Chiral
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Post by Chiral on Jun 15, 2021 20:59:53 GMT -5
I didn't notice until tonight but her tron image is literally just
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Jun 15, 2021 21:10:11 GMT -5
I didn't notice until tonight but her tron image is literally just This was the exact moment I jumped off the bandwagon.
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Post by saneiac on Jun 15, 2021 23:48:13 GMT -5
They're literally pushing her because she's big and her dad ran Shawn Michaels wrestling school.. nepotism at it's finest. Her dad didn't run Shawn Michaels' wrestling school. Her dad was "Desperado" Ricky Gonzalez, an indy wrestler who spent most of his career in small time Texas promotions, mostly in the 80s. Shawn's head trainer was Rudy Boy Gonzalez. Rudy Boy had a much longer and more high profile career, starting as a referee for Joe Blanchard's San Antonio promotion in 1982, and still wrestling into the 2010s including stints in the NWA and Ring of Honor (and one skit in WWE: he played a Mexican trying to sneak across the border when JBL caught him and kicked his ass).
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Post by Mecca on Jun 15, 2021 23:51:58 GMT -5
They're literally pushing her because she's big and her dad ran Shawn Michaels wrestling school.. nepotism at it's finest. Her dad didn't run Shawn Michaels' wrestling school. Her dad was "Desperado" Ricky Gonzalez, an indy wrestler who spent most of his career in small time Texas promotions, mostly in the 80s. Shawn's head trainer was Rudy Boy Gonzalez. Rudy Boy had a much longer and more high profile career, starting as a referee for Joe Blanchard's San Antonio promotion in 1982, and still wrestling into the 2010s including stints in the NWA and Ring of Honor (and one skit in WWE: he played a Mexican trying to sneak across the border when JBL caught him and kicked his ass). I thought Rudy boy was her dad...
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Post by Sam Punk on Jun 16, 2021 2:23:09 GMT -5
I thought Braun was with Alexa. Did they break up?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2021 3:09:06 GMT -5
I thought Braun was with Alexa. Did they break up? They were never actually together as far as I know.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Jun 16, 2021 5:43:33 GMT -5
I thought Braun was with Alexa. Did they break up? Alexa’s been dating Ryan Cabrera since early 2020.
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Post by salz4life on Jun 16, 2021 9:27:01 GMT -5
I thought Braun was with Alexa. Did they break up? Alexa’s been dating Ryan Cabrera since early 2020. I think they're engaged now.
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Post by mistery on Jun 16, 2021 9:29:13 GMT -5
Raquel's back muscles certainly aren't drawing in the viewers on YouTube, that's for sure.
Just taking last night's clips into account, here are the top 5 rankings in terms of most viewed stars (just from last night's episode):
1) Samoa Joe 2) Ted DiBiase/LA Knight/Cameron Grimes 3) Io Shirai 4) Raquel/Dakota* 5) Ciampa/Thatcher*
*Ciampa/Thatcher are very close to passing Dakota/Raquel in terms of viewership, which makes this funny that Raquel is seemingly less popular than Thatcher of all people.
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Post by polarbearpete on Jun 16, 2021 11:39:43 GMT -5
Raquel's back muscles certainly aren't drawing in the viewers on YouTube, that's for sure. Just taking last night's clips into account, here are the top 5 rankings in terms of most viewed stars (just from last night's episode): 1) Samoa Joe 2) Ted DiBiase/LA Knight/Cameron Grimes 3) Io Shirai 4) Raquel/Dakota* 5) Ciampa/Thatcher* *Ciampa/Thatcher are very close to passing Dakota/Raquel in terms of viewership, which makes this funny that Raquel is seemingly less popular than Thatcher of all people. Looks like they posted about 15 videos from the show so 4th out of 15 sounds pretty good. Also the night of Takeover, they posted one video for each of the 5 matches on the show and Racquel’s match has the most views by far!
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Post by gl83 on Jun 16, 2021 11:42:27 GMT -5
Raquel's back muscles certainly aren't drawing in the viewers on YouTube, that's for sure. Just taking last night's clips into account, here are the top 5 rankings in terms of most viewed stars (just from last night's episode): 1) Samoa Joe 2) Ted DiBiase/LA Knight/Cameron Grimes 3) Io Shirai 4) Raquel/Dakota* 5) Ciampa/Thatcher* *Ciampa/Thatcher are very close to passing Dakota/Raquel in terms of viewership, which makes this funny that Raquel is seemingly less popular than Thatcher of all people. Looks like they posted about 15 videos from the show so 4th out of 15 sounds pretty good. Also, don't be dissing "Tuesday Night Ratings God", Timothy Thatcher.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Jun 16, 2021 11:46:52 GMT -5
Like it's so weird with her in that she's a 6 foot tall woman who towers over everyone and even seems fairly decent in the ring. Yet she's just so uninteresting and has no star aura to her what so ever. She's really an anomaly in that I can't really think of anyone else like that in all my years that I've been watching. I don't think her push should come to surprise. It's no different like it's always been with the men. If your that big and are at least decent in the ring your probably going to get a very fair shake and plenty of opportunities. Honestly though it's really not looking like she's the answer. Looking at their roster I don't really know who is. Most of the women in NXT are good wrestlers but there's really no one that really screams long term champ who you can build a division around either. Rhea manages to feel taller than her even though she's half a foot shorter. I don't know how she hasn't developed beyond the feeling of "who the hell is this?" in 18 months
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Post by Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen on Jun 16, 2021 11:48:30 GMT -5
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Post by pinja on Jun 16, 2021 11:57:12 GMT -5
"good enough" - Raquel's thought when performing cable curls to train her back. She asks everyone why Roderick Strong is called the messiah of the backbreaker when he never hits the biceps.
