Andy Martin
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Post by Andy Martin on Apr 2, 2024 9:01:10 GMT -5
…Until that gif fades back in from black, The Rock hits Cody with a Rock bottom, and wins the title. (I’m sorry) If that happens, I’m coming on here to ban you so quick! (I’m joking. Mostly 😝) It DOES (unfortunately) make a bit of sense. “Bloodline Rules means we make the rules” type stuff, and then do Rock-Roman at Summerslam. I think there’s like a less than one percent chance of that happening. |
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Apr 2, 2024 9:09:43 GMT -5
If that happens, I’m coming on here to ban you so quick! (I’m joking. Mostly 😝) It DOES (unfortunately) make a bit of sense. “Bloodline Rules means we make the rules” type stuff, and then do Rock-Roman at Summerslam. I think there’s like a less than one percent chance of that happening. You're just adding to the list, Andy! |
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Post by Fade on Apr 2, 2024 9:18:43 GMT -5
Man, maybe I’m getting old (or just enjoying shit) but I ain’t super psychoanalyzing anything. But I will say this- Sam Roberts has brought up some great points and arguments as to why Roman could/should retain. I f***ing love that im heading into the hottest WM in over two decades and im not certain who wins in the main event.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Apr 2, 2024 9:20:05 GMT -5
I can't understand at all how you can be convinced that the no brainer option in terms of making money would be to do the exact opposite of the thing we know factually has made them a ton of money. Was it creatively a good decision? I personally think it's been justified but each to their own. Was it financially a good decision? Clearly and obviously. And if you think they'd have made more doing it another way then ok, but what could that possibly be based on? Ultimately I would be extremely confident that if you offered anyone involved (from the performers to the executives to the shareholders) the chance to go back and change the result of WM39, close to zero of them would actually do so. If anything it's worked out far better than they could've hoped. Here’s where I get lost on this Roman thing. Why is he so important to the success of the product when he’s almost never around? Also if he doesn’t have the belt last year, what really changes in his booking? He doesn’t wrestle L.A. Knight in Jeddah? Because for all his biggest stuff like the Jey Uso match, the title was secondary to their feud, and the hook of that was he was trying to usurp Roman. Even Jimmy’s heel turn had nothing to do with the belt and all about the groups leadership. If he was around and headlining constantly, I’d get it, but that’s not happening, Cody’s been the main headliner over the past year. So how did they make the right decision when these signs point to them not going with the guy who really was carrying most of the shows? Hell Cody winning the title makes the storylines from last year make MORE sense.\ just for starters Brock beats up Cody for no reason becomes... Brock beats up Cody because he wants the title. Jey and Jimmy try to usurp control of the Bloodline has another wrinkle that they see that Roman couldn't beat Cody and is weaker than he's been. |
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Apr 2, 2024 9:39:48 GMT -5
Here’s where I get lost on this Roman thing. Why is he so important to the success of the product when he’s almost never around? Also if he doesn’t have the belt last year, what really changes in his booking? He doesn’t wrestle L.A. Knight in Jeddah? Because for all his biggest stuff like the Jey Uso match, the title was secondary to their feud, and the hook of that was he was trying to usurp Roman. Even Jimmy’s heel turn had nothing to do with the belt and all about the groups leadership. If he was around and headlining constantly, I’d get it, but that’s not happening, Cody’s been the main headliner over the past year. So how did they make the right decision when these signs point to them not going with the guy who really was carrying most of the shows? Hell Cody winning the title makes the storylines from last year make MORE sense.\ just for starters Brock beats up Cody for no reason becomes... Brock beats up Cody because he wants the title. Jey and Jimmy try to usurp control of the Bloodline has another wrinkle that they see that Roman couldn't beat Cody and is weaker than he's been. The Judgment Day feuds with Cody because they want the belt, Jey joins him because he's earned Cody's trust and also potentially get a future title shot on a random Raw where Roman can run in and interrupt. Roman pops up every so often to take on LA Knight and others to try and get a rematch for the title. |
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Apr 4, 2024 1:31:02 GMT -5
everyone is saying stone cold and john cena but i got to thinking, what if kurt angle showed up since american nightmare even if he didn't really do anything physical?
something like jimmy and/or solo about to head down to the ring too but angle's music hits and he runs them off
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Nosnorb
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Post by Nosnorb on Apr 4, 2024 8:34:09 GMT -5
And this thread (and also the creation of Bitchhalla) is now a year old.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 4, 2024 12:44:54 GMT -5
I just saw that there are Philly Pharoah plushies being sold this weekend and I'd want one so badly if it wasn't wearing Eagles colors.
