Jeremy
Hank Scorpio
Horse of a Different Color
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Post by Jeremy on Dec 5, 2012 20:22:16 GMT -5
He probably doesn't have much of a career left anyway. Let him do his thing.
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Dec 5, 2012 20:29:32 GMT -5
Heh.
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Post by mjolnir on Dec 5, 2012 20:37:28 GMT -5
For a long while, until the past few weeks, I felt like Khali was barely a presence on the shows anymore anyways. I don't really mind him, these days. He's right around where he should be, the mid-card. He's somebody that makes upper card talent look more credible by going over, he sometimes makes his fellow mid-card look good by being able to hang with him, even if only for a little while. And, he does bring in alot of money from India for the WWE, or has anyways.
We've had more useless talents around and much more annoying push to talent ratios. Dude's pretty much in the twilight of his career, I say leave him be.
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Post by xCompackx on Dec 6, 2012 0:17:09 GMT -5
From just a couple weeks ago... Del Rio is a "main eventer" so to me he doesn't count. No one who isn't a World Title caliber wrestler is allowed to one-up Khali or look credible against him. Didn't Cody Rhodes beat Khali clean earlier this year?
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Post by RI Richmark on Dec 6, 2012 0:39:14 GMT -5
I understand he is a huge draw in India, but whenever I see time dedicated to him and hornswoggle I can't help but think that could of gone to Tyson Kidd or Justin Gabriel. Khali makes the product look terrible in that Giant Gonzales type of way. But Kidd or Gabriel using the Brain Chop would look ridiculous.
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Lancers
El Dandy
Oh you
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Post by Lancers on Dec 6, 2012 0:41:01 GMT -5
Remember when he was a former world champion? Pepperidge Farm remembers. And I do too.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Dec 6, 2012 0:43:30 GMT -5
^I actually liked Khali's title reign. But Khali was booked well as World Champion, and during Khali's title reign, we didn't have main eventers eating up the majority of the show. There were more wrestlers who were over with a cemented place on the card. It didn't feel like anyone was being held down while Khali was champion.
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Dec 6, 2012 0:49:37 GMT -5
It didn't feel like anyone was being held down while Khali was champion. Personally I felt like I was being held down and teabagged
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SEAN CARLESS
Hank Scorpio
More of a B+ player, actually
I'm Necessary Evil.
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Dec 6, 2012 1:44:02 GMT -5
I don't see the harm in Khali, personally. He's only doing like 10 minute matches at worst, let him earn his paycheck. Well... they could not give him a paycheck. As far as his status in India, is that really working out for them though? It works for Canada because they have PPV's up there. It works for Mexico 'cause they could conceivably have PPV's down there. Hell, it works for Europe and could very well work for Japan if they wanted it to because both of those are great wrestling markets. Exactly how much return-on-investment is Khali getting them from India? There hasn't been any return investment. There's no PPV market, and WWE stopped touring there because it bombed. In theory, it's a lucrative market because of the volume of people and the naivety of the audience thinking it's real, but the reality is said people have no discernible income, despite Khali's popularity there. You can have a billion people. But if not even a fraction of 1% can afford to pay for your product, than it's unfortunately a bust.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Dec 6, 2012 2:01:24 GMT -5
I heard he once slept with all the Divas on the roster..at the same time. They were climbing all over him like a troop of baby lemurs in a tree. I bet you didn't know that a group of lemurs was called a troop. Well neither did I, until I heard this story.
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Post by deadstock on Dec 6, 2012 2:06:56 GMT -5
I really like Khali to those that dont let the man work its not like your being forced to watch.
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BigWill
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by BigWill on Dec 6, 2012 2:11:44 GMT -5
I really like Khali to those that dont let the man work its not like your being forced to watch. You can say that about every superstar on the roster. Does that mean that no one's allowed to complain about anyone?
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Deleted
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2012 2:22:30 GMT -5
I really like Khali to those that dont let the man work its not like your being forced to watch. You can say that about every superstar on the roster. Does that mean that no one's allowed to complain about anyone? You can say the same about his post. Nobody forced you to read it.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Dec 6, 2012 2:49:02 GMT -5
The man was in the highest rated segment of RAW last week. And we're seriously asking why they keep him around... ;D
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2012 13:23:53 GMT -5
I'm used to seeing Khali for like 4 minutes once every few weeks, on RAW anyway.
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JCBaggee
Hank Scorpio
Writer, streamer. I used to write for CBR but then they fired everyone who cared about their writers
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Post by JCBaggee on Dec 6, 2012 13:49:41 GMT -5
Because Triple H doesn't work on ट्यूज़्डै.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2012 17:04:03 GMT -5
Because Triple H doesn't work on ट्यूज़्डै. CLOSE THIS THREAD NOW.
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Post by George. on Dec 6, 2012 17:14:21 GMT -5
India has some kind of standard with pro wrestling...
I rather have Jinder Mahal (who isn't even a native Indian) represent my country if I was Indian.
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babyfootball
Don Corleone
At least as good as Ron Garvin!
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Post by babyfootball on Dec 6, 2012 19:45:38 GMT -5
You can say that about every superstar on the roster. Does that mean that no one's allowed to complain about anyone? You can say the same about his post. Nobody forced you to read it. ...and the IWC beat goes on... Anyway, in all seriousness, I don't think having Khali around hurts anything. Sure, his matches aren't any good, and his character is so goofy that he totally breaks the wall of believability, but out of all the stupid stuff in wrestling over the course of history, he's really not so bad, especially in his current role.
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PKO
King Koopa
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Post by PKO on Dec 6, 2012 19:52:04 GMT -5
They should have him do more promotional stuff for the company. Send him on tv shows and stuff. He's unbelievably huge and that sticks in your mind; I saw him live in 2007 and I'm still in awe now.
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