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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Mar 12, 2022 4:18:31 GMT -5
It's almost as if Vince is trying to give Trips a full heart attack.
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Post by holyshida on Mar 12, 2022 4:21:48 GMT -5
Gunther and now Butch lol f***ing hell. Adam Cole had a seriously lucky escape by not re-signing and going to the main roster
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Post by clifford on Mar 12, 2022 4:25:53 GMT -5
If anyone can make it work, Pete can, but he may be Dunne.
Butch isn't that bad of a name to be honest, as part of a full name though. If they thought Pete was too normie of a name for a WWE SUPERSTAR then fine, but WHY leave it at just Butch, jesus christ.
And can we PLEASE put to bed the whole 'Adam Cole should've stayed with WWE' argument. The massacre they would've made of him on the main roster is honestly something only sickos dream of knowing.
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Post by lemonyellowson on Mar 12, 2022 4:35:03 GMT -5
I dunno, if this ends up with samurai swords, motorcycles and gimps, I'm down.
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Post by chrom on Mar 12, 2022 5:31:23 GMT -5
I look forward to seeing Butch take on Erik and Angel and Otis Like, jokes aside, WWE is all about marketability and image. The company does realize that if I Google “Otis” I’ll find the wrestler about 7 pages down, next to some articles about elevator innovations, right? I shudder to think what will happen if I Google “Butch.” You do not wanna know
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Post by Totorob101 on Mar 12, 2022 5:35:19 GMT -5
Terrible and you have to wonder if Vince is sabotaging nxt talent on purpose or ruining them via sheer stupidity,either way is just pathetic and shows how out of touch Vince is now.
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Post by thechase on Mar 12, 2022 5:47:30 GMT -5
Someone needs to do a mock-up video of the group to the theme of Only Fools and Horses.
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Post by Andee9001 on Mar 12, 2022 5:47:33 GMT -5
Guy was good enough to be on the main roster years ago and they bring him in as f***ing Butch and a friend of Sheamus. How about using him to replace Cesaro to fill out an upper mid card face role no?
Eh at least he's finally on the main roster.
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Post by BobW on Mar 12, 2022 6:08:59 GMT -5
Someone needs to do a mock-up video of the group to the theme of Only Fools and Horses. They should be billed "From Hooky Street..."
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Post by Mainia on Mar 12, 2022 6:09:29 GMT -5
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 12, 2022 6:19:01 GMT -5
Gunther and now Butch lol f***ing hell. Adam Cole had a seriously lucky escape by not re-signing and going to the main roster It's actually very unnerving how accurate Silver and Reynolds naming Cole "BUDGE" on BTE was with this development lmfao
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Post by Mid-Carder on Mar 12, 2022 6:20:22 GMT -5
I read this thread in the middle of the night because I couldn't sleep. Thought I'd dreamt it, but alas, it's real.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Mar 12, 2022 6:39:42 GMT -5
Is he going to start doing the Bushwhacker walk to the ring and lick peoples heads?
Looking at his gear he is already dressed up like one.
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Post by noobeast on Mar 12, 2022 6:41:45 GMT -5
I mean Butch is one of the toughest old-school names. Maybe this is Vince's way of being high on him? lol Nah, I think he did it from a marketing perspective. Pete Dunne debuting would be exciting and get people talking but it's not going to get as many people talking as changing his name did tonight and what do you know, people are lighting the place up talking about his name. Just business stuff. Less people would be talking if he didn't change his name. Please don't hurt yourself with that stretch. This comes down to the same thing as every other stupid decision they make: Vince has to put his fingerprints on everything, and it makes everything he touches suck. The man hasn't had a good idea in at least 20 years, and has fired or reduced the role of anyone who has. And sure, people are talking...in the most negative way possible. In a company with a fanbase that is shriveling by the day, that's not what you want. This is not an "all press is good press" situation. This is a "more bad press is bad" situation.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Mar 12, 2022 6:57:49 GMT -5
One day Vince will just drop all pretense and rename a guy "Poopy McFartButtski". Why do you think negotiations with Cody have stalled?
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Post by Big BosskMan on Mar 12, 2022 7:01:39 GMT -5
Well, what's Dunne is done.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Mar 12, 2022 8:29:18 GMT -5
Also I can't believe he stole Rhea Ripley's gimmick.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2022 8:59:10 GMT -5
Stuff like this just insults the fans intelligence.
That's why they reject it so much
If Pete Dunnes real nickname was Butch? Fair enough. Maybe they could get on board with it IF they acknowledged his name was Pete Dunne aswell.
But even the whole introduction last night was "You may know him as another name..." and not "You may know him as Pete Dunne..."
It's like they're rewriting history and making it seem like we've wasted our time getting invested in his work before.
I mean shit, the guy isn't an unknown. He was teaming with Riddle, he made an appearance in the ROYAL RUMBLE. You can't just say "Oh yeah, his name is Butch LOL" and think you're not gonna piss off your fanbase.
AEW would never do something like this. That's why the fans love it. You barely see any negative comments about AEW's booking decisions. And that's because they don't insult the fans intelligence like WWE (or should I say, Vince, Dunn, Laurinitis and Pritchard") do constantly.
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Post by eJm on Mar 12, 2022 9:00:15 GMT -5
Honestly, this reminds me of the whole Dabba Kato/Commander Azeez where after losing to Braun Strowman on Raw, he showed up a couple of weeks later on the opposite brand managing Apollo Crews in his character remake and yeah, it’s freaking Dabba Kato but man, they’re both still characters who have shown up on your TV show and expecting your audience to just go “These are two different people!” and if you let stuff like that slip under, you give them permission to get away with trading NXT TV Star Pete Dunne as Butch with no real context to it.
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Post by "Magic" Mark Hurr on Mar 12, 2022 9:15:07 GMT -5
Honestly, this reminds me of the whole Dabba Kato/Commander Azeez where after losing to Braun Strowman on Raw, he showed up a couple of weeks later on the opposite brand managing Apollo Crews in his character remake and yeah, it’s freaking Dabba Kato but man, they’re both still characters who have shown up on your TV show and expecting your audience to just go “These are two different people!” and if you let stuff like that slip under, you give them permission to get away with trading NXT TV Star Pete Dunne as Butch with no real context to it. Now that I think of it, I've never seen Dabba Kato and Commander Azeez in the same ring at the same time.
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