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Post by Terry McConkey on Oct 29, 2021 17:01:06 GMT -5
Omos came in one day a month ago wearing a striped shirt and Vince just lost his shit. You joke but I can totally see that happening seriously. If you think Aubrey Edwards is rough, wait until you see Omos.
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Post by krozor on Oct 29, 2021 17:53:50 GMT -5
I want this to be a real thing, because if it is and it was made public, they will go out of their way to try to discredit it, meaning they'll have to hire a really tall ref. And I believe that we could easily get 3-4 months of material here out of Tall Ref.
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Post by Wieners=$$$ on Oct 29, 2021 18:00:52 GMT -5
A grim look into the future
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2021 19:05:09 GMT -5
So that how their going to rehired Hornswoggle.
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 29, 2021 20:25:14 GMT -5
You never heard that saying from wrestlers about âbest referees are the one you didnât notice they were thereâ? Thereâs a lot of people who hate Earl Hebner and Red Shoes because they find them distracting Of course I have. I moderated on a wrestling board for eight years and have been a wrestling fan since the late 80's. That is a phrase that generally applies but doesn't take into account the work referees do to accentuate matches through their reactions. Might as well tell Charles Robinson that he was reffing incorrectly for decades and that Mark Curtis was a bad ref. There are exceptions to every rule. It's better to say, "You shouldn't notice a referee most of the time but when you do, it should be used to put over the match." Yeah, like, I do think a ref can obviously be bad if they're outright distracting from a match, but I also do think there's totally a place for refs like Robinson or Aubrey who stand out more, since they often are used for some of the bigger matches, so it does contribute to a big match feel.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Oct 29, 2021 20:48:17 GMT -5
Vince be like "IF WE COULD JUST PUMP THEM FULL OF STEROIDS LIKE THE GOOD OLD DAYS THEN I WOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THIS, DAMMIT".
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Post by gnr123 on Oct 29, 2021 21:37:30 GMT -5
WWE are doing what wrestling has been doing since, forever? Next are they going to tell us wrestlers wear lifts to make themselves look bigger? Or get billed as a bigger height then they actually are? Or the weapons are gimmicked, they don't really punch each other? Wait, it's FAKE!?
Wrestler's have gotten smaller over the years, that's just how it is. You don't see alot of 6'4 250 pound guy's anymore, so WWE is for once actually trying to help the smaller talent by hiring smaller ref's to help them look bigger. WWE and wrestling in general has always been "larger than life." It's kind of hard to look like you can someone's ass when the guy or gal calling the match is the same size as the talent. I never, my 15 or so odd years of watching numerous companies ever noticed a ref the same size or taller than the talent in the ring, the ref was usually always in the background and non-existent to the action going on in the ring. As they should be.
This seems more of a "Fed Bad" story than actual news. Seems like something off a parody news site because of how absurd it is.
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Post by floundertime on Oct 30, 2021 0:42:15 GMT -5
I call BS on this. Sonya Deville was a new ref on smackdown tonight and she was as tall if not taller than the wrestlers in the ring
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 30, 2021 1:18:55 GMT -5
Of course I have. I moderated on a wrestling board for eight years and have been a wrestling fan since the late 80's. That is a phrase that generally applies but doesn't take into account the work referees do to accentuate matches through their reactions. Might as well tell Charles Robinson that he was reffing incorrectly for decades and that Mark Curtis was a bad ref. There are exceptions to every rule. It's better to say, "You shouldn't notice a referee most of the time but when you do, it should be used to put over the match." Yeah, like, I do think a ref can obviously be bad if they're outright distracting from a match, but I also do think there's totally a place for refs like Robinson or Aubrey who stand out more, since they often are used for some of the bigger matches, so it does contribute to a big match feel. Yeah, Refs enhance the story of the match... they're not like invisible stagehands... like the big kick out moments don't work if the person doing the counting aren't noticeable. Ditto thinks like tap outs, or rule breakers running distractions based on where the refs are. I don't think I've ever been taken out of a match by what the ref is doing... and I couldn't tell you what any of the refs heights are either. The WWE removing the refs from the roster and not mentioning who they are probably takes me out more than any of that would.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Fadeaway on Oct 30, 2021 1:27:38 GMT -5
Vince be like "IF WE COULD JUST PUMP THEM FULL OF STEROIDS LIKE THE GOOD OLD DAYS THEN I WOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THIS, DAMMIT". In my head I'm interpreting this as pumping the refs full of steroids to make them smaller and Vince being horrified upon seeing Charles Robinson bulging out of his shirt nipples protruding VEINS everywhere f***ing fist thru the wall.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Oct 30, 2021 1:41:12 GMT -5
Vince be like "IF WE COULD JUST PUMP THEM FULL OF STEROIDS LIKE THE GOOD OLD DAYS THEN I WOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THIS, DAMMIT". In my head I'm interpreting this as pumping the refs full of steroids to make them smaller and Vince being horrified upon seeing Charles Robinson bulging out of his shirt nipples protruding VEINS everywhere f***ing fist thru the wall. But they still go down like a sack of shit in a stiff breeze. Seriously though, a lot of people talk about how the talents aren't "larger than life" like they used to be. Two reasons I can think of why that is before you even get to the booking: One, you were small. And two, they were larger than what life intended them to be.
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Post by Super Duper Dragunov on Oct 30, 2021 8:30:37 GMT -5
Yes! I can be a referee!
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Post by eJm on Oct 30, 2021 10:39:32 GMT -5
Whatâs wrong with this? Itâs a clever idea, man. Because caring about the size of referees relative to your wrestlers enough to make an edict about who you hire is one of those things that feels like it can only matter to Vince. It sounds like a haha funny clever idea but I don't think they're taking it as haha funny. It's just more of WWE's continued size fixation stuff. And all the things they do, like have small refs or tall interviewers, is all window dressing to the fact that 99% of the time, theyâre shit at making stars or not having moments where the stars they make donât get beaten down weekly or look like goobers. Like, if your tall looking wrestlers are in angles used to constantly build heat and nobody cares about them anymore, nobody will go âOh, man, look how tall he is, I guess he actually IS a star now!â
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Post by eJm on Oct 30, 2021 10:43:00 GMT -5
There was a time when I actually considered being a ref or at least training to be one in case I wasnât that great at this whole wrestling thing. Still could since there are actual courses going on at the biggest wrestling school in the country. But, wellâŠletâs say weâre not in a great place wrestling wise, especially in terms of goodwill from fans. On an unrelated topic, still plenty of tickets to the two OTT shows tonight and tomorrow.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Oct 30, 2021 18:05:37 GMT -5
Didnât they go through a period of having to have jacked up refs so âpeople would believe they could control a wrestlerâ
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Post by Wieners=$$$ on Oct 30, 2021 18:58:59 GMT -5
REF SHORTS
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Post by Aceorton on Oct 30, 2021 19:30:51 GMT -5
New boom period. Take my money, Vince. And all this time I mistakenly thought the product was just creatively lazy, overscripted and uninteresting. It was tall refs!
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Post by Wieners=$$$ on Oct 30, 2021 21:57:05 GMT -5
REF SHORTS
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Post by Wieners=$$$ on Oct 31, 2021 14:34:18 GMT -5
REF SHORTSLast one for a while, I promiseđ
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