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Post by fw91 on Oct 17, 2023 11:06:22 GMT -5
Cena hate. As far as I’m concerned, we were all wrong on him. Myself included
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Post by fw91 on Oct 17, 2023 11:07:50 GMT -5
Oh and in general, Pat McAfee
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Post by thegame415 on Oct 17, 2023 12:09:56 GMT -5
Kurt Angle going to TNA would make as big of an impact on the industry as the Outsiders in WCW.
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Post by THE FVNKER on Oct 17, 2023 19:21:26 GMT -5
I remember Hugh Morris wrestling on Nitro and his opponent was some nobody named Bill Goldberg. I thought to myself, “eh, we know who’s gonna win this match; let’s see what’s on Raw.” When TNA was searching for yet another new cable home, I distinctly remember posting in a thread that TNT or TBS was a definite “no” because I believed WarnerMedia wasn’t interested in getting back into wrestling. I sure whiffed on that one, didn’t I? (Keep in mind that this was long before AEW was even remotely an idea. We’re talking about the Destination America/Pop TV era.) You might've been wrong but AEW getting the TNT deal was probably the biggest news story in wrestling in the past decade and a half at least. I don't think anyone and I mean anyone who knew wrestling ever saw that as a remote possibility until it just was.
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 17, 2023 20:06:35 GMT -5
I remember Hugh Morris wrestling on Nitro and his opponent was some nobody named Bill Goldberg. I thought to myself, “eh, we know who’s gonna win this match; let’s see what’s on Raw.” When TNA was searching for yet another new cable home, I distinctly remember posting in a thread that TNT or TBS was a definite “no” because I believed WarnerMedia wasn’t interested in getting back into wrestling. I sure whiffed on that one, didn’t I? (Keep in mind that this was long before AEW was even remotely an idea. We’re talking about the Destination America/Pop TV era.) You might've been wrong but AEW getting the TNT deal was probably the biggest news story in wrestling in the past decade and a half at least. I don't think anyone and I mean anyone who knew wrestling ever saw that as a remote possibility until it just was. Tony Khan was very fortunate to know the right guy, and to grab Jericho with people still working there who knew him and his name carrying weight.
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Post by SneakMan on Oct 17, 2023 20:20:41 GMT -5
I thought Daniel Bryan cashing in on Big Show to win the World Heavyweight Title was an all-time dumb move. I predicted he’d be a Jack Swagger level heel at best, and in particular I thought the “yes” thing was really stupid and would never catch on.
I was wrong about pretty much all of that, lol
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Oct 17, 2023 20:32:07 GMT -5
Cena hate. As far as I’m concerned, we were all wrong on him. Myself included I was at Smackdown just before Fastlane (when LA Knight was announced as Cena’s partner), and for the first time since about Wrestlemania 20, we got “Let’s Go Cena” chants without an accompanying “Cena Sucks.” Aside from a handful of die hards and contrarians, pretty much everyone has come around on him. For me, it was the Tough Enough that came down to Daniel Puder and Mike Mizanin. One was an MMA fighter who legitimately dominated an Olympic medalist in a shoot. The other was a reality TV star who had no wrestling or fighting experience whatsoever. It seemed like a lock as to who would take off as a decades-long star of the company, right?
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Post by Psicofreak667 on Oct 17, 2023 20:37:16 GMT -5
I thought of another one.
Back in 2008, CHIKARA did a cross-promotional event with WXW in Germany. That was where I was first introduced to Bad Bones and Big Van Walter.
Bad Bones looked awesome and had the crowd in the palm of his hand the whole two-show event. I thought that within 10 years if not 5, Bad Bones was going to make it big. I saw him going to TNA, getting pushed to the top, getting a WWE contract out of it, and probably topping out in the Intercontinental scene.
Big Van Walter looked like he'd make a good indy monster but that was his ceiling. He just didn't look like he could be intimidating in the land of the giants, and didn't seem to have any particular qualities that couldn't be found in someone with a better look.
Fifteen years later I was almost right. One of them became a pretty big success in WWE and the other topped out at the top of the European indy scene.
I was just completely wrong about which one was going to be which.
(If anyone didn't know, Big Van Walter became WALTER became GUNTHER)
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 17, 2023 21:21:32 GMT -5
"WWE is going to realize this Jinder title reign is a f***ing awful idea and backpedal in a week or two" WEll at least Shinsuke is going to beat him in New York... they're not dumb enough to bury a hot star in a perfect location like New York for Jinder right...
