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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 8, 2024 12:44:02 GMT -5
I wouldn’t mind it in real time, but it becomes an issue in the video games when you have to blur out Jimmy John’s and Rocky Mountain Equipment logos on a dude’s shorts in video games and clips. I really hope they worked something out with the brands they use now, because the clips from this Mania are going to look like hell if they have to blur everything out. I remember my dvds with all the blurred out WWF logos. Ugh
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 8, 2024 12:37:30 GMT -5
I mean on their gear, like Brock used to. I believe CM Punk wanted this years ago and Vince denied him, but then let Brock do it because he had a carry over deal from the UFC.
With it being a new era, and with sponsors on the mat and around the ring now, would you mind if a wrestler had perhaps a small sponsor on their ring attire? It didn't really bother me on Brocks shorts but I dunno how it would work on little trunks. Maybe say a Pepsi logo on Punks knee pads for example.
Boxers etc obviously have sponsors and it's a way for the guys in the biz to make more $$$.
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 8, 2024 12:18:58 GMT -5
I really want him to get one more title reign and break Flair's record in kayfabe. In fact he was just on McAfee's show and said he's not quite done yet and the crowd started chanting 17 at him lol. Have him beat a heel at the Rumble then drop it to whoever you want to put over at Mania either next year or 2026 for his final match. He deserves it
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 8, 2024 11:00:56 GMT -5
Let's get some good looking worl titles for the first time since about fifteen years ago please
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 8, 2024 9:35:54 GMT -5
Was gonna make this its own thread but thought this is more useful for it
It's a fake sport so it doesn't really matter but the lineage is more than a little messed up by this point.
Roman was the World champion (WWE champion?) and Universal champion combined and I believe unified into one belt. So that's two lineages combined.
Before that the belts has been split and unified a few times before the universal title was created. Orton and Cena in about 2013/2014 were champions and that got unified for Brock I believe after he beat Cena at Summerslam. Before that other world titles had been unified into each other in 2002.
I may have missed some.
Now they made another world title, with no lineage or history, that to me felt very secondary as a championship, because they couldn't get the belt off Roman for years. I bet that ends up unified with what Cody holds now eventually.
Do you believe they will probably unify the belts again?
I do, possibly within the decade going off their history.
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 8, 2024 9:35:18 GMT -5
I won't lie. I was a tad crushed.
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 8, 2024 9:05:19 GMT -5
20 is just too tainted
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 8, 2024 8:38:41 GMT -5
I couldn't find a sensible thread. Can we talk about John Cena's massive bald spot he was clearly self-concious about? Why doesn't he just keep his hair really short like he did for years?
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 8, 2024 7:16:47 GMT -5
Just an FYI to people hating on her: Steph was more or less fired by her father twice and voted against letting Vince back during his attempted hostile takeover and sale to TKO. She risked her entire career, her multi-billion dollar inheritance (and lost that risk) from trying to keep her dad away from the company. Vince sold the company instead of letting her inherit it because he was bitter at her. Bloody hell I never knew that
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 8, 2024 7:15:14 GMT -5
Lawler was always terrible. The fact that he and J.R. are considered some amazing pairing is almost entirely on the back of J.R. All Lawler was good for was sucking up to heels and screaming PUPPIES JR!!!!! PUPPIES!!!!!! I liked him as a heel commentator in the 90s tbh
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 8, 2024 7:14:50 GMT -5
Not talking about him as a human being here, so don't need to get into that...
I think Vince was definitely good for the WWE in the 80s (along with his creative team) and then the late 90s to the mid 2000s. Both onscreen and behind the scenes.
But after about 2009, other than a few decent calls, he's been a huge hindrance to the product as he just grew out of touch. He grew more and more stubborn and stopped listening to the audience *almost* entirely.
This version of Vince probably would have never turned Rocky Maiava heel and kept pushing him as a hated babyface for years.
Of his ever growing control-freak nature- limiting the way people talk was a huge bugbear to me. I hated hearing people, especially poor Cole, being forced to talk in buzzwords like robots rather than human beings.
His allowing Dunn to ruin the way the product looks with camera cuts was another terrible thing that just kept getting worse and worse.
I'm so glad he's gone.
Everything feels so fresh now. I remember multiple times a decade ago feeling like maybe the product was changing. But now it finally is. Everything is getting better. Trips is doing a great job.
Vince and Dunn are gone and it's fantastic!
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 7, 2024 22:26:39 GMT -5
I'm glad Austin didn't appear. He has a tendency to make everything about himself. In an ego way or in a he's just too big a star way and would distract from Cody's win?
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 7, 2024 19:38:13 GMT -5
Probably the best way they could’ve handled Drew losing the belt. His hating ways being his downfall was done perfectly. Punks reaction was really funny too
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 7, 2024 17:48:27 GMT -5
I'm trying to think of any matches involving megastars in a tag ie Austin, Hogan, Rock level.
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 7, 2024 17:38:06 GMT -5
I loved it. Rock was great and I had given up hope a year or two ago that he was actually going to do another match. I still have my doubts about him doing a singles match with Roman next year though. A tag match is one thing and he did a lot more than I expected but he still got to tag out and have minutes of rest. They kept calling it the biggest tag match of all-time but where would it actually rank? Is it top 5 biggest ever? I think the starpower/build puts it ahead of last years night 1 main event. Top 5 seems about right. Off the top of my head I can name Mega Powers v Mega Bucks at SummerSlam 1988, and Austin/Rock v Undertaker/Triple H from the pilot episode of SmackDown in 1999. I’m assuming this is just 2v2 matches though. Austin Rock Vs NWO
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 7, 2024 16:35:36 GMT -5
It was too long but good but I'm just gonna complain about the crowd again if I say anything else. It's just not quite as electric as I thought it would be after the awesome build and heel Rock and all that. Id really rather Mania be in smaller arenas.
Anyway, Rock looked really good. I was so pleased.
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 7, 2024 16:33:18 GMT -5
I was entertained by his scream at backlash 2004 when Foley elbow dropped Orton off the stage but other than that, agreed. He ruins Eddie Guerrero matches from me from that era, sadly. I watched Guerro Vs JBL yesterday. Jeez that was a bad blade job
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 7, 2024 16:28:51 GMT -5
Lawler from about 2009 onwards (probably earlier) is the worst commentator ever 2000 onwards, tbh. I was entertained by his scream at backlash 2004 when Foley elbow dropped Orton off the stage but other than that, agreed.
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 7, 2024 16:28:16 GMT -5
After this, please no mania in Minnesota That stadium has a roof Ah
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Post by mcstoklasa on Apr 7, 2024 16:23:18 GMT -5
Lawler from about 2009 onwards (probably earlier) is the worst commentator ever
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