From: XIII_rocks | #242 I like putting a bunch of guys in a really harsh environment to see who gets to be in a world title match at Wrestlemania, actually. The EC-before-WM concept is one I quite like. I mean it's better if the stories intertwine, sure.
I find the biggest flaw in the Road to Wrestlemania being the fact that at least one person gets into a title match at WM easy while 3 people have to really fight for it.
One person has to win the Rumble, and 2 others have to win Chamber matches. The 4th guy (and sometimes the 5th guy) just kinda stumbles into one of the most prestigious title matches of the year.
It's better when it's the reigning Champion (like Miz last year) at least.
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Even those two examples you cited didn't tie anything up. They may have done a decent job at building 6 people with legitimate reason to fight each other, but the feuds just kept going.
And there were two NYR ones, it was an annual staple there before it was moved to No Way Out.
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Anyone else seen this? I just saw the first episode and it appears to be a pretty decent show. Basically, this is a web series about the new head writer for American Wrestling Federation. He's the only sane man out of a group that contains writers with terrible ideas, a boss who seems to be a lunatic that's twenty years behind the times, and... Mick Foley as the former head writer.
These were pretty funny, especially Episode 2.
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Going back through results on thehistoryofwwe.com, the last time Sheamus was actually pinned was November 1st by Wade Barrett thanks to Christian interference.
The last time he was pinned prior to that was by Sin Cara on a house show on July 12th back when Sheamus was a heel. The last time he was pinned on TV prior to Barrett's win was on the June 14th SD taping by Christian, after which Orton punted him.
All of Sheamus's losses since his face turn have been by DQ, Countout, or Battle Royal Elimination, with the sole exception of that Barrett match on SD.
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From: Chronic1000 | #200 My question is, who could Cody Rhodes lose the IC Title to? I really can't think of a midcarder who is to the level of the IC Title... which is saying something >_>.
Maybe he makes it to Hell in a Cell, the final PPV before he breaks the record, and is challenged inside the Cell by...THE HONKY TONK MAN.
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BLJ to get up the stairs w/ 69 Stars and using the last set of Bowser Red Coins as Star #70 really would defeat the entire point of a 70 Star Record even existing.
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Only one title change before Insurrextion: Chris Jericho defeated Chris Benoit for the IC Title on the final SD before heading to England.
This makes Jericho only the 5th 3-time IC Champion in history, alongside Ramon, Jarrett, Michaels, and Goldust!
Also, after his win at Backlash, The Rock became only the 4th 4-time WWF Champion ever, alongside Hogan, Hart, and Austin.
WWF Champion: The Rock Tag Team: Edge & Christian Intercontinental: Chris Jericho European: Eddie Guerrero Hardcore: Crash Holly Light Heavyweight: Dean Malenko Women's: Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley
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Wrestling storylines are often loaded with potential, and often fall well short of that potential.
What is, in your opinion, the greatest angle in wrestling history.
It's not about which one peaked the highest or had the coolest moment. I want to know which angle, from beginning to end, was executed the most perfectly, and had the most satisfying conclusion.
I'll throw out one of the obvious ones to start: The saga of Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth.
Let's hear some more examples of sports entertainment at its absolute best.
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There's a thread on Other Feds where people are digging up posts on newsgroups from the '90s to see how smarks were then.
As someone who was actually on those newsgroups at the time, I just posted some of my contributions to them.
I think I've shared these with this topic before, but here's 18-year-old me in 1999's thoughts on wrestling. Not much different than the current me except the old me thinks he's much funnier than he really is:
From: SmartMuffin | #133 As if Vince watches Smackdown!
Vince: "Alright, time to book the Royal Rumble! Let's figure out the winner first. Who's the World Champion on SmackDown right now, Randy Orton or Edge?"
Underling: "Ummm...boss..."
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From: Coffee Ninja | #124 but really, nows prob the best time for The Usos to become champs. Tag champs are heels, and Usos really are the most over face team, so with Bourne out, Im guessing the Usos get the feud with Primo/Epico, barring a new team forming. Maybe they'll even put Tamina back with them to balance out Rosa on Epico/Primo
I was gonna say that since Truth is finally face again that maybe R-Truth and Johnny Curtis could finally get their shot, but Curtis is heel now!
They just can't get their alignments straight!
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From: SmartMuffin | #125 This reminds me of a question I had during RAW. Does anyone think that Vince demonstrated for Brodus Clay how to dance? Because I certainly do.
I have literally had that exact same thought.
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From: Panthera | #122 I don't know, the WWE had to have put some actual thought into deciding that building up a new supposedly dominant team should be done by having them simply lose all the time. That's deviating a lot from the formula of having the new dominant force get wins, which is what they'd do if they were going strictly for the easiest and thoughtless route!
The impression I got from that whole thing was that the pairing was largely Beth and Nattie's idea and that WWE was never very high on it but didn't have anything better at the time. <_<
They stopped letting them call themselves the Divas of Doom, they jobbed Nattie out constantly, and now they don't even pair up anymore.
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From: SmartMuffin | #120 It was the Bellas who were mercilessly mocking Kong on her way out, right?
You can bet they are getting squashed when she returns PDQ.
If I can channel a WWE writer for a moment:
"We'll have an angle where Kharma returns, and she SEEMS menacing at first, but then she attacks the Bellas' opponents and tries to hug the twins, to their astonishment. We reveal next week that in her time off she suffered head trauma and now believes that she is the Third Bella Triplet!
She can come out dressed like them, acting like them, and trying to pull Twin Magic with hilarious results! It'll be a classic, boss!"
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You know, with Kharma due back in the spring or early summer, there's actually an opportunity to flesh out the Divas division character-wise. Not so much with regard to ring skills, but moving beyond "all heel divas are friends/all face divas are friends."
That would require, you know, actual creativity, but still the option is there.
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From: SmartMuffin | #105 Now that I think about it, I think in my original idea, Kelly leaves the PPV with the title, then Brie brings the replay up the next night on RAW and Johnny then reverses the decision and gives Brie the title back or something.
It would have been Anonymous GM at the time. <_<
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IMO the logical conclusion to the Bella title reign was Twin Magic getting so out of control that it led to a Triple Threat match: Kelly vs. Brie vs. Nikki. Both twins would be legal to pin then, and in the build to the match, Kelly could totally play Nikki against Brie, pointing out how despite them both being integral to this title reign, this is all going into the history books as Brie's accomplishment.
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Well both twins would be in the ring at the same time, whether the men were legal or the women. WWE doesn't do male vs. female anymore.
In that match, just to subvert the most common trope in history, I would make the referee the smartest person in the arena for that match, somehow for once absolutely on top of his game, knowing who is legal and who isn't, when even the announcers don't know, and each set of twins would even get confused about which one of the other set of twins they're rooting for.
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