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Post by ChitownKnight on Dec 8, 2023 23:20:37 GMT -5
That promo tonight was fire. I think Punk vs Roman happens at Mania 41, Roman is the face and Punk is the heel and has Heyman in his corner
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Post by bearned on Dec 8, 2023 23:31:44 GMT -5
I did enjoy Punk doing the ‘nod’ to his AEW backstage antics to a completely flat reaction, even the person on the Smackdown fake crowd noise button no sold it.
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Post by Chiral on Dec 8, 2023 23:38:33 GMT -5
i don't really get where the online hype for that promo is coming from but i do find it funny how the crowd didn't react to the punching people backstage thing. goes to show you that viewers of each company are wildly different and there isn't that much overlap It almost echoes "HEY SID HOW ABOUT THOSE SCISSORS" lmao I also wonder if Punk on this WWE run will be as washed on the mic as he was in his Collision run how long it'll take the audience to notice, maybe once the return buzz dies down and he puts out enough clunker "TELL ME WHEN I'M TELLING LIES" tier promos.
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Post by ben:friendship frog on Dec 8, 2023 23:48:56 GMT -5
That was so much better tonight
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Dec 8, 2023 23:53:23 GMT -5
I did enjoy Punk doing the ‘nod’ to his AEW backstage antics to a completely flat reaction, even the person on the Smackdown fake crowd noise button no sold it. IYKYK.
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Post by mcstoklasa on Dec 9, 2023 0:32:06 GMT -5
Hope he has a good run. Good to see him back
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Post by firsttimelongtime on Dec 9, 2023 0:33:56 GMT -5
Fun promo, still haven’t reached full speed yet.
Tonight was the most casual of casual crowds with the troops but that punching people like still probably lands flat with a normal audience. Maybe that’ll be the last of it.
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Post by asuka007 on Dec 9, 2023 1:07:29 GMT -5
I admit I would find it amusing if he wins the Royal Rumble, and then just turns Roman down to his face in favor of going after Seth.
It also might FINALLY make the WHC feel important.
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Post by hashtagdaley/JudasDay on Dec 9, 2023 1:10:09 GMT -5
This was so much better than that Monday. Dude was everywhere!
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Post by Denny Zen is Cooking™ on Dec 9, 2023 1:15:21 GMT -5
i don't really get where the online hype for that promo is coming from but i do find it funny how the crowd didn't react to the punching people backstage thing. goes to show you that viewers of each company are wildly different and there isn't that much overlap It almost echoes "HEY SID HOW ABOUT THOSE SCISSORS" lmao I also wonder if Punk on this WWE run will be as washed on the mic as he was in his Collision run how long it'll take the audience to notice, maybe once the return buzz dies down and he puts out enough clunker "TELL ME WHEN I'M TELLING LIES" tier promos. Tonight was substantially better than Monday, but we ain’t exactly getting prime CM Punk pipe bombs so far in my opinion. It feels like once the hype and surrealness of him being back in WWE is over it’ll be exactly that.
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Post by HIM on Dec 9, 2023 1:32:55 GMT -5
Forgot where I heard it (WON or F4W probably) but it was said there's a chance both nights are main evented by Rollins/Punk and Cody/Reigns.
Honestly due to the landscape I see it happening. Becky/Rhea is the only potential match I can see dethroning one and I doubt that'll happen.
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Post by Fade on Dec 9, 2023 1:38:16 GMT -5
That was all so much better. He knew it too with that home run gesture he threw. He nailed it. Looking exciting again:
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Post by asuka007 on Dec 9, 2023 1:40:05 GMT -5
Forgot where I heard it (WON or F4W probably) but it was said there's a chance both nights are main evented by Rollins/Punk and Cody/Reigns. Honestly due to the landscape I see it happening. Becky/Rhea is the only potential match I can see dethroning one and I doubt that'll happen. Sucks for them. Have their been any Women PPV main events since Triple H took over?
