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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 16, 2024 9:25:59 GMT -5
I get it being a hard sell. You can't spend all that time having Rhodes chase this gold and have him beat the longest-running world champion since Hogan just to lose it on the first defense, so Styles is doing a thankless job here. But also, you can't have Rhodes sitting on the belt like an egg waiting for a believable threat (either Rock, because that's the future match that got teased, or Gunther) to come along and not defend it in the meantime. That's what we got mad at the last guy about. Yea I guess instead they can have just promoted a young heel like Santos Escobar as a test to see how they fare in a main event before being pushed down the card but there is a risk of overexposing a young dude so AJ is a safe choice to take the L but also a very low ceiling one because AJ doesn't need the rub. So it's a sensible choice but I can see the argument of saying hey do a 1 month run for a pure mid carder to see how he does.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 16, 2024 9:20:00 GMT -5
I haven't watched them much but in the ring, they are some scary spots when they throw people around.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 14, 2024 17:40:24 GMT -5
She is doing fine. Sadly with the women roster there isn't much more to do after you get to the top and win the title so no need to rush to the top.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 14, 2024 16:24:43 GMT -5
I wouldn’t be surprised if Vince wants to try it, but I don’t think it gets off the ground. Who would he even get as his top stars? It’s hard to believe that many guys would have their WWE/AEW contracts expire and choose to go to the new startup with the sex pest that’s likely to fail. Lars Sullivan, Velveteen Dream and Lacey Evans! Mr Kennedy can finally finish his story
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 13, 2024 8:27:59 GMT -5
What are we even talking about anymore? There's no "punching up/down" here for us as fans: they're both big companies, this isn't exactly standing up for the indies. But where, in the name of all that is holy, has anyone gotten the idea that "being negative" is in and of itself something you can't do about any show you watch? We just had a multi-page thread after Dynamite last week that was basically a bunch of people saying "man, the booking of that Jay White/Billy Gunn match @#$%ing sucked." We've had a bunch of people saying they don't think it was the right thing to show that Punk footage on Wednesday. Some people say that, some people disagree, go the @#$% ahead. Some people here are getting overly defensive at times in one case for a reason they need to get over, but in another for a reason that feels pretty legitimate: -The thing to get over? I know that tons of online spaces are borderline deranged right now when it comes to discussions of AEW. Trust me, I've talked to people in positions of responsibility in other wrestling-talk spaces, and they see it to, down to them having to deal with bots and coordinated swarms of over the top negative posting. But if you're posting here, we take care of those things, by and large (I'm sure something could have slipped through the cracks over time). Someone wants to say they thought something didn't work or stunk, let it @#$%ing go. Not every single criticism needs a response, just relax, for God's sake. -At the same time, the legitimate thing? Not for nothing, but a lot of the negative posting we're dealing with come off like people not watching the show or ignoring entire threads before posting because, my god, the number of times people have had to repeat why something was done, or even what happened on the show (e.g. yes, they used this as a way to set up Perry's return, but you had to watch the Bucks' promo before the clip), was dizzying. Come on in and say why you thought showing it was a bad idea, anyway, that's fine (personally, I think it wasn't really worth doing on Dynamite), talk about why you feel that way, but man alive, if you're not watching the show but jumping into the conversation, consider prefacing a post with "hey, I don't watch, but..." or "could someone who does watch clear this up?", or at bare minimum just read the damn thread before posting or something. In other words: critiques and not enjoying something isn't unwarranted negativity, but coming into a thread to shit on something you not only didn't watch (it's ok to have opinions on things you didn't see...just preface it with that fact!), but are also actively ignoring all context and literally ignoring facts for, actively harms our conversations here. This week sucks. Agreed with this, but it should definitely go for those posting in WWE threads with criticisms of the product that they don’t watch as well, when they too are ignoring facts etc. Just a few days back I replied to a post of a mod who doesn’t watch saying that actually watching weekly WWE does do some things now that the mod said they did not and I said it was untrue, and was met with a “sure it is” dismissive response, which replied only to the part of me saying it was not true and left out the list of reasons why from my post. Yeah that was a very dismissive comment that if a "normal" user post it will be considered on the trolly side.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 13, 2024 8:12:45 GMT -5
tbh it's the women tag titles, they mean very little in the grand scheme of things.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 12, 2024 23:58:29 GMT -5
JBL lost at mania in a fatal 4 way tag match and then got the main event slot vs Eddie at Judgment Day but of course with a gimmick change in the process.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 12, 2024 13:36:19 GMT -5
Like others mentioned, Ospreay's has every right to clap back on Hunter but it's a silly retort like boy you sure got Triple H by saying he had sex with an attractive woman. Also doesn't even get to the lack of grind comment Hunter was talking about HHH for a lot of accounts and worked his ass off to get to the main event in the late 90s. So I don't even think it's that hypocritical for HHH to say it as opposed to someone like Shane/Stephanie saying the same thing.
