Board 8 > All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 485: It's Such Good Shit

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Mojo Rawley signed for a five year contract.

That is a guy who would benefit from going literally anywhere else because they will never push him now.
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That is a guy who I would prefer was nowhere else because they might actually push him.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Mojo Rawley signed for a five year contract.

That is a guy who would benefit from going literally anywhere else because they will never push him now.

You know theres paranoia when they lock up people like Mojo and Mike Kanellis for FIVE YEARS
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I don't know if it's even paranoia so much as them trying to signal like "See? People still want to be here!"

Even if those people are Mojo and the Kanelliseseses.
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You also have to imagine that AEW is the reason the new signees in the NXT Breakout tournament dont get to keep their indie names

Undisputed Era and DIY got in at just the right time
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Although I guess as weve seen with the Viking Raiders, thats still no guarantee once you hit the main roster

Undisputed Era gonna get called up as a Barbershop Quartet with names like Lewis Farheight, Peter Prince, Wally Thomas, and Holland Opus
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Okay but I want to see that gimmick now
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Tom Bombadil posted...

Okay but I want to see that gimmick now

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The Undisputed BERAtones
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You know product interest is low when Stomping Grounds is tonight and there hasn't beena post in over 36 hours
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So the reason for all the weird elimination tags and 2/3 falls matches and DQs/restarts this week were due to a new directive of no wrestling during commercials anymore

So now when they want a longer wrestling segment, they have to come up with ways to incorporate rest periods
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Also on last nights podcast, Dave went out of his way to praise Tessa Blanchard in her match with Dave Crist on Impact

How can TNAMecca reconcile this
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Jakyl25 posted...

So the reason for all the weird elimination tags and 2/3 falls matches and DQs/restarts this week were due to a new directive of no wrestling during commercials anymore

So now when they want a longer wrestling segment, they have to come up with ways to incorporate rest periods

This company never ceases to amaze me with it's stupid priorities and ideas.
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That's so dumb
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Well people had started complaining more loudly because they started doing important stuff like hot tags and heel cutoffs during commercials

This is the response
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heel cutoff and stuff is fine

but why are they doing hot tags on commercial?
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The very easy solution there is hot tag before commerical, heels fine a way to get upper hand as they go to commercial, face comes back strong out of commercial
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Also I dont know the Gallows and Anderson contract status from awhile ago

but is this club build trying to get them to stay
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Jakyl25 posted...

Well people had started complaining more loudly because they started doing important stuff like hot tags and heel cutoffs during commercials

This is the response

So then why don't they just do it like they did years and years ago?

This shouldn't be difficult.
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ScareChan posted...

Also I dont know the Gallows and Anderson contract status from awhile ago

but is this club build trying to get them to stay

The main reason is because theyre in a big house show main event in Japan this week teaming with Triple H and AJ Styles

Like how they had Paige promote Asuka and Kairis number one contender match at the Japanese house show on SD
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ah

cool I guess
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LOL they really sold this win for Roman as him winning the feud with Shane

But...but...
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Jakyl25 posted...

LOL they really sold this win for Roman as him winning the feud with Shane

But...but...

If this is the end of the Shane/Roman feud I will accept any nonsense they feed me.
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Wait Drew Gulak is finally Cruiserweight Champion?

205 Live is saved!
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Although it's kinda hollow without RD Evans there to celebrate with him.
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good first 2 hours

last hour was a wet fart

all the smaller matches I feel exceeded expectations but the main ones all were bad
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Baron Corbin and Dolph Ziggler tend to do that.
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ninkendo posted...

good first 2 hours

last hour was a wet fart

all the smaller matches I feel exceeded expectations but the main ones all were bad

The WCW comparisons get clearer
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I liked the end of the main event

But I was like "okay what's next now it's getting good"

....
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When's the last time the WWE had a babyface power couple?
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Trips and Steph at some random point in the last year when they were both faces
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Steph was a face?
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When she gives opportunity from on high for women to finally be treated as equals in society, yes
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She's still a heel, though.
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Cena and Nikki are the only ones I recall. AJ and Punk would be, but the focal point was more on AJ (and of course the whole revolving door of people she "dated" during that time period). Miz and Maryse would be, but Maryse obviously can't at the moment. Hell, by then, Miz might turn heel again....
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TheRock1525 posted...

She's still a heel, though.

When she tries to put Becky in the main event of WM only to be overruled by Vince?
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I can't believe I didn't remember Cena/Nikki.

Probably because of how it ended.
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I read about the main event.

Can you mother fucking imagine this is their idea to improve ratings?

Holy shit this is wretched.
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I mean, it wasn't that bad. Babyface heroes overcome odds is a pretty time tested storyline.
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Lacey Evans as the secret special guest referee.

Seth and Becky's relationship being the focus of the show moving forward?

Like who could possibly care?
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I want to say... the people who actually follow Lacey Evans on Twitter and think she's good? They exist.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Seth and Becky's relationship being the focus of the show moving forward?

Your incredibly over female competitor and a fairly over male character being the focus of the show seems like a pretty idea to me.
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scarletspeed7 posted...

I want to say... the people who actually follow Lacey Evans on Twitter and think she's good? They exist.

Lacey is pretty solid at everything that isn't actually wrestling.

So like 2016 Alexa Bliss.
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TheRock1525 posted...

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Seth and Becky's relationship being the focus of the show moving forward?

Your incredibly over female competitor and a fairly over male character being the focus of the show seems like a pretty idea to me.

Obviously it would be.

If there were good stories with them.

Convince me that they won't make this the most horrible thing ever within two weeks.
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I think Lacey COULD get decent in time. Some of the stuff she does is interesting. It's just not good.

So I might watch her in a few years.
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You're not arguing that. Your argument is that the ending (The Man and her boyfriend stand tall) is "Can you mother fucking imagine this is their idea to improve ratings?" Saying "WWE can screw up a good concept" isn't the same as "this is conceptually bad."

Those are two completely different things.
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Nah, its conceptually pretty bad unless Seth is turning around to be Becky's valet.

They have subverted their best shit to prop up their worst shit, like they always do and the result is going to be the end of Becky Lynch as a special act. Because that's the goal of the WWE, to make no one special.
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And you're boiling it down to "But the top faces are involved."

This is what they feel might make ratings better, linking these two on the shows like this. Who in the world is going to tune in now because Seth and Becky are now dating on camera, and who among them who has quit has any faith that doing this won't immediately tank?

It's a bad idea because all it does is just links these two into another who gives a fuck storyline, likely with Baron Corbin and Lacey Evans still involved, and it isn't a good idea from even the premise of it.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Convince me that they won't make this the most horrible thing ever within two weeks.

But this is basically how people react to virtually anything WWE does, or anything they plan to do, ever

Mostly with good reason but still
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So basically "There's really nothing to object to conceptually, I just think they'll fuck it up."

Which duh.
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