thecrusherwi
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Post by thecrusherwi on Aug 24, 2017 19:28:31 GMT -5
That makes more sense. I honestly thought they did it because they booked the show too long, as usual. At least they have a plan.
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Post by Sparkybob on Aug 24, 2017 20:10:19 GMT -5
If he loses to Rusev, so what? There's this contingent of people that think because Orton gets pinned it really matters. When was the last time the guy had a feud where someone left better? Say what you want about Cena, but at least when Cena does get pinned, the person he lost to gets presented differently. Jinder Mahal?
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Post by Starshine on Aug 24, 2017 20:12:40 GMT -5
Fluke loss would be a quick roll up. Losing in seconds to a guys finisher after you beat him to a pulp doesn't really scream 'fluke' to me.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Aug 24, 2017 20:13:41 GMT -5
Can you imagine thinking that you can start a feud off of a 10 second PPV match? This show is being written by f***ing monkeys. I mean, I kinda get it in the sense that a face got a "fluke" (never mind that WWE was dumb about it and had Rusev beat up Orton beforehand just Orton could come back and hit the RKO clean in a win that's not flukey at all) but it makes no sense here since Orton had practically bodied Rusev in every TV encounter they had, lol.n
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 20:21:13 GMT -5
That's honestly kind of what I figured, that WWE's really just completely incompetent.
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Post by Chainsaw on Aug 24, 2017 20:30:01 GMT -5
Rusev should beat Orton, give him pants, burn his trunks and sleeveless hoodie in a barrel, and start using the RKO. I love the idea of Rusev forcing Orton to wear pants, while agents desperately try to hold McMahon back in gorilla to prevent him from rushing the ring in a mad dash.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Aug 24, 2017 20:35:39 GMT -5
Can you imagine thinking that you can start a feud off of a 10 second PPV match? This show is being written by f***ing monkeys. I mean, I kinda get it in the sense that a face got a "fluke" (never mind that WWE was dumb about it and had Rusev beat up Orton beforehand just Orton could come back and hit the RKO clean in a win that's not flukey at all) but it makes no sense here since Orton had practically bodied Rusev in every TV encounter they had, lol.n If Orton had managed to do this on a random throwaway Smackdown match like three weeks from Summerslam and Rusev got mad and started yelling about how he wants a real rematch at the PPV and how he'll destroy Orton for embarrassing him, and then they had a decently lengthy match that ended with Orton winning, that would make sense and be "decent". The way they did it here was just a mangled mess.
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Post by Thunderbolt on Aug 24, 2017 20:46:12 GMT -5
How many favours does creative owe to Orton at this point? When is creative going to "pay Orton back" for all the times he got crushed by HHH?
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Post by saintpat on Aug 25, 2017 1:42:19 GMT -5
Agree that it's an idiotic way to start a feud.
But the quick, sudden match ending should actually happen more often. And main roster midcarders (and even main eventers) losing in squash/onesided fashion actually makes sense and should happen more often.
I mean, basically everyone on the roster has one "finisher" move (or more than one) that's supposed to be so devastating that it ends any match instantly or puts them in position so that if they do hit it well, they have a huge advantage and can follow up on it to win (maybe one AA doesn't do the trick, but the opponent is so damaged that a second one in succession ends it, whatever).
So why would it be that it always takes 10 or 12 or 20 minutes or more for that move to happen? The whole strategy would be for the wrestler to find a way to hit that move so he (or she) could win, right?
Now, yes, I get that the opponent may need to be worn down first and would be wary of getting caught by it. But not always.
I mean, how many times did we see Stone Cold Steve Austin stunner someone in the ring during a promo or outside of a match during a segment int he ring, and the opponent is left lying on the canvas long enough to count to 100 before he even moves? You could argue that since it wasn't a match the stunee was caught off guard. But what kind of idiot wouldn't be expecting it after SCSA has literally done it to someone like 8 or 9 weeks in a row? Yet it still happened and no one ever seemed to say, "That's ridiculous, he could never do that!"
MMA and boxing matches between top guys sometimes end by knockout in the first round. If Randy's RKO is so utterly devastating and the whole point is that he can hit it "Out of Nowhere," then he should win like that occassionally.
(On the other hand, I have a problem with "completely devastating" moves that can be countered literally by shoving the guy when he tries to execute the move. Like, even I could counter the RKO.)
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Post by SirLucas on Aug 25, 2017 1:57:30 GMT -5
Seems like they needed one match to go short since the card was already stacked with 12 matches.
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Post by chronocross on Aug 25, 2017 7:10:45 GMT -5
Hopefully Rusev gets a decisive win in this one, it's just not been his year.
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Post by Chestnutrice on Aug 25, 2017 12:29:14 GMT -5
If he loses to Rusev, so what? There's this contingent of people that think because Orton gets pinned it really matters. When was the last time the guy had a feud where someone left better? Say what you want about Cena, but at least when Cena does get pinned, the person he lost to gets presented differently. Jinder Mahal? He still barely gets a reaction and they had horrible matches.
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