Board 8 > Best All-Purpose Wrestling Topic of the Decade, Part 492

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Honestly I'm happy with the amount of show focused on The Elite, Inner Circle, Moxley/PAC.

Any more would be to much.

I like that you get some different people each week on the undercard and a lot of people get attention. And groups like Dark Order, Nightmare Collective being there doing stuff is cool.

BBB is a real problem but that is as much because their week to week stuff hasn't made sense but apparently they are just acting as part of Cody vs MJF now.

Also like Jimmy Hacok and Swole have been on like 3 episodes combined.

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I prefer the way AEW does it to WWE where 80% of the roster is rarely ever seen for months at a time until all of a sudden WWE decides to push them for a few weeks and then they go back to doing absolutely nothing and being on the show extremely rarely.

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That wasn't an exhaustive list. I just feel there are a lot of good parts to the show and a lot of mediocre parts are getting over-exposed in general, while there's enough depth to the good parts that you could use them more than they are. I'm not saying use everyone every week that's implausible but I feel like the undercard has better guys to be focusing on, and the majority of the top guys should be heavily featured on every show. Honestly on the top rung aside from the Inner Circle and maybe Moxley, this hasn't really been happening with regularity. I feel like PAC has been on less than half the shows, Kenny Omega has been in maybe slightly over half, but in minor stuff mostly. Cody same as Omega.

Meanwhile you've got guys like Lucha Bros and SCU not really being on shows with any regularity, Riho your women's champion being on less shows than Kong/Brandi. I dunno. I'd probably be happier if the undercarders getting more time were the guys I liked more. Give me more Jack Evans please.

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Jack Evans is legit one of the people I want to see on my TV every single week.

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I mean I get that. I would love some Luchasaurus every week.

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Young Bucks have quit twitter, proving that wrestling fans are indeed the absolute fucking worst and we get what we deserve.

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Some wrestling fans*

You can put that on yourself. I'm freaking great.

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TheRock1525 posted...

Young Bucks have quit twitter, proving that wrestling fans are indeed the absolute fucking worst and we get what we deserve.

Ok Rollins
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Twitter is the worst and wrestling fans on it are par the course

Good for Young Bucks for quitting it though

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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Jack Evans is legit one of the people I want to see on my TV every single week.

Oh hey, this is me. From like 2004.

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There are no good fandoms only varying degrees of bad.

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https://twitter.com/bryanalvarez/status/1209594100728487936?s=21

New 2nd lowest Raw of all time. Did even worse than New Years Eve last year. Only beat Christmas Eve last year
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The third hour is the lowest hour ever for Raw
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Andrade wins US title at MSG house show

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Was just about to post this.

Good for Andrade.

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First time champs for each belt(s) in 2019 on Raw/SD...

World - Kofi
IC - Lashley, Balor, Nakamura
US - Samoa Joe, Rey Mysterio, Ricochet, Andrade
Tag - Shane, Erik, Ivar
Women's - Currently none, as Bayley, Becky, and Charlotte won Women's titles prior to 2019. This would end a streak going as far back as 2006.

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Gonna be at tonight's Smackdown in Detroit, front row camera side! I'll be the curly headed guy wearing an Undisputed Era shirt.

Made these plans like 6 months ago and forgot all about it until today. I haven't even watched wrestling for over a month so I'm entirely clueless about current storylines.
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Wyatt dealing with Bryan and Miz (who STILL hate each other; thank god)
Reigns/Corbin (BLARGH)
Bayley/Sasha v. Lacey (who turned face)
Nakamura/Strowman (new IC title feud; kinda started, but not really)
New Day as tag champs still

That's kinda the big ones. Bryan/Miz/Corbin for the #1 Contendership, which Roman will probably get rid of Corbin. Whether Bryan wins out or Bryan/Miz both win/lose/draw/TRIPLE THREATOMG, who knows.

I think it's pretty safe to assume Reigns/Corbin is the final two in the Rumble, barring some crazy shenanigans. I'm not too keen on Reigns main eventing Mania YET AGAIN, but with no one else other than Bryan prepped to face the Fiend, I'll take what I can get. Other than Rollins/Owens on the Raw side, there's not much else to go with for Rumble season. Kinda sad.

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I dont think itll be Reigns/Corbin final 2. It tends to be a final 2 of one plausible guy from each side
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Oh yeah. I forgot they love to pull the, "LATE NUMBER HEATED RIVAL THROWS OUT THE OTHER FAVORITE LOL" Spot. If Punk doesn't magically sign a wrestling contract and go after Rollins, it'll be Reigns/Corbin pulling that.

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https://twitter.com/bryanalvarez/status/1210660110407589888?s=21
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This might be evidence that they arent really splitting the audience much.

But not sure if Christmas Day episode counts
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RIP AEW it was a good ride everyone.

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Still won the key demos, though.

