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Post by kingoftheindies on Jan 8, 2013 16:26:55 GMT -5
I see all the dropping the ball comments, but Pope also got injured way too much
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Post by AdamAFL was sooooo wrong on Jan 8, 2013 17:00:55 GMT -5
Disappointing, in 2010 they had a chance to make him a big star but they chose not too for whatever reason. That being said he's barely been used since then, certainly not in any relevant manner anyway so I can't say I'm too upset or surprised.
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Post by Indiana Miz on Jan 8, 2013 17:03:30 GMT -5
I see all the dropping the ball comments, but Pope also got injured way too much True, but they were wasting him with bad feuds and multiple turns. It was all downhill after he lost his first match back from injury.
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Post by Celgress on Jan 8, 2013 17:12:20 GMT -5
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Now that is out of the way. Damnit just damnit it TNA, Pope will go down in history as one of the biggest (if not the biggest) dropped balls in TNA history. I will always contend the guy was on the cusp of greatness back in early through mid-2010. That was until the TPTB in TNA yanked the rug out from under Pope not once, not twice, but thrice. Losing the Lockdown TNA Heavyweight Championship match to AJ in luckluster fashion, Mr. Anderson turning face while Pope was out recovering fron injury thus taking away that feud and last but not least Pope's return match being booked in a virtual squash against Kurt Angle with no followup. Don't even get my started on Pope's feuds with Abyss, Joe, his custody battle with Devon over the latter's almost grown twins, or perhaps worst of all, his being phased out of the anti-Immortal angle just when that faction desperately needed a strong foil.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Jan 8, 2013 18:42:11 GMT -5
The writing has been on the wall for a long time.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2013 20:57:12 GMT -5
Seriously, it is 2013. Pope was last relevant in TNA in 2010. This shouldn't be big or surprising news.
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Post by zeez on Jan 8, 2013 21:07:11 GMT -5
But he was the star of The Dark Knight Rises. How could TNA drop the ball like this?
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Post by grunt on Jan 9, 2013 8:53:46 GMT -5
Injuries + uneven matches (could be good, could be dreadful depending on the opponent and Pope's motivation) + somewhat derivative mic skills (I still remember Pope's first few months, before he became a fan fav, when everybody was calling his mic-skill "Rock-lite") + ego = no surprise there. And far from being TNA's biggest dropped ball... I like the guy, but he was never gonna be anything more than an upper mid carder, where Kaz is right now.
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Post by hughgrection on Jan 9, 2013 9:33:36 GMT -5
Well, back to dog fighting I guess.
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Post by dpg on Jan 9, 2013 12:32:14 GMT -5
Injuries + uneven matches (could be good, could be dreadful depending on the opponent and Pope's motivation) + somewhat derivative mic skills (I still remember Pope's first few months, before he became a fan fav, when everybody was calling his mic-skill "Rock-lite") + ego = no surprise there. And far from being TNA's biggest dropped ball... I like the guy, but he was never gonna be anything more than an upper mid carder, where Kaz is right now. Yeah, he was good in the ring sometimes, then other matches he looked god awful in. On the mic he could also be good sometimes, but other times he was really bad or just plain boring. Overall at his best he was a great package, but he wasn't consistent enough and he got injured regularly after his initial run.
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Post by fortknox on Jan 9, 2013 15:00:31 GMT -5
Well, back to dog fighting I guess. And going after underage boys.
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Post by Toates Madhackrviper on Jan 9, 2013 17:51:43 GMT -5
What a terrible terrible terrible waste of talent.
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Post by mjolnir on Jan 9, 2013 23:51:09 GMT -5
It's funny, alot of people, myself included, thought that TNA was going to pick up the ball WWE dropped so badly by releasing him. So many pointed at him to be what guys like Christian had become in TNA before him. Boy were we freakin' wrong.
The fact that Anderson, with less upside, had a better run overall in TNA is depressing.
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Post by BigAl on Jan 10, 2013 0:13:37 GMT -5
The fact that Anderson, with less upside, had a better run overall in TNA is depressing. thats because Anderson/Kennedy was a prominent WWE star, while Pope was sorta lost in WWE, sorta like why Tara was more important than Winter
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Post by lildude8218 on Jan 10, 2013 0:50:56 GMT -5
Pope is Pippin
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Post by CourtesyFlush on Jan 10, 2013 1:05:10 GMT -5
TNA blew it with Pope 4 sure. He was doing great as a face, actually had the impact zone pretty loud 4 him. Then they make him heel overnight. They made him an evil heel to, had him doing some really awful things! Just weird what happened to him.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 10, 2013 2:26:41 GMT -5
Injuries + uneven matches (could be good, could be dreadful depending on the opponent and Pope's motivation) + somewhat derivative mic skills (I still remember Pope's first few months, before he became a fan fav, when everybody was calling his mic-skill "Rock-lite") + ego = no surprise there. And far from being TNA's biggest dropped ball... I like the guy, but he was never gonna be anything more than an upper mid carder, where Kaz is right now. I think Monty Brown was a much bigger dropped ball than Pope
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Post by Celgress on Jan 10, 2013 9:28:53 GMT -5
Injuries + uneven matches (could be good, could be dreadful depending on the opponent and Pope's motivation) + somewhat derivative mic skills (I still remember Pope's first few months, before he became a fan fav, when everybody was calling his mic-skill "Rock-lite") + ego = no surprise there. And far from being TNA's biggest dropped ball... I like the guy, but he was never gonna be anything more than an upper mid carder, where Kaz is right now. I think Monty Brown was a much bigger dropped ball than Pope Not pushing either were huge mistakes by this company. Sadly I'm all but certain when the next Monty Brown or Pope comes around, a talented & uber charismatic mid-card act becomes red hot, the exact same dropping of the ball will take place.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Jan 11, 2013 2:52:00 GMT -5
I used to be on the Elijah Burke bandwagon, but the Pope character just stunk of something pointlessly kitsch, and whatever base charisma he was blessed found itself immediately undermined by rambling, aimless promos littered with woeful phrases.
'The Pope was in a darkness, and this darkness was without light'
Seriously......
I hate to see a man without his job, but the his hype-train dumped me off a couple years ago, and I never found reason for it to come back around.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 11, 2013 9:06:31 GMT -5
Should rejoin WWE as Truth's brother, and form a tag team
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