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Eddv
01/02/20 10:06:57 PM
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Hello one and all and welcome to our annual wrestling award show!

We had 10 unique voters this year and the weaknesses of the format have really shone through as a result leading this to be the FINAL year for the current format - next year we will do nominations and form a ballot from those nominations

Without further ado here are the Categories:

Wrestler of the Year
Match of the Year
Event of the Year
Promotion of the Year
Weekly TV Show of the Year
Tag Team of the Year
Woman of the Year
Best Angle
Best Feud
Best Non-Wrestler
Best Personality
Best New Character
Most Improved
Best Theme Song
Worst Match
Most Embarassing Wrestling Related Fiasco
Worst Angle
Worst Wrestler

We have some surprising winners in some categories but where it mattered the results were overwhelming and deserved.

For each category I will call out items that received multiple votes and would have made the ballot next year and then present the 3rd, 2nd, and winner for that category.

I spent most of tonight tallying votes but I will give a sneak peak with the WORST WRESTLER OF THE YEAR coming up momentarily!

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Eddv
01/02/20 10:16:32 PM
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WORST WRESTLER OF THE YEAR

This was a good one to lead off on because while there were a lot of good wrestlers last year....there were some staggeringly bad ones as well from the completely washed up Goldberg to some of the more usual suspects.

But who did the APWT think was worst?

HM1: Leva Bates
The dreaded female librarian was not well loved!

HM2: Lacey Evans
She somehow received votes for best and worst! The latest blonde bombshells feud with Becky Lynch was poorly received at best so this is not surprising

HM3: Bad Luck Fale
The bullet club's erstwhile underboss was never great but he was particularly lazy and bad this year. When you cant even have a good match with 2019 Will Ospreay you know you're bad.

3rd Place: Britt Baker
She also got votes for Best Woman so she is perhaps a bit controversial but she received a push that far outstripped her talent and AEW exposed her flaws by forcing her to be a pillar of their womens division early on.

2nd Place: Baron Corbin
Corbin is another case of being pushed so hard and being placed into extended matches that exposed his weaknesses, the limited and overexposed Corbin was given many many opportunities to fail and he took every single one of them!

1st Place: The Fiend/Bray Wyatt
The Fiend may be well beloved by WWE's fanbase but his matches certainly underwhelmed this year! His two matches with Rollins were disasters, his match with Daniel Bryan was barely passable and his recent feud with The Miz of all people has exposed that the Fiend may be an interesting new coat of paint for Wyatt but his wrestling has only gotten worse.

CONGRATS BRAY!

He joins Nia Jax and Jinder Mahal as being simply THE WORST.

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NBIceman
01/02/20 10:39:30 PM
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I can only assume people just forgot Brandi Rhodes existed like I have in the past if she didn't even get an honorable mention there.

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Eddv
01/02/20 10:53:07 PM
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That is indeed probably what happened

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Lopen
01/02/20 11:00:05 PM
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Well I can't argue with these results so far. May have pushed Baker over Corbin or Lacey into placement but Fiend is the right winner tbqh.

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PrivateBiscuit1
01/02/20 11:36:51 PM
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I can't believe Baron Corbin didn't get first place.

Wtf is wrong with y'all.

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StealThisSheen
01/03/20 12:11:22 AM
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Corbin actually had a decent match here or there to Fiend's like, none.

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01/03/20 12:17:59 AM
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TheRock1525
01/03/20 12:32:07 AM
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Fiend's first match with Balor was great.

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Steiner
01/03/20 2:54:46 AM
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...
I can't believe Baron Corbin didn't get first place.

Wtf is wrong with y'all.


did you see the fiend
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scarletspeed7
01/03/20 3:16:43 AM
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Sweet all three of my votes placed or mentioned.

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Steiner
01/03/20 3:46:01 AM
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Eddv posted...
3rd Place: Britt Baker
She also got votes for Best Woman

name and shame

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NBIceman
01/03/20 3:51:13 AM
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Didn't someone say they only watched AEW this year in the ballot topic? I imagine it was that person.

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ffmasterjose
01/03/20 8:29:25 AM
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Did you guys know Britt Bakers a dentist?
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Steiner
01/03/20 8:36:10 AM
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ffmasterjose posted...
Did you guys know Britt Bakers a dentist?

source?

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Eddv
01/03/20 8:57:37 AM
#16:


Now now these are anonymous ballots!

Speaking of lets see who took home the prize for.....


