Cranjis McBasketball
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Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Oct 10, 2023 21:56:27 GMT -5
To use a metaphor I'm not 100% sure of.... That wasn't a home run, but it was a solid double.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Oct 10, 2023 22:58:19 GMT -5
That's a pretty good promo, and hey it explains the "If he's Brian Pillman Jr. why is he going by X" question.
And unlike a few second generation people ... Brian Jr. looks exactly like his dad so he couldn't get around something like that.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Oct 10, 2023 23:00:12 GMT -5
"Why heel out on other people's dead fathers? I've got one of my own!" Somewhere Christian is flipping a table in anger. >_>
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Oct 10, 2023 23:04:11 GMT -5
It potentially being AI generated makes it more embarrassing because not only did a computer generate it, someone looked at what came out and went “Yeah, this is what we want our network to be represented by” and posted it. Embarrassing for all involved except, for once, for Brian Pillman Jr. Wrestling journalism has been going downhill since Gregory Helms had his press access revoked. WASSUPWITDAT?!
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Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Oct 10, 2023 23:10:45 GMT -5
Pillman Jr airing a promo about how he doesn't care about his dead father while Christian made his entrance on Dynamite is the kind of poetry you simply cannot script in wrestling lmfao
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Oct 10, 2023 23:13:22 GMT -5
Pillman Jr airing a promo about how he doesn't care about his dead father while Christian made his entrance on Dynamite is the kind of poetry you simply cannot script in wrestling lmfao The form of the Big Boss Man is about to start appearing in the clouds, like.
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Rudy Gobert Fadeaway
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Post by Rudy Gobert Fadeaway on Oct 10, 2023 23:29:06 GMT -5
That beard is made out of 100% Carlos Boozer fibres
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Rudy Gobert Fadeaway
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Post by Rudy Gobert Fadeaway on Oct 10, 2023 23:31:22 GMT -5
Seriously though that was like genuinely a really good twist
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Fade
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Post by Fade on Oct 10, 2023 23:35:04 GMT -5
It’s a smart direction to go in. 1.) Pillman’s a natural heel. I was screaming that when AEW was trying to push him as a conquering babyface coming off the DSOTR hype. But as his reputation online has shown, he’s kind of young and dumb. He’s a heel. But he’s absolutely not his father.
And, it just sticks to the truth. Im not the biggest pillman proponent but it’s a good start,
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Post by sarkerpolseng on Oct 11, 2023 0:26:14 GMT -5
I really liked this segment/vignette tonight.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Oct 11, 2023 0:27:35 GMT -5
In terms of a first impression, he did really well
Thru all the real life stuff with his family, this is something he can tap into
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Post by Andew9001 on Oct 11, 2023 0:46:25 GMT -5
Got me more interested in seeing him here than pretty much his entire AEW run.
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Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Oct 11, 2023 0:46:35 GMT -5
Weird ass haircut and facial hair aside, the promo WAS good and thank god they didn't go with "Lexis King" in the end, Brian King makes way more sense for what the promo delivered The real thing is gonna be if he's stepped his game up in ring, and has gotten better at live promo work, because his in ring stuff was kind of below the bar especially by the end of his AEW run, and his live promo work still has Jim Harbaugh up at night I think he has potential, more in WWE actually, he just feels like one of those types, we'll see if it sticks. He's gotta get back to his MLW level grind tbh
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Oct 11, 2023 2:32:59 GMT -5
Will say that it's certainly a choice to cut an "I'll take the name of the man who raised me" promo when the man who raised him was physically and mentally abusive to him and his sister and Beeps has talked openly about it.
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on Oct 11, 2023 4:07:41 GMT -5
Fantastic video package. I look forward to what he does next with this new persona.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Oct 11, 2023 4:17:05 GMT -5
Will say that it's certainly a choice to cut an "I'll take the name of the man who raised me" promo when the man who raised him was physically and mentally abusive to him and his sister and Beeps has talked openly about it. See I did remember this, but thought to myself "Maybe there was another stepfather??" because there's no way he'd pay tribute to the dude who kept him confined to his room with angry dogs blocking the door... yes that was a real thing that happened to him.
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clifford
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Post by clifford on Oct 11, 2023 5:07:04 GMT -5
Wtf is that beard lmao
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UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Oct 11, 2023 5:10:41 GMT -5
his entire look is so bizarre and strange that I’m into it, that beard is straight up surreal
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Post by ben:friendship frog on Oct 11, 2023 5:17:49 GMT -5
Will say that it's certainly a choice to cut an "I'll take the name of the man who raised me" promo when the man who raised him was physically and mentally abusive to him and his sister and Beeps has talked openly about it. It's reportedly a tribute to his sister who has the same surname as the stepfather. The reasoning he gave in the promo is probably just story convenience, as he doesn't actually hate his father either.
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Nosnorb
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Post by Nosnorb on Oct 11, 2023 5:51:06 GMT -5
That was a really good video, though I don't know why Solo Sikoa and Dominik Mysterio were playing on the TV with the clips of second generation stars - one was given up on then abandoned by his old man, while the other has far outshone his deadbeat dad after doing hard time earlier this year and his Mami made a man out of him.
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