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Post by Texas Tornado on Mar 28, 2016 22:19:13 GMT -5
Look at tonight's show. The Brooklyn crowd went from red hot at the beginning of the show to completely dead for the final segment. Your two WM main eventers are in a brawl with the entire roster involved and the crowd couldn't give one tenth of a f***.
They ran so much stuff into the ground, explained pretty much nothing about other stuff, and then moved on without a care in the world. Does anyone else expect Mania to just descend into apathy? I didn't think it was possible before tonight, but with this crowd being done after a 3 hour show, I'm honestly wondering if it's a possibility.
What's worse? A crowd booing the hell out of the main event or not reacting at all?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2016 22:22:40 GMT -5
I can't believe they made last year's WM build look like it was WM17 but they sure did. This year's WM is going to be a massacre for that Trips/Reigns match. I don't know what they'll do but I know it ain't working. They looked desperate as hell out there.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Mar 28, 2016 22:23:36 GMT -5
Eva Marie, ladies and germs!
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Mar 28, 2016 22:24:08 GMT -5
What happened? I literally fell asleep when Roman and Triple H started doing whatever the hell it is they are doing.
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Post by Texas Tornado on Mar 28, 2016 22:26:28 GMT -5
What happened? I literally fell asleep when Roman and Triple H started doing whatever the hell it is they are doing. Authority comes out to end the show with the exact same promo they cut in the middle of the show. Roman comes out again and brawls with Triple H (for the 3rd time tonight). Heels come help Triple H. Faces come help Roman. Crowd is silent throughout all of this. Roman jumps over the top rope onto the entire roster. Fans chant "you still suck" after popping for a millisecond. Crowd goes silent again. Triple H crawls up the ramp while all the idiotic wrestlers look at him in shock. Triple H and Stephanie pose. Show ends.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Mar 28, 2016 22:27:37 GMT -5
What happened? I literally fell asleep when Roman and Triple H started doing whatever the hell it is they are doing. Authority comes out to end the show with the exact same promo they cut in the middle of the show. Roman comes out again and brawls with Triple H (for the 3rd time tonight). Heels come help Triple H. Faces come help Roman. Crowd is silent throughout all of this. Roman jumps over the top rope onto the entire roster. Fans chant "you still suck" after popping for a millisecond. Crowd goes silent again. Triple H crawls up the ramp while all the idiotic wrestlers look at him in shock. Triple H and Stephanie pose. Show ends. That millisecond pop is more than Roman has gotten in forever. Things are looking up.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2016 22:30:43 GMT -5
Authority comes out to end the show with the exact same promo they cut in the middle of the show. Roman comes out again and brawls with Triple H (for the 3rd time tonight). Heels come help Triple H. Faces come help Roman. Crowd is silent throughout all of this. Roman jumps over the top rope onto the entire roster. Fans chant "you still suck" after popping for a millisecond. Crowd goes silent again. Triple H crawls up the ramp while all the idiotic wrestlers look at him in shock. Triple H and Stephanie pose. Show ends. That millisecond pop is more than Roman has gotten in forever. Things are looking up. Nah, it's the same pop you here for a millisecond when his song hits due to the fangirl cheers embedded into the track.
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Post by FALLOUT Goldashausen #BLM on Mar 28, 2016 22:39:40 GMT -5
All these promos and spots and we still don't even know what the Rock is doing there.
Only 2-3 matches have been adequately built up. The rest are confusing, bizarre or nonexistent.
All these weekly hours of programming and they can't give a proper build to every match? Five hours of proper TV and 24 hours a day on the Network should be every reason as to why matches like Kalisto/Ryback (for example) isn't more compelling.
It's largely the same story over the last few years. Maybe I should stop putting so much energy into making sense of their constant missed opportunities.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 28, 2016 22:43:23 GMT -5
When you throw together a F*** It Tag Match where the teams have no chemistry in a basic Clusterf*** Title Match with almost no weight behind it other than two guys in the match surrounded by like five other random people thrown in... yeah, it takes crowd interest away...
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Post by DSR on Mar 28, 2016 22:45:27 GMT -5
What happened? I literally fell asleep when Roman and Triple H started doing whatever the hell it is they are doing. Authority comes out to end the show with the exact same promo they cut in the middle of the show. Roman comes out again and brawls with Triple H (for the 3rd time tonight). Heels come help Triple H. Faces come help Roman. Crowd is silent throughout all of this. Roman jumps over the top rope onto the entire roster. Fans chant "you still suck" after popping for a millisecond. Crowd goes silent again. Triple H crawls up the ramp while all the idiotic wrestlers look at him in shock. Triple H and Stephanie pose. Show ends. Last year's go-home Raw = tug of war This year's go-home Raw = red rover
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2016 22:45:56 GMT -5
I'm curious which'll give next week, the Irresistable Bore or the Immovable Drunk British People.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2016 22:48:10 GMT -5
It seemed like a close call when I made it last week...but now not so much.
