Wrestling - Part 3

[Whey]

Mind, I do think WWE lacks gimmicks now, I think you need something a little daft or different to help sell a character. They've gone too "real" with people, I mean who even has a proper gimmick?

I'm going to sound like a right sad kernt, but I'm already posting on a wrestling thread so who cares.

A gimmick doesn't have to be an outlandish thing. If you look at WWE now, there's a few outlandish gimmicks, but they're terrible - Wyatt 6 for for example, they're just awful.

Jey Uso is a gimmick. Cody is a gimmick. They basically all are. What they're failing to do is put over stakes in anything and invest in telling the audience why they should give a monkies.

They were doing really well last year with everything, because the Rock fucked up and changed things. Since then it's been utter dross.

Jacob Fatu this time last year was massively over just by putting his thumb in the air. Now he's a bloke in a wolf mask. They've done a terrible job in only 12 months

 

[The Breen Machine]

I'm going to sound like a right sad kernt, but I'm already posting on a wrestling thread so who cares.

A gimmick doesn't have to be an outlandish thing. If you look at WWE now, there's a few outlandish gimmicks, but they're terrible - Wyatt 6 for for example, they're just awful.

Jey Uso is a gimmick. Cody is a gimmick. They basically all are. What they're failing to do is put over stakes in anything and invest in telling the audience why they should give a monkies.

They were doing really well last year with everything, because the Rock fucked up and changed things. Since then it's been utter dross.

Jacob Fatu this time last year was massively over just by putting his thumb in the air. Now he's a bloke in a wolf mask. They've done a terrible job in only 12 months

I agree, I think what was done well years ago was that even some of the outlandish gimmicks had a back story which the fans could buy into. I mean look at how ridiculous the backstories of Undertaker and Kane were but it was hugely over.

Jesus, they even got Steve Blackman over, a man who barely raised a smile or uttered a word because they focused on his martial arts skills and stuck him in the hardcore division.

Al Snow got over as fuck running round with a mannequin head.

Mankind, Big Boss Man, Razor Ramon, APA, endless list of gimmicks that sound daft but the crowd loved.

There's enough guys who have the personality to pull off a gimmick and some are popular enough anyway - LA Knight, Jey Uso, but there is an absolute vacuum in anyone to give a fuck about at mid-card level. Rusev, Black, Andrade, Nakamura, Priest couldn't get a reaction if they slapped the audience on the way down.

Then you have Bron Breaker who should be this monster heel Goldberg type, losing tag matches. Heyman should be doing his talking as well, he shouldn't be talking just like Lesnar never used to.

 

[Mr Redknapp]

Mantaur . The f***ing pits. @Mr Redknapp likes his gimmicks mind.

Have you never seen Vince's idea of Kross?

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@The Breen Machine state of that

Certainly do. Rather have that than a roster where everyone's the same .

 

[Bamber]

Mankind, Big Boss Man, Razor Ramon, APA, endless list of gimmicks that sound daft but the crowd loved.

At a time when wrestling was more popular than ever because it went realistic, you had Kane who could summon fire and zap people with lightning. Turned up and chokeslammed his undead brother onto his mothers grave

Story was so good though it lasted 20 years!

 

[Whey]

Certainly do. Rather have that than a roster where everyone's the same .

I agree up to a point but I don't want a load of plumbers and repo men running around

 

[Mr Redknapp]

I agree up to a point but I don't want a load of plumbers and repo men running around

Loved how Darsow played him as The Riddler from Batman though , Simon Miller loves him too! haha

 

[Whey]

Loved how Darsow played him as The Riddler from Batman though , Simon Miller loves him too! haha

Can you remember when he was an evil golfer in WCW? FFS

 

[Mr Redknapp]

Can you remember when he was an evil golfer in WCW? FFS

It was a pun on American Golfer Payne Stewart (Stuart Pain) and he tragically died, so he became "Mr Hole In One" Barry Darsow and he played black top bully far cry from demolition.

 

[Mr Redknapp]

Watching a Gillberg video, he's the sort of thing that is missing in todays WWE.. corporate cookie-cutter stuff

 

[googleboogle]

Watching a Gillberg video, he's the sort of thing that is missing in todays WWE.. corporate cookie-cutter stuff

Adam Cole has similar build

 

[__howdy__]

So after Lesnar's huge return at Summerslam, attacking Cena and reigniting a fued that began over a decade ago, the WWE have delivered the obvious match at their next PLE.

Cena vs Logan Paul

Storytelling all over the place.

As if Brock's getting on a flight for less than Saudi money

 

[Whey]

@The Breen Machine if you fancy seeing some f***ing terrible wrestling, go watch that Triple Mania/WWE event. Utterly dogshit

 

[The Breen Machine]

@The Breen Machine if you fancy seeing some f***ing terrible wrestling, go watch that Triple Mania/WWE event. Utterly dogshit

I can only imagine how naff that was . Mr Iguana, Pyscho Clown, a load of WWE lower carders that no one cares about. Dirty Dom is class though.

Good to see HHH make a rare appearance to kick off the show too.

 

[Hetty]

Jericho WWE return?

 

[Two million voices]

Jericho WWE return?

Ideally he should retire, absolutely finished.

 

[googleboogle]

Ideally he should retire, absolutely finished.

Milk a year contract in WWE as a good bye tour.

 

[Whey]

Ideally he should retire, absolutely finished.

He looks absolutely shocking in the ring. His ideas in AEW have been worse than shite. He did a good job there initially but fuck me it went to his head and he went ape shit after.

He'll fit right back in with all the other MAGA knackers in TKO. HOF induction and hopefully send him off somewhere where he has no influence on creative.

*Edit. The Painmaker gimmick he came up with in Japan needs to be studied as to how cringey that was. A bloke in his 40s trying to be a goth... Or something. Good lord

 

[The Breen Machine]

This Rollins faction is utter toilet like. Raw is the same every week, the writers should be sacked.

The highlight of this weeks Raw was someone announcing a pregnancy.

 

[Whey]

This Rollins faction is utter toilet like. Raw is the same every week, the writers should be sacked.

The highlight of this weeks Raw was someone announcing a pregnancy.

Haven't watched or tried to in weeks. Terrible. Reet in the bog.

 

[The Breen Machine]

Haven't watched or tried to in weeks. Terrible. Reet in the bog.

I fast forward a lot now. I could probably get away with watching the highlights package on YouTube tbh. 2hrs 30 of predictable bland action and stories. The Naomi announcement was decent but hardly a surprise given that other publicity whore Stephanie McMahon has been all over her during the last week.