Mr.Awesome
Banned
Nxt fans are morons. They also liked Adam Rose. And Emma.
They got lucky with Bo Dallas but really they just booed him so hard to credit them there.
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They got lucky with Bo Dallas but really they just booed him so hard to credit them there.
Serpentine
Banned
don't worry, I'm a Paige and NXT fan and I don't even know
blackaroni
Member
Steph's entrance
http://gfycat.com/GlitteringDelayedAfricanparadiseflycatcher#
http://gfycat.com/GlitteringDelayedAfricanparadiseflycatcher#
Edit: Nevermind. I'm an idiot.
She's been absolute garbage since getting called up, I guess I can just watch Arrival over and over
Nope, Naomi won https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw8GPClhaCI
Sweeney Tom
Banned
That commentary was worse than the normal commentary, and I didn't think that was possible
dream
Member
The worst "shoot" promo I've ever seen was The Undertaker wearing sweats and talking about how he never left for WCW but Vince still held him down and forced him to fight his brother Kane.
Mr.Awesome
Banned
Speaking of Rose, was he even on Raw tonight? Hopefully Vince gets his way and he's already off tv for good.
serenewarfare
Banned
I see it as quality over quantity. I'd rather have five matches that'll get decent time and probably be good than get eight matches in which two are rushed or brushed over because they need time for the main events.
Lambda Pie
Banned
"Hey look! A random girl coming out to congratulate AJ! Who is this chick? She looks kind of cool."
"Oh shit! She beat AJ for the title! Random young girl with black hair just beat AJ!"
"Man, she looks really emotional in this backstage segment. This must mean a lot to her."
"So...her parents were in the wrestling business?...or something?..."
"Huh...she just got her ass beat for the majority of that match and then won with one move."
"I...I...guess she's kind of cool, still. She looks the part, for sure. And hey, she's got a cool-looking finisher."
"What the fuck, she keeps botching shit."
"WHO IS THIS GIRL? JUST...WHO THE FUCK IS SHE?!"
"GET THIS ANNOYING GIRL OFF COMMENTARY NOW."
UrbanDandy
Member
I always love these
It's a three-hour PPV. You're going to get 25 minutes of celebrity panel analysis on this thing for sure.
I wouldn't expect you to, honestly. She's going to have to come up with something herself to get more people to care about her character and get herself over somewhat.
serenewarfare
Banned
I feel like you jumped from Paige to Cameron at the end there. Paige's problem on commentary wasn't that she was annoying, it's that she wasn't saying anything at all.
Those were accidental. Go and look at what Brock did to Big Show and Albert. Both guys tried to sandbag him in matches and in both instances he threw each guy around like a sack of shit.
Brock had vicious ground and pond in MMA. And he had the type of power that allowed him to break a guys eye socket with mediocre looking straight. If he was aiming to really stiff Cena in their match while on top of him Cena would have probably been KO'ed.
serenewarfare
Banned
We would have gotten that regardless of if there were ten matches on the show.
Mr.Awesome
Banned
horrible
I hate to say it, but the WWE could actually learn a thing from TNA on building characters through pre-recorded segments that show them outside of the ring and in real life.
Worked for:
-Gunner
-Knux (kind of)
If the WWE wants to be current, I think they could incorporate more reality TV into their shows quite easily. Just do the American Idol "hanging out at home and here's why I'm doing this thing I love" segments.
Lambda Pie
Banned
serenewarfare
Banned
I don't think it worked for Knux, but mainly because those segments didn't flow together or make any sense. I do think they can be effective if done right though.
Serpentine
Banned
that arcade fixing subplot had me captivated bruh
Believe.
I honestly hope GFW takes this approach. I think they might with the Biggest Loser dude on board.
dream
Member
Truer words have never been spoken in this thread. NXT fans truly are the worst. They're like TNA fans, but they actually have the ability to influence WWE decisions, which makes them very dangerous because WWE, as an entity, is such a mark for NXT.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Yeah that's how I see GFW going. I'd be interested in watching something like that to be honest, like a fake-Tough Enough/Ultimate Fighter style personal story type of thing.
El Pescado
Member
Just heard Tyler Breeze's old theme on a commercial and spent the entire ad being like "Where do I know this song from?!"
serenewarfare
Banned
I refuse to have any excitement for GFW until it actually runs a show/gets a TV deal. The concept stuff Jeff is talking about, like the partnerships with AAA and NJPW, are cool, but until he actually starts running shows it's just talk.
lovely ladies
Member
The 2nd MITB match really is the jobber MITB.
Believe.
I honestly hope GFW takes this approach. I think they might with the Biggest Loser dude on board.
D'amore booking, relationship with New Japan, i believe
Looking at the results, sounds like I missed as generic of a Raw as you can get.
