Mecca
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Post by Mecca on Mar 12, 2022 15:19:17 GMT -5
Don't know if it's been mentioned but Ridges real name is Luke...
Luke and Butch, this is totally a stupid f***ing Bushwhackers rib.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Mar 12, 2022 15:51:59 GMT -5
We're getting closer and closer to Bungus B'Goo. Don’t spoil Bron Breakker’s main roster name.
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Mar 12, 2022 16:56:25 GMT -5
If he doesn't start this gimmick then it's dead in the water forever!
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Post by joeiscool on Mar 12, 2022 17:17:58 GMT -5
To be fair this is not him as a different character but him being known to other people as a different nic name. It's pretty believable
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Mar 12, 2022 17:18:52 GMT -5
At least it's not a Nazi this time. That's progress.
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Mar 12, 2022 17:19:13 GMT -5
To be fair this is not him as a different character but him being known to other people as a different nic name. It's pretty believable Man what a Botch. Butch: The name is Butch!!!
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 12, 2022 19:15:00 GMT -5
At least make him Butch Dunne.
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chazraps
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Post by chazraps on Mar 12, 2022 20:09:33 GMT -5
To be fair this is not him as a different character but him being known to other people as a different nic name. It's pretty believable He's also dressing and acting completely different. It's not very believable, especially considering we've seen both Sheamus and Ridge interact with him as Pete before.
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Post by MrElijah on Mar 12, 2022 20:29:26 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. Funny, Dunne is one of those guys whose real name is better than most wrestling names.
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Mar 12, 2022 21:03:58 GMT -5
I saw this name and image all over my twitter feed. If this doesn't usher in a new boom period, nothing will. When you are about to get on the Titanic but you just have this sinking feeling
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chrom
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Post by chrom on Mar 12, 2022 21:11:51 GMT -5
I saw this name and image all over my twitter feed. If this doesn't usher in a new boom period, nothing will. When you are waiting for lightning to strike and put you out of your misery.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2022 21:24:02 GMT -5
I saw this name and image all over my twitter feed. If this doesn't usher in a new boom period, nothing will. When you are waiting for the meteorite toilet to strike you down because you know it is gonna be a shitty future.
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Mar 13, 2022 15:05:05 GMT -5
I was thinking; Short name. Kind of small. Wears a wife beater, Doesn't talk. Stands there with sort of a blank expression on his face.
Is this WWE trying to capitalize on the success of Hook in AEW? There is a lot of similarities and the way Sheamus was laughing and acting like a goof when introducing him it kind of came of like they're going for the he gets over through ironism deal. Like it's such a dumb name that people joke about it and gt into him. It's probably a reach and likely is just simply them being stupid but I guess it's a possibility.
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Post by Tiffany Stratton's Daddy on Mar 13, 2022 16:20:58 GMT -5
NXT talent need to walk out like CM Punk did when they get called up. Maybe this will get the point across.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Mar 13, 2022 16:38:40 GMT -5
NXT talent need to walk out like CM Punk did when they get called up. Maybe this will get the point across. I mean Punk could only do that because he made all of his dates before walking out.
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Post by eJm on Mar 13, 2022 16:47:11 GMT -5
NXT talent need to walk out like CM Punk did when they get called up. Maybe this will get the point across. I mean Punk could only do that because he made all of his dates before walking out. And he made enough money and saved it for that to not matter. Consider the rumor of how much people in NXT get paid, I doubt it’d be as simple.
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Post by sportatorium on Mar 13, 2022 16:55:21 GMT -5
Why do I think this came out of Vince offering him a steak wrap & Dunne refusing as an avowed vegan? Vince- huffed & puffed, I'll show him....I'll call him...Butch!
This is exactly how I think things happen in WWE.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Mar 13, 2022 18:01:59 GMT -5
I mean Punk could only do that because he made all of his dates before walking out. And he made enough money and saved it for that to not matter. Consider the rumor of how much people in NXT get paid, I doubt it’d be as simple. Yeah, that too. I was speaking more from a legal stand point ... but the financial one is a good point as well. I would not also put it past Vince that this is a bushwhacker rib... that nobody gets since Ridge isn't called Luke... like when it was revealed Simon Dean was a rib on Malenko... but I mean at least Simon Dean sounds like a name on it's own.
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Post by Cyno on Mar 13, 2022 18:08:08 GMT -5
Punk at the time was about as big a star in the wrestling world as you can be without being in WWE. People with his cache are the exception to the rule.
Your average NXT callup isn't going to have anywhere near the cache he had. Probably also why AJ Styles got treated like the big deal he rightfully should've been instead of going to NXT and going through the WWE Ring Name Randomizer.
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Post by eJm on Mar 13, 2022 18:14:57 GMT -5
Punk at the time was about as big a star in the wrestling world as you can be without being in WWE. People with his cache are the exception to the rule. Your average NXT callup isn't going to have anywhere near the cache he had. Probably also why AJ Styles got treated like the big deal he rightfully should've been instead of going to NXT and going through the WWE Ring Name Randomizer. Yeah, AJ was a case where there was enough people there to go “Vince, we’re paying this guy a f***tonne of money compared to most of these NXT signees and with a lot of momentum from Wrestle Kingdom earlier this month, you think it’s a good idea to just have him in NXT called something dumb like Jackson Bucktree?”
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