Local girl watches 2012 shows

[ThankGodForSidJustice]

You are one brave soul. First going through a bunch of shows from WWE's worst year of television and then following it up by going through WWE's second worst year of television. At least it gets a lot better when the Shield debuts in November. Not enough to make up for the previous ten months being absolutely dreadful.

[Gecko]

Jan 20, 2023 0:33:22 GMT -5 EoE: Workin On My Night Cheese said:

Jan 20, 2023 0:29:45 GMT -5 Gawk Rivers said:

MICHAEL COLE JUST SAID WE'RE 2 WEEKS AWAY FROM "THE UNIQUE ELIMINATION CHAMBER PPV" IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING IF VINCE IS HERE FOR SOME REASON

“This PPV is entirely unique, except for the one last year which was exactly the same”… Just basically doing a Murray Walker bit here.

I want to thank you for the thought of Murray commentating on wrestling, it's going to amuse me for at least the rest of the day.

[EoE: Workin On My Night Cheese]

Jan 20, 2023 5:40:11 GMT -5 Gecko said:

Jan 20, 2023 0:33:22 GMT -5 EoE: Workin On My Night Cheese said:

“This PPV is entirely unique, except for the one last year which was exactly the same”… Just basically doing a Murray Walker bit here.

I want to thank you for the thought of Murray commentating on wrestling, it's going to amuse me for at least the rest of the day.

“‘I’m going for first’ says Steve Austin.”

[Lizuka #BLM]

Jan 20, 2023 1:33:17 GMT -5 Gawk Rivers said:

Holy shit David Otunga's theme wasn't just something THQ made up in an MKUltra scheme 

If memory serves I think it was Justin Gabriel's music for like two weeks then they switched it to Otunga and just no one was supposed to notice I guess.

[Alice Syndrome]

Jan 20, 2023 6:00:05 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Jan 20, 2023 1:33:17 GMT -5 Gawk Rivers said:

Holy shit David Otunga's theme wasn't just something THQ made up in an MKUltra scheme 

If memory serves I think it was Justin Gabriel's music for like two weeks then they switched it to Otunga and just no one was supposed to notice I guess.

It was literally one week.

Otunga and Axel came out on Superstars (from the Raw part of the taping) with some overdub called Deathblow (live they used We Are One), then Gabriel used Power on Smackdown, then Otunga and Axel used Power on either Raw or the next Superstars, and by Smackdown, Gabriel was using that theme that sounded like Somebody Told Me at the start.

[XIII]

This is some Cactus Jack level of masochism. Good luck Madlibs, we're all rooting for you to make it through.

[krozor]

Jan 20, 2023 2:38:46 GMT -5 Gawk Rivers said:

Having a legit existential crisis because Michael Rapaport won't leave me alone




Losing my mind that Michael Rapaport was in a f***ing shitty Triple H movie I wanna watch this now 

HHH being all "Pop, start a movie studio to make me a star I'm better than The Rock" and when that bombed going "Pop, build me a Performance Center instead and I'll get all of England Japan and Mexico!", he's had this current comeuppance coming for a long time.

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

When you eventually work backwards to 2007 we’re starting a podcast. Exclusively about Matt Hardy eating pizza

[Gawk Rivers]

Jan 20, 2023 0:58:21 GMT -5 Gawk Rivers said:

MOM TRIPLE H IS TELLING LIES 

I want to highlight the bit that almost killed me last night. Dude had Flanders parents.

[EoE: Workin On My Night Cheese]

Jan 20, 2023 12:19:47 GMT -5 Alice Syndrome said:

Jan 20, 2023 6:00:05 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

If memory serves I think it was Justin Gabriel's music for like two weeks then they switched it to Otunga and just no one was supposed to notice I guess.

It was literally one week.

Otunga and Axel came out on Superstars (from the Raw part of the taping) with some overdub called Deathblow (live they used We Are One), then Gabriel used Power on Smackdown, then Otunga and Axel used Power on either Raw or the next Superstars, and by Smackdown, Gabriel was using that theme that sounded like Somebody Told Me at the start.

Gabriel used All About The Power at Money In The Bank 2011 too.

