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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2015 1:13:08 GMT -5
Let's reminisce in what might of been the dumbest, most insulting, most cringeworthy, most awful long term main event title feud ever. Let's speculate if The Big Shows finances are still in place and if The Authority still owns his mortgage. I wonder if he regrets settling over a WWE Championship match contested under normal one on one rules and not making a stipulation that's impossible for him to lose, like a first person to do 30 bodyslams on their opponent wins the championship match or something.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Oct 2, 2015 1:15:39 GMT -5
Might've been?
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Post by Raskovnik on Oct 2, 2015 1:20:03 GMT -5
That general period of my life was probably the worst yet, and having this garbage ass feud left me with even less to look forward to each week.
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Post by Captain & Diet on Oct 2, 2015 1:27:18 GMT -5
I rented space in his strip mall and had to move out when it was foreclosed on.
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Post by Starshine on Oct 2, 2015 1:28:05 GMT -5
This was around the same time Big Show was stealing the "yes" chant too, right?
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 2, 2015 1:29:39 GMT -5
With another character, I'd have not minded it as much, but given the "IRON CLAD CONTRACT" storyline not really being that long before made him a terrible choice for it.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Oct 2, 2015 2:08:38 GMT -5
Big Show was the wrong choice for this storyline. Like really? Show is one of the biggest stars in wrestling and has been in mainstream movies, yet he is supposedly needs to work for WWE and put up with he Authority despite the fact that Dixie Carter and every indy promoter in the world probably has a secret bank account set aside just to throw money at ex-WWE guys, AND he probably has Adam Sandler's number on speed dial.
There are so many other guys on the roster who I'm more inclined to believe "need" WWE that badly.
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Post by StormanReigns on Oct 2, 2015 2:18:50 GMT -5
A few months prior to this dumb storyline, he was given an ironclad contract by Big Johnny in a virtually identical storyline.
Both Times He:
-Cried -Did evil acts against his wishes -Genuinely turned heel
Well at least in the 2nd variation he bought a strip mall.
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Post by 67 more on Oct 2, 2015 3:27:46 GMT -5
The f***ing debate about that ironclad contract.
Big Johnny gives him an ironclad big money 15-year contract. HHH tells him its not ironclad and manipulates Big Show. f*** that, it is ironclad after all and Show's gonna sue. Show chooses a WWE title match instead of getting all the money to cure all Show's financial woes.
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Post by Heartbreaker on Oct 2, 2015 3:54:55 GMT -5
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Oct 2, 2015 3:56:03 GMT -5
What a terrible, intelligence insulting storyline that was. Two summers in a row involved Big Show in some of the worst segments I've seen since the guest host era.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Oct 2, 2015 4:22:19 GMT -5
Let's look at the alternate universe where Big Show DID take The Authority to court, yeah?
This would be approximately in late 2013 or so... The case would more or less be open-and-shut, based solely on evidence from the preceding three or four months of The Authority abusing their power to disadvantage Daniel Bryan, belittle the Rhodes family and blackmail Big Show into doing their other dirty work. Big Show would be installed as the new authority figure of WWE, with Triple H and Stephanie McMahon banned for life from day-to-day management of the on-screen product, leaving them solely to their roles off-screen. With his money woes sorted out thanks to the exorbitant salary of his new corporate role, Big Show no longer feels the need to ravage his body any further with the daily grind of wrestling. He is a benevolent manager, making sure that the babyfaces always get their just rewards and the heels always get their just desserts. Sure, he'd probably go corrupt himself eventually such is the nature of the beast, but for a year or so, nearly all the injustices of WWE are set right.
Basically, in hindsight, Big Show settling for a mere WWE Championship match with ordinary match stipulations may be the single dumbest in-kayfabe decision ever made.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Oct 2, 2015 5:09:18 GMT -5
Let's look at the alternate universe where Big Show DID take The Authority to court, yeah? This would be approximately in late 2013 or so... The case would more or less be open-and-shut, based solely on evidence from the preceding three or four months of The Authority abusing their power to disadvantage Daniel Bryan, belittle the Rhodes family and blackmail Big Show into doing their other dirty work. Big Show would be installed as the new authority figure of WWE, with Triple H and Stephanie McMahon banned for life from day-to-day management of the on-screen product, leaving them solely to their roles off-screen. With his money woes sorted out thanks to the exorbitant salary of his new corporate role, Big Show no longer feels the need to ravage his body any further with the daily grind of wrestling. He is a benevolent manager, making sure that the babyfaces always get their just rewards and the heels always get their just desserts. Sure, he'd probably go corrupt himself eventually such is the nature of the beast, but for a year or so, nearly all the injustices of WWE are set right. Basically, in hindsight, Big Show settling for a mere WWE Championship match with ordinary match stipulations may be the single dumbest in-kayfabe decision ever made. And that's why Big Show is a true Local Man through and through.
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Oct 2, 2015 5:16:25 GMT -5
The only highlight of that storyline was when he knocked out The Miz with no hesitation at all.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Oct 2, 2015 5:33:18 GMT -5
2 years since Big Show was broke, or 2 years since Big Show has been broken?
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Oct 2, 2015 6:37:18 GMT -5
well, it DID give us Big Show's hilariously narmy angry face.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2015 10:39:22 GMT -5
Let's look at the alternate universe where Big Show DID take The Authority to court, yeah? This would be approximately in late 2013 or so... The case would more or less be open-and-shut, based solely on evidence from the preceding three or four months of The Authority abusing their power to disadvantage Daniel Bryan, belittle the Rhodes family and blackmail Big Show into doing their other dirty work. Big Show would be installed as the new authority figure of WWE, with Triple H and Stephanie McMahon banned for life from day-to-day management of the on-screen product, leaving them solely to their roles off-screen. With his money woes sorted out thanks to the exorbitant salary of his new corporate role, Big Show no longer feels the need to ravage his body any further with the daily grind of wrestling. He is a benevolent manager, making sure that the babyfaces always get their just rewards and the heels always get their just desserts. Sure, he'd probably go corrupt himself eventually such is the nature of the beast, but for a year or so, nearly all the injustices of WWE are set right. Basically, in hindsight, Big Show settling for a mere WWE Championship match with ordinary match stipulations may be the single dumbest in-kayfabe decision ever made. Every hour of Raw would have Big Show turning face and then heel randomly
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2015 10:42:49 GMT -5
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Post by Sephiroth on Oct 2, 2015 10:45:33 GMT -5
I rented space in his strip mall and had to move out when it was foreclosed on. You were the button store that sold drugs out of the back, weren't you?
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Post by krozor on Oct 2, 2015 11:16:04 GMT -5
The angle would have been better if we'd gotten some build up about how proud Big Show was to have purchased his strip mall and all the huge plans he had for it. Maybe a tour where Big Show excitedly shows off the tenants that had moved in: "We got a magic shop, we got a laser tag place, we got a vape store, we got a place that sells Halloween costumes, we have a different store entirely that just sells Christmas decorations, we got a second magic shop...this is gonna be amazing! Best decision of my life."
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