want someone to start a poll thread about "Will ____ save the Tensai gimmick?" I don't think there's anything that can save the Tensai gimmick: if you ask me, it was doomed from the start. The real questions should be "Will killing the Tensai gimmick save Albert?"
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Jun 5, 2012 2:51:55 GMT -5
I kinda want someone to start a poll thread about "Will ____ save the Tensai gimmick?" I don't think there's anything that can save the Tensai gimmick: if you ask me, it was doomed from the start. The real questions should be "Will killing the Tensai gimmick save Albert?" The thing is that even though I understand why they did it and what they were maybe trying to accomplish, for most fans, They know him as Albert/A-Train and they don't understand why they changed that. It would be like if when they released Eddie Guerrero the first time and after he came back to the WWE after his time in the Indies, they turn him into Roderick Strong-type character. It's not what the fans remember him as and they don't buy it because they've already seen the roles that those wrestlers are most comfortable in. So anything else just seems forced and hokey to those fans.
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Post by Greer on Jun 5, 2012 6:39:20 GMT -5
WWE over-thinking.
When we want something complex and thought provoking, they give us simplicity.
When all we ask for is simplicity, they give us Tensai.
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Post by KobashiChop on Jun 5, 2012 7:19:53 GMT -5
They screwed it up. They debuted Lord Tensai as a gimmick straight out of the early 1990s and wondered why fans didnt care.
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Post by joebob27 on Jun 5, 2012 7:45:47 GMT -5
Lord Tensai has to have a 7even moment where he shoots on the ridiculousness of his own gimmick.
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Post by jason1980s on Jun 5, 2012 8:41:19 GMT -5
At first I was mad seeing him come out on Raw given the flop deeming recently. But he was given a jobber like exit getting the pinfall loss and rolling out of the ring. Then I got mad that he came back to turn the tide of the match. But when Cena was able to kick out I figured it was OK as Cena didn't lose by pinfall due to a move from Tensai.
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Post by 4real on Jun 5, 2012 9:52:17 GMT -5
Tensai losing to Cena isn't going to hurt him. Him being stuck with this no heat gathering gimic will though.
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Post by YeahYeahYeahYeahYeah on Jun 5, 2012 10:58:41 GMT -5
I, for one, was annoyed with the way he lost, and that he lost so that Cena could randomly beat up Michael Cole. Ugh.
I'm still stubbornly a fan of this guy, mildly lame gimmick be damned. All I know is that I get excited to watch his matches when his theme hits. I don't get excited for much in the WWE anymore, so I take what I can get and just go with it.
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Post by ededdneddy on Jun 5, 2012 11:19:56 GMT -5
I would hope that they at least have him come out as Albert and with Droz in his corner for the 1000th RAW
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