Paid Members air_raid Posted April 5, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 5, 2022 40 minutes ago, Angle_fan said: After beating Gonzales at Mania Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 2 hours ago, TildeGuy~! said: “I am Elias’ younger brother, Ezekiel” Jesus Christ. I laughed at least twice during that segment so that's two times more than most of the stuff they do. I'll take it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) I really don’t understand why they changed up Elias, his gimmick worked so well and he drew tons of heat whenever he was on screen. Did having Boogs get called up have anything to do with it? Can’t have more then one guitar player? Considering he’ll be on the shelf for a while now I can’t see why they couldn’t have just brought back his old gimmick. Edited April 5, 2022 by TildeGuy~! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gaffer Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 3 minutes ago, TildeGuy~! said: I really don’t understand why they changed up Elias, his gimmick worked so well and he drew tons of heat whenever he was on screen. Did having Boogs get called up have anything to do with it? Can’t have more then one guitar player? Considering he’ll be on the shelf for a while now I can’t see why they couldn’t have just brought back his old gimmick. Or just have a feud built around two lads who play guitar. Comedy wrestling that books itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boshealecta Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 The top comment on Elias/Ezekiels debut on YouTube is saying how this is like repackaging Bray Wyatt as Husky Harris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Kennedy Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 5 hours ago, TildeGuy~! said: “I am Elias’ younger brother, Ezekiel” Jesus Christ. “Shit, the reaction to Wrestlemania was generally positive, we must go back to our old selves and quickly!” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-d-d-dAz Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 I’m a big supporter of Cody Rhodes returning to where he probably belongs and getting a chance at success, but… fuck me… he’s annoying isn’t he? That guy is potentially the best heel on planet earth, if he’d just wake up to it. On another note, I’m not sure this weekend is the success story it’s being sold as. Sure, he’s looked a megastar and will probably win the world title and might even stay in the main event for a while. Great. But… isn’t it a savage indictment of their ability to build stars that he had to fuck off for six years and have a multi-million dollar tantrum to get to this point? The guy absolutely fucking drips WWE. He’s a fucking WWE wet dream. As I said in the Mania thread… he looks like a WWE guy, Talks like one, wrestles like one, dresses like one. He might as well have been built in a lab by Pritchard and Vince. They should have been able to get to this point without him ever leaving the company. The Dusty story was there all along, for one thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 2 hours ago, d-d-d-dAz said: I’m a big supporter of Cody Rhodes returning to where he probably belongs and getting a chance at success, but… fuck me… he’s annoying isn’t he? That guy is potentially the best heel on planet earth, if he’d just wake up to it. On another note, I’m not sure this weekend is the success story it’s being sold as. Sure, he’s looked a megastar and will probably win the world title and might even stay in the main event for a while. Great. But… isn’t it a savage indictment of their ability to build stars that he had to fuck off for six years and have a multi-million dollar tantrum to get to this point? The guy absolutely fucking drips WWE. He’s a fucking WWE wet dream. As I said in the Mania thread… he looks like a WWE guy, Talks like one, wrestles like one, dresses like one. He might as well have been built in a lab by Pritchard and Vince. They should have been able to get to this point without him ever leaving the company. The Dusty story was there all along, for one thing. I don't really agree. It comes down to an argument a lot of people had that they never treated him right etc. But he had SO many chances. Way more than a lot of people get. Different reinventions and interactions with other guys and whatever else. Sometimes you do have to leave a particular environment and find yourself and what works, and that's not always the fault of where you were working in the first place. That's not to say that WWE haven't screwed up a LOT of easy wins with talent because they obviously have, but I've never really thought Cody was amongst those missed opportunities. I could rattle off a huge list of names that are better examples of their inability to build stars. I see him more in the Drew McIntyre mould. Not exactly obviously but a willingness to go out there, work your arse off around the world and develop your style and character etc to the point where you've convinced a hell of a lot of people that you're pretty damn good and the right people start taking notice. Same as what Matt Cardona is doing at the moment really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Statto Posted April 5, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 5, 2022 10 hours ago, TildeGuy~! said: “I am Elias’ younger brother, Ezekiel” Jesus Christ. There's some (comedy, if nothing else) legs in a repackaged wrestler flat out denying they are the person they used to be even though it's obvious, in my opinion. But adding the younger brother aspect was totally unnecessary, on the first night at least. Raw peaked early with Cody's head poking out of his funny little box before the lift started working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 7 minutes ago, Statto said: Raw peaked early with Cody's head poking out of his funny little box before the lift started working. Forgot that! Fucking hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Plus waiting for his pyro to go off for ages and then realising he was probably being ribbed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 The Elias thing was great, I thought. It’s clearly Elias and we’re not meant to think it’s not. He did a similar thing at the end of his NXT run, turned up under a mask as El Vagabondo, and it was hugely over. Also shades of the Joseph Parks story in TNA where everyone knows it’s Abyss BUT Parks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FUM Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Granted I’ve maybe not been paying attention before but Cody’s lisp seemed so much more obvious on WWE TV. I really don’t know if it’s because he was choking up or what but I’ve not seen it like that since he was last in WWE basically. I know he gets a lot of shit on here but Seth Rollins is fantastic from theme music to suits to acting like The Riddler. He is brilliant at being a horrible human being. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 If they have any sense that Ezekiel thing could be dead fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Supremo Posted April 5, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted April 5, 2022 “If he thought breaking a throne was funny, wait until he encounters a broken lift!” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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