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Post by Hypnosis on Apr 20, 2022 21:08:31 GMT -5
An emphatic YES.
Her character is all over the place, even after the few-week break from TV.
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Post by champchumpchange on Apr 20, 2022 21:09:26 GMT -5
Her delivery was terrible tonight and I think that I can put on her. Or the fact she just wrestled 10+ minutes for the first time in a couple of months... either, or.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Apr 20, 2022 21:09:47 GMT -5
If they're not setting her up to lose in the finals/put over somebody else that would be absolutely wretched booking She's already getting a hometown hero welcome, why have her give THAT promo Felt like the aim of it, since I doubt they're including Jade in the tournament, was for her to win and then face Jade. Which sounds awful on every level to me.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 20, 2022 21:09:57 GMT -5
Didn't we have a moratorium on women's threads until the Owen Qualifier was done due to how they always turn? Anyway yeah, should have left it out, really. It cut the Coffin Match short and it's nothing we haven't heard from Britt before, especially when she's gonna get promo time on Rampage anyway We cant have generic "women division bad" This is a very specific issue All good, I wanted to make sure what that ruling was specifically, I was confused by it And I agree, this should have been left off the show
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2022 21:10:05 GMT -5
"This division is made up of worthless losers who mean nothing! So if I beat them, that makes me... Not particularly impressive, distinctly average at best? Oh. Oh no, I've been doing this all wrong." Yeah, pretty much. You can talk shit about your competition without burying them and (inadvertently) making yourself look bad, and I think that's something she still needs to get better at.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 20, 2022 21:10:37 GMT -5
If Khan is considering bringing Maria on for the women's division, after tonight I'd consider making that a priority to get on the f***ing phone with her, immediately.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Apr 20, 2022 21:11:33 GMT -5
It had executional problems and yeah those sucked for the show but that's just one show, y'know? The real problem with it for me is that it's more of the exact same kind of crap that seems like nothing is going anywhere. More mic time than Rosa's gotten her whole reign and it's literally just to cut down everyone again and talk about them not being good enough and being beneath her. More of the same shit she did when she was champ, and she's probably making a decently deep run into the tournament because it's Britt and she's the only one who matters, she all but said as much. She matters and none of these other losers do so she'll go far and she'll prove she's great and nothing will get any better in this division because it's The Britt Baker Show.
I'm enjoying Jade's run. Jade's come into her own and giving her some catty goons is a good idea. But it's tempered a bit for me by the fact all they've done is discover A Second Woman who can share a little bit of the light with Britt. Britt gets the home town treatment, works face, gets cheered, shits on everyone, gets cheered more of it. Wild. Completely upside-down. She needs to start losing and she needs to do literally anything else with her character because if she's going to keep being The One Who Matters during Rosa's run then nah this division is powerf***ed.
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Post by kingoftheindies on Apr 20, 2022 21:12:07 GMT -5
like I said in the rating thread, not gonna dunk on the promo but she has now gotten 3 appreciation nights and it felt like that took away from the main event.
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Post by Dub H on Apr 20, 2022 21:12:19 GMT -5
You could have used those 20 minutes to
Put Over Statlander New Character
Have Ruby's match instead(which was also much better)
Have Shida or Deeb cut an actual promo, both would have made a better job.
I was even keeping an open mind tonight, by the end of the match I was already tired but then the promo,my god. Britt could leave for a year and it would be too little time.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Apr 20, 2022 21:12:37 GMT -5
In theory, I guess they want her to be a tweener, but she was much better at that at the empty arenas. Also, she just came out and looked like someone told her that her dog died. Just a total miscalculation that was performed badly.
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Post by sushiburrito on Apr 20, 2022 21:12:47 GMT -5
This is more or less what I said in the show thread, but, I really want to like Britt Baker, I really do, but her character is unbelievably stagnant right now and I feel like her promo work has plateaued or arguably regressed in quality. Her continued prominence I sort of get because it has been, previously, justified, but her continued prominence with how little her character has changed, really *does* feel like it's dragging the division down with her... especially with clumsy worked-shoot promos like this. She needs a shakeup badly, again whether it's from a shock loss, someone turning on her, someone debuting and destroying her... anything. And speaking as someone who A. likes Pittsburgh and B. likes that AEW actually lets their hometown heroes be hometown heroes instead of flexing on them, at least half of that segment could've been after the show for the crowd. I’m here at the show and at several points during her promo I assumed they had gone to commercial.
