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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Dec 19, 2017 22:00:21 GMT -5
Holy shit dude, I thought Absolution was bad but Riott Squad are the worst thing.
Ignoring how bad Charlotte and Naomi's Promo to start was, out come Riott Squad, with no Mics, to get verbally shredded by a cringy ass Naomi and Charlotte to immediately transition into a Tag Match where they lose clean, easily. To The Rear View.
I like Ruby a lot and I feel like she's been given the worst shaft in this whole thing. And I get WHY they probably weren't given mics to talk, but that doesn't make it any better really when they just come out and get wrecked. This Stable went from taking out Becky and Naomi to one Gay Meat Later being absolutely fed to the wolves.
Top Loading for your HISTORIC Rumble kinda sucks when you have two stables full of green women who can't work and you aren't willing to MAKE WORK.
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Post by Thunderbolt on Dec 19, 2017 22:50:04 GMT -5
one Gay Meat Later being absolutely fed to the wolves. Gay Meat has wrecked a lot of careers.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Dec 19, 2017 23:10:18 GMT -5
one Gay Meat Later being absolutely fed to the wolves. Gay Meat has wrecked a lot of careers. It has quite the Community.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Dec 19, 2017 23:15:10 GMT -5
To quote Jim Cornette, "sometimes bad booking can derail a good talent and a bad talent can derail good booking."
The Riott Squad had a great introduction were they just killed everyone, but Liv Morgan unfortunately turned out into a really awful performer.
If this group gets disbanded and the three of them become jobbers then it was because of Morgan.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Dec 19, 2017 23:18:40 GMT -5
To quote Jim Cornette, "sometimes bad booking can derail a good talent and a bad talent can derail good booking." The Riott Squad had a great introduction were they just killed everyone, but Liv Morgan unfortunately turned out into a really awful performer. If this group gets disbanded and the three of them become jobbers then it was because of Morgan. It was not just because of Morgan, Logan's talking was TERRIBLE, her accent especially. And the whole idea of the stable happening a day after Absolution and being a seemingly cookie cutter copy with very vague motives, even vaguer than Absolution themselves, was a disaster all around.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Dec 19, 2017 23:19:43 GMT -5
To quote Jim Cornette, "sometimes bad booking can derail a good talent and a bad talent can derail good booking." The Riott Squad had a great introduction were they just killed everyone, but Liv Morgan unfortunately turned out into a really awful performer. If this group gets disbanded and the three of them become jobbers then it was because of Morgan. It was not just because of Morgan, Logan's talking was TERRIBLE, her accent especially. And the whole idea of the stable happening a day after Absolution and being a seemingly cookie cutter copy with very vague motives, even vaguer than Absolution themselves, was a disaster all around. Vince is gonna send her to enunciation school just like he did to Tony Schiavone.
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Post by freeze Austin on Dec 19, 2017 23:22:18 GMT -5
one Gay Meat Later being absolutely fed to the wolves. Gay Meat has wrecked a lot of careers. At least Gay Meat isn't prezajizzish, unlike Dany'all Brain.
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Post by xCompackx on Dec 19, 2017 23:23:21 GMT -5
Yeah, I'd get Ruby Riot the f*** away from the other two and turn her face so at least someone can be salvaged from this mess. Liv and Sarah need, at absolute minimum, a year in NXT, if only so they learn not to attack your stable mate in a brawl.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Dec 19, 2017 23:28:20 GMT -5
Yeah, I'd get Ruby Riot the f*** away from the other two and turn her face so at least someone can be salvaged from this mess. Liv and Sarah need, at absolute minimum, a year in NXT, if only so they learn not to attack your stable mate in a brawl. Sarah needs a mute gimmick.
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Dec 19, 2017 23:51:14 GMT -5
I think it's obvious with how they were treated tonight that they've given up on them or at the least are really hitting the brakes on them, and I really can't blame them at all. Riott is fine but both Logan and Morgan have done nothing to impress while also being downright terrible most of the time, including at the PPV where they both somehow struggled with the daunting job of being lumberjacks. Also I don't want to hear the usual they weren't ready and they should've stayed in NXT blah blah blah ..... excuse. Morgan was in NXT for three or four years so there's no excuse why she's still not any good. It was time to sink or swim and both her and Logan are sinking fast.
The writing team do still deserves quite a bit of blame too though as the idea and concept of the group in general was a terrible idea especially with them debuting the other three women group on Raw and blatantly doing the same layout (goth leader, pretty blonde, brunette bruiser), while also mirroring the same booking from week to week. They also don't go together at all both from a gimmick or visual standpoint. Why is a goth girl hanging with a country bumpkin and the preppy cheerleader looking girl? They look the three least likely girls that would be hanging with each other. At least with Absolustion there's a history backstory with Paige being one of the judges on the Tough Enough show that Mandy and Sonya were on. With the Riott Squad it's just a hodge podge group that was hastily thrown together out of nowhere clearly out of laziness from the writing team and the fact that they needed more bodies for the women's Royal Rumble match there doing.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Dec 20, 2017 0:00:13 GMT -5
I think it's obvious with how they were treated tonight that they've given up on them or at the least are really hitting the brakes on them, and I really can't blame them at all. Riott is fine but both Logan and Morgan have done nothing to impress while also being downright terrible most of the time, including at the PPV where they both somehow struggled with the daunting job of being lumberjacks. Also I don't want to hear the usual they weren't ready and they should've stayed in NXT blah blah blah ..... excuse. Morgan was in NXT for three or four years so there's no excuse why she's still not any good. It was time to sink or swim and both her and Logan are sinking fast. The writing team do still deserves quite a bit of blame too though as the idea and concept of the group in general was a terrible idea especially with them debuting the other three women group on Raw and blatantly doing the same layout (goth leader, pretty blonde, brunette bruiser), while also mirroring the same booking from week to week. They also don't go together at all both from a gimmick or visual standpoint. Why is a goth girl hanging with a country bumpkin and the preppy cheerleader looking girl? They look the three least likely girls that would be hanging with each other. At least with Absolustion there's a history backstory with Paige being one of the judges on the Tough Enough show that Mandy and Sonya were on. With the Riott Squad it's just a hodge podge group that was hastily thrown together out of nowhere clearly out of laziness from the writing team and the fact that they needed more bodies for the women's Royal Rumble match there doing. On top of that I feel like all five women were never really given the chance to GROW in NXT. The Asuka period has a lot to factor into that, but Ruby Riott was like the only one who really had any sort of meaningful run and connection to any sort of a character, and I feel like she had more of story to tell. It's becoming quite obvious these girls were forced up due to the Rumble, and aren't ready to actually be on the main roster because they don't even seem to have a handle on themselves yet. Which only infuriates me more about the whole Women's Rumble thing, they don't care about the women, characters, storylines, etc. They just care about the fact they can do it to create a buzz, and that is disgusting.
