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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 9, 2018 10:45:24 GMT -5
Did Show's ironclad contract run out?
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 9, 2018 10:13:01 GMT -5
After tonight if i'm Roman i'm telling Vince never again are you putting me in the ring with Brock F*** the money, f*** the storylines, i'm getting killed out their each time and this is the last straw Shit, I'm ready for the entire roster as a unified front to refuse to work with Brock. What's Vince going to do, fire them all? ...shit, that's probably exactly what he'd do. Brock does not effect the majority of the wrestlers in the company. There are a few people like Rollins/Balor who I think could make claims Brock is hurting them. But then there are people like Mojo whose booking has no change if Brock was in the company or fired.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 9, 2018 1:06:06 GMT -5
I don't have their financial reports to prove this one way or the other, but is his presence and positioning as champion worth their investment in him? Because if it was making them money, I can't see the boys being too upset. If it's not moving the needle either way, though, then yeah, I'd be kinda pissed if I were them. Well there is another group mindset of thinking wrestling schedules suck so good on Brock for getting such a great deal for himself.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 9, 2018 0:52:42 GMT -5
Well this is the big paycheck day for wrestlers so I don't mind it too much.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 9, 2018 0:52:03 GMT -5
Maybe guys like Rollins/Balor who can conceivable be top guys might feel aggrieved that Brock is hogging main events while not working as hard as them and possibly taking a spot from them.
But like Baron Corbin's booking is not being effected by Lesnar so I doubt he cares either way.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 9, 2018 0:49:25 GMT -5
It kind of felt like Jericho vs Punk at WM. Was fine match but people expected a bit more. I am sure we will eventually get a gimmick match like a last man standing which will give Styles and Nak a lot more to be creative/do big spots. I thought about comparing them but it falls into a weird territory. That was also a match they sold as the absolute two best going at it that wound up being pretty meh, but in that case it was less about never kicking into gear and more about the fact the first half of it was Punk making pouty faces while Jericho yelled for him to get DQed. Yea and that match did have a clear heel vs face set up unlike Styles/Nak. I just feel unless the 2 people in the program are two of the best wrestlers in the WWE (HBK/Angle at WM21 for instance) it's tough to build a dream match as the selling point of an angle.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 9, 2018 0:22:00 GMT -5
SD has turned both Zayn and Nakamura heel this year That shit seemed impossible at one point I think that is the only way they really know how to push babyfaces. Turn them heel so in 24 months so when they turn back they get bigger reactions. It seems the WWE is struggling with building a babyace without turning them. I imagine Balor is next.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 9, 2018 0:09:36 GMT -5
It kind of felt like Jericho vs Punk at WM. Was fine match but people expected a bit more. I am sure we will eventually get a gimmick match like a last man standing which will give Styles and Nak a lot more to be creative/do big spots.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 9, 2018 0:05:32 GMT -5
I was willing to overlook him losing to Jinder and just in general not trying to kill himself for a match where he had a partner who wasn't ever really going to keep up in-ring with his pace. But then he had AJ f***ing Styles with him in a Mania title match and honestly I think I like the match less than the f***ing Shane match from last year. Shinsuke's either too worn down or he's just coasting. And I'm not sticking up for someone who's lazily pissing all that potential away. In fairness of tonight I think they were told to hold back due to this whole thing just being a set up for an angle but still WWE has to be aware of these things Shinsuke has not looked great so in these instances you have to make him stand out outside of his own charismatic nature. You risk people of tuning out his matches because they know it will be okay at best I think you can hold back and still have had a better match than that tonight. For instance Christian/Orton had a lot of good matches even though they needed to plan out 5? world title matches together.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 9, 2018 0:03:35 GMT -5
If they keep AJ on SDL again, which would honestly kinda surprise me, he and a heel Nakamura can have a hell of a feud with this that leads to the all-time classic they're capable of having. This thing has legs to it. Maybe. Nak has a lot to prove that he is capable of having great matches in the WWE.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2018 23:47:14 GMT -5
Tag team title matches will always get the short end of the stick at mania unless it is one of the multi men ladder matches.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2018 23:45:56 GMT -5
I hope not. Like, fix what needs fixing but they can't just abandon him after all the work that almost everyone involved put into him. the problem is that after all the work they did... NO ONE CARES. They built the f5 as a death move for a year to get the oh shit pop at Mania. Roman got nothing. No pop, no boo, he didn't even get the standard TWOOO! crowd chant. The crowd do not care about him... it's not even outright hatred anymore. the only real fix I can see is to more or less start from scratch... as he is now I don't think a heel turn can save him from apathy. I could be wrong, and if I am great. I think Roman could kill it as a heel... but at this point he's beyond damaged goods. The best thing for him (not for his wallet) is to take like 14 months off from wrestling completely. Then when he comes back he will have some sort of reaction and then you decide the direction to take him then.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2018 23:42:54 GMT -5
Would've been better to have her win and then lose the streak and title to the next big time call up at SummerSlam or next year at WrestleMania. This was a waste of her streak and a bad call, IMO. OR, you spend the next two years having Asuka vanquish all comers, while also building up Bayley, and then, at Wrestlemania in two years, you have Bayley dethrone Asuka in the main event of the show. It writes itself. It's really simple! Asuka just not losing for another 2 year sounds dreadful booking wise.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2018 23:32:31 GMT -5
Yeah, that strike exchange felt like they were about to click to the next level, but then it was over kind of quickly. Thumbs down to Kevin Dunn, by the by (I know, that NEVER happens around here, right?), for not knowing how to film pro wrestling strikes and make them come off as impactful. The camera felt too removed and distant from the action on a lot of the kicks and forearms, it dampened their impact and effect. Still, a good match, but one that didn't get to that next level that could've made it transcendent. yeah I liked the match but it did definitely felt like it was stuck in second gear and never ramped up all the way... Kind've understand it with the Heel turn... but that seems like something that should have been done at like a B pay-per-view to get to the real match at Mania. Yup plus given how unpredictable wrestling is, this could be Styles and Nak only ever world title match at Mania so I doubt they will do a slight self sabotage to set up for Backlash.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2018 23:30:18 GMT -5
I think they want to keep booking Alexa. Maybe they do a love angle with her and someone else just to get her screen time away from the belt.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2018 23:25:13 GMT -5
Match was fine. I think the match should have been better though. Don't think this was a case of those two holding back for future matches.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2018 23:23:01 GMT -5
Taker probably was not ready to go for a full 15 minute match so a squash was needed. We saw with Wyatt when they did a similar build the match was not so hot. So they use a bigger star like Cena to take the hit. To be fair Bray / Taker was about as good as it possibly could have been given Bray twisted his ankle earlier in the day. True. But for better or worse, Cena can gather some heat for any match he is in compared to most guys who the WWE would want to take a quick L today.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2018 23:18:58 GMT -5
Taker probably was not ready to go for a full 15 minute match so a squash was needed. We saw with Wyatt when they did a similar build the match was not so hot. So they use a bigger star like Cena to take the hit.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2018 23:09:30 GMT -5
They probably soured on Roman (maybe that weird Steroid guy made them nervous idk) over the last couple of months. Maybe Vince found a new golden boy in NXT he feels confident in.
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Post by Sparkybob on Apr 8, 2018 22:42:03 GMT -5
It was a cute filler segment. Braun was stuck without an angle given he was reportedly backup in the Reigns/Brock match so he got some cool to do.
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