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Lars Sullivan appeared in a gay porn.

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By appeared you mean...?
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Starred in

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That seems to fly in the face of a lot of his message board posts!

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Considering what he said about people with mental health issues, despite suffering from them himself, at least the hypocrisy is consistent
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RIP Botched Spot. It ends with a comic that pretty much says it all.

https://botchedspot.com/

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R Truth breaks Raven's record, is now a 29-time 24/7 champion

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First Raw of the decade
Maryse defeated Brie Bella
MVP defeated Swagger, Henry, and Carlito
DX defeated Jericho/Big Show to retain the Unified Tag Team titles
Sheamus defeated Evan Bourne
Randy Orton defeated Kofi Kingston

Still actively wrestling in WWE: Orton, Kofi, Sheamus

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What did I do to deserve that segment?

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Watch raw

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Just think...

First segment of the decade was Bret and HBK burying the hatchet.

Last segment of the decade might be a prime candidate for worst ever

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But which segment was faker?
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If you're still watching RAW you have no right to complain about bad segments.

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https://twitter.com/wwe/status/1211848923293331462?s=21

If only this was true
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This complaint is buried under a dozen others

But one major problem with the segment is that it is not believable to me that the Lana character could be capable of even pretending to be the sort of partner Liv made her out to be.
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So I watched the clip on Youtube and from how it was described by Bryan Alvarez, it feels like it was heavily edited to get rid of a lot of the struggling of Rusev getting out of the cake and Lana refusing to let her face get pushed into the cake. And crowd reactions, too.

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20th annual ****er Awards underway at Wrestlecrap. So far...

Rusev/Lana/Lashley angle - 26%
Rollins vs Fiend in the Cell - 20%
WWE 2K20 - 20%
Corbin's constant push - 8%
Crown Jewel 2 - 8%
ROH's Collapse - 5%
Maria and Mike angle - 4%
Shorty G - 3%
The 2019 Draft - 3%
The Librarians - 2%

Appropriate top 3

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Oof, So hard to pick from those three. But only one of them directly impacted how WWE treats its fans of new stars. WWE video games being shit is painful to watch, and the cuck angle is stupid for all three involved, but nothing says, "We don't understand our audience" like pissing on the legacy of the biggest match stipulation ever and laughing in our faces.

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So Fiend feuds with Balor. And he turns heel.
Then he feuds with Rollins. And he turns heel.
Then he feuds with Bryan. And he turns... something.
Then he feuds with Miz. And he turns heel.

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I hope there's some random bit of storytelling where Sheamus was the first one who crossed the Fiend and that's why he's got the chain and the Beaker hair again.

And if Kingston ever faces off with Fiend, he's got a Jamaican accent again.

And if Elias ever faces off with the Fiend, he returns to wearing a blue bathrobe and calling everyone ignoramus.

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Punk posted the original WMXXX card.

It was all true.

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The one arguably good thing about the Fiend character is the fact that it's giving everyone he faces a fresh creative take that rejuvenates their characters. Balor's character since vacating the Universal belt was bad and one-deminsional, so him turning and ditching that gimmick is already the most interesting he's been in years. Rollins was not coming off well as the top face of the RAW brand, so the direction he has gone since Survivor Series is also welcomed. And honestly, The Miz's Face run was a disaster the moment Shane pinned him at Mania. It is clear that they have no intention of pushing him as a main eventer and him losing to Funhouse Bray Wyatt killed off any credibility he might have had as a babyface.

I would actually like to see whoever Wyatt faces at EC/Fast Lane try to rationalise why all his opponents have changed and how it had nothing to do with Wyatt himself and it was just a coincidence that they suddenly having these character changes after facing him, to try to undersell the danger of the Fiend. Then he obviously loses at the PPV and the next week he turns/reverts to a old gimmick too.

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I am now trying to think of possible opponents for the Fiend and what might happen to continue this trend.

• The Undertaker - The next time he returns, he's back to being the American Badass.
• Braun Strowman - Goes back to being Wyatt's "muscle" once more.
• Drew McIntyre/Jinder Mahal/Heath Slater - Return of 3MB
• The New Day - They go back to what the gimmick was originally supposed to be before they turned heel way back in 2015.
• Roman Reigns - This would never happen, but could you imagine him finally turning after losing to the Fiend?
• R-Truth - Reverts to his heel conspiracy theorist gimmick from 2011
• Triple - Becomes Reign of Terror HHH again except he does it at NXT where he makes an impromtu match after a title match at NXT Takeover where he wins the NXT title.

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https://twitter.com/pwwhistleblower/status/1213542530677182464?s=21

Dammit this is awful news to hear
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Arbys social media game on point like always

Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/pwwhistleblower/status/1213542530677182464?s=21

Dammit this is awful news to hear

That is definitely not Amazing.

...sorry couldn't help it but yeah that is awful to hear

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