Eli Drake on wrestling twitter feuds

[markymark]

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He’s not wrong.

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

Becky Lynch: Currently the hottest thing going in wrestling.

Eli Drake: Couldn't draw flies to horse shit.

Yeah, I know who's output I'm valuing more.

[Chainsaw]

Dummy No.

[Deleted]

He aint wrong

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If he were aiming this at Aries/Morrison or Sami/Eddie, or myriad other previous feuds I'd side with him more.

However Becky is currently the hottest thing in wrestling. Conversely I'd forgotten Eli Drake, a man known for being average at absolutely everything except industrial levels of blandness, existed until this.

So yeah. Bad choice.

Unless he's trying to segue this into Becky replying to him and getting some residual spotlight, in which case it's sad.

[Deleted]

I can sorta understand where he's coming from about oversaturation, but as long as people are doing entertaining shit in their feuds on TV people will tune in.

It doesn't always work out, but before Ronda's mishaps a couple days ago the Twitter promos were a big reason why people wanted to see Becky vs. Ronda.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Kevin Steen used social media and look where he is now.

Bryan changed booking plans because of that.

I disagree with Drake.

[FinalGwen]

I can definitely see the argument, having to keep working all the time on Twitter is a lot of extra emotional labour in an already stressful job, and it shouldn't be an obligation. But at the same time, it is one of the most easily accessible tools for self promotion that a wrestler has.

[The 1Watcher Experience]

If you’re interesting enough to make your twitter useful for you than more power to you. If you can’t there’s no need to be sour over it. Don’t knock the hustle.

[Final Countdown Jones]

Nah he's real wrong. Eli Drake is a buffoon who keeps slagging on anything that makes the business not what would make him the biggest star of it. Social media as a tool to build a match and sell a feud works. This current Ronda embarrassment is doing the idea no favours, but social media as a way to build interest and market oneself and their feuds is big for wrestlers these days. Also, nobody is tuning in to Impact in the f***ing first place, so Drake promising to talk his trash on a microphone doesn't mean much anyway. The promise of "this person will address the beatdown they got last week" is not a draw in the modern era and it is not going to move any needles, while social media means continued engagement through the week and through the story.

It's like that shit of him complaining promo skills and story should matter more in wrestling and used the example of calling Dean Malenko boring to underscore that. Drake's just an idiot who is going to do the things he wants to do and shittalk everything else that might be an element of wrestling that should matter.

[Deleted]

Twitter is weird. Personally I find it one of the most annoying things about wrestling because it doesn't really create chatter that I find helpful for a wrestling show most of the time. As someone who really doesn't pay much mind to it, the conversations started by wrestling Twitter usually comes across super gossipy; a lot of over dissecting tweets for double meanings and it creates an atmosphere where people invest in shows on this super meta level. So I'm with Drake on that notion, that you should be trying to move traffic to your actual work instead of making "online personality" your side gig which is how it comes off to me a lot of the time.

That's just my taste as someone who grew up with wrestling before social media when wrestlers (or entertainers in general) were far less accessible and had more of a mystique. For me, social media works against them in terms of them coming across as stars when everyone seemingly knows everything about everyone now.

[The Ichi]

If they got to be themselves more on tv, they wouldn't have to use Twitter.

[Rave]

Reminder that Eli Drake once tried to pick a fight with Kevin Owens on Twitter, unprovoked and for no reason.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Mar 3, 2019 12:59:25 GMT -5 Rave said:

Reminder that Eli Drake once tried to pick a fight with Kevin Owens on Twitter, unprovoked and for no reason.

Yeah he even made fun of his weight. KO never even responded lol.

[The Spelunker!]

Twitter is such a weird thing for wrestling. It’s great for letting people know about upcoming shows. But it definitely walks the line for most people where they’re both real and kayfabe on the same account. And it creates a lot of terrible scenarios where a wrestler steps in hot water trying to get heel heat and everyone just takes it as them being an ass. Beyond that, all kinds of wrestlers say stupid stuff on twitter on the reg anyways, even without trying to stay in character. It’s all just a mess I try to stay away from.

[Error]

Mar 2, 2019 23:39:23 GMT -5 Chainsaw said:

Dummy No.

He's got more followers than Impact has viewers. Not sure what that says about him or Impact that isn't sad.

[Final Countdown Jones]

Mar 5, 2019 1:08:30 GMT -5 Error said:

Mar 2, 2019 23:39:23 GMT -5 Chainsaw said:

Dummy No.

He's got more followers than Impact has viewers. Not sure what that says about him or Impact that isn't sad.

WHat I dig is what it says about the man's points in the first place if his twitter is reaching a better audience than the weekly TV show is.

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Eli's 2 day stubble gimmick

[Deleted]

I don’t even know who he is but he’s 100% right. Those Twitter back-and-forths are lame as hell(especially the way Becky and Ronda were doing it) since we know it’s not real and they’re more than likely sitting next to each other tweeting.