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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Sept 1, 2022 20:38:01 GMT -5
So how did the Royal Rumble '94 work in the "Mark Calaway was paying off production people" scenario? Did he pretape a video of himself swearing revenge from inside a casket beforehand to be played if he lost, or did he get a live video feed set up inside the casket for the very specific scenario that he'd be too beaten up to escape the casket but not beaten up enough not to cut a rambling promo about his metaphysical existence? And both options are predicated on Mark suspecting that he was going to lose, which is an awfully defeatist attitude to have going into a world championship match.
And did he pay off Marty Jannetty to dress up like him and wait behind the titantron to get suspended into the air right after his inside-the-casket promos airs in the event that he loses? Or in kayfabe did the production guys really get Undertaker himself out of the casket in the dark while the promo was playing and lift him through the air? Mysteries upon mysteries!
Anyway, Mideon's an idiot, of course.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jun 13, 2022 13:36:34 GMT -5
Ugh.
And to everybody who was parroting the "Jeff doesn't really have a drug problem now, he faked it to get fired from WWE" line despite Matt saying the exact same thing about himself years ago right before his own spate of arrests? Thanks for doing your part in enabling this.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jun 11, 2022 20:41:59 GMT -5
I remember big hype in the live thread here for who Paul Heyman's mystery new client who'd be the next Lesnar or Punk would be, and the reactions of bafflement/rage/hilarity when McGillicutty's fat face appeared on the Titantron.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jun 10, 2022 20:40:00 GMT -5
I think the nadir was actually the Orton feud. Did it even count as a feud? They wrestled enough for one, but I'll be damned if I remember any semblance of a story behind it. But it was an incredible combination of two theoretically-talented guys who need motivated opponents to drag their best out of them spiraling down into a black hole together. streamable.com/c4o4k
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jun 10, 2022 20:17:00 GMT -5
The best angle he ever had was that time he ran over Santa.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jun 5, 2022 22:35:55 GMT -5
At least when you've got a hideous blood bruise sploch growing over half your body, the tattoo no longer stands out as particularly garish.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jun 4, 2022 22:09:19 GMT -5
I still think it's very possible Mox wins and ultimately takes the title. It could even play into the JAS storyline. They're a well built machine whereas Mox's team is already divided and now one of their teammates has something that could potentially take priority. This is also a political decision. I imagine New Japan is happy for Mox to beat Tanahashi given they're using him too. Would they feel the same for someone else? Not so sure. Danielson would also be a good choice, he's on the same tier as Mox where he's just as respected everywhere. I think the difference with Bryan is it feels like you could get a great, long-term storyline out of building up to him winning the AEW title, and that's lost if the belt gets rushed onto him to make up for Punk's injury. Mox already had his big moment when he first won it, he feels like a safe choice to get another championship reign out of nowhere while still feeling immediately credible.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jun 4, 2022 4:12:14 GMT -5
Wendy Choo's new name when she surprise debuts winning the battle royale next week, somehow still manages to get upstaged by Brit Baker and prompts another batch of angry threads on here.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jun 4, 2022 0:58:06 GMT -5
The Forbidden Door is the wrench in the works here, because there's more at stake than what works best for AEW. NJPW being up for a co-promoted PPV with Tanahashi in a dream match vs Punk or another star of Punk's caliber is a very different proposition than NJPW being up for Tanahashi helping to establish an untested AEW project like, say, Wardlow.
If the interim champ isn't necessarily getting that match, it opens the door a lot wider on who might win the title next.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jun 2, 2022 18:26:29 GMT -5
You want a pro wrestler to play an evil clown, and you don't go with Bray Wyatt?! What an upset.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jun 2, 2022 17:02:30 GMT -5
What if it all plays out like that time Hogan fake quit WCW but then they called him bald on-air and that pissed him off enough to quit for real so his worked shoot retroactively became a shoot shoot?
Like MJF goes out every week and fake shoots but tries to make it mean enough to work Tony Khan into firing him for real?
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jun 1, 2022 20:36:30 GMT -5
Y'all think this is a meta worked shoot angle, but what if it's really a meta meta angle where Tony Khan is trying to bury MJF and lower his value before his contract is up by saddling him with a hacky worked shoot storyline???
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on May 31, 2022 16:22:58 GMT -5
"I don't get this, if it's a hit I must be out of touch and I need to change the way I do business."
*It's a hit*
*Matt Hardy gets shoved back into his '90s gimmick and Ultimate Deletion is never mentioned in WWE again*
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on May 31, 2022 14:55:26 GMT -5
On his no-show at the meet and greet on Saturday, Keller said, "the way it was portrayed to us is MJF was in no place to be in public. He was in a bad place. And so it just seemed if not mutually agreed upon [it was] pretty obvious to everybody that it would be good for him to not make a public appearance yesterday. If this is accurate, it really needs to be emphasized by the people involved, because a mutual decision for MJF not to appear at the signing is a way different situation than him blowing off the appearance without notice, and significantly less likely to hurt his future prospects.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on May 30, 2022 21:24:57 GMT -5
MJF looked like such a lock until this weekend, didn't he?
If it was up to me, I'd go with Pentagon, then Starks, then Bryan.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on May 29, 2022 20:09:36 GMT -5
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on May 29, 2022 19:17:12 GMT -5
Seal him in a cardboard box for Titan Towers.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on May 29, 2022 19:12:31 GMT -5
MJF offers to double Wardlow's pay, but Wardlow wants his freedom.
Subtle.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on May 29, 2022 14:53:14 GMT -5
Ironically, as far as being a tangible long-term benefit for both the company and the wrestler, the easy answer here is Rey Mysterio to WWE, even though it didn't feel like anywhere near as big a signing at the time.
For guys that actually felt like major game-changers who could've viably stayed on top at their last gig, it's Angle to TNA or Mox to AEW.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on May 29, 2022 14:35:58 GMT -5
I can't believe this is just about money. Spectacularly burning your bridge with one of the two promoters you're expecting to have a bidding war over your contract kneecaps your own negotiating power.
I don't know if or when it'll ever come out, but I've got to think there's another underlying issue here behind MJF wanting out this badly.
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