Emmet Russell
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Post by Emmet Russell on Feb 23, 2016 17:21:43 GMT -5
My eight year old son (of prior mention in a couple of other threads) clocked the Riley/H thing during NXT the other week. An eight year old child, who only started watching WWE last year, observes "Alex Riley looks like The Game now, only The Game looks better because he cut his hair off when he went bald, like you did, dad..." (Knows where to kick his pop where it hurts, that boy...) Reading that last comment hurt me. Have my sympy, man. You're the real mega dad of the year.  |
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Post by Wolfman Rose on Feb 23, 2016 17:36:28 GMT -5
If we're doing the fan suffering Olympics, I'm a Triple H, John Cena, Sheamus, and Roman Reigns fan. Y'all motherf***ers got nothin' on me.
Also Riley sucks.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Feb 23, 2016 17:48:46 GMT -5
The difference between Riley and all those other guys is that many of them are in protected spots where the office just flat out doesn't give a shit whether they're good or not or whether they're liked or not. Riley's on the bubble where a good or bad crowd can easily be the difference between him getting pushed, getting relegated to nothingness once again or getting released.
Riley isn't related to anyone in the business like Axel is.
He's not an established top guy like Cena, Orton or the Local Men
He's not a "project" the way that Reigns is; WWE are adamant at making Roman happen even if he were Strowman levels of green with Ryback's "carelessness"
He's not in the Sheamus, Del Rio, Ryback, Ziggler, Miz group where WWE have already invested too much in them to completely write off.
And the "Wyatt hate" is literally just one very obvious gimmick poster.
I say this as someone who is a fan of many of the names mentioned. Funny enough, I like some of them more than I like Riley, but I think Riley "needs" my fandom more.
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Post by SkullTrauma on Feb 23, 2016 17:55:43 GMT -5
And the "Wyatt hate" is literally just one very obvious gimmick poster.  |
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Feb 23, 2016 17:57:43 GMT -5
And the "Wyatt hate" is literally just one very obvious gimmick poster. *looks at skin color* I actually am black, thank you for reaffirming that.  My Riley fandom isn't a gimmick. And that's beside the point. The point is there aren't hordes of people lining up to tear Bray down. |
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Feb 23, 2016 18:07:04 GMT -5
can we just talk about curtis axel some more? Of course! LET US CELEBRATE CURTIS AXEL!  |
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Feb 23, 2016 18:10:11 GMT -5
Every show should open with a ten minute A Ri beatdown. He gets tv time, whoever the hell is beating on him gets tv time. Win-win. Could be a different guy or gal each week just beating the shit outta Riley.
And it could evolve too; at first it'd be right at the start of the show and all the cameras focused on, commentary mention it etc. But it eventually just gets to where no one draws attention to it. Just in the background somewhere, or maybe in one of those picture in picture squares, A Ri gets the hell beat out of him while the rest of the show goes on.
Could get the whole roster involved. One week it's Rusev, the next it's Heath Slater, the next it's Alicia Fox.
Step right up and beat the shit out of him.
It'd give him weekly promo time too. Things like: "Help!" or "Oof!" and "Not in the face!"
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Post by Starshine on Feb 23, 2016 18:23:16 GMT -5
Would Riley get cheered if he beat the tar our of Reigns?
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Feb 23, 2016 18:24:46 GMT -5
Would Riley get cheered if he beat the tar our of Reigns? Either the crowd's heads would collectively explode or they'd chant "Let's Go Riley/Riley Sucks". |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 19:00:53 GMT -5
I'd honestly rather see someone give Riley a 10 minute bloody beatdown of course you would, that's double the tv time he usually gets. How the hell did you multiply zero? |
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Feb 23, 2016 19:01:26 GMT -5
That's one way to book some cheering for Reigns. He's pissed off, looking for HHH, thinks he's found him and just beats the hell out of him. Looks down, whoops it's Riley.
"My bad." He reaches down to help Riley up, Riley takes his hand
SUPERMAN PUNCH
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Feb 23, 2016 20:02:23 GMT -5
Roman Reigns vs. Alex Riley: It's the Uncheerable Force vs. the Uncarable Object.
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Post by Push R Truth on Feb 23, 2016 20:04:46 GMT -5
Riley can't be Dollar Store HHH, he's not even 66 cent Store HHH. He's more like 33 Cent Store HHH. You can find him between the cans of expired Mexican Plankton and the TNA merchandise
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Post by Larryhausen on Feb 23, 2016 22:15:39 GMT -5
To complete the transformation, on the next episode of NXT Riley will give a 10-minute bloody beatdown to Angelo Dawkins. The fans hate Roman Reigns, they nothing Angelo Dawkins. I'd honestly rather see someone give Riley a 10 minute bloody beatdown if it meant some people could get some kind of catharsis from it, get it out of their system and move on. Nahhhh, I'd just wanna see it happen more often. My ideal would be that Riley is Owens' Victory Celebration. Every time KO wins a match, he does a victory lap up the ramp, goes to the back, drags Riley out by his hair, and powerbombs him. Every single match. |
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Post by The Ichi on Feb 23, 2016 22:59:40 GMT -5
Alex Riley is not very good.
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