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Jun 16, 2021 12:52:10 GMT -5
Raquel's back muscles certainly aren't drawing in the viewers on YouTube, that's for sure. Just taking last night's clips into account, here are the top 5 rankings in terms of most viewed stars (just from last night's episode): 1) Samoa Joe 2) Ted DiBiase/LA Knight/Cameron Grimes 3) Io Shirai 4) Raquel/Dakota* 5) Ciampa/Thatcher* *Ciampa/Thatcher are very close to passing Dakota/Raquel in terms of viewership, which makes this funny that Raquel is seemingly less popular than Thatcher of all people. Looks like they posted about 15 videos from the show so 4th out of 15 sounds pretty good. Also the night of Takeover, they posted one video for each of the 5 matches on the show and Racquel’s match has the most views by far! NARRATIVE Don’t forget she was also a huge rating killer or whatever … until she wrestled and her match killed it.
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Post by polarbearpete on Jun 16, 2021 13:03:05 GMT -5
Looks like they posted about 15 videos from the show so 4th out of 15 sounds pretty good. Also the night of Takeover, they posted one video for each of the 5 matches on the show and Racquel’s match has the most views by far! NARRATIVE Don’t forget she was also a huge rating killer or whatever … until she wrestled and her match killed it. Yeah I understand liking Io more (I do as well) but doesn’t mean everything has to be so negatively exaggerated when it comes to Racquel.
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Post by Harry The Arrow was Wrong! on Jun 16, 2021 13:24:55 GMT -5
NARRATIVE Don’t forget she was also a huge rating killer or whatever … until she wrestled and her match killed it. Yeah I understand liking Io more (I do as well) but doesn’t mean everything has to be so negatively exaggerated when it comes to Racquel. Like it would be something if her matches are shit but they're not. She's having pretty good matches consistently. Hell, some of her matches are great. Is she as good as Io? No, but that's not a fair comparison since not many people in wwe are on Io's level. She's a really fun powerhouse and does her job well.
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Jun 16, 2021 13:29:38 GMT -5
Now just develop a goshdarn character beyond “AM STOMG HAVE BACK!”
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Jun 16, 2021 14:01:25 GMT -5
Like it's so weird with her in that she's a 6 foot tall woman who towers over everyone and even seems fairly decent in the ring. Yet she's just so uninteresting and has no star aura to her what so ever. She's really an anomaly in that I can't really think of anyone else like that in all my years that I've been watching. I don't think her push should come to surprise. It's no different like it's always been with the men. If your that big and are at least decent in the ring your probably going to get a very fair shake and plenty of opportunities. Honestly though it's really not looking like she's the answer. Looking at their roster I don't really know who is. Most of the women in NXT are good wrestlers but there's really no one that really screams long term champ who you can build a division around either. Rhea manages to feel taller than her even though she's half a foot shorter.I don't know how she hasn't developed beyond the feeling of "who the hell is this?" in 18 months So I take it they're back to underbilling Rhea's height again? It's feels like they've switched her height about ten times since she's been in WWE. Sometimes she's 5'7", sometimes she's 5'8", and sometimes she's 5'10". 5'10" actually looks to be closest to her shoot height going by comparison with the rest of the women and even it isn't they could easily get away with it. When her and Raquel have faced of in the past, Raquel is taller but not by much. Looks like a two inch difference maybe. Definitely not a half a foot. I've never understood why they want to make one one of their pushed women stars and someone who is pushed as a badass seem shorter then she actually is. I think a lot of it when it comes to Raquel not feeling like a big star is probably just combination of a lack of charisma and her presentation. She's supposed to be this big dominant champion but she's really not presented that way. Like the match with Ember Moon I didn't need to be as long and as competitive as it was. Could be wrong but I think the potential of Ember being a major player in any of the women's divisions is likely over. Sacrificing her to try to put Raquel over stronger in a more one sided match would've been a better idea I thought.
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Post by Chiral on Jun 16, 2021 14:05:01 GMT -5
Now in addition to all this talk about Raquel's skills and ratings value and such, have any of you considered that Raquel also has really big and strong back muscles?
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