The Wrestling Thread Is Grateful. Thank You Daniel Bryan - - - Part 218

[OctaviusINC]

The Wyatts are just so hard to take seriously.. Since all they do is lose. :/

Bray Wyatt has become that homeless man on the street corner shouting about retribution, the apocalypse, and soul taking. All he needs is a cardboard sign that reads, "Will Eat Worlds 4 $$$". The Wyatt family has lost credibility and my attention. Which stinks because as far as gimmicks go they're right up my alley.

 

[Lantern Venom]

Bray Wyatt has become that homeless man on the street corner shouting about retribution, the apocalypse, and soul taking. All he needs is a cardboard sign that reads, "Will Eat Worlds 4 $$$". The Wyatt family has lost credibility and my attention. Which stinks because as far as gimmicks go they're right up my alley.

They're another missed opportunity in a sea of miscalculations for WWE.

 

[SpideyVille]

What I'm noticing with the guys that are over, like Dean, Bray, and Owens, they're almost so over with the crowd that the WWE has no problem booking them horribly, or giving them loses that would weaken most guys.

Like Bray has no credibility, but people still love him. Dean is most likely going to get destroyed by Brock, but people will still love him. Owens lost twice to Ziggler, and people still love him, and even Ziggler, who is pretty much a jobber, still gets cheers. It's almost like they're so over that they don't care about trying to protect them.

 

[Mani-Man]

They're another missed opportunity in a sea of miscalculations for WWE.

Yup, this sea is deep and huge.

I simply dont understand the mindest that the wwe has in terms of the wyatts.
They desperatly need heels...you always do.
Yet they blow every single chance with them...over and over again.

 

[P Supreme]

This is glorious lololol

 

[OctaviusINC]

What I'm noticing with the guys that are over, like Dean, Bray, and Owens, they're almost so over with the crowd that the WWE has no problem booking them horribly, or giving them loses that would weaken most guys.

Like Bray has no credibility, but people still love him. Dean is most likely going to get destroyed by Brock, but people will still love him. Owens lost twice to Ziggler, and people still love him, and even Ziggler, who is pretty much a jobber, still gets cheers. It's almost like they're so over that they don't care about trying to protect them.

Wins and losses don't count, there's no such thing as a face or heel, ratings aren't important because of modern tech

^ Those are all little insights into WWE that dirtsheets have leaked out. So why the heck am I watching?

Why use hockey sticks in hockey? Why not replace basketballs with footballs? Why not fight in a ballpit instead of an octagon?

WWE needs major competition plain and simple. Because right now WWE is a man in a small room smelling it's own farts and lovin' it.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

It's funny that Road Dogg claims that the high profits mean everything is okay, because that's what WCW thought, too. WCW also failed to create new stars and main eventers with their younger and/or better talent and instead relied on old hat at the top of the card.

 

[The Apocalypse]

What is he talking about there are no faces and heels? With the exception of some, WWE should probably start booking faces/heels by crowd reaction. There's nothing worse than seeing Regins getting booed but playing a good guy.

 

[SpideyVille]

The truth is though, somehow, the WWE has reverted back to where it was at before the Attitude era.

 

[SpideyVille]

WWE posted a gallery of many of the current stars from their very first photo-shoot with the company. So crazy how much has changed all around.

http://www.wwe.com/gallery/superstar-debut-photos?sf21527844=1#fid-40004740

 

[Wylie Times]

What is he talking about there are no faces and heels? With the exception of some, WWE should probably start booking faces/heels by crowd reaction. There's nothing worse than seeing Regins getting booed but playing a good guy.

The problem with that is fans are fickle....When Reigns was a heel fans were cheering him.

The problem with WWE is they really don't know how to book faces in the modern era.

If you go back and look at The Shield's run as heels, Roman behaves like a completely different person. There's very little playing to the crowd, no smiling, very little talking, and an extreme aura of badassery.

Soon as they turned him face they tried making him into a grinning idiot that played to the fans and was trying to be funny/clever on the mic. We've seen this happen before, most notably with Randy Orton.

 

[P Supreme]

The truth is though, somehow, the WWE has reverted back to where it was at before the Attitude era.

as I read this I thought about it and your right on the nose with this

 

[P Supreme]

WWE posted a gallery of many of the current stars from their very first photo-shoot with the company. So crazy how much has changed all around.

http://www.wwe.com/gallery/superstar-debut-photos?sf21527844=1#fid-40004740

LOL at Ryback he looks absurd and dam Paige's bum holy Christ !!!

 

[Wylie Times]

LOL at Ryback he looks absurd and dam Paige's bum holy Christ !!!

That's an optical illusion. Her skirt combined with how she's standing makes it look bigger than it actually is.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

What I'm noticing with the guys that are over, like Dean, Bray, and Owens, they're almost so over with the crowd that the WWE has no problem booking them horribly, or giving them loses that would weaken most guys.