LEAST IMPROVED WRESTLER OF THE YEAR

They maybe weren't the absolute worst - they're probably perfectly competent as a wrestler but they either flubbed a push or were just sort of meh. Mid 2010s Roman Reigns is basically the poster child for this award.

HM1: Baron Corbin
These votes are likely the reason he didn't win worst wrestler - some people think he's perfectly fine and just overpushed rather than overtly terrible.

3rd: Shane McMahon
This is perhaps a predictable placement for the supposed "Best in the World" . Shane was initially welcomed back by a large percentage of fans but this year the shine truly came off the Apple and people turned on Shaneo. Only his absence from the back half of the year likely saved him from more votes.

2nd: Bad Luck Fale
Again much like Corbin people seem to be torn on whether he is terrible or merely overpushed

1st: Seth Rollins
Rollins absolutely clobbered the field in this category quadrupling Bad Luck Fale. And with good reason, Seth was pushed at a main event level all year and all of it sucked. Many fans had been begging and pleading for the more obviously talented Shield member to come to the fore front for ages and when it finally came, Seth stunk up the joint.

A well deserved win for Mr Burn it Down!

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PrivateBiscuit1
01/03/20 10:04:45 AM
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Steiner posted...
did you see the fiend
I saw a bit of his matches, yeah. But hasn't the issue been more about how he's been booked into dumb bullshit matches than his actual talent?

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Eddv
01/03/20 10:14:17 AM
#18:


I'll knock out one more which wasnt particularly close

Most Embarassing Wrestling Fiasco

Carnie Bullshit. That is the calling card of those who run wrestling shows. Outlaw mudshows as Cornette might call them. Point is wrestlers and wrestling promoters do some stupid and embarassing crap.

Past winners have been
2017 TNAs bullshit
2018 Saudi show going ahead despite Kashoggi murders

HM1: The Fiend existed
Look the Fiend pissed people off okay.

HM2 : Seth Rollins repeated Twitter meltdowns
Seth had himself a pretty shitty year in ring and out. The pressure of being The Man and dating The Man combined to make him an insufferable prick.

HM3 : ROH Implodes/the Kelly Klein saga
Much like TNA before them this year was RoHs turn to fuck up all year. From having their biggest show ever on mania weekend to performing in front like 200 people for Final Battle and in between their disgusting talent relations practices including the way they treated their women's champions health came to light.

3rd The ACH Twitter Saga
Beginning with WWE releasing a truly racist shirt for then-NXT star Jordan Myles, ACH took to Twitter to rally for the Culture. Then he began to spin out of control slapping Jay Lethal and rebuffing attempts to resolve things. He was ultimately released and has continued to lash out and spin out of control.

2nd Jim Cornette is Still a Racist
He dropped a random incredibly racist joke in the middle of Murdoch/Aldis on Powerrr and then proceeded to double and triple down on it.

1st Saudi Arabian Plane Fiasco/Saudi Blood Money 2
Yup still fuck WWE for going to Saudi but this time there was a fresh twist with the whole plane fiasco where they left their talent stranded in Saudi while Vince and Co. Left on a private plane supposedly over disputes regarding payment.

Can WWE complete the clean sweep of the negative awards?

Find out later today when we do Worst Angle.

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Steiner
01/03/20 10:18:19 AM
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...
I saw a bit of his matches, yeah. But hasn't the issue been more about how he's been booked into dumb bullshit matches than his actual talent?

i can't speak for anybody else but i'll say to me, the issue is that bray wyatt has been one of the worst wrestlers in the company for most of a decade and now they put him in a dopey mask, flood the arena with red lights and have him wrestle these overbooked nonsense matches full of supernatural bullshit. he fucking sucks and his matches fucking suck.

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scarletspeed7
01/03/20 10:18:58 AM
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Seth winning least improved warms my heart.

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Lopen
01/03/20 10:29:07 AM
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I've always thought Bray Wyatt was pretty bad strictly speaking in ring. Certainly no better than the oft lambasted Corbin, and the Fiend gimmick doesn't help matters. People often cite his match with Bryan at the Rumble a few years ago as a shining example of Bray being good but all that says to me is he's not so bad he can't be carried.

His promos you could argue are good if you're into that. I wouldn't, but it's more arguable.

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Steiner
01/03/20 10:38:02 AM
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remember wyatt vs orton?