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Post by CMWaters on Oct 17, 2023 21:24:10 GMT -5
Because they had just come off that short lived WCW vs New Japan thing the previous year, I really thought the nWo was only going to last at most half a year.
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Post by Chiral on Oct 17, 2023 21:32:46 GMT -5
"WWE is going to realize this Jinder title reign is a f***ing awful idea and backpedal in a week or two" WEll at least Shinsuke is going to beat him in New York... they're not dumb enough to bury a hot star in a perfect location like New York for Jinder right... Gotta add "Shinsuke will have to eventually win one of these world title matches, right?" to my list of things I got very wrong.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Oct 17, 2023 21:32:49 GMT -5
Cena hate. As far as I’m concerned, we were all wrong on him. Myself included See, I'm kind of the opposite and regret being on the train during his initial rise because even with the benefit of hindsight I enjoyed very little of his time on top and have no desire to have him around in the here and now.
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Post by kidkamikaze10 on Oct 17, 2023 22:16:56 GMT -5
"Wow, that Yoshi-Hashi match was terrible! Are they really going to have Okato take on Tanahashi for the title?"
He then beat Tanahashi's ass with an entirely different moveset, and the rest is history.
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Post by jason1980s on Oct 17, 2023 22:39:39 GMT -5
Probably from the time Bret appeared to just shortly after Punk debuted, I was overly confident AEW would be the company that takes it to WWE harder than ever before.
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Post by Mid-Carder on Oct 18, 2023 7:23:27 GMT -5
Cena hate. As far as I’m concerned, we were all wrong on him. Myself included Nah. I like Cena the person and I enjoy his career a bit more in hindsight but the Super Cena years were interminable
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Post by schma on Oct 18, 2023 8:26:20 GMT -5
I thought Sean O'Haire had a great look and was going to be a huge star.
Come to think of it, when the Rockers broke up, I thought Marty Janetty would be a star too (I had no idea he would turn into a punchline).
As someone who feels that the WCW cruiserweight division, especially the luchadores were one of the best parts of the Monday Night Wars, I was excited when WWE brought back the cruiserweight division and there were a few of them that I thought would be stars.
I was excited for the possibilities when WCW was bought, the dream matches. Boy was I way off on how that went.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Oct 18, 2023 10:20:31 GMT -5
Cena hate. As far as I’m concerned, we were all wrong on him. Myself included Nah. I like Cena the person and I enjoy his career a bit more in hindsight but the Super Cena years were interminable Same. I don’t think I enjoy it a little more in hindsight even. Maybe if I hadn’t already sat through Triple H’s boring reign of dominance, it would have been different. The big difference was that there were more interesting things going on in the undercard, so it made Trips more palatable. During Cena’s reign of always winning and never being bothered by anything, I was also finding less and less on the show overall that I was able to enjoy. By 2008 or so, I was basically watching Raw to see if Hacksaw Duggan would show up. I can’t remember exactly when I stopped watching but I didn’t come back until SummerSlam last year, and I’m still not back fully. I don’t watch the TV, kind of keep track of what’s going on, and watch the PLE’s.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 18, 2023 10:57:17 GMT -5
Cena hate. As far as I’m concerned, we were all wrong on him. Myself included Nah. I like Cena the person and I enjoy his career a bit more in hindsight but the Super Cena years were interminable Basically my opinion. John Cena was insanely over and eventually became a fantastic ring worker but the "invincible John Cena" years made the product entirely too predictable and boring, especially when Cena was doing the same thing every week. That kind of booking worked for Hogan in the 80s because Hogan wasn't having weekly matches on television.
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Post by Nosnorb on Oct 18, 2023 11:05:50 GMT -5
After powerbombing MJF to the centre of the earth, Wardlow would go on to be a main event star and a massive draw for AEW.
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Post by fw91 on Oct 18, 2023 11:18:49 GMT -5
Cena hate. As far as I’m concerned, we were all wrong on him. Myself included Nah. I like Cena the person and I enjoy his career a bit more in hindsight but the Super Cena years were interminable But still created a lot more interesting tv than the better current guys imo. That’s what I’m getting at. Again imo, The product became very dull and boring without him and that’s what made me turn around on him. Like it makes perfect sense why he was “the guy.”
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