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Post by Tom Turkey on Apr 4, 2024 12:51:04 GMT -5
 he's got a cute little doggy hat |
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Post by Nosnorb on Apr 4, 2024 14:25:52 GMT -5
I just saw that there are Philly Pharoah plushies being sold this weekend and I'd want one so badly if it wasn't wearing Eagles colors. They should have went with either Flyers or Iverson era Sixers colours instead. |
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Post by polarbearpete on Apr 4, 2024 14:33:14 GMT -5
On the business end discussion the last few pages, they’re on a crazy attendance streak of sellouts they’ve never had before so I find it hard to believe they’d be doing better if Roman had lost last year. Cody was made more popular by losing last year, imo.
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on Apr 4, 2024 14:59:12 GMT -5
On the business end discussion the last few pages, they’re on a crazy attendance streak of sellouts they’ve never had before so I find it hard to believe they’d be doing better if Roman had lost last year. Cody was made more popular by losing last year, imo. I thought it was silly to not have Cody win last year.. but in hindsight, yeah it's worked out all the better, and made Cody more popular. You have to think once he's won the title "ok, now what?" I think people will tire of him fairly quickly after he eventually wins the belt as a lot of his more recent popularity has been due to the chase. Also, people's attention spans are in the toilet. I could be wrong, and he could go on to have one of the best face title runs ever. Or it could be his version of the boyhood dream. Man if Sid beat him for the Title at Survivor Series I would love it! |
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Apr 4, 2024 18:45:39 GMT -5
he's got a cute little doggy hat Pharoah interfering and laying the smackdown on Rock in Eagles colors will be the crowd pop of the weekend! |
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Apr 4, 2024 18:49:00 GMT -5
everyone is saying stone cold and john cena but i got to thinking, what if kurt angle showed up since american nightmare even if he didn't really do anything physical? something like jimmy and/or solo about to head down to the ring too but angle's music hits and he runs them off  Mankind gets to finish his story as he becomes the special guest referee in the main event. 25 years later, it's time! |
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Post by Nosnorb on Apr 4, 2024 18:50:30 GMT -5
On the business end discussion the last few pages, they’re on a crazy attendance streak of sellouts they’ve never had before so I find it hard to believe they’d be doing better if Roman had lost last year. Cody was made more popular by losing last year, imo. Considering that Roman is a part timer and Cody would have stayed just as hot by actually winning the title, perhaps getting even hotter, I don't. |
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Post by polarbearpete on Apr 4, 2024 18:56:33 GMT -5
On the business end discussion the last few pages, they’re on a crazy attendance streak of sellouts they’ve never had before so I find it hard to believe they’d be doing better if Roman had lost last year. Cody was made more popular by losing last year, imo. Considering that Roman is a part timer and Cody would have stayed just as hot by actually winning the title, perhaps getting even hotter, I don't. There’s something to the chase making someone hotter than the actual championship run. |
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on Apr 4, 2024 19:07:52 GMT -5
Considering that Roman is a part timer and Cody would have stayed just as hot by actually winning the title, perhaps getting even hotter, I don't. There’s something to the chase making someone hotter than the actual championship run. Especially in WWE where they have a habit of making any somewhat lengthy face Title runs boring. |
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Post by simplydurhamcalling on Apr 4, 2024 19:14:08 GMT -5
There’s something to the chase making someone hotter than the actual championship run. Especially in WWE where they have a habit of making any somewhat lengthy face Title runs boring. I can't think of a babyface title reign in any company since Hogan that was hotter a few months in than it was at the culmination of the chase. I honestly think it's just not possible these days. Cody should hold it up to the Berlin PLE at the longest. I'd quite like to see him trade it back and forth with someone too over a 3-6 month feud. |
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Post by asuka007 on Apr 4, 2024 19:26:28 GMT -5
Even if you want to divorce yourself from the Vince baggage, it's not like Triple H has a passable track record with this shit either. Be it Gargano choking over and over and over in the Ciampa feud to the point it somehow ended up with him as the heel by the time it was done even though he was extremely sympathetic and Ciampa was a total bastard when it started, Sami winning the NXT title just to get immediately killed to end the show then drop it in his second defense, Keith Lee ending Cole's year long reign just to vacate the North American title, spend the next month getting repeatedly stomped by Kross, then lose the belt to him, Kairi beating Shayna when her title reign had already overstayed its welcome just to immediately drop it back to her and then the reign to go on for another 18 months... The man loves his misery porn. Triple H is an old school NWA/JCP fan. And they tended to have long heel reigns, with the faces constantly coming up short or getting screwed over |
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Post by Fade on Apr 4, 2024 20:43:03 GMT -5
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