Now explain why WWE books people who struggle to get over just as badly? Maybe because bad booking is all the booking they know nowadays?

 

[chamber-music]

NXT
I wish they didn't film so many episodes in one block because the crowd is pretty dead by the third or fourth episode.

I want to see a match between Christopher Girard/Biff Busick and Cesaro. These two trying to uppercut each other to death would be awesome.

"Nuclear reactors don't have cores that strong" - Corey Graves a god amongst commentators.

Looking forward to Balor vs Neville

Chad Gable is a hip toss boss.

Also, why does Alex Riley look different? It's like he stole something from Ryback's Medicine Cabinet.

This Alex Riley is from the Cameron Terminator future that was conquered by the Skynet

 

[The Apocalypse]

The problem with that is fans are fickle....When Reigns was a heel fans were cheering him.

The problem with WWE is they really don't know how to book faces in the modern era.

If you go back and look at The Shield's run as heels, Roman behaves like a completely different person. There's very little playing to the crowd, no smiling, very little talking, and an extreme aura of badassery.

Soon as they turned him face they tried making him into a grinning idiot that played to the fans and was trying to be funny/clever on the mic. We've seen this happen before, most notably with Randy Orton.

Yeah, you're right, but people were cheering the shield because it was something new and fresh and they were, at first, going up against John Cena. My original comment is a bit flawed but all I'm saying is this:

When they turned Rock heel for the first time it really ignited his career. Why can't they do it for Regins? When Hogan turned heel, it ignited his career again and the wrestling industry. Why not do it for Cena?

I don't understand WWE's problem with trying something new. People are itching for something fresh.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

The problem with that is fans are fickle....When Reigns was a heel fans were cheering him.

WHen he was in the Shield, Reigns was a near-mute hot tag guy. This allowed him to maximize his strength, his physical charisma, while totally masking his weaknesses, his **** personality, promos, and in ring inexperience.

When he became he full time performer these weaknesses exploded right in our faces.

It's not fickleness, Reigns was exposed as a performer. He made Cena from 2005 look like Ric Flair.

 

[nite-owl]

 

[SpideyVille]

 

[Tacit Ronin]

That makes it look as if Ambrose is controlling Reigns. Dean sticks out his tongue in the background, and Regins does the same, as if on cue.

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

He's tasting the tears of the IWC on his lips.



Or you know, did the "dirty deed" to Vinny Mc-Em.

 

[Dr. Evil]

 

[Wylie Times]

WHen he was in the Shield, Reigns was a near-mute hot tag guy. This allowed him to maximize his strength, his physical charisma, while totally masking his weaknesses, his **** personality, promos, and in ring inexperience.

When he became he full time performer these weaknesses exploded right in our faces.

It's not fickleness, Reigns was exposed as a performer. He made Cena from 2005 look like Ric Flair.

Like I said it's not just Reigns, the same thing happened to Randy Orton on multiple occasions. WWE thinks every face needs to be some nitwit that plays to the crowd, smiles, and cuts snarky promos.

That brief period where Reigns got over again with fans was because they went back to him being a bad ass character, but they immediately ruined it after he won the title by turning him into a smiling idiot again.

 

[OctaviusINC]

From PWMania.com:

Vince McMahon wants WrestleMania 32 to be the start of several years of Roman Reigns in the top spot formerly held by John Cena.

“As of right now, the plan is for Reigns to go over and be the top babyface in the company for years to come,” Dave Meltzer states in this week’s edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

The company attitude is that it doesn’t matter if fans boo him. It isn’t the late eighties and WWE’s success isn’t tied to one wrestler on top. The WWE brand is what drives money and most fans will find something to like. John Cena is living proof that boos or cheers aren’t damaging for a franchise babyface, and if anything, the diverse reactions could be a good thing. It certainly propelled Cena to huge levels of business. He’d get booed out of the building each week while drawing significantly more money than anyone else.

Reigns, however, is not as big a star as Cena. The audience at Fastlane and at Raw booed him heavily when he’s supposed to have his most momentum building to his big win. His merchandise numbers are good, but nowhere near Cena level.

Read more: http://www.pwmania.com/wrestlemania...-of-roman-reigns-dominating-wwe#ixzz41EKWhavp

ALSO

WWE Chairman Vince McMahon dropped an F-bomb on Monday’s RAW, and it was no accident. None of the rule-bending, such as foul language and blood shown on Monday’s RAW was a coincidence, according to Wednesday’s Wrestling Observer Live. It was reported that WWE is planning to make their television product more edgy from this week until WrestleMania.

There has rarely been foul language or blood on WWE TV since they announced in 2008 that their “family programming” had been deemed a PG television rating by their network distributors.

There’s no word on if WWE plans to keep up the more edgy material after WrestleMania or not.

Read more: http://www.pwmania.com/wwe-increasing-edgy-material-on-tv-before-wrestlemania-32#ixzz41EKrJNGK