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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Apr 5, 2016 10:04:42 GMT -5
2015
2016
To summarise... To turn around their negative reactions from the post-WM RAW last year to the post-WM RAW this year, the following elements were utilised:
*An exorbitant amount of hairspray, to the extent that Xavier Woods can no longer be exposed to a naked flame *Not one, but TWO separate brass instruments, both of whom are named, possibly related and may or may not have more backstory than some of WWE's midcard wrestlers *Copious amounts of pelvic thrusting and grinding, which sometimes has a hypnotic effect causing legends and authority figures to join in *A fictional breakfast cereal that is named after what it promotes itself as keeping you from being and contains sunshine, uranium and Papa Shango's voodoo *TRICEP MEAT~! *A colour motif taken right out of an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic *The most phallic piece of WWE merchandise since that second Sin Cara shirt *Much intensifying of AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW *An utter refusal to ever be sour, to compliment a constant desire to feel the power *A protest campaign against the use of tables in violent situations that ended up having a subliminal effect on their main targets *The W... W... E... World... Tag... Team... Championships *Exactly 35,682 instances of clapping *Exactly one attempt at eating a kazoo
And that is how a happy-clappy group of dancing African-Americans went from a booty racial stereotype to possibly the most over act in the damn company today. And it couldn't happen to three more deserving guys.
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Post by The Unconquered Sun on Apr 5, 2016 10:10:12 GMT -5
Never question the power of Booty O's.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Apr 5, 2016 10:13:55 GMT -5
Goes to show that if people give a talented act time, they will find their feet.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Apr 5, 2016 10:18:09 GMT -5
Over at 411mania, we do a weekly ranking of the top five wrestlers each week. They tally up the scores (1 point for coming in 5th, 2 points for coming in 4th, and so on) and, from Mania to Mania, whoever has the most points wins Wrestler of the Year. From WM31 to WM32, Big E and Kofi Kingston finished tied for first, while Xavier Woods came in third. That's pretty amazing.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Apr 5, 2016 10:26:29 GMT -5
I was sold on New Day when Xavier went clean shaven and made fun of Roman and Randy's "Montreal Boo-Hoo Job."
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RIHT
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Wanted a title with "YOU'RE WELCOME!" Close enough.
Hey-yo.
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Post by RIHT on Apr 5, 2016 14:07:27 GMT -5
Just wish the tag titles were on the line on the Wrestlemania main card. Hasn't been done since WM 25? Maybe even earlier?
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Apr 5, 2016 14:11:14 GMT -5
I was sold on New Day when Xavier went clean shaven and made fun of Roman and Randy's "Montreal Boo-Hoo Job." I miss Xavier's mustache.
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Apr 5, 2016 15:00:05 GMT -5
Letting charismatic guys go out there and be charismatic w-w-w-works?
Gasp.
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Post by MAGGLE on Apr 5, 2016 15:06:59 GMT -5
They just made sure that they aren't booty
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Apr 5, 2016 15:21:49 GMT -5
Just wish the tag titles were on the line on the Wrestlemania main card. Hasn't been done since WM 25? Maybe even earlier? Team Hell No beat Ziggler and Big E in a Tag Title match on the main card at WM29.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Apr 5, 2016 15:25:46 GMT -5
Just wish the tag titles were on the line on the Wrestlemania main card. Hasn't been done since WM 25? Maybe even earlier? Team Hell No beat Ziggler and Big E in a Tag Title match on the main card at WM29. Also, I Came To Big Show beat Truth and Wisdom in the opener of Mania 26.
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Post by nate5054 on Apr 5, 2016 15:28:15 GMT -5
Too bad they turned back face and started sucking again.
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Post by Ronny The Oddity on Apr 5, 2016 15:56:14 GMT -5
No doubt those three guys deserve success. But I personally think the New Day gimmick has gotten extremely asinine.
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Post by Andy Martin on Apr 6, 2016 11:05:07 GMT -5
Too bad they turned back face and started sucking again. *shrug* they were bad before that in my opinion.
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RIHT
Hank Scorpio
Wanted a title with "YOU'RE WELCOME!" Close enough.
Hey-yo.
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Post by RIHT on Apr 6, 2016 13:42:09 GMT -5
Just wish the tag titles were on the line on the Wrestlemania main card. Hasn't been done since WM 25? Maybe even earlier? Team Hell No beat Ziggler and Big E in a Tag Title match on the main card at WM29. Yeah, I guess that's true. But I mean, Ziggler and Big E weren't really a tag team until a couple of weeks before the show. WWE's been doing those 4-way tag title matches on the Kickoff shows in recent years, and this was the year to actually do one with the Dudleys, Usos, LON, and New Day.
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Post by Ryushinku on Apr 6, 2016 14:45:39 GMT -5
I rewatched the 2015 Rumble just a month ago, and it was pretty weird seeing Big E come out to dead silence like that. As said, heck of a turnaround.
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