Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on May 5, 2024 6:06:03 GMT -5
They really made a big deal in the WWE Draft by taking this guy, and his most memorable moment in WWE turned out to be getting booed in a match with BARON CORBIN
Dude is a shit human and he never took to this. For the best, because I never wanted to see the dude get popular enough to do it either, he didn't deserve it.
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Post by PKO on May 5, 2024 6:27:19 GMT -5
It helps to underline how unique wrestling is when you have an Olympic gold medalist, given the best training, the red carpet rolled out for him and he ultimately flopped.
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on May 5, 2024 7:19:25 GMT -5
You know you're bad when the NXT crowd boos you out of the building.
When was the last time that ever happened? And like not a f*** up here or there, but straight up ethered by the NXT crowd first match out?
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Post by XIII on May 5, 2024 7:44:52 GMT -5
It helps to underline how unique wrestling is when you have an Olympic gold medalist, given the best training, the red carpet rolled out for him and he ultimately flopped. If I have to guess he has a pretty big contract for a new guy and the SA stuff played a huge part of the fans not taking to him. If Brock was still around he’d probably have done something with him too. 🤷🏻♂️ If he had a clean slate he probably would have gotten an actual chance to develop. It didn’t help that he kept pivoting on what he wanted to do either, he was going to be WWE full time, but then he might come back for his 5th year of college, but then he might do the Olympics, etc.
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Post by kingoftheindies on May 5, 2024 7:52:44 GMT -5
People go on about how Angle was a one-off and he was in terms of character work and quickly getting the sports entertainment side of the business he was but really collegiate wrestling should be a smooth transition to the pro game based on the sheer numbers who've used it as a gateway: Lesnar, Steiner, Hennig, Shelton, Rude, Chad Gable, Otis, Swagger, Ziggler even Cody and Xavier Woods were good at HS (and wrestled each other pre-fame) so how did Stevenson who was great at amateur wrestling and had two years as a high priority task for the performance center coaches just fail so miserably? Being good at any contact sport should give you a leg up see football (Reigns, Rock, Simmons, Big E, Vader, Corbin etc) or even rugby (Holland, Cersaro) I'm sure the judo dojos are used as a feeder system into the Japanese promotions. In short, Stevenson might never have been able to live up to Angle's sky high standards but how did he get to the stage where he was unable to work a standard match without getting exposed? Steveson had a big head from the sounds of it, and didn't really want to work hard.
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jm
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Post by jm on May 5, 2024 8:36:00 GMT -5
The phrase "couldn't have happened to a nicer guy" applies to Gable Steveson and him being shit-canned by WWE.
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Post by Goldash #BLM on May 5, 2024 9:53:41 GMT -5
While I feel bad about someone losing a source of income (especially knowing how tough it can get for some Olympians), I don't have much sympathy knowing what he's done outside wrestling.
Bringing her up in yet another post, but they also hired Tamyra Mensah-Stock around the same time (she won the women's gold medal in freestyle 68kg in Tokyo). She recently made her debut at a house show and from all indication seems to be impressing staff. So, if there's any silver lining from the Steveson experiment, it may be that the NXT's women's roster gets another really good talent out of it that doesn't have any of the negative reputation Steveson had. We shall see.
Even Damon Kemp succeeded while his real-life brother failed. I remember thinking at the time, "why did they bother signing Steveson's brother" but man, was I wrong. Kemp has had a pretty good run so far. We'll see where his career ends up going.
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A Little Doo Doo
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on May 5, 2024 12:29:10 GMT -5
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Post by Stu on May 5, 2024 12:34:15 GMT -5
Wait a minute, this guy is named Steveson? I've been calling him Stevenson! Why didn't someone tell me? Oh, I've been making an idiot out of myself!
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on May 5, 2024 12:38:34 GMT -5
Wait a minute, this guy is named Steveson? I've been calling him Stevenson! Why didn't someone tell me? Oh, I've been making an idiot out of myself! Always been a really easy mistake to make. Another reason to hate him.
