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Post by Chainsaw on May 5, 2020 1:26:39 GMT -5
Can you imagine Ricochet's WWE career ending as a sacrifice to the altar of Brendan Vink?
This company.
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Fade
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Post by Fade on May 5, 2020 1:32:34 GMT -5
Slightly off topic since the thread is about the trials and tribulations of Rick O'Shea but is it me or does Brendan Vink look like he could be Wade Barrett's brother? Same size, similar look. In that backstage segment he even sounded more British then Australian. Hey! I was thinking the same thing tonight. He even kind of sounds like him and has his cadence. And about Rico, welp.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on May 5, 2020 1:38:52 GMT -5
Yeah it wasn't even the TM-61 guys they lost to but instead Shane Thorne and this Brendan Vink dude no one has ever heard of. It's amusing that Meltzer has decried WWE for not pushing Ricochet right when Ricochet is almost the exact type of wrestler Vince would never push. Ricochet is exactly who Vince has wanted to push for decades (short, jacked high flyer who can tossed dudes and is goofy enough looking to not be threatening) which is why this makes no sense It's also why it's so strange how little he did with Pac... Small guy that is strong enough to throw guys around is literally what he's been looking for forever... the so called "mighty mouse" gimmick... it wasn't he put on yellow and red tights it's small yet mighty... and both of them could easily pull it off.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on May 5, 2020 1:43:16 GMT -5
Ricochet is exactly who Vince has wanted to push for decades (short, jacked high flyer who can tossed dudes and is goofy enough looking to not be threatening) which is why this makes no sense It's also why it's so strange how little he did with Pac... Small guy that is strong enough to throw guys around is literally what he's been looking for forever... the so called "mighty mouse" gimmick... it wasn't he put on yellow and red tights it's small yet mighty... and both of them could easily pull it off. Still trying to figure out how WWE got both PAC and Ricochet and have whiffed this badly with them... I know it's to be exiected at this point but these guys were coveted so hard that HHH basically called both of them when they were on the rise and said they had contracts whenever they wanted them. For this to be the result just is sad. At least PAC is back to doing his thing but I have to wonder how much longer Ricochet can tolerate this...
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Post by TOK Is the Target Demo on May 5, 2020 1:47:52 GMT -5
Ricochet is exactly who Vince has wanted to push for decades (short, jacked high flyer who can tossed dudes and is goofy enough looking to not be threatening) which is why this makes no sense It's also why it's so strange how little he did with Pac... Small guy that is strong enough to throw guys around is literally what he's been looking for forever... the so called "mighty mouse" gimmick... it wasn't he put on yellow and red tights it's small yet mighty... and both of them could easily pull it off. That's exactly what I was trying to insinuate. They're both the victim of being the car that the incest fetish-having dog finally caught
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Post by 4real on May 5, 2020 5:59:23 GMT -5
Did he do something on the flight to Saudi Arabia that pissed someone off? That’s the only explanation I can think of of his booking since the Lesnar match started.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on May 5, 2020 7:56:37 GMT -5
You would think Vince could do great things with the sexiest wrestler WWE has.
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Post by nisidhe on May 5, 2020 8:07:25 GMT -5
They weren't the first to get this treatment. Dare I hope they'll be the last, now that Vince has shown his hand. The last three years of WWE programming should be a signal to anyone that Vince no longer cares about what he's selling to the networks.
When your company is more focused on making shareholders happy than on making customers happy, your company will ultimately fail. The networks rely on viewer numbers for their continued success. If WWE can't produce shows that draw in and engage audiences, their customers, the networks, can't be happy.
