mrbananagrabber
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Post by mrbananagrabber on Jul 21, 2014 4:11:10 GMT -5
You cancel the only unmissable match? You hype people into seeing two of the hottest, if not THE two hottest, performers in the company fight "for the first time" and then pull it with some bullshit Authority call?
Why?
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jul 21, 2014 4:12:02 GMT -5
Because SummerSlam, apparently.
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Post by eJm on Jul 21, 2014 4:18:17 GMT -5
My bigger problem with it is that the build up video they showed on the pre show was one of the best they've done since 'Mania and it was pretty much wasted.
Do the swerve all you want, even though it is stupid to annoy people when you're trying to get them to keep subscriptions for the WWE Network, but damnit, don't waste one of the best video teams in the business!
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Post by Kayfabe FAN don't want none on Jul 21, 2014 4:20:44 GMT -5
Because f*** the people who bought this shit.
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Post by Boo! on Jul 21, 2014 4:21:33 GMT -5
I hope they're inundated with requests from people looking to end their Network subscriptions. It was total bullshit. How can you make the PPV the main selling point of the Network, charge $9.99 for the privilege and then not deliver on what you promise? It's an outrage and if this is part of the reason why they're struggling for subscribers then it's every bit deserved. I expect they'll try and make amends by having some kind of match tonight on Raw with a special stipulation match at Summerslam but the damage is done. People don't want to pay $10 a month to not see something they get on TV for nothing.
It didn't build any real heat itself that's worth making potentially tens of thousands of people rethink their Network subscription. Let alone potential subscribers who would surely have thought what's the point in subscribing if they pull crap like this?!!?
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jul 21, 2014 4:24:18 GMT -5
There's the chance that Seth may have tweaked his knee, and having him brawl is safer than putting him in a match. They could have been hoping to find out he was clear to go for Battleground, but found out he wasn't.
That would be the only acceptable reason.
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Post by Nic Nemeth on Jul 21, 2014 4:35:22 GMT -5
This was the only match I cared enough to watch, I wouldn't be shocked if people canceled their subscriptions.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jul 21, 2014 4:38:21 GMT -5
Storyline wise, it kinda makes sense for Ambrose to have no interest in wrestling Rollins and just want to attack and straight out beat the snot out of him. It actually bugs me when you have two guys who hate each other about to fight and then they lock up and try and get each other in a wrist lock or something.
Saying that, it did rip off the fans. WWE should have had the match announced for the following Raw instead and gone the same route leading up to something like an extreme rules match at the next PPV.
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Post by Capt Lunatic on Jul 21, 2014 5:29:27 GMT -5
I like that most of the posters who are complaining in this thread are exactly who I thought they'd be before I opened it. But to answer the question... {Spoiler}{Spoiler}  |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jul 21, 2014 5:31:42 GMT -5
Wasn't there some speculation after last week's raw that Seth was injured?
