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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 26, 2021 21:03:54 GMT -5
what timeline are we in where Vince is adding Bryan to the main event to f*** with people What timeline are we in where WWE doesn't want the fans cheering for Roman? They wasted FIVE YEARS trying to do that and now at the prospect of it it's not THEIR way they wanted him to get over so they pushed an emergency button, it's absolutely crazy lmfao.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2021 21:05:10 GMT -5
Honestly WWE's kind of just in a weird position here where they pretty much have to end the show on a happy triumphant note where the crowd's cheering like crazy and the surest way to make that happen is Bryan.
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Post by anglarite on Mar 26, 2021 21:06:22 GMT -5
So basically Roman wins.
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Post by Starshine on Mar 26, 2021 21:07:10 GMT -5
I feel like the natural fix to this situation would have been to consistently push the guy who's the most over, and that you can rely on fans getting behind from the start instead of fighting it. But what do I know?
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Post by Soultastic on Mar 26, 2021 21:09:01 GMT -5
#1 actually...along with HBK and ___. Look, we have to say his name eventually and accept it happened. The 2004 Royal Rumble was won by Vacant. Next year's rumble by the numbers video will mention how only Shawn Michaels and 2 canadians have won from the #1 spot.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Mar 26, 2021 21:17:02 GMT -5
I feel like the natural fix to this situation would have been to consistently push the guy who's the most over, and that you can rely on fans getting behind from the start instead of fighting it. But what do I know? By the sounds of things, Reigns finally HAS gotten over, but now it's at the totally wrong time.
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Post by nisidhe on Mar 26, 2021 21:17:12 GMT -5
This match is turning into a booking fustercluck, I'm afraid.
You have a "cool" heel getting cheered when he should be getting booed, after twenty years of WWE booking heels to be cooler, more interesting projections of fan wish fulfillment and five years of pushing him as a babyface to near crickets. You have a grizzled old veteran people _actually_ want back in the ring but turning into a cloud-yelling tantrum-thrower killing his own momentum for...reasons?
Then you have Daniel Bryan, natural, organic babyface at the "f***-it-we're-cheering-him-because-he-can't-have-a-bad-match-and-we-like-him" stage of his career looking down the barrel of his _second_ three-way dance for a BFD belt. Yes, we want this but we're wary of how else Vince can screw with this narrative until we don't want it anymore.
I honestly think Vince is losing his touch. He doesn't have it anymore to book an entertaining Wrestlemania and he no longer has the cajones anymore to force a narrative, nor the humility to flex on a match or feud to respond to what's working. COVID-19 has stripped Vince of his powers.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Mar 26, 2021 21:17:38 GMT -5
Not if they want WrestleMania fans to go home happy.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Mar 26, 2021 21:22:16 GMT -5
Honestly there's way more story potential out of Bryan winning the belt and Edge going full heel in chasing him than there is in Edge beating Roman anyway. Face Bryan and Heel Edge is what I expect to be a high profile summer storyline but not for the title Still see them holding off on Roman losing until Big E
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Post by Chiral on Mar 26, 2021 21:39:51 GMT -5
Updated Monster vid NOW
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Post by Topher is Human on Mar 26, 2021 21:45:58 GMT -5
So in two Mania Main Events, Bryan has a ready made story for him to win the rumble. It is instead won by a returning legend.
The Legend challenges a WWE chosen one, who is heel, for the title, but the build up is lacklustre, only for everyone to still be clamouring for Bryan. Bryan gets screwed over at Elimination Chamber, and the returning legend turns heel.
Bryan the gets added to make a triple threat.
That’s a weirdly specific coincidence.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Mar 26, 2021 21:54:16 GMT -5
Via WWE on BT Sports.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2021 21:54:46 GMT -5
Honestly there's way more story potential out of Bryan winning the belt and Edge going full heel in chasing him than there is in Edge beating Roman anyway. If not that then Edge winning the belt and then Bryan chasing him. Whatever it takes so that they break out into a full blown feud will work. With that said Reigns, he's so dope right now that he doesn't really need a title. If anything they need to bring back King of the Ring just so he can win and rename it "Chief of the Island."
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Mar 26, 2021 22:25:04 GMT -5
So in two Mania Main Events, Bryan has a ready made story for him to win the rumble. It is instead won by a returning legend. The Legend challenges a WWE chosen one, who is heel, for the title, but the build up is lacklustre, only for everyone to still be clamouring for Bryan. Bryan gets screwed over at Elimination Chamber, and the returning legend turns heel. Bryan the gets added to make a triple threat. That’s a weirdly specific coincidence. “I don’t know how this keeps happening, dammit” says the only wrestling promotion where this happens.
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Post by RadcapRadsley on Mar 27, 2021 0:34:19 GMT -5
Via WWE on BT Sports. Medical Facility Personale have all been conspiring against Sami to keep him out of the WM Main Event.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2021 0:45:20 GMT -5
Sometimes making it a triple threat feels like shoehorning someone in. This feels like the right call.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2021 0:48:19 GMT -5
I would have dialed back Edges full heel turn. Kept him teasing and playing the tweener going into the match.
Also with Edge heel you don’t get him vs. Rollins which I still think is the best feud Edge can have in this return.
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Post by Andee9001 on Mar 27, 2021 5:50:55 GMT -5
You not what? I have no issues with this. This match is going to be amazing. Can't wait.
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Post by Terry McConkey on Mar 27, 2021 8:52:18 GMT -5
Edge does look old. I’m all for him getting that “grizzled vet” one last run title reign, but something about his return at the Rumble until now just was not clicking. He absolutely shouldn’t have been the guy to beat Roman, I wasn’t feeling that idea at all. And I’m saying this as a HUGE Edge mark It sounds more like an "contract win" than a "hard fought victory". Everything he said to DBry was bullshit. When Edge was sitting at home or doing the E&C show on the Network, DBry was busting his ass off in front of crowds. Edge seems to think that he's unique but Bryan was also forced to sit out for years before the WWE finally cleared him. He made wonderful use of that, turning heel and taking another world title. So perhaps it's time for Edge to go back to lording wherever he's been doing so. Perhaps he could just join Christian in AEW if he's not happy about not getting the title immediately.
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Post by Terry McConkey on Mar 27, 2021 8:56:41 GMT -5
I bet Edge sneezed during the last booking session I heard he sneezed in Vince's sno-cone.
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