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Post by polarbearpete on Mar 12, 2022 9:35:42 GMT -5
Good as a nickname, don’t like it as a full name. They did give themselves an out by stressing it was his nickname and that others know him by a different name, so maybe they switch the name up next week.
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Post by mrtuesday on Mar 12, 2022 9:40:33 GMT -5
It's not the first time, either.
Going all the way back to former Tag Team Champion Tony Atlas being renamed Saba Simba. Or former WWF Champion The Iron Sheik being renamed Col. Mustafa.
It was stupid then, and it's stupid now.
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Post by Jacy Jayne Atomic Dog AMV on Mar 12, 2022 9:41:18 GMT -5
I love that we're back in the mid 90s where all bets are off in regards to renames. Like no that's not Barry Windham that's The Stalker and he's gonna kill your family or whatever the gimmick was.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Mar 12, 2022 10:05:44 GMT -5
Ah, finally. The fabled “serious gay” character.
…hmm?
…oh?
…OH.
I misunderstood the title.
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Post by Sparvid on Mar 12, 2022 10:08:31 GMT -5
Will Ridge Holland change his name to The Blader?
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Mar 12, 2022 10:13:01 GMT -5
Honestly, one of the things that took me out of wrestling was guys using their real names or made-up regular names. I grew up in the era of Hacksaw Duggan meeting The Barbarian on Superstars so I never got excited by seeing Bobby Phrenson challenge Dan Mitchelson.
So while Butch is kind of dumb, I never had chills hearing Pete Dunne either.
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Post by Nosnorb on Mar 12, 2022 10:18:10 GMT -5
Will Ridge Holland change his name to The Blader? Doubt it, considering that if he did actually blade, he would be fined. So he'll probably go by Hardway Holland instead.
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Post by lucas_lee on Mar 12, 2022 10:20:15 GMT -5
*Patrick Stewart faceplate gif*
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Post by RI Richmark on Mar 12, 2022 10:25:30 GMT -5
Thing is this would have worked 20 years ago. You could pluck somebody out the USWA or Smokey Mountain or OVW, give them a new identity and be OK because only a small region knew of them before.
NXT 2.O is on national television. Everybody just saw him as Pete Dunne a few weeks ago. You just can't change him without any explanation.
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Post by daveyt on Mar 12, 2022 10:30:37 GMT -5
Remember when Triple H said he truly believed Pete Dunne would be WWE Champion one day.... HA
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Post by 4real on Mar 12, 2022 10:48:35 GMT -5
I think the name could work if they treated Butch like a nickname that Sheamus and Ridge can call him in promos, but he's still formally known as Pete Dunne. Think like how Eddie Kingston will call Ortiz "Munky" but he's still officially known as Ortiz (or even Angel Ortiz on the indies). That said, we already know that's not what this is, and we can expect his Twitter handle to change in the next week. Same thing happened with Doudrop really. They acknowledged it wasn’t her actual name but Doudrop stuck even after Eva Marie was released. So they don’t care clearly.
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Post by Legion on Mar 12, 2022 10:49:00 GMT -5
Good as a nickname, don’t like it as a full name. They did give themselves an out by stressing it was his nickname and that others know him by a different name, so maybe they switch the name up next week. I dont watch Smackdown, but if they did this and made it clear it was a nickname, then it does leave the door open for him to be Pete Dunne again at some point. Still dumb as f***, but at least they have left that door open.
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Post by eJm on Mar 12, 2022 11:03:12 GMT -5
Thing is this would have worked 20 years ago. You could pluck somebody out the USWA or Smokey Mountain or OVW, give them a new identity and be OK because only a small region knew of them before. NXT 2.O is on national television. Everybody just saw him as Pete Dunne a few weeks ago. You just can't change him without any explanation. I think that's also a core issue I have. Dude's been on TV, he was on a big 4 PPV not long ago and on a lot of NXT Takeovers...just have a couple of hype package saying he's going back to his West Midlands roots if you so badly want to do this Peeky Blinders ripoff. Having said that, I've been to the West Midlands enough, since my brother lives in Wolves, to know that most people are called Pete up there anyway. EDIT: They did it with Gunther afterwards but, well, the explanation was stupid so I'm still calling him Walter.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Mar 12, 2022 11:28:25 GMT -5
But do they call themselves...the Lads...?
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Post by BlahBlah on Mar 12, 2022 12:20:00 GMT -5
I mean, it wouldn’t be a terrible name for a totally fresh debut I guess? Changing names randomly on established acts for no real reason is just dumb though. That's the thing though.... for the vast majority of the Smackdown audience, Dunne isn't an established act.
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Post by eJm on Mar 12, 2022 12:24:10 GMT -5
I mean, it wouldn’t be a terrible name for a totally fresh debut I guess? Changing names randomly on established acts for no real reason is just dumb though. That's the thing though.... for the vast majority of the Smackdown audience, Dunne isn't an established act. Well, no, but it's not like that audience wouldn't know who Dunne is considering WWE's own social media and YouTube reach. And he was on Survivor Series 2019, a show that was practically designed to put over NXT as a brand. They didn't capitalize off of that momentum at all but that's a whole different story.
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Post by J is Justice on Mar 12, 2022 12:50:33 GMT -5
But do they call themselves...the Lads...? They call themselves the Tunnel Snakes.
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Post by chazraps on Mar 12, 2022 12:52:09 GMT -5
Some of you sure have a lot of optimism considering how much Draino has been poured down our dicks.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2022 12:58:39 GMT -5
Teaming him with Sheamo and Ridge works...because he has a connection to Ridge and Sheamus is an easy way to introdouce him and maybe bridge to them feuding sooner than later.
But the name change , the complete lack of aknowledgement to him being a former NXT UK champion , just got out of a pretty good feud in NXT and has already appeared on the main roster is all types of horseshit.
The wreaks of Pritchard all over again after the GOONTHER name change was apparently his idea.
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Post by bob on Mar 12, 2022 13:11:43 GMT -5
I've never seen Pete Dunne before... so my issue with his name is that it's bland as hell
and in wrestling the name Butch will always be associated with Butch of the Bushwackers
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