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Post by ThugSuperstar on Mar 1, 2019 23:22:10 GMT -5
He's been doing a lot of these interviews over the past year. It's really cool seeing Taker do stuff like this these days. I really wish he would write a memoir some day. I would love to read any of his stories about spending most of his life in the business.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Mar 1, 2019 23:18:55 GMT -5
They'll let Seth have his moment at WrestleMania. After that, it's back to the sole focus being on Roman.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Feb 20, 2019 19:45:44 GMT -5
In the past Angle has talked about how easy and effortless it is to work with AJ and that he feels like he really doesn't have to do any work when he's in the ring with him. That's honestly what he needs for one final match. It would be nice if he could have one match, put everything into it and go out looking like the old Kurt. Working with AJ would probably be his best bet, although he's also said in the past how Rollins and Bryan are both dream opponents for him before he calls it quits.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Feb 14, 2019 15:10:15 GMT -5
Welcome to the Uso Penitentiary
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Feb 8, 2019 20:01:19 GMT -5
I remember when Jakks started putting those rubber pieces in the arm joint the last few years before they lost the WWE license to save money. It was the worst, because those rubber squares would come loose if you rotated an arm too much and then it would pop out and start rattling around the torso and the arm was basically broken at that point. The only way to fix it was to crack open the torso and put it back in place. Hopefully, this doesn't happen with Mattel. They put them in the Deluxe Aggression ab crunch too. My DA6 Edge has had a floppy stomach for 12 years because it started to fall out and I pulled it out not knowing what it was I never liked or collected DA back in the day, so I didn't know they did that with them, too. It was the worst, I'm with you on that. I used to customize back in the day, but in the later years of Jakks the torsos were seeled so tightly that it was a 50/50 shot you were going to be able to crack them cleanly. So, once the black squares started coming loose on a lot of my figures, I just gave up collecting. Some of them, by the way, were already loose and rattling the second I took them out of the box without even touching them yet.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Feb 8, 2019 10:44:48 GMT -5
I remember when Jakks started putting those rubber pieces in the arm joint the last few years before they lost the WWE license to save money. It was the worst, because those rubber squares would come loose if you rotated an arm too much and then it would pop out and start rattling around the torso and the arm was basically broken at that point. The only way to fix it was to crack open the torso and put it back in place. Hopefully, this doesn't happen with Mattel.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Jan 30, 2019 0:00:38 GMT -5
His match against Taker at No Way Out 2006 is one of my favorite matches ever. Everything about that match was just perfect. I haven't seen it in a few years, but it's one of those matches where every time I see it I enjoy it just as much as the first time.
Also, for a match I haven't seen listed yet - Benoit and Angle vs. Edge and Mysterio in a 2 out of 3 falls match for the tag titles on SmackDown back in, I think, 2003. What a clinic by all four guys.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Jan 29, 2019 17:58:27 GMT -5
The way he was booked the night after the title was so perfect and then it led to nothing special. Ambrose was at his best and most popular when he was fighting against the machine, and they never took advantage of that. Even before that, when he was pushed into Roman's spot prior to WM32 and faced HHH at Roadblock. Fantastic match and Ambrose felt like a natural in that spot. The crowds were fully into him during it, too. But nah, let's put him on the preshow against Corbin instead. Yeah. Every time they had a chance to pull the trigger on him, they did something that just made no sense and sabotaged him in the long run. It was constantly one step forward, two steps back.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Jan 29, 2019 17:51:10 GMT -5
I'm no Roman hater but if they had put Ambrose in his spot he would've been perfect. Think about it The Authority vs the lunatic fringe would've been huge and the crowd could've had someone who they wanted to cheer for. Looking back at his title win the WWE let him down badly. The Raw after Ambrose drew high ratings and it looked like he was going to have an awesome reign. Then they dump him on the B show and put him in a program with Ziggler of all people so even his title reign was doomed from the start. The way he was booked the night after the title was so perfect and then it led to nothing special. Ambrose was at his best and most popular when he was fighting against the machine, and they never took advantage of that.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Jan 29, 2019 17:37:05 GMT -5
This is Vince we're talking about... Yeah. I could see Hawkins finally ending his losing streak with a win over Dean in his last match. But he's supposedly friendly with Vince, so I hope they do right by him and let him leave with his head held high. I'd love to see him turn up elsewhere after having a break, and just have the freedom to be what he wants with his character, and make WWE realize how badly they ed up and come crawling to him. Exact same here.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Jan 29, 2019 17:23:30 GMT -5
Really odd how they are outwardly promoting that he's leaving now. Can't say I've ever seen the WWE do this before that wasn't for a storyline.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Jan 29, 2019 16:49:08 GMT -5
