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Post by Kevin Hamilton on May 26, 2019 17:51:05 GMT -5
Not only does dude get out of a situation he'd been frustrated with, not only does he sign a new deal with a new company that's immediately made him one of their top focuses, not only did he escape the usual pettiness/burials that sometimes comes from WWE, but they sung his praises on the way out. Good for him. Ya let that dude walk WWE.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2019 17:53:12 GMT -5
They deserve this after how they abysmal they booked that heel turn.
Ambrose should have been a massive star when he returned last August. They really dropped the ball.
Oh well, he’s AEW’s now. Their loss.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on May 26, 2019 17:53:23 GMT -5
Dude is the man.
I said it in a AEW thread already, but this guy won the game by pretending he wasn't playing.
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Post by Perd on May 26, 2019 17:57:33 GMT -5
Remember when he turned heel and his gimmick was telling people/cities that they smell?
For the life of me I can’t figure why he wanted out.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2019 18:02:15 GMT -5
Smartest guy in wrestling today, even smarter than Lesnar because the thing is, Ambrose isn't disliked by anyone. He's loved by the companies, his peers, the fans. He's got it all.
It's an inspiration to not only wrestlers but to everyone alive that if you have a dream follow that shit. Take risks, you can accomplish it. Just be smart.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2019 18:03:01 GMT -5
It's amazing to me how a guy can have a HOF career and still feel like he wasn't able to scratch the surface of what he could do. That was Moxley in WWE.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2019 18:03:57 GMT -5
WWE is learning the hard way that this is a new breed of wrestler that stands up for what they believe in and they’re not the be all end all in wrestling anymore. They’re going to have to loosen the reigns and stop micromanaging everyone and everything or more and more people are going to walk. Vince’s old ass and his goons need to be forced out for any chance of change.You reap what you sow and the WWE is finding that out the hard way. There’s no reason to put up with their boring, formulaic nonsense anymore.
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Post by xxshoyuweeniexx on May 26, 2019 18:20:12 GMT -5
It's amazing to me how a guy can have a HOF career and still feel like he wasn't able to scratch the surface of what he could do. That was Moxley in WWE. There are a ton of guys like that in the past 10 years. Del Rio, Sheamus, Ziggler, etc. These dudes have so many titles, accolades and accomplishments over guys like Mr. Perfect and Ted DiBiase..but nobody really gives a shit because they’ve had 70 percent of their careers as afterthoughts.
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Post by salz4life on May 26, 2019 18:32:40 GMT -5
WWE screwed the pooch with him.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on May 26, 2019 18:34:14 GMT -5
WWE screwed the pooch with him. I had hopes he could be the next Steve Austin; heel Shane could probably have done a decent program with him.
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Post by Dub H on May 26, 2019 18:38:34 GMT -5
Yeh Moxley should easily been the biggest star from the shield.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on May 26, 2019 18:41:16 GMT -5
Dean got so high and still hadn't at all reached his ceiling, because he was never truly able to get his creative spark going. What he was meant a narrow few things to Vince, and Vince was never going to give up control and challenge those perceptions, and it sold a great talent short. The fact that he didn't stay because he couldn't be given the one single thing he wanted was amazing; money and friendship and Roman's cancer remission were all tools to try and make him stay but the idea that Dean be able to take stuff in his own direction could never be on the table.
I hope AEW gives him that freedom to perform on a great stage because those who've only seen Dean Ambrose have no idea how deep and how dark the depths are of Jon Moxley and what he can do.
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Post by spagett on May 26, 2019 18:42:16 GMT -5
I've seen a few people say this and I totally agree because I think if Roman Reigns hadn't been able to return when he did, we would have seen Ambrose have the usual petty burial from WWE for a guy on the way out.
It looked like they were weirdly building up an Ambrose Nia Jax feud where you imagine they'd have had Ambrose job.
But luckily Reigns came back, they reformed the Shield one last time and he got to leave with his head held high.
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Post by Cyno on May 26, 2019 18:46:27 GMT -5
Out of the three guys in the Shield, the one I knew the most about was Seth Rollins from his time in ROH as Tyler Black. But he and Dean had this "it" factor to them that I never really got from Roman at the time. After some missteps, they got Seth's booking to a point where he's clearly one of the top guys in the company while Dean never really got that.
Now that Dean's Jon Moxley again, he looked like a worldkiller at his AEW debut. Hope he gets the creative satisfaction there he didn't get in WWE.
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Post by bearned on May 26, 2019 18:47:03 GMT -5
Moxley is going to make serious bank for himself and AEW. Assuming they give him creative control because dude has a great mind for dis bizness.
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Post by Sparkybob on May 26, 2019 18:47:09 GMT -5
Just like most sports, sometimes top talent need to move on to another team to showcase their abilities.
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Post by Prince Petty on May 26, 2019 18:49:33 GMT -5
He was always the breakout star of the Shield. Not the most technically proficient wrestler, not the best looking, but the one with the It factor, the aura that just said 'I'm a star.' The WWE just wouldn't see it, and ended up losing out.
They couldn't wait to push him down into the role of Roman's buddy, and then they couldn't wait to make him second fiddle to AJ on Smackdown.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2019 18:51:23 GMT -5
Yeh Moxley should easily been the biggest star from the shield. I think he's easily the best of the three on the mic and the most charismatic. Rollins has him beat in ring, but even then, I always thought Moxley was super underrated as a worker.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on May 26, 2019 18:53:55 GMT -5
WWE screwed the pooch with him. I had hopes he could be the next Steve Austin; heel Shane could probably have done a decent program with him. 2016 post-Survivor Series could’ve had a heel Shane vs. Ambrose angle happen.
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Post by papagiorgio on May 26, 2019 18:54:10 GMT -5
It's amazing to me how a guy can have a HOF career and still feel like he wasn't able to scratch the surface of what he could do. That was Moxley in WWE. There are a ton of guys like that in the past 10 years. Del Rio, Sheamus, Ziggler, etc. These dudes have so many titles, accolades and accomplishments over guys like Mr. Perfect and Ted DiBiase..but nobody really gives a shit because they’ve had 70 percent of their careers as afterthoughts. Title runs don't mean the same today as they did back then. Two single belts and a tag belt, plus most title reigns were long.
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