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Post by sunnytaker on Jul 12, 2023 12:48:18 GMT -5
didn;t they say rhea was banged up- that's why she hasn;t had much in the way of matches since winning the title? of all the rhea standoffs i have to say my favorite one was with solo to the point where even roman (i think) had to get solo to back down as the crowd went nuts. imagine if solo and rhea joined forces?
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Post by Dave the Dave on Jul 12, 2023 13:25:42 GMT -5
When she turned heel I thought it was mistake.
I’m glad to be wrong. She’s killing it.
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Jul 12, 2023 13:59:41 GMT -5
She's one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. I've never crushed on a female wrestler as much as her.
Buddy Matthews is the most lucky man in the world, he must feel so safe being held by her at night.
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Post by ghost on Jul 12, 2023 15:43:00 GMT -5
The 'men are not afraid to hit her' thing they need to be careful of. It's already getting tiresome, same old thing over and over again. She knows blokes won't hit her. She needs to try it with some evil bastard of a wrestler who belts her one, which will of course quite rightly never happen. Maybe Piper or Shayna? Yeah, the “guys being afraid of her” gimmick is ridiculous, not because she’s a woman, but because as mentioned there will never be a payoff to it, and it actually makes her character look cowardly (which might be the point if she’s a heel but she’s not presented as a coward). Standing up to someone or attacking someone when you know there will never be retaliation is a coward, not a tough guy, and it doesn’t matter if it’s male or female. Example, people who are vile on the internet knowing there’s no risk of being punched in the face. If they want to make her the modern day Chyna, then that’s cool, but Chyna’s character actually wrestled men and was presented as their equal. Either have Rhea wrestle men and take bumps (it’s fake…people know that, and Rhea is talented enough to make it look good/believable), or leave that alone entirely. Just MO.
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Post by stoptheclocks on Jul 12, 2023 16:08:15 GMT -5
The 'men are not afraid to hit her' thing they need to be careful of. It's already getting tiresome, same old thing over and over again. She knows blokes won't hit her. She needs to try it with some evil bastard of a wrestler who belts her one, which will of course quite rightly never happen. Maybe Piper or Shayna? Yeah, the “guys being afraid of her” gimmick is ridiculous, not because she’s a woman, but because as mentioned there will never be a payoff to it, and it actually makes her character look cowardly (which might be the point if she’s a heel but she’s not presented as a coward). Standing up to someone or attacking someone when you know there will never be retaliation is a coward, not a tough guy, and it doesn’t matter if it’s male or female. Example, people who are vile on the internet knowing there’s no risk of being punched in the face. If they want to make her the modern day Chyna, then that’s cool, but Chyna’s character actually wrestled men and was presented as their equal. Either have Rhea wrestle men and take bumps (it’s fake…people know that, and Rhea is talented enough to make it look good/believable), or leave that alone entirely. Just MO. I don't think the intention is to make her look like a coward, it's to make her look like a dick.
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Post by Dub H on Jul 12, 2023 16:40:45 GMT -5
There is a good amount of my female friends that know squat about wrestling but know about Ripley.
I dont think I need to say why
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Post by JasonVoorhees1988 on Jul 12, 2023 17:28:00 GMT -5
There is a good amount of my female friends that know squat about wrestling but know about Ripley. I dont think I need to say why She's insanely popular with the LGBTQ+ community.
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Post by XIII on Jul 12, 2023 17:34:25 GMT -5
Don’t get me wrong she’s over as hell, doing a great job, and all of that, but they definitely run the risk of making her too OP for the women’s division. Since winning the title she hasn’t really done all that much other beat on Natalya(but who really cares about that?), she looks to be starting a program with Raquel but they need to start building some of the other ladies up as actual threats or it’s just going to go back to the neverending Charlotte/Becky/Asuka cycle when the time comes to have some sort of story of someone beating her. As it stands right now I can’t buy anyone doing it.
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Jul 12, 2023 17:34:56 GMT -5
I didn't like the turn at first, but Finn and Damian's confidence has totally rubbed off on her.
