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Post by Big Bad Kahuna on Jan 25, 2016 7:16:41 GMT -5
When it comes to the US and active, the only two that I can think of are Christopher Daniels (ignoring his job work like with AJ) or Jay Lethal. Maybe Roode as well? (technically, both Roode and Daniels appeared as jobbers)
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Post by Sephiroth on Jan 25, 2016 7:38:17 GMT -5
As much hate as the commentary gets, I thought all three commentators did their part to put him over as a big deal (fairly quickly!) JBL had the line that associated him with Lesnar, Byron with the line about AJ's innovative offense, and Cole's general enthusiam likely cemented for the casual fan that AJ is here for big things. All that, and Reigns looking like "Aw shee-ot!"
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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Jan 25, 2016 7:43:44 GMT -5
Nice entrance, but what totally would have made me mark out is if AJ Lee would have come out in Styles' gear, shipped around the ring, and then went backstage.
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Post by Loser troll. Please ban me on Jan 25, 2016 7:45:09 GMT -5
To think AJ almost passed that moment up for a chance to continue working for a lying deluded ditzy carter.
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Post by BRAINFADE on Jan 25, 2016 7:45:24 GMT -5
Still amuses me to think back to when people were insisting that no-one who spent the bulk of their career in TNA has any value to the WWE as they'd be greeted with a chorus of 'Who?' or flat out apathy. Yeah, I remember a few years ago being told flat out that guys like Joe and AJ would get zero reaction from a WWE crowd on their debut. Last night was like redemption. A truly amazing moment, well deserved by a truly amazing talent like AJ Styles. The Phenomenal One is here!!!
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Post by PTBartman on Jan 25, 2016 7:57:12 GMT -5
"He's a game changer" Maybe it's not Reigns, in the Main Event at Mania? That would be phenomenal.
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Post by lemonyellowson on Jan 25, 2016 7:58:23 GMT -5
I must have watched his entrance about 20 times now.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 8:08:31 GMT -5
Styles is a star. TNA didn't realize what they had with him (what a shock) but every other company seems to know how great he is. Getting to keep his name on the main roster is a huge accomplishment too. Maybe Vince is softening on that.
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Post by thecrusherwi on Jan 25, 2016 8:41:41 GMT -5
There are a ton of threads about Triple H last night and how it shows the McMahons still have some learning to do as far as them being the center of everything. But they HAVE listened to the fans in many ways recently. In the last few years, they have shown that learned that there actually is a much wider world of wrestling out there that their fans care about. The two loudest pops in the last year were AJ Styles and Samoa Joe with their own names and their own look just walking out. Both nearly brought the house down. They acknowledge the rest of wrestling more than they ever have and it's pretty awesome.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 8:53:41 GMT -5
I must have watched his entrance about 20 times now. That was one of the biggest pops of the last 10 years. Not sustained pops, but just noise in general. Also the Lesnar entrance is great too. Also I loved the way Owens eliminated AJ like a jerk and posed.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jan 25, 2016 9:21:34 GMT -5
I must have watched his entrance about 20 times now. Same. It's just incredible, he was over like crazy
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Post by evilone on Jan 25, 2016 9:48:05 GMT -5
Styles is a star. TNA didn't realize what they had with him (what a shock) but every other company seems to know how great he is. Getting to keep his name on the main roster is a huge accomplishment too. Maybe Vince is softening on that. He did everything he could have done in TNA and now watch it get stale in WWE as well. He will be stuck with Neville, Owens and many other IWC favorites. Sometime he would get a US championship treatment and that would be about it. There could be only one CM Punk successor which means many are going to be lost in the shuffle just like Miz, Swagger, Ziggler, Kingston and Ambrose are. That's too much great talent that didn't have their spotlight yet, a little bit of beams coming through but not the complete proper run. AJ Styles stands little chance to be a star he deserves to be. You are talking about the company that crippled their biggest star since Cena and Punk just to push Reigns and push Reigns into oblivion until fans tell em the hell with it. Maybe it worked for Cena but doesn't mean it will work for Roman.
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Post by berlynwright on Jan 25, 2016 9:53:46 GMT -5
I must have watched his entrance about 20 times now. Yep, me too. It was just surreal and he seems to be a bit taken back by the reaction
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jan 25, 2016 10:00:15 GMT -5
Man that was just terrible production. I hope they got it on another camera for the history books.
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Post by Rican on Jan 25, 2016 10:08:24 GMT -5
Dude looked like a star right from the beginning. The music was awesome, the crowd was hot, the announcers put him over huge. Other than the crappy camera shot at the beginning it was fantastic.
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Post by Phil Parent on Jan 25, 2016 10:12:30 GMT -5
I must have watched his entrance about 20 times now. That was one of the biggest pops of the last 10 years. Not sustained pops, but just noise in general. This is called "Thunder" in wrestling jargon... he had major thunder. I wonder what makes it that WWE will openly acknowledge New Japan Pro Wrestling and even CM PUNK, who's sued them, but totally Benoits TNA. I'm not a TNA fan, it's just that going out of their way to ignore them is giving them more attention than they deserve, paradoxically.
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Post by mhamm05 on Jan 25, 2016 10:13:55 GMT -5
Dude looked like a star right from the beginning. The music was awesome, the crowd was hot, the announcers put him over huge. Other than the crappy camera shot at the beginning it was fantastic. Agreed. So glad there is footage out there of the full entrance. When the Tron goes from "I Am" to "I Am Phenomenal", I got chills even knowing full well what was coming.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 10:21:21 GMT -5
I'm glad WWE finally got the idea to post these videos on YouTube before we get all the shitty surprise face-cam videos and badly edited stuff filmed on potato batteries. "AJ STYLES DEBUT AT ROYAL RUMBLE" with a screencap of the show as a thumbnail (click) Actual video is some fat guy in a headset gawking over how much he marked out
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 10:22:04 GMT -5
AJ's debut last night reminded me, of all things, of Jericho's debut back in 99. He came out and just immediately seemed like a huge star.
The Rumble match as a whole was awesome but his debut was the best part of it, bar none.
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Post by Andy Martin on Jan 25, 2016 10:28:21 GMT -5
I'm glad WWE finally got the idea to post these videos on YouTube before we get all the shitty surprise face-cam videos and badly edited stuff filmed on potato batteries. "AJ STYLES DEBUT AT ROYAL RUMBLE" with a screencap of the show as a thumbnail (click) Actual video is some fat guy in a headset gawking over how much he marked out When did JR start making YouTube videos?
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