hassanchop
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Who are you to doubt Belldandy?
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Post by hassanchop on May 26, 2019 23:00:29 GMT -5
A feud with Scott Steiner rekindling their feud from WCW.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on May 26, 2019 23:14:08 GMT -5
Even if he lost the next month, he still won in the biggest spotlight.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on May 26, 2019 23:16:05 GMT -5
Even if he lost the next month, he still won in the biggest spotlight. Exactly. Even squashed the next night he won on the grandest stage, which was the whole idea. If WWE felt like it absolutely HAD to be HHH vs Goldberg they still had endless ways to get there other than this. Or indeed, even if Booker had to lose at WM, they could have quelled a ton of the snark by making it a contest. 23 goddamn seconds before a pin. That is indefensible.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2019 6:49:23 GMT -5
He didn't even have to win, imo. The worst facet is that NOTHING came of that line. It wasn't a "new" part of HHH's character, he just got to say some horrible racist shit to a minority and then "beat" him. It didn't continue that "HHH constant thinking less of other races bites him in the ass" or "the locker room can handle a douchebag, but oddly racist hhh is causing dissension". To me that's truly awful writing, just doing/saying whatever to get to the end of the scene and starting the next without any of it adhering or tying together. Many other reasons aside, a reason I love One Piece is actions, words, plot, characters are defined, they come up later- pay off, a trait or conversation from 30 books ago has natural fruition period, your time invested and pouring over panels is rewarded. You can "guess" what most characters will say or how they'd react to a scenario w detail because they're 3 dimensional. Hhh just became oddly racist for 4 weeks then was dancing w new day. Years later? Yes. O.P has been going 20 years Edit:never seen match. 23 seconds? Damn. Someone's mad his pedigree was Warrior'd
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Post by eJm on May 27, 2019 8:37:34 GMT -5
Even if he lost the next month, he still won in the biggest spotlight. Pretty much. Like, imagine that HOF package with instead of him winning as King Booker, him winning the world title then. “BOOKER T HAS WON THE WORLD TITLE AT WRESTLEMANIA!” with the crowd going crazy and after that kind of feud would have been iconic.
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TGM
Hank Scorpio
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Post by TGM on May 27, 2019 9:43:19 GMT -5
I'll go the third option and say this match shouldn't have happened at all. It was a pathetic boring match even before the horrible finish. The feud building to it was terrible, I don't need to say anymore.
Booker T should have earned his main event status years earlier by being WCWs top wrestler. Even as a kid it was jarring for me to see Booker T play a bumbling idiot with Shane McMahon covering his ass. Booker vs The Rock should have been face v face, two awesome wrestlers carrying the flag of their promotion into battle.
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The Ichi
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Post by The Ichi on May 27, 2019 12:11:54 GMT -5
It wouldn't even have mattered to me if it was a short reign, but he should have won on that night. There's literally zero logical defense of it.
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EyeofTyr
Hank Scorpio
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Post by EyeofTyr on May 27, 2019 12:34:07 GMT -5
In an ideal, hindsight ridden world you have Booker hold onto the belt, avoid H having as much of a reign of terror and getting injured as champion, and give yourself more time building up to Goldberg having a title match.
I'd say maybe have Booker keep the title till Summerslam, have the match go down relatively similar to how it went down in real life and that lead to H winning the title back and into Goldberg chasing after the title and him into the fall. With Booker getting his rematch somewhere in there at some point and letting H survive him through shenanigans.
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Post by thegame415 on May 27, 2019 12:54:40 GMT -5
I think he holds it until dropping it to HHH at Bad Blood.
Yes, I know it was in Houston, and I did it to get heat on HHH.
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the2ndevil
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Where Is Your Santa, Now?
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Post by the2ndevil on May 27, 2019 13:17:50 GMT -5
A whole lot less complaining on the internet. Please don’t lie to me like that.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on May 27, 2019 14:26:38 GMT -5
It was a feud that wasn’t even supposed to happen, they were going with Steiner until he shit the bed twice.
Allegedly they were so desperate that they were considering a unification match with the wwe champion, Booker was the last hour choice.
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Post by MAD TITAN on May 27, 2019 20:23:36 GMT -5
The person that doesn't get enough credit during that whole Booker T buildup was The Rock for putting him over in that battle royal.
Even clapped when he was outside the ring at Booker LOL, Hollywood Rock.
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