#1816

I said separately that I don’t watch much modern wrestling, but yes, from what little I have seen Reigns appears to have little in the way of personality (although I like that eyebrow thing from the HoF), seems limited in the ring and he looks like an idiot with that greasy heavy metaler thing he’s got going on.

FWIW, I just looked, Hogan did 3 then 4 in a row, Cena, The Rock, HHH and Undertaker all manged 3 in a row. Not a list that I suspect Reigns deserves to be joining, but Vince knows what Vince likes, innit.

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#1817

Reigns isn’t that bad a wrestler and he has a strong look/heritage it’s just he’s had terrible booking and the charisma of a toothbrush. His current fued with Strowman (and now joe and lesnar) has been good though

#1818

I don’t think that it’s that he hasn’t got charisma, it’s just that they had his character all wrong. you could tell he was never comfortable doing the cena style “zingers” they had him doing for a while, similarly when they were trying to make him out to be some kind of underdog. the opening to raw this week was great - just have him come out and be all “I’m roman reigns, I’m the main man round here, give me what I want”. that’s what he should have been doing from the start really. not exactly a babyface role, but that’s a separate issue

@anon76851889 apart from the period from when the shield broke up to the rumble he (should never have) won, he’s had WAY more good matches than bad. he’s genuinely really good at the wwe main event style now

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#1819

Fair play. As I say, take my opinions on modern wrestling with a pinch of salt :slight_smile:

#1820

it should be noted that @Jamos is a known “Big Dog” mark :wink:

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#1821

I am a mark for (almost) all the fabulous grapplers of titan sports, inc

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#1822
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#1823

They are gonna go with cena v reigns next wrestlemania according to the dirtsheets

#1824

O rly? Lol

#1825

Cena will get the most cheers from the male 18-34 demographic in years should that happen.

Heard that apparently Road Dogg has been booking Smackdown since the superstar shakeup (the Smackdown and former NXT head writer went to Raw innit). Totally didn’t realise, just thought that guy lost the plot. Makes total sense though as Raw has been way better past couple of months and Smackdown has gone down the shitter.

#1826

yeah both the outlaws are backstage guys

#1827

is billy gunn back? he got fired from nxt last year because they found out that he failed a drug test in a body building contest he didn’t tell them he was entering :smiley: he had a match in njpw for some reason a couple of weeks ago too, which was a weird thing to see in 2017

#1828

oh I didn’t know
duh nuh nurr nur

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#1829

He does new japan stuff every so often, and he was an American name so they thought it made sense to put him on one of the inaugural USA shows. Sort of see the logic but jeez nobody wants to see him wrestle anymore.

Also when he is there he’s part of probably the lamest tag team of all time the “bullet club hunters” (ie people who don’t like the bullet club) with erm, yoshi tatsu. Yeah.

#1830

Nakamura v Cena on Smackdown next week though is it? Colour me intrigued…

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#1831

in a title match no less!

yeah the hunters suck (are they even a thing still? not seen yoshi tatsu for ages, happily). if you’re so lame that even captain new japan wants nothing to do with you then you know you’re not onto a winner

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#1832

Omg I keep forgetting about him :joy:
Have you seen any of Zack Sabre Jrs matches in the G1 yet btw? Dude’s putting on some masterful displays atm, including making Tanahashi tap, I know the guy’s like 40 odd but it’s like making Cena tap or something. Hope he’s in for a big push, maybe a run with the intercontinental title. Also Zack in the press conference saying he was most looking forward most to the inevitable decline of neoliberalism. Amazing.

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#1833

#1 contender match*

I mean great but why the fuck isn’t this on a PPV?

#1834

Probably so nobody can complain when it’s absolutely ruined by shenanigans from Jinder/Baron/Rusev/anyone else they can find.

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#1835

There’s no way this match doesn’t end with Corbyn hitting Nakamura with For the many not the few and Cena getting the win.

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