killerkapowski
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Post by killerkapowski on May 2, 2017 10:17:36 GMT -5
It's pro wrestling. We're supposed suspend all disbelief. If not, then the Irish whip would drive fans to suicide.
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hbkowns
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Post by hbkowns on May 2, 2017 10:49:03 GMT -5
It's pro wrestling. We're supposed suspend all disbelief. If not, then the Irish whip would drive fans to suicide. Exactly. It's been like this for years. Wrestling in itself is over the top and unrealistic, so why do people have an issue with smaller wrestlers beating larger wrestlers?
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on May 2, 2017 11:26:15 GMT -5
Undertaker needs to come back and take everyone to Dick-Kick City.
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Post by Chip on May 2, 2017 12:07:35 GMT -5
Brock Lesnar has pretty much been booked as the greatest superstar in the history of the WWE. An unstoppable monster who will destroy everything in sight with ease. He got beat by G-Berg on a "fluke" and we all found out it was just to build to a 5 minute Wrestlemania match where they proved once again that Lesnar > everyone. Finn will go up against Brock as his "demon" persona and get literally ing killed dead. see: CM Punk @ summerslam. WWE has bigger plans for Brock and that's losing his title, he's defended 4 times, next year at Wrestlemania to Roman Reigns cementing Reigns as the single greatest wrestling superstar in the history of modern civilization.
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Post by Jonathan Karate on May 2, 2017 12:43:24 GMT -5
Brock Lesnar has pretty much been booked as the greatest superstar in the history of the WWE. An unstoppable monster who will destroy everything in sight with ease. He got beat by G-Berg on a "fluke" and we all found out it was just to build to a 5 minute Wrestlemania match where they proved once again that Lesnar > everyone. Finn will go up against Brock as his "demon" persona and get literally ing killed dead. see: CM Punk @ summerslam. WWE has bigger plans for Brock and that's losing his title, he's defended 4 times, next year at Wrestlemania to Roman Reigns cementing Reigns as the single greatest wrestling superstar in the history of modern civilization. Uhhh chip......Punk was booked better against Brock than anyone not named John Cena or Triple H. They had a very competitive match. That happens to be my favorite Lesnar match since his return. I would LOVE to see Rollins, Balor, Owens, Ambrose or Styles in a match with Lesnar that is booked like that match was. Anything other than the constant Suplexes and destruction we've been getting for the past 3 years.
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Post by IRS on May 2, 2017 13:49:08 GMT -5
Brock Lesnar has pretty much been booked as the greatest superstar in the history of the WWE. An unstoppable monster who will destroy everything in sight with ease. He got beat by G-Berg on a "fluke" and we all found out it was just to build to a 5 minute Wrestlemania match where they proved once again that Lesnar > everyone. Finn will go up against Brock as his "demon" persona and get literally ing killed dead. see: CM Punk @ summerslam. WWE has bigger plans for Brock and that's losing his title, he's defended 4 times, next year at Wrestlemania to Roman Reigns cementing Reigns as the single greatest wrestling superstar in the history of modern civilization. Uhhh chip......Punk was booked better against Brock than anyone not named John Cena or Triple H. They had a very competitive match. That happens to be my favorite Lesnar match since his return. I would LOVE to see Rollins, Balor, Owens, Ambrose or Styles in a match with Lesnar that is booked like that match was. Anything other than the constant Suplexes and destruction we've been getting for the past 3 years. Yeah, the Punk match was really Brock's last great non-Suplex City match. I'd be extremely satisfied if he had another match like that again instead of suplex, suplex, suplex, F5, suplex, opponent's ten seconds of offesne, F5.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2017 14:56:57 GMT -5
Balor gonna get that ass taken to Suplex City
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Post by McBlake on May 2, 2017 15:59:21 GMT -5
Tweener Brock vs. heel Strowman would really interest me. I'd love to see AJ face him as well but that seems unlikely with the brand split and limited Brock appearances we have left.
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Post by punksnotdead on May 2, 2017 16:10:16 GMT -5
The fact that we've gotten so many great Brock matchups and so few great Brock matches is a damn travesty. Rollins vs Cena vs Brock is still one of my favorite matches of all time, but Brock vs Rollins one-on-one should have been amazing and it was trash. Same with Orton. That was a match like 15 years in the making and it was terrible because of the Suplex City bullsh*t. By my count, Brock has had 3.5 good matches since returning. Cena at Extreme Rules 2012, CM Punk at SummerSlam 2013, vs Cena vs Rollins at Royal Rumble 2015, and his half point goes to Mania against Goldberg this year. His matches with Taker and Triple H were all garbage, and everything else was forgettable. Seth Rollins had an epic cash-in during his match with Roman, but I don't think that match was any good prior to that spot. I largely like Brock, but he's a disappointment 75% of the time. So who ing cares who he faces if he's just going to hit a dozen suplexes, sweat like a whore in church, give a sh*t eating grin, and then pin some guy we all would have preferred got a fighting chance against him instead of getting squashed.
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Post by TheLastDude on May 2, 2017 16:22:23 GMT -5
I've just never been a fan of smaller guys beating up bigger guys. It's never made sense. It's pro wrestling man. It's happened all of the time. Bret beating Yoko. Hogan beating Andre. If it's believability you care about, look at the UFC and their biggest star is a 5'9 170 pound Irish man who is knocking people out left and right. The notion that smaller guys can't beat bigger guys should be passé. This is a good point. I think because of McGregor's larger than life persona, people forget he's really not a big guy at all. His current UFC bio lists him at 5'9" and 155 pounds. That's actually...well...small. Balor is both taller and weighs more than McGregor does, but Balor is tiny and Conor isn't? Doesn't make much sense.