Lucha Underground with Aztec Warfare 2 will have put on a better show in 1hr than the entire 4hrs of WM32 , there is no doubt in my mind now.
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Post by DSR on Mar 28, 2016 22:49:14 GMT -5
When you throw together a F*** It Tag Match where the teams have no chemistry in a basic Clusterf*** Title Match with almost no weight behind it other than two guys in the match surrounded by like five other random people thrown in... yeah, it takes crowd interest away... EVen that's f'd up because they've done nothing to tell people who Sami Zayn is. There've been no interviews or video packages, nothing. I've been watching Raw for the past couple months, and all I've pieced together about Sami Zayn is "Ska Enthusiast."
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Post by wisdomwizard on Mar 28, 2016 22:52:13 GMT -5
But was the crowd REALLY dead? Or was Roman getting booed heavily and they muted them?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2016 22:59:27 GMT -5
But was the crowd REALLY dead? Or was Roman getting booed heavily and they muted them? They were dead. They booed him the first couple times around, and still booed him a bit in the main event, but they'd mostly just given up on the show.
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on Mar 28, 2016 23:07:27 GMT -5
Authority comes out to end the show with the exact same promo they cut in the middle of the show. Roman comes out again and brawls with Triple H (for the 3rd time tonight). Heels come help Triple H. Faces come help Roman. Crowd is silent throughout all of this. Roman jumps over the top rope onto the entire roster. Fans chant "you still suck" after popping for a millisecond. Crowd goes silent again. Triple H crawls up the ramp while all the idiotic wrestlers look at him in shock. Triple H and Stephanie pose. Show ends. Last year's go-home Raw = tug of war This year's go-home Raw = red rover Next year's go-home Raw = duck, duck, goose 2018's go-home Raw = red light, green light
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Post by dadez29 on Mar 28, 2016 23:19:05 GMT -5
Eva Marie? Seriously? You couldn't have Paige's mom be the 5th person?
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Post by 543Y2J on Mar 28, 2016 23:22:47 GMT -5
They didn't have a plan for that ending segment. Steph and Trips did a rushed shorter version of the one a couple of weeks back, which was their version of Vinces classic 'life Sucks then you die' promo
I am convinced that they scrapped the original plan after the opening segment. But it ended just as bad as it would have done otherwise
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Post by HMARK Center on Mar 28, 2016 23:59:36 GMT -5
Y'know, there was a day and age when Mean Gene or Sean Mooney would stand in the Event Center a full month and a half before a pay per view and begin running down the announced card. It was a different era, sure, an era where a Texas Tornado vs. Dino Bravo match could be hyped up as something special because the only other times you saw those guys regularly would be in jobber squashes, but with enough advance time they could still put together at least some pre-taped promos and a match graphic to get you the least bit excited.
Reading through these Raw results...yeesh. They waited until 6 days before 'Mania to finalize the card, and most of the matches had guys who are going to fight each other on the pay per view...fighting each other for free on cable. Just proves again: nothing sells Wrestlemania except the name "Wrestlemania", and maybe one match a year that you don't get to see with any regularity on free TV.
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Post by FALLOUT Goldashausen #BLM on Mar 29, 2016 1:11:48 GMT -5
Y'know, there was a day and age when Mean Gene or Sean Mooney would stand in the Event Center a full month and a half before a pay per view and begin running down the announced card. It was a different era, sure, an era where a Texas Tornado vs. Dino Bravo match could be hyped up as something special because the only other times you saw those guys regularly would be in jobber squashes, but with enough advance time they could still put together at least some pre-taped promos and a match graphic to get you the least bit excited. Exactly this. I used to be excited for undercard matches when I was little. Random matches like Backlund/Hart and Tito/Shawn come to mind. Sure, they weren't always the best matches, but if you had undercard favorites, you'd always like to tune in and see how they'd do. I don't know if it's because I got older, or being exposed to the nature of the business, or the fact the art of undercard booking isn't special in modern WWE...but IMHO every match on the card should mean something, even if it's only designed to quiet down the crowd. It's almost like they had their perfect card and scripts all ready before the injury bug hit, and when it all came apart, it's like they scrambled in mad WCW fashion to rewrite on the fly.
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