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New member of the Wyatt family?

I'm getting the sense that at SummerSlam we'll see the debut of a new Wyatt family member. Harper and Rowan being banned from ringside seems like the device to give us (and Jericho) a false sense of security that this is going to be a fair 1-on-1 match. But Bray is a bad guy, so of course he's going to find some way to cheat.
 
With the Wyatts' act growing somewhat stale lately, it seems like a good time for a shakeup. And while I mostly like how they've handled the Wyatts so far, a "cult" that never draws any new members comes across as pretty weak.
 
The WWE roster is full of so many options -- guys and girls who logically would be disillusioned with the WWE machine and ready to "follow the buzzards" -- that it could be anybody from Big E to a newcomer from NXT who makes the turn. Do you think this is a possibility, and/or something that should happen?

​Well yeah, the whole "stack the deck against Bray" deal is typically a clear sign that they're gonna break their own stip and do a new member of the Family to interfere, like Big Show in the Austin-McMahon match.  Although I really wish they'd spend more time coming up with better storylines and less time trying to find clever ways to get out of the storylines they came up with.  Personally I'm still confused as to what Bray is even trying to accomplish at this point and why anyone would even want to join him.  I guess one of the midcard geeks could turn to freshen them up, but it seems like a zero sum game.  To be honest I thought that the best idea floating out there previously was during the brief aborted Miz-Wyatt feud, where speculation was that Miz would get inducted and start growing out his hair and taking on a more badass edge.  I don't think more bodies is the solution but at least it's something, I guess.  ​

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  1. He didn't have to cheat to beat Bryan.

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  2. At the risk of sounding cynical, I honestly think a large part of why Jericho works so often with the young talent and "puts them over" is because of all of the inflated adulation he gets for it from his fans. To be fair, I think someone like HHH (in recent times) has done the same with the Bryan and Shield feuds, but at least with Trips (unlike Jericho) going over him actually gives his opponents a rub, so I guess it doesn't really matter what his intentions are so long as he takes the pin.


    On the other hand, I could be completely wrong. Who knows.

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  3. It would've been a logical step to use the tried and true comic book storyline of villain helps hero because villain is a bigger asshole with Wyatt/Authority, but again, Cena took the teeth right out of it. The promo tiredness only takes that tack because Bray doesn't accomplish everything he sets out to accomplish in the first place.

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  4. cowardwhotriedtoquitAugust 14, 2014 at 12:05 AM

    Why would being "banned from ringside" stop Harper/Rowan from interfering if neither a cage nor an inferno match stopped them?

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  5. Have Bo join, but have him keep the same character so while you have Bray and Harper cutting dark, violent promos, Bo obliviously pops in to tell them they're doing a super job. It's like McMahon-Foley only with brothers instead of father-son.

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  6. Trips can't possibly heal the damage to the business that hes done unless Vince dies and he can harness the PC to produce proper stars (Although I think he'd be tempted to hire guys like himself anyways). So he gets flack and a lot of cynicism whenever hes up against fresher blood (Which is occasionally justified, Punk, Sheamus, etc). Jericho, on the other hand, loves the business and perfectly understood his role in the wrestling world.



    Also, Jericho's not responsible for the direction of the people he puts over after he leaves. Fandango wasn't going to amount to much but its not like they gave him the ol college try by following up the Jericho win with more big wins

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  7. "Trips can't possibly heal the damage to the business that hes done unless Vince dies"

    If you say so. If you ask me, he hasn't particularly hurt the business, at least not nearly to the extent that people on here claim, and his recent behind-the-scenes stuff seems to be helping the company quite a bit (though the current product's still pretty "bleh").

    "Jericho, on the other hand, loves the business"

    Maybe.

    As for the Jericho/Fandango thing, my issue is that, for me, at least, beating Jericho in itself never feels like much of an accomplishment, whatever his opponent's post-Jericho booking is like. Since I used Trips as an example, his loss to Shelton Benjamin on RAW a decade ago felt much bigger as a moment than any of Jericho's losses, and Shelton (like Fandango post-WM 29) didn't exactly get booked like a god afterwards. When HHH puts you over, it seems to matter. When Jericho does, it doesn't.