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Post by Slanted and Enchanted on Dec 20, 2017 0:04:28 GMT -5
A real shame, not many people had the chance to see Ruby Riot as a singles babyface in NXT and she was really good in that role. Somebody thought that bumping her to the main roster and giving her a stable was a promotion but it's possibly going to hurt her because of the two doofuses she got paired with.
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Dec 20, 2017 0:07:58 GMT -5
I've said from the get go that these are two of the shittiest stables I've ever seen. It's as if SmackDown watched Raw's stable and said "Let's do that, but shittier." Or "Let's do that...crap there's no one available, screw it do it anyway."
Like this may be worse than the Kevin Sullivan, Konnan, Hugh Morris, Jaqueline stable.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Dec 20, 2017 0:11:33 GMT -5
A real shame, not many people had the chance to see Ruby Riot as a singles babyface in NXT and she was really good in that role. Somebody thought that bumping her to the main roster and giving her a stable was a promotion but it's possibly going to hurt her because of the two doofuses she got paired with. In that same vein, it sucks to see so many writing off Logan already, largely based off her promos. She had a great match with Mia Yim in the first round of the Mae Young Classic, one of the better matches of the whole tournament in fact, so that already puts her above half the SmackDown roster in terms of ability. But hey, she’s got a funny accent so f*** her off, am I right?
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Post by Facetious on Dec 20, 2017 0:14:53 GMT -5
I'm still baffled that someone thought that debuting two trio women stables of randos LITERALLY a day apart was a good idea. They took a solid lead, a green as shit blonde, and a name drawn out of a hat for the third member and threw it against the wall.
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Dec 20, 2017 0:24:16 GMT -5
A real shame, not many people had the chance to see Ruby Riot as a singles babyface in NXT and she was really good in that role. Somebody thought that bumping her to the main roster and giving her a stable was a promotion but it's possibly going to hurt her because of the two doofuses she got paired with. In that same vein, it sucks to see so many writing off Logan already, largely based off her promos. She had a great match with Mia Yim in the first round of the Mae Young Classic, one of the better matches of the whole tournament in fact, so that already puts her above half the SmackDown roster in terms of ability. But hey, she’s got a funny accent so f*** her off, am I right? I don't think it's the accent but more of her pacing and delivery of lines that people have a problem with. Most of the lines written for her are admittedly bad but she deserves a good bit of the blame too. It's also not just her promos that are a problem as she also has really bad instincts which was evident in the lumberjack match. Everyone brings up Liv attacking her own teammate which was pretty terrible, but Logan was bad as well At one point Lana was hitting from her behind during the brawl. Sarah sold it for a second and then just continued attacking whoever it was that was in front of her instead of doing the natural thing and turning around to react to who was hitting her from behind. Just simple little things like that, that makes it clear she needs a little a lot of work.
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Post by Old Jack Burton on Dec 20, 2017 0:47:23 GMT -5
Riott Squad seems like an afterthought tacked on to make sure RAW and Smackdown are "equal". You won't pry any of the main women on NXT out of HHH's hands so Ruby, Sarah, and Liv get sent up to sink or swim. So far: sinking.
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Post by HisRoyalGreeness on Dec 20, 2017 2:19:45 GMT -5
If they’d have brought up the Iconic Duo instead and brought in Riot as a singles act things would probably be looking a lot better right now.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Dec 20, 2017 2:24:24 GMT -5
A real shame, not many people had the chance to see Ruby Riot as a singles babyface in NXT and she was really good in that role. Somebody thought that bumping her to the main roster and giving her a stable was a promotion but it's possibly going to hurt her because of the two doofuses she got paired with. In that same vein, it sucks to see so many writing off Logan already, largely based off her promos. She had a great match with Mia Yim in the first round of the Mae Young Classic, one of the better matches of the whole tournament in fact, so that already puts her above half the SmackDown roster in terms of ability. But hey, she’s got a funny accent so f*** her off, am I right? I know how great of a worker Mary Dobson is, but this gimmick has no shelf life. She is a good worker that won't get anywhere with this gimmick and promo cutting skill. Also she needs a better finisher other than "Kick". She just hasn't been presented well and needed way more time in NXT. A feud with Cross would have done her a world of good to also find her character.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Dec 20, 2017 2:25:18 GMT -5
If they’d have brought up the Iconic Duo instead and brought in Riot as a singles act things would probably be looking a lot better right now. Or just bring up the three ladies... and have them all do their own thing. That also would have worked. Instead they're all stuck together in this dynamic that does not work, at all.
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