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Steiner
01/03/20 10:38:21 AM
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Lopen posted...
People often cite his match with Bryan at the Rumble a few years ago as a shining example of Bray being good but all that says to me is he's not so bad he can't be carried.

i just take this match as evidence of how good bryan is

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Eddv
01/03/20 11:10:57 AM
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Probably wise - though even Bryans powers were unable to help the Fiend to a watchable bout

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Steiner
01/03/20 11:20:42 AM
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and that as evidence that the fiend is an even worse wrestler than bray wyatt

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HashtagSEP
01/03/20 11:35:11 AM
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I'll watch a Bray promo every time

His matches not so much

Though I'm also probably in the "Corbin is fine but overpushed" camp moreso than not

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TheRock1525
01/03/20 12:18:12 PM
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Don't agree with Wyatt being bad in the ring when he has a solid stable of good matches I can think of, including some good one on one affairs.

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TheRock1525
01/03/20 12:20:21 PM
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Also Corbin should be pushed more, how the fuck hasn't he won a world championship yet?

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Lopen
01/03/20 12:43:41 PM
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I can think of two good Bray Wyatt matches that weren't huge multimans that he happened to be in

That one against Bryan at the rumble (this one is overrated too)
A random Smackdown LMS match against Jimmy Uso

Maybe some others I'm forgetting, but very few.

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Steiner
01/03/20 1:13:33 PM
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TheRock1525 posted...
Also Corbin should be pushed more, how the fuck hasn't he won a world championship yet?

probably because when they put him in a main event they sold like half the seats at a ppv

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Eddv
01/03/20 1:18:23 PM
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TheRock1525 posted...
Don't agree with Wyatt being bad in the ring when he has a solid stable of good matches I can think of, including some good one on one affairs.

This year though?

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HashtagSEP
01/03/20 1:32:41 PM
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This year Corbin had a pretty decent match with Shorty G or two, whereas I haven't really liked any Fiend matches.

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Eddv
01/03/20 2:13:36 PM
#33:


WORST ANGLE

Which angles were so bad they had us reaching for the remote to watch re runs of chopped instead of subjecting ourselves to more wrestling badness.

The votes were incredibly staggered here as such only 4 received more than 1 vote.

HM1: Braun Strowman doesn't like Jost or Che
This year's celebrity angle heading into mania - it made Braun look like a moron and was generally insufferable

3rd Place: Britt Baker is a Dentist
Did you know?

2nd Place: Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins as a Power Couple
How do you kill your hottest acts momentum coming out of mania? Hitch her star to your insufferable babyface champion and have them have a nonsense feud with Corbin and Evans.

1st Place: Lana/Rusev/Lashley Cuckolding, Cheating and Wedding
This was really the only thing that could have won this category. Its been going on forever and has been dreadful from the word go. Yet WWE believes in it and it continues to be a featured angle week in and week out.


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Maniac64
01/03/20 2:16:08 PM
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Man you guys really hate the Britt Baker stuff.

I havent really found her or her gimmick to be that bad or annoying.

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Eddv
01/03/20 2:25:21 PM
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Lets finish off the worst of awards real quick shall we?

Worst Match
Nothing this year was quite Sharmell/Jenna Morasca but there was still plenty of terrible to go around!

HM1: The Fiend vs Daniel Bryan at Survivor Series
Already discussed is this topic but yeah even Bryan couldn't make this passable
HM2: Braun Strowman vs Tyson Fury at Crown Jewel
Another Braun Strowman vs a celebrity match and this one pretty much equally maligned but overshadowed by more awfulness on that same card
3rd Place: Rollins vs The Fiend at Crown Jewel
2nd verse really wasnt much better than the first! Red lighting terrible wrestling but at least it had a finish.
2nd Place: Undertaker vs Goldberg at Super Showdown
An utterly knackered Goldberg and a way way past his prime Undertaker combined with the heat produced a basically unwatchable match in which Goldberg couldn't perform at all.
1st Place Seth Rollins vs The Fiend at Hell in a Cell
A truly impressive display by our Worst Wrestler and our Least Improved Wrestler to get both 3rd and 1st. Red Lighting. Ref Stoppage in HIAC. Fucking Cartoon hammers. This match had all of the bullocks and nothing good to show.

Congrats again Bray and Seth!

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NBIceman
01/03/20 2:29:03 PM
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Maniac64 posted...
Man you guys really hate the Britt Baker stuff.

