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  1. I feel like Tajiri would have had a good run in either AEW or WWE if he came along now. I think I prefer the reality we got though as he was a fun midcard act.
  2. AJ's had loads of gimmicks. He's been flippy floppy, Russo's bestie, mini Ric Flair, Sting without the makeup, an adulterer and a soccer mum. Finn Balor had "little man having it large" in NJPW, cosplayer, demon and goth who likes purple.
  3. You wait till he turns heel and cuts promo saying he always was the American Nightmare. It's just one of those examples where a wrestler gets a cool nickname and the cool gimmick that could have been attached to it evaporates. Like how we could have had a wrestling architect but now we can't because it's associated with Seth Rollins.
  4. I think it depends which corner of fandoms you're in. There's definitely corners of the Doctor Who fandom, for instance, who obsess over ratings, whether it's worrying that ratings are too low or using them as arguments to say one writer/doctor was better than the other. I think it's natural to be a fan of something and then become interesting in how bits of it works. Plus wrestling doesn't provide the same statistical fix that other athletic endeavours do. People can't obsess over how many completed passes someone has made in a season so they talk about how much wrestling time there was on a show or what the TV ratings are. They want some numbers.
  5. Vamp

    CM Punk chat

    Wasn't Booker there that time Punk tried to pull his "I'm a locker room leader, look at my big boy pants" the last time Punk was in the WWE?
  6. I imagine nearly every match at WrestleMania nowadays is rehearsed ad nauseum. Which, to be fair, it worked for Savage and Steamboat. Rousey is tremendous in that match though, and they must have thought they struck gold. Bad Bunny and Logan Paul have kind if ruined this discussion because they came in and looked good from the start. Again, they were protected in tag matches, but still.
  7. I've always seen Dykstra as the poster child for boring mid-00s OVW graduate who was lucky to get the zany gimmick that he did even though everybody at the time was fantasy booking him to drop the gimmick and become a serious wrestler. Why do you think he could have been a star? Genuinely interested.
  8. It's interesting to think about what would have happened with any of the NBT if WCW had survived. I don't think they're missed opportunities so much as they missed opportunities.
  9. TNA could have done more with Monty Brown than they did. They had a homegrown star with real momentum and didn't have the nerve to run with it. Then they turned him heel and aligned him with Jarrett. I still think Ryback should have beaten Punk for the title in the cell. It would have established him as a guy who can win the big one, and then it's super easy to screw him over in a TLC match the next month. I don't really buy that it would have damaged Punk before his match with Rock. His greatest attribute is that people believe what he says, he could have easily talked people into wanting to see him against The Rock. And, just for balance, AEW not capitalising on that Thunder Rosa/Britt Baker match was a missed opportunity for all parties.
  10. Am I the only one that uses the create a wrestler slots for bad facsimiles of legends and random gimmicky losers? You know, the way it's meant to be used? I already have a Lord Humungus. I normally create a fairly small woman who's a bit too much of a Kane fan, complete with a red and black dress and a Kane mask.
  11. I want a WCW 2000 reunion. Give me Jung Dragons/3 Count, Norman Smiley, Disco Inferno, Tank Abbott, Crowbar, David Flair and whoever else is left. Fuck it, go wild and let Foley in for a hardcore match with Smiley and Knobbs. He can get hit with a rubber chicken, gently mind.
  12. Interesting that they highlighted GM mode as a mode thats been left to fester when that's actually had quite a few updates. I'm guessing they meant universe mode.
  13. WWE is never going to happen. TNA couldn't afford it. AEW? Genuinely wouldn't shock me as much as it should.
  14. Maybe we need to go back to the days when wrestlers had to pass a physical from a state doctor. It'd be one thing if it was Foley dishing out the violence on somebody else but you just know he's going to take some unprotected chair shots to the head or a bump on the concrete or something. Wonder if Tony Khan might be interested in bringing Foley in.
  15. I really love Kevin Nash's 2003 WWE theme which sounds like a more epic version of his Diesel theme.
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