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Post by StormanReigns on Aug 20, 2015 23:58:21 GMT -5
The last two Royal Rumbles. It amazes me how stupid WWE was to let that shit happen on their third biggest PPV. Bryan makes the best promo of his life, probably got even more popular, and they did it AGAIN this year
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2015 0:09:09 GMT -5
I was looking through old ticket stubs to see my Wrestlemania 28 one. I knew Bryan was likely to lose to Sheamus, but still decided to make the trip to see a great match (it was the one I most cared about). A plane ticket, an expensive Wrestlemania ticket, and a lot of food got me 18 seconds of action, that no one really wanted to go down like that. There were more Daniel Bryan signs than Rock ones. I legitimately felt screwed out of a lot of money that night. Big Show/Rhodes went 15 minutes right after as the crowd chanted "Yes" and "Daniel Bryan" The worst part was that it was supposed to make Sheamus the "next big star". I like Sheamus, but he will NEVER be half the star WWE wants him to be. Ever.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Aug 21, 2015 0:23:38 GMT -5
I was looking through old ticket stubs to see my Wrestlemania 28 one. I knew Bryan was likely to lose to Sheamus, but still decided to make the trip to see a great match (it was the one I most cared about). A plane ticket, an expensive Wrestlemania ticket, and a lot of food got me 18 seconds of action, that no one really wanted to go down like that. There were more Daniel Bryan signs than Rock ones. I legitimately felt screwed out of a lot of money that night. Big Show/Rhodes went 15 minutes right after as the crowd chanted "Yes" and "Daniel Bryan" The worst part was that it was supposed to make Sheamus the "next big star". I like Sheamus, but he will NEVER be half the star WWE wants him to be. Ever. I never got the sense that 18 seconds was meant to "make" Sheamus. Sheamus was pretty much doing a whole lot of jack shit even when he won the Rumble. And the build to the "Match" was all about Bryan and AJ's relationship. If the end game was "bell rings, face hits finisher, 1-2-3", then They could've really plugged anyone into that match.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2015 0:25:07 GMT -5
The worst part was that it was supposed to make Sheamus the "next big star". I like Sheamus, but he will NEVER be half the star WWE wants him to be. Ever. I never got the sense that 18 seconds was meant to "make" Sheamus. Sheamus was pretty much doing a whole lot of jack shit even when he won the Rumble. And the build to the "Match" was all about Bryan and AJ's relationship. You could've really put anyone in that match. WWE obviously wants Sheamus to be a big deal, they've tried time and time again to do so. Bryan himself was the one who said the match was supposed to make Sheamus a big deal.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Aug 21, 2015 0:36:49 GMT -5
I never got the sense that 18 seconds was meant to "make" Sheamus. Sheamus was pretty much doing a whole lot of jack shit even when he won the Rumble. And the build to the "Match" was all about Bryan and AJ's relationship. You could've really put anyone in that match. WWE obviously wants Sheamus to be a big deal, they've tried time and time again to do so. Bryan himself was the one who said the match was supposed to make Sheamus a big deal. Hell, the story was fundamentally solid. You had this arrogant loudmouth jerk constantly running his mouth about how great he is after winning a world title, one that he won without even so much as throwing a punch, all the while being an asshole to his girlfriend and barely escaping with the title in defenses against worthy challengers. Who WOULDN'T want to see that guy get knocked down a few pegs, you know? Sheamus winning the belt was a foregone conclusion so, at the very least, people wanted Bryan to go down fighting in a great match that set a standard for the rest of the card to follow. Instead... yeah. But, as fate would play out, it ended up one of the best damn things that happened in his whole career, while the actual match winner ended up being the big loser out of it through no fault of his own.
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Aug 21, 2015 0:40:01 GMT -5
WWE obviously wants Sheamus to be a big deal, they've tried time and time again to do so. Bryan himself was the one who said the match was supposed to make Sheamus a big deal. Hell, the story was fundamentally solid. You had this arrogant loudmouth jerk constantly running his mouth about how great he is after winning a world title, one that he won without even so much as throwing a punch, all the while being an asshole to his girlfriend and barely escaping with the title in defenses against worthy challengers. Who WOULDN'T want to see that guy get knocked down a few pegs, you know? Sheamus winning the belt was a foregone conclusion so, at the very least, people wanted Bryan to go down fighting in a great match that set a standard for the rest of the card to follow. Instead... yeah. But, as fate would play out, it ended up one of the best damn things that happened in his whole career, while the actual match winner ended up being the big loser out of it through no fault of his own. What, taco diarrhea jokes don't get a guy over? Something's fundamentally wrong with this country. McMahon/Dunn 2016.
