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Post by Chainsaw on Feb 17, 2017 8:49:44 GMT -5
The problem there is that the one blind spot every single person in wrestling has is that they truly believe there's no such thing as "bad heat". To a wrestler, the best heel in human history was X-Pac in 2001 in the nadir of X-Pac Heat, solely because the crowd booed him out of the building week in and week out despite him being a face. Go-Away Heat doesn't exist, any boo is heel heat and proof they're awesome. Instead of being lose-lose, Mathews probably truly believes he's the best heel in the business because of how hated he is right now. Hypothetically even if he WAS the best heel in the business right now it wouldn't mean anything because he's an announcer and there is no way to capitalise on it. People can make the case now that Cole was one of the biggest heels at the top of 2011 with the way he was carrying on, even though everyone was so sick of him. The guy was basically inserting himself into everything, and his feud with the King, while insufferable, was still getting on TV (and not a surprise, Josh was his color guy on NXT when the heel turn started against Daniel Bryan). I would think that's possibly what Josh is going for here, but...almost none of this plays out on TV. It's all on Twitter, so what's the point? It's not bringing people to the product, and like everyone says, it's turning people off more than it is helping their cause. Plus, aside from Josh being insufferable on TV, it's not really coming through on the broadcasts, he's not aligning himself with heels or anything. Really, it's this: Josh is an asshole, he can't handle it on Twitter, it's just who he is. He thinks he's a bigshot, he knows that he's not, and he lashes out at anyone who calls him out on it. I truthfully don't think he's playing a persona here.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Feb 17, 2017 9:03:44 GMT -5
The problem there is that the one blind spot every single person in wrestling has is that they truly believe there's no such thing as "bad heat". To a wrestler, the best heel in human history was X-Pac in 2001 in the nadir of X-Pac Heat, solely because the crowd booed him out of the building week in and week out despite him being a face. Go-Away Heat doesn't exist, any boo is heel heat and proof they're awesome. Instead of being lose-lose, Mathews probably truly believes he's the best heel in the business because of how hated he is right now. Hypothetically even if he WAS the best heel in the business right now it wouldn't mean anything because he's an announcer and there is no way to capitalise on it. Especially since as the Play By Play his entire point is to sell TNA and the Match to you... why the hell would you listen to an asshole Hypothetically even if he WAS the best heel in the business right now it wouldn't mean anything because he's an announcer and there is no way to capitalise on it. As a devil's advocate here: Correction: He's an announcer...who was very famously trained to be a wrestler on Tough Enough. As such, there IS more of a feasible chance that even if Mathews was the best heel in the business (he's not), he COULD conceivably wrestle a match where the babyface finally got their hands on him. (He doesn't have to wrestle every week- just every so often, just enough for the hero to get their hands on them once in a blue moon and pay off with some comeuppance.) If I remember correctly he had a career ending injury, this will never lead to any kind of actual match.
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Post by Andy Martin on Feb 17, 2017 14:22:38 GMT -5
Anthem, if you need some CanCon on The Fight Network, I'll replace Josh.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Feb 17, 2017 15:01:53 GMT -5
Lol here's what Bruce Prichard said about Josh in his podcast, "Josh Mathews is not the best play by play announcer in wrestling, he's not even the best announcer in tna or impact wrestling or whatever the hell they call it now"
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Post by Sigma: Current SRW Champ! on Feb 17, 2017 18:32:41 GMT -5
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Post by Chainsaw on Feb 20, 2017 8:33:37 GMT -5
I just realized, if they fired Josh, and he's their social media guy, you just have to figure he'd be one of those guys who would try to hold them hostage over his access to their Twitter and Youtube pages in order to get a fat paycheck out of them.
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Post by wankah on Feb 20, 2017 8:45:14 GMT -5
I'd find it hilarious if Josh got to keep his job only because he's the only one who knows the passwords to their social media accounts.
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Post by Push R Truth on Feb 20, 2017 12:26:55 GMT -5
I just realized, if they fired Josh, and he's their social media guy, you just have to figure he'd be one of those guys who would try to hold them hostage over his access to their Twitter and Youtube pages in order to get a fat paycheck out of them. I dunno, Josh seems like that kinda guy where you could log into his TNA Twitter account with one of these passwords: password1 TNArulez mydickishuge
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 12:31:51 GMT -5
If you locked Josh alone in a broom closet he wouldn't even be amongst the top 10 play by play guys in that closet.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Feb 20, 2017 17:28:24 GMT -5
If you locked Josh alone in a broom closet he wouldn't even be amongst the top 10 play by play guys in that closet. But he would be the #1 most likely person to be easily tricked into going for Seven Minutes of Heaven with a dummy in that closet, and come out bragging about how he totally just got a world class handjob.
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Post by Ash Kingston on Feb 21, 2017 2:43:26 GMT -5
To quote a British man.
"F*** off. F*** off. F*** off. F*** off. F*** off. F*** off. F*** OFF."
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 21, 2017 12:46:25 GMT -5
If all other play by play commentators suddenly dropped dead, he still wouldn't be the best. If we dug up the ones that are already dead, they would still be better than him.
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Feb 21, 2017 16:11:08 GMT -5
And you know the second they sack his ass, he'll go on some long twitter rant saying how he was held back by the company and how he was mistreated....
Oh, and the obligatory "Hi WWE, I miss you guys. Can I have my job back pretty please?" tweet would be forthcoming.
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Post by Emmet Russell on Feb 21, 2017 21:33:58 GMT -5
He's now gone further than just being heelish - he's telling people to shoot themselves. Can he please get fired off this?
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Post by cosmo on Feb 21, 2017 21:41:13 GMT -5
He's now gone further than just being heelish - he's telling people to shoot themselves. Can he please get fired off this? Fired? I wouldn't be surprised if they gave him a promotion!
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Post by Emmet Russell on Feb 21, 2017 21:46:11 GMT -5
He's now gone further than just being heelish - he's telling people to shoot themselves. Can he please get fired off this? Fired? I wouldn't be surprised if they gave him a promotion! Jarrett: "hahahaha, great heel work, kid!"
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Feb 21, 2017 22:34:46 GMT -5
Can someone report this f***ing asshole? It's beyond being a heel wishing death on people, he should be banned from Twitter.
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Post by lionheart21 on Feb 22, 2017 0:51:12 GMT -5
And the hits keep on coming:
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Feb 22, 2017 10:36:40 GMT -5
Josh is the sort of person who doesn't realize how much of a glass house he's in when it comes to all his "success", and that if at any point it wavers, he's f***ed.
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Post by Ted Sheckler on Feb 22, 2017 10:42:18 GMT -5
Wonder what his wife thinks. I'd cringe if my significant other was this much of a douche on social media. Joke or not.
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