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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Oct 5, 2021 20:26:41 GMT -5
Under the radar nomination - NWA booking a loser stays in town match. I haven't followed NWA, did they seriously do this? I've always known this as one of Heenan and Lawler's corny punchlines. They booked a match where if Thunder Rosa lost, she couldn't work anywhere outside the NWA.
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Post by chrom on Oct 5, 2021 20:29:23 GMT -5
Under the radar nomination - NWA booking a loser stays in town match. I haven't followed NWA, did they seriously do this? I've always known this as one of Heenan and Lawler's corny punchlines. Thunder Rosa had a match about three months ago were if she lost, she couldn't show up in any other promotions except the NWA
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 6, 2021 2:21:23 GMT -5
an unlikely choice but Roman Reigns misery tour...
Hey we got people actually interested in Roman last year... let's then go forward and do all the shit that had people get tired of him in the first place... and then try and cover it with "well he's a heel so it's ok now."
except as I've said a bunch of times... a heel's job is not just to be hated and booed. It's for people to want to see them get beaten and to get the Face over... which this run has been REALLY bad at, since literally no one has come out of a feud with Roman looking better than going in.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Oct 6, 2021 3:45:42 GMT -5
I really pray to god the exploding death match gets like 2 percent of the vote. All of the clearly awful writing and concepts that were bad on paper in 2021, and you go with a match that was awesome from bell to bell, was clearly intended to be a climatic moment but just went wrong for reasons beyond anyone’s fault, and then the talent improvises a really good and true-to-life explanation as to why tough guy Eddie Kingston fainted over a wet fart ending.
And you want to tell me that’s worse than Alexa Bliss’s doll winking or Tyrus being allowed to hold a title in the NWA while in the worst shape of his life and after it was found he was sexually harassing co-workers at his other place of employment.
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Post by Bad Moon on Oct 6, 2021 3:49:03 GMT -5
Cody Rhodes declaring racism over while trash-talking the brown-skinned foreigner has to be up there.
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Post by polarbearpete on Oct 7, 2021 12:01:16 GMT -5
O The one of most recent note? The ending to Finn/Roman has to be up there too... Ssshhh there was no damage there or anything to recover from, just suspend disbelief That’s true. I would say either the Zombie match or the exploding death sparklers.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2021 12:08:41 GMT -5
I really pray to god the exploding death match gets like 2 percent of the vote. All of the clearly awful writing and concepts that were bad on paper in 2021, and you go with a match that was awesome from bell to bell, was clearly intended to be a climatic moment but just went wrong for reasons beyond anyone’s fault, and then the talent improvises a really good and true-to-life explanation as to why tough guy Eddie Kingston fainted over a wet fart ending. And you want to tell me that’s worse than Alexa Bliss’s doll winking or Tyrus being allowed to hold a title in the NWA while in the worst shape of his life and after it was found he was sexually harassing co-workers at his other place of employment. It's also lack of genre knowledge. The most famous exploding death match literally had the same problem. Just chalk it up to the match type's unpredictability and move on.
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Post by Cyno on Oct 7, 2021 13:00:53 GMT -5
I really pray to god the exploding death match gets like 2 percent of the vote. All of the clearly awful writing and concepts that were bad on paper in 2021, and you go with a match that was awesome from bell to bell, was clearly intended to be a climatic moment but just went wrong for reasons beyond anyone’s fault, and then the talent improvises a really good and true-to-life explanation as to why tough guy Eddie Kingston fainted over a wet fart ending. And you want to tell me that’s worse than Alexa Bliss’s doll winking or Tyrus being allowed to hold a title in the NWA while in the worst shape of his life and after it was found he was sexually harassing co-workers at his other place of employment. It's also lack of genre knowledge. The most famous exploding death match literally had the same problem. Just chalk it up to the match type's unpredictability and move on. It's also not exactly a meaty write-up either because the match itself was really good. It's not like it was WWE's December to Dismember. It'd end up being the most complimentary Gooker article ever.
