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Post by eJm on Jul 22, 2021 10:33:24 GMT -5
accepted an open challenge for the TNT title.
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Post by toodarkmark on Jul 22, 2021 11:06:06 GMT -5
I love how much he got out there in like 2 minutes. His background, threatening Arn, he's going to beat Cody AND with all that emotion. I was marking out so hard when I saw him that I was barely listening and just so happy to see him on TV after so many years.
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Post by Derk! on Jul 22, 2021 11:10:41 GMT -5
What a damn debut. Amazing. And to think, that probably wouldn't have been possible without the pandemic f***ing the world up...
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Post by MrElijah on Jul 22, 2021 11:15:33 GMT -5
I love how much he got out there in like 2 minutes. His background, threatening Arn, he's going to beat Cody AND with all that emotion. I was marking out so hard when I saw him that I was barely listening and just so happy to see him on TV after so many years. I love how Arn's expressions during Eddie's threats. It spoke that "If I was 25 again, words would've ended and one of us isn't walking out of here."
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jul 22, 2021 11:33:54 GMT -5
Yonkers not even the hood part of NY tho
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Post by eJm on Jul 22, 2021 11:36:30 GMT -5
Yonkers not even the hood part of NY tho Nobody asked you, actual New Yorker.
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Post by 06vwgti on Jul 22, 2021 11:50:32 GMT -5
Yonkers not even the hood part of NY tho I still wouldn't walk out at night in southwest Yonkers near the Getty square area
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Post by salz4life on Jul 22, 2021 11:51:17 GMT -5
Him going after Arn was what got him immediately over with me. I don't ever remember that happening back in the day, let alone now. If only we could've got a prime Arn to go after him.
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Jul 22, 2021 12:00:57 GMT -5
What a damn debut. Amazing. And to think, that probably wouldn't have been possible without the pandemic f***ing the world up... And he’s become one of the most over people in a company full of crazy over people. In a really weird way? Having to do things the way they did because of the pandemic could go down as one of the most important series of moments when the ultimate history of the company is written. Not that they wouldn’t have succeeded without it…but I think the way things worked has made crowds even more rabid for the product. And probably made - as someone pointed out here once before - Eddie their modern version of Mick Foley. The guy who doesn’t fit the usual look and style but crowds eat up.
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Post by smokinvokoun86 on Jul 22, 2021 12:01:23 GMT -5
I think what’s so incredible is how he immediately got over. I’d imagine if all the big Indy superstars in wrestling, that no one would have imagined that a guy like him would have gotten over and became a big deal as quickly as he did.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jul 22, 2021 12:14:55 GMT -5
Dude's become an ambassador and damn near top star in AEW in under a year. It's an incredible success story that if you knew what Eddie was about? Isn't totally shocking because you knew if someone gave him a legitimate shot... that's all he'd need. It was indeed correct.
What's even more wild than this is THIS wasn't the promo that ultimately changed Eddie Kingston's life, the promo he cut on Cody Rhodes basically in a backyard Pandemic show, uncut to a camera, shooting his shot? That changed everything for him. Just goes to show you that you genuinely don't know who is watching and where at any given time.
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Post by bob on Jul 22, 2021 14:07:14 GMT -5
I had never seen him before then and immediately became a fan... because holy shit, he could talk shit like a mother f***er
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Jul 22, 2021 14:13:12 GMT -5
I had never seen him before then and immediately became a fan... because holy shit, he could talk shit like a mother f***er He literally turned around sometime shortly after that and was cutting BELIEVEABLE promos on shit like cookies. Literally. Pretty positive it was a cookie from the batch Sue baked for them too. THAT is when I was really really hooked on him. Only in 2020/2021 wrestling fandom would that sentence not only make sense but would the actual act described turn out awesome
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Jul 22, 2021 14:14:45 GMT -5
Let’s not forget that a few short months later he would single handedly (ok, Mox was there too for him to play off of) turn around/borderline save the ending of an angle that could have gone done much MUCH worse than it already was.
Dude is a f***ing gem and I hope Tony gives him a lifetime contract.
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Post by MrElijah on Jul 22, 2021 15:15:15 GMT -5
Yonkers not even the hood part of NY tho True but you can't tell me Eddie wouldn't be out of place on the Concourse. Shit, he might be from the Concourse.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jul 22, 2021 15:19:39 GMT -5
Yonkers not even the hood part of NY tho True but you can't tell me Eddie wouldn't be out of place on the Concourse. Shit, he might be from the Concourse. He def chilled in the city You can tell he was in the BX, on the concourse or spending his weekends in Dyckman
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Post by Lupin the Third on Jul 22, 2021 16:31:10 GMT -5
THE LAST OF A DYING BREED!!!!
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jul 22, 2021 16:54:51 GMT -5
Eddie is part of why AEW is a great thing for wrestling even if you think the product sucks.
Honestly, looking at the footage of him over the past decades, I don't think Eddie has looked this 'well' since Larry Sweeney was alive; a light went out of his eyes after that, and I'm not saying he's now over that - just that I think his life might be a little bit more worth living now than it used to be, and that's really nice.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Jul 22, 2021 23:28:23 GMT -5
Yeah that Cody vs. Tommy Dreamer match was great!
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Post by Squirrel Master on Jul 23, 2021 0:18:20 GMT -5
accepted an open challenge for the TNT title. HE HAD PEAS B’FO!
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