Brock as a special case - that's where we differ. For me it just breaks my suspension of disbelief to make exceptions for this one man, whose big fight aura is completely blown out of proportion in my estimation. And a man whose presence never fails to undermine the active roster, too. He's just one aspect of many, but the way he's booked is not unconnected with the worrying decline in house show attendance, I'd argue. But hey, that's really a blend of my objective and emotional reading of it all. If you or anyone else gets a kick out of him, then fair enough.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
To be fair I've not actually seen him recently - missed the Goldberg, Samoa Joe, strowman stuff - and I gather he's been consistently phoning it in harder than ever this year while still being the super protected end-game boss baddie the whole time, which certainly isn't great from an entertainment perspective.
WWE house show attendance / business health generally is pretty high on the list of things I don't gaf about, makes no odds to me if they wilfully tank their own company
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
Anyone watch the njpw big shows? Is there anything actually interesting enough going on in wrestling for a rolling 2018 thread title? "Rolling Samoa joe is the only really interesting wrestler in 2018"? "Rolling young bucks sell all the merch to people who have never watched them wrestle 2018"?
― plums (a hoy hoy), Friday, 5 January 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
i'm excited about the mixed tag challenge, but i'm more excited about rusev day
http://www.wwe.com/shows/wwe-mixed-match-challenge/article/rusev-to-team-with-lana-at-wwe-mmc
― maura, Friday, 5 January 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
Rolling 2018: Where Every Day is Rusev Day
― maura, Friday, 5 January 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link