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Post by Burst on Nov 2, 2022 19:13:29 GMT -5
...Okay if they were expecting a reaction to that unmasking, that was about the most Cole Karter way to do it.
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Post by Burst on Nov 2, 2022 19:12:19 GMT -5
Okay who's Sneakret Sting?
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Post by Burst on Nov 2, 2022 19:08:58 GMT -5
That was a crunchy as hell sounding Coffin Splash just now.
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Post by Burst on Nov 2, 2022 19:08:06 GMT -5
Okay seriously it's literally 2 days into November we don't need Christmas commercials already dammit
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Post by Burst on Nov 2, 2022 19:03:20 GMT -5
That may be the least convincing rib wrap I think I've ever seen in wrestling.
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Post by Burst on Nov 2, 2022 15:00:35 GMT -5
Hopefully Moriarty gets a decent-length match out of Mox. If this is indeed the first show after everything is legally resolved status/post Gripebomb, it'd be a deliciously ballsy as hell move to have the Elite return and then have Colt as the mystery opponent.
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Post by Burst on Nov 2, 2022 14:54:57 GMT -5
From the thumbnail alone I can see they still haven't quite gotten over the Uncanny Valley issue with the Na'vi.
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Post by Burst on Oct 31, 2022 15:05:43 GMT -5
I feel like you can have patriotism, it just needs to not be somebody's entire gimmick, and if you're going to make it the focus of an angle you've got to pick your battles carefully and tastefully. Doesn't even necessarily have to be US patriotism either; guarantee if you somehow managed to book Vladimir Kozlov/Oleg Prudius (can't remember what his current ring name is) vs Ilja Dragunov, that'd probably be the biggest babyface pop Oleg's gotten his entire career.
To keep on with that example, I feel like for it to work, you kinda have to let things be as implicit as you can get away with, because the most explicit you get, the more exploitative or insensitive it's going to end up being. So like, sure, let Ilja cut a heel promo about Oleg being a WWE wash-out blah blah blah, but nothing actually referencing current events, and just let the babyface shut him up as babyfaces do.
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Post by Burst on Oct 31, 2022 10:36:45 GMT -5
It wasn't Punk who was in that locker room, it was his evil twin from another Earth, Bill Brooks. Add another one to the Crazy Multiverse Punk roster, next to Bobby Fish as BF Ska. Bill Brooks just makes me think of Bill Burr as Punk with all the Chicago stuff swapped with Bostonian stuff turned up to 11.
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Post by Burst on Oct 31, 2022 8:30:59 GMT -5
The only thing I remember Ryback ever doing that put a smile on my face, was a secondhand anecdote via I think Al Snow or somebody talking about Ryback being very literal with the "FEED ME MORE!" thing at various restaurants.
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Post by Burst on Oct 31, 2022 6:52:56 GMT -5
I feel like about the only way you could get away with any sort of a 'savage' gimmick (not to be confused with a "Savage" gimmick, OH YEAH) nowadays, would be to bill them from somewhere shamelessly tongue-in-cheek like... I dunno, the dangerous and uncharted golf courses of Hilton Head, South Carolina or something.
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Post by Burst on Oct 29, 2022 16:42:59 GMT -5
Sometimes I think people who push this "omg they all hate each other" narrative have never had a job with colleagues. In any job there will be people whose only connection is working together. There's nothing wrong with that and it doesn't make them enemies. It's just life. This is kind of its own tangent at this point, but I feel the same way whenever I see folks push the narrative of "how could you possibly work with X when they do Y", when Y is something that doesn't affect their ability to do their job, isn't brought up at work, or is something you'd have to essentially creep on them to find out about. You're almost never going to be able to pick your coworkers (nor would you necessarily want to), and being able to both compartmentalize your work/life and be able to be diplomatic will take you way further and keep you way saner than feeling like every coworker must be able to be your best friend or feeling like you need to screen literally every aspect of a coworker's life for something you disagree with.
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Post by Burst on Oct 29, 2022 14:52:23 GMT -5
*insert thumbnail with ridiculously overdramatic reaction face over shamelessly photoshopped background*
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Post by Burst on Oct 28, 2022 21:25:45 GMT -5
Ya know, if'n when 2point0 breaks away from Jericho, I kinda want to see them pair up with Swerve as a creepy psycho serial killer sort of team.
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Post by Burst on Oct 28, 2022 21:04:07 GMT -5
Ang must've watched Happy Gilmore last night.
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Post by Burst on Oct 28, 2022 19:20:45 GMT -5
It would be funny if Colt also started using Cult of Personality on top of that... >_> Honestly at this point, if all the various CM Punk graphics and such created for his AEW run are the property of AEW, and obviously Punk doesn't have exclusivity rights to Cult of Personality... Give Colt the theme and all the Punk graphics with everything changed as necessary, and I guarantee the biggest babyface pop Colt has ever had in his career. If there's nothing that legally says they couldn't, it'd be no less petty than literally anything Punk has done over the course of all this.
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Post by Burst on Oct 28, 2022 17:00:27 GMT -5
It'll never happen, but I'd still love to see them let Ash finally win everything and let him timeskip into a mentor role... doesn't even have to be a long timeskip to put him in a professor role, but like, let the G1 characters move on already, geez.
(I think I'm biased because of the two Digimon Adventure sequel films, but seriously.)
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Post by Burst on Oct 28, 2022 16:35:58 GMT -5
Yeah, the combo of it being a live Rampage without taping for a Battle for the Belts, in a new arena, makes me bet we get some surprises tonight. Most likely the Elite making their big return unless they're planning something big with Juice and/or Bandido, but we'll see.
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Post by Burst on Oct 28, 2022 15:49:34 GMT -5
Awesome to see them pull the trigger on Bandido, Juice I'm ambivalent on but he's a solid enough hand that no harm no foul. They just need to get that ROH weekly show pronto at this rate.
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Post by Burst on Oct 28, 2022 14:24:59 GMT -5
However, anyone who says companies won’t work with him ever again or he’ll never be back surely realises that in dis bizness you can do all sorts of crazy stuff (way worse than blowing up in a press conference leading into some bizarre dog related brawl) and eventually you’ll either come crawling back or someone will come crawling to you. I feel like the one caveat with the "never say never" thing as it pertains to Punk, is that I can still see him having a high-and-mighty attitude that he's 'too good' to work with any given hypothetical smaller promotions crawling to him.
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