Chiral
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Post by Chiral on Mar 4, 2019 23:05:34 GMT -5
Dude's promo had all the coherence of a college presentation done five minutes before class. Also Batista killed Ric Flair and let's talk about Ric's son's passing. Also wrestling is fake but this feud is REAL. What the hell was this?
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denna5
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Post by denna5 on Mar 4, 2019 23:06:46 GMT -5
One of the most awkward promos ever and weird one to go shooty with.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 23:08:00 GMT -5
I’m pretty easy going when it comes to Triple H, but I feel like I changed to Netflix and came back 5 times before that promo ended.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 23:08:37 GMT -5
Who's Richard Fliehr?
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Post by Sparkybob on Mar 4, 2019 23:08:59 GMT -5
This is sometimes what you get when you allow the wrestlers to write their own promos
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Post by Perd on Mar 4, 2019 23:11:57 GMT -5
This is Ray Bradstone talking to Mr. Hinx.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 23:25:40 GMT -5
I like HHH, but that promo to me was even worse than Ronda talking about going off script on the internet because at least it was on the damn internet and not the actual show.
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Mar 4, 2019 23:26:43 GMT -5
Triple H is one of my all time favorites.
I think he should've left this one up to Puppet H.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 23:32:30 GMT -5
It's short for "Dick", if what Curt Hennig said was true.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 23:40:26 GMT -5
Triple H is one of my all time favorites. I think he should've left this one up to Puppet H. Puppet H would have kept it kayfabe. Remember the hell he raised on Smart Mark and his Dave Taylor shirt?
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Mar 4, 2019 23:41:59 GMT -5
And here I was worried about there already being a thread about how GOOD that promo was.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Mar 4, 2019 23:54:38 GMT -5
With the way he kept calling Ric Flair by his actual name, I was half expecting Trips to casually drop a "No, this isn't Triple H you're dealing with. This is Paul Levesque."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 23:55:19 GMT -5
Richard Fleihr... I’m done lmao. WHY was his real name necessary?
I don’t get these worked shoots. It’s like “Everyone knows it’s fake but LETS TRY TO CONVINCE THEM ITS REAL”
Nobody is f***ing buying it. They think by saying Paul Levesque in a promo, people are gonna think “OH SHIT ITS REAL NOW”?
I just can’t stand this garbage. And HHH is one of my all time favourites. What happened to a traditional blood feud without “real life shit”? Austin and Rock didn’t need it. Austin and Vince didn’t need it. Hogan and Savage didn’t need it. We all knew these guys were cool with each other in real life but you BELIEVED while watching it. Being told “This is all fake and doesn’t matter” just takes me out of the moment. I like to get invested. I can’t do that if they’re telling me it’s f***ing fake.
Rant over.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 23:57:28 GMT -5
Richard Fleihr... I’m done lmao. WHY was his real name necessary? I don’t get these worked shoots. It’s like “Everyone knows it’s fake but LETS TRY TO CONVINCE THEM ITS REAL” Nobody is f***ing buying it. They think by saying Paul Levesque in a promo, people are gonna think “OH SHIT ITS REAL NOW”? I just can’t stand this garbage. And HHH is one of my all time favourites. What happened to a traditional blood feud without “real life shit”? Austin and Rock didn’t need it. Austin and Vince didn’t need it. Hogan and Savage didn’t need it. We all knew these guys were cool with each other in real life but you BELIEVED while watching it. Being told “This is all fake and doesn’t matter” just takes me out of the moment. I like to get invested. I can’t do that if they’re telling me it’s f***ing fake. Rant over. I know Becky and Charlotte are best friends IRL and it didn't stop me from buying into their feud this past summer. There's just no art to this worked shoot shit. At least with Punk you can say he was able to blend kayfabe with real life perfectly, but I don't know what this is.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 0:03:00 GMT -5
And here I was worried about there already being a thread about how GOOD that promo was. Contrary to what WWE thinks, we don't like it when they go all "Shooty McShooterson" in their promos. We hated it when they did "This is Phil Brooks talking to Paul Levesque", so why does Trips think it's now cool for him to go "I need to talk about Richard Fliehr for a moment." We get our intelligence mocked as it is when they do dumb stuff, it's worse when they do faux-smart stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 0:06:39 GMT -5
Richard Fleihr... I’m done lmao. WHY was his real name necessary? I don’t get these worked shoots. It’s like “Everyone knows it’s fake but LETS TRY TO CONVINCE THEM ITS REAL” Nobody is f***ing buying it. They think by saying Paul Levesque in a promo, people are gonna think “OH SHIT ITS REAL NOW”? I just can’t stand this garbage. And HHH is one of my all time favourites. What happened to a traditional blood feud without “real life shit”? Austin and Rock didn’t need it. Austin and Vince didn’t need it. Hogan and Savage didn’t need it. We all knew these guys were cool with each other in real life but you BELIEVED while watching it. Being told “This is all fake and doesn’t matter” just takes me out of the moment. I like to get invested. I can’t do that if they’re telling me it’s f***ing fake. Rant over. I know Becky and Charlotte are best friends IRL and it didn't stop me from buying into their feud this past summer. There's just no art to this worked shoot shit. At least with Punk you can say he was able to blend kayfabe with real life perfectly, but I don't know what this is. Punks shoot kinda worked in kayfabe. He was pissed he wasn’t getting the recognition that Cena got. Granted it went downhill VERY quickly with the whole “This is Phil Brooks talking to Paul Levesque!”... taking away the god awful HHH/Diesel/Del Rio thing (that’s a whole different thread), for the most part, his promos were acceptable. As you said, there’s no art to it. It’s lazy and makes no sense. It’s like they do these little “nods” to get an initial reaction from the crowd... like “Oh shit, did he really just say that?”... but after that reaction, you realize none of it makes sense in the story. Somebody said it perfectly in another thread. It’s like Robert Di Niro breaking character in “Raging Bull” and saying “The only reason I’m taking these punches is because the script tells me to. I could knock out every one of these loser actors if I wanted to.”... now imagine somebody in that movie calling him Robert Di Niro and saying “Just one question.... is any of this real?”
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Post by Nickybojelais on Mar 5, 2019 0:14:16 GMT -5
So when did Russo get rehired?
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Post by Some Guy on Mar 5, 2019 1:05:48 GMT -5
For as much as people shit on worked shoot promos, it's REALLY easy to get the crowd into them. Yet they didn't buy this one at all, which shows you how bad it was.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 1:16:46 GMT -5
"I'll come to your fricken' house, how does that sound Dave?! Huh?! I'll even let you come over mine! You can have sex with Stephanie if you want. Yeah, you want that Dave?! YOU WANT IT?!" *takes jacket off, throws it down*
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Mar 5, 2019 1:20:04 GMT -5
"I'll come to your fricken' house, how does that sound Dave?! Huh?! I'll even let you come over mine! You can have sex with Stephanie if you want. Yeah, you want that Dave?! YOU WANT IT?!" *takes jacket off, throats it down*He is Bi a lot of things.
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