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Post by Slammy Award-Winning Cannibal on May 2, 2014 1:20:26 GMT -5
Aw that's cute, he still think he's The Rock.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on May 2, 2014 3:09:04 GMT -5
"Take that, MCMAAAAHON! I'M POSTING THIS ON YOUTUBE, MCMAAAAAAAHON!" "Kennedy is dead, so I'm doing the exact same gimmick under a different name!" I guess it's a good thing they passed on him, dude has one trick and it's not even a particularly exciting one the 200th time around.
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Post by camsamurai06 on May 2, 2014 5:50:39 GMT -5
Man, I used to think it was heartbreaking to see Kennedy go through all the hard knocks through his career...but the thing about hard knocks is you have to roll with the punches and step up your game. He became increasingly more and more unmotivated in his later stints in WWE, almost as if he thought he would get by based on the one-note gimmick. All the great ideas they had for him that could build an aura around him and sustain him passed the self-referential tricks didnt materialize and they just gave up because he was injury prone. He's in TNA now and all that aura is gone, all that motivation is gone, he's there to make ends meet now.
MVP became a real favourite of mine, and I think he left WWE at a good time as he had peaked in the company and was settling into a quieter role, now he's in TNA and I think he's got legs as a character and he actually is very motivated
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Post by SAJ Forth on May 2, 2014 13:51:07 GMT -5
Mr. Anderson is a weird case. Better than detractors give him credit for, but not really good enough to be that main player. MVP seems o be showing vast improvement though.
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Post by psychokiller on May 2, 2014 14:27:31 GMT -5
Man, I used to think it was heartbreaking to see Kennedy go through all the hard knocks through his career...but the thing about hard knocks is you have to roll with the punches and step up your game. He became increasingly more and more unmotivated in his later stints in WWE, almost as if he thought he would get by based on the one-note gimmick. All the great ideas they had for him that could build an aura around him and sustain him passed the self-referential tricks didnt materialize and they just gave up because he was injury prone. He's in TNA now and all that aura is gone, all that motivation is gone, he's there to make ends meet now. MVP became a real favourite of mine, and I think he left WWE at a good time as he had peaked in the company and was settling into a quieter role, now he's in TNA and I think he's got legs as a character and he actually is very motivated I don't think it had to do with being unmotivated, it had more so to do with his injuries happening at the wrong times. I still believe that MVP & Kennedy were both supposed to be future stars. They wouldn't of gave Kennedy the MITB briefcase or have him supposed to be Vince's illegitimate son. They had big plans for him, but some bad luck & unfortunate circumstances got in the way of that. And with MVP, his terrible booking in 2009/2010 ruined him. I could have easily pictured him as a main event star in WWE, but they wanted to stick with the same old stars like Cena, Triple H, Taker, Orton, etc. at the top yet.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on May 2, 2014 16:39:21 GMT -5
"Take that, MCMAAAAHON! I'M POSTING THIS ON YOUTUBE, MCMAAAAAAAHON!" "I'm gonna make fun of guys doing the 'same thing for five years', then I'm gonna bust out the same schtick I've been doing for at least eight."
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Post by mizerable on May 2, 2014 17:26:52 GMT -5
There's been a whole lot of guys in the last decade who were supposed to be future of WWE who peaked and fizzled out without ever displacing Cena and Orton. I get the feeling the rise of a new generation is going to be less about talent than who's in the right place at the right time, when Cena finally gets too injured to work fulltime anymore. And in a lot of ways, most guys couldn't be replacements. I remember so many people that WWE was high on from 2004 to 2010, that if given the opportunity now, they wouldn't stand a chance. The roster has been so good in the last couple years, it's not even funny.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on May 2, 2014 18:03:18 GMT -5
Mr. Anderson is a weird case. Better than detractors give him credit for, but not really good enough to be that main player. MVP seems o be showing vast improvement though. So Mr Anderson is Nirvana? Simultaneously overrated and underrated?
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on May 2, 2014 20:41:54 GMT -5
There's been a whole lot of guys in the last decade who were supposed to be future of WWE who peaked and fizzled out without ever displacing Cena and Orton. I get the feeling the rise of a new generation is going to be less about talent than who's in the right place at the right time, when Cena finally gets too injured to work fulltime anymore. And in a lot of ways, most guys couldn't be replacements. I remember so many people that WWE was high on from 2004 to 2010, that if given the opportunity now, they wouldn't stand a chance. The roster has been so good in the last couple years, it's not even funny. I think in the future we're going to look at the 2003-2010 or so period as being the worst in terms of making new stars since the "New Generation" era. so many utterly forgettable guys, and even the more memorable ones are largely just a footnote now. even looking past Mr. Kennedy, look at the other guys they tried to "make". MVP was a squandered opportunity, yes, but look at the rest. John Morrison: gone. Ted Dibiase jr.: gone. Miz: barely a midcarder whose world title run is long forgotten and practically retconned out of history. Jack Swagger: Wishes he was Miz. Alberto Del Rio: perhaps the most boring guy on the roster. Kofi Kingston: peaked long ago and nobody cares Sheamus: Sid mk. 2 AT BEST. Dolph Ziggler: midcarder, probably for life now, though he deserves way better. Cody Rhodes: see Ziggler. and that's not even getting into all the other guys who never even made it that far. Renee Dupree, Kenzo Suzuki, Rob Conway, Sylvan Grenier, Chris Masters, Carlito,Orlando Jordan, Shelton Benjamin, the list goes on. these guys were just way too deficient in more than one area and even the ones who are still around just ain't shit next to the likes of Daniel Bryan, the Shield or Antonio Cesaro. hell, even guys like Wade Barrett have more credibility and upside than most of the clowns from the "J.R's table scraps and Johnny Ace's blunders" era. and yeah, I know the Shield and Bryan were signed by Ace but that was towards the end of his tenure and they didn't really become anything until after he left. it also doesn't help that a bunch of way-too-long-in-the-tooth attitude era holdovers like Big Show and Rey Mysterio and Kane are still floating around, either. as long as those guys are there, these 2003-2010 guys just get bottlenecked out by the old guys who won't go away and the younger, fresher guys who are just plain better than they are. it's like this whole generation was set up to fail.
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