Will the new era of Brock start tonight as world champ?
Here's the card. (Rumored length of match)
Dolph Ziggler vs. The Miz (10 minutes)
Bray Wyatt vs. Chris Jericho (15 minutes)
Rusev vs. Jack Swagger (12 minutes)
Paige vs. AJ Lee (12 minutes)
Dean Ambrose vs. Seth Rollins (15 minutes)
Randy Orton vs. Roman Reigns (20 minutes)
Brie Bella vs. Stephanie McMahon (15 minutes)
Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena (25 minutes)
Agreed. Reigns is like Diesel Rollins HBK.
Ambrose isn't that far behind...he reminds me quite a bit of Roddy Piper
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The HBK of this generation. The amount of great matches he's going to have on his resume by the time he retires is going to be staggering. He's only 28.
Ambrose isn't that far behind...he reminds me quite a bit of Roddy Piper
I'm just talking about in ring talent.
Instead they've booked him as a smarmy, charmless douchebag version of Cena as a character that gets his ass kicked way too often and is having boring matches right out of the gate with the most tired guys on the roster (Kane previously, Orton tonight).
They are not going to put this at MetLife Stadium are they? How are they going to sell that out?
Instead they've booked him as a smarmy, charmless douchebag version of Cena as a character that gets his ass kicked way too often and is having boring matches right out of the gate with the most tired guys on the roster (Kane previously, Orton tonight).
Yep. It is a lock Reigns fails. Bootista part 2 they never learn.
There's 1.
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In comment 11811883 Dave in Hoboken said:
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The HBK of this generation. The amount of great matches he's going to have on his resume by the time he retires is going to be staggering. He's only 28.
Ambrose isn't that far behind...he reminds me quite a bit of Roddy Piper
I'm just talking about in ring talent.
Piper is dramatically underrated in the ring. He's no HBK but he was a high-level performer
Rather see Cena control the match, at least then Lesnar has a chance at the end.
No way. It will suck if Cena wins. But Lesnar dominating and winning is perfect. He is straight up kicking the shit out of him.
Brock rules!
How on Earth are they going to book the titles off Lesnar now? Roman Reigns? Nobody can take them off of him realistically (besides a fairy tale Cena rematch which is what will happen at Night of Champions)
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In comment 11811904 dpinzow said:
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In comment 11811883 Dave in Hoboken said:
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The HBK of this generation. The amount of great matches he's going to have on his resume by the time he retires is going to be staggering. He's only 28.
Ambrose isn't that far behind...he reminds me quite a bit of Roddy Piper
I'm just talking about in ring talent.
Piper is dramatically underrated in the ring. He's no HBK but he was a high-level performer
In the ring? I was never a Piper in ring fan. His promos were awesome, though.
Good card otherwise I thought. I agree with previous sentiment on the Reigns booking. The gotta get that guy in to some kind of a novel feud, and quick. Or else he's going to end up being the forgotten man of the Shield, which was unthinkable a few months ago.
16 German Suplexes. Haha, Jesus Christ
Good card otherwise I thought. I agree with previous sentiment on the Reigns booking. The gotta get that guy in to some kind of a novel feud, and quick. Or else he's going to end up being the forgotten man of the Shield, which was unthinkable a few months ago.
Having the match be competitive is not what Lesnar's characters about. Its about total annihilation. It was perfect.
Now my ideal scenario is Brock hold the title through the rumble. And then in the royal rumble have a mysterious entry at number 30. That being Punk. Punk wins and sets up a Punk/Lesnar WM. Punk wins that sets up a Punk/bryan Summerslam.
WWE sees him as their next top face. They aren't going to let him fall behind anyone, one way or another. WWE fans could time warp back to 1997 and break out a "Die Roman, Die!" chant and it wouldn't matter one bit.
He has a lot of potential, but when Randy Orton is the only one getting a crowd involved in a match to any extent, something is massively going wrong and it's potentially setting the stage for something easily worse than Cena's reactions over the last decade.
But whatever, people seem to love him, and I don't. I hate the idea of him as Champion, but I don't have any interest in being the contrarian, but I did want to share my displeasure.
Overall though again, I though good show. Liked Ziggler going over specifically.
16 German Suplexes. Haha, Jesus Christ
Which is something you should be praising Cena for, not that you will.
He took a massive toll on his body tonight that someone with his neck history probably has no business taking in order to put someone over, just like he worked pretty badly injured last Summer Slam to put Bryan over.
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he aint catching up with Rollins and Ambrose
WWE sees him as their next top face. They aren't going to let him fall behind anyone, one way or another. WWE fans could time warp back to 1997 and break out a "Die Roman, Die!" chant and it wouldn't matter one bit.
He has a lot of potential, but when Randy Orton is the only one getting a crowd involved in a match to any extent, something is massively going wrong and it's potentially setting the stage for something easily worse than Cena's reactions over the last decade.
How often does WWE's handpicked faces workout though? It always ends up being the guy who goes out there and TAKES it ala Stone Cold Steve Austin The Rock Bret Hart Shawn Michaels etc all the greats.
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In comment 11811964 Mr. Nickels said:
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he aint catching up with Rollins and Ambrose
WWE sees him as their next top face. They aren't going to let him fall behind anyone, one way or another. WWE fans could time warp back to 1997 and break out a "Die Roman, Die!" chant and it wouldn't matter one bit.
He has a lot of potential, but when Randy Orton is the only one getting a crowd involved in a match to any extent, something is massively going wrong and it's potentially setting the stage for something easily worse than Cena's reactions over the last decade.
How often does WWE's handpicked faces workout though? It always ends up being the guy who goes out there and TAKES it ala Stone Cold Steve Austin The Rock Bret Hart Shawn Michaels etc all the greats.
Forgot our 2 modern examples: CM Punk and Daniel Bryan
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...THAT WAS AWESOME
16 German Suplexes. Haha, Jesus Christ
Which is something you should be praising Cena for, not that you will.
He took a massive toll on his body tonight that someone with his neck history probably has no business taking in order to put someone over, just like he worked pretty badly injured last Summer Slam to put Bryan over.
Honestly, this was the best match/performance Cena has been in since MITB against Punk. Total kudos and credit to him!
I wouldn't go that far. Diesel jack knife power bombed bob Backlund in 8 seconds. Pretty one sided dominant win.
This is a bit of a swerve but I would feed Rusev to the wolves at some point in the next three months
Hogan was handpicked too, as Vince allegedly lined him up to be his next iconic face the minute he bought his father out and decided to go national.
It's really a mixed bag as to what works or not, historically.
The Rock was not handpicked. His character fell on its face and he made himself.
It is easier to cruise control from Rumble to Mania as Champ.
Well, Lesnar/Cena surprised me. Not the result. But the way it happened. And if wrestling can still surprise me, after watching it my entire life, then they did something right.
It is easier to cruise control from Rumble to Mania as Champ.
Cena's doing a movie from what I've heard, and that's why he agreed to drop the belt
The Rock was not handpicked. His character fell on its face and he made himself.
Rocky Maivia was supposed to be a star. He was absolutely handpicked to be one, that was clear the minute he showed up as "The Blue Chipper" and was over-hyped as a third generation superstar. It just ended up all a flop.
Things were more fluid/desperate then, so they had to demote him, which gave him a chance to re-start and he made that work out. If that happened today, they'd have just kept on trying to make him work mostly as is before giving up entirely on him.