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Post by Fade on Dec 9, 2023 1:45:10 GMT -5
In that one promo tonight it seemed like they basically set out all his biggest feuds for the duration of his contract (assuming he sees it out). Punk v Roman. Punk v Seth. Punk v Cody. Punk v KO. Some others name-dropped too but I think those are the main ones. Give me Logan Paul
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Post by HIM on Dec 9, 2023 1:48:32 GMT -5
Forgot where I heard it (WON or F4W probably) but it was said there's a chance both nights are main evented by Rollins/Punk and Cody/Reigns. Honestly due to the landscape I see it happening. Becky/Rhea is the only potential match I can see dethroning one and I doubt that'll happen. Sucks for them. Have their been any Women PPV main events since Triple H took over? Don't think so if he gained control the month Vince stepped down. Most of the main events have been the Reigns matches from what I'm seeing. They gotta utilize Rhea more and also keep working on this Damage CTRL thing.
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Post by joeiscool on Dec 9, 2023 3:04:16 GMT -5
i don't really get where the online hype for that promo is coming from but i do find it funny how the crowd didn't react to the punching people backstage thing. goes to show you that viewers of each company are wildly different and there isn't that much overlap To be fair this also wasn't a typical crowd. It was a military crowd which is probably super casual.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Weather Machine on Dec 9, 2023 3:24:14 GMT -5
I PUT PEN TO PICKLE AND PICKLE TO PEPIS
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Post by Tea & Crumpets on Dec 9, 2023 3:48:56 GMT -5
That promo tonight was fire. I think Punk vs Roman happens at Mania 41, Roman is the face and Punk is the heel and has Heyman in his corner I'm sorry but Roman Reigns cannot be a face to me ever again. I'm just so fed up of him, never been a big fan of him post-Shield but if they ever try make him a face again I think it's big mistake he's had the most interminably long, miserable, simultaneously dominant treated as a god yet weaselly cheater title reign ever. I also don't know that Punk/Roman is a money match beyond "what does Heyman do and how will he shill it". Said it before, Punk's allure/mystique now is a vaguely Pillman-esque "what the f*** is this idiot gonna do now who's he going to upset what problems is he causing" vibe, so the logical thing to me is book him with guys he's reportedly had heat with- Miz, AJ Styles, Cody, Kevin Owens, Seth, etc. Or let him and Logan Paul be two arseholes to each other. Punk/Roman doesn't do it for me.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2023 6:34:42 GMT -5
I did enjoy Punk doing the ‘nod’ to his AEW backstage antics to a completely flat reaction, even the person on the Smackdown fake crowd noise button no sold it. Truth of the matter is that fans in the audience probably don't know what happened with Punk's time there or doesn't know AEW exists in general. When I went to AEW Dynamite at one time, it hit me that the majority of the fans, at least here in Tampa, just want to enjoy wrestling and only 5 to 10 percent, like us, really care about backstage stories and rumors from Meltzer/Sapp. I know this is strange since Tony books for the IWC most of the time, but wrestling fans want to watch wrestling ay the end.
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Dec 9, 2023 7:12:19 GMT -5
i don't really get where the online hype for that promo is coming from but i do find it funny how the crowd didn't react to the punching people backstage thing. goes to show you that viewers of each company are wildly different and there isn't that much overlap Which is why when people complain about Vince never acknowledging guys backgrounds I shake my head because the same principle applied then. There are people who know he is but they don't know everything. That said, how many fans who read up on AEW backstage happenings do we truly believe were there? Insider fans will go to both but they arent the majority. That also said, the lack of reaction hurt that line because it just sounded weird and I knew the context. Had they popped and started a "f*** You Jungle Boy" chant then it would have popped but this was more or less along the lines of, "Wheres your sccissors, Sid?" and bringing up backstage politics in a promo. And I also say that as someone who liked the reference, just didn't deliver.
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