@RedwoodOriginal
Bruh what are you talking about? The guy is a multiple-time X-Division ChampionThe Middle Eastern Nightmare deserves to finish his story and win the title that Hassan couldn’t win
The Middle Eastern Nightmare - Am still laughing
It was a dumb thing to do. The whole thing was badly thought out and poorly executed. The crowd had enough of Hulk Hogan. Just because you changed the colors and had someone else put on the costume, didn't mean the crowd was going to gravitate towards that. But once they put him in that position they should have gone all-in, rather than what they ended up doing, which completely buried Lex.
Bruh what are you talking about? The guy is a multiple-time X-Division Champion
What cracks me up more is the noise of the planes in the background of his entrance theme. $hit$tain gives a new meaning to the term 'on the nose.'
it plane noise makes it even more epic now lmao
I think the gimmick would have done a lot better if it didn't include demonising Islam in there. They could have done without that mat praying and terrorists aligning with him. Otherwise it could have been a massive heel magnet in a good way. Americans of Arab origin can be a massive gimmick even today.Sheikh Abdul Bashir The Middle Eastern Nightmare
You’re absolutely right, I keep thinking my memory might have failed me but no, he was 100% going to beat Batista for the title on that show. I mean we were a bit too PC for the time period, I feel like Vince should have stuck to his guns and pulled the trigger, even if it was a short reign, the nuclear heat would have meant that whoever would have beaten him, would get a mega pop.
He was released 1 or 2 weeks before he was scheduled to win a title in NXT i remember.
It's still funny how Vince managed to pair up a supposed Arab American with an Iranian American and sold together as a team even though arab and iranian hate each other in reality.Need to send my apologies to Daivari, tbh he did a decent job with what he was given and him once being Angle’s manager once somehow worked as well.
I didn’t even pick up on that because of how much I was laughing
AEW marks are a different lot. They think they have to support AEW no matter what simply because its the little guy in this fight against the behemoth WWE. To play devil's advocate for a second though, I will say that Revolution was one of the better shows they have done in a long while. Besides the terrible main-event there were plenty of excellent matches on the card: MJF v Hangman Page, Ospreay v Fletcher, Omega v Takeshita. Toni Storm v Mariah May may have been one of the best women's gimmick matches I've seen - though there isn't exactly alot to choose from.
I don't get how it is even a fight vs WWE. WWE is a global empire while AEW is only held in select few arenas in US. Isn't Dynamite and Collision held in one fixed arena every week in Florida? They don't have a developmental system, house shows etc. Even their PPV aren't as much as what WWE does which is roughly 1 ppv every month. I have watched a few angles and promos from Mox in last few months and I still don't get his word salad or what he's trying to do. I feel his work was a lot better when Bryan was around. Edge is still pretty sharp in the ring still.
They definitely shouldn't be deluding themselves into thinking they are even in the same stratosphere as WWE. Especially in the last couple of years, when WWE has reached new heights; creatively and financially. That said, there is definitely room for them to be an alternative brand. Problem is, bad booking has damaged that prospect too.
Tbh, Gewirtz is stooge. He might be the one carrying The Rock's p!ss bottles.
So John Cena will be on RAW next week. Finally the moment every wrestling fan has been waiting for. Cody Rhodes will be on the show too. Could be spicy.
It's funny since Punk wanted to lose that match.Do you guys remember when H thought CM Punk was going to agree a match with 4/10 at WM 30, so he decided to book a handicap match where Punk went over clean against the friggin Shield.
It's funny since Punk wanted to lose that match.
Vince told him that's he's suppose to win the match but he needs to sell roman and make him look extremely OP.
And punk was like, Why don't I just let roman win and pin me? And vince was like no,
Win the match, embarras the shield but make roman look good
Who called his washed? Everyone jumped for joy when he returned at survivor seriesHow did ya”ll find the cage match ?
All the folk who called Punk washed =
He's 46? Not 66. 46 is not the age to be washed up as a wrestler.
And he did undergo hip replacement after Mania 33. Wrestling with prosthetic hip bones in your body must be something extremely painful and risky as your body can't move the way with prosthetics the way it does with natural skeleton.
Vince: I want you to be Undertaker's opponent at WrestleManiaIt's funny since Punk wanted to lose that match.
Vince told him that's he's suppose to win the match but he needs to sell roman and make him look extremely OP.
And punk was like, Why don't I just let roman win and pin me? And vince was like no,
Win the match, embarras the shield but make roman look good
Lol what's funny is that he said like 90 times during this press conference that he was brought up in this business.
"I don't have to work with you, you have to work with me."Do you guys remember when H thought CM Punk was going to agree a match with 4/10 at WM 30, so he decided to book a handicap match where Punk went over clean against the friggin Shield.
I'm starting to get the feeling that there will be more smarks in the crowd than we initially imagined. Because even on RAW last night Cena was getting some dueling chants during Cody's promo. Eventhough they were largely neagtive.
I am not a fan of guys kicking out of multiple finishers. It's done to the point of death in AEW. But here I felt like it actually worked because its not something you see very often in WWE, so when it happens it actually means something. I thought it helped in getting the point across that these guys are emptying their tanks and going to their absolute limits to not lose to the other guy. Most of all though, as you said, I loved that it was just an old-school cage match where guys were actually using the cage to hurt each other rather than bringing in weapons and furniture. Would have liked some blood but I guess you can't have everything. I did find it funny how they kept blacking out/turning away whenever these guys told each other to go F yourself. I thought we were on Netflix now and anything goes? Besides that, great way to set-up Mania and giving everyone motivation for hating each other.
The internet wrestling community or whatever you want to call them has a large contingent of fans who think he's "locker-room cancer" because he beat up a couple of jobbers in AEW. Jobbers who think they are stars to their fanbase but couldn't draw a dime if their life depended on it.
This is how I know Cody is basically set for life lol
"I don't have to work with you, you have to work with me."
The finishers wouldn’t work were it not for the story and how desperate they got and that plex from the top was nice or how they didn’t go for a pin for some time. It was an untypical match for WWE. Lmao that was funny I saw that, did you watch it live? maybe the live stream didn’t blackout, but agreed, dumb move really on Netflix, would snickers really cancel their sponsorship based on that? H is a moron.
Well those cases are different, that was a low point of his career,
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Well those cases are different, that was a low point of his career,
He hilariously thought he could pull a brock lesnar and just wallop into mma when even brock underwent years of training and even then brock isn't the greatest in ufc, he was very good but he did lose 3x in a humilating fashion.
After that his blew it in AEW, but tbf, Aew just wasn't the environment for him either.
He's at his best in wwe, always has been and always will be. This dude has managed to put himself and so many people over and create iconic feuds.
Jeff hardy, John cena, Shield, Swth rollins, Rock. This dude is the king of turning ordinary feuds that wouldn't really have much impact into fantastic works of art.
As a kid he legitimately convinced me that he beat cena and just ran away with the title
Similarly even as an adult, i actually thought he and seth were brawling for real. His acting is out of this world.
And since the UFC, he has beaten at least three wrestlers in backstage fights 
