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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2017 15:08:35 GMT -5
Why in the blue f*** didn't they end his career with his loss to Lesnar? That would have been an appropriate ending for his career: A HUGE bang and not a pitiful whimper like jobbing to a useless wank pheasant. f*** this company! Because it would have been FAR too jarring to have him leave after that. That crowd was shattered. Everyone watching was shattered. For Taker to then walk away.....FOR GOOD.....too much. Here, they had the chance to get the word/thought out earlier that this might be the end. So it prepared people. Do that to Brock/Taker at WM30 and you ruin it - people will go into the event downright expecting Brock to win, which disposes of the aura of the moment. Here, suddenly people could now see Reigns winning, suddenly they can now accept Taker losing another match and then leaving for good. .......the moment still stung to see in the end, but it was a better time for him to walk away. Far better than WM30.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2017 15:09:35 GMT -5
Outside of Strowman or Mark Henry or Big Show I don't think anyone can do that lift. I even excluded Big E because I don't think he's tall enough to have that kind of leverage to recover. But yeah it's a chicken or the egg thing. Did Taker jump too soon or did Roman take to much tune to position himself I honestly think Cesaro could do it. Agreed. Totally forgot about him. Maybe Sheamus as well. But Cesaros training is a lot of Olympic Weightlifting and Strong Man stuff so he would be more prepared
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2017 15:20:19 GMT -5
Outside of Strowman or Mark Henry or Big Show I don't think anyone can do that lift. I even excluded Big E because I don't think he's tall enough to have that kind of leverage to recover. But yeah it's a chicken or the egg thing. Did Taker jump too soon or did Roman take to much tune to position himself I honestly think Cesaro could do it. That's because when it comes to weightlifting Cesaro's a god and can do whatever he wants. Dude probably could've had an impromptu game of bowling with a bunch of ladders and the Mania globe. Hell, he'd have probably rolled a perfect game.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Apr 3, 2017 17:35:19 GMT -5
I honestly think Cesaro could do it. Agreed. Totally forgot about him. Maybe Sheamus as well. But Cesaros training is a lot of Olympic Weightlifting and Strong Man stuff so he would be more prepared Somebody in management needs to take Neville or Cesaro aside and tell them that there's $250K in it for them if they get Roman on their weight-training regimen. Dude BADLY needs to up his Deadlift game.
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Post by feartear on Apr 4, 2017 14:48:23 GMT -5
I watched the "match" long after I knew the resaults (I live in Italy and won't even dare to stay awake all night to watch it live). You know what? I loved what I saw. The porpuse of this match was to show that Undertaker really arrived at the end. He started the match fairly good, but as the time passed he became slower and slower, like an old music box that can't be stopped until the charge runs out. The Undertaker didn't want to just end his career like Flair or Michaels. He wanted to keep on fighting until he couldn't take it anymore, as if he was competing in a Last Man Standing match for his entire life.
The whole thing was poethic.
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Post by KobashiChop on Apr 4, 2017 18:23:41 GMT -5
Not a great work rate match by any means.
But it really felt like we were watching the guy go out on his shield and it was very compelling in that respect.
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on Apr 5, 2017 2:23:10 GMT -5
I watched the "match" long after I knew the resaults (I live in Italy and won't even dare to stay awake all night to watch it live). You know what? I loved what I saw. The porpuse of this match was to show that Undertaker really arrived at the end. He started the match fairly good, but as the time passed he became slower and slower, like an old music box that can't be stopped until the charge runs out. The Undertaker didn't want to just end his career like Flair or Michaels. He wanted to keep on fighting until he couldn't take it anymore, as if he was competing in a Last Man Standing match for his entire life. The whole thing was poethic. That story would have been told better with someone he could play off of more like Cena. But I saw the match the same exact way. I just hated it being to Reigns who didn't know how to react to it correctly until Monday. Undertaker's final match needed a lot more drama to go with the in-ring story he was trying to tell of the music box slowly winding down.
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Post by Ryushinku on Apr 5, 2017 4:57:08 GMT -5
Hand on heart, I actually thought the match was pretty decent and Taker looked better than he had at the previous two WrestleManias. Not better than the Summerslam/Hell in a Hell 2015 stuff, granted.
But Roman's timing seemed off, like with that Last Ride, and from the point where they blew the Tombstone reversal spot it just sunk like a stone. The whole last few minutes made storyline sense, but we've kinda seen the whole Taker-crawling-about-barely-able-to-stand routine for (sadly) a few too many WrestleManias now for it to have the same impact.
His exit did, but that was after the match was done.
Still, I thought it was going along fine...until about those last eight minutes or so.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Apr 5, 2017 4:58:15 GMT -5
I watched the "match" long after I knew the resaults (I live in Italy and won't even dare to stay awake all night to watch it live). You know what? I loved what I saw. The porpuse of this match was to show that Undertaker really arrived at the end. He started the match fairly good, but as the time passed he became slower and slower, like an old music box that can't be stopped until the charge runs out. The Undertaker didn't want to just end his career like Flair or Michaels. He wanted to keep on fighting until he couldn't take it anymore, as if he was competing in a Last Man Standing match for his entire life. The whole thing was poethic. That... Actually works. I enjoyed this interpretation a lot, thanks for sharing it.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Apr 5, 2017 7:58:14 GMT -5
Charles Robinson just tweeted that it was Taker's last match.
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Post by SeVeN: #TheBadGuy. on Apr 5, 2017 18:56:14 GMT -5
That match was an abomination. At the end when Reigns started running the ropes, even taker was like Wtf is going on. If they purposely made it terrible they succeeded because it was.
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 5, 2017 19:11:56 GMT -5
They needed to build it up more. There no set up, no story. Nothing. Garbage.
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Post by Chiral on Apr 5, 2017 19:27:08 GMT -5
They needed to build it up more. There no set up, no story. Nothing. Garbage. Remember the HBK/Undertaker "Running Up That Hill" promo? Just that four minute video had a million times more plot and emotion than the buildup to this match. "This is my yard." "No it's mine now." *blank expresion*
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Post by karoline94 on Apr 5, 2017 22:43:01 GMT -5
They need to have a retirement match like with Flair.
Honestly, it's the only way for him to go.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2017 0:42:11 GMT -5
They needed to build it up more. There no set up, no story. Nothing. Garbage. Remember the HBK/Undertaker "Running Up That Hill" promo? Just that four minute video had a million times more plot and emotion than the buildup to this match. "This is my yard." "No it's mine now." *blank expresion* In fact nobody believed it was an actual retirement match until it was reported by Meltzer an hour before the show that HBK was saying his goodbyes and being the main event. Same thing sort of happened with this with JBL implying it was The Undertakers final match and the report they were bringing back JR and becoming the main event.
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Post by Adam Black on Apr 6, 2017 1:36:40 GMT -5
I know we all hate Roman and Taker should've left years ago but I really liked that match. I cried a bit during the ending especially when they turned off all the lights and had one last Undertaker gong.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Apr 6, 2017 8:59:52 GMT -5
Charles Robinson just tweeted that it was Taker's last match. Undertaker's yes. But Mean Mark never retired. Just saying.
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Post by saintpat on Apr 6, 2017 9:18:36 GMT -5
Do it soap opera style and let the Deadman live forever: "Now playing the role of the Undertaker, Baron Corbin."
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Post by The Peoples Elbow on Apr 20, 2017 11:33:20 GMT -5
Do it soap opera style and let the Deadman live forever: "Now playing the role of the Undertaker, Baron Corbin." Christ no! Especially Corbin of all people.
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