metylerca
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Post by metylerca on Jun 13, 2014 23:41:24 GMT -5
Adidas shirt, douchey looking Lashley is actually one of my bright spots in TNA. He looks like a legitimate athlete who is too good for Impact, but wrestles there anyway. Granted, MVP does all the talking for him, so that's a major plus.
But yeah, I'd go with Joe winning the title. But I can already see Eric turning heel because his friend beat him for the belt..... or Joe joining MVP because TNA.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Jun 14, 2014 0:19:07 GMT -5
I'm going with Lashley and King qualifying for the Triple Threat, so Daniel Bryan can defeat Batista and Randy Orton again.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jun 14, 2014 0:26:00 GMT -5
Have Lashley wear blue trunks, then quit the next night and have JTG join evolution.....this is seriously pissing me off, why does Dixie think is a good idea to rip off the WWE? Maybe they think that the casual fan will mistake tna for Saturday morning slam or another brand of WWE and continue watching. Or maybe Gaburick is so over his head that he just dvrs raw. I've been watching wrestling since early 97 never have I seen such blatant ripoff and not sneaky ripoff but full blatant.
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Post by -Lithium- on Jun 14, 2014 0:46:46 GMT -5
Ugh. Eric f**king Young is TNA Champion? Good God...
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Post by king1836 on Jun 14, 2014 6:47:15 GMT -5
Have Lashley wear blue trunks, then quit the next night and have JTG join evolution.....this is seriously pissing me off, why does Dixie think is a good idea to rip off the WWE? Maybe they think that the casual fan will mistake tna for Saturday morning slam or another brand of WWE and continue watching. Or maybe Gaburick is so over his head that he just dvrs raw. I've been watching wrestling since early 97 never have I seen such blatant ripoff and not sneaky ripoff but full blatant. The only way this could be considered a rip-off is if both King and Lashley win their matches, and then Young beats them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 6:56:40 GMT -5
As far as Lashley, I think the issue with him is there is really only two ways to book him. As a heel, he has to be booked like Lesnar, and as a face he has to be booked like Cena. There can't be an in between with him. It is sort of the same issue that Matt Morgan had. Someone with Lashley's size/look can't be jobbing too often, and he is not great at anything in particular to make it in a mid-card role. He is a guy you have to go all-in with. I think WWE had a fine way of doing it during his initial rise, when he was an obvious main event prospect who was basically unstoppable, but they still had him only really steamrolling the nobodies and more technical people like Finlay and Regal were serious threats to him due to having greater ability. Granted, TNA is such a small pond that there really isn't any way to do that kind of run and just by nature of facing Cena on PPV for the WWE title once Lashley is one of the most credible people on the roster because the alternatives are Gunner and Bram.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jun 14, 2014 11:14:00 GMT -5
Have Lashley wear blue trunks, then quit the next night and have JTG join evolution.....this is seriously pissing me off, why does Dixie think is a good idea to rip off the WWE? Maybe they think that the casual fan will mistake tna for Saturday morning slam or another brand of WWE and continue watching. Or maybe Gaburick is so over his head that he just dvrs raw. I've been watching wrestling since early 97 never have I seen such blatant ripoff and not sneaky ripoff but full blatant. The only way this could be considered a rip-off is if both King and Lashley win their matches, and then Young beats them. Are you f***ing serious? The whole year has been a ripoff, Eric Young is the poor mans version of Daniel Bryan, black evolution, authority figure, Kane-Daniel Bryan feud...as the iron sheik would say "f*** DA TOMORROW!"
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Post by The Trashman on Jun 14, 2014 11:18:49 GMT -5
The only way this could be considered a rip-off is if both King and Lashley win their matches, and then Young beats them. Are you f***ing serious? The whole year has been a ripoff, Eric Young is the poor mans version of Daniel Bryan, black evolution, authority figure, Kane-Daniel Bryan feud...as the iron sheik would say "f*** DA TOMORROW!"
