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Post by Tim of thee on Jan 16, 2019 22:20:08 GMT -5
Hulk Hogan to Hulk
Randy Savage to Randy
Ric Flair to Ric
The more I think of this the more I get pissed off haha!
John Cena to John
Shinsuke Nakamura to Shinsuke
AJ Styles to AJ
Daniel Bryan to Daniel
This crap is getting out of control!
What do all those guys have in common? They are wildly successful.
Caesaro
Rusev
Andrade
Elias
Talented but stuck in the middle. Coincidence? You make the call.
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Post by marino13 on Jan 16, 2019 22:29:15 GMT -5
As I said in the SD thread, if nothing else, I would have just went with Almas. Comments like this is exactly why some people are already sick of hearing about AEW. It's a shorter name, not life or death. You'll survive this. I think the point is that it’s ridiculous how the WWE seems to put more focus on shortening names than giving us consistently good stories. Their names were never even a problem in the first place. It’s just funny that they keep doing this. It’s like during the 90s if they did this and we had names like “ HBK Michaels” and “STONE COLD AUSTIN.” Yeah I read the same joke about the same names in the other posts saying the exact same thing.
But in what way has WWE put focus on shortening his name? It wasn't a whole big production. It wasn't even openly addressed. No stories were hindered by it. If nothing else, his career seems to be finally going somewhere. I liked his name the way it was. But if it gets him more TV time, more wins, and more attention, it's a small price to pay. And hell, for all we know next week they might be calling him by his full name again.
And besides how does that have anything to do with AEW? The company hasn't even had a show yet and people are already praising it like they cured cancer.
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Post by marino13 on Jan 16, 2019 22:35:14 GMT -5
Could you imagine Cain The Undertaker being just Undertaker? Or Bill Goldberg being just Goldberg? Big Van Vader to just Vader? Rocky Miavia to just Rock? Dave Batista to just Batista? Mike The Miz to just Miz?
Wait, I'm not doing this right, am I?
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Post by Tim of thee on Jan 16, 2019 23:28:03 GMT -5
Could you imagine Cain The Undertaker being just Undertaker? Or Bill Goldberg being just Goldberg? Big Van Vader to just Vader? Rocky Johnson to just Rock? Dave Batista to just Batista? Mike The Miz to just Miz? Wait, I'm not doing this right, am I? its a worthy discussion to have though with the above, there was at least SOME thought and logic for the switch and not some random "well they used to have another name but forget about all that noise, only certain guys can have their full name" removing the last name or first name without any reason is dumb and useless and assumes the people watching are stupid idiots (credit to Jericho er.. I mean CHRIS Jericho) how about Roman Reigns to Roman or Reigns Brock Lesnar to Brock or Lesnar just too silly... I do agree about your stance on AEW |
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Post by Iron Bison on Jan 16, 2019 23:29:28 GMT -5
Could you imagine Cain The Undertaker being just Undertaker? Or Bill Goldberg being just Goldberg? Big Van Vader to just Vader? Rocky Johnson to just Rock? Dave Batista to just Batista? Mike The Miz to just Miz? Wait, I'm not doing this right, am I? You're missing the point, though I get you're trying to be funny. There's already been history with the names. If Rusev actually started his few years AS just Rusev then there'd be no issue. But he had a few years already as Alexander Rusev, so why cut his first name? If it was just him, no problem. But there's a whole list of dudes who just got half their names cut just cause Vince thinks fans are too stupid to remember a full name. Let's not also forget they did it to tag teams as well. Prime Time players got shortened to PTP and now the Authors Of Pain are just AoP now. That one REALLY boils my piss. Authors of Pain sounds like a death sentence, AoP sounds like a condition old people get that needs treatment. |
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Post by FLUX '97 on Jan 17, 2019 0:03:45 GMT -5
Could you imagine Cain The Undertaker being just Undertaker? Or Bill Goldberg being just Goldberg? Big Van Vader to just Vader? Rocky Johnson to just Rock? Dave Batista to just Batista? Mike The Miz to just Miz? Wait, I'm not doing this right, am I? I'm glad someone around here has some sort of sense about a goddamn fake name. |
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Post by RuthlessFigs on Jan 17, 2019 0:13:42 GMT -5
Easily one of the DUMBEST decisions WWE has made, i want to know who the idiot is that thought "Hmmm Lets take the recognisable parts out of his name and just call him by the name that no one really remembers".
I don't understand why WWE keeps ruining things that are fine the way they are... What is their obsession with this name trend?
- Andrade 'Cien' Almas
- Luke Harper
- Erick Rowan
It's not broken so stop trying to 'fix' it. People will remember these guys by their full names, not these shortened names with little to no ring to them. Considering every is still calling them by their full names, it clearly shows that they were perfect the way they were.
The name "Andrade" has no ring to it, it just sounds awkward without the rest of his name... Who are the favourites to win the Royal Rumble? - "SETH ROLLINS", "DREW McINTYRE", "AJ STYLES" & "Andrade..."
What baffles me, is why they would keep the name they should have dropped... When people see him, they say "Cien Almas" i don't think anyone has called him by just "Andrade"
Hopefully with this much backlash, they change it back so he actually has a star worthy name.
