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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on May 17, 2021 12:01:14 GMT -5
Maybe Cena was right about going over Nexus in the long run but still at that time, it wasn't a really good decision which he admitted to
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2021 14:13:34 GMT -5
I'll go with a really controversial one.
HHH's Reign of Terror.
Some of the guys he "buried" had no business being Champ in my eyes with the exception of RVD who was a well known pot user and potential liability.
Looking back, was anyone really hoping to see a Scott Steiner, Kevin Nash, Kane or Booker T title run?
They gained more by having HHH as a dominant heel champion and using it to build a big star in Batista in my opinion.
If it was up to me, I wouldn't have even had him lose to Goldberg or Benoit. Benoit in hindsight proved to be disastrous decision as WM20 was built around him.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2021 14:33:19 GMT -5
Triple H over Sting.
Sting dominated the entire feud and came out on top every segment they had together in the months leading to the match. It was a match between two part-timers but HHH was 10 years younger, in better shape and had more matches in front of him. Sting admits himself on the WWE Network doc that he went into the match thinking it was going to be his last. You don't win your final match. HHH lost most of his big Wrestlemania matches in the past decade and had to win the odd one here and there so that it still mattered when he lost to a Bryan or a Rollins/Reigns. It made perfect sense for him to win this one. The only weird thing was the NWO helping Sting.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on May 17, 2021 16:44:43 GMT -5
I didn't watch during the Reign of Terror, but from here, it seems like it got them their biggest buyrate ever at the time, so I'm kinda in favour?
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Post by berlynwright on May 17, 2021 19:26:35 GMT -5
Vince gets the releases right almost all the time, like they are vindicated 9/10 times when they cut people. Most of them are nothing without WWE machine behind them and only the hardworking ones succeed in the end.
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Post by joeiscool on May 17, 2021 20:15:40 GMT -5
The zombies in wwe require less of a suspension of disbelief than anything involving the fiend.
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Post by joeiscool on May 17, 2021 20:18:03 GMT -5
I would go further and say stardust is the most interesting form of cody
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Post by Gus Richlen Was Wrong on May 17, 2021 21:13:10 GMT -5
- The entire 2015 Rumble match, especially the winner. - Christian losing the WHC to Orton just days after winning it. - Literally anything involving Charlotte.
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Post by Ozman on May 17, 2021 21:27:56 GMT -5
Brock Lesnar beating Kofi Kingston for the WWE Title in a few seconds. The reason I didn’t mind it was because it was believable. If Brock and Kofi got into a real fight, Brock would probably win in a few seconds.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on May 18, 2021 7:16:12 GMT -5
The Rock/Cena rematch. I knew Punk wanted a Mania main event badly, and I wouldn’t have necessarily minded the match being a triple threat with both guys chasing Punk, but I was onboard with them having another encounter, alongside Cena working to avenge his loss and prove he could out-wrestle Rock.
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Post by fw91 on May 18, 2021 10:34:14 GMT -5
The Rock/Cena rematch. I knew Punk wanted a Mania main event badly, and I wouldn’t have necessarily minded the match being a triple threat with both guys chasing Punk, but I was onboard with them having another encounter, alongside Cena working to avenge his loss and prove he could out-wrestle Rock. But that wasn’t the story really. Cena won the Rumble and Rock happened to be champ. Not much build to this one
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Post by Tenshigure on May 18, 2021 10:39:54 GMT -5
The zombies in wwe require less of a suspension of disbelief than anything involving the fiend. I wouldn't argue that it was necessarily a great segment, but the amount of backlash and negativity surrounding the whole thing is entirely out of proportions IMO. I can't say I wasn't at least a little entertained at poking fun at the segment and didn't come out the other end completely irate in the very least, which is not something I can say about other creative decisions made in the last year.
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Post by The Ichi on May 18, 2021 10:48:41 GMT -5
Looking back, was anyone really hoping to see a Scott Steiner, Kevin Nash, Kane or Booker T title run? f*** yes on those last two. Kane from 2002-2003 was awesome, he looked at his best and I would have done the eventual heel turn (which was also awesome) after he lost the belt. Booker didn't necessarily need a run, but as has been pointed out, you just can't do a racism angle where the racist wins. I guess my answer would be John Cena over Nexus although I would had them victorious at Summerslam to make the rest feel more like a comeback.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on May 18, 2021 11:19:21 GMT -5
Seth's paintball tuxedo from last night. That tux was amazing. So many people were making fun of it and I was like “Um, it’s called fashion, Brenda. Look it up.”
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Post by MrElijah on May 18, 2021 11:31:13 GMT -5
Goldberg destroying Bray for the Universal belt. Look, I get it. Why is Goldberg going over your current talent but f*** Bray Wyatt going anywhere near the World Titles.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2021 11:34:17 GMT -5
Hogan winning the title was a better ending than Yokozuna winning the title at WrestleMania IX. A heel win is a downer ending at WrestleMania, Hogan got a huge pop and sent the fans home happy.
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Post by fw91 on May 18, 2021 11:51:32 GMT -5
Hogan winning the title was a better ending than Yokozuna winning the title at WrestleMania IX. A heel win is a downer ending at WrestleMania, Hogan got a huge pop and sent the fans home happy. Yeah that much I agree with
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on May 18, 2021 11:59:08 GMT -5
A lot of these posts have the form of "this person isn't championship material" or "this person has no business being champion" and... I dunno. You're not agreeing with the booking because you think it was entertaining or made sense, you're agreeing that a certain person is at a particular place in some sort of hierarchy, and... yeah, I don't get it.
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Post by sarkerpolseng on May 18, 2021 12:48:03 GMT -5
WWE running a Benoit tribute show for Raw the Monday after THAT weekend. Many said it was in very poor taste, but they had no clue as to what had actually happened. They would have never aired the tribute had they known at the time the seriousness of the matter.
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Post by Savage Gambino on May 18, 2021 13:30:15 GMT -5
Yeah, the racial stuff (especially in how they brought up Booker's criminal record) was played way to thick to try and veer left from it, like they kind of half-assed tried to. If the story had been Triple H just wanting to defeat ex-WCW guys, and it eventually leads to him losing to Goldberg, at least that's a cohesive narrative that doesn't completely marginalise any talent along the way. But that's not the story they told, there's no defence for it. The end was the racist heel beat the minority he labelled as second rate and above his station... funny that he never used those lines on Steiner, or Nash, or anyone else, isn't it? Huh. Never occurred to me that they could have done a long-running Trips vs. WCW storyline, but come to think of it, they should have. I'm kind of shocked it never occurred to me either, but it's all there: almost all of Triple H's feuds during the Reign of Terror were against WCW guys, he had the Big Gold Belt from the WCW merger, he had former WCW head Ric Flair kissing his ass. Hell, he started out as a jobber in WCW before he joined WWE, so he has every reason to prove that they made a mistake by not getting behind him when they had the chance. But, no, they went with racism. And then let the racist win.
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