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Post by thetower52 on Oct 13, 2015 0:13:59 GMT -5
Just let summer wrestle
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Oct 13, 2015 0:15:20 GMT -5
What a shit, waste of time story that has basically turned Ziggler into an insufferable douche (even more so) and Rusev into a directionless jobber to the stars.
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Post by wisdomwizard on Oct 13, 2015 0:16:14 GMT -5
Hopefully they are going with a double-turn. It's the only way to salvage this.
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Post by Captain & Diet on Oct 13, 2015 1:54:13 GMT -5
Rusev being hilarious, and I'm sure plenty were pleased about brawls in skirts, but a lot of it just goes to show that kayfabe romance angles in wrestling are bad ideas most of the time. Spike and Molly was cute, and, uhhh, were any other ones good in the slightest? Oh, I am reminded of Stephanie and Andrew's love. What a beautiful couple.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Oct 13, 2015 2:52:49 GMT -5
At least Dolph got a new pair of snazzy tights out of this.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Oct 13, 2015 3:17:57 GMT -5
This wins the gooker or people are idiots. As bad as TNA has been, this was continually shit on a shark for half a year
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Post by auph10imitated on Oct 13, 2015 3:38:59 GMT -5
WOW. just WOW.
I think fans understand that a kayfabe storyline is a kayfabe storyline, there was categorically no reason to bring up the TMZ/Rusev/Lana thing and literally kill a storyline dead thats been running for 7 months. They have just made themselves and everyone in this thing look completely stupid, genuinley one of the most baffling things they have done, and I thought it was bad enough when they had Awesome Kong come out and break character and announce she was pregnant.
Really really bad booking. Lana and Rusev have been killed dead.
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Post by MrElijah on Oct 13, 2015 4:36:41 GMT -5
I didn't think I'd ever say this, but thanks TMZ. It's not tabloids, it's hard news! *They produce some tabloids* YOU TABLOID FREAKS! IT'S NOT NEWS, IT'S GARBAGE!
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Post by MrElijah on Oct 13, 2015 4:45:52 GMT -5
Also it's great how this storyline worked itself into a shoot.
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Post by Dang! on Oct 13, 2015 4:58:16 GMT -5
TMZ ended a gooker worthy shit on a shitshark storyline, but I feel Rusev is done for now. He was pretty much buried on RAW.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Oct 13, 2015 5:16:31 GMT -5
TMZ ended a gooker worthy shit on a shitshark storyline, but I feel Rusev is done for now. He was pretty much buried on RAW. Yep, can add him to the pile of wrestlers WWE missed the boat with along with Cesaro, Neville and Wade. Shocking really... that they can screw up not one but 4 guys in the same year.
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Post by Zen411 on Oct 13, 2015 6:18:52 GMT -5
I don't understand the reason to have brought tmz into wrestling storylines. Aren't we as wrestling fans supposed to kind of know that there are wrestling storylines and separate lives of the wrestlers? They themselves say the characters are fictional with actors portraying them.
IIt makes no sense storyline wise that rusev was a jerk to Lana and she became miss independent for them to be engaged. Why not ignore it or have Lana return in a storyline that makes sense?
It would be like if tmz broke a story that wrestling was fake and Vince had to come out on screen and say that he had been lying to everyone and shut down wwe.
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Post by Hickster on Oct 13, 2015 7:03:08 GMT -5
TMZ spreading the news of Rusev and Lana made it hard to ignore in kayfabe, but I do think that somehow, they should have played it up that Summer never got the message. He marries Lana. Summer, again, is unaware of the marriage. The time comes for Rusev to hold another title and he holds up his end of the bargain. He and Summer marry. Then, we'll say one night he's booked to face all 3 members of New Day in separate singles matches. He faces Xavier and enters with Lana. A few other segments happen and he comes back to the ring for his next match, we'll say Kofi, this time with Summer. The main event is Rusev vs Big E. Rusev enters alone. Kofi and Xavier are on commentary. Xavier tries to attack Rusev mid match, but Lana runs in out of nowhere and slaps him down. Kofi tries to interfere, Summer does the same. Big E gets the win off the distraction. The show closes as Rusev, Lana, and Summer all stare down. For the dark segment, the audience is treated to a Russian threesome. Brilliant, sir. How about he faces the Wyatts and New Day spends the whole night trying to distract Summer and Lana. Xavier Woods vs Lana in Tetris? I'd watch that.
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Post by Ryushinku on Oct 13, 2015 7:52:09 GMT -5
I'm pretty confident Rusev and Lana will recover fine from this, as Rusev is about the only one who was able to keep his head above the waterline in all this nonsense and the hard reset button is just gonna help.
But yeah, the whole thing would be a Wrestlecrap Gooker winner for me. You know, the old Gooker not the "Steph said something stupid that one time" Gooker. Total waste of time, total waste of characters and by god do they still not understand after all these years that Dolph is just death at comedy.
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Post by mrbananagrabber on Oct 13, 2015 8:03:01 GMT -5
I think playing up the idea that Lana is the brains behind the machine, as she even pointed out that Rusev is losing a lot now with Summer at his side. If they bring them back together with the Lana of old and have him just go through people again, all will be forgiven.
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 13, 2015 8:22:29 GMT -5
I didn't see RAW
Did WWE mention that Lana and Rusev were engaged, on air?
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Post by Prince Petty on Oct 13, 2015 8:38:04 GMT -5
I think playing up the idea that Lana is the brains behind the machine, as she even pointed out that Rusev is losing a lot now with Summer at his side. If they bring them back together with the Lana of old and have him just go through people again, all will be forgiven. This. People on this forum have been asking for Lana and Rusev to reunite for months, and now it seems the WWE is doing it. I don't really care about the reasoning. It's not like any of this crap made sense in the first place anyway. Hell, if they need to, they could shoot some goofy 'reconnecting' vignettes, or have Lana crowing about how happy she is in a promo. It doesn't matter. Just let Rusev start crushing people again while Lana cheers him on. Then give him the world title.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Oct 13, 2015 8:56:06 GMT -5
What to know the reason why WWE mentioned Rusev and Lana getting engaged? Because TMZ is read by millions of people everyday and it would be very hard to ignore that. I'm not sure who leaked the news to TMZ but plans had to change. All they got to do is play up those earrings that Dolph gave Summer weeks ago. Both are scorned ex lovers and have a beef with both Lana and Rusev now. Now Summer helps lead Dolph to midcard gold while they turn heel. Rusev and Lana turn face and the feud continues with new vigor.
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Post by Push R Truth on Oct 13, 2015 9:02:04 GMT -5
The storyline brought us RuRu, the thrown fish and My Hot Summer!
That is glorious Wrestlecrap, but I'd argue it should make it immune to the Gooker.
Besides, I want to see somebody sit down with the straight face and tell me that the Shera Shenanigans in TNA is less worthy of the Gooker than Rusev/Dolph/Lana/Hot Summer. Maybe that can be the new internet challenge of the week or something.
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Post by somsta on Oct 13, 2015 9:12:22 GMT -5
It's rare that an angle completely misunderstands how human beings function like this one did. Is it? Is it really that rare? In today's WWE?
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