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jun 14, 2014 11:24:44 GMT -5
Are you f***ing serious? The whole year has been a ripoff, Eric Young is the poor mans version of Daniel Bryan, black evolution, authority figure, Kane-Daniel Bryan feud...as the iron sheik would say "f*** DA TOMORROW!" I I didn't know about that, whoa just whoa, not even Joe-Aj-Daniels I matters. They broke me, they are a HIV patient that refuses to die. Let an earthquake crumble it, let the fires rage, let it burn to f***ing ash and then let the waters rise and submerge this whole rat-infested place.
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on Jun 14, 2014 12:04:13 GMT -5
Are you f***ing serious? The whole year has been a ripoff, Eric Young is the poor mans version of Daniel Bryan, black evolution, authority figure, Kane-Daniel Bryan feud...as the iron sheik would say "f*** DA TOMORROW!" I'll give you the others, that though is not the case. He only wore the suit 1 time, because Magnus wanted him to look good, make Abyss feel better & act like he cared about him(of course, he didn't, he just used him) & he hasn't worn a suit since. Now, if he had been put in a management position by Dixie & wore the suit, then I could see it.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Jun 14, 2014 12:29:24 GMT -5
While I'm not a fan of Lashley and hope Joe wins back the title tomorrow, how would he be unworthy of holding the title? Look at the past 5 TNA world champions. Bully had main event cred but had Aces and Eight as his albatross. Sabin had an unnecessary reign that was treated as a fluke and quickly dropped. AJ got turned into CM Punk Jr and eventually left when TNA lowballed him. Magnus was treated like Barry Horowitz with a posse and suffered from that. EY was the perennial comedy jobber who suddenly got thrust to the main event. Lashley works when he's treated as a threat and not allowed to cut a promo. It's not like he would be the worst world champion they ever had.
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Post by AdamAFL was sooooo wrong on Jun 14, 2014 12:33:47 GMT -5
While I'm not a fan of Lashley and hope Joe wins back the title tomorrow, how would he be unworthy of holding the title? Look at the past 5 TNA world champions. Bully had main event cred but had Aces and Eight as his albatross. Sabin had an unnecessary reign that was treated as a fluke and quickly dropped. AJ got turned into CM Punk Jr and eventually left when TNA lowballed him. Magnus was treated like Barry Horowitz with a posse and suffered from that. EY was the perennial comedy jobber who suddenly got thrust to the main event. Lashley works when he's treated as a threat and not allowed to cut a promo. It's not like he would be the worst world champion they ever had. Not saying he'd be their worst (although he would be my least favourite) but just because something has been shit before doesn't mean it has to continue being shit. There are much better choices than Lashley as World Champ and, in my opinion, even EY is one of them. TNA would be smart to put the title on Joe or Aries heading into the NYC tapings because it might just cause some goodwill amongst the NYC fans. If Lashley walks in as Champ (or potentially even EY, I've no idea how the NYC fans will react to him) they could be in trouble.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Jun 14, 2014 12:44:05 GMT -5
While I'm not a fan of Lashley and hope Joe wins back the title tomorrow, how would he be unworthy of holding the title? Look at the past 5 TNA world champions. Bully had main event cred but had Aces and Eight as his albatross. Sabin had an unnecessary reign that was treated as a fluke and quickly dropped. AJ got turned into CM Punk Jr and eventually left when TNA lowballed him. Magnus was treated like Barry Horowitz with a posse and suffered from that. EY was the perennial comedy jobber who suddenly got thrust to the main event. Lashley works when he's treated as a threat and not allowed to cut a promo. It's not like he would be the worst world champion they ever had. Not saying he'd be their worst (although he would be my least favourite) but just because something has been shit before doesn't mean it has to continue being shit. There are much better choices than Lashley as World Champ and, in my opinion, even EY is one of them. TNA would be smart to put the title on Joe or Aries heading into the NYC tapings because it might just cause some goodwill amongst the NYC fans. If Lashley walks in as Champ (or potentially even EY, I've no idea how the NYC fans will react to him) they could be in trouble. There are better choices but this is TNA. They had built Joe up to win back the title just to pull a swerve and give it to EY. Honestly, I think EY is going to retain the title due to MVP getting hurt. Or if they do a title change, Lashley will be the avatar for an injured MVP so TNA can continue the Black Evolution angle. I think they were building to MVP defending the title vs Joe or Roode at the NYC tapings with one of them winning the belt. Aries is just a body they tossed out there to fill a void. There's no real sense that Aries is in the title picture mix. If Gunner wasn't being lusted after by Shaw, he would had got the role.
