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Post by The Rick Jericho on Jun 27, 2023 21:34:34 GMT -5
He had a by all accounts good Impact run. Did his time in NXT. But something just didn't click. Was it the booking?
I remember one of his last entrances, he was so lazy doing the E-C-3 on the titantron entrance thing.
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Jun 27, 2023 21:36:13 GMT -5
I never liked him even in NXT, but making a guy whose best skill was his talking ability a mute sure was an awesome decision.
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Jun 27, 2023 21:37:19 GMT -5
Feels like this is a straightforward example of booking making someone irrelevant.
And we can speculate if that was deliberate given the person he turned out to be afterward.
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Post by john84 on Jun 27, 2023 21:40:04 GMT -5
Whilst he was never a main eventer type guy IMO making him a mute killed any chance he had of getting anywhere in WWE. I do wonder if he'd pissed someone off backstage.
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Post by HIM on Jun 27, 2023 21:40:28 GMT -5
Ambrose (the heel) had the girls laughing at him (the face). You can't win when the girls laugh at ya lol.
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Post by Hypnosis on Jun 27, 2023 21:40:58 GMT -5
Feels like this is a straightforward example of booking making someone irrelevant. And we can speculate if that was deliberate given the person he turned out to be afterward. I'm thinking EC3 going full-dumbass came after the release.
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Jun 27, 2023 21:41:30 GMT -5
Ambrose (the heel) had the girls laughing at him (the face). You can't win when the girls laugh at ya lol. He never did answer Ambrose's question about him liking Creed.
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Post by john84 on Jun 27, 2023 22:21:40 GMT -5
Ambrose (the heel) had the girls laughing at him (the face). You can't win when the girls laugh at ya lol. I don't know about that...I mean making her laugh is what led to my wife becoming more than just a friend.
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Post by pinja on Jun 27, 2023 23:06:43 GMT -5
I know the general opinion is that he was a good talker, but I thought he was amusing at best in TNA. I always thought he sounded like an alien mimicking human speach patterns, but not getting it quite right.
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Jun 27, 2023 23:14:18 GMT -5
More like Derrick Idiot!
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Post by Mozenrath on Jun 27, 2023 23:16:49 GMT -5
Can you fail if you don't really even get to try at all?
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Jun 27, 2023 23:21:22 GMT -5
He was a guy whose best asset was that he was a good talker, and they never let him talk. While he made an absolute dumbass of himself post-WWE, he is one of the key examples of WWE blaming a wrestler for not getting over after they took away the main things that got them over.
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Post by Fade on Jun 28, 2023 1:59:44 GMT -5
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on Jun 28, 2023 2:02:38 GMT -5
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jun 28, 2023 2:17:41 GMT -5
He failed in NXT as well.
EC3 really seemed like someone who was brought in just so they could point at him and say 'hey you like this guy right?' even more than a lot of prior signings they had.
He did nothing in NXT, got called up, and was given even less to do on the main roster
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Jun 28, 2023 9:50:50 GMT -5
He spoke out about Bill DeMott when he was running NXT as a circle of hell and as we all know, the WWE is run by petty, petty people with long memories and enough money to hire people just to bury them. I think at that point in time, he was probably the biggest name to confirm getting mistreated while hurt by that POS, and that POS was a Triple H guy, so booking was always going to be unfavourable, even in NXT.
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Jun 28, 2023 9:57:42 GMT -5
Then. Now. Forever. Sadly. Ugh.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jun 28, 2023 10:02:21 GMT -5
I kinda feel like EC3 and Damien Sandow has this sort of mirror universe opposite thing going. With Damien the thought was that the WWE wasn't booking him right and he'd excel in TNA. Then we saw.... Arox Rex. Yeah. That shit. With EC3 the thought was that he looked great in TNA so going over to the WWE he'd naturally get better since TNA was terrible, right? Nah. OK, so the WWE botched him which means he'll instantly be better once he left the WWE right? Nah.
Basically WWE booked Sandow well then we watched him fall apart without them, and TNA booked EC3 very well since he just died without them.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Weather Machine on Jun 28, 2023 10:26:37 GMT -5
Everything about that video title and thumbnail is proof that 2019 WWE isn't real
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Post by 06vwgti on Jun 28, 2023 11:06:40 GMT -5
I guess the failed NXT/main roster run is what gave us CYN EC3, vs Derrick Bateman and Dixie Carter's spoiled brat nephew
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