"For weeks, Kenny Omega, Jon Moxley, and AEW hyped up an ultra-violent match; the kind that hasn't been seen in American mainstream wrestling since ECW's glory days. Then the match happened and actually delivered on everything!
But after the match there was a technical error and we got sparkles instead of a big boom. It was funny how Kingston looked like an goof throwing himself on top of Moxley, though.
And that's all that happened. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
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Post by bob on Oct 7, 2021 13:10:55 GMT -5
there are only 2 things I can see winning it this year
Orton/Fiend/Alexa/Lily
THAT Cody Rhodes promo and fall out
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Post by smokinvokoun86 on Oct 7, 2021 13:41:14 GMT -5
If AEW really has a true Gooker Contender, it really would be the Cody-Ogogo feud. With the cringy promo to the horrible weigh in segment and it being the worst match of an otherwise fantastic PPV. Because there is no way the Exploding Death Match or Blood and Guts are Gooker worthy, because those were fantastic matches in my opinion. The botched explosion was extremely unfortunate, but that was a production botch, not a booking failure. And the reaction to the weak fall of Chris Jericho was sooo over blown. But again, it was a production botch, not a booking failure.
For WWE, and probably what should win, is the whole Lily thing. Because that’s the kind of thing Wrestlecrap and the Gooker Award is all about.
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Post by Cyno on Oct 7, 2021 14:20:18 GMT -5
Yeah, if anything from AEW is Gooker-worthy, it's the Cody vs Ogogo feud. Not just for that now infamous promo by Cody, but a whole lot of other stuff. Rhodes to the Top showing Tony Khan's reactions to the promo and especially the weighing-in segments would add some interesting and funny perspective to that.
But yeah, even that is outclassed by the Lily shit.
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Post by polarbearpete on Oct 7, 2021 14:26:57 GMT -5
Lily and Bliss were over so not sure that should qualify as a Gooker
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Post by Bo Rida on Oct 7, 2021 16:14:02 GMT -5
I can't look past the Zombie Lumberjack Match. At least stuff like Lily is done with good intentions to produce something entertaining, not a glorified advert on ppv. The same segment on raw it's more forgiveable but paying to watch that shit isn't. Bonus points as they ignored Batista's good movies.
There was some wrestlecrap in aew but nothing gooker worthy. If they go back to just bad booking then the Bucks Vs Callis fued to get right back to where they started was the worst. A waste of several months of mostly awful segments but not gooker worthy as it should be something more fun/ridiculous.
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Post by r. on Oct 7, 2021 20:48:25 GMT -5
Zombie Lumberjack
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Post by markymark on Oct 7, 2021 22:06:24 GMT -5
Tyrus becoming NWA tv champ.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 8, 2021 4:26:36 GMT -5
Lily and Bliss were over so not sure that should qualify as a Gooker as I said they've ignored that rule hundreds of times despite still maintaining it's a rule... and one year the Gooker nominees including things like "Miz existing" during a year he didn't do like anything of note good or bad so... they'll just choose whatever.
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Post by burdette25159 on Oct 9, 2021 14:49:22 GMT -5
Zombie Lumberjack match at Wrestlemania Backlash and the Orton/Fiend/Bliss/Lilly debacle
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Post by bob on Oct 9, 2021 14:59:00 GMT -5
re: Zombie Lumberjack match
I still haven't decided if I think it was awesome, crap or something in between
at the same time I can also see why some people could hate it
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Post by Cyno on Oct 9, 2021 15:56:14 GMT -5
Tyrus really benefits from being on a far smaller platform than WWE or AEW. Because after all the shit that happened in his other career, coming back and winning a major championship in a post-Speaking Out world would be absolutely Gooker-worthy. But since it happened in NWA, most wrestling fans won't take notice.
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Post by Dub H on Oct 9, 2021 16:15:08 GMT -5
Lily and Bliss were over so not sure that should qualify as a Gooker Bliss is over for sure,Lily from what I heard was booed anytime they did the spoopy stuff I think the issue was more anytime they did the goofy supernatural stuff than Lily itself existing
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