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Post by ChitownKnight on Jun 27, 2022 18:14:26 GMT -5
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Post by Chiral on Jun 27, 2022 18:29:23 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2022 18:37:10 GMT -5
I said it in another thread, but they really overrate his SD debut. The dude was pretty much doing nothing for months after it happened and even almost got released.
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Jun 27, 2022 18:43:42 GMT -5
I said it in another thread, but they really overrate his SD debut. The dude was pretty much doing nothing for months after it happened and even almost got released. I mean... do they really? He debuted against one of the best in ring workers of all time & less than 3 years later he became the standard bearer for the entire industry. It might be the best debut in WWE history, when all things are considered. |
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Post by Push R Truth on Jun 27, 2022 18:45:10 GMT -5
I said it in another thread, but they really overrate his SD debut. The dude was pretty much doing nothing for months after it happened and even almost got released. I agree, it's kinda morphed into the "DX showed up with a tank and beat WCW" tale of the OVW Generation. When you morph history into quick video highlight the ebb and flow of what really happened is totally lost. |
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Post by ben:friendship frog on Jun 27, 2022 21:12:04 GMT -5
I said it in another thread, but they really overrate his SD debut. The dude was pretty much doing nothing for months after it happened and even almost got released. I mean... do they really? He debuted against one of the best in ring workers of all time & less than 3 years later he became the standard bearer for the entire industry. It might be the best debut in WWE history, when all things are considered. Yeah the debut was excellent. The next 6 months was the problem. |
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Jun 27, 2022 21:15:40 GMT -5
Nine years later? Was there a different pipe bomb or is one of us bad at math?
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Jun 27, 2022 21:24:18 GMT -5
Remember when all they had for him at his first Mania was trash talking cardboard cutouts on the pre show?
And then he was fighting Lesnar for the title the next month and Cena felt only slightly less out of place in that spot than Hardcore Holly did?
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Post by ChitownKnight on Jun 27, 2022 21:31:18 GMT -5
Nine years later? Was there a different pipe bomb or is one of us bad at math? Yup Punk’s Pipebomb happened 9 years to the day after Cena’s televised Smackdown debut |
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Post by Wieners=$$$ on Jun 27, 2022 21:37:16 GMT -5
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Post by chazraps on Jun 27, 2022 22:05:53 GMT -5
Remember when all they had for him at his first Mania was trash talking cardboard cutouts on the pre show? This was a last last laaaast minute decision. Cena was supposed to rap battle the Def Jam artist Fabolous, who pulled out literally the day of. Probably was the best thing that they could have done, especially since the character was still being established (he'd only been rapping regularly on-screen since mid-December once they saw it flew at the Halloween show) and he did well and got a good reaction. Putting him out there to rap battle Rikishi or some other wrestler for whom they were not serious about rapping would have killed some of the character's edge/credibility. |
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Jun 28, 2022 4:45:16 GMT -5
Nine years later? Was there a different pipe bomb or is one of us bad at math? Yup Punk’s Pipebomb happened 9 years to the day after Cena’s televised Smackdown debut Oh wait no, I'm bad at math and was very tired when I posted that. |
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jun 28, 2022 12:52:28 GMT -5
Oh, cool, yay! Wow, twenty years fly by fast!
……oh. That other thing eleven years ago….uh.
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Post by Hobby Drifter on Jun 28, 2022 19:03:52 GMT -5
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