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Post by cabbageboy on May 5, 2020 8:14:11 GMT -5
PAC at least can cut an intense heel promo, whereas Ricochet is pretty bad on the mic. I think some here are overestimating Vince's desire to push someone doing a Mighty Mouse gimmick. It's a plucky Little Jobber That Could gimmick but nothing Vince would get behind on a major level.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2020 8:23:36 GMT -5
Oh you best believe it's time to bump this... So in the time since Riddick Moss basically ended this dudes relevancy. He starts a tag team with Cedric Alexander that only proceeds to beat NXT Tag Team Jobbers, lose to Viking Raiders, and oh wait, LOSE to NXT Tag Team Jobbers too! Ricochet got pinned clean by Brandan Vink tonight, clean as a sheet. So that's Riddick Moss and Brendan Vink within three months. This dude was fighting for a world title also three months ago. Now it feels like his career is going nowhere, same with Cedric. Doesn't help they're only a tag team because Heyman is desperate to give them something as i seems like WWE creative has completely given up on them. It's sad but this really hasn't gotten better for Ricochet at all especially. His trunks are even awful at this point. What makes all this silliness even greater is that Riddick Moss's relevancy was ended by non other than R-Truth. Who's Vink? Or was that the tag guy from these smaller shows? Did not have time to watch last night's RAW.
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Post by Heartbreaker on May 5, 2020 8:30:24 GMT -5
All I’m going to say is I wish they would let Vink (it’s gonna take forever to get used to that name) show personality. He was entertaining in MCW and his Youtube Channel is hilarious. And Shane Thorne’s hair is poop.
And speaking of personality... it doesn’t really help that Ricochet barely has any. Dude can go in the ring, but for years I’ve found him so boring. It also doesn’t help that I despised Prince Puma in Lucha Underground.
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Post by Lancers on May 5, 2020 9:18:05 GMT -5
You would think Vince could do great things with the sexiest wrestler WWE has. He is. He's going up against AJ, Bryan, Mysterio, Corbin and Aleister in the ladder match.
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Post by lucas_lee on May 5, 2020 9:21:44 GMT -5
I mean i dont think he was buried. It was a great match so I dunno. I think its case of looking into things too much 🤷♂️
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Post by ihateeverythingnu on May 5, 2020 9:47:34 GMT -5
You would think Vince could do great things with the sexiest wrestler WWE has. I agree. Billie Kay and Shotzi Blackheart's treatment is woeful.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2020 10:30:38 GMT -5
I mean i dont think he was buried. It was a great match so I dunno. I think its case of looking into things too much 🤷♂️ In the span of six months he's plunged from having a WWE title match on a show they promote as a gigantic deal to being crushed in seconds in said match, losing clean to Riddick Moss, disappearing from TV for months, then coming back as part of a team that got squashed immediately on forming, beat a couple of jobber teams, then lost to a team that's composed of such nobodies that Vink has literally never won a televised match before this even in NXT while Thorne's last TV win was in August. He's being buried.
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Post by hashtagdaley/JudasDay on May 5, 2020 11:08:49 GMT -5
Dude deserves the burial for as long as he keeps wearing Alexa’s booty shorts. It’s such a bad look.
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Post by lucas_lee on May 5, 2020 11:45:15 GMT -5
I mean i dont think he was buried. It was a great match so I dunno. I think its case of looking into things too much 🤷♂️ In the span of six months he's plunged from having a WWE title match on a show they promote as a gigantic deal to being crushed in seconds in said match, losing clean to Riddick Moss, disappearing from TV for months, then coming back as part of a team that got squashed immediately on forming, beat a couple of jobber teams, then lost to a team that's composed of such nobodies that Vink has literally never won a televised match before this even in NXT while Thorne's last TV win was in August. He's being buried. I disagree, thats my take on it.
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Post by anglarite on May 5, 2020 19:41:10 GMT -5
You would think Vince could do great things with the sexiest wrestler WWE has. I agree, John Morrison deserved more than just another short tag teams reign.
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on May 6, 2020 1:55:29 GMT -5
Can you imagine Ricochet's WWE career ending as a sacrifice to the altar of Brendan Vink? This company.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on May 6, 2020 2:35:48 GMT -5
so are Thorne and Vink The Mighty now?
I know they used it briefly with Miller... since TM-61 isn't particularly a great tag name.
But I did like Thorne and Miller when they first started getting a push (I liked Miller being the boring wrestling guy, and Thorne being the slightly unhinged guy which played into things in the back like when they were talking to Regal about something Miller was in a freshly pressed suit and Thorne was wearing one that it looked like he slept in for like three days...) ... until I think Thorne got a knee injury and killed their chances until Miller quit.
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