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Post by 06vwgti on Aug 10, 2023 13:06:40 GMT -5
Adam Pearce not doing his job and banning any and all people from ringside during Romans matches
But yes he's a paper champ
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Post by Some Baritone guy IS REDEEMED! on Aug 14, 2023 16:46:42 GMT -5
it's basically Triple H booking. Except Hunter actually lost. Honestly as much as I hate that trope, having a time where Roman lost the belt and then won it back a few months later would probably have made this both easier to stomach and far more believable.
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Post by Aceorton on Aug 14, 2023 19:32:32 GMT -5
Adam Pearce not doing his job and banning any and all people from ringside during Romans matches But yes he's a paper champ It also drives me crazy that opponents aren't calling him out on this, like, CONSTANTLY. If you're challenging Roman for the title in 2023, you should be leading with, "You can't win without your family interfering for you, you giant phony turd." Draw attention to it. Go after his pride so that he feels he has to win on his own or else admit to the world that he's a bitch. By now, there should at least be stipulations where the family is barred from the building, or if a single one of Roman's posse hits the ring, he loses the titles. Even a regular ol' cage match would be some kind of barrier. It's like we're supposed to believe WWE officials never watch the shows and see what happens every single time.
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Nosnorb
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Post by Nosnorb on Aug 14, 2023 20:51:11 GMT -5
Adam Pearce not doing his job and banning any and all people from ringside during Romans matches But yes he's a paper champ It also drives me crazy that opponents aren't calling him out on this, like, CONSTANTLY. If you're challenging Roman for the title in 2023, you should be leading with, "You can't win without your family interfering for you, you giant phony turd." Draw attention to it. Go after his pride so that he feels he has to win on his own or else admit to the world that he's a bitch. It's one of the reasons why nobody who faces Roman comes out of the match looking better than when they came in, they don't learn from their own mistakes and they don't learn from anyone elses. It's been three years, for f***s sake. Have you dolts learned nothing?
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Post by schma on Aug 14, 2023 21:02:20 GMT -5
It looked like Cody was the first one to pick up on this because he took the time to ally with Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn. Unfortunately, he forgot that there are 3 Uso brothers so he needed one more ally to negate the numbers game.
But yeah, this has been driving me nuts.
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Nosnorb
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Post by Nosnorb on Nov 11, 2023 18:25:30 GMT -5
Adam Pearce not doing his job and banning any and all people from ringside during Romans matches But yes he's a paper champ It also drives me crazy that opponents aren't calling him out on this, like, CONSTANTLY. If you're challenging Roman for the title in 2023, you should be leading with, "You can't win without your family interfering for you, you giant phony turd." Draw attention to it. Go after his pride so that he feels he has to win on his own or else admit to the world that he's a bitch. By now, there should at least be stipulations where the family is barred from the building, or if a single one of Roman's posse hits the ring, he loses the titles. Even a regular ol' cage match would be some kind of barrier. It's like we're supposed to believe WWE officials never watch the shows and see what happens every single time. LA Knight went off on how Roman should give his cousin a raise for once again saving Romans bacon, but it's not like Knight actually took any precautions in the almost certain event that Jimmmy would get involved.
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Post by Renslayer on Nov 11, 2023 18:27:57 GMT -5
Smash em, stack em, pin em.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Nov 11, 2023 18:33:32 GMT -5
It looked like Cody was the first one to pick up on this because he took the time to ally with Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn. Unfortunately, he forgot that there are 3 Uso brothers so he needed one more ally to negate the numbers game. But yeah, this has been driving me nuts. hell even with Cody, the ref had Solo thrown out he just came back later with no issues...
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Post by "Cane Dewey" Johnson on Nov 11, 2023 18:36:26 GMT -5
Smash em, stack em, pin em. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.
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Post by sarkerpolseng on Nov 12, 2023 0:01:58 GMT -5
Paper Champ?
Yeah, The Champ be counting Papers all the way to the bank.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Nov 12, 2023 1:29:39 GMT -5
I wonder where we'd be if Roman had been able to defend just the Universal belt at Day 1 as, arguably, the reshuffle necessary there was what got the WWE title on Brock and ultimately led to the unification. Would they have still bothered with the unification down the road or be happy enough to leave him tottering away with the Universal title while the WWE was the non-Globetrotters belt?
The new WHC is fighting an uphill battle at the minute and it's not aided by the fact it's not even treated as the main focus of its own show.
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Post by "Cane Dewey" Johnson on Nov 12, 2023 13:48:03 GMT -5
Paper Champ? Yeah, The Champ be counting Papers all the way to the bank.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Nov 12, 2023 16:56:27 GMT -5
THE TRIBAL CHEAT is more like it!!! Sounds like something face Bret would've called him back in the day.
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Post by mountaindew on Nov 12, 2023 18:48:16 GMT -5
Well yeah, in kayfabe most heel champions are usually paper champions. Heels should cheat.
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Post by ChitownKnight on Nov 12, 2023 19:15:51 GMT -5
I think the only matches Roman should have been dead to rights were on Drew and Cody. Rest he could have won either by his own cheating or clean.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Nov 12, 2023 22:39:39 GMT -5
Well yeah, in kayfabe most heel champions are usually paper champions. Heels should cheat. which makes Gunther an interesting exception in that he doesn't cheat to defend his title. And that his heeldom comes when he has his henchmen beat up rivals and attacking other times.
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Post by Some Baritone guy IS REDEEMED! on Nov 12, 2023 23:03:29 GMT -5
Well yeah, in kayfabe most heel champions are usually paper champions. Heels should cheat. To the extent of being beaten dead to rights in nearly every title match they've had?
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Post by King Devitt on Nov 13, 2023 4:03:40 GMT -5
Well yeah, in kayfabe most heel champions are usually paper champions. Heels should cheat. To the extent of being beaten dead to rights in nearly every title match they've had? While commentary continue to verbally worship them, and tout them as the grandmaster god king of everything because of a big number.
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Post by schma on Nov 13, 2023 9:59:09 GMT -5
To the extent of being beaten dead to rights in nearly every title match they've had? While commentary continue to verbally worship them, and tout them as the grandmaster god king of everything because of a big number. This is the biggest thing. If it were any other heel, the face announcers would be decrying his reign every chance they got. They'd be going nuts over how has he kept the belt this long, why doesn't the GM do something to stop the blatant cheating etc. Instead they're all going on about what a God he is, as if we can't see that he needs to cheat in every single match and that multiple people have gotten 3 counts on him, but the ref was knocked out each time.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Nov 13, 2023 10:11:50 GMT -5
"Dominant" as in "Look how he prison-dominates his family".
Other than that...
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