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Post by Hobby Drifter on Aug 21, 2015 0:46:55 GMT -5
The worst part was that it was supposed to make Sheamus the "next big star". I like Sheamus, but he will NEVER be half the star WWE wants him to be. Ever. WWE is *terrible* at picking their top guys. The people who get over do so in spite of WWE, not because of it. Nobody's ever said, "This guy's a terrible wrestler, but WWE gave him such great material to work with, he couldn't help but be super over". 18-seconds is the perfect embodiment of that. "Oh, you like Daniel Bryan? Enough to buy Mania on PPV or tickets/travel to be there live? Well, **** him and **** you. He's not only going to lose the title, on a fluke, in the opening match...but he's going to do so without even having a chance to put on an entertaining match. And for you people watching at home? You don't get to see him on Monday. But you get BROCK LESNAR. Spoiler alert: He's jobbing to Cena in his first match back, then going on to feud with HHH for the rest of the year."
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Post by ayumidah on Aug 21, 2015 1:33:30 GMT -5
The most recent for me would be Kevin Owens not beating Cena for the US title when it seemed most sensible for that very thing to happen.
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Post by Sparvid on Aug 21, 2015 2:10:55 GMT -5
Fairly minor thing, but Taboo Tuesday 2005. The voting was for which two Smackdown wrestlers would face Raw's Edge & Chris Masters. And the winners were Rey & Matt Hardy, since people were apparently interested in seeing Matt get his hands on Edge shortly after losing the Loser Leaves Raw match weeks earlier. Except that Edge was injured at the time, and WWE knew about it, but they kept advertising him and didn't say anything until after the show already started, when Edge just said that he didn't feel like wrestle and got Snitsky to replace him in the match.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Aug 21, 2015 3:10:27 GMT -5
There are at least four occasions when I have paid to see a match and was rewarded with a squash: Bryan/Sheamus JBL/Mysterio Christian/Regal Chavo/Kane (although Kane got into that match by winning a battle royal if I remember rightly)
f*** you, WWE.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 21, 2015 5:56:55 GMT -5
still waiting for my severance cheque from when Vince fired us a few years ago. I think I'm going to have to call the Ombudsman or Better Business Bureaus.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Aug 21, 2015 5:59:34 GMT -5
I think WWE postponing an entire house show in Greenville, SC so they could suddenly do an Elimination Chamber Network special with two weeks notice might work for this thread.
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 21, 2015 6:03:11 GMT -5
When they screw the fans, they screw themselves more.
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Post by Session Moth is over on Aug 21, 2015 7:15:58 GMT -5
I know everyone goes on about 18 seconds but I was more pissed at what happened the year before. Advertise Sheamus vs Bryan for weeks before Wrestlemania, the match I was most looking forward to and then decide to drop it to the preshow on the same night and not tell fans. I was so pissed that night.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Aug 21, 2015 7:59:58 GMT -5
The inVasion. They had millions of potential new fans but they drove them all away with their insulting booking of the few big WCW names they had that were willing to take buyouts of their Time Warner deals and work there. All they managed to achieve in the end was to permanently slice 2-3 million people off the wrestling fanbase.
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Post by eJm on Aug 21, 2015 8:10:34 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm pretty much in the camp of trying to figure out how WWE was able to mess up an easy match to book like the Royal Rumble for this year's one.
Sure, Vince Russo did it but Vince Russo is the master of destroying stipulations so that makes sense.
Especially since they decided to follow THAT triple threat match with THAT piece of garbage.
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Post by Hobby Drifter on Aug 21, 2015 8:14:04 GMT -5
The Austin/HHH/Rock thing reminded me of another one. They sold tickets for a PPV advertising Steve Austin's first match since Wrestlemania 19 and replaced him with Vader.
I mean, ok, I get it, Austin was supposedly hurt. But VADER? The folks who shelled out PPV ticket prices didn't do so on the strength of VADER's appeal. They couldn't have reached into their pockets and got somebody to come in for a one-off, simple paycheck?
There was the Punjabi Prison debacle, but that actually worked out better than what was advertised.
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Post by sshfof on Aug 21, 2015 9:19:39 GMT -5
So Vince was showing me this bear-skin rug one time....
Slightly more on topic, felt annoyed that the one time in recent memory we've had a Ppv at a reasonable time in Britain,Beast in the East, it was on a Saturday when I normally work.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Aug 21, 2015 9:33:43 GMT -5
The Austin/HHH/Rock thing reminded me of another one. They sold tickets for a PPV advertising Steve Austin's first match since Wrestlemania 19 and replaced him with Vader. I mean, ok, I get it, Austin was supposedly hurt. But VADER? The folks who shelled out PPV ticket prices didn't do so on the strength of VADER's appeal. They couldn't have reached into their pockets and got somebody to come in for a one-off, simple paycheck? There was the Punjabi Prison debacle, but that actually worked out better than what was advertised. They replaced Austin with Batista. Vader and Goldust were already in tow with the Coach for that match. I'm more pissed we didn't get a verbal debate between Batista vs Vader Dust and Coach
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Post by mrbananagrabber on Aug 21, 2015 9:48:56 GMT -5
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