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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 15:29:29 GMT -5
Basically times where the company says or does something thinking the fans will believe it. I'll get some easy ones out of the way first.
- The crowd's chanting "Let's go Ziggler" and immediately after Lawler says "Listen to the WWE Universe, they're chantin let's go Sheamus!!!" - The company claiming they planned Bryan's rise to main event WM30
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Post by BorneAgain on Dec 21, 2017 15:32:17 GMT -5
Most of Michael Cole's claims could go here
-Batista never going up to the top rope before -No one ever manhandling the Undertaker like this -Doubt about John Cena lifting someone heavy for the AA
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Dec 21, 2017 15:33:28 GMT -5
Vince- We listen to our fans. *continues booking Roman as a face*
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Post by Slanted and Enchanted on Dec 21, 2017 15:39:58 GMT -5
Remember that time when WWE let the viewers decide what sort of match John Cena should have against the Wyatt Family and they overwhelmingly chose the 3 on 1 handicap match VS any of the normal 1 on 1 options? And the following week how Cena and the announcers berated the WWE Universe and basically called them out as heels and he eventually goes on to destroy the Wyatts while commentary continued to put him over as the babyface? Yeah, they don't think very highly of us man lol.
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Dec 21, 2017 15:42:31 GMT -5
Having Daniel Bryan enter at No.10 in the Rumble, last about 10 minutes, then conveniently he's eliminated a few entrants before Roman Reigns joins the match.
Like the crowd would just be like "Oh well, we've had our fill of Daniel Bryan. Let's go Roman Reigns!"
EDIT: Not only that but they had two of the top heels (Rusev and Wyatt) eliminate Bryan just as an extra measure, and then had Big Show and Kane also eliminate all the other top guys the fans might want to win (Ambrose, Ziggler, Bray) leaving it all down to Reigns. And then they had The Rock show up and raise Roman's hand!
Just going through all of this again really cements this being the most transparent lazy attempt I've ever seen WWE try to manipulate the crowd and get someone cheered.
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Post by angryfan on Dec 21, 2017 15:50:21 GMT -5
Vince- We listen to our fans. *continues booking Roman as a face* OK, Vince can be right as long as we use a different definition of fan. To us, fan being short for fanatic, is someone who likes a show, team, product, movie or some other entertainment medium. That's now what a fan is to them, I don't think. To them, someone who likes wrestling, whether WWE exclusively or everything, is not a fan. That person is part of their "audience" and to them their audience will never go away, never shrink, and never stop giving them money. A fan is part of the casual audience or non-viewer who will tune in to RAW or Smackdown, and it's them that they pursue. Moreoever, the "smark" towns, while absolutely central to their survival, towns like New York, Boston, Philly, Los Angeles, Chicago, and so on, they are already considered "audience". Thus, if they don't like something, it doesn't matter, because that's not who Vicne wants to target. Now, if Peoria hates it, then that matters, because they're not "audience", they're the "hey, WWE is in town, let's go check it out" audience that Vince sees as all important. So yes, they in one sense "listen to the fans" because the fans are only those who dont' already like or haven't ever liked the product. Once they reach that point, they are audience, and no longer matter.
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Post by PTBartman on Dec 21, 2017 15:50:24 GMT -5
Days that end in Y.
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 21, 2017 15:51:05 GMT -5
My memory is really shit on this... but I seem to remember a match a week before a PPV where Cena (at least I think it was Cena) ended up in one of those heel-manager booked matches where it was 2 on 1. And one of the two guys Cena was wrestling; well, he was wrestling in a solo 1 on 1 match the next week on PPV. And after winning the 2 on 1 match CLEANLY they still had to sell that Cena was the underdog in the 1 on 1 match 6 days later.
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Post by CeilingFan on Dec 21, 2017 15:53:45 GMT -5
The whole situation between Hulk Hogan and Sid Justice. Sid eliminates Hogan at the Royal Rumble, then Hogan causes Sid to be eliminated. Somehow, Sid is the heel in all of this.
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Dec 21, 2017 15:58:48 GMT -5
Yeah. Just the company as a whole.
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Post by Johnny on Dec 21, 2017 16:03:17 GMT -5
- The company claiming they planned Bryan's rise to main event WM30 When did they claim this?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 16:05:27 GMT -5
always.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 16:16:47 GMT -5
- The company claiming they planned Bryan's rise to main event WM30 When did they claim this? Some years ago Triple H and Stephanie had this really long interview either on Forbes or WWE.com where they talked about a lot of things and one of them was Bryan's rise. They pretty much played it up as if they knew it would happen and it was part of their plan. Wish I could find that interview but I'm not able to right now.
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Post by Sad sack ass fruitbooty on Dec 21, 2017 17:05:11 GMT -5
Changing CW Anderson’s name to Charles W. Anderson because people may confuse his name with the name of the network Smackdown aired on.
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Post by Rave on Dec 21, 2017 17:13:35 GMT -5
My memory is really shit on this... but I seem to remember a match a week before a PPV where Cena (at least I think it was Cena) ended up in one of those heel-manager booked matches where it was 2 on 1. And one of the two guys Cena was wrestling; well, he was wrestling in a solo 1 on 1 match the next week on PPV. And after winning the 2 on 1 match CLEANLY they still had to sell that Cena was the underdog in the 1 on 1 match 6 days later. Do you mean the Monday before SurSer 2011, where Cena murked Awesome Truth by himself and thus made the PPV scheduled tag match between them and him and Rock look like a complete joke?
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Post by captainhindsite on Dec 21, 2017 18:26:25 GMT -5
The night after wrestlemania raw crowd is crazy. They boo who would usually get cheered and cheer who would usually get booed.
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 21, 2017 18:33:37 GMT -5
My memory is really shit on this... but I seem to remember a match a week before a PPV where Cena (at least I think it was Cena) ended up in one of those heel-manager booked matches where it was 2 on 1. And one of the two guys Cena was wrestling; well, he was wrestling in a solo 1 on 1 match the next week on PPV. And after winning the 2 on 1 match CLEANLY they still had to sell that Cena was the underdog in the 1 on 1 match 6 days later. Do you mean the Monday before SurSer 2011, where Cena murked Awesome Truth by himself and thus made the PPV scheduled tag match between them and him and Rock look like a complete joke? That might be it. I just know it involved trying to sell a match right after Cena totally destroyed whomever he was wrestling in a handicapped match That's probably it
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Dec 21, 2017 18:34:39 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 18:38:58 GMT -5
Arguably the most famous example...Fake Razor Ramon and Fake Diesel.
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Post by fw91 on Dec 21, 2017 18:39:16 GMT -5
every time they dismiss the post wrestlemania raw crowd as "unusual"
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