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Post by fw91 on Oct 23, 2011 22:30:09 GMT -5
He didn't know what a drop kick was and mis-called that one time. lol "flying leg kick"
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Post by Nacho STAYS Hyped on Oct 23, 2011 22:34:41 GMT -5
He didn't know what a drop kick was and mis-called that one time. lol "flying leg kick" "Serious elevation on that dick."
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
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Post by chazraps on Oct 23, 2011 22:46:56 GMT -5
I still feel like they missed the boat on his RAW GM run by not giving him a Michael Scott gimmick. They actually did this. For the first two/three weeks of the Adamle regime, the direction of his backstage segments was pretty clearly biting the office in terms of the trying-to-be-subtle revelations and playing up Cena-Mickie as having a Jim-Pam relationship. It *almost* worked.
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Post by RatedRKoffee on Oct 23, 2011 23:08:20 GMT -5
Adamle was so bad that he was awesome. Seriously the guy made me pay attention to commentary just to hear what outlandish gobledygook he was gonna spew out next. You could also pretty much hear Taz going insane while they anounced together. This guy might look like Tarzan, but he probably hits like Jane.
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Post by Clawley Race on Oct 23, 2011 23:23:46 GMT -5
he was like the 'boom goes the dynamite' kid
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Dean-o
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Post by Dean-o on Oct 23, 2011 23:32:21 GMT -5
I was always confused...was he botching left and right on purpose or was he really clueless about the product?
Part of me thinks the latter, but then again there is no way Vince would allow that to go on television for that long. I believe he was told to screw things up every week.
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Post by jadison on Oct 24, 2011 0:16:12 GMT -5
I still feel like they missed the boat on his RAW GM run by not giving him a Michael Scott gimmick. I know right? Could've been amazing. The "Adamle Original" thing was funny, there should have been more of them that blew up in his face. Also, backstage segments of him at his desk trying to explain that a good boss doesn't fire people, he hires people, and inspires people, followed by a string of poorly executed impressions of funny people like Rodney Dangerfield and Johnny Carson. Uno, dos, adios!
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chazraps
Wade Wilson
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Post by chazraps on Oct 24, 2011 0:50:24 GMT -5
To be fair, he was an outstanding color commentator on American Gladiators. In terms of sports entertainment qualifications, as far as non-fans go, he could have been a slam dunk. Some experiments just don't work. His poor work would have probably been remembered more fondly had he not been replacing Joey Styles.
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Post by Cam on Oct 24, 2011 1:02:51 GMT -5
Remember the botch where he was with Primo doing an interview but suddenly ended it to run over to John Cena (who just arrived and still had his bags) to ask him about what happened on the past weeks RAW. Cena had a what the hell kind of facial expression because he looked like he was going to say what are you doing here right now? Wasn't that suppose to happen? Yeah, that wasn't a botch. Just WWE and their burying.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Oct 24, 2011 1:51:13 GMT -5
Fun fact: the infamous "Jeff Harvey" and "WEDF" botches were not aired to the live crowd. That would have been funny to hear MSG react to an announcer on his first night screwing up Jeff Hardy's name.
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Post by alliedbiscuit on Oct 24, 2011 3:35:52 GMT -5
He does the sports on NBC here and makes just as many botches as he did in WWE. Yeah. I always felt a little bit of pride that one of our own was screwing up every week on live TV. Mike, you were Jamaican me proud.
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Post by Cam on Oct 24, 2011 4:25:57 GMT -5
Fun fact: the infamous "Jeff Harvey" and "WEDF" botches were not aired to the live crowd. That would have been funny to hear MSG react to an announcer on his first night screwing up Jeff Hardy's name. They must have been aired to the live crowd, I thought he was near ringside when he made the mistakes?
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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Oct 24, 2011 6:06:18 GMT -5
I will maintain to my grave that Mike Adamle was a work...his level of incompetence, anyway. I'm sure it was a situation where he botched a couple of things in his debut, and the WWE just ran with it. Made for some awesome TV, and the announcing of him as GM was truly a WTF moment.
"How ya doin' Dave?"
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Oct 24, 2011 6:30:17 GMT -5
Worse than Larry Rivera
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Post by femmejomo on Oct 24, 2011 7:42:13 GMT -5
He was better than Booker T.
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Post by Chainsaw on Oct 24, 2011 7:47:35 GMT -5
I still can't believe he replaced Joey Styles. Joey. Styles.
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Oct 24, 2011 8:14:33 GMT -5
"And if he wins, we can say the Cutler did it!"
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agent817
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Post by agent817 on Oct 24, 2011 8:50:33 GMT -5
What about when he was a GM? Cena said so himself that it wasn't a safe work environment when he was running things.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Oct 24, 2011 14:48:14 GMT -5
To be fair to the man, it's not all incompetence, he wasn't in his element, but he was hardly helped by the multiples concussions he suffered from his NFL days, brain damage isn't generally good for concentration.
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Post by crimsonwolf on Oct 24, 2011 14:53:46 GMT -5
To be fair to the man, it's not all incompetence, he wasn't in his element, but he was hardly helped by the multiples concussions he suffered from his NFL days, brain damage isn't generally good for concentration. Which still begs the question, why the hell would they put the guy on a live show?
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