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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2021 23:45:30 GMT -5
Best I can do for now!
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Post by Hulk With A Mustache on Dec 27, 2021 23:49:02 GMT -5
Best I can do for now! This is bad! This is Great Khali bad! This is Giant Gonzalez bad! Hell, this might be Raja Lion bad!
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Post by Chiral on Dec 27, 2021 23:55:41 GMT -5
Best I can do for now! YESSSS
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2021 23:58:01 GMT -5
So did AJ have to punch him for real after he no sold the forearm or did AJ yell between his teeth "effing stay down idiot!" before giving him a worked punch?
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Dec 27, 2021 23:59:56 GMT -5
Best I can do for now! Sweet merciful crap.
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Post by Wieners=$$$ on Dec 28, 2021 0:05:07 GMT -5
Best I can do for now! I'm going to shop him wearing rollerblades in this GIF when I get the time.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2021 0:06:01 GMT -5
I'm sure AJ Styles is glad that he didn't have to try to carry Azeez to anything remotely watchable. For now.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2021 0:21:37 GMT -5
So did AJ have to punch him for real after he no sold the forearm or did AJ yell between his teeth "effing stay down idiot!" before giving him a worked punch? He said "stay down bitch" I think after giving him a worked punch. Azeez was supposed to stay down after the forearm (which is one reason why AJ's music is still playing) but he got up for some dumb reason.
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Post by Fade on Dec 28, 2021 0:25:40 GMT -5
Best I can do for now! Azeez:
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Dec 28, 2021 0:58:23 GMT -5
And yeah, on this clip I can only assume that he thought he was screwing up pinning towards the hard camera and overcompensated, and for some reason completely lost the plot on where he was. Even so, this shit should be automatic for a wrestler you've had in your system and built "from scratch" for six @#$%ing years. To repeat what I said in another thread and what others are saying here, what is even the point of having a training and performance center if you keep bringing people up who can't even do the bare essentials of working in pro wrestling? Japanese dojo systems spent years with a well-earned negative reputation for physical abuse, but in recent years many have cleaned those reputations up (always remember: Hiroshi Tanahashi helped save New Japan both in the ring *and* out of it), and you know what? Trainees out of the NJPW, NOAH, etc. dojos still come out really, really, really good at wrestling, since they're told from day one how to train to have the body, musculature, and cardio conditioning for wrestling and drilled on actual wrestling technique and basics before they're allowed to do anything else. But they don't do enough forward rolls, so maybe they're just wrong or something. The hard camera theory is interesting because it brings to the table two really big issues. One is that Azeez's second thought was making sure his pin looked a certain way for the hard camera, that they're teaching wrestlers this really restrictive style that shoehorns them in to only doing certain things from certain angles and the match needs to fumble into stuff that looks like trash on TV if you dare not pin someone looking in the right direction. The other is that Azeez's second thought was to derail his match and get to the hard camera because after six years he got turned around and couldn't tell which way 'left' was. And then I guess the third issue of there being four different camera angles in the span of that pin anyway and it seems like lunacy to make everyone obsessively work the hard camera if you're just going to jump around anyway, because he was looking initially at the hard camera and then moved to look at the one that got his angle in the end. And this is the most expensive and well equipped wrestling school in the world. It'd be like McDonalds putting together a top of the line facility to teach people how to use the deep fryer and the ice cream machine. WWE wants to drill into people the basics, box them in to not do too much and not innovate at all, and spends more per capita to do it than anyone else to produce the most limited form of pro wrestling and often invested into people who really really suck at it anyway, but it doesn't matter because a burger was technically handed to a customer and that's all that they want.
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Post by asuka007 on Dec 28, 2021 1:01:25 GMT -5
They fired Braun Strowman, who was actually fairly competent. And they kept this guy and Shanky?
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Post by lionheart21 on Dec 28, 2021 1:04:59 GMT -5
Best I can do for now!
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Post by Dub H on Dec 28, 2021 1:10:08 GMT -5
Best I can do for now! Imagine spending a decade perfecting your craft so your job is putting over this type of wrestler
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Dec 28, 2021 1:16:54 GMT -5
I'm sad that this dude is the second-ever guy that's legit from Poland to be in the WWE.
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Post by ChitownKnight on Dec 28, 2021 1:18:32 GMT -5
That shitty cover might of given him more anxiety leading up to this
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Post by Dub H on Dec 28, 2021 1:19:52 GMT -5
I'm sad that this dude is the second-ever guy that's legit from Poland to be in the WWE. The first ever guy from Brazil to be in WWE was Giant Silva... So what i'm saying is,its all up from here for you
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 28, 2021 1:26:38 GMT -5
The best thing you can be is good. The second best thing you can be is bad in an interesting way. Yeah, one of the worst things you can be in wrestling is Boring. Right. Like, even then, there's a place for it if you're competent and safe, but we've also seen plenty of boring people that weren't even any good at what they did. We just rarely remember them, since why would we?
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Post by pinja on Dec 28, 2021 1:41:58 GMT -5
I'm really, REALLY happy for Azeez that he didn't have Strowman's first match against Lesnar. At this point I want to believe he can't be that bad without his nerves failing him.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2021 1:48:04 GMT -5
As he's clearly not going to get better its safe to say I think JTTS or comedy character are his best bets for staying employed.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Dec 28, 2021 2:49:28 GMT -5
Tonight, the fact he not only didn't sell AJ's finisher but the fact he tried to attack him afterwards and AJ had to punch him back to the ground with a regular punch. Not his finisher, but a regular punch. AJ Styles. Like, no. This is beyond just being uncoordinated, dude didn't even stick to the plan he was given and he made AJ look worse. He's terrible. I haven't seen a male member of the roster this bad in a very long time. The crazy part is? Shanky seems equally terrible on the opposite brand. He's had less match exposure than Azeez but the brief time he had in that 12 man Gauntlet was dire. He went for a corner boot that Ivar dodged but even if Ivar hadn't moved, Shanky would have missed him by three feet. These are the guys they kept on in the seeming reassurance that they could make them big hoss stars and do without Braun and his big contract... they're paying dearly for it.
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