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Post by Tenshigure on Mar 26, 2019 21:44:54 GMT -5
So I basically COMPLETELY missed SDL because I was busy with work...and tuned in just for the last 30 minutes or so with the tag team gauntlet, FULLY unaware this happened.
I...I just don't care about this match anymore. Every single little bit of possible goodwill they had built up over the last 6 months, they absolutely destroyed in less than 30 days. All of the overbooking, the contrived storyline threads, the injuries and straight mockery of the very business you claim to be in...I just am having a hard time caring what the end result is anymore. I just don't care who wins, I don't care who loses, I just want it to END already.
Congrats, WWE. You've found a female equivalent of Reigns vs Lesnar, and took what should have been a historic match and made it into something I can't even muster up the motivation to even find a good meme gif to response with my frustrations.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 21:47:40 GMT -5
It’s ok. They promised Asuka a role in Marine 27: Tokyo Takedown. Japanese Title: Revenge Strike! Generalissimo Takada's Tokyo Plot!! -Marine 7- Starring The Miz, Asuka, Becky Lynch and Nobuhiko Takada Directed by Takashi Miiki and the villan is Bruce Lee Frog
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Mar 26, 2019 21:48:34 GMT -5
She has had EIGHT title reigns already? Jesus! Yep she beat Trish Straus record who took years to get 7 wins. At tbis rate alexa will beat Trish records soon Trish’s 7 reigns came in under 5 years. And one of those title reigns lasted well over a year. It’s not like those reigns were over a decade or more
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 21:53:24 GMT -5
In fairness I thought the curtain call was super lame when the NXT girls did it too. Just not necessary. A lot of people want to see it, but I'm not one of them. It just wouldn't make sense for Becky's character to want to share the spotlight with Charlotte even after beating her and Ronda. Yeah I'm fine with it even being done after the show is over and they can put it online or whatever if they gotta get that "moment" in but it just shouldn't be on the shows themselves in my opinion. It undercuts the whole thing to me when you do that stuff on the main programming.
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Post by papagiorgio on Mar 26, 2019 21:54:40 GMT -5
Asuka was going to be put in some lame triple threat or fatal 4 way and the card is too bloated, so I'm ok with her losing the title to Charlotte. This gives more women to the women's battle royal if they have it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 21:56:05 GMT -5
If Becky wins and starts crying and hugging Charlotte, then the WWE would have messed up royally. As good as Becky has been in this role she some times comes off as cosplaying a bad ass (maybe because of her character pre breakout), so doing something as stupid as having her embrace Charlotte at the end of Mania just to get a photo op and good PR would be stupid as hell.
So it will totally happen.
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Post by RadcapRadsley on Mar 26, 2019 22:04:33 GMT -5
If Becky wins and starts crying and hugging Charlotte, then the WWE would have messed up royally. As good as Becky has been in this role she some times comes off as cosplaying a bad ass (maybe because of her character pre breakout), so doing something as stupid as having her embrace Charlotte at the end of Mania just to get a photo op and good PR would be stupid as hell. So it will totally happen. It would be the biggest betrayal ever of a charecter if Becky hugs Charlotte after WM and a bigger break of kayfabe then anything Ronnie has done.
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Post by Shai on Mar 26, 2019 22:05:14 GMT -5
It's nepotism plain and simple. It's not REALLY Charlotte's fault but Vince don't even try to hide this shit anymore
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Mar 26, 2019 22:08:03 GMT -5
This is what happens when you write a show week by week and your ideas are bad
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 22:08:12 GMT -5
They already did Becky hugging and being all buddy buddy with Charlotte late last year after Becky turned heel on her so I fully expect them to do it again here.
Logic character logic
What are these things Vince has no time to play pictionary.
