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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2015 17:15:40 GMT -5
I was hoping this thread would be to appreciate a man who nearly lost it all and turned his life around.
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Oct 2, 2015 19:14:50 GMT -5
There is a mall on Long Island I refer to as Big Show's mall. It is practically empty, no one goes shopping there and no one likes it
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Oct 2, 2015 19:15:25 GMT -5
There is a mall on Long Island I refer to as Big Show's mall. It is practically empty, no one goes shopping there and no one likes it What's there?
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Oct 2, 2015 19:23:57 GMT -5
There is a mall on Long Island I refer to as Big Show's mall. It is practically empty, no one goes shopping there and no one likes it What's there? Uhh.... A Payless, an awesome pancake restaurant, a bank, three carousel's, a dentist, sketchy Asian clothes stores, a pizza place, a supermarket, a dry cleaner, and a ladies clothing store
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 2, 2015 21:44:55 GMT -5
It's a common problem in WWE that whenever they might have a story or angle that could be used to elevate an existing guy, or give it to a new guy, they tend to revert to their establishment guys.
I understand the argument for it, that they trust certain guys and can rely on them. But wrestling requires fresh stars, and if you keep sticking to the same old same old, you can't create them, and those old stars get staler and staler.
Even when they do elevate a new guy, like Seth, they plug him into a cliched role ("the corporate heel champion") and in his case, they sacrificed a hot act (SHIELD) to do it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2015 22:07:10 GMT -5
I like how, during his streak of "having to" knock everyone out, when he hit Miz (who was a face at the time) he seemed completely unconflicted about it.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Oct 2, 2015 22:13:49 GMT -5
I like how, during his streak of "having to" knock everyone out, when he hit Miz (who was a face at the time) he seemed completely unconflicted about it. I don't think he was so "unconflicted" (although I'm sure that sounds funnier to people who don't like Miz all that much) so much as he'd been through the whole song and dance of "do it or you're fired, do it for your family" so many times already that now he just wanted to get it over with.
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Post by stealthamo on Oct 2, 2015 22:38:00 GMT -5
Always worth noting that less than two months after that Survivor Series main event, Big Show was doing this:
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Oct 2, 2015 22:40:02 GMT -5
Lol! Iron Clad Contract my ass!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2015 22:40:46 GMT -5
Always worth noting that less than two months after that Survivor Series main event, Big Show was doing this: Well he was probably still broke.
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Oct 2, 2015 22:44:24 GMT -5
they should change his name to Garbage Truck and he should eat garbage and wear a big diaper held together with duct tape with GARBAGE TRUCK on the ass in ballpoint pen and his entrance theme should be this
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 2, 2015 23:53:11 GMT -5
My favourite thing about the whole storyline was that Big Show had been Stephanie's friend since she was 12. I can just imagine a 16 year old Big Show hanging out with her at Wrestlemania IV while she watched....*cough*.....Macho Man win the WWF Championship.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 3, 2015 0:08:31 GMT -5
There is a mall on Long Island I refer to as Big Show's mall. It is practically empty, no one goes shopping there and no one likes it The Source? If not... that place is pretty damned dead too...
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Oct 3, 2015 5:13:09 GMT -5
There is a mall on Long Island I refer to as Big Show's mall. It is practically empty, no one goes shopping there and no one likes it The Source? If not... that place is pretty damned dead too... The Sunvet Mall, I go there on Sunday and also power walk with the old people
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Oct 3, 2015 13:01:47 GMT -5
I remember hating this storyline at the time. It was just do dumb with so many things that didn't make sense or were just down right insulting to the fans intelligence.
-Big Show is somehow broke despite wrestling on a extremely good salary for nearly 20 years. -Big Show is blackmailed by Authority and puts up with their crap while crying all the time of course, even though he could easily tell them no as with his name and resume he would've had no trouble making an income doing other things (wrestling for another league, movies etc.) -Stephanie looking up to Big Show when she was a child despite the fact that they're only four years apart. It's also extremely far fetched that when Stephanie was young that she would've known Big Show considering the fact he didn't enter the business until 1995. It's like she was talking about Andre but then just replaced him with Big Show as if the writers were like well they're both giant guys so what does it matter, nobody will notice even though anyone with half a brain would realize that it makes no sense and doesn't measure up. -Big Show gets fired for some reason I don't even remember, and then the next week somehow gets the power to get into the television feed with him cutting a promo on Triple H while randomly standing in front of a brick wall. -Out of work Big Show I guess gets a job as a truck driver with him then randomly thinking he's Stone Cold Steve Austin by driving a truck into the arena at the end of Raw and then proceeding to do nothing. Every time Austin would drive a vehicle into the ring he would beat someone up or cause havoc but Big Show just did nothing. You would think maybe he would attack the Authority for firing him especially since now he didn't have to worry about any consequences. Instead he just stared at them and then did Daniel Bryan's yes chant in a lame attempt to take his face reactions. -Two weeks before Survivor Series Big Show finally decides to do something smart and sue where he not only could earn a ton of money (which he apparently needed as ridiculous as the story was) but also run Triple H and Stephanie out of power. He then decides not too after getting duped by Triple H to drop it in exchange for a title match with Randy Orton at Survivor Series, making Show look like a complete idiot in the process. Then to top it off Show suffers a 15 minute beatdown where he gets the crap beaten out of him by Triple H, Orton, the Shield, and the debuting Corporate Kane (who saunters out in a suit and tie while looking miserable) in what was the only highlight of this awful feud. -Show and Orton have an awful match at Survivor Series that the crowd craps all over with Orton winning. Show then does nothing for a year before his annual fall push starts at the next years Survivor Series where he turns heel and joins Authority.
So as you can see every plot point in this storyline was awful and made no sense what so ever. Even though it would've been kind of dumb, I think they should've just repackaged Big Show with a truck driver gimmick and kept it long term. Have a story where Triple H takes his name, leading him to being the called the Big Rig or something while wearing a vest and wrestling in street clothes. At least it would've freshened him up a little bit and given him a new edge instead of just him being the same boring played out Big Show we've seen for years wrestling for the title in 2013. That's another thing that bothers me too, of all the guys the Authority was messing with around the time that could've used the rub of getting pushed up the card and feuding with Orton (Bryan, Ziggler, Miz, Cody) they chose the oldest guy who needed it the least.
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Post by Aboutreika18 on Oct 3, 2015 13:09:07 GMT -5
This storyline was just amazingly bad. I'm still amazed there were people who were paid money for writing this mess.
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Post by SAJ Forth on Oct 3, 2015 15:17:33 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." Or have him tell his family he blew their savings to buy a Blockbuster, leading to a son, real or kayfabe, having to trick-or-treat with his friends on FaceTime. Bonus points if said son is named Stan.
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Post by thegame415 on Oct 3, 2015 22:03:14 GMT -5
Punk would've been a better choice to feud with Orton after Bryan at HiaC.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Oct 4, 2015 0:48:43 GMT -5
Around the time this was happening I was really depressed in my life. The 2 things I usually watch to stave off the boredom that comes with it are WWE and TNA, so it was really nice to see BOTH of them be in their worst time ever.
Hell, I'd say TNA was better at that time because at least they finally gave us a British World Heavyweight Champion
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Post by . on Oct 4, 2015 0:58:39 GMT -5
And 16 years since he was at all interesting.
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