WyattSheepMask Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 It gets more & more stupid every time you watch it. I’ve never watched the actual show as if stopped watching ROH by that time, but I bet the crowd cheered it like crazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Maestro Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 I found it annoying how much of big deal was made when Becky Lynch got lumped off Nia Jax recently. Wrestlers punch each other all the time. One gets legit smacked in the face and they've hyped it up. Makes every strike thrown in wrestling look stupid. It's not like it's Owen breaking Austin's neck in 1997 either as a piledriver would hurt without paralyzing someone. Becky did look a star in the aftermath of it though so that was good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted December 1, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted December 1, 2018 10 minutes ago, The Maestro said: I found it annoying how much of big deal was made when Becky Lynch got lumped off Nia Jax recently. Wrestlers punch each other all the time. One gets legit smacked in the face and they've hyped it up. Makes every strike thrown in wrestling look stupid. They don't give each other concussions causing each other to miss heavily promoted matches on pay per view all the time. You can wallow in the misfortune or you can use it. They used it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Maestro Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 I get that. But you have wrestlers throwing strikes in every single match you see and not one has a mark on them. One gets punched for real and they really go to town on it. As I said, Becky looked a star at the end of the whole thing but it makes every other punch you see look pointless and stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted December 1, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted December 1, 2018 21 minutes ago, The Maestro said: But you have wrestlers throwing strikes in every single match you see and not one has a mark on them. It's a work. What's the alternative? Write Lynch off the storyline and say she's injured without ever showing her bloody face again or alluding to how it happened? Fine in real sport, but this is pro wrestling, where WORKED injuries are integral to characters' feuds, returns, revenge etc. They're hardly going to pass on the chance of using a real injury to embellish the arc of their top star. Wouldn't have done with Stone Cold, makes sense they didn't with The Man. Exploit everything - when life gives you lemons, throw a lemonparty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Maestro Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 I would have just sold it more as a beatdown from brawling with the Raw roster rather than just highlighting the one punch. As I said, she looks a proper star in the aftermath of it all and they've done well to capitalise on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted December 2, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted December 2, 2018 On 11/30/2018 at 1:03 PM, Carbomb said: That's terrible. I don't mind rolling suplex thingies, but that should be a finish or at least a double-down. He's never got being Tyler Black out of his system, has he? Granted, I haven't seen much of him in WWE, but what little I have seen has me wondering why people on here have praised him as some super-worker babyface when he still seems like a classic indy spot monkey. If that's his work after coming out of the PC and NXT, he must have been ridiculous in RoH. I don't understand any of the praise Rollins gets. He's basically all the worst parts of the current WWE style embodied in one wrestler. His matches always get "This is awesome" chants and will then be immediately forgotten. No character or storyline to anything he does. He's a poor man's AJ Styles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 51 minutes ago, LaGoosh said: His matches always get "This is awesome" chants and will then be immediately forgotten. That’s not exclusive to him though is it. Stuff that is bang average gets “this is awesome!” so long as you throw in some kicked out finishers in the last 2 minutes, such is the Pavlovian response. I can’t remember anything from Backlash this year, but I bet there was a “this awesome!” chant at some point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted December 2, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted December 2, 2018 Definitely not exclusive to him. But I would say he's the top wrestler who performs that flashy but completely empty style of match. Like I said, he's the worst parts of the current WWE style all in one wrestler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Maestro Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 So we all don't like Seth Rollins this week then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 On 12/1/2018 at 10:58 AM, The Maestro said: I found it annoying how much of big deal was made when Becky Lynch got lumped off Nia Jax recently. Wrestlers punch each other all the time. One gets legit smacked in the face and they've hyped it up. Makes every strike thrown in wrestling look stupid. Or it just makes that punch look harder than the others. Not every punch in boxing results in a knockout, but they still replay the ones that do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted December 2, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted December 2, 2018 3 hours ago, The Maestro said: So we all don't like Seth Rollins this week then? He's never been particularly popular on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted December 2, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted December 2, 2018 On 12/1/2018 at 10:58 AM, The Maestro said: I found it annoying how much of big deal was made when Becky Lynch got lumped off Nia Jax recently. Wrestlers punch each other all the time. One gets legit smacked in the face and they've hyped it up. Makes every strike thrown in wrestling look stupid. It's not like it's Owen breaking Austin's neck in 1997 either as a piledriver would hurt without paralyzing someone. Becky did look a star in the aftermath of it though so that was good. yeah, anytime something goes wrong or someone gets injured you always see the 'so you think wrestling is fake?' posts on twitter along with a picture of the injury like its some kind of badge of legitimacy, definitely annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted December 3, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted December 3, 2018 20 hours ago, LaGoosh said: Definitely not exclusive to him. But I would say he's the top wrestler who performs that flashy but completely empty style of match. Like I said, he's the worst parts of the current WWE style all in one wrestler. Bloke was hitting Phoenix Splashes as a heel. Baffling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffbag Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 On 12/1/2018 at 11:49 AM, The Maestro said: I would have just sold it more as a beatdown from brawling with the Raw roster rather than just highlighting the one punch. As I said, she looks a proper star in the aftermath of it all and they've done well to capitalise on it. I'd disagree with this. It's given Nia some massive heat which she is running with fairly well (for her). If they had sold it to the Raw roster then there is no focal point and people would have forgotten about it on Raw by the time the 3rd hour of the next show began. Given the backing Becky is getting from "da universe" as well, i don't think WWE could have done anything else to try and deflect it from Nia and it being successful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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