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blahblahblah678 said:
The so-called news outlets that allegedly reported this were the ones that were personally ass-mad she signed with WWE instead of their TEW fed come to life, AEW. Maybe Kamille gave her a call and told Vaquer AEW hasn't done shit with her even though she's been under AEW contract for months now.
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I wonder if Rachael Ellering may regret signing with AEW when her dad could have convince Haitch to sign her again.
 
blahblahblah678 said:
The so-called news outlets that allegedly reported this were the ones that were personally ass-mad she signed with WWE instead of their TEW fed come to life, AEW. Maybe Kamille gave her a call and told Vaquer AEW hasn't done shit with her even though she's been under AEW contract for months now.
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Holy shit, I completely forgot that AEW signed Kamille.
 
The things I do against my better judgement…
CyrusHowler said:
How much you wanna bet Max Caster makes a reference to the failed assassination of Trump on Dynamite, Rampage or Collision this week?
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On one hand, it’s topical enough that I’d give it good odds. On the other hand, whoever the Network has looking over his shit would likely take one look at that and immediately axe it.
 
In other more topical news, I've been watching early 2002 TNA and damn, even as rough as he is in the ring, Monty Brown was a star. That was a massive missed opportunity on everybody (not just TNA, because he was in early WWECW), to push him to the moon as a new Goldberg type figure. The crowd was always hot for him.
 
CyrusHowler said:
How much you wanna bet Max Caster makes a reference to the failed assassination of Trump on Dynamite, Rampage or Collision this week?
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Yo! Listen!
In tonight's match I'm on a mission
I'll wrestle with perfection and precision
Unlike the sniper, I won't be missin'
With my shooting skills, I could have given Donald a circumcision

Whatisgoingon said:
In other more topical news, I've been watching early 2002 TNA and damn, even as rough as he is in the ring, Monty Brown was a star. That was a massive missed opportunity on everybody (not just TNA, because he was in early WWECW), to push him to the moon as a new Goldberg type figure. The crowd was always hot for him.
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He could have been very big but it wasn't really anyone's fault for him not becoming a bigger star. His sister died so he quit WWE/wrestling to look after her kids.
 
trent said:
Fucking over the oldest wrestling promotion in the world that has ties to various other major promotions is not a great idea when you are signing with a US sports entertainment company despite not being able to speak a word of English. Maybe she'll do great but if she doesn't then this is her gold watch run.
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She'll suck Haitch and Shawn's dicks as many times as needed to ensure that doesn't happen. Her goal is clearly to be the next lifer a la Bayley, Seth, Roman, etc.
 

Since we're posting classic promos. This is my personal favourite.

You can say anything about Lex Luger and how much of a shitty wrestler he was, but nobody can take this legendary botched promo away from him.

I just love when he screams confused "SUPERBRAWL SATURDAY?!" And of course "I DON'T KNOOOOOOW!".
 
Nicholas II of Russia said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BHTj7qfnTak
Since we're posting classic promos. This is my personal favourite.

You can say anything about Lex Luger and how much of a shitty wrestler he was, but nobody can take this legendary botched promo away from him.

I just love when he screams confused "SUPERBRAWL SATURDAY?!" And of course "I DON'T KNOOOOOOW!".
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That is always a great promo, lol.

I disagree to an extent about your assessment of Lex as a wrestler though. Before his motorcycle accident, he was pretty darn good. Not the greatest, but better than solid.
 
GloryHole Stalker said:
That is always a great promo, lol.

I disagree to an extent about your assessment of Lex as a wrestler though. Before his motorcycle accident, he was pretty darn good. Not the greatest, but better than solid.
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Well, you got me there. Now I remember about his motorcycle accident and how it took him off from months.

TBF he did amazing in JCP and when he was with the Horsemen. I have the feeling that he was close to be a great main eventer but he always had bad luck about his booking, in both WCW and the WWF.
 
Nicholas II of Russia said:
Well, you got me there. Now I remember about his motorcycle accident and how it took him off from months.

TBF he did amazing in JCP and when he was with the Horsemen. I have the feeling that he was close to be a great main eventer but he always had bad luck about his booking, in both WCW and the WWF.
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Yes his best run, imo, was his late 80's JCP run. Working with the Horsemen did rub off on him, maybe not enough to satisfy some however.

I think his issues winning the top belt in the NWA were related to the constant heel/face turns he was being made to do. His character had no consistency, and he was never either long enough to get comfortable and build on that. And Ric Flair flat out refused to drop the belt to him as he "promised" it to Sting .

In that era, I rate Lex as the better, more complete, wrestler compared to Sting.

In the WWE, Vince strapped the rocket to his ass, but Lex didn't have the personality to be the kind of champion Vince wanted. Schmoozing on talk shows, shaking hands and kissing babies and the like, so after a time, Vince soured on him and that was that.
 
GloryHole Stalker said:
In the WWE, Vince strapped the rocket to his ass, but Lex didn't have the personality to be the kind of champion Vince wanted. Schmoozing on talk shows, shaking hands and kissing babies and the like, so after a time, Vince soured on him and that was that.
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The steroid scandals didn't help matters neither.
 
GloryHole Stalker said:
In the WWE, Vince strapped the rocket to his ass, but Lex didn't have the personality to be the kind of champion Vince wanted. Schmoozing on talk shows, shaking hands and kissing babies and the like, so after a time, Vince soured on him and that was that.
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Vince didn't let him to grow as a natural babyface and he went quick on trying to make him a second Hulk Hogan. Just as WCW tried to make him the next Ric Flair after he peaced out during 1990.

There is an argument about how the figureheads of WWE are successful because there are very different to one another. Think about it. Hulk Hogan was different from Bruno Sammartino, Stone Cold Steve Austin was different from Hulk Hogan, John Cena was different from Stone Cold.

The main issue on the WWF on what they were trying to do with Luger was on how much of an artificial babyface he was made right on the spot by making him an All American hero. The Narcissistic was a perfect gimmick for him because of how much it actually represented Lex and his physique fit well into the gimmick, by making him an American hero all of a sudden just made him a cardboard copy of Hulk Hogan, and it's another case of Vince insulting the intelligence on the fans by making him basically a second Hulk Hogan.

If they made him a natural babyface just by making him grow from his heel gimmick, maybe things would've turned out different for him, but what do I know.
 
Whatisgoingon said:
For a supposed golden age for WWE, I still only catch highlights or big events. Watching full weekly shows is still a giant slog, so I don't waste my time. It wasn't like that during the attitude era or ruthless aggression eras, the weekly shows were actually entertaining for the most part. I feel like people are just looking at revenue and assuming that this must be a great era just because "number go up".
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Oh yeah, I actually like WWE right now and I think their booking is extremely strong, but you don't watch the weekly TV. You watch the highlights on Youtube to keep up on the story lines and the only full shows you actually need to watch are the PLEs. Raw is three hours and some weeks it feels like it has two hours of ads.
 
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