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Post by Hobby Drifter on Mar 6, 2019 9:55:50 GMT -5
This promo got me to resubscribe to the Network. This promo literally drew money. From a fan in Japan.
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Post by lookout on Mar 6, 2019 10:25:14 GMT -5
Wow this was so much more effective than the 5 hours of go-home Raw & SDL this week shame so few will see it. Isn't that the truth. It's amazing to me how often and how much more the actual talent can sell a program more so than some writers backstage. It's almost as if they know what they are doing and should be trusted with that responsibility as much as possible.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 11:14:43 GMT -5
Yeah, let's just shove that god-tier Flair/Punk/Austin at their best quality promo on Youtube. To be fair, Bryan cut this interview yesterday after his segments were done with. Bryan probably randomly thought of what he wanted to say there on the spot when they asked him for a post-SDL video, cut it and it ended up being great.
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Post by RI Richmark on Mar 6, 2019 11:22:42 GMT -5
Nitpicking here but Bryan never held the Universal Championship.
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Post by brettappedout (BLM) on Mar 6, 2019 12:24:47 GMT -5
I feel like these promos are for us aka hardcore fans and the ones they write for TV are for the casual crowds so it's simpler and easier to understand in WWE's mind/way of thinking. Sadly.
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Post by Moppy on Mar 6, 2019 12:24:52 GMT -5
Best in the world.
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Post by Pushed to the Moon on Mar 6, 2019 12:34:08 GMT -5
I love the way Bryan always points out how talented his opponents are. Just like he did with Styles.
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Post by pillmansgotagun on Mar 6, 2019 15:56:14 GMT -5
*Vince McMahon reacting to this promo backstage in between bites of steak wrap with extra ketchup*
“....I don’t get it, and where’s his tee shirt godammit! God I miss Cena, he used to make me piss my pants with those poopy lines ha ha ha...I wonder what Del Rio is up to these days, might give him call...”
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Post by The Legendary Ring Troll {BLM} on Mar 6, 2019 17:55:40 GMT -5
Nitpicking here but Bryan never held the Universal Championship. Yeah, when he said that, my first thought was he should've said World title, not Universal. Rest was great though.
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Post by Starshine on Mar 6, 2019 18:26:13 GMT -5
Nitpicking here but Bryan never held the Universal Championship. Yeah, when he said that, my first thought was he should've said World title, not Universal. Rest was great though. Probably meant to say "undisputed," or "unified," or whatever they called the two combined world belts back in '14.
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Post by Perd on Mar 6, 2019 18:32:32 GMT -5
He can do it all. He’s a great face. He’s a great heel. He can have a great match with just about anyone. And now he’s maybe the best promo in the company. I think it’s either him or Joe.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Mar 6, 2019 18:55:26 GMT -5
Bryan is the best thing going right now. Hope he stays at the top for a while.
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Post by trollrogue on Mar 7, 2019 1:36:00 GMT -5
This promo got me to resubscribe to the Network. This promo literally drew money. From a fan in Japan. Bryan revitalizing The Miz's career in a Talking Smack promo where he took the job on the mic to setup Miz's best promo of all time. Bryan selling the hell out of a match with BIG CASS of all people in this promo: And now this backstage promo, I'm beginning to think Daniel Bryan is on a Bret Hart or even Stone Cold level of selling ppv matches purely through promo ability alone. He's a great wrestler (more safe since the return of course) but it's good to know the WWE champ is literally one of the best there is/was/ever will be of talking too (Roman and his "ya'lls" crutch in his promos a Daniel Bryan sure ain't). When did DB win the Universal Title btw???
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Post by HMARK Center on Mar 7, 2019 6:13:46 GMT -5
Why. Don't. They. Air. These. On. TV.
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Post by Yacht Persona on Mar 7, 2019 8:22:53 GMT -5
To play devil's advocate it's not like he's wrong... Kevin is ridiculously talented, cuts amazing promos and is perfectly capable of being at the top. but multiple promoters have told him to lose weight and see his stock increase and he just flat-out refuses. I was honestly excited to see the pictures of him with his weight loss. We are finally going to see Kevin without that protruding gut coming out week after week. The man can do it all but I absolutely hate his look. I thought if anybody could motivate him enough to lose a bunch of weight it would be Vince. Vince likes his Drew McIntyre look with bodybuilding type physiques. Kevin Owens isn't a small guy and I'm sure if you were to work his ass off in gym he would look bulky and just the way the Vince likes and probably respect enough to put him in more main event spots. A lot of wrestling is the looks game. Eh, some of my favorite wrestlers have been the "fat guys"-- Earthquake, Bam Bam Bigelow, Samoa Joe, Mick Foley. Not everyone can be an underwear model.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Mar 7, 2019 15:49:04 GMT -5
Eh, some of my favorite wrestlers have been the "fat guys"-- Earthquake, Bam Bam Bigelow, Samoa Joe, Mick Foley. Not everyone can be an underwear model. Seriously Unless he's out of shape/his ring work is being hampered by his weight I see that as more of a shortcoming on Vince and Co if they're letting someone who could potentially be much bigger (no pun intended) just go to waste. You don't need to be built like a bodybuilder to look believably threatening. Owens looks like the type of tough bastard you wouldn't want to fight in a bar Dusty Rhodes had an even less flattering physiques than Owens but he still got OVER as an all time great
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Mar 7, 2019 15:52:05 GMT -5
And this is a guy people said couldn't talk. Jesus, Bryan is on some next level shit right now.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Mar 7, 2019 16:30:04 GMT -5
And this is a guy people said couldn't talk. Jesus, Bryan is on some next level shit right now. Honestly, there was a time when he couldn't. Not like this. It's only in his time in WWE that he tapped into and developed this. Dude put in the many hours to make this work and it's f***ing magical to see what he can do. There's really no metric by which he isn't an all-time top talent and once he got his mic work in check he came the total package. His whole WHC run/AJ Lee thing and then Team Hell No after that solidified it; that was the period at which he stopped being an indie outsider getting by on his prowess and became someone who had everything, because he took as WWE a story and act as you can get and the man made it f***ing work. When Bryan talks about his work ethic, dude's not joking.
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Post by Hit Girl on Mar 7, 2019 16:34:27 GMT -5
I love the way Bryan always points out how talented his opponents are. Just like he did with Styles. The best promos build up an opponent, even indirectly.
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Post by Pushed to the Moon on Mar 7, 2019 17:13:16 GMT -5
I love the way Bryan always points out how talented his opponents are. Just like he did with Styles. The best promos build up an opponent, even indirectly. Exactly. Seems they only get to do it in unscripted backstage promos that they make up themselves.
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