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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Jan 31, 2024 8:35:20 GMT -5
I actually hope Preist wins the World Title and doesn't lose the cash in... he's got big potential & it's well overdue.
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Post by J-MANN on Jan 31, 2024 8:42:31 GMT -5
I actually hope Preist wins the World Title and doesn't lose the cash in... he's got big potential & it's well overdue. He’s a good upper mid-carder. There’s so many other guys more deserving right now and just better. If he does successfully cash in - I hope his reign is very brief.
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Jan 31, 2024 8:56:28 GMT -5
I actually hope Preist wins the World Title and doesn't lose the cash in... he's got big potential & it's well overdue. He’s a good upper mid-carder. There’s so many other guys more deserving right now and just better. If he does successfully cash in - I hope his reign is very brief. I'd say Preist deserves a long run with the belt, but there are way too many guys who also deserve it on RAW. Punk when he's back, Sami,Jey, Brock when he's back hopefully if innocent, Drew, Nakamura, even Jinder Mahal, Balor etc.
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Post by J-MANN on Jan 31, 2024 8:59:40 GMT -5
He’s a good upper mid-carder. There’s so many other guys more deserving right now and just better. If he does successfully cash in - I hope his reign is very brief. I'd say Preist deserves a long run with the belt, but there are way too many guys who also deserve it on RAW. Punk when he's back, Sami,Jey, Brock when he's back hopefully if innocent, Drew, Nakamura, even Jinder Mahal, Balor etc. Brock and Jinder? No way man 🤣
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Jan 31, 2024 9:03:20 GMT -5
I'd say Preist deserves a long run with the belt, but there are way too many guys who also deserve it on RAW. Punk when he's back, Sami,Jey, Brock when he's back hopefully if innocent, Drew, Nakamura, even Jinder Mahal, Balor etc. Brock and Jinder? No way man 🤣 Brock is money & Jinder would draw big heat as a top heel World Champion... well deserved after his segment/promo with Rock 😆 🤣 honestly!!
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Post by JokerFC on Jan 31, 2024 11:31:00 GMT -5
Theres no panic with Priest & the briefcase....nothing needs to happen at WM.
Gunther takes it off Rollins at WM. Make it a super heated dramatic affair with Rollins "not being officially cleared" but takes the match anyway. Not 100% Seth does his best but Gunther targets the knee and in a super dramatic final segment you get Becky out ringside upset begging him to give up before Gunther destroys his leg.
Have the commentators really really enforce this that if he doesn't give up he will never wrestle again. Its THAT serious. Seth then passes out in some brutal looking hold Gunther uses on him.
Seth looks like a Warrior. Gunther has SUPER heat. Seth goes away for a bit & challenges him at Summerslam. All the folks that are clamoring for McIntyre to have another shot will be happy too because Gunther can chew him up(again) at the April or May PPvs.
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Post by ℍ𝕒𝕣𝕕 𝕋𝕠 𝕂𝕚𝕝𝕝 on Jan 31, 2024 11:33:03 GMT -5
I feel like Priest's MITB win isn't very well thought out and has no big picture plan.
I don't think they've done a good job at all in building him as a legit top level guy. He seems extremely midcard to me, no matter how many times his promo opens RAW to tell us his stable runs the show.
This young 41 year-old lion has a bright bright future ahead of him!!
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Post by Odafin Tutuola on Jan 31, 2024 13:11:21 GMT -5
Theres no panic with Priest & the briefcase....nothing needs to happen at WM. Gunther takes it off Rollins at WM. Make it a super heated dramatic affair with Rollins "not being officially cleared" but takes the match anyway. Not 100% Seth does his best but Gunther targets the knee and in a super dramatic final segment you get Becky out ringside upset begging him to give up before Gunther destroys his leg. Have the commentators really really enforce this that if he doesn't give up he will never wrestle again. Its THAT serious. Seth then passes out in some brutal looking hold Gunther uses on him. Seth looks like a Warrior. Gunther has SUPER heat. Seth goes away for a bit & challenges him at Summerslam. All the folks that are clamoring for McIntyre to have another shot will be happy too because Gunther can chew him up(again) at the April or May PPvs. Rollins WrestleMania challenger is going to be Drew McIntyre, not GUNTHER. No disrespect to GUNTHER but his mic skills aren't strong like McIntyre or any of the Main Event level talent.
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Post by JokerFC on Jan 31, 2024 13:27:31 GMT -5
Theres no panic with Priest & the briefcase....nothing needs to happen at WM. Gunther takes it off Rollins at WM. Make it a super heated dramatic affair with Rollins "not being officially cleared" but takes the match anyway. Not 100% Seth does his best but Gunther targets the knee and in a super dramatic final segment you get Becky out ringside upset begging him to give up before Gunther destroys his leg. Have the commentators really really enforce this that if he doesn't give up he will never wrestle again. Its THAT serious. Seth then passes out in some brutal looking hold Gunther uses on him. Seth looks like a Warrior. Gunther has SUPER heat. Seth goes away for a bit & challenges him at Summerslam. All the folks that are clamoring for McIntyre to have another shot will be happy too because Gunther can chew him up(again) at the April or May PPvs. Rollins WrestleMania challenger is going to be Drew McIntyre, not GUNTHER. No disrespect to GUNTHER but his mic skills aren't strong like McIntyre or any of the Main Event level talent. We'll soon see man. I personally don't see anything in McIntyre that makes him ME calibre talent & I think his time has been & gone. Rollins has already beaten him no sweat on PPV & TV. (& Gunther beat him in dominating decisive fashion at Summerslam) Will they repeat that for WM? I hope not BUT you could be right chief.... HBK beat Sid on TV easy enough in 95 then he was positioned as the main threat to his title in 96 so who knows?
