Corbin vs. Reigns

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I haven't actually seen Punk / Ryback, Cena / Orton, or Braun / Corbin but I struggle to think of how any other TLC match could be worse than that was.

Also this is the third time in six months Roman's lost a PPV match by way of his foe having flunkies overwhelm him. Can we try something else please?

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Worst part is this feud is going to continue

Reigns and Corbin are really in a no-win situation here, this shit is awful, they probably know it's awful, and they just don't have a choice but be at the whims of a psychotic old man who thinks this is the most amazing thing ever...

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

If Reigns were literally anyone else, we’d have been screaming bloody murder about his booking since the Shane match. Like you said, this is the third time this has happened on PPV this year.

[XIII]

I wish I could tell anyone what happened, but I zoned way out on that one and the Lashley one. Just who cares about any of these goobers at this point?

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Dec 15, 2019 22:23:06 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

If Reigns were literally anyone else, we’d have been screaming bloody murder about his booking since the Shane match. Like you said, this is the third time this has happened on PPV this year.

I think the specter of the fact the Rumble's coming up and he's been conspicuously kept away from the belt all year is kind of hanging over all of it but still, yeah, he just looks like such a dork at this point. Especially given they were building up the whole, "Roman has never been this angry, the Big Dog is unchained!" thing and then Corbin just completely kicked his ass.

[Bang Bang Bart]

For a guy whose segments are apparently ratings poison, WWE's sure determined to quadruple down on Corbin for whatever reason.

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Dec 15, 2019 23:00:02 GMT -5 Bang Bang Bart said:

For a guy whose segments are apparently ratings poison, WWE's sure determined to quadruple down on Corbin for whatever reason.

you ever think that when playing with pegs and holes, Vince would just get a bigger hammer instead of putting the square peg in the square hole?

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

Legend has it that the match is still going to this day.

[Mozenrath]

I wish it made like, any sense at all why people want to lick Corbin's boots from a kayfabe perspective. He has no power anymore, so why do they keep helping him?

[Welfare Willis]

Dec 15, 2019 22:20:52 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

Worst part is this feud is going to continue

Reigns and Corbin are really in a no-win situation here, this shit is awful, they probably know it's awful, and they just don't have a choice but be at the whims of a psychotic old man who thinks this is the most amazing thing ever...

On a positive note, by having them feud it means I don't have to watch them stink up two separate segments.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Dec 15, 2019 22:23:06 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

If Reigns were literally anyone else, we’d have been screaming bloody murder about his booking since the Shane match. Like you said, this is the third time this has happened on PPV this year.

The bloody murder will come when he wins the Rumble and act like he's been booked strong and never been back down the card since he came back

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Pretty much went the way I thought it would, though I predicted (hoped) Roman would win and that'd be the end of the bullshit feud. Those two just don't have any chemistry together.

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Dec 15, 2019 23:55:08 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Dec 15, 2019 22:23:06 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

If Reigns were literally anyone else, we’d have been screaming bloody murder about his booking since the Shane match. Like you said, this is the third time this has happened on PPV this year.

The bloody murder will come when he wins the Rumble and act like he's been booked strong and never been back down the card since he came back

Honestly at this point I'm pretty, "Ehhhhhh, fiiiiine," on the idea of Roman winning the Rumble, on the basis I really still don't at all enjoying watching the guy, but I also think based on the current storytelling he is one of the very few people who even kind of makes sense to win it, and you have a pretty logical story there with him a year after coming back winning the Rumble and looking to regain the belt he never lost.

Granted, the whole thing becomes overcomplicated and dumb by having the Fiend tied up in it, but that's a whole other matter.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Dec 15, 2019 23:04:56 GMT -5 @mrsirdrdaddy said:

Dec 15, 2019 23:00:02 GMT -5 Bang Bang Bart said:

For a guy whose segments are apparently ratings poison, WWE's sure determined to quadruple down on Corbin for whatever reason.

you ever think that when playing with pegs and holes, Vince would just get a bigger hammer instead of putting the square peg in the square hole?

I don't think we want to mention hammers around Vince. At least not the small hammers.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Dec 15, 2019 23:06:46 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

I wish it made like, any sense at all why people want to lick Corbin's boots from a kayfabe perspective. He has no power anymore, so why do they keep helping him?

Heels are good friends, faces aren’t.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Dec 15, 2019 23:57:53 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Dec 15, 2019 23:55:08 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

The bloody murder will come when he wins the Rumble and act like he's been booked strong and never been back down the card since he came back

Honestly at this point I'm pretty, "Ehhhhhh, fiiiiine," on the idea of Roman winning the Rumble, on the basis I really still don't at all enjoying watching the guy, but I also think based on the current storytelling he is one of the very few people who even kind of makes sense to win it, and you have a pretty logical story there with him a year after coming back winning the Rumble and looking to regain the belt he never lost.

Granted, the whole thing becomes overcomplicated and dumb by having the Fiend tied up in it, but that's a whole other matter.

And the fact that it is in Tampa as well and that is the closest he's going to get to a hometown Mania

[RadcapRadsley]

I know it's easy to blame all this shit booking on Vince,but these blueballing stooge heel win's seem more 1988 NWA/HHH then they do Vince.

This garbage tonight makes me yearn for a Cena or Reigns "reign of terror' where they overcome the odds and beat 2-3 Local Man Heel's clean in a handicap match.

[Bub (BLM)]

I watched on demand later, specifically to be able to fast forward this match. Well, every time I resumed play to see if it had ended, freaking match is still slogging along. Looked like a big overbooked mess.

[Ash Kingston]

Dec 15, 2019 23:06:46 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

I wish it made like, any sense at all why people want to lick Corbin's boots from a kayfabe perspective. He has no power anymore, so why do they keep helping him?

Don't you get it, though? He's King Corbin; surely winning a tournament gives him as much power backstage as even the McMahons! Why wouldn't you kiss up to him?

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

After everything that's happened in the buildup, the match should have been a 5 minute squash of Roman destroying Corbin, and getting passed this feud.