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[Kaiterra]

Roman Reigns having to wear a bulletproof vest to wrestle says a lot about our gun culture.

 

[The Silver]

unless he's hanging out with Dean, Roman needs to never smile

 

[UberTag]

unless he's hanging out with Dean, Roman needs to never smile

Is this face better?

 

[EhoaVash]

been a big fan of wwe since I was young, but fell out with the product around 2010

I still try to watch wwe foronly like the two weeks before wrestlemania lol and mania itself. anyway reasons why i stopped watching ` shows are wayyy too long also. , a lot of the wrestling are either super predictable, too many short matches, too many commercials, not enough good in ring promos between two stars. who hate each other's guts ( Austin/rock ) and just shitty plug ins and too many jobber characters.

 

[The Silver]

Is this face better?

yes

 

[Fat4all]

Fixing it is 24/7 Cena..

 

[BIGWORM]

Here's the cure for frustrations towards WWE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GAnIuBKuLo

That looks badass.

 

[Forkball]

No, Sandow couldn't carry the weight of the storyline's payoff. You're discussing the situation from an idealistic perspective like "if they had just kept it going, it would have worked," but it wouldn't. His work is really soft and "going through the motions." He wouldn't have continued the connection with the crowd that he had. He lost it all that one Raw where he came out and cut a promo to thank the fans, and it fell flat with the crowd because he just doesn't want it that bad (or doesn't know how to).

WWE fucks up most of their own storylines for sure, but Sandow is just not good enough. His shit Macho Man made it even more obvious.

I don't think Sandow is that great in the ring either personally. But that storyline was booked well enough until the end. Even if Sandow has no real future in the WWE, from a story perspective he should have at least beaten the Miz in a match. People weren't expecting a five star match from these two, they just wanted to see Sandow punch the shit out of Miz and then score a three count. They could have had an entertaining comedy match where Miz is trying to escape and protect his face or something. That's all they had to do and the crowd would have eaten it up. It would have been a fun moment and a definitive end to the storyline. What did anyone get out of the conclusion they went with? Sandow tried out a worse gimmick and Miz... kept existing? What is the Miz's gimmick right now, I don't even know. No one benefited at all, when you could have at least had a single good moment if you let Sandow get one win over Miz.

As for Roman Reigns, I feel like a lot of people like him, but they don't want to be TOLD to like him. I like his matches, but he is written so badly. People can clearly see that the WWE is trying to force feed him to us, and they are bitter about it. The poor build up Reigns had from single competitor to the number one contender of Wrestlemania is still hurting him. I also hate hate HATE the recycled plot point of "someone wins the title and then instantly loses it!" Sometimes it can work, but not for the first title win. It completely cheapens the career-long journey to get the top belt.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

My problem with Roman is that I don't think he buys into his character. He always feels like he's acting the way he thinks a face should act, rather than letting it become a part of his personality the way the greats did. Whether it's for lack of talent, or he's just shell shocked, he's just not believable as a character. He comes across more like a nervous 15 year old in the school play.

 

[Zach]

My problem with Roman is that I don't think he buys into his character. He always feels like he's acting the way he thinks a face should act, rather than letting it become a part of his personality the way the greats did. Whether it's for lack of talent, or he's just shell shocked, he's just not believable as a character. He comes across more like a nervous 15 year old in the school play.

Yup.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

My problem with Roman is that I don't think he buys into his character. He always feels like he's acting the way he thinks a face should act, rather than letting it become a part of his personality the way the greats did. Whether it's for lack of talent, or he's just shell shocked, he's just not believable as a character. He comes across more like a nervous 15 year old in the school play.

Pretty much. "Tater Tot" promo was bad too...really bad.


Looks like it truly is John Cena*

*(That is, without Punk, Orton, Lesner, DB. And Cesaro and Dolph demoted to the 3 to11 mid shift)

 

[The Horror the horror]

Today's wrestlers are too stylized and pretty, with personalities and in-ring ability to match their $500 haircuts and brow jobs. Whenever a wrestler walks down the isle, 90% of the time I say to myself, "Prettiest man I ever saw!" What happened to men like Big John Stud, Junkyard Dog, Dino Bravo, Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff, Superstar Bill Graham? Guys who looked tough and wrestled tough? I remember for every Ric Flair or Shawn Michaels, there were 5 of these men. Most of today's roster look soft as well as wrestle soft.

 

[Speevy]

I think that once a product becomes really unpopular, anything it produces catches this stink.


The same is true when it is really popular.

 

[iMax]

unless he's hanging out with Dean, Roman needs to never smile

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

I hope you have the balls to admit that you just wanted to make a "hur dur white peoplez" post.

Um no? Im white and white wrestlers are typically my favorite (other than Rock being my absolute favorite, HHH and Stone Cold being #2 & #3)

That 4 or 5 times is since The Rock came back in what 2011?
Even with how much I grew to dislike Cena(liked him for a couple years), he is at least unique ,
The guys im talking about just seemed so generic it looked local wrestling level.

I will admit I think one of the first tries in hindsight might have been Danial Bryan, so that is on me.

 

[Ploid 3.0]

I used to watch wrestling all the time, I remember buying the games too (this is like psx era 1997 - 2001ish). I think I stopped watching it because I got out of high school. I talked about wrestling at school because it was the thing people liked to talk about, along with the latest DBZ episode, and movies that came on cable or HBO (something everyone could see at the same day).

I'm sure they will keep going. What else are people going to watch in it's place? Other than Hockey, Football, Football USA, and such.