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Post by autisticgeordie on Dec 13, 2019 9:01:59 GMT -5
I'm personally a fan of Joey Janela because he's got a cool 1980s asthetic and he's been doing really well for himself in AEW and showing that he doesn't need to do all that deathmatch stuff to be a great wrestler, he's just a great wrestler who also happens to love hurling himself into things that shouldn't be hurled into.
But are we ever going to find out how he bound and gagged Tully Blanchard? I get that Tully's past his prime, but it's not like someone who looks like Joey is hard to see coming. I thought that the feud with Shawn and Joey was over and they'd go on to do other stuff.
That said, I'd be down if this lead to Tully having a Heenan Family style faction and managing Kip Sabian as well as Shawn since Kip hasn't really been given a chance to shine since that match with Hangman Page.
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Dec 13, 2019 10:05:58 GMT -5
My big issue was the way the ropes were just kinda draped over Tully.
If you aren't going to convincingly tie him up, use handcuffs.
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Post by autisticgeordie on Dec 13, 2019 10:35:46 GMT -5
My big issue was the way the ropes were just kinda draped over Tully. If you aren't going to convincingly tie him up, use handcuffs. Janela seems like the dude who you'd believe carries handcuffs on him 24/7; so I could buy that. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2019 10:55:13 GMT -5
Joey probably pretended to be an UPS delivery man
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2019 10:57:22 GMT -5
I thought that the feud with Shawn and Joey was over and they'd go on to do other stuff. I mean, their last interaction was Spears interfering to eliminate Janela in the battle royal, don't really see why you'd think it was over. |
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Post by autisticgeordie on Dec 13, 2019 11:00:16 GMT -5
I thought that the feud with Shawn and Joey was over and they'd go on to do other stuff. I mean, their last interaction was Spears interfering to eliminate Janela in the battle royal, don't really see why you'd think it was over. Not really sure, honestly, I just imagined that they'd be interested in moving Joey up the card a bit. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 13, 2019 12:56:34 GMT -5
I thought this was one of their worst spots so far.
Firstly, they got too many people and events with the blackout gimmick.
Secondly, Tully didn't exactly need a safe word to get out of those ropes, did he?
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Post by Chainsaw on Dec 13, 2019 14:43:45 GMT -5
My big issue was the way the ropes were just kinda draped over Tully. If you aren't going to convincingly tie him up, use handcuffs. Yeah, I couldn't get past this, since they needed Tully to be able to run off during the scrum. The ropes looked awful though, if they're going to do that, just have him lay down as if Janela beat the shit out of him. Don't half ass this stuff. |
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Post by RareTradU on Dec 13, 2019 14:51:07 GMT -5
The way the ropes were so loose and how Tully just kinda ran off I halfway expect Tully to turn on Spears and join Janela.
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Post by Shark on Dec 13, 2019 18:40:05 GMT -5
Wouldn't it have been more impactful to just have Janela drag out a bloodied and beaten Tully out from the back?
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Dec 13, 2019 18:58:00 GMT -5
Wouldn't it have been more impactful to just have Janela drag out a bloodied and beaten Tully out from the back? I think they wanted to play on Spears’s entrance routine, but maybe they didn’t want to run the risk of Janela getting heat for beating up an old wrestling legend so they went for merely tying him up. The rope definitely could have stood to look less flimsy though. |
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Post by autisticgeordie on Dec 13, 2019 18:59:09 GMT -5
Wouldn't it have been more impactful to just have Janela drag out a bloodied and beaten Tully out from the back? I think they wanted to play on Spears’s entrance routine, but maybe they didn’t want to run the risk of Janela getting heat for beating up an old wrestling legend so they went for merely tying him up. The rope definitely could have stood to look less flimsy though. In fairness, that old wrestling legend was a king of the assholes back in the 1980s, he would've had it coming, in kayfabe. |
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Post by lildude8218 on Dec 13, 2019 21:02:42 GMT -5
I thought it was Lenny Lane
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Dec 14, 2019 21:06:22 GMT -5
Tully looked so apathetic during all of that.
Like, it just seemed like such a minor inconvenience for him to be tied up.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Dec 15, 2019 3:48:02 GMT -5
I thought this was one of their worst spots so far. Firstly, they got too many people and events with the blackout gimmick. Secondly, Tully didn't exactly need a safe word to get out of those ropes, did he? What people think of the spot aside, the blackout part was completely justified. Janela was mocking Spears's entrance, which starts with a blackout. It wasn't just for the sake of it like that time Cody did it. |
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Post by autisticgeordie on Dec 15, 2019 3:52:59 GMT -5
Tully looked so apathetic during all of that. Like, it just seemed like such a minor inconvenience for him to be tied up. He's probably been through worse. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 15, 2019 4:24:08 GMT -5
I wonder if part of Tully not selling it more is due to probable exposure to Gary Hart and other very oldschool managers who didn't beg off to the extent of a Jimmy Hart or Heenan, but remain defiant with faces to try to keep their heat. That's something you can very easily do wrong, but I think it's fine here. He's a tough old bastard who's even meaner spirited than he was in his youth, kayfabe-wise. He spiked Janela with his Spears onto concrete, after all. You don't necessarily expect him to sell being captured like he's Vince with the gun to his head by Austin.
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Post by heyguesswhatidid on Dec 16, 2019 12:54:48 GMT -5
Tully just wanted to be tied up by a bad boy.
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Post by Chainsaw on Dec 16, 2019 14:41:06 GMT -5
I thought this was one of their worst spots so far. Firstly, they got too many people and events with the blackout gimmick. Secondly, Tully didn't exactly need a safe word to get out of those ropes, did he? What people think of the spot aside, the blackout part was completely justified. Janela was mocking Spears's entrance, which starts with a blackout. It wasn't just for the sake of it like that time Cody did it. I didn't even catch that angle, good point. They do need to ease off the blackout stuff, tho. |
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Post by ogreknee on Dec 16, 2019 21:13:09 GMT -5
Again the bookers love showing their fetishes on tv
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