[EoE: Workin On My Night Cheese]

By the way, Sheamus's televised win/loss record in 2012 that I was referring to earlier? 77-19-2. SEVENTY-SEVEN WINS ON TV IN ONE YEAR. Only four other wrestlers (Bryan (92), Ziggler (91), Kingston (86) and Marella (77)) even HAD that many TV matches that year, let alone WIN them.

[canceled4truth]

Jan 20, 2023 16:01:35 GMT -5 EoE: Workin On My Night Cheese said:

By the way, Sheamus's televised win/loss record in 2012 that I was referring to earlier? 77-19-2. SEVENTY-SEVEN WINS ON TV IN ONE YEAR. Only four other wrestlers (Bryan (92), Ziggler (91), Kingston (86) and Marella (77)) even HAD that many TV matches that year, let alone WIN them.

Man you know WWE was in a dire state talent-wise when Santino was in the top 5 most prolific wrestlers in a year

[Chiral]

Triple H lookin very tony soprano here

[EoE: Workin On My Night Cheese]

Jan 20, 2023 17:05:36 GMT -5 canceled4truth said:

Jan 20, 2023 16:01:35 GMT -5 EoE: Workin On My Night Cheese said:

By the way, Sheamus's televised win/loss record in 2012 that I was referring to earlier? 77-19-2. SEVENTY-SEVEN WINS ON TV IN ONE YEAR. Only four other wrestlers (Bryan (92), Ziggler (91), Kingston (86) and Marella (77)) even HAD that many TV matches that year, let alone WIN them.

Man you know WWE was in a dire state talent-wise when Santino was in the top 5 most prolific wrestlers in a year

I assume you’re not one of the many who to this day think that he should’ve won the world title in the Elimination Chamber then? Which, I should note, is literally on the PPV we’re building to here in this watch-along.

[Toates Madhackrviper]

Jan 20, 2023 0:16:07 GMT -5 EoE: Workin On My Night Cheese said:

Get ready for a lot of Sheamus. Like, seriously, a lot. Statistically the strongest push in any one calendar year I’ve done for my rankings is Sheamus in 2012.

And this isn’t cool Sheamus that everyone loves now, this is the Sheamus that everyone hates for like the next four years until he starts teaming with Cesaro, all because of THIS run.

I actually liked Sheamus from the start.

He's one of my three top faces in my fantasy booking that starts in 2010 and hasn't gotten any further than Wrestlemania 29.

ETA: Of course Del Rio/Sheamus was awful though. They haven't even faced off in my fantasy booking I'm pretty sure. Despite both being main eventers of consistently opposite alignments.

[canceled4truth]

Jan 20, 2023 17:18:39 GMT -5 EoE: Workin On My Night Cheese said:

Jan 20, 2023 17:05:36 GMT -5 canceled4truth said:

Man you know WWE was in a dire state talent-wise when Santino was in the top 5 most prolific wrestlers in a year

I assume you’re not one of the many who to this day think that he should’ve won the world title in the Elimination Chamber then? Which, I should note, is literally on the PPV we’re building to here in this watch-along.

Hahaha I thought that was a cool moment but nah dude was hella overused at that time

[Gawk Rivers]

Jan 20, 2023 17:18:39 GMT -5 EoE: Workin On My Night Cheese said:

Jan 20, 2023 17:05:36 GMT -5 canceled4truth said:

Man you know WWE was in a dire state talent-wise when Santino was in the top 5 most prolific wrestlers in a year

I assume you’re not one of the many who to this day think that he should’ve won the world title in the Elimination Chamber then? Which, I should note, is literally on the PPV we’re building to here in this watch-along.

I'm still thinking about the spooky narrator explaining what the match was in both way too much and way too little detail

[Gawk Rivers]

About to start another one and I just wanna say EoE: Workin On My Night Cheese is a criminal for making me look forward to The Icemiz the most.

[Gawk Rivers]

[Gawk Rivers]

SO I'D NEVER ACTUALLY HEARD WHAT KANE'S EMBRACE THE HATE PROMOS SOUNDED LIKE AND HERE'S MY THOUGHTS