I havent really found her or her gimmick to be that bad or annoying.
It's all relative. She's not the worst wrestler in the world by any stretch, but she's been incredibly overpushed. Her gimmick isn't horrendous on its face, but when they have to shove it down your throat at every appearance (maybe it's been toned down lately, I wouldn't know), it just comes off as annoying compensation for her lack of actual personality, especially with the WWE-esque method of "ooh, look, she's a dentist and her finisher is mouth-based! Get it?!"

I didn't have her on my ballot for anything but I can't say she's completely undeserving of what she got.

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scarletspeed7
01/03/20 2:31:52 PM
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I know I shouldn't complain because one and two of Worst Match were on my list, but dammit, Strowman/Fury was abysmal.

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Eddv
01/03/20 2:37:18 PM
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And thus completes WWEs clean sweep of the Worst Of awards.

Will they win any of the Best of awards?

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TheRock1525
01/03/20 2:38:23 PM
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People thought Bryan vs Fiend was bad? Outside of the lighting what was wrong?

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Lopen
01/03/20 2:56:39 PM
#40:


The stupid creepers deserved votes before Britt Baker on the angle thing come on guys

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TheSultanOfSlam
01/03/20 3:23:57 PM
#41:


Eddv posted...
3rd Place: Britt Baker is a Dentist
Did you know?


She actually is a dentist.. idk how that is an "angle"

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Eddv
01/03/20 3:27:19 PM
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Because commentary kept getting it over

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TheSultanOfSlam
01/03/20 3:29:29 PM
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Eddv posted...
Because commentary kept getting it over
Ahh thats fair yeah that is a bit annoying

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ffmasterjose
01/03/20 3:41:52 PM
#44:


I personally thought Brock vs Cain at Crown Jewel was the most heinous thing on the card that night by far. A fucking super fake UFC match during a pro wrestling match dawg. It sounds dumb on paper and looked even worse for the few minutes it went on
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scarletspeed7
01/03/20 3:45:48 PM
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A few minutes of bad is better than several minutes of bad.

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Eddv
01/03/20 3:50:55 PM
#46:


BEST THEME SONG

We start off our discussion of all that was good in 2019 Wrestling with best theme song. They're overall not the most important to the overall presentation but we still love em anyway.

Let's dig in!

Past Winners:
2018: "One and Only" - Ricochets Theme
2017: "Phenomenal" - AJ Styles
2016: Glorious Domination - Bobby Roode theme
2015: Celtic Invasion - Becky Lynch Theme
2014: Sierra Hotel Indigo Echo Lima Delta - SHIELD Theme Song
2013: Patriot - Jack Swagger Theme Song
2012:: Off the Chain (orchestral) Bobby Roode theme song
2011: "Hands of the Wicked" Winter theme song

HM "Judas" Chris Jericho/Inner Circles theme
https://youtu.be/8b45bhMp5ME
Always good to hear Fozzys best song. Some don't think it really 'works' as a stand alone theme but other obviously disagree

3rd "Wild Dance" Oedo Tai Theme
https://youtu.be/ikLajnzq_LA
I don't really watch Stardom so I don't know what the deal is with this theme but the twitter game of Oedo Tais English speaking members is strong so I assume this is well deserved.

2nd "Kingdom" Cody Rhodes theme
https://youtu.be/RWDz0uLAkH4
I admit I am somewhat partial to Cody in general but this theme just fits his character so well its got great fast pace to it and his entrance is fucking amazing

1st "Elevated" - Will Ospreays theme
https://youtu.be/68xRsrBCQoM
This song played before and after some of the years most amazing matches and after the snafu where he almost lost his song I think most are grateful Will has remained 'Elevated'

This marks the first time WWE has lost this category since 2012! So Congrats Will and New Japan!

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Lopen
01/03/20 4:18:07 PM
#47:


Would have actually voted Cesaro's new theme over any of those

Not that anyone knows it due to it never being played.

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IhatethisCPU
01/03/20 4:19:22 PM
#48:


....Cesaro has a new theme? I assumed he still had Swiss Made.

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Tom Bombadil
01/03/20 4:22:22 PM
#49:


I am vaguely aware that at some point(s) Cesaro has had a theme that wasn't just a siren going on forever

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Lopen
01/03/20 4:25:37 PM
#50:


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MMwMi3MV-Ks

That's kinda the best video of it. If you go to youtube looking you get a bunch of videos that are just a remake of it.

I'm not saying it was "robbed" just thought it was funny I would've actually voted for a WWE song this year.

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