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Post by CM Tusk on Mar 8, 2022 3:49:40 GMT -5
People might see it as a step down, but considering Charlotte did it, what if Rollins challenged Bron for the NXT championship?
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Post by rkmo: Cheats & Geeks on Mar 8, 2022 4:27:19 GMT -5
Since the segment was the reason I tuned in tonight, why did the announcers keep stressing the 19 years thing, referring to Steve Austin's in-ring retirement? Austin has appeared in numerous Manias including the two hosted in Texas (being a HOF inductee in '09). He has been on the card as a guest referee thrice. He was even on a talk show segment, Piper's Pit, in 2005.
Unless it's a subversion and the KO Show on Night 1 sets up a match for Night 2, that info is irrelevant and misleading.
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Post by MKSavage on Mar 8, 2022 9:23:47 GMT -5
Oh not a match? It’s the KO Show at Wrestlemania? Stupid I think you mean, stupendous...
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Post by MKSavage on Mar 8, 2022 9:28:16 GMT -5
A match that couldve filled up a stadium reduced to an unannounced, 3 minute squash. SMH. I didn't mind the match itself. They done pittered away any chance of having a classic match that existed years prior. Taker was worn down, Cena's head was in Hollywood, etc. Nothing lost at this point. The build irked me so hard. Cena every week diminishing Taker's legacy and dignity, needlessly because of course Taker was showing up after all that. Otherwise where does that leave things, Cena being a d*ck and the Dead Man being a coward? Plus beginning the show, all the focus stayed on "some random bloke in the audience" before Charlotte and Asuka got upstaged. And the pointless Elias swerve. Gawd. The least problematic was the actual match in my opinion. Agreed. The whole thing was terrible. They made Taker look horrible in the build. For what reason? To get a 5-minute match at WrestleMania? Ridiculous.
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Post by Chip on Mar 8, 2022 9:44:14 GMT -5
i mean im sure it will be fun. and then Austin just stuns him, drinks beer, crowd pops probably better than just some random match thats meaningless but really what the is Rollins going to do? on RAW the only other person thats left that doesn't really have Mania plans is Lashley. But he's hurt, right? he's in "concussion protocol" there was something reported about him needing shoulder surgery, but i haven't seen anything official. dont have twitter or IG so i dont know if hes posted anything on there. at this point they should just have Rollins attack Shinsuke on Smackdown or something, just to get him a random ass match that could be good.
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Post by Chip on Mar 8, 2022 9:45:04 GMT -5
Since the segment was the reason I tuned in tonight, why did the announcers keep stressing the 19 years thing, referring to Steve Austin's in-ring retirement? Austin has appeared in numerous Manias including the two hosted in Texas (being a HOF inductee in '09). He has been on the card as a guest referee thrice. He was even on a talk show segment, Piper's Pit, in 2005. Unless it's a subversion and the KO Show on Night 1 sets up a match for Night 2, that info is irrelevant and misleading. probably because they think the audience is stupid, doesn't have access to the last 19 years of WWE history and legitimately thinks the last time Austin was in a WWE ring was WM19
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Post by Thunder Chunky on Mar 11, 2022 16:14:08 GMT -5
The 19 years was clearly a reference to Austin getting back in the ring again.
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Post by CM Tusk on Mar 11, 2022 16:17:24 GMT -5
The 19 years was clearly a reference to Austin getting back in the ring again. It’s odd. That’s definitely what it was. But if you have Austin for a match, you want to advertise is as a match to sell as many tickets as possible. Good or bad, people will want to be there live for that. Maybe in the next week or so it can be turned into a match but I don’t think they’d just go into the show without putting it all out there ahead of time. Though I guess they did with Cena and Undertaker.
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