There is plenty of things to go at HHH that has nothing to do with dragging Stephanie alongside with him. Even the Katie Vick stuff would have been better or Hunter fake crying after losing to Brock at summerslam 2012.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 10, 2024 22:01:42 GMT -5
She should beat Goldberg next year
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 10, 2024 21:58:00 GMT -5
As someone who most of his life had more friends that were girls than boys, I don't think it is instinctively wrong with a guy who does that. Until there are stories of him making these women uncomfortable of course. Same here. I just get along better with women, and I've never even had a girlfriend! Have you tried asking girls out wearing this classic shirt?
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 10, 2024 21:51:30 GMT -5
As someone who most of his life had more friends that were girls than boys, I don't think it is instinctively wrong with a guy who does that. Until there are stories of him making these women uncomfortable of course.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 10, 2024 14:36:00 GMT -5
High points: The Shield, Team Hell No, SD from August-December 2016, the Becky vs. Charlotte feud in 2018, Becky in general in late 2018, Planet's Champion Daniel Bryan, Kofimania, Head of the Table Roman Reigns and the Bloodline for the first couple years, the IC Title becoming important again Low points: The Summer of Punk turning into Kevin Nash vs. HHH, Zack Ryder being punished for getting over, Divas Gang Warz, broke Big Show, The Authority, WWE Champion Jinder Mahal, Brock Lesnar holding the title hostage while having the same match over and over, babyface Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose's heel turn in 2018, THAT Lashley vs. Sami Zayn feud Broke Big Show was a great lesson in not investing in strip malls.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2024 22:27:53 GMT -5
I don't think it will truly matter since they want to get to Drew vs Punk for the title so sure why not. Priest or Jey winning I don't think changes much.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2024 22:07:40 GMT -5
See, now I kind of wonder if he's even making it past Backlash as champion because Drew vs. Jey sounds like a way bigger deal for Glasgow. I think Jey is a good fallback option in case fans don't take to Priest as champion over the next few weeks. if Priest kills it I guess Drew can just play face at Glasgow vs Priest but play heel on the shows around the event.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2024 17:04:21 GMT -5
It's a tradeoff as I think Cody losing lead to a better rumble to Mania period than if Cody won last year, (Rock vs Roman no title probably wouldn't have gotten as much attention as the whole Rock/Cody switcharoo)
But the bloodline had nothing post SummerSlam through the rumble so it just depends on what you value more.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2024 16:51:17 GMT -5
It's a pretty low stake title run too because if for some reason he flops the new couple of weeks, they can easily have any credible face-beat him at the backlash to transition to Drew at clash with very low harm done on anyone.
Realistically the path forward is Drew to Punk to Seth (not sure how many title changes but it seems the path the title program will go) so this is sort of a filler run but no shame in that for Damien as winning the top title is still an impressive accomplishment.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2024 16:47:25 GMT -5
I do think it doesn't help that Cena keeps losing, but if Cena entrance music hits as a surprise people will still pop hard so I am not sure if damage is being done shrug.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2024 16:44:31 GMT -5
Being behind Bianca/Rhea/Becky isn't some major indictment on the talent of damage ctrl. For all the burying some people here think they did with Asuka she has gotten plenty of title matches when they needed to slot her in. Iyo being in that spot isn't a death sentence.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2024 7:54:28 GMT -5
Io Sky got the semi-main event as Mania 40 but sadly no one in WWE appreciates her.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 7, 2024 22:30:11 GMT -5
He has no reason to be on TV for a long time unless they feel backlash won't sell out without Roman vs Cody III (Which I think will do well regardless of the main event in France).
Maybe even do a rumble surprise might be cool.
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