01-19-2018, 05:34 PM | #39121 |
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I think there's too much...there. I haven't followed the story as closely as some others, but there's a reason it's so uncomfortable. I sincerely doubt he'll be back.
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01-19-2018, 05:34 PM | #39122 |
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01-19-2018, 05:53 PM | #39123 |
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01-19-2018, 05:57 PM | #39124 |
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It's one of those uncomfortable situations where you don't want to talk out of school, but you also don't want to stick your head in the sand. I just can't see the WWE shaking hands with him again.
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01-19-2018, 06:15 PM | #39125 |
King K Cool
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So, for some reason, this exists.
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01-19-2018, 06:36 PM | #39126 |
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COME ON PHILLY (2 hours closer to me) |
01-19-2018, 09:50 PM | #39127 |
Shelly Martinez = Ratings
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I'd like to see Del Rio back if they're actually going to give him a thing to do. Though I like him more than most, I think.
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01-19-2018, 09:50 PM | #39128 |
Shelly Martinez = Ratings
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Also would 100p be at Mania in Philly. I'm 45 minutes from the stadium.
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01-19-2018, 10:01 PM | #39129 | |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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01-20-2018, 02:22 AM | #39130 |
Cranky Kong
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Mixed Match Challenge is on the Network.
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01-20-2018, 04:03 AM | #39131 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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Interesting. Figured they'd keep it just on Facebook Watch cause that's the whole point of it.
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01-20-2018, 04:12 AM | #39132 |
BAY BAY
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Nah, they announced it would just be delayed. Makes sense since the Facebook bollocks is US only.
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01-20-2018, 04:35 AM | #39133 |
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Just got reminded of the Heyman-booked period of OVW with the Johnny Jeter & Cappotelli title match
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01-20-2018, 10:51 AM | #39134 |
BAY BAY
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01-20-2018, 12:12 PM | #39135 |
BAY BAY
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Tranquilo
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01-20-2018, 05:04 PM | #39136 | |
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01-20-2018, 05:05 PM | #39137 |
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01-20-2018, 05:10 PM | #39138 |
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I got all excited about Del Rio's last return because he was GREAT in Lucha Underground and I was all hyped...then he came back to WWE and started doing the exact same boring shit he was doing before.
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01-20-2018, 06:27 PM | #39139 |
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01-20-2018, 06:30 PM | #39140 |
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01-20-2018, 06:35 PM | #39142 |
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Cappotelli was great too, but got injured straight after his first main roster call up, then was the only wrestler I know of to benefit from a concussion as they found that brain tumor he had due to a routine scan after a concussion.
Was supposed to tag with Johnny Nitro on the main roster. Fan of Joey Mercury, but think that could have been an even better team. |
01-20-2018, 06:48 PM | #39144 |
President of Freedonia
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I remember they randomly brought Johnny Jeter back for some huge 30-man battle royal they had on Raw in late 2006. He had been off-screen since the Spirit Squad ended and I figured they'd brought him back to do something with Kenny Dykstra, the only Squad member to stay on the main roster.
Instead he was never seen on the main roster again. Puzzling considering how good he was. |
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01-20-2018, 07:48 PM | #39147 |
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Jeter is also part of the concussion lawsuit against the WWE now.
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01-20-2018, 08:35 PM | #39148 | |
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01-20-2018, 08:53 PM | #39149 |
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Oh, there's an entire lost generation of wrestlers who were stamped out by the WWE and shitty gimmicks in the 21st century. I get mocked for liking a lot of the first wave OVW wrestlers, but they should have been more than gimps, the mentally challenged, French sympathizers (what the fuck does that even mean?), male strippers, stutterers, stylists and cheerleaders.
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01-20-2018, 09:34 PM | #39150 |
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To be fair, Rico as a stylist was great and given that he was 40 when he was called up his ceiling was never going to be particularly high. As it is he got a decent amount of screen time in his two and a half years on the roster and totally killed it in the role he was given.
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01-20-2018, 09:40 PM | #39151 |
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Even though their gimmicks were doomed to fail almost from the start, Eugene and Scotty Goldman (Colt Cabana) probably would have been a lot more successful if they arrived in the WWE a few years later.
Cabana's style of comedy as a wrestler would have fit a lot better in the PG era while Eugene could have been molded into a potential huge star and hero for disabled children. |
01-20-2018, 10:09 PM | #39152 | |
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01-20-2018, 10:15 PM | #39153 | |
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Dinsmore, coming along today, probably would have been tearing it up in the indies as a "wrestling genius," had some good stuff going for him in ROH, EVOLVE and New Japan -- stretching out guys like Zack Sabre, Jr. Then NXT would have signed him to be a player/coach for a while and see if the smarks ate him up. Then he'd either get a push towards the NXT Title or moved to the main roster and then either forgotten about on SmackDown or slum it on Raw like any of the indy guys are currently doing. |
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01-21-2018, 12:36 AM | #39154 |
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Eugene was mega over until HHH cut his legs off
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01-21-2018, 12:37 AM | #39155 |
Fire up Chips!
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Eugene was a good rassler but his gimmick was retarded
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01-21-2018, 12:37 AM | #39156 |
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01-21-2018, 12:52 AM | #39157 |
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I remember feeling genuinely sad when Evolution revealed their true colors to Eugene and beat the fuck out of him. You can basically pinpoint the moment this clueless mentally challenged man's heart breaks when he realizes his idol and his friends all hate his guts.
I actually wanted to see him get his revenge. Which of course never happened. |
01-21-2018, 01:32 AM | #39158 |
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Triple H can work with Eugene at SummerSlam, but he can't put him over -- that would be ridiculous.
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01-21-2018, 01:37 AM | #39159 |
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What they could've done was use the angle to set up a mega push for Regal when he dropped this fucking awesome promo.
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01-21-2018, 01:38 AM | #39160 |
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At the time I remember it being so "weird" and "surreal" that Chris Benoit had just won the big one, but the main focus of the show become a mentally challenged character and Benoit as just a "supporting player"
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