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Post by jean0987654321 on May 5, 2024 12:56:35 GMT -5
Hallelujah. Thank f*** he's gone
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Post by sarkerpolseng on May 5, 2024 13:02:26 GMT -5
When they were in Minneapolis (his hometown) last year, they brought out Dolph Ziggler to dog on Minneapolis and say how much it sucks. Gable came out and destroyed Dolph.
Everyone was cheering for Dolph and booing Gable.
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Post by DichEvans on May 5, 2024 14:25:38 GMT -5
Why didn't they just give Chad Gable this push? Instead we got Mr Shush and Shorty G, despite him being the closest thing to Kurt Angle that we've ever had
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Post by Vincent Whiney on May 5, 2024 14:59:04 GMT -5
I had to remind myself he was a real person and not part of that COVID era video game they put out "Oh no..It's..BOLO REYNOLDS!!"
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Post by TOK Is the Target Demo on May 5, 2024 16:09:57 GMT -5
Why didn't they just give Chad Gable this push? Instead we got Mr Shush and Shorty G, despite him being the closest thing to Kurt Angle that we've ever had Massive difference promotion and fame-wise between losing in the first round as a middleweight and being a gold medalist (and 2-time NCAA champ) at heavyweight. Steveson was set to be a huge part of Team USA promo in 2020 before the assault charges, and was still given a lot of media attention for someone whose actions were so heinous they were the direct impetus for Minnesota to enact policy change.
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Post by jm on May 5, 2024 16:10:02 GMT -5
Why didn't they just give Chad Gable this push? Instead we got Mr Shush and Shorty G, despite him being the closest thing to Kurt Angle that we've ever had Chad Gable should have been Angle's last match. Imagine the great match that would've been.
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Post by J. Hova on May 5, 2024 16:15:21 GMT -5
Well that's something. Doesn't really surprise me. Kurt Angle is the exception to the rule of a super high level amateur wrestler who just gets it for pro wrestling. It also didn't help Gable that he had the personality of a curtain rod.
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Post by cosmo on May 5, 2024 16:35:44 GMT -5
Looking back at this thread, I'm shocked because I didn't know Steveson had more than one match. And truthfully, I'd honestly even forgotten all about him.
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Post by ejm olmos on May 5, 2024 16:43:19 GMT -5
Why didn't they just give Chad Gable this push? Instead we got Mr Shush and Shorty G, despite him being the closest thing to Kurt Angle that we've ever had Chad Gable should have been Angle's last match. Imagine the great match that would've been. They had a match on Raw three weeks before that WrestleMania and it wasn’t any good. Kurt was already multiple years past the point of having a good singles match. That said, undoubtedly it would have went over better for him to pass the torch to Gable at Mania than what they did with Corbin.
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Post by RadcapRadsley on May 6, 2024 1:17:08 GMT -5
It helps to underline how unique wrestling is when you have an Olympic gold medalist, given the best training, the red carpet rolled out for him and he ultimately flopped. If I have to guess he has a pretty big contract for a new guy and the SA stuff played a huge part of the fans not taking to him. If Brock was still around he’d probably have done something with him too. 🤷🏻♂️ If he had a clean slate he probably would have gotten an actual chance to develop. It didn’t help that he kept pivoting on what he wanted to do either, he was going to be WWE full time, but then he might come back for his 5th year of college, but then he might do the Olympics, etc. Even with dedicated training and a good work ethic doesn't always mean someone will be a good wrestler. Jade Cargill is still really green her 3rd year in, and that's with 2 seperate companies having their best trainers try to teach her,by all accounts she was a world class college athlete and is working her ass off trying to be a great wrestler but it doesn't gurantee anything. Same thing with Gronk,Tom Magee,Tino Sabatelli or any number of people who were great college athletes who just never full got it as wraslers. For every Baron and Bianca who smoothly transition dozens don't.
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