The Undisputed Unified Wrestling Thread
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It didn't!
New Day is legitimately the best God damn thing in wrestling. How those guys managed to turn around that crap gimmick into something so entertaining is beyond me. They must also be behind most of their own stuff because it doesn't have the forced stink of Vince's god awful sense of humour and creative's dreadful writing.
Damn it "Wrestlers From My Childhood", stop either dying or killing your own legacy!:
Jimmy 'Superfly' Snuka arrested, charged in 1983 death of girlfriend
Jimmy 'Superfly' Snuka arrested, charged in 1983 death of girlfriend
It's about damn time.
Zappit
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Fixed that.
Zappit
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Of course Bryan and Animal deserve better. I'm just ragging on the Kardashians of wrestling.
Johnny Ace is the Bruce Jenner there.
http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/621...lins-and-reigns-give-thoughts-on-new-wwe-toys
Eugh.
Okay, with Scooby, you can make it work... but Hanna-Barbera must be desperate if you're doing the Flintstones withe the WWE and now the Jetsons. These IPs are pretty damn dated, lol.
With all the shows they've produced, a portion of them being Scooby clones, they couldn't settle on Jonny Quest? Probably the one show that could make use of male and female wrestlers alike without sounding stupid. How hard could that be?
Seth Rollins and goons get abducted and become hired help for a villain agency; Jonny, Jessie, Hadji team up with some female wrestlers and I dunno, Roman Reigns and/or Brock Lesnar and you're certified gold. Have Vince and Cena appear as soldiers or marines a la GI Joe to congratulate them on a job well done and you're certified gold.
Shoot, given the hype around the SWAT Kats revival as of late, might as well jump on that opportunity.
Eugh.
Okay, with Scooby, you can make it work... but Hanna-Barbera must be desperate if you're doing the Flintstones withe the WWE and now the Jetsons. These IPs are pretty damn dated, lol.
With all the shows they've produced, a portion of them being Scooby clones, they couldn't settle on Jonny Quest? Probably the one show that could make use of male and female wrestlers alike without sounding stupid. How hard could that be?
Seth Rollins and goons get abducted and become hired help for a villain agency; Jonny, Jessie, Hadji team up with some female wrestlers and I dunno, Roman Reigns and/or Brock Lesnar and you're certified gold. Have Vince and Cena appear as soldiers or marines a la GI Joe to congratulate them on a job well done and you're certified gold.
Shoot, given the hype around the SWAT Kats revival as of late, might as well jump on that opportunity.
Scooby Doo made it work with BATMAN. It can work with anything.
I'm in favor of a Batman/WWE crossover. 
Batman is like Shawn Michaels; he could wrestle a twig minutes before falling off the waterfall and it'd be a five-star classic.
Batman is like Shawn Michaels; he could wrestle a twig minutes before falling off the waterfall and it'd be a five-star classic.
Because 'Taker has too much cred in the industry to let him fade away until he's ready. It's one of the strengths and weaknesses of the industry really: the old guys can keep stupid shit from happening based entirely on their reputation, but they can also parade themselves out past their prime if they want to as well, putting themselves over newer talent. It took Hulk Hogan being an actual, recorded racist to stop the WWE from doing his stupid shit.
Zappit
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There's a huge divide in WWE creative that's resulted in something of a storytelling stalemate. Part of the team wants to select a few talents to push, creating stars as big as Taker, Bryan, and Cena. Another group doesn't want to do that, as they feel it would limit storytelling options. None of them want to see anybody get over by his/herself, though. That's why they kept trying (and failing) to bury Bryan. That's what just recently happened to Cesaro. It's only a matter of time until they do it to Sasha Banks. Nobody gets over without Creative deciding it happens, but Creative doesn't seem to want anybody to get over.
Now we've got a bland product that's basically a full mid-card, and no clear #1 contender that the fans really want to see dethrone Rollins, who Creative has done their best to ruin. They trot him out to say the same thing to open every Raw, put him in the same basic premise for each title defense - "you can't win on your own." They took his Curb-Stomp due to the concussion lawsuits, and they gave him the Pedigree, which, let's face it, has always looked like a weak finisher.
Blame Creative, and blame Vince, who refuses to break that stalemate.
Now we've got a bland product that's basically a full mid-card, and no clear #1 contender that the fans really want to see dethrone Rollins, who Creative has done their best to ruin. They trot him out to say the same thing to open every Raw, put him in the same basic premise for each title defense - "you can't win on your own." They took his Curb-Stomp due to the concussion lawsuits, and they gave him the Pedigree, which, let's face it, has always looked like a weak finisher.
Blame Creative, and blame Vince, who refuses to break that stalemate.
And Cena's whole problem is they can't dictate what he does outside the ring, which is act like a member of the Peace Corp and do charity stuff, so they can't make him interesting again by having him go Heel without destroying his ability to do that. Remember how much a big deal it was when HOGAN went Heel? Cena would be JUST LIKE THAT, but they can't do it without destroying his charity work.
Zappit
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You knew that when Del Rio came back paired with Zeb Coulter, they were going to come up with some stupid reason for that pairing.
I honestly was not prepared for how truly fucking stupid that reason would be. The new nation of Mex-America, with a population of two.
There's really only one or two ways to turn that into something decent. One, Zeb is just setting Del Rio up for Swagger to swipe the belt now that he found someone who could get it off Cena. Two, Zeb is still recovering from his injury and is completely tripping balls on painkillers. They can't possibly let something like this go on.
I honestly was not prepared for how truly fucking stupid that reason would be. The new nation of Mex-America, with a population of two.
There's really only one or two ways to turn that into something decent. One, Zeb is just setting Del Rio up for Swagger to swipe the belt now that he found someone who could get it off Cena. Two, Zeb is still recovering from his injury and is completely tripping balls on painkillers. They can't possibly let something like this go on.
What particularly sucks is that Seth Rollins has had an amazing two year run as a top heel (and almost a year-long run as champ). Say what you will about the shit booking, but he's managed to overcome it by sheer talent. All of his matches were fantastic and he really took the ball and ran with it for the past two years.
Which sucks all the more of how it had to end.
Which sucks all the more of how it had to end.