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Post by Old Jack Burton on Mar 18, 2014 22:49:51 GMT -5
Don't really know when to pinpoint when the torch was passed. SummerSlam seems obvious, but I think the moment when he switched from NO! to YES! in order to summon up the courage and power against Ryback to prove he isn't the "weak link" of Hell No represented him finally embracing his role as a fan favorite.
So yeah...the nerd era has arrived. Cool.
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Post by Lila on Mar 18, 2014 22:51:09 GMT -5
Why does it have to be called the Nerd Era though? Why not the Daniel Bryan Era?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2014 22:52:06 GMT -5
Dean Douglas = 20 years before his time
Come on back Shane, it's your time!
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Post by thegame415 on Mar 18, 2014 22:53:46 GMT -5
Jamison for IC champ.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2014 22:53:52 GMT -5
Yeah, he's the guy until they find someone they like more.
I give it about 3-4 months.
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Mar 18, 2014 22:59:34 GMT -5
Yeah...no
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2014 23:00:36 GMT -5
Yeah, he's the guy until they find someone they like more. I give it about 3-4 months. It's gotta be someone the fans aren't going to poop on though. They liked Batista better, the fans said NOPE. I like Big E (he's still) Langston (to me dammit), but WWE getting a boner for him and trying to make him "the guy" would so not work right now. WWE trying to push someone over Bryan at this time might sabotage that person from the get-go. For example, and I think it's happened a little bit already, they might want to chill out on Roman Reigns, let that happen sometime down the line whenever the Bryan train is slowing down. |
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Mar 18, 2014 23:02:25 GMT -5
Does that mean his son has to avoid getting killed by falling apples, lightning bolts, the moon, and Dracula in order to replace him?
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Post by Old Jack Burton on Mar 18, 2014 23:04:43 GMT -5
Yeah, he's the guy until they find someone they like more. I give it about 3-4 months. I don't think so. I think Bryan has hit upon one of the single biggest changes to wrestling in the last ten years, and that is the transition from being an audience of mostly sports fans to an audience of geeks. People have compared CM Punk to Stone Cold many times, and he has even flattered himself on occasion. But to me Bryan comes closer because he's the Everyman. The only thing I could see being a big threat to Bryan's success right now is his relatively weak mic skills as a face. Post-Wrestlemania he is going to have to up his game big time. |
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Mar 18, 2014 23:06:19 GMT -5
He's been The Guy for months. Even after Cena returned, they've been regularly having RAWs close with a Daniel Bryan segment.
And the Network format is really going to help him stay on top, because it's built less on spiking PPV buys for individual events and more on cultivating an audience of regulars that wants to keep watching for months and months.
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Post by Old Jack Burton on Mar 18, 2014 23:08:29 GMT -5
Why does it have to be called the Nerd Era though? Why not the Daniel Bryan Era? Because it's bigger than Bryan. There are several other wrestlers who have made their careers from being an "uncool" guy. Cesaro for one. |
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Post by Lila on Mar 18, 2014 23:09:37 GMT -5
Why does it have to be called the Nerd Era though? Why not the Daniel Bryan Era? Because it's bigger than Bryan. There are several other wrestlers who have made their careers from being an "uncool" guy. Cesaro for one. Cesaro is uncool? |
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Mar 18, 2014 23:09:39 GMT -5
Why does it have to be called the Nerd Era though? Why not the Daniel Bryan Era? Some people are referring to pop culture in general as the nerd era. Entertainment is finally transitioning away from the shallow aesthetic of simple style over substance to embrace intelligence, creativity, artistic ability, free thinking and even quirks. Today's generation coming up is much more in touch with things that would once be considered dorky or fringe, and by proxy those things are becoming the new mainstream. It's cool to be different now. It's accepted to be a so-called nerd. And ergo, in wrestling, it's slowly but surely eradicating the dude bro lunkhead era that Vince finds solace in. Hell, I cover MMA professionally, and I can tell you firsthand that the fratboy "let 'em bang" douchebags are even shrinking and disappearing in that world as well. People often like to talk about in WWE how each generation's chosen icon represents the transitioning into a new wave of cultural norms. Bruno being immigrants made good. Hogan being larger than life 80's musclebound super hero. 90's being angst-driven anti-authority heroes like Steve Austin who liked to upset the corrupt corporate system. And even post 9/11 era John Cena who represented (or attempted to) the moralistic, good-natured smiling, non-threatening square-jawed hero the media wanted and needed. Today just might be Bryan, however: an avatar for the shift to different being the accepted norm; and the shattering of the previous archetypes of size and shallow look. Today's entertainment fan relates more to unlikely heroes, quirkiness, and hard-luck success stories than aesthetically manufactured bodybuilders who are "good because they're big." The shift may just have its representative. |
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Mar 18, 2014 23:17:31 GMT -5
You might want to maybe hold off on being so cocky about that. When it comes to Bryan, every one of your prior predictions or statements have been disproven or eradicated by his popularity, and the office's desire to now build the entire 30th WrestleMania around him. |
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Post by Amazing Kitsune on Mar 18, 2014 23:21:41 GMT -5
Why does it have to be called the Nerd Era though? Why not the Daniel Bryan Era? Because during the Austin Era the era's namesake owned a television. |
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Post by Perd on Mar 18, 2014 23:24:10 GMT -5
Nerd era.
Does that make The Authority The Alpha Betas? And is The YES! Movement Lambda Lambda Lambda?
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 18, 2014 23:26:21 GMT -5
I guess '97 or so might have been the Michaels Era.
...Michael Cera? And there's Bret Hart to consider, too. Hmm, Bret/Michaels Era...
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Post by Old Jack Burton on Mar 18, 2014 23:29:09 GMT -5
Because it's bigger than Bryan. There are several other wrestlers who have made their careers from being an "uncool" guy. Cesaro for one. Cesaro is uncool? Yup. He's a plainspoken guy who focuses more on his training and the technical aspects of his profession than he cares about politics, title shots, or getting revenge. Come on, he brags about his fluency in multiple languages. He's a nerd. Sandow too. And Cody Rhodes. |
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Mar 18, 2014 23:29:52 GMT -5
Nerd era. Does that make The Authority The Alpha Betas? And is The YES! Movement Lambda Lambda Lambda? Goata Goata Goata |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2014 23:33:00 GMT -5
This is a result of WWE embracing social media. For years, they would arbitrarily push random people management favored, but ratings and merchandise and tickets all revolve around popularity, and popularity is easy to gauge with the internet. Now most wrestling fans are smarky internet fans, and little kids are getting crowded out because they (A) Don't buy merchandise, and (B) Aren't allowed to use the internet freely. Little kids also latch on to one star and very few others, more often than not. Adult wrestling fans, as well as teenage wrestling fans, are far less discriminating in terms of how many people they can like, but hold who they like to a higher standard. If the performers are bad, they won't care. So now, good wrestlers have to be pushed as a matter of just staying the course.
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