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  8. The idea of that gave me a chuckle. Just imagining the whole group in the ring and the whole time Bray is cutting a dark interview you've got Bo smiling and mugging for the camera and just being positive the whole time.

    Kinda like how Rock would act in the Nation while Farooq was cutting a promo.

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  9. I think Bray is off the rails. The act got a little tired quicker than I expected and he's just spinning his wheels right now. Yay, he can sing a nursery rhyme...yay he can spider walk...great now it's time to find some new depth to the role.

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  10. I don't think it's just a case of Jericho losing a match to put a new talent over. It's that young talent getting to work with and hopefully learn from an experienced legend. It's about gaining experience and knowledge just as much as winning a match.

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  11. It goes back to the central problem with the character.

    Why does a cult leader wrestle? Why is he in WWE? What is his goal?

    Whether the fans hold up their cell phones for him or not, the promos don't change. The addition of a demon child (officially the moment the gimmick jumped the shark) changed nothing.

    The character admitted on TV that wins and losses don't matter to him. The character has no interest in the title and never competed for it and I'm pretty sure he has never once spoken of it.



    Him "corrupting" Bryan after beating him was honestly the logical progression of the character. Taking a beloved character and breaking his spirit and "showing him the light" makes the most sense. The fans revolted and aborted that. And Cena's whole character is unbreakable superman so that was just a bad idea. Kidnapping Kane was interesting also, but they completely forgot about that for Korporate Kane.



    Now they just don't have any ideas left for him that actually make sense.

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  12. The Cena feud on the surface made sense and played into Bray's "corrupt and tear down the fans heroes" thing. Problem is, they didn't fully explore the idea or actually pay off Bray trying to expose the monster in Cena.

    At WrestleMania 30 it seemed the two most logical finishes given the build up were: Cena let's out his monster to overcome the Wyatt's and win or Cena suppresses his monster at the cost of the match. Either one helps Wyatt get over and in fact I think had they gone the route of "Cena wins the match but has to sink down a level" would have out Wyatt over far more than actually winning the match. Because he succeeded in exposing that Cena does have something inside him that Bray alluded to.

    Instead Cena suppresses the monster AND wins the match. So Bray fails in storyline and in the match. At least that's how I look at it.

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  13. That's what I mean though. They were going for that kind of Cena feud with Kane last year where he has to let the dark side out to overcome...but it's Cena so he'll never do that, he'll always rise above hate or whatever this year's catchphrase is. So why damage an asset by having him fail?

    That's why I think putting him with Cena was a bad idea. The character can't win that kind of showdown and Cena's character won't even give him the moral victory aspect of it. Just have them both do something else.

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  14. Also to the other points you listed about Kane and Bryan. I agree. On top of the Cena feud, they've had several chances to evolve the character and do something interesting. Instead they present these ideas and refuse to flesh them out.

    For Kane. They could do the same thing. They fight at SS, Bray wins and attacks Kane and carries him off. Kane's off TV for a while and Bray does whatever he did following SS. Hell, start the Bryan feud a little early to give that a chance to flesh out. Kane makes a surprise return, the crowd explodes thinking he's gonna help his old partner and give those dastardly Wyatt's all they got coming to them....and then he attacks Bryan and joins the Wyatt Family.

    Or the Bryan feud. I actually like how that went it probably would have been a little better if they gave it more time to simmer.

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  15. That's the shame about it. With the scenario I laid out it doesn't even mean a Cena heel turn either. Just he resorts to cheap tactics to beat Bray. Or doesn't resort to those tactics(he rises above!) and then loses the match.

    After that, Cena can go away for a month and Bray--fresh off beating Cena(in storyline terms or in their match) can challenge fresh champion Daniel Bryan playing off their history and the fact that he beat Bryan. Then you can avoid the