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March Wrasslin' |OT| Forecast for Wrestlemania...cloudy with a heavy chance of Reigns

Touchdown

Banned
SFW?...

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zychi

Banned
The way to Raise the belts is to allow champions to cash in their belt for a higher tier belt shot after they defend a belt for at least a month. If they lose there is a tournament to crown a new champ and they lose their previous belt.

It would force belts into long builds and for champs that hold a belt for a long time has the fans wondering what is he gonna do next.
Wrestling fans dont remember three months ago(including myself), let alone how a guy got a belt. This would never work. I hope this is just a cycle and we're stuck in the re-vamped shit 80s era, and something big will happen in a gew years to reignite what wrestling should be.

Fuck id be happy if Donald Trump or some bored CEO or someone made an american company to counter WWE. They need competition, and not just from within at nxt
 

DMczaf

Member
Even WWE doesn't agree with you. Otunga was body shaming him hardcore on the preshow last night.

Meltzer has been saying they don't trust his promos at all because most of the people in the back never saw his promos in TNA (because TNA doesn't exist) and are judging him based on his shitty WCW promos.

Sting is energetic and engaging on the mic thus far.
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I legit can't tell if Sunny Mac's rules lawyering is an in-joke or not.
 

Kaladin

Member
That was a fairly weak go home show. Only two angles got any kind of real build to them.

The divas match got a nice plot twist with AJ and Paige advancing their rivalry / friendship ahead of the tag match.

Bray Wyatt demonstrated that he can control Undertaker's powers to an extent, possibly hinting that it will come into play Sunday.

Otherwise:

More IC title shenanigans

Cena got destroyed by Rusev again

Rollins and Orton had the standard 3 vs 1 match build.

Stang and H had a show down and did nothing

Paul Heyman gave up on trying to convince the Universe that the main event was worth it.


It was all around just repeats or treading water.

On paper, the card looks great, but the build has been so meh.
 

Cagey

Banned
Otunga bodyshames dudes on the WWE Raw preshow?

Why the hell am I not watching the WWE Raw preshow. That's like 2 of my favorite things about wrestling in one neat package.

I legit can't tell if Sunny Mac's rules lawyering is an in-joke or not.

I would hope, but I sincerely doubt it.
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I know y'all love Heyman, but the transparency of his promos just makes me cringe. Like, he's delivering them well, but goddamn is the script he's reading just absurd, insane shit like "Roman Reigns, you could beat everyone else on the roster at the same time, but Brock is the best, so I'm pretty sure you'll lose." Just way angrier.
 

notworksafe

Member
Otunga bodyshames dudes on the WWE Raw preshow?

Why the hell am I not watching the WWE Raw preshow. That's like 2 of my favorite things about wrestling in one neat package.
It was pretty great. First he made fun of Corey Graves' goofy suit jacket, then asked why Sting was wearing a T-shirt in the ring, then mentioned that no one has as good of a physique as him in the company.
 

Cagey

Banned
It was pretty great. First he made fun of Corey Graves' goofy suit jacket, then asked why Sting was wearing a T-shirt in the ring, then mentioned that no one has as good of a physique as him in the company.

It's like my boy David Otunga is cutting promos for an audience of me.
 

Toki767

Member
I know y'all love Heyman, but the transparency of his promos just makes me cringe. Like, he's delivering them well, but goddamn is the script he's reading just absurd, insane shit like "Roman Reigns, you could beat everyone else on the roster at the same time, but Brock is the best, so I'm pretty sure you'll lose." Just way angrier.

You might not have been around during the time when people actually talked up their opponents because when they beat them, that made them seem that much better.

It's only not legitimate for Reigns because Reigns hasn't done anything to deserve all the praise.
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Wasn't Nash already in WCW when Foley really came on in the WWF? Why not just you know, Triple H?

You might not have been around during the time when people actually talked up their opponents because when they beat them, that made them seem that much better.

It's only not legitimate for Reigns because Reigns hasn't done anything to deserve all the praise.

Oh, I know what they're doing, its just way over the top. Practically every single person in the company is putting Reigns over on the mic, in the ring or even in the fucking press to the point that it doesn't even really sound like they're backhanded compliments. I mean, c'mon man, you don't need Ambrose to give shoot interviews where he tells us about how awesome the reaction at house shows is for Reigns.
 

scabro

Member
I know y'all love Heyman, but the transparency of his promos just makes me cringe. Like, he's delivering them well, but goddamn is the script he's reading just absurd, insane shit like "Roman Reigns, you could beat everyone else on the roster at the same time, but Brock is the best, so I'm pretty sure you'll lose." Just way angrier.

Paul Heyman doesn't follow a script though. If he was they wouldn't cut his mic out. And he just tells the truth which Vince hates. This man has followed Brock's career through Ultimate Fighting, and he knows that if Brock wanted to he could shoot end the match at any point. And he has alluded to that on the mic. If production didn't try to stop him from delivering his promo the way he wants to he wouldn't have to make the same point again.
 
What a fucking dreadful ending to Raw.

Here's me thinking there's gonna be a little brawl but no. Just two little bitches that cant share.
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Paul Heyman doesn't follow a script though. If he was they wouldn't cut his mic out. And he just tells the truth which Vince hates. This man has followed Brock's career through Ultimate Fighting, and he knows that if Brock wanted to he could shoot end the match at any point. And he has alluded to that on the mic. If production didn't try to stop him from delivering his promo the way he wants to he wouldn't have to make the same point again.

Speaking of being committed to your character
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Hostile, insular, talking about Ring of Honor. I can understand why many have moved on.

I think this is like the fourth time we've hit on the "guys Heyman is shooting" thing

They edited the ESPN guy completely out of the Hulu Plus version of Raw, yet kept the Snoop Dogg segment.

Maybe he shouldn't have referred to "putting guys over" on air.
 
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