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Post by saintpat on Nov 24, 2014 0:27:02 GMT -5
Somewhere Steve Borden is sitting in a lux hotel room thinking, "You mean I could have been wrestling in front of people ... lots of people ... all these years?"
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Post by Jiren on Nov 24, 2014 0:27:41 GMT -5
I loved it but my issues were
- Awful music - No Bat
Not dealbreakers but very minor niggles
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Post by Jiren on Nov 24, 2014 0:30:36 GMT -5
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Post by BigJerichool222 on Nov 24, 2014 0:38:24 GMT -5
His music sounds like the Taker/Show Unholy Alliance theme. Sting has formed an unholy alliance.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2014 0:56:01 GMT -5
So, can we just comment on how freaking bizarre it is that, over thirteen years after WCW shut down, what finally spurred Sting into coming to the WWE is, "Dolph Ziggler needs my help!"?
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Post by BorneAgain on Nov 24, 2014 1:04:54 GMT -5
So, can we just comment on how freaking bizarre it is that, over thirteen years after WCW shut down, what finally spurred Sting into coming to the WWE is, "Dolph Ziggler needs my help!"? He's a fighting blond haired babyface who was getting beaten up by a rich arrogant heel in a suit after his team was turned on earlier in the evening. I guess Sting could sympathize.
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Post by slaughterama on Nov 24, 2014 1:06:11 GMT -5
Honestly really underwhelmed by the way it happened. The only reason I ever wanted Sting in WWE was for him to get the royal treatment, the theatrics, the music, maybe even the "drop down from the ceiling" bit, or at least the "pointing from the rafters" one. I wanted Sting to be able to use his Crow character, only on a WWE scale. I certainly didn't want him to come out casually through the entrance, walk slowly to the ring with a cheap WWE theme and no theatrics, drop a ref, and then waddle for a minute or two in the ring while the HD cams really show his age, his lack of hairdye, and his passé paintjob. I mean, the low-budget Sting we got tonight was the exact same low-budget Sting we had in TNA (well, actually, his TNA entrance probably was better), and I grew tired of him quite quickly. Heck, if he ends up becoming the new Raw GM, thanks but no thanks, been there done that in TNA. So disappointed, right now (didn't help that the overall PPV left me cold). I have VERY STRONG doubts that WWE will ever have anyone descend from the ceiling ever again, for obvious reasons.
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Post by benstudd on Nov 24, 2014 1:13:04 GMT -5
Somehow I marked out a bit but not as much as when we saw his music played and we saw a titantron vid of him when they promoted their game a few months ago. Cause the second time is never as strong as the first time. And people were mentioning him before SS.
I always return to the JAWS example in that around the time the movie was almost completed, Spielberg showed it to people for test screening and when the shark appeared, people went nuts and screamed. Spielberg said he sort he got greedy and went for reshoots and filmed the dead head in the boat scene for an extra shocking scene. He said that when he showed the movie to other people after they saw the boat scene that shocked them, they reacted less strongly to the first appearance of the shark cause fans were less trusting and were looking for something for something to happen.
It is sort of similar here, if Sting has had no teasers and had only gotten the music and titantron at SS, I feel like the reaction would have been greater(even the reaction was great). My 2 cents.
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Post by schma on Nov 24, 2014 1:15:47 GMT -5
Sucks that he seemingly won't have the baseball bat, which I think goes back a few years to WWE claiming that they would never promote violence with a household item like a baseball bat. Because a chair isn't a household item Woulda been nice to have the bat though.
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Post by doinkmark on Nov 24, 2014 1:20:05 GMT -5
I too wish Sting's intro had been something different. The whole thing was already overbooked before he showed up, and that new music didn't help. Still, it's Sting on WWE TV! As a long-time fan who had often dreamed of such a moment, it was hard not to love it all the same.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Nov 24, 2014 1:21:09 GMT -5
Well, that's it. For wrestling fans my age that grew up in the early '90s, this is quite possibly the last "Hell Has Frozen Over" moment of this magnitude we will ever see again. Everything else but this has already took place. This is something I've been hoping for since the end of WCW. What a moment. I just turned 33 and this makes me feel like a kid again. The streak ended, Bryan main-evented WrestleMania, Lesnar won the WWE title by squashing Cena, and Sting showed up on WWE programming. This year has been f***ing wild at times. Ha... "Nothing ever happens in WWE", my ass.