A divas feud which no one will care about to set up another divas feud in which nobody cares about. And which none of the blame will go to the champion for no one being interested because NXT.
A tag team feud between teams I've already seen wrestle a dozen times.
Clusterfuck main event just so Reigns can get his Greatest Hits in.
Vickie's gone but nobody cares because she's already had a decreased presence for months now
Generic midcard thing(Swagger beats Kofi)
Generic midcard thing(Wade beats Dolph)
Kane in 2014
A divas feud which no one will care about to set up another divas feud in which nobody cares about. And which none of the blame will go to the champion for no one being interested because NXT.
A tag team feud between teams I've already seen wrestle a dozen times.
Clusterfuck main event just so Reigns can get his Greatest Hits in.
Vickie's gone but nobody cares because she's already had a decreased presence for months now
Generic midcard thing(Swagger beats Kofi)
Generic midcard thing(Wade beats Dolph)
Kane in 2014
Mr. Luchador
Member
It sounds like RAW was as terrible as ever.
it was seriously great
Serpentine
Banned
it wasn't that terrible, tbh. Some good shit in there, almost all of it in the second hour. overall, it was fairly mediocre, which is a step up from usual
No, it was pretty good again but I doubt it will change your mind.
For sure. I agree 100%. I'm still looking forward to seeing what it actually ends up being, though.
Honestly, I want reality wrestling...I want to see guys talking about their lives while wearing sweats with grass and blue skies in the background. I wanna see guys working out at the gym and visiting their families. I wanna see TNA Sanada-like segments of guys waking up early, training, and talking about why they're doing what they're doing. I could really get into that because I think I'd find it inspiring. Of course, once that's out of the way, the guys still have to deliver in the ring.
For those who think everything TNA does is shit, check out these fantastic Sanada hype videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FLEsE_XZbA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FLEsE_XZbA
Both together will only take 4 minutes of your time.
That's trolling. NXT is the best weekly hour of wrestling right now. You sound as if WWE booking ruining characters through horrible booking is some rare occurance. Everything that made those people over in NXT is forgotten and botched as soon as they are called up.
I mean, this is the company that killed Daniel Bryan's momentum with a Kane feud after how incredibly over he already was. They are so amazingly incompetent, that after decades of experience, they can't book their champion right.
NXT has a gimmicky style, it is cartoony and over the top, but it never fails delivering high quality matches. You may not like the style, but calling people moron for enjoying some of the best wrestling it can be seen today is, again, just trolling.
This is what pisses me off. Those hit and run posts of "this thing you like is stupid" that ends in a circle jerk of people congratulating themselves for being unfunny fucks.
NXT is booked better than the WWE. Everyone has storylines and relationships that the WWE really lacks right now. A lot of NXT people are and will fail with the way WWE currently does things.
Reigns was lucky that Vince cared about him being a main event guy so he got two great talents to coach him and carry him whenever he was on a WWE show. Which was actually a bad thing because even though he got over he's mediocre at best at most things and is terrible as singles wrestler and after 4 years he can't call a singles match or wrestle more than 5 minutes without gassing. Bryan and Punk couldn't get a good match out of him. He is the only Shield member that isn't getting singles matches on a regular basis since the break up. People that understand wrestling must see that he isn't ready. If Vince had treated him like other NXT talents and just thrown him in random matches and given him no interviews he would have bombed.
Keyser Soze
Member
Was a good show - and I am in easily annoyed mode these days.
serenewarfare
Banned
Looking at the TNA taping results, I really think that TNA saw that
Sanada had the X Division belt and thought "Shit, we can't have him challenging for the world title!" and then immediately had Aries take it off him before Destination X.
lol, i was wondering what they were gonna do about that
This thread has been seeing more and more of that lately, coincidentally every time dream is around
blackaroni
Member
You're a better person than me cause I wouldn't waste my time responding to that shit.
Agreed. Let's have some positivity in here, bros.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Dammit, either RAW was good or you guys are working a great angle together. Maybe I'll watch Smackdown this week and let it recap RAW for me. Unless I just watch the second hour. So little time.
serenewarfare
Banned
Agreed. Getting worse too. But can't say too much. Some might think we are "apologists who own WWE stock."
lovely ladies
Member
Terrible might be too harsh, I've only watched it for around 10 minutes though.
Well, this sucks. Way to hype a guy and then just kill him by taking him off TV for like a month and then have him drop the title randomly. So shitty. :-/ They did something similar to Manik. Poor guy.
El Pescado
Member
Holy crap, Bootaaay have you seen this?
Super young Andre in a kung fu movie He's got an amazing bowl cut.
Super young Andre in a kung fu movie He's got an amazing bowl cut.
serenewarfare
Banned
TNA is worse with Japanese talent than WWE is. TNA pretends to care. At least WWE is upfront about it. TNA had fucking Okada and they still managed to make him look like an idiot.