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Post by Boo! on Jul 21, 2014 7:01:03 GMT -5
Wasn't there some speculation after last week's raw that Seth was injured? then it makes the situation worse. Deliberately advertising a match for a card they knew wasn't taking place is scandalous. I know that every PPV comes with the 'card subject to change' proviso but so does boxing and UFC. Can you imagine the outrage if Dana White promoted a fight for a week he knew days ago wasn't taking place and didn't reveal his hand until during the actual event. People would not stand for it. Wrestling fans just get screwed. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jul 21, 2014 7:07:41 GMT -5
Wasn't there some speculation after last week's raw that Seth was injured? then it makes the situation worse. Deliberately advertising a match for a card they knew wasn't taking place is scandalous. I know that every PPV comes with the 'card subject to change' proviso but so does boxing and UFC. Can you imagine the outrage if Dana White promoted a fight for a week he knew days ago wasn't taking place and didn't reveal his hand until during the actual event. People would not stand for it. Wrestling fans just get screwed. I refer you, good sir, to my other thread. |
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Jul 21, 2014 7:20:03 GMT -5
Obviously, they think that now that "PPVs" are Network Events, that they can just treat them as another episode of RAW.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2014 7:20:35 GMT -5
I'll be honest, I didn't mind that we didn't see Ambrose/Rollins because it advanced the feud in a way that protected both men. You have either guy win the match, it'll be hard to keep the heat up going into the big SummerSlam match. You book a draw like a double countout or anything like, and I believe that people would be still be pissed. Especially if the match never really gets started, and you have both guys brawling to a coutnout, people will be pissed in my mind since you still deprived them of the match. With Ambrose attacking Rollins throughout the night, you saw the fear on Rollins face in that last segment when he had no security or Triple H to back him up. After all that talk of squashing Ambrose like a bug and all the weeks of trash talk in the lead-up, and now Rollins is genuinely afraid of Ambrose. He now knows that Ambrose is willing to attack him anywhere, not just in the ring, but in the parking lot or even in catering. Especially in the next few weeks when I believe we'll start to see the cracks within The Authority because of in-fighting with Orton/Kane and everything with Roman Reigns going after them, there's going to be nobody around to protect Rollins. Now, he has to face off with the man he betrayed, had screwed out of MITB, beaten relentlessly and with nobody to back him up. Now you have to face that rabid dog you pissed off one too many times, that keeps chasing you and won't stop until it tears your throat out. Good luck, son.
That's the way I see it. Rollins who has talked himself up so much is now afraid of Ambrose because he knows that Ambrose won't stop hunting him.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2014 7:31:17 GMT -5
This was the only match I cared enough to watch, I wouldn't be shocked if people canceled their subscriptions. Same here, it was Sunday night and I was exhausted from work (Sunday is my Friday). It was a week from hell and I thought seeing this awesome match before I went to bed would cheer me up a little. Once I'm done rewatching my personal greatest matches of all time list, I think I am canceling the Network. I will still watch WWE, but unless it's a t-shirt or a ticket they aren't getting my money anymore they have burned me one time too many. |
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Post by realg on Jul 21, 2014 7:34:48 GMT -5
It was great. They sacrificed it to give the match at Summerslam an even more special build.
Be patient for goodness sake, you used to have to wait a whole year for the face off at the end of a feud.
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Post by 4real on Jul 21, 2014 7:37:45 GMT -5
Rollins was hurt. I thought we all knew this? Why exactly did anybody think this match was going to happen? Yes I know WWE probably shouldn't have still advertised it for the PPV and shown the package as well as badass as that package was (hehe) but at least we still got some pretty good segments out of it. The match should have always gone down at Summerslam and hopefully now it will.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Jul 21, 2014 7:43:13 GMT -5
The last I heard about Rollins knee, the only thing he was suffering from was shoddy writing. He certainly didn't have any problems executing the Curb Stomp on the steps on Smackdown, taped 24 hours after the "injury." That, and he did get physical with Ambrose on the PPV a few times and he seemed to be moving around just fine.
Even if that's the case that Seth's knee was hurt, they could have let everyone know on the website that his status was questionable, like Bad News Barrett last month. I didn't feel cheated at Money in the Bank, but I sure did here.
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Post by eJm on Jul 21, 2014 7:47:55 GMT -5
Most of the crowd had no idea Rollins was injured (if he even was) and the only reason we know of anything is because we're all interested in that stuff.
WWE would have hyped an injury angle if they wanted to that route with it.
Personally, I would have Ambrose face Kane after MITB, if he won he would face Rollins at Battleground. He gets screwed. Rollins gets a PPV match against someone he can have a fun match with, a Kofi or Ziggler, Ambrose runs in after and they brawl. Rollins demands Ambrose at Summerslam.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2014 8:07:09 GMT -5
It was great. They sacrificed it to give the match at Summerslam an even more special build. Be patient for goodness sake, you used to have to wait a whole year for the face off at the end of a feud. If it were on Raw, fine, but this was on a show people paid for. Patience should not be required or even expected. |
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