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Post by Fade on Mar 26, 2019 22:08:52 GMT -5
If Becky wins and starts crying and hugging Charlotte, then the WWE would have messed up royally. As good as Becky has been in this role she some times comes off as cosplaying a bad ass (maybe because of her character pre breakout), so doing something as stupid as having her embrace Charlotte at the end of Mania just to get a photo op and good PR would be stupid as hell. So it will totally happen. Of course they’re gonna hug lol. Yesterday and today were the first times I completely forgot about RAW or SD since..shit, I don’t even know. Saying that. Good: women’s titles should be unified. But poor Asuka, man.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 22:14:24 GMT -5
They already did Becky hugging and being all buddy buddy with Charlotte late last year after Becky turned heel on her so I fully expect them to do it again here. Logic character logic What are these things Vince has no time to play pictionary. She was at least able to play it off last time by saying she was concussed and not in the right frame of mind when she hugged her. Not sure how she'd go about doing it this time. I will say, though, if anything can get Becky and Charlotte to bury the hatchet it should be them fighting each other in the first ever women's WM main event. Do I want it to happen? Nah, they should still be enemies but on different shows. Love them together, but they gotta move onto different feuds before it becomes played out like Owens vs. Zayn.
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Post by Dat Dude on Mar 26, 2019 22:16:22 GMT -5
youtu.be/qGf4NnhsXlkMod Edit: Careful, uncensored swears can show up on embedded YouTube video preview screens.
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Post by cabbageboy on Mar 26, 2019 22:23:58 GMT -5
This was quite jarring. I need to see if they make this a unification match because otherwise what is the point? Is the whole point going to be that Charlotte is playing with house money, that she can't lose her belt but could in theory unify both? Would that be used to set up a match with the winner for both belts if she does not win?
I'm not entirely shocked by this. In the current booking the SD women's belt means basically nothing. It needs to just be unified with the Raw title. Before this change tonight we were looking at a lame 4 way with Mandy Rose, Sonya Deville, Naomi, and Carmella to determine a #1 contender. That had zero heat. Put all of them in the battle royale and let Asuka steamroll all of them to lay a claim to being #1 contender again.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 22:24:39 GMT -5
They're gonna end WM with all them holding the titles, absolutely. Just, man this was gross. If they wanted that they should NOT have gone about doing it like this. And if not that? They're gonna have a unification for both titles. Either way they want to have a moment and see, this is why that "let's make a WM moment" shit is stupid. You don't go out of your way to do shit like this. It hurts everyone involved. Glancing at that gif, dude applauding makes it look like Becky is doing the Warrior running on the spot, leg pumping gig.
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Post by HMARK Center on Mar 26, 2019 22:26:12 GMT -5
Man, this company really has no clue what to do with Asuka, huh?
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Mar 26, 2019 22:32:49 GMT -5
WWE are throwing so much bling at this match because they’re terrified that the HISTORIC first women’s Mania aim event won’t be considered a big deal
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Post by theironyuppie on Mar 26, 2019 22:46:33 GMT -5
I completely get the frustration, but at least it was an excellent match that once again showed the tremendous chemistry Asuka and Charlotte have. It wasn't a five minute squash, you know?
I personally doubt its going to be a unification match at Mania (so far tonight they've kept referring to the triple threat as for the Raw women's title only), simply because its only six months until SDL goes to Fox, and I think having unified titles across both networks isn't the best idea. Plus Fox has already been using Charlotte pretty heavily in their promotion (her and Becky have been featured in the ads they show during Nascar, and she did a corporate panel with Fox Sports last week) so it makes sense on that level.
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Post by theironyuppie on Mar 26, 2019 22:51:39 GMT -5
Also, while its very easy to get angry at booking, Allison Glock's ESPN profile of Charlotte from last year has a beautiful description of wrestling as an art where the wrestlers are just players trying to make the best of what they're given:
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 26, 2019 22:57:57 GMT -5
You know what the worst part really is? As soon as the dirtsheets came out that it would pertain to the Triple Threat, everyone was like "They're gonna ruin Asuka for the sake of Charlotte and for the sake of Becky having the biggest moment possible"
The worst case scenario paranoia shouldn't ACTUALLY BE WHAT HAPPENS, but with the WWE it is what ALWAYS HAPPENS and it's disgusting.
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