Won't surprise me if by July we see these names:
- Seth Rollins
- Dean Ambrose
- Drew McIntyre
- Finn Balor
- Daniel Bryan
- Bobby Lashley
- Ronda Rousey
- Becky Lynch
- Cedric Alexander
- Dolph Ziggler
- Kevin Owens
- Sami Zayn
- Samoa Joe
- Adam Cole
- Aleister Black
- Tomasso Ciampa
- Johnny Gargano
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Post by FLUX '97 on Jan 17, 2019 0:16:16 GMT -5
Easily one of the DUMBEST decisions WWE has made, i want to know who the idiot is that thought "Hmmm Lets take the recognisable parts out of his name and just call him by the name that no one really remembers". I don't understand why WWE keeps ruining things that are fine the way they are... What is their obsession with this name trend? - Andrade 'Cien' Almas- Luke Harper- Erick RowanIt's not broken so stop trying to 'fix' it. People will remember these guys by their full names, not these shortened names with little to no ring to them. Considering every is still calling them by their full names, it clearly shows that they were perfect the way they were. The name "Andrade" has no ring to it, it just sounds awkward without the rest of his name... Who are the favourites to win the Royal Rumble? - "SETH ROLLINS", "DREW McINTYRE", "AJ STYLES" & "Andrade..." What baffles me, is why they would keep the name they should have dropped... When people see him, they say "Cien Almas" i don't think anyone has called him by just "Andrade" Hopefully with this much backlash, they change it back so he actually has a star worthy name. Won't surprise me if by July we see these names: - Seth Rollins
- Dean Ambrose
- Drew McIntyre
- Finn Balor
- Daniel Bryan
- Bobby Lashley
- Ronda Rousey
- Becky Lynch
- Cedric Alexander
- Dolph Ziggler
- Kevin Owens
- Sami Zayn
- Samoa Joe
- Adam Cole
- Aleister Black
- Tomasso Ciampa
- Johnny Gargano |
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Post by BoJack Hogan on Jan 17, 2019 0:27:04 GMT -5
I personally would've preferred Cien Almas remain, drop Andrade. Its quick and snappy, three syllables, same as Andrade but more powerful. Cien Almas! His theme song still says it. Cesaro went from 7 syllables to 3, Neville went from 5 to 2, Rusev went from 6 to 2. You don't need the first name to maintain the power. In this case, Andrade sounds like a jobber male model character (think Sylvain). In this case I'd have preferred if they'd changed it to something crazy like Edward James Almas than just Andrade. I'll miss Cien Almas.
Just my opinion.
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Post by TheSystem 1.5 on Jan 17, 2019 0:42:13 GMT -5
Could you imagine Cain The Undertaker being just Undertaker? Or Bill Goldberg being just Goldberg? Big Van Vader to just Vader? Rocky Johnson to just Rock? Dave Batista to just Batista? Mike The Miz to just Miz? Wait, I'm not doing this right, am I? Rocky Maivia not Johnson |
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Post by Thought Collector on Jan 17, 2019 5:51:06 GMT -5
To play devil's advocate, it seems they will still make sure it's a three or at least two syllable name to have a ring to it and still sound good being introduced by the ring announcers/interviewer correspondents. Which is why we'll be safe from 'Finn', 'Seth' 'Joe' or 'Dean' even though I know people are just joking about that lol. Hence why we are getting just 'Andrade'. Again not to try and defend it and def. still think think it's unnecessary regardless. But I think it's okay for people to think it's stupid and not act like people who have an opinion on it want to storm WWE headquarters with torches.
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Post by marino13 on Jan 17, 2019 6:27:05 GMT -5
Could you imagine Cain The Undertaker being just Undertaker? Or Bill Goldberg being just Goldberg? Big Van Vader to just Vader? Rocky Johnson to just Rock? Dave Batista to just Batista? Mike The Miz to just Miz? Wait, I'm not doing this right, am I? I'm glad someone around here has some sort of sense about a goddamn fake name. Like I’ve said, I liked the full name better. I like the name Almas more than Andrade. But it’s just not important enough to act like it makes a difference. It’s certainly not a big enough issue to act offended by it. |
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Post by wormnation on Jan 17, 2019 6:45:43 GMT -5
Shortening a name does that much to your psyche huh? LOL When today everyone thinks there's no points of difference between wrestlers, a unique name would be a start! How do you know Almas didn't want this? |
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jan 17, 2019 9:43:18 GMT -5
Never change, WF.
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What is this?
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Post by havoc7179 on Jan 17, 2019 9:53:14 GMT -5
Everyone crying about the name change
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Post by BØRNS on Jan 17, 2019 15:05:42 GMT -5
When today everyone thinks there's no points of difference between wrestlers, a unique name would be a start! How do you know Almas didn't want this? How do you know he did?! |
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Post by Chip on Jan 17, 2019 17:05:54 GMT -5
so many guys on this list now....but Andrade just doesnt sound good....it sounds like they just forgot his last name. its not a good transition and it makes ZERO sense to have a guy with this character name for so long, suddenly just drop it for no reason.
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Post by wormnation on Jan 17, 2019 17:21:11 GMT -5
How do you know Almas didn't want this? How do you know he did?! I don't but I'm not the one getting upset and jumping to conclusions. |
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Post by ClashOfStyles on Jan 17, 2019 23:04:01 GMT -5
It's hilarious that people get so worked up about this. Because it totally ruined Rusev. And Cesaro. And Big E. And Elias. And Andrade totally didn't just have an incredible match on Smackdown. But yea, those dastardly WWE higher ups are ruining wrestling this way. This. The people who are complaining will eventually forget they even changed his name in the first place. |
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Post by Cassa Nova Kid on Jan 17, 2019 23:30:20 GMT -5
Wait ....every one what is D Lo Brown as just D ...
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