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Would you have preferred overbearing heel-GM Stephanie shitting over everyone?I thought she was awful. -
Haven't been around for a while, so thought I'd pop in and see what was said about the Rumble.
Give over, man. Meltzer's opinions are just that, but to say he doesn't have any credible inside knowledge is as asinine a statement as has been said on this forum... and I was here for the Jayfunk era.Meltzer is a glorified fan - he doesn't have any credible inside knowledge so I would take what he says with a pinch of salt...
If the male Rumble had went on last, it wouldn't have mattered if the crowd were burnt out by the end of it as there would have been nothing following it.Just worried that the crowd will be burnt out by the end of the men's rumble. ( I assume the mens rumble will go on last.)
Wrestling is littered with teams that disliked each other and then either grew to like each other and teamed or were forced to team up, got their shit together and became credible duos.Braun and Kane hate each other in storyline. Why would they team?As for the show itself, here's my opinions on the matches.
CW 6-Man
Obviously booked at relatively short notice, but it was a nice (if nothing special) match to kick things off proper and entertain the few fans who came into the building early.
The Revival v The Good Brothers
Much better than their waste of time at RAW 25 (I prefer to go with anything that happened in the Manhattan Center was non-canon), this was a good tag-match. Both are capable of much better, but as this in the middle of a pre-show, no need to blow your load totally.
I did love the leg work from the old-shoolers and that it played perfectly into the finish.
Roode v Mojo
I like Mojo, his promos leading up to the match with Ryder were next level, but this was a waste of Roode and of Rawley. The open-challenge aspect needs to be dropped as every US Champ since Cena has done it, but it has only worked with Big Match John because of who he is and that he faced a litany of guys overall. This match meant nothing in the grand scheme of things and will be one of those "Oh yeah, I forgot they fought then" bouts you have jarred back into your memory when the two guys meet in a better setting.
AJ v Canadian Friends
The start of this with the quick tags was fun, while these three are always good to watch. The wrestling isn't the problem here, it's the authority-figure storyline backdropping it that sucks. And with the pin being made on the illegal man, it's only going to continue. They cannot have the title on anyone but Styles come 'Mania. If they tease us now with him v Nakamura, only to switch the title to someone else, I think I'll cry.
Usos v American Beta
The first fall was fantastic and while I liked the nature of the second fall coming due to Shelton's hubris, I did felt cheated because I'd have loved them to have gone another 10-15mins (akin to the best-of-three between Revival and DIY).
Men's Royal Rumble
This was fantastic. Perfectly placed surprise entrants, pretty much everyone got something to do in the match. Corbin got to destroy people on the way out, people got to hit Slater on the way in, Sheamus got dumped by Slater (yeah), Almas and Cole got a big pop in this house, though nothing topped the surprise pop for Mysterio.
The final six being three old versus three new was relayed well, as was the Cena / Reigns against Balor / Nakamura for the final four. Big spots leading to Reigns charging into a Kinshasa was the perfect end to one of the best Rumble matches.
Jordan / Rollins v The Bar
An angle more than a match, it was OK, but struggled after the emotional high of the previous match. This should, hopefully, be the end of the former champs as a tag-team, but I look forward to seeing JJ as the entitled (and oblivious) daddy's-boy heel.
Monster v Machine v Beast
This was a lot of fun. Strowman clattering Brock with a stiff knee, followed by Lesnar rattling Braun with a legit full-force punch to the head, set the tone. Not much wrestling, but we got what we needed; big men hurling each other around, tables being broken and Kane eating the pin.
Women's Royal Rumble
First off, Stephanie was great on commentary. Sure, she wasn't calling the action as such, but she did a great job of putting over the match and everyone in it. Plus it was refreshing to have her and both champions out there and it not be a factor in the match at any point.
The right person won (I too was disappointed that Kharma wasn't in there, though if they are building Nia, it wouldn't make sense to have a more evolved version of that same character appear in the same match), the surprises were nice, though I felt there were too many Legends and spots could have been given to more NXT roster members.
That being said, Vikki's appearance put a smile on my face and Ronda Rousey appearing at the end could be a legit game-changer if booked and promoted properly.
Overall, the Rumble and Takeover were two great nights of wrestling. MANIA SEASON!!!!
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Armageddon... and I'm not even joking. "THAT IS MY FATHER UP THERE" and "That man's not a salesman. That's your daddy" get me every time.
More traditionally, Sweet November.
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It was still sports-entertainment, with flamboyant characters and the like. The term itself may not have been coined at this point (Vince hadn't taken over from his dad), but the wrestling had started to move away from the pure-shooter-style of wrestling (40min matches with 30mins of headlocks, etc).You obviously don't remember this Hulk gimmick. If you did you would know it was pre 'rock and wrestling' entertainment era. Would have being about 79 to early 81 or something that he was this character. He was called Nuclear Hulk because he had the smoke from a nuclear bomb shaved in his chest.http://i64.tinypic.com/2hrkf1t.jpg
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It was sports-entertainment back then too.I started watching when Hulk Hogan was heel Nuclear Hulk in the 80s. I miss the days of real wrestling. Sick of sports entertainment. -
Remakes are almost as old as the movie business itself. Case in point; The Great Train Robbery, considered the first "proper" movie was released in 1903 and was essentially remade in 1904 as The Bold Bank Robbery.No, it is not just you! I have watched many of the re-makes and was not impressed. If they don't make it something special, what is the point? Are they really out of scripts to choose from?As I've said many, many times (including the article Kam kindly mentioned), remakes are not automatically bad movies in the same way original films are not automatically good. A great film is a great film and a terrible film is a terrible film, regardless of whether it has been made before or not.
