Paid Members Supremo Posted September 27, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted September 27, 2021 It took no time at all for Pat McAfee to start feeling overproduced and repetitive. As with everything in WWE, they stumbled across something fun and organic so did it over and over again. He’s still the best commentator they have by a million miles but you can already practically hear those in his headset telling him to do that thing again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Just now, Supremo said: It took no time at all for Pat McAfee to start feeling overproduced and repetitive. As with everything in WWE, they stumbled across something fun and organic so did it over and over again. He’s still the best commentator they have by a million miles but you can already practically hear those in his headset telling him to do that thing again. I actually found it quite noticeable as soon as he started. It was mostly when you'd get like 90% of a real human sentence from him and then something jarring like "sports entertainment!" where a normal person would just say wrestling. Annoying WWE buzzwords he's clearly being told to hit. Cole is the opposite really. 90% WWE robotics and shilling with the occasional glimmer of what he might actually think if he was allowed independent thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Frankie Crisp Posted September 27, 2021 Awards Moderator Share Posted September 27, 2021 Even with such an uninteresting product, I can’t think of anyone as uninteresting a character as Sasha Banks. Complete nothingness from her years now. Also, that rope snapping might end up being the ghost of Lilly the way that shower are carrying on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted September 27, 2021 Author Paid Members Share Posted September 27, 2021 3 minutes ago, Frankie Crisp said: Even with such an uninteresting product, I can’t think of anyone as uninteresting a character as Sasha Banks. Complete nothingness from her years now. Also, that rope snapping might end up being the ghost of Lilly the way that shower are carrying on. I thought her run with Bailey last year was decent, but yeah, i know what you mean. She was sloppy I thought in the ring last night. Also to echo the commentary, I was singing Pat's praises just a few weeks ago as being a real shock in the arm for the product, but he definetly sounded more controlled last night, and it was glaringly obvious as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Supremo Posted September 27, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted September 27, 2021 I’ve seen it fantasy booked that it’ll be Bray Wyatt who snapped the rope with his spooky, magic powers. He’s been unleashed by Charlotte killing the doll, you see. Bray being hired back by WWE before he can debut as the new leader of Dark Order on Wednesday? I fucking wish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 (edited) They've just announced the 2022 Rumble will take place on a Saturday night 29th January. It'll be at The Dome in St Louis with a 66,000 capacity. They're really trying to make the money back after the pandemic with all of these stadium and larger venue PPVs. Even the MITB PPV Edited September 27, 2021 by Perry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted September 27, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted September 27, 2021 I thought there was about another few weeks on his no compete yet? We'd worked it out to being the Friday before Bound For Glory or something like that. Of course they could always trot somebody completely different out in that costume as "The Fiend Bray Wyatt" and hope nobody notices. What's Elias up to nowadays? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 41 minutes ago, Frankie Crisp said: Even with such an uninteresting product, I can’t think of anyone as uninteresting a character as Sasha Banks. Complete nothingness from her years now. She suffers from exactly the same issue as Charlotte does a lot of the time - not even having a real character and just being thrown out there as one of the Four Horsewomen and expecting the crowds to lap it up. In fact I'm not sure they ever really tried to explain what being "The Boss" was anytime on the main roster. She was just there and we were told she was amazing and that was that. It's frustrating because it's actually something that's incredibly easy to fix. All it takes is a vignette here and there. Doesn't need to be ridiculously in depth but at least it gives more character and more motivation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69MeDon Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 33 minutes ago, jazzygeofferz said: I thought there was about another few weeks on his no compete yet? We'd worked it out to being the Friday before Bound For Glory or something like that. Of course they could always trot somebody completely different out in that costume as "The Fiend Bray Wyatt" and hope nobody notices. What's Elias up to nowadays? Hypothetically, WWE can let him out of his non-compete - they've done it in the past, I think. Not sure they'd want to do it for an AEW appearence, though. Maybe if it was just Impact or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Supremo Posted September 27, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted September 27, 2021 Having only seen clips, I wrongly thought it was the finish that made Finn look like a wally. I hadn’t seen what a whopper he looked during his entrance, too! A fucking mohawk! Fucking hell. For a gimmick that I wish could work they’re forever doing everything in their power to make it a lame pile of shit. This will be the lasting legacy of Triple H’s NXT 1.0. Cringey edge lord aesthetics and awkward, over-choreographed entrances and mannerisms straight out of first year drama school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted September 27, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted September 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Supremo said: I’ve seen it fantasy booked that it’ll be Bray Wyatt who snapped the rope with his spooky, magic powers. He’s been unleashed by Charlotte killing the doll, you see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 27 minutes ago, Supremo said: Having only seen clips, I wrongly thought it was the finish that made Finn look like a wally. I hadn’t seen what a whopper he looked during his entrance, too! A fucking mohawk! Fucking hell. For a gimmick that I wish could work they’re forever doing everything in their power to make it a lame pile of shit. This will be the lasting legacy of Triple H’s NXT 1.0. Cringey edge lord aesthetics and awkward, over-choreographed entrances and mannerisms straight out of first year drama school. Out of interest, how different is it now to how he used it pre-NXT? Has it always just been a random makeup thing? Did it have context before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jesse Posted September 27, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted September 27, 2021 Only saw him a few times pre-NXT but it was always just a gimmick that made for a cool visual at a live show. It was more like Mysterio coming out as Daredevil at Mania, usually a cool pop culture thing to make us nerds like him. All the Demon King shite is, as far as I'm aware, a WWE invention Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted September 27, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted September 27, 2021 10 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said: Out of interest, how different is it now to how he used it pre-NXT? Has it always just been a random makeup thing? Did it have context before? He just used to do comic references, the Joker, Punisher, spiderman and Spawn etc and became a 'what will he do next' when he was doing indie appearances. There was no context. The demon thing seems to have developed from NXT wanting a reason to do the makeup because it had some buzz, and is mainly based around the awesome venom paint that he had used  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Blog Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Having someone who looks like that on your roster with the appeal he has to so many different demographics and they still make him look a wally. I stopped watching WWE a few years back (high horse and all) but reading these threads brings me no end of joy.  Fuck that disgusting company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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