That's pretty surprising the company would confirm ahead of time that he's gone come April and won't be re-signing. Can't recall them ever doing that before. This all happened really quickly...hoping that Ambrose latches on with another company fairly soon that will utilize him better. Probably gave him what they feel is their final offer and he said no so they just said " it we'll let him walk." Yeah, he supposedly told them he wasn't re-signing under any circumstances. It's still a surprise they would confirm it before his contract runs out, unless they're planning on making a storyline out of it like Punk in 2011.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Jan 29, 2019 16:42:54 GMT -5
That's pretty surprising the company would confirm ahead of time that he's gone come April and won't be re-signing. Can't recall them ever doing that before. This all happened really quickly...hoping that Ambrose latches on with another company fairly soon that will utilize him better.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Jan 29, 2019 14:28:07 GMT -5
Not taking any time off for four years until he tore his entire arm apart qualifies as "lazy" these days, huh? I'm not talking about injuries and years off, i'm talking about his effort in and out the ring. Sure, i have no problem saying that the bigger part of the involution of 90% of the wrestlers is on creative hands, but let's face it: when was the last time this guy was super hot with the audience? I think around 2014 during the feud with Rollins. After that a long way down, with the little WWE championship reign period, and he didn't have one single moment to remember during that reign. Even Stone Cold buried him during his podcast telling directly to his face that he has no work ethic and stuff like that. That wasn't quite what he said. He said he wanted to see him take his character to another level and amp things up. He didn't say Ambrose was lazy, just that he wanted to see more of an edge and an attitude from him. Which, again, goes back to how much control we really believe wrestlers have over their own characters. Ambrose said himself during that podcast that he had much bigger plans of things he wanted to do with Brock in his WrestleMania match with Brock that wound up being completely underwhelming, for example. I mean, what does he do in the ring that would qualify him as being lazy? I'm just sort of confused by that. And I agree, he hasn't been hot with the crowd in a few years, but his reign with the title was booked so terribly. His first feud after the brand split over the title was with Dolph Ziggler, who was dead in the water for the longest time, too, and that did nothing to help either guy gain any momentum. The three times the company really had a chance to do something big with him - 2014 after The Shield breakup, 2016 after he won the title and 2018 after his heel turn - went nowhere. Again, I personally attribute that to the way he was booked - losing practically every month to Rollins and then Wyatt in 2014, being put in a feud with Dolph that had nothing interesting to begin with in 2016 and then turning him into the same generic heel that the company already has hundreds of in 2018.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Jan 29, 2019 14:07:26 GMT -5
I may be mistaken as it’s been a while since I watched it, but didn’t he say back on the Austin podcast that he was one of the few guys who they allowed to cut their own promos? So if that’s the case aren’t his crappy ones like the crowd smelling on him as well? Yes he did... "Ambrose said when he first got to WWE, they gave him a script and he couldn’t process it. Ambrose said he can riff and talk forever off the top of his head, but if you give him a paragraph of thoughts, he can’t memorize it. He said it killed it for him. Now, he’s gotten to the point where he can call his own shots. Sometimes Vince McMahon will tell him to say whatever he wants. And then it’s fun again."I assume he'd know more than anyone here. Guess I was partially mistaken. This was also back when he was the champion and a babyface. He was so good on the mic during this time period that it's hard to imagine most of his promos as a heel being from the same guy. The one he had outside with the flaming garbage can, for example, was way better and made more sense than pretty much every promo I've heard from him since then.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Jan 29, 2019 13:36:59 GMT -5
I may be mistaken as it’s been a while since I watched it, but didn’t he say back on the Austin podcast that he was one of the few guys who they allowed to cut their own promos? So if that’s the case aren’t his crappy ones like the crowd smelling on him as well? I don't recall him saying that, but I would doubt it. Nobody is really allowed to entirely write their own promos anymore. There are some guys who can provide the company with an outline of what they want to say and then creative takes it into consideration and drafts a promo for them (I think Jimmy Jacobs said this a few weeks ago in an interview I read), and then there are the very few guys like Cena and Heyman who can tell creative "this is what I'm going to say tonight" and are allowed to basically go out there and wing it. There is no way it was Ambrose's idea to go out there and become a germaphobe for a heel character. They probably told him "this is what you have to say" and he just tried to do it as best as he could.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Jan 29, 2019 12:29:23 GMT -5
He's become so stale and annoying from a couple of years now that i wouldn't feel his absence if he will leave. Even when he was champion seems he acted like a lazy ass. Not taking any time off for four years until he tore his entire arm apart qualifies as "lazy" these days, huh?
