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Post by -Lithium- on Jan 7, 2021 22:21:52 GMT -5
Man, I got sad seeing that because it's only going to encourage them to keep doing shows like this. Whats stupid about that is that they'll push Goldberg based on this rating. It makes no sense. If NEXT week gets a good rating, I can understand the logic, but no one put on RAW yesterday based on "Goldbergs challenging Drew", because no one knew it was going to happen.
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Post by -Lithium- on Dec 13, 2020 7:00:55 GMT -5
I'm more of a 2009 SD guy. I didn't really get the hype around the 2016 SDL, honestly. I did enjoy seeing a very fresh AJ Styles every week, though. I missed a lot of the "SD Six" era so I've only seen it out-of-context via match collections. Seems like a lot of great stuff from that time period if you ignore the Torrie/Dawn stuff that turned me away from it. There was a short time after the draft in 2009 where SD just had an amazing roster. Edge, Jericho, Jeff Hardy, Morrison, Rey Mysterio, CM Punk. The short lived new SD6. I'll never forget how the whole draft everyone was feeling how shitty SD was getting treated as usual (where RAW takes all the guys SD built up and gives SD all the guys they ruined, repeat the next year), and then at the end I remember everyone in the chat I was in collectively realizing how great the SD roster looked now. I just wish Kennedy and MVP were able to stay. God knows RAW did nothing with them as usual. If you were a rising star on SD or ECW, you NEVER wanted to be drafted to RAW. No one ever did better on that show except for maybe The Miz. But then of course...Edge got injured, Jeff left, I think Rey got wellnessed. Within weeks shitty ass Batista was over there just decimating guys like Jericho and it was back to the same old shit. Now if MVP and Kennedy had been able to stay, things could have been different for them and SD...
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Post by -Lithium- on Nov 27, 2020 1:09:53 GMT -5
She's killing this role but Fiend is still f***ing wack when he gets in the ring Nerf that man down to acceptable levels. After a year he shouldn't still be no selling as much as he does Yeah, the Fiend is one of those gimmicks that’s way better on paper then actual execution. It’s a badass gimmick, but he inevitably makes everyone he wrestles look like shit. It’s a shame because Firefly Funhouse is almost always a highlight of the show, but I have no interest in seeing the Fiend wrestle Thats a great way to put it. On paper. I thought the same. On paper the 'HAVE FIEND JUST DESTROY EVERYONE FOR A YEAR AND THEN HAVE A BIG BLOW OFF MATCH AT WRESTLEMANIA' "idea" everyone had when he first debuted sounds fine. But wrestling just doesn't work like that anymore. No ones watching this guy no sell shit for a year or two without getting sick of it after a few months. It's the same reaction I had when listening to Arn Andersons podcast where he said how the Nexus should have jut decimated everyone for two years. It isn't something that will ever actually play out in the intended manner. Just more of that old school conventional wisdom that just isn't practical anymore.
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Post by -Lithium- on Nov 19, 2020 18:54:33 GMT -5
The first RAW after the 2016 Draft, best three hour Raw I've seen, time flew past. The first two weeks of the WWE draft RAW was way, way better than SD.
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Post by -Lithium- on Oct 23, 2020 1:10:51 GMT -5
The last few years of Vince throwing anything at the wall to see what sticks and almost nothing doing so is a true testament to how the ratings have hit complete rock bottom for them. But ratings don't matter/the company is making record profits/DVR/whatever excuse they have to tell themselves this week to make it seem like they aren't absolutely failing at nearly everything possible creative wise.
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Post by -Lithium- on Oct 21, 2020 22:57:25 GMT -5
...I somehow totally forgot about this. Insane. It was so awful but I still had no idea what the thread was about for about 3 seconds and then I remembered.
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Post by -Lithium- on Sept 13, 2020 20:43:02 GMT -5
Brock. Also, Brock would beat Haku in a street fight and absolutely decimate him in an MMA fight. (Sorry, I just f***ing detest Haku lore and wanted to say that) You’re probably right. Haku is a scary dude. My dad met him once and got his picture taken with him, said his arm was like an inflated car tire. He’s also apparently part crazy But as far as I know he doesn’t have much in the way of fighting training. Despite every tome he ddI a chop Mondoon would mention his “martial arts skills” I’d watch the hell out of those two at their peaks though Definitely. I just hate like the whole lore thats come from a bunch of carnies telling stories about Haku beating up a few untrained drunk guys in a bar back in the 80s. Like the stories are so f***ing stupid. Like really, Haku took down 10 cops or some shit? That doesn't happen. Life isn't a movie. Even back that would be a documented story. Not a 35 year old story from a bunch of carnies who all seemed to be in the bar that night, even though you never really hear any of them mention the other 50 wrestlers who apparently packed the room.
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Post by -Lithium- on Sept 8, 2020 22:26:03 GMT -5
Reminder that billionaires should not exist. No billionaire gets there solely by producing the best product or providing the best service. It's always some cut throat, underhanded bullshit. That's why they shouldn't. Also, is Vince a real, bank account billionaire or a guy whos net worth is a billion and if he ever tried to cash in the WWE stock that makes him a billionaire, it wouldn't be that match
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Post by -Lithium- on Sept 7, 2020 4:57:37 GMT -5
Is the names thing something like...a real legal thing? Or is that just some boast Vince made. Like is it real or just something he pretends he owns. Cause I don't understand how that can be possible.