Also, if we had no remakes, there would be no Heat, no Bourne Identity with Matt Damon, no Man on Fire with Denzel Washington, no Cronenberg version of The Fly, no Heston version of Ben Hur. Really, you could go on and on with listing remakes that are on a par or better than the originals, while there are even more that are just good-to-great films in their own right.
The Wizard of Oz you're talking about is a remake. There was a live-action version in 1925 and an animated version in 1933 before Garland's film in 1939.I agree that they are remaking movies that were wonderful to start with. Money has a strange way of making people do unnatural things, even remaking movies. I enjoy the originals like Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland. No one will ever do a better job! -
That's the thing though; it's his sandbox and his toys, so he can do what he likes with them in that regard.If that's true - it's typical Vince. Randomly one day, he will decide to do something like when he decided he didn't want to have talent have first names e.g. Neville and Cesaro. Whereas, the previous day he wasn't bothered by it. -
Smackdown has The Fashion Files, so I'll forgive any and all other sins.
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If it outright contradicts what is happening on the show (or in future episodes for said characters), accidentally (on purpose) mentions a spoiler or has the talent openly dissing their booking, etc, then Vince will rightly feel it's going to be a problem.Also, god forbid talent get to speak for themselves instead of reciting the dribble that Vince and company comes up with.If the show was done in the vein of Bring It to the Table (i.e. non-kayfabe), then that would be different, but it's meant to be an extension of Smackdown Live, so I can see his point.
That doesn't mean I'm for the show being cancelled as it was always good value. Perhaps moving it back to being directly after Smackdown and instructing the talent to stray from anything that could be construed as kayfabe-breaking. That or having it aired on a different day and used as a partial-kayfabe interview / recap show.
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From reports, it was a snap decision by Vince McMahon because he didn't like that it was genuinely unscripted, meaning the talent were speaking for themselves in their own words (he was concerned it would affect the scripted shows should a TS comment contradict something).I don't know why they cancelled it. -
To flip that around, I doubt any of the sponsors would risk being tarnished as anti-LGBT by commenting / acting negatively towards such a storyline.I doubt WWE would risk any of their PG deals with a LGBT affair storyline. -
The full first round has also been taped, so be careful when looking around as there will be spoilers galore.
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Again, that was part of the point. Two guys, with no story, are thrown out there for no reason other than to avoid "dead air" in the arena. It made it seem more "real" overall, like back in the day when WCW would have stand-by matches because an announced match either ended quicker than expected (kayfabe) or didn't get started due to shenanigans. It's meant to be a competitive sport, so there should be contingencies in place when something "unexpected" happens.The problem was that the live crowd did not care about it in the slightest. -
"They get booked on a pay-per-view" - That's the point; they weren't booked on the PPV. WWE (in storyline, obviously) had to stall for time and sent out two guys to have an impromptu match for the live crowd. I liked it. Made the situation seem more legit.
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Jim Ross and Lita are your commentators for the event.
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Not really; there are plenty of MMA promotions that use a standard ring, with Pride possibly being the most famous of them.Well for MMA you would need a cage/octagon style set up -
The slow turn to heeldom by Roman Reigns continues and WWE's wonderful trolling of the WWE Universe is right alongside it.
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They've been together on-screen for over 4yrs.I'm surprised it's already looking like they're going to split Amore/Cass, thought they could have done a lot more as a team still. -
I had to have another look, I remember refreshing the results on Hashtag Wrestling.
Apparently it was per Knockout!
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Wasn't this by pinfall?in Day 2 of the Super Strong Style 16 Tournament and Trent Seven lost in the first round to Matt Riddle via submission in 6 Seconds! :omg: He shall now be known as Trent Six. :D -
Reigns isn't on a limited date schedule like Lesnar is, so I'm not sure why you think Reigns won't defend it at least once per month.
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A lot of reports are saying the initial reports are being intentionally exaggerated so that when Strowman comes back sooner than expected, they can big up his superhuman powers of recovery.
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And your reasoning behind this is?how does reigns elevate the title when he probably won't defend it. -
Why not? Keeps Roman out of the main title picture, continues to elevate the IC title in the eyes of many, has Miz working with a genuine main-eventer again and gives both guys a new feud to work with.Why?It's a win-win all round.
Playstation Plus Instant Game Collection
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One big change since this was last updated is that the PS3 and Vita is no longer supported, so there is only two PS4 games (and sometimes a VR title) each month.
That being said, there is always a batch of games that have PS+ discounts applied (which change periodically), and sales will now and again have double-discounts (i.e. the actual sales discount, with a PS+ price cut on top).
It is well worth the money, especially when you can download a game you would likely never buy, and realise it's pretty damn great.