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Jan 29, 2019 12:27:14 GMT -5
Also, I could see them leaving Ambrose off the WrestleMania card entirely now, if this is all true. I don't even know who he would feud with anyway at this point, unless he's just thrown in a random ladder match or battle royal.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Jan 29, 2019 10:58:07 GMT -5
Ambrose has been my favorite for years, and I wouldn't blame him for leaving. As I said in the other Ambrose thread, they have wasted his full potential multiple times. He should have been the one to benefit the most when The Shield initially broke up. Nobody in the company was over more than Dean was during that time, and he took a backseat to Reigns and Rollins the entire time. Even when he finally won the title, the material they gave him to work with was garbage.
When I first read this story this morning, I initially dismissed it because there have been so many of these reports coming out lately. But the more I think about it, the more this makes sense. I think it's entirely possible that he came back in August and was willing to give this whole thing one more shot, and after he saw how badly they botched his heel turn, that was the last straw. He reportedly turned down a five-year, seven-figure contract. Ambrose's possible exit reminds me a lot of Punk when he left. Both are very private guys with simple lifestyles. Ambrose might just be burned out and want something better, no matter how much money the company is willing to throw at him. I'd love to see him work as a truly edgy heel somewhere that'll allow him to be himself. I doubt he would go to NJPW given the fact that his wife will still be working with the WWE, but I would think ROH and AEW would be in real play for him if these rumors turn out to be true.
Also, if this is true then it would explain his over-the-top selling, don't-give-a-crap-anymore attitude the last two nights lol. His selling at the Rumble and last night were hysterical.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Jan 29, 2019 9:13:06 GMT -5
I always said Ambrose had the potential to be the biggest star in this company following The Shield splitting back in 2014. It was insane how over he was back in 2014-2015 and they did everything possible to sabotage the fans' interest in him (sound familiar?). Never got a single win over Rollins, then lost constantly in his feud against Bray, then got fed to Lesnar and again to Rollins. By the time they finally gave him the title it was too late and only to appease the fans to try to get them interested in Smackdown for the brand split. Ambrose should have been the breakout star of The Shield, but Vince obviously only had eyes for Roman. His heel turn has, predictably, been a disaster and it's clear now was only done for the shock value without any long-term plans for him. After about three weeks, I could unfortunately already tell it was going to be bad when they actually did that stupid ass segment of him getting a giant needle in his ass at a doctor's office. I really don't know what to make of this news of him wanting to finish up with the company by the time Mania is over, mainly because we've seen so many of these stories already and it's impossible to tell what's true. I could definitely see him being frustrated and wanting to leave, but it also seems odd to me that he would want to leave while his wife is still with the company full-time. AJ was still in WWE for another year and a half after Punk left. She was but I think it wasn't too long after he officially left that she informed the company that she'd be finishing up her contract and then leaving. I may be wrong, though. Also, Rene was just given this new "promotion" of sorts of being the first female commentator, so it's hard for me to imagine that she wouldn't want to stick around for at least a few more years. AJ was really wrapping up her career back when Punk left. Ambrose has been my favorite for years, so if he were to leave I would love to see him go somewhere where he could be himself and work with more of an edge to his character. Where that's NJPW, ROH, AEW... who knows
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