#2177

yeah. HBK v Taker added to it as well. I was still at a point watching that match where seeing them kick out of repeated finishers was blowing my mind. Now I’m just numb to it and you don’t even get invested until after a couple of finishers.

I grew up watching Bret Hart win matches in loads of different ways. You wouldn’t watch it just waiting for the sharpshooter to happen

#2178

Well they’ve booked Raw as if it were leasing up to Strowman vs Reigns which is why last night felt like such a damp squib. Besides I can watch those 2 wrestle forever

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#2179

Think that’s them just them trying to keep people interested going into the
"dark period"

#2180

-_- so urgh

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#2181

worked tho didn’t it :wink:

#2182

:’( yes

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#2183

I like the way NJPW tends to do finisher spam (when they do it) - saving it for the truly big matches, lots of the spam is countered as a tease to build tension, certain finishers are protected in a highly consistent way and are guaranteed to be the ending, and not basing the entire match around it. WWE has finisher spam on throwaway PPVs, there’s little consistency, and when you’ve got two moveset limited ‘five moves of doom’ guys like Cena and Reigns facing each other it was sadly inevitable it’d quickly devolve into what we saw.

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#2184

skipped the above posts until I’ve finished watching it so apologies if this has already been mentioned, but why the fuck have they brought back those horrible shaky rapid zoom in-and-out camera shots? there was a bit where roman was stomping a mudhole in the corner on bmj that genuinely made me feel a bit ill (other than that, good show so far)

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#2185

Because until Vince dies we have Kevin Dunn being shit at directing

#2186

please don’t make me wish death on vince

#2187

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#2188

Depends really, with the epic stories Omega and Okada have been telling this year the main story has been that Omega couldn’t hit a 1 Winged Angel on Okada the entire time. Course sometimes they go into overdrive but overall the storytelling is so far away from today’s wwe. Thinking of it really, even in the ring, wwe’s stuff is sometimes so intellectually bankrupt it’s an intentional insult.

#2189

so sinister looking :smiley:

reminded me that I missed the perfect opportunity to use this bad boy

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#2190
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#2191

PAUL! I CAN’T FEEL MY LEGS!

god I love that insane old man

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#2193

Was there ever any proper dirtsheet intel for what the actual plan was with that angle if Benoit hadn’t happened?

#2194

Hornswaggle

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#2195

I think originally it was intended to end with Mr Kennedy being Vince’s illegitimate love child and no 1 heel in the company.

Eastender’s writers were probably kicking themselves when they heard about it.

#2196

That was a different angle though wasnt it?