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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Oct 2, 2015 11:31:20 GMT -5
This was the one period where I boycotted the WWE for having Orton as their World Champ so luckily I didn't watch
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Oct 2, 2015 11:36:32 GMT -5
remember those days when week after week you'd be so anxious on Monday nights, caught up in that zeitgeist of the wrestling boom where your youth seemed like it would be eternal and you and all those brothers and sisters with that universal interest, you just felt part of something which is what you needed at that age. Troubles came an went, but wrestling was yours. You'd sit down week after week, enthralled for two hours, buying magazines, checking out your super slow internet but gosh darn it it didn't matter, you had to have it. You had to consume it. You just had to know what was next in the exciting saga of a blubbering fat ass making bad investments in strip malls and arguing about his contract with an insecure gargoyle in a suit and a Xenmorph and whether they were all going to go to court and battle it out. What a time. But they're gone forever. Shouldn't dwell, but man, That's what it was all about
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Oct 2, 2015 11:38:35 GMT -5
Big Show randomly driving that truck to close out a Raw has to be one of the funniest things I've seen on Raw in years.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 2, 2015 11:39:45 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. I think it was worse when they had Shawn Michaels being the person with money troubles.
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Oct 2, 2015 11:41:30 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. And this is exactly why the whole "local man" phenomenon is so damaging to WWE as a whole. This is a storyline that would have been very well suited for a midcarder that the audience would genuinely feel had a chance to be fired, and as such could have been shaped into an evil tool of the Authority in a well done angle. But no. Big Show.
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Oct 2, 2015 11:42:15 GMT -5
Big Show randomly driving that truck to close out a Raw has to be one of the funniest things I've seen on Raw in years. Let's not forget it gave the world the now classic "YES!" chant aswell
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Post by revolver86 on Oct 2, 2015 11:44:56 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. Same. The whole Authority angle felt even worse, for me, because my GF dumped me the night after Summerslam, that year. That was a despressing few months.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Oct 2, 2015 11:54:42 GMT -5
Yeah, it really did beggar belief, especially since....wasn't Hogan in TNA at the time? And I know he and Show have always been tight. Notwithstanding that Dixie Carter probably would have chopped her dominant hand off to get a guy with Big Show's name recognition to come squash AJ Styles.
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Post by Captain & Diet on Oct 2, 2015 13:37:29 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? It was a head shop. I didn't sell any drugs!
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Post by Sephiroth on Oct 2, 2015 13:44:17 GMT -5
You were the button store that sold drugs out of the back, weren't you? It was a head shop. I didn't sell any drugs! Head shop...prostitution then!
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Oct 2, 2015 13:46:49 GMT -5
You were the button store that sold drugs out of the back, weren't you? It was a head shop. I didn't sell any drugs! Just "incense".
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2015 13:52:28 GMT -5
That's like eight years in giant years.
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Post by Captain & Diet on Oct 2, 2015 14:14:40 GMT -5
It was a head shop. I didn't sell any drugs! Just "incense". Maybe you know where I might find Mary Jane?
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Oct 2, 2015 14:15:15 GMT -5
Maybe you know where I might find Mary Jane? Go read a Spider-Man comic.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 2, 2015 14:15:57 GMT -5
Maybe you know where I might find Mary Jane? Go read a Spider-Man Iron Man comic. Fixed for recent developments
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2015 14:17:59 GMT -5
Absolute shit writing. It's kind of impressive at how shitty that it was.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2015 15:05:36 GMT -5
Now he just breaks singlets.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Oct 2, 2015 15:24:13 GMT -5
I despise sad Big Show. Absolutely detest. LOATHE entirely.
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Oct 2, 2015 15:27:28 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 So basically the same as The Authority then?
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 2, 2015 16:56:23 GMT -5
They needed a Tommy Gunn in that role. A young dumb rookie who could be manipulated, not an established star who should be a millionaire several times over.
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