The Dave
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Post by The Dave on May 21, 2016 22:19:25 GMT -5
I mean, if it meant replacing Shane & Stephanie with Rufus & Bobby as Co-GMs, I guess I could come around to it. For me I'd like to see them doing commentary. Throw Crowley the GM position.
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Post by IRS on May 21, 2016 22:25:01 GMT -5
I mean, if it meant replacing Shane & Stephanie with Rufus & Bobby as Co-GMs, I guess I could come around to it. For me I'd like to see them doing commentary. Throw Crowley the GM position. I feel like that'd give Bobby much fewer chances to call people idgits. I'd make Crowley into a Heenan-esque manager.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2016 1:17:52 GMT -5
Of course; it's a television show and that stuff has a wide appeal...all the stuff Undertaker did back in the day with lightning bolts, moving the ring, etc is cool to watch. Does it have anything to do with wrestling? Probably not, but as we know it's not wrestling anymore, it's sports entertainment - so why not. It would have been a lot harder to take the Undertaker seriously if he had tweeted about his behavior after. I get that it's sports entertainment. But at the same time, some effort could be put forth to make it believable. Bray Wyatt is supposed to be some freak living near the swamp. Seeing him on active on social media is just weird. That's why I guess I've never been crazy about him. It's a cool gimmick. It's just really... Outdated. If he had been around in the 90s, as say a fierce adversary to the Undertaker (and the with the same level of mystique), he would have been a freaking legend.
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on May 22, 2016 8:15:49 GMT -5
Of course; it's a television show and that stuff has a wide appeal...all the stuff Undertaker did back in the day with lightning bolts, moving the ring, etc is cool to watch. Does it have anything to do with wrestling? Probably not, but as we know it's not wrestling anymore, it's sports entertainment - so why not. It would have been a lot harder to take the Undertaker seriously if he had tweeted about his behavior after. I get that it's sports entertainment. But at the same time, some effort could be put forth to make it believable. Bray Wyatt is supposed to be some freak living near the swamp. Seeing him on active on social media is just weird. That's why I guess I've never been crazy about him. It's a cool gimmick. It's just really... Outdated. If he had been around in the 90s, as say a fierce adversary to the Undertaker (and the with the same level of mystique), he would have been a freaking legend. That's something I really dislike about Wyatt. If I was him I would try and protect my character and not let anyone see the real life me. Erick Rowan keeps to himself and The Undertaker has done so for nearly 30 years so with Wyatt there is no excuse. There is no doubt that social media has ruined wrestling.
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MickeyMalice
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Post by MickeyMalice on May 22, 2016 11:07:54 GMT -5
I wouldn't be against it, completely.
I suppose there's not that much you could pass off as plausible these days. The Wyatt family is perfect! They're eerie, frightening and believable. Since 2013, they've abducted Kane, played disturbing mind games with John Cena and supposedly (implied) tortured the Miz backstage.
I really loved the vignette back from 2013 where a reporter was sent by WWE to document the Wyatt family and the locals that knew of them. It was creepy and very unsettling. The part where Erick Rowan knew the reporter was watching him without even looking was brilliant. Soon after, the reporter enters the Wyatt home and hears someone shouting "Obey" to himself with his hands pressed against his own head. After capturing that on film, Harper warns the reporter a final time telling him "Not to stray".
As a fan, I was completely interested in what this was about to lead up to. You then see Bray himself in a strange accommodating manor which was yet unnerving. It ends there...It just ended there. You don't know if the reporter was safe or anything. There was no conclusion to it. However, it accomplished the goal of peaking interest into who The Wyatt Family were.
I remember when Kane returned to Raw late 2011 under the mask. In the weeks to follow he stalked Zack Ryder, tormented Eve and came very close to having Cena "Embrace the hate". It's the Kane we've all come to know and love. This storyline really posed Kane as a serious threat to John Cena, considering he really was getting into Cena's head. Who could forget when Cena viciously tore apart Swagger? It was a side of Cena we hadn't seen. Kane even condoned Cena's actions and spoke as if he were a mentor. It was great!
In recent years, the supernatural aspects are still present in the programming. For example, when Undertaker struck Bray Wyatt's rocking chair with a bolt of lightning. Bray Wyatt also appeared as a ghostly apparition in front of Dean Ambrose in HIAC.
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Post by @.@ Hempsterdance @.@ on May 22, 2016 13:36:31 GMT -5
The days of gimmicks and supernatural crap has gone.
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Post by BoJack Hogan on May 22, 2016 19:13:46 GMT -5
Regarding the supernatural there's a very fine line between cool and embarrassing, and WWE almost always takes it way too far. They haven't even always done it right with the Undertaker.
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Post by romanthenewyorker on May 23, 2016 1:11:49 GMT -5
Would you be open to more supernatural elements in WWE? I'm talking soap opera stuff like voodoo, demon possession, magic, spells, etc. Is this something someone like Bray could pull off, or is it impossible in today's WWE? Would you want to see it? It's honestly in how the superstar is perceived by the fans. If people saw creepy cult type stuff from Bray Wyatt. They'd be more interested when he kidnapped someone if that's the angle were playing up. Converting them to a cult so to speak. Would've made way more sense with Bryan. People say that some thing like Shango wouldn't work during this day in age, but boogeyman did. So really what's the difference. If the star can get it over I say go for it. Hell.. undertaker had been dead for years. 100% Agreed, cant say it any better^
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Post by BCizzle on May 23, 2016 13:56:52 GMT -5
I think any thing that makes the show feel more special is good. If you just want to see two guys wrestling a 4 star technical match, that's fine, but it certainly isn't going to excite the masses. A guy who brings something extra to the table is going to take things to the next level.
I don't want the WWE to be a staged UFC show - I want it to be so much more.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on May 23, 2016 14:30:36 GMT -5
Roman Reigns and John Cena are more than enough supernatural elements in the WWE.
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