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Post by KingPooper on Jul 12, 2023 23:38:43 GMT -5
She got pushed hard since debuting… final four in the MYC, won the NXT UK title right away, the NXT title, being put in a feud with Charlotte Flair at Wrestlemania. The whole time you knew she was good, but really didn’t really develop much of a character, besides big Aussie kicks ass. She felt out of place on the main roster like turf wanted to make her a focal point of the division but at the same time not knowing what to do with her. Since turning heel and joining JD she’s really come into her own. She’s woman’s champion (which feels like a breath of fresh air for the division) but at the same time with her connection to JD and can really show up anywhere on the show and ham it up with everyone. If you did the who’s your favorite poll right now she might win the whole thing.
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Post by theironyuppie on Jul 13, 2023 0:20:38 GMT -5
She got pushed hard since debuting… final four in the MYC, won the NXT UK title right away, the NXT title, being put in a feud with Charlotte Flair at Wrestlemania. The whole time you knew she was good, but really didn’t really develop much of a character, besides big Aussie kicks ass. She felt out of place on the main roster like turf wanted to make her a focal point of the division but at the same time not knowing what to do with her. Since turning heel and joining JD she’s really come into her own. She’s woman’s champion (which feels like a breath of fresh air for the division) but at the same time with her connection to JD and can really show up anywhere on the show and ham it up with everyone. If you did the who’s your favorite poll right now she might win the whole thing. Interestingly, some of it happened by chance. Tegan Nox was meant to beat her in the MYC before she got hurt and they had to improvise. The story is also that she was going to lose to Shayna in her first NXT singles match, but then the crowd was so into their confrontation earlier in the show that they changed it to a DQ before their title feud later in the year. Her Raw title run only happened due to the chaos in the division at the time, and then like you say it felt like they didn't really know what to do with her afterwards, drifting between tag teams and for a while getting barely any TV time. Even after turning heel and joining JD, she was most likely going to lose to Bianca at Money In The Bank (so they could do the Bianca/Becky rematch for Summerslam) but she got hurt and returned to TV days after Vince (temporarily) stepped down.
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on Jul 13, 2023 7:59:50 GMT -5
Yeah, the “guys being afraid of her” gimmick is ridiculous, not because she’s a woman, but because as mentioned there will never be a payoff to it, and it actually makes her character look cowardly (which might be the point if she’s a heel but she’s not presented as a coward). Standing up to someone or attacking someone when you know there will never be retaliation is a coward, not a tough guy, and it doesn’t matter if it’s male or female. Example, people who are vile on the internet knowing there’s no risk of being punched in the face. If they want to make her the modern day Chyna, then that’s cool, but Chyna’s character actually wrestled men and was presented as their equal. Either have Rhea wrestle men and take bumps (it’s fake…people know that, and Rhea is talented enough to make it look good/believable), or leave that alone entirely. Just MO. I don't think the intention is to make her look like a coward, it's to make her look like a dick. Bingo. She knows what she's doing, she just doesn't care, and gets off on being able to do it.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jul 13, 2023 11:51:30 GMT -5
So what happens if a man punches her? Prison? Suspension? Community service? $50 fine?
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Jul 13, 2023 14:10:25 GMT -5
So what happens if a man punches her? Prison? Suspension? Community service? $50 fine? They don't pass Go or collect $200
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Post by asuka007 on Jul 13, 2023 17:46:51 GMT -5
There is a good amount of my female friends that know squat about wrestling but know about Ripley. I dont think I need to say why She's insanely popular with the LGBTQ+ community. Which is not at all hard to believe.
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Jul 14, 2023 2:20:16 GMT -5
I heard Rhea Ripley once punched a guy who couldn't have kids in the balls and afterwards he impregnated his wife with quadruplets.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jul 16, 2023 10:02:30 GMT -5
I heard Rhea Ripley once punched a guy who couldn't have kids in the balls and afterwards he impregnated his wife with quadruplets. Yeah but those kids all look a LOT like Rhea
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Post by "The Natural" Bustin Loads on Jul 16, 2023 20:47:04 GMT -5
Once they pull the trigger Bianca/Rhea should main event WM
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Post by madness50 on Jul 17, 2023 1:58:59 GMT -5
Rhea is great. Was at SmackDown on Friday and you wouldn’t believe the pop she got during a commercial break when they showed her on the Titantron. Glad to see that the live crowds love her too.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jul 17, 2023 6:44:12 GMT -5
I heard Rhea Ripley once punched a guy who couldn't have kids in the balls and afterwards he impregnated his wife with quadruplets. Yeah but those kids all look a LOT like Rhea Like that's a bad thing.
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