*Official* Pro-Wrestling Thread II

[duffer]

Bo and the New Day made me mark the **** out. Need to push them now

 

[Manee]

bo and the new day made me mark the **** out. Need to push them now

bo dayy

 

[Athlai]

Man the Wyatt family are all surprisingly good. Also weird that Bray is only 28 and related to Bo. Kevin Owens is a pretty impressive specimen. Sorta strange to see Shield broken up. But it's awesome to see they're all getting pushed.

 

[sledger]

Eric Rowan has wrecked his bicep or something and will be out for several months, which rather makes me worried for Luke Harper. One suspects he needs a gimmick change or to be put back with Bray if he's to survive. Hope he sticks around though, reckon he's pretty decent.

 

[King Pietersen]

Quite a few injuries ATM! Kidd just had neck surgery, Itami is out, Bryan obviously out, one of the Uso's out and now Rowan. Hurting the Tag division most, healthy Kidd/Cesaro, Harper/Rowan and Uso's would make the division a lot stronger.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Wyatt family shouldn't have broken up. Atleast not that soon.

 

[sledger]

Yeah, it was a poorly thought out decision.

Not sure why they bothered at all tbh. I guess they wanted Bray to go out on his own, which is fine, but it was surely obvious that Harper and Rowans would immediately be put in massive danger of being lost in the shuffle. With their current packaging they are just like a watered-down Wyatt with considerably less personality. Rowan in particular is extremely plain. A more obviously midcard guy you'd be hard pressed to find.

 

[Dan]

Harper's a gun, and was even more gun back in CHIKARA. Not sure how to repackage hm though, tbf.

 

[sledger]

Keep saying it, but he should have been added to the Authority as their enforcer guy. Would have served the dual purpose of getting him exposure/over, and making sure we didn't have to see Big Show all the bleeding time. Get him off TV already!

I guess they kind of teased going that way by making him a member of their team at Survivor Series, and putting the IC title on him. But everything has just fizzled out massively. Which is of course what happens when you try to push a character who at the time....had more or less no character whatsoever.

 

[sledger]

And yeah, the guy really is extremely mobile. Just watched a few vids of him in the indies, and you really realise how much the WWE limits the movesets of its workers.

Just saw him do the Falcon Arrow. You never see anyone do that anymore, is it on the banned moves list?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah he really can move. He's like if Samoa Joe had a beard and wore jeans.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Btw, I know most of you guys (atleast GIMH and andmark) don't like Bray too much, but you have to admit his segments where he freaked out Roman Reigns with photos of him with his daughter were creepy as ****. First time in a while Ive enjoyed his promos.

 

[sledger]

Btw, I know most of you guys (atleast GIMH and andmark) don't like Bray too much, but you have to admit his segments where he freaked out Roman Reigns with photos of him with his daughter were creepy as ****. First time in a while Ive enjoyed his promos.

Yeah, they were good, but I remained concerned that he's perhaps not really got anything else left up his sleeve. Until he started picking on Reigns' daughter his promos had become really really samey. He'd just come on with the lantern and say the same cryptic stuff in a darkened room every single time. Not sure how they can keep him fresh after the Reigns' daughter stuff is done. What doesn't help things is the fact that he just seems to lose all the time as well.

I quite like the guy, or at least I like what he and his character are supposed to be. I just think the execution has been pants for a while now. As Solomonster has said, he's not so much "the new face of fear", as he is "the new face of failure".

 

[GIMH]

Have missed the past few weeks of TV. Need to catch up

 

[Agent TBY]

I like Bray, but his booking has just made it impossible to take him seriously anymore.

There's absolutely no rhyme or reason to anything he does, and nothing ever matters in the long run. It's just attack random face -> feud for a while -> win or lose it doesn't matter -> rinse/repeat.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah him attacking and feuding random faces would sort of work if he actually won most of his matches. He just keeps losing or when he wins it's because of some stupid **** like an exploding TV. Would've been cool if he actually won some matches and finished the feud by brainwashing his opponent. Sort of like a cult which keeps growing after each victory of his. Would've played into the worthless Authority storyline well too as they'd be supper creeped out by some lunatic building his own army. They've just dropped the ball on him in a big way.

 

[OverratedSanity]

And yeah, I know he did the brainwash thing with DB and it was stupid.

 

[Manee]

Luke Harper has NXT main eventer written all over him. Excellent wrestler, unique gimmick, impressive athlete - just like Sami, Tyler, Owens, Joe, Kidd, Neville.

 

[GIMH]

Yeah him attacking and feuding random faces would sort of work if he actually won most of his matches. He just keeps losing or when he wins it's because of some stupid **** like an exploding TV. Would've been cool if he actually won some matches and finished the feud by brainwashing his opponent. Sort of like a cult which keeps growing after each victory of his. Would've played into the worthless Authority storyline well too as they'd be supper creeped out by some lunatic building his own army. They've just dropped the ball on him in a big way.

Ministry of darkness

 

[King Pietersen]

Don't get muscle-busted kids:

Watching the Triple H Thy Kingdom Come doc. Loving it. Easily my all-time favourite wrestler. Never marked out harder than his return after his quad injury in 2002!