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Post by -Lithium- on Sept 7, 2020 4:55:11 GMT -5
I doubt it. Cena had a couple years where he organically grew into the most popular act in the company as a singles star. Reigns never had that. Outside of like a window of three months, Reigns was booed week in and week out from 2015 to 2018. He never had any time in the company where he was universally over as top face, and yes...in arena TV reactions do count, as much as people have tried to downplay them. People only started pretending they weren't one of the major metrics for measuring overness during Cena and Romans eras.
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Post by -Lithium- on Sept 7, 2020 4:47:10 GMT -5
Brock.
Also, Brock would beat Haku in a street fight and absolutely decimate him in an MMA fight.
(Sorry, I just f***ing detest Haku lore and wanted to say that)
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Post by -Lithium- on Sept 2, 2020 21:55:26 GMT -5
I think CM Punk looked much more like a main eventer with short hair.
ALso, as much as I usually don't give a shit about size, Ambrose looked much better after he bulked up. I dpn't know why he insisted on getting his shirt torn off in every match back in like 2015-2016 because he just looked like a pale scrawny guy.
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Post by -Lithium- on Aug 30, 2020 22:36:30 GMT -5
Why the f*** does everyone pretend his vest was this abomination?
Also, this should have been done half a decade ago.
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Post by -Lithium- on Aug 29, 2020 0:53:56 GMT -5
Was it 2015 or 2018 when they teased this? I swear I remember a time where Heyman said to beat Lesnar he had to...become something...and like they teased Reigns might look to Paul for guidance to finally beat Brock.
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Post by -Lithium- on Aug 19, 2020 0:37:23 GMT -5
Absolute pathetic. That's what the WWE is. Vince and his writers would rather try to ignore or twist reality than just accept that fans want something they weren't expected to want. It's the age-old refrain, but if Vince had thought like this in the 90s, the WWE wouldn't even exist today. Vince is a guy whos first creative instinct has nearly always been wrong for like 25 years. Hes a f***ing creative zilch. A cancer. Things worked out so well in the mid to late 90s because he had someone like JR signing talent, his wrestlers were allowed to have major influence in their characters, and his hand was forced by competition to listen to the fans. If its just him and his creative....mind and micromanaging, hes an absolute failure creatively. He has nothing. He always thinks the shittiest thing is going to work and is never on board initially creatively with the smash successes. Just a f***ing absolute creative dunce. BTW, whatever happened to that "ANY REACTION IS GOOD" cop out bullshit he was pushing when his projects like Reigns failed to get over as top face? How come that only applies with the guy he likes? My top guy is detested by the fans? They're reacting, so its okay. The guy I don't like is universally over and getting as big a positive reaction as the failures combined positive and negative reaction? NOPE DOESN'T COUNT. Absolute, pure bullshit. You think that if Daniel Bryan got a fraction of the boos Reigns got in Feb 2014 that Reigns got for a half a decade, he'd still be main eventing WM XXX? No way. Not even close. Because if the senile old man likes you, no reaction is bad enough. If he doesn't like you, no reaction is good enough. He's got to f***ing go the f*** AWAY.
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Post by -Lithium- on Aug 10, 2020 21:02:36 GMT -5
Asukas shirt being open is so hot. Which is weird cause it’s just the gear she always wore. It’s just the shirt being cut open looks so much more provocative.
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Post by -Lithium- on Aug 7, 2020 22:09:11 GMT -5
This isn't the kind of Stephanie McMahon ass licking I fantasized about as a 15 year old boy. Man, I had it BAD for SD GM Steph when I was a kid... 2001-2003 Steph is one of the hottest women who've ever been in wrestling. She'd wear such slutty outfits when she first got her new tits and then in late 2002-03 she got really thick. SD GM Steph was great.
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Post by -Lithium- on Aug 3, 2020 21:10:22 GMT -5
All of his stupid edicts on words. "Its a medical facility, not a hospital". No, the f*** it isn't. It isn't any one thing. It's just all ridiculous micro managing nonsense.
Really, all of Roman Reigns 2015-2018. The guys being booed. He ISN'T over as top face. This shit is not up for debate. His level talent and skill is, but not his overness as top face. Oh, and before anyone tries it, f*** off with the "WELL HE GETS A REACTION THATS WHAT MATTER THAT MAKES HIM TOP FACE". No, it doesn't You know what a top face is. The audience reaction on TV has always, always, ALWAYS been one of the universal metrics of who is over as face. Only once Cena and then especially Reigns came on did that suddenly stop mattering and we started to get the "THEY REACT TO HIM" cop out. How the f*** can Vince listen to a collective 300,000+ people across 4 WMs absolutely loathe Roman Reigns and still pretend its a success is the ultimate crazy Vince viewpoint. If Daniel Bryan got a fraction of a fraction of the boos at ONE TV event that Roman got week in and week out for 3 years, that'd be it for his top face run.
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Post by -Lithium- on Aug 3, 2020 20:50:39 GMT -5
Asukas shirt being cut open is so hot. Which is funny since shes actually covering more than she use to.
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Post by -Lithium- on Jul 5, 2020 22:08:18 GMT -5
Broken Matt Hardys generic taunt where he throws out his arms out and gives the big smile. It made me cringe even more at WM 33 when he keeps trying to work it into the other Hardy Boyz taunts when walking down to the ring. The Rock trying to get "Cookiepuss" over as a taunt against CM Punk was f***ing embarrassing, and you know it's bad when The Rock can't get an insult over. Best thing about Cookiepuss was when Rock got the fans to chant it, and CM Punk shut it down by saying "Big deal. He got you to chant about ice cream, just like I did a year and a half ago". Now that was substance vs style. You could never get one over on CM Punk on the mic.
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