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Post by cordless2016 on May 2, 2017 18:19:30 GMT -5
Unless it's Strowman, whoever faces Lesnar will be squashed, and it'll suck.
They made us believe that Rollins with his speed and agility advantage had a chance, yet he was squashed. They made us believe that in a hardcore environment that Ambrose had a chance, yet he was squashed. Randy Orton was booked to be the savy veteran, yet he was squashed too. Same thing would happen to Balor.
Strowman would lose, but atleast he might get some offense in. My bigger worry is that after losing to Brock and Roman, will Strowman be salvageable? I don't think he should lose to Roman, or anyone else for that matter, for a long time. Sadly though, he's likely to loose to both of em.
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Post by TurboEddie on May 2, 2017 18:26:18 GMT -5
Seth freakin' Rollins.
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StylesP1
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Post by StylesP1 on May 2, 2017 19:48:16 GMT -5
Anyone advocating a guy like Finn Balor to beat a former UFC champion who ended the in streak is insane
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Post by OTC Waxbender on May 2, 2017 19:53:09 GMT -5
It's pro wrestling man. It's happened all of the time. Bret beating Yoko. Hogan beating Andre. If it's believability you care about, look at the UFC and their biggest star is a 5'9 170 pound Irish man who is knocking people out left and right. The notion that smaller guys can't beat bigger guys should be passé. This is a good point. I think because of McGregor's larger than life persona, people forget he's really not a big guy at all. His current UFC bio lists him at 5'9" and 155 pounds. That's actually...well...small. Balor is both taller and weighs more than McGregor does, but Balor is tiny and Conor isn't? Doesn't make much sense. difference is McGregor isn't knocking out 286lb men like Lesnar
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Henchmen4Hire
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Post by Henchmen4Hire on May 2, 2017 19:55:37 GMT -5
"The Demon vs The Beast" is too good of a tagline to pass up, it'll happen eventually, though maybe Summerslam is too soon for that.
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y13
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Post by y13 on May 2, 2017 22:14:14 GMT -5
I'm over Lesnar to be honest. He had a great year in 2015, but he's phoned it in since, for the most part. It just bothers me that the main champion on the flagship show is not there, and seemingly won't even defend it until July. Meanwhile you have a great number one contenders match last night, all for the Intercontinental title. Guys like Rollins and Balor floundering because there's no champ.
So for Summerslam, I don't know. Ideally he drops it in July to Strowman or someone else. I don't wanna see him do some summer feuds, disappear AGAIN for the fall, and then come back at Rumble to set up the nonsense with Reigns. Honestly if they want to do this again, just get it over with at Summerslam. No need to ruin the Wrestlemania main event 3 years in a row with the crowd rejecting it
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Post by JCF on May 2, 2017 22:17:49 GMT -5
Haha. Balor should NEVER go over Brock if this match does happen.
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Post by OTC Waxbender on May 3, 2017 9:44:26 GMT -5
I'm over Lesnar to be honest. He had a great year in 2015, but he's phoned it in since, for the most part. It just bothers me that the main champion on the flagship show is not there, and seemingly won't even defend it until July. Meanwhile you have a great number one contenders match last night, all for the Intercontinental title. Guys like Rollins and Balor floundering because there's no champ. So for Summerslam, I don't know. Ideally he drops it in July to Strowman or someone else. I don't wanna see him do some summer feuds, disappear AGAIN for the fall, and then come back at Rumble to set up the nonsense with Reigns. Honestly if they want to do this again, just get it over with at Summerslam. No need to ruin the Wrestlemania main event 3 years in a row with the crowd rejecting it I fail to see how these 2 guys are "floundering" as you put it, simply because they're fighting over the IC title picture until the Universal Title picture opens up. The IC title is the next best thing and they both could use an IC reign under their belts in WWE. The way I see it the more titles you've held the better. Besides you have 4 former world champions in/around the IC title picture, only good things come from it. It adds to the prestige of the IC title showing that these guys (former world champs) arent "too good" for it and in the end hopefully we see Balor or Rollins get their first reign as IC champ after Miz/Ambrose finish up.
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Post by Ember's Flame on May 3, 2017 11:50:04 GMT -5
Batista vs. Brock
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Post by Next Manufactured’s Sweater on May 3, 2017 15:12:22 GMT -5
It's pro wrestling man. It's happened all of the time. Bret beating Yoko. Hogan beating Andre. If it's believability you care about, look at the UFC and their biggest star is a 5'9 170 pound Irish man who is knocking people out left and right. The notion that smaller guys can't beat bigger guys should be passé. This is a good point. I think because of McGregor's larger than life persona, people forget he's really not a big guy at all. His current UFC bio lists him at 5'9" and 155 pounds. That's actually...well...small. Balor is both taller and weighs more than McGregor does, but Balor is tiny and Conor isn't? Doesn't make much sense. If you're unfamiliar with UFC, they use weight classes. McGregor isn't fighting guys the size of Lesnar, and the original guy didn't say Finn is too small to believably fight guys his own size. So McGregor comparisons are misguided and foundless. Either way, its wrestling. It's fake. Balor and Lesnar are good enough to tell a story that ends with Balor overcoming the beast. For me, the embarrassment will be in watching Brock Lesnar taking Finn's questionable blackface makeup seriously. They seem not to be focusing on that demon stuff as much lately so I'm hoping it will be more sparingly used going forward, but they'd have to do it for him facing Brock.
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