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Post by Just call me D.j.m. on Nov 24, 2014 1:24:07 GMT -5
Honestly really underwhelmed by the way it happened. The only reason I ever wanted Sting in WWE was for him to get the royal treatment, the theatrics, the music, maybe even the "drop down from the ceiling" bit, or at least the "pointing from the rafters" one. I wanted Sting to be able to use his Crow character, only on a WWE scale. I certainly didn't want him to come out casually through the entrance, walk slowly to the ring with a cheap WWE theme and no theatrics, drop a ref, and then waddle for a minute or two in the ring while the HD cams really show his age, his lack of hairdye, and his passé paintjob. I mean, the low-budget Sting we got tonight was the exact same low-budget Sting we had in TNA (well, actually, his TNA entrance probably was better), and I grew tired of him quite quickly. Heck, if he ends up becoming the new Raw GM, thanks but no thanks, been there done that in TNA. So disappointed, right now (didn't help that the overall PPV left me cold). You know what? Maybe you should just go. I don't think wrestling is your thing. Maybe it's just not for you. Maybe you should just go.
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Post by saintpat on Nov 24, 2014 1:29:26 GMT -5
I just realized ... this means we finally get that decades-in-the-making Sting vs. Big Show 60-minute Iron Man match to main event WM!!!!!!
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Post by schma on Nov 24, 2014 1:33:12 GMT -5
In a 60 minute Iron Man match Big Show would turn so many times that eventually he'd just be doing heel turns on himself and punching himself in the head like some kind of Fight Club fever dream.
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Nov 24, 2014 1:48:53 GMT -5
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Post by Dean-o on Nov 24, 2014 2:24:54 GMT -5
Well, that's it. For wrestling fans my age that grew up in the early '90s, this is quite possibly the last "Hell Has Frozen Over" moment of this magnitude we will ever see again. Everything else but this has already took place. This is something I've been hoping for since the end of WCW. What a moment. I just turned 33 and this makes me feel like a kid again. The streak ended, Bryan main-evented WrestleMania, Lesnar won the WWE title by squashing Cena, and Sting showed up on WWE programming. This year has been f***ing wild at times. I honestly feel this year will be looked at as a huge changing point for the next era of the WWE. Everything you mentioned was storylines, but let's not forget the behind the scenes part of it. CM Punk quitting, the botching of Batista's return and them having to change plans to please their fans (Ha! Image that idea!), the firing of Del Rio and holding Mysterio's contract hostage, the launch of the Network, their stock rising for the first time in years then dropping just as fast after their promises of higher TV rights fee's ending up pieing them in the face, and the successful running of nXt, it's finally looking like we're getting some fresh faces in the main event scene.
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Post by Hit Girl on Nov 24, 2014 2:41:15 GMT -5
I fear it may lead to HHH and Stephanie saying that due to outside interference, the result of the match has been voided.
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Nov 24, 2014 2:44:23 GMT -5
I fear it may lead to HHH and Stephanie saying that due to outside interference, the result of the match has been voided. I doubt that very much. Firstly it'd be Vince's decision and secondly I doubt they'd immediately go back on the stipulation that the entire PPV was built around.
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Post by Professor Chaos on Nov 24, 2014 2:51:04 GMT -5
I still find it funny that getting the man who was the flagship of a company going from Spike to Destination America is some big deal.
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Post by grunt on Nov 24, 2014 2:58:28 GMT -5
Honestly really underwhelmed by the way it happened. The only reason I ever wanted Sting in WWE was for him to get the royal treatment, the theatrics, the music, maybe even the "drop down from the ceiling" bit, or at least the "pointing from the rafters" one. I wanted Sting to be able to use his Crow character, only on a WWE scale. I certainly didn't want him to come out casually through the entrance, walk slowly to the ring with a cheap WWE theme and no theatrics, drop a ref, and then waddle for a minute or two in the ring while the HD cams really show his age, his lack of hairdye, and his passé paintjob. I mean, the low-budget Sting we got tonight was the exact same low-budget Sting we had in TNA (well, actually, his TNA entrance probably was better), and I grew tired of him quite quickly. Heck, if he ends up becoming the new Raw GM, thanks but no thanks, been there done that in TNA. So disappointed, right now (didn't help that the overall PPV left me cold). You know what? Maybe you should just go. I don't think wrestling is your thing. Maybe it's just not for you. Maybe you should just go. Ah, good ole condescending members of FAN. Never disappoint. "- I had big expectations, I wanted Sting to be a huge deal, I wanted it to be a moment for the ages, and instead, I felt it was just meh. - Shut up and leave, you clearly don't like wrestling."
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