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Post by SmashTV on Oct 18, 2023 12:14:02 GMT -5
Adam Bomb would be a big deal.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Oct 18, 2023 17:07:56 GMT -5
CM Punk was a well meaning, if opinionated introvert who could thrive and soften if given space to breathe in a lockerroom without an odious political structure. HA. Oh no, it me.
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Post by Helen of Jasper Troy on Oct 19, 2023 14:52:57 GMT -5
I was literally mad that Rhea Ripley turned heel and didn't stay with Liv Morgan 💀
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Post by MrElijah on Oct 19, 2023 15:26:26 GMT -5
I was literally mad that Rhea Ripley turned heel and didn't stay with Liv Morgan 💀 It's crazy how it turned out for Rhea. On paper, fans liked her so WHY turn her heel? Right idea pivoting from Edge to Finn & allowing Rhea to lean in her natural charisma.
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Post by An Dog On An Skateboard on Oct 19, 2023 15:48:30 GMT -5
I thought of one this morning that I had forgotten/blocked out. When he got called up to senior NXT from NXT UK, and then to the main roster, and they changed his name and his music and entrance and whatever else, I honestly thought Gunther was going to fall victim to dodgy WWE booking and end up being a massive bust, another Keith Lee or something.
Suffice to say I'm feeling a bit silly now.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Oct 19, 2023 16:36:10 GMT -5
I thought Hugging Bayley would be the female John Cena in terms of merchandise sales and being over.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Oct 19, 2023 19:03:15 GMT -5
I thought Hugging Bayley would be the female John Cena in terms of merchandise sales and being over. I mean she could have easily... but Vince didn't get her character and made her act like a literal child.
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Post by Venti on Oct 19, 2023 20:39:16 GMT -5
Around the time they split, I thought John Morrison would be the Shawn Michaels of the 2010s, and Miz would be a midcarder.
Also, what an underrated act those guys were together imo.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Oct 20, 2023 14:15:34 GMT -5
I thought Hugging Bayley would be the female John Cena in terms of merchandise sales and being over. I mean she could have easily... but Vince didn't get her character and made her act like a literal child. The Alexa Bliss feud killed her.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Oct 20, 2023 17:15:12 GMT -5
I mean she could have easily... but Vince didn't get her character and made her act like a literal child. The Alexa Bliss feud killed her. she was already damaged pretty harshly before that but yeah.
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I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Oct 20, 2023 20:03:24 GMT -5
The Alexa Bliss feud killed her. she was already damaged pretty harshly before that but yeah. It could have saved her. She gets pushed too far and kicks Alexa's ass at Extreme Rules. Instead of being called a wuss, then BEING a wuss and losing decisively
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Oct 20, 2023 20:16:09 GMT -5
I thought of one this morning that I had forgotten/blocked out. When he got called up to senior NXT from NXT UK, and then to the main roster, and they changed his name and his music and entrance and whatever else, I honestly thought Gunther was going to fall victim to dodgy WWE booking and end up being a massive bust, another Keith Lee or something. Suffice to say I'm feeling a bit silly now. I mean, they had Keith's debut on a major show be him stepping to Lesnar, and the audience was in to it. If he'd gotten Gunther's booking he may have turned out the same.
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 20, 2023 23:59:02 GMT -5
she was already damaged pretty harshly before that but yeah. It could have saved her. She gets pushed too far and kicks Alexa's ass at Extreme Rules. Instead of being called a wuss, then BEING a wuss and losing decisively I am glad Bayley (eventually) got payback, and they basically had Bayley eat Alexa's lunch effortlessly in their subsequent encounters, like beating her and Nikki clean in a 2 on 1 title defense, essentially, but it's wild that they never just... had Bayley smack the shit out of her with the kendo stick. People WOULD get the callback. I guess if Bayley ever goes face again, do that.
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Post by jason1980s on Oct 21, 2023 0:25:32 GMT -5
Adam Bomb would be a big deal. I thought Bastion Booger would legit be a main event guy. Same for Mantaur. But I was a kid and believed these guys were these real characters. Pretty much any odd gimmick that failed quickly, I thought as a kid would be big. When Bobby Heenan said Booger was his pick to win Superstar of the Year and Vince questioned it, I legit thought "why couldn't he win." It wasn't long after he didn't even make Royal Rumble (I guess someone had to be sacrificed to do the Bret injury story), he jobbed to Bam Bam in like a minute and the next time I saw him he was losing to Koko B. Ware who hadn't even been on TV in a year. I knew then it was over for Bastion. I guess I should have known when he was the opening match at my WWF first house show and lost to Owen Hart who (mid 1993) really never won.
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Post by deezy on Oct 21, 2023 0:49:02 GMT -5
Like someone mentioned earlier, I thought Morrison would be a much bigger deal than Miz when they split up. I was way off.
When AEW signed Punk, Cole, and Danielson I thought they would do over a million viewers every week easily.
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Post by theironyuppie on Oct 21, 2023 4:52:12 GMT -5
The Alexa Bliss feud killed her. she was already damaged pretty harshly before that but yeah. Part of the problem was that we'd already seen her full character arc in NXT, so on the main roster they struggled to retell it, in a less effective way. As bad as the Bliss feud was, a less-remembered moment that damaged her character was the week after she won the Raw title from Charlotte. The ending of that (really good) match had Sasha interfering, so they had Stephanie try to get Bayley to give up the title, but rather than doing that and actually getting the title win at Mania, they had Bayley yell HELL NO!, and then the Fastlane finish ended Charlotte's PPV streak and had even more blatant Sasha interference, when Sasha/Bayley didn't even become a feud until 2020.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Oct 21, 2023 5:53:27 GMT -5
she was already damaged pretty harshly before that but yeah. Part of the problem was that we'd already seen her full character arc in NXT, so on the main roster they struggled to retell it, in a less effective way. As bad as the Bliss feud was, a less-remembered moment that damaged her character was the week after she won the Raw title from Charlotte. The ending of that (really good) match had Sasha interfering, so they had Stephanie try to get Bayley to give up the title, but rather than doing that and actually getting the title win at Mania, they had Bayley yell HELL NO!, and then the Fastlane finish ended Charlotte's PPV streak and had even more blatant Sasha interference, when Sasha/Bayley didn't even become a feud until 2020. Sasha v Bayley on the main roster is one of the most overly long start/stop feuds I've ever seen... by the time they "got to the fireworks factory" I don't know how anyone cared... especially when the final actual incident that caused the feud that was teased... and started and aborted for like 4 years was... "Bayley doesn't help Sasha cheat enough after the two bury the entire women's locker room for like a year" which of course makes Sasha the face..
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Oct 21, 2023 7:03:42 GMT -5
I expected Rusev to transition from generic foreign monster heel into comedy dancing gimmick within a year of his debut.
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Post by wildojinx on Oct 21, 2023 12:53:18 GMT -5
I thought Diesel was going to powerbomb Mabel at Summerslam 95. Never happened, though it would have been a cool visual (if it could be done).
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Post by chrom on Oct 21, 2023 13:07:27 GMT -5
I thought Diesel was going to powerbomb Mabel at Summerslam 95. Never happened, though it would have been a cool visual (if it could be done). Only way I could see that happening was if Mabel mounted the ropes and was punching Diesel and Diesel grabbed the legs to throw him down. Mabel was too fat and wide to try to powerbomb.
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