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Post by Dub H on Apr 20, 2022 21:12:53 GMT -5
If Khan is considering bringing Maria on for the women's division, after tonight I'd consider making that a priority to get on the f***ing phone with her, immediately. According to Maria Khan reached for a ROH role, so I dont think she would be involved with AEW
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Apr 20, 2022 21:13:43 GMT -5
It had executional problems and yeah those sucked for the show but that's just one show, y'know? The real problem with it for me is that it's more of the exact same kind of crap that seems like nothing is going anywhere. More mic time than Rosa's gotten her whole reign and it's literally just to cut down everyone again and talk about them not being good enough and being beneath her. More of the same shit she did when she was champ, and she's probably making a decently deep run into the tournament because it's Britt and she's the only one who matters, she all but said as much. She matters and none of these other losers do so she'll go far and she'll prove she's great and nothing will get any better in this division because it's The Britt Baker Show. I'm enjoying Jade's run. Jade's come into her own and giving her some catty goons is a good idea. But it's tempered a bit for me by the fact all they've done is discover A Second Woman who can share a little bit of the light with Britt. Britt gets the home town treatment, works face, gets cheered, shits on everyone, gets cheered more of it. Wild. Completely upside-down. She needs to start losing and she needs to do literally anything else with her character because if she's going to keep being The One Who Matters during Rosa's run then nah this division is powerf***ed. I think it really just goes to show the problems with the division how Britt was the only woman who mattered even while she was injured, even while Shida had the belt for a year, and apparently, even now that Rosa's champion. All roads lead back to her.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Apr 20, 2022 21:13:49 GMT -5
It wasn't even well-delivered. Honestly think I'd rather watch Charlotte than Britt at this point, at least Charlotte runs a pretty good chance at delivering a good match. Britt's only entertaining when she does crazy shit. Yeah, the promo delivery was way off... on top of it being more the division is shit and I want to be the queen of shitsville! It's the same thing as AJ's "PipeBombshell". It makes everyone look like a f***ing goober, especially the person cutting the promo
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Post by Rudy Gobert Fadeaway on Apr 20, 2022 21:14:05 GMT -5
"This AEW women's division is a disaster without me"
*thunderous cheers and applause*
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Post by Chiral on Apr 20, 2022 21:14:37 GMT -5
Britt "Bakugo amounts of character development and stagnation" Baker
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Post by Dub H on Apr 20, 2022 21:14:37 GMT -5
It had executional problems and yeah those sucked for the show but that's just one show, y'know? The real problem with it for me is that it's more of the exact same kind of crap that seems like nothing is going anywhere. More mic time than Rosa's gotten her whole reign and it's literally just to cut down everyone again and talk about them not being good enough and being beneath her. More of the same shit she did when she was champ, and she's probably making a decently deep run into the tournament because it's Britt and she's the only one who matters, she all but said as much. She matters and none of these other losers do so she'll go far and she'll prove she's great and nothing will get any better in this division because it's The Britt Baker Show. I'm enjoying Jade's run. Jade's come into her own and giving her some catty goons is a good idea. But it's tempered a bit for me by the fact all they've done is discover A Second Woman who can share a little bit of the light with Britt. Britt gets the home town treatment, works face, gets cheered, shits on everyone, gets cheered more of it. Wild. Completely upside-down. She needs to start losing and she needs to do literally anything else with her character because if she's going to keep being The One Who Matters during Rosa's run then nah this division is powerf***ed. For real, I said many times but I absolutely do not care about the womens title. For me the only title that matter is the TBS, because Jade actually makes it feel like a big freakin deal.
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Apr 20, 2022 21:15:28 GMT -5
Poorly booked segment. That's not on the talent. I think it is when by all accounts AEW people have a lot of control over their characters and this is every Britt promo. Up and down the male roster, every heel seems to understand that they have to talk up their opponent, to the point where even great promos like Jericho sometimes sound contrived as they work in a token compliment. MJF doesn't do it so much directly, but he is constantly setting up little things where the audience can have fun proving him wrong and watching him flail over it. And Britt's seemingly just...never learned this? Didn't every wrestler in the modern day learn this lesson by reading Have a Nice Day as a kid? With the massive braintrust they've got backstage, how has nobody ever told her to knock this off? I can't imagine anyone else thinking this is a good idea, and it's a habit that's chipping away at Britt's own value by making her ineffective at putting others over.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Apr 20, 2022 21:16:30 GMT -5
It had executional problems and yeah those sucked for the show but that's just one show, y'know? The real problem with it for me is that it's more of the exact same kind of crap that seems like nothing is going anywhere. More mic time than Rosa's gotten her whole reign and it's literally just to cut down everyone again and talk about them not being good enough and being beneath her. More of the same shit she did when she was champ, and she's probably making a decently deep run into the tournament because it's Britt and she's the only one who matters, she all but said as much. She matters and none of these other losers do so she'll go far and she'll prove she's great and nothing will get any better in this division because it's The Britt Baker Show. I'm enjoying Jade's run. Jade's come into her own and giving her some catty goons is a good idea. But it's tempered a bit for me by the fact all they've done is discover A Second Woman who can share a little bit of the light with Britt. Britt gets the home town treatment, works face, gets cheered, shits on everyone, gets cheered more of it. Wild. Completely upside-down. She needs to start losing and she needs to do literally anything else with her character because if she's going to keep being The One Who Matters during Rosa's run then nah this division is powerf***ed. For real, I said many times but I absolutely do not care about the womens title. For me the only title that matter is the TBS, because Jade actually makes it feel like a big freakin deal. I pretty much just see the women's division as the designated bathroom break because the non-Britt and Jade women don't matter, Britt desperately needs to be reinvented, and I just plain don't like Jade. There's nothing for me to give a shit about.
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Post by bearned on Apr 20, 2022 21:16:31 GMT -5
It was a promo that should have been delivered to the crowd only. Absolutely no need for that to take up TV time. The content was awful and it was delivered terribly.
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