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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Apr 23, 2023 4:39:32 GMT -5
When they had Jinder Mahal challenge Brock Lesnar and Heyman's response was to laugh it off and call Jinder a loser who didn't deserve to be WWE champion? I actually felt sorry for the guy, it's not his fault he went from jobber to world champion overnight. Also way to bury everyone who Jinder beat during his title run.
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Post by saneiac on Apr 23, 2023 10:33:01 GMT -5
"You're a loser! You can't polish a turd!"
I don't even like the guy, but has Corbin even been on TV since JBL buried him?
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Post by johnnyk9 on Apr 23, 2023 11:54:24 GMT -5
Bart Gunn getting koed by Butterbean
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Apr 23, 2023 12:02:18 GMT -5
The WWE automated the entire process with it's booking in the 2000s, with guys called up, given bad gimmicks to give Vince or Michael Hayes a few cheap laughs, squashed on air for a few weeks before being sent back to the developmental system, with few names ever being heard from again. They hired these people just to train them then effectively end their careers in a month.
It reminded me of the old itchy and Scratchy segment from the Simpsons, where the mouse killed the cat, clones him just to kill him again, and again and again, but couldn't keep up and ended up feeding the clones straight into a killing machine.
'Good news guys, you're being called up, you and a guy you've never tagged with are now brothers, shave your heads, also Michael Hayes thinks you look like a penis without hair so you're now Jim and John Knobson because subtlety is for indies. Also we're not giving you storylines and we're putting the tag belts on two main eventers for the forseeable future so they need people to squash and you're going to job to them. You're going to job in squashes if you make them look bad, and super duper job to everyone if you make them look good with your selling, so good luck with that. If you don't get good crowd reactions you're getting fired, also don't get over on your own, and you upset Taker for some reason and you didn't treat Bob Holly like the second coming of Jesus so your backstage life is going to be a living hell, and JBL's going to crap on you on commentary for giggles. He doesn't hate you, so there won't be shower molestation, but maybe he'll do it anyway just for laughs.'
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Post by Cyno on Apr 23, 2023 13:01:45 GMT -5
Cole laying into Top Dolla recently has to be HHH’s doing surely? Not that I’m complaining I find the whole thing hilarious! I think it's Cole doing it on his own, though Triple H or Vince hasn't exactly told him to stop either lol.
It's probably the one time I don't really mind it too much because it is funny and making fun of a silly botch where thankfully no one got hurt.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Apr 23, 2023 13:28:07 GMT -5
I keep reading this as "When a company deliberately poops in its own toilet"
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Post by Burst on Apr 23, 2023 18:20:28 GMT -5
The WWE automated the entire process with it's booking in the 2000s, with guys called up, given bad gimmicks to give Vince or Michael Hayes a few cheap laughs, squashed on air for a few weeks before being sent back to the developmental system, with few names ever being heard from again. They hired these people just to train them then effectively end their careers in a month. I'd still say you could make a very strong argument for there being a lost decade of WWE talent from I'd say around 2005 to 2015 or, plus or minus a few years in either direction. I'd say that really only ended for sure with NXT and the pillaging of the indies, and I still feel like that was because they finally realized they had zero up and coming talent after the late Attitude guys just physically were on their last legs in-ring and Cena and Orton felt like the only world champs with any credibility for nigh-on years.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Apr 23, 2023 18:45:41 GMT -5
For the topic in general: the nWo has to be the kings of this, they were out there weekly talking about how shit WCW was and then beating all of the WCW guys and proving themselves right. I think it’s a big part of the reason of WCWs downfall. Agreed. And they eventually compensated for this by making nWo part of the brand (“WCW/nWo” was how most shows and merchandise were branded in 1998), but then they gradually phased out the nWo in 1999, leaving a wounded property behind without the thing they actually built brand loyalty for.
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