janerd75
The Great One  
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| posted on 6-7-2017 at 06:46 AM |
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I will tru dat to what GEG wrote with one caveat. Much like the Borg adapted to everything the Federation threw at it, the WWE adapted to the most
recent iterations of sustained wrasslin' awesomeness by eliminating, either through attrition or frustration, an element of grassroots danger
that's not there right now and it shows. The grassroots danger I'm referring to is of course CM Punk and Daniel Bryan. They both set the
bar so high for a relatively long and sustained period (in wrasslin' time) that I can't recall anything coming close recently. Hell, Punk
chants still haunt certain venues and Yes! chants are still very much A Thing.
I think we're still in a puckered Steph world where one of the reasons everything is so rigidly dull and unfun sometimes is so that shit
doesn't happen anymore. I don't mind storylines that just don't gel occasionally, but at least let some guys and gals that know what
they're doing or are trying to get better through trial and error go out on their shields for trying and failing instead of handing them shit
scripts and scenarios that are doomed to failure from the get go. What sucks for the performers is those stink fumes get hung on them and not the
goofs backstage pushing some of this nonsense. Exhibit A: Roman Reigns. That the sustained ReBOOOOOOs still follow him to this day are the solely
owned proVince (and Dunn) of them not letting the guy develop organically. He's got the skills, he's a hoss, but haunted he forever will
be if they keep round pegging a square hole with the poor bastard.
Bryan was maybe a bit aww shucks on the mic as a face, a touch more focused as a heel, but gatdayum his earnestness and ability got him waaaaaay the
fuck over. Punk, well, what a magnificent asshole, amirite? That ornery fucker, while not my favorite worker, had an aura of danger about everything
he did and said. His tongue was a fillet knife and I always tuned in to see who he was going to eviscerate next. And that, gentle souls, is the heart
of wrasslin'. Making you care about earnest ability or talking you into the arena to see what you say next or some combination of the two that
puts asses in seats and dollars in wallets.
And now I'm conceivably supposed to mark out for 'This Is Your Life'? abortions that did nothing but damage two really good
performers who were told to go out and be good soldiers and sell that garbage? That's what puts asses in seats in WWE 2017? And no,
conceding it didn't work the week after in another stilted backstage bit doesn't make up for something that should have been slapped out
of the mouth of whomever suggested it first. Probably Steph so that's why it got though. But again, where's the danger in doing that?
Where's the risk that carries the potential for creating buzz?
We're a little over a month away from being six years from Punk's win at MitB in Chicago and I don't think they've hit those
kind of sustain highs since. Which makes me sad. They have the talent, but their leashes will never, eeeeevar be that long agayn. 
"Well, life's a bitch n' then you marry one. Alls you know now is you're goin' into the bar tonight to get just fuckin'
interplanetary." - Wayne (Letterkenny)
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AmericanNightmare
Turd Generation Superstar
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Registered 7-2-2006 Location Lilburn, GA Member Is Offline Mood: Spedoinkel!
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| posted on 6-14-2017 at 12:06 PM |
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quote:
And they buried Balor twice on the show. Once, during the Heyman/Joe segment when Heyman said that Balor was the "best case scenario" for Brock, and
once during the Joe/Rollins face-off when Rollins mocked Joe for "only" beating Finn Balor.
They made Finn look like a complete pussy.
Much like the prior week when Graves said, "It takes two of Balor's punches to equal one punch of any other Superstar" during his match. I was
shocked, as I can't remember ever hearing someone buried by the announcers quite like that.
For Doctor Who fans, it was the equivalent of, "Don't you think she looks tired?"
Edited to add: I can't make that not italicized. Computers hard.
[Edited on 6-14-2017 by AmericanNightmare]
I know you stole my Loverboy tape!
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