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Post by king1836 on Jun 14, 2014 12:46:08 GMT -5
Not saying he'd be their worst (although he would be my least favourite) but just because something has been shit before doesn't mean it has to continue being shit. There are much better choices than Lashley as World Champ and, in my opinion, even EY is one of them. TNA would be smart to put the title on Joe or Aries heading into the NYC tapings because it might just cause some goodwill amongst the NYC fans. If Lashley walks in as Champ (or potentially even EY, I've no idea how the NYC fans will react to him) they could be in trouble. There are better choices but this is TNA. They had built Joe up to win back the title just to pull a swerve and give it to EY. Honestly, I think EY is going to retain the title due to MVP getting hurt. Or if they do a title change, Lashley will be the avatar for an injured MVP so TNA can continue the Black Evolution angle. I think they were building to MVP defending the title vs Joe or Roode at the NYC tapings with one of them winning the belt. Aries is just a body they tossed out there to fill a void. There's no real sense that Aries is in the title picture mix. If Gunner wasn't being lusted after by Shaw, he would had got the role. Gunner is helping Shaw.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Jun 14, 2014 12:47:47 GMT -5
There are better choices but this is TNA. They had built Joe up to win back the title just to pull a swerve and give it to EY. Honestly, I think EY is going to retain the title due to MVP getting hurt. Or if they do a title change, Lashley will be the avatar for an injured MVP so TNA can continue the Black Evolution angle. I think they were building to MVP defending the title vs Joe or Roode at the NYC tapings with one of them winning the belt. Aries is just a body they tossed out there to fill a void. There's no real sense that Aries is in the title picture mix. If Gunner wasn't being lusted after by Shaw, he would had got the role. Gunner is helping Shaw. Helping him discover his sexuality. Because Shaw got a new type of redhead he craving now.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jun 14, 2014 12:50:42 GMT -5
Breaking news from the mean gene hotline: Shaw and Gunner will have a bearskin rug match on bob ryder's office.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Jun 14, 2014 13:07:46 GMT -5
I'm gonna laugh so damn hard if Lashley wins and heads in NYC as champion. In fact, I'm almost positive it's gonna happen. It's too stupid for TNA not to do.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 13:33:15 GMT -5
Helping him discover his sexuality. Because Shaw got a new type of redhead he craving now. I"m so, so sorry.
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Post by AdamAFL was sooooo wrong on Jun 14, 2014 19:56:13 GMT -5
Not saying he'd be their worst (although he would be my least favourite) but just because something has been shit before doesn't mean it has to continue being shit. There are much better choices than Lashley as World Champ and, in my opinion, even EY is one of them. TNA would be smart to put the title on Joe or Aries heading into the NYC tapings because it might just cause some goodwill amongst the NYC fans. If Lashley walks in as Champ (or potentially even EY, I've no idea how the NYC fans will react to him) they could be in trouble. There are better choices but this is TNA. They had built Joe up to win back the title just to pull a swerve and give it to EY. Honestly, I think EY is going to retain the title due to MVP getting hurt. Or if they do a title change, Lashley will be the avatar for an injured MVP so TNA can continue the Black Evolution angle. I think they were building to MVP defending the title vs Joe or Roode at the NYC tapings with one of them winning the belt. Aries is just a body they tossed out there to fill a void. There's no real sense that Aries is in the title picture mix. If Gunner wasn't being lusted after by Shaw, he would had got the role. I said if they were smart they would. I didn't say they would. Who knows what they will do. Trying to guess TNA's booking going forwards is inherently a fools errand. But it's what I would do. Then again, if I were booking Lashley wouldn't even be in the company and chances are he's getting a title match at their second biggest PPV so what do I know.
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Post by saintpat on Jun 14, 2014 20:06:22 GMT -5
I can't believe TNA screwed this up so badly.
In WWE, Bryan is the one who got injured, so it should have been EY and not MVP.
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