The King of Old School Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 He's not as over as people on here like to think he is. Â I like him, he's a bit different from your normal stereotypical WWE babyface, but he will never ever be the top guy in the company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted September 24, 2014 Moderators Share Posted September 24, 2014 He wasn't massively over on Monday, but it was in Mempho, and I don't think that's his kind of crowd. Lance Russell was brought out before the show and probably got a bigger pop than 90% of the people on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted September 24, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted September 24, 2014 Good seeing Ambrose back involved but I've no idea where the WWE are going with any of their big story lines and I don't think they do either. But at least with the Reigns injury they are forced to think outside of the box again. Â ...Or not, as the case proved to be. I don't know about anybody else on here, but I saw the Dean-in-the-box thing coming from the moment Rollins told Orton he would have a 'surprise' at ringside. It wasn't a bad idea, but it just annoyed me that it seemed so obvious what was about to happen. At least they are putting some creative effort into Ambrose at the moment. Â The biggest crime was the execution of the moment, though. The camera work was all to shit for the reveal... they ought to have had Rollins lifting the box so that we saw Ambrose at the same time he did, not before, and then they needed to get a good shot of him doing the 'seen-a-ghost' expression to really sell it, before getting punched in the gob. As it played out, it seemed to fall a bit flat for me. Â It was good stuff though. Ambrose mixing it with Cena made him feel big time. Â The best thing for me was that they didn't have Ambrose buddy up to Cena. Made a change for another face to get in Cena's face and act confrontational rather than act like mates. Broadly speaking, Ambrose is over with a different demographic than John Cena and would lose cool points with that portion of the audience by associating with him. Smart move not to compromise Dean's loose-cannon character despite the common cause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 It didn't make a change for another babyface to be confrontational with Cena. They did that with all the Internet babyfaces except Ryder. They did it with Roman Reigns as well this summer, and he's not even an Internet one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted September 24, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted September 24, 2014 I mustn't have been paying attention if that's the case. Still, Ambrose came off well out of the screen time he shared with Cena this week. Â The last time I can recall a proper babyface getting hot at Cena was Daniel Bryan in the build to their title match last summer, and he came off looking like a massive knobhead out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.PeterVenkman Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Just finished watching it and the only thing I remember is how good Nikki Bella's arse looked when Brie was trying to put her in the Yes lock and how good Paige's arse looked when she stood up out of her announce chair, that either means the show was shite or I'm just a pervert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Just finished watching it and the only thing I remember is how good Nikki Bella's arse looked when Brie was trying to put her in the Yes lock and how good Paige's arse looked when she stood up out of her announce chair, that either means the show was shite or I'm just a pervert They do have lovely bottoms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WWFChilli Posted September 25, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted September 25, 2014 Careful Wyatt, that might offend the girls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Eddie Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 I think what he meant to say was... Â "Of course, they all have lovely bottoms" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Statto Posted September 25, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted September 25, 2014 Just caught up with Raw. Are we to believe Ambrose spent his time out injured becoming the world's greatest illusionist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallicks Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 I mustn't have been paying attention if that's the case. Still, Ambrose came off well out of the screen time he shared with Cena this week.  The last time I can recall a proper babyface getting hot at Cena was Daniel Bryan in the build to their title match last summer, and he came off looking like a massive knobhead out of it.  Ah yes, someone thought it was a good idea to push the whole Bryan "I'm a wrestler and I'll wrestle anywhere for 50p, Cena you're not a wrestler you're just a merchandise machine" angle (again). I do enjoy it when Cena goes on about wrestling "because he loves the business". There should be crawl at the bottom of the screen telling the audience that his purely altruistic love for the business has nothing to do with his $3m/year downside.  The crowd have been fucking dire for the last 3 raws. This has been a particularly cold period in the usually quite chilly Raw offseason, but even so, the general apathy to everything that happens hasn't helped. At least try and enjoy yourselves, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted September 26, 2014 Moderators Share Posted September 26, 2014 He wasn't always on big money you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanny Pack Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 This thread has taught me the rule that if nobody posts before 1pm the day after Raw, then that Raw sucked. Â I will watch after the footy tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted September 30, 2014 Awards Moderator Share Posted September 30, 2014 This thread has taught me the rule that if nobody posts before 1pm the day after Raw, then that Raw sucked. I was thinking the exact same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Sergio Mendacious Posted September 30, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted September 30, 2014 I'm not sure I can put aside the time to watch RAW (or Smackdown!) anymore — they're so moribund. It's not like there's much that's offensively terrible, it's just all such a big unseasoned porridge of predictability and general inertia, and I don't want to give up five hours a week of my free time for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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