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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Mar 14, 2022 15:02:40 GMT -5
Yeah, he's taking the meme wrestler approach to it, probably the best move to make. I mean, I guess that "worked" for "Shorty G" while also doing damage that he is only just now recovering from. So, sure, we're all upset over nothing. That’s almost apples to oranges. Shorty G was an entire meme character doomed to fail. Bitch is just Pete Dunne with a stupid name.
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Post by eJm on Mar 14, 2022 15:27:31 GMT -5
I mean, I guess that "worked" for "Shorty G" while also doing damage that he is only just now recovering from. So, sure, we're all upset over nothing. That’s almost apples to oranges. Shorty G was an entire meme character doomed to fail. Bitch is just Pete Dunne with a stupid name. Yeah, I can kind of see that. Shorty G was a character put together by someone who on that day had zero awareness of what anyone else on their roster was like.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2022 15:36:28 GMT -5
I mean, I guess that "worked" for "Shorty G" while also doing damage that he is only just now recovering from. So, sure, we're all upset over nothing. I was thinking more along the lines of Hook, Veer and T-Bar and Mace for a bit. I also didn't say it wasn't bad or that folks didn't have a right to be upset, if others did in the thread, that's not great. Sorry, I did not mean for my post to come across as implying that you, or anyone else, did that. I was more trying to head off at the pass the argument I know we're going to see in a few months if Pete Dunne manages to get "Butch" over of "see, it wasn't that bad" or "see, the WWE knew what it was doing." Because I think you're entirely right, I think there's a chance Pete Dunne is going to manage to meme this into being over. I'm not sure I see the difference between a performer deliberately being given a meme name (Shorty G) and a performer being given a name so utterly and laughably terrible that they are forced to lean into it being a meme name to try and get it over (Butch), so I fully and completely stand behind the comparison. Pete Dunne being called "Butch" is terrible. One of the worst WWE rebrands since, well, Chad Gable became Shorty G. Shorty G was over for a minute, too, and we had to have discussions about how "Shorty G is a memorable character, while Chad Gable was just a dude" and "WWE was smart to give Chad Gable a marketable gimmick." My post was more designed to just be on the record stating that, if "Butch" gets over for 5 minutes because it's funny, that will not make it a net positive when people inevitably get tired of it and he goes back to being Pete Dunne a year and a half later. Which is how I see this going, personally.
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Post by mrbananagrabber on Mar 14, 2022 17:28:24 GMT -5
So what other names can the NXT UK crew get when they get shifted off the brand? Tyler Bate is now Jolly Jeeves, Happy Corbin's british butler. OK, that would be fantastic.
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Post by pinja on Mar 15, 2022 9:59:10 GMT -5
It's time to play the Butch. TIME TO PLAY THE BUTCH! hurr hurr hurr
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Post by knightboat on Mar 16, 2022 8:44:32 GMT -5
Who misspelled Budge?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2022 15:36:06 GMT -5
The Butch and the Bla
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2022 17:51:16 GMT -5
Melo don't miss!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2022 17:56:31 GMT -5
Yeah, he's taking the meme wrestler approach to it, probably the best move to make. Yep. It goes back to what I said about people talking a lot about the name. It's so meme-y/jokey that it's easier to become part of the "culture" than just his standard name. It's not about how "bad" it is or how "good" it is, it's about how you use it. In theory yeah he could have kept his normal name and not used it but this name does have advantages the other one doesn't. If you wanna get people talking about a name, then make it stand out. It's basically more "sports entertainment" than "pro wrestling" which is interesting because Dunne was never a sports entertainer, he's a wrestler. That's one thing I'm seeing a lot since he's been called up from just 1 week to social media. He's adapting.
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Post by RI Richmark on Mar 18, 2022 21:21:01 GMT -5
Someone in the Smackdown thread compared Butch to Scrappy Doo and now I need to see a cartoon where Sheamus, Ridge & Butch drive around in a van and solve mysteries.
Put that shit on Peacock right now!!!
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Mar 19, 2022 15:23:35 GMT -5
It’s been a week, but Dunne hasn’t been rechristened as Butch on WWE.com yet.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2022 11:12:06 GMT -5
It’s been a week, but Dunne hasn’t been rechristened as Butch on WWE.com yet. I don't use the site, but I've seen people here say they're lazy as hell when it comes to updating it.
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Post by TheDieselTrain on Mar 20, 2022 12:07:30 GMT -5
Can't say I was ever really a big fan of his but still makes no sense. So last week we had Carmelo say he sent him packing an he had to change his name. Again on SD! They mentioned he went by another name previously. Why bring it up? They've yet to explain.
Is it short for butcher since he was so brutal?
Literally any explanation is better than nothing
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Post by thehottag on Mar 21, 2022 17:29:27 GMT -5
He needs a tag partner called 'The Blader'
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Mar 22, 2022 15:54:40 GMT -5
This stable is what happens when you ask your mom for Guy Ritchie and she says we have Guy Ritchie at home
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