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Jan 31, 2024 14:09:23 GMT -5
Rollins WrestleMania challenger is going to be Drew McIntyre, not GUNTHER. No disrespect to GUNTHER but his mic skills aren't strong like McIntyre or any of the Main Event level talent. We'll soon see man. I personally don't see anything in McIntyre that makes him ME calibre talent & I think his time has been & gone. Rollins has already beaten him no sweat on PPV & TV. (& Gunther beat him in dominating decisive fashion at Summerslam) Will they repeat that for WM? I hope not BUT you could be right chief.... HBK beat Sid on TV easy enough in 95 then he was positioned as the main threat to his title in 96 so who knows?
That's probably because Sid was in "Kliq Lite"
That's what I call the post Ramon/Diesel era of the Kliq. HBK was like, "oh hey Sid, we're cool, let's be friends outside of the business too." Because HBK had zero problems dropping the WWF Title to Sid. I feel he would have felt differently with it being Vader at Survivor Series cause HBK didn't care for Vader at all at that time.
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Post by JokerFC on Jan 31, 2024 14:46:53 GMT -5
We'll soon see man. I personally don't see anything in McIntyre that makes him ME calibre talent & I think his time has been & gone. Rollins has already beaten him no sweat on PPV & TV. (& Gunther beat him in dominating decisive fashion at Summerslam) Will they repeat that for WM? I hope not BUT you could be right chief.... HBK beat Sid on TV easy enough in 95 then he was positioned as the main threat to his title in 96 so who knows?
That's probably because Sid was in "Kliq Lite"
That's what I call the post Ramon/Diesel era of the Kliq. HBK was like, "oh hey Sid, we're cool, let's be friends outside of the business too." Because HBK had zero problems dropping the WWF Title to Sid. I feel he would have felt differently with it being Vader at Survivor Series cause HBK didn't care for Vader at all at that time.
Kliq lite...LOL. I actually didn't realise that!! i knew he got the vote from HBK to step into Vader's booking but didn't realise they were friendly backstage.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Jan 31, 2024 16:29:44 GMT -5
Theres no panic with Priest & the briefcase....nothing needs to happen at WM. Gunther takes it off Rollins at WM. Make it a super heated dramatic affair with Rollins "not being officially cleared" but takes the match anyway. Not 100% Seth does his best but Gunther targets the knee and in a super dramatic final segment you get Becky out ringside upset begging him to give up before Gunther destroys his leg. Have the commentators really really enforce this that if he doesn't give up he will never wrestle again. Its THAT serious. Seth then passes out in some brutal looking hold Gunther uses on him. Seth looks like a Warrior. Gunther has SUPER heat. Seth goes away for a bit & challenges him at Summerslam. All the folks that are clamoring for McIntyre to have another shot will be happy too because Gunther can chew him up(again) at the April or May PPvs. I like this. I'd even go as far as Becky turning on Seth, siding with Gunther. Gunther then tells her on RAW the next night "I don't need your help." & kicks her to the curb. Then someone else takes the storyline from there.
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Post by JokerFC on Jan 31, 2024 17:43:45 GMT -5
Theres no panic with Priest & the briefcase....nothing needs to happen at WM. Gunther takes it off Rollins at WM. Make it a super heated dramatic affair with Rollins "not being officially cleared" but takes the match anyway. Not 100% Seth does his best but Gunther targets the knee and in a super dramatic final segment you get Becky out ringside upset begging him to give up before Gunther destroys his leg. Have the commentators really really enforce this that if he doesn't give up he will never wrestle again. Its THAT serious. Seth then passes out in some brutal looking hold Gunther uses on him. Seth looks like a Warrior. Gunther has SUPER heat. Seth goes away for a bit & challenges him at Summerslam. All the folks that are clamoring for McIntyre to have another shot will be happy too because Gunther can chew him up(again) at the April or May PPvs. I like this. I'd even go as far as Becky turning on Seth, siding with Gunther. Gunther then tells her on RAW the next night "I don't need your help." & kicks her to the curb. Then someone else takes the storyline from there. I wouldn't have her turn...I'd have her cradling his broken body in the ring after with official medics HHH etc clamoring over him. Even have HHH look at Gunther in awe/disgust for the horror he's inflicted on them. Air vignettes of Seths recovery in the summer etc to get the fans reinvested...its old school but good shit. I'm super intrigued to see where this all will go no matter who's chosen.
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Post by hitmancmedge on Jan 31, 2024 18:11:20 GMT -5
I always kinda thought there were gonna have priest cash in after the Seth/Punk match, have judgement day help. Then you would have a big tag match the next ppv or whatever. Now I’m not sure what you do? If it ends up being Sami do you do the same? Maybe, but not if it’s Gunther or Drew.
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Post by terp on Jan 31, 2024 18:51:32 GMT -5
I honestly was hoping when JD gave him the custom case that the contract wasn't going to be actually in that one, but then they ran that segment backstage where they swapped them out but that would have created a nice story if Priest had no idea JD took the contract out before gifting him the custom case
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Post by J-MANN on Jan 31, 2024 18:58:31 GMT -5
I still think we get Priest vs. Balor eventually.
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Post by JokerFC on Jan 31, 2024 19:40:59 GMT -5
I still think we get Priest vs. Balor eventually. I think so too.
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Jan 31, 2024 20:30:38 GMT -5
I'd take Seth with no knees before I'd take Priest
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Post by J-MANN on Jan 31, 2024 20:52:02 GMT -5
I'd take Seth with no knees before I'd take Priest This is a great way of explaining how I feel about Priest.
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Jan 31, 2024 21:16:34 GMT -5
I'd take Seth with no knees before I'd take Priest This is a great way of explaining how I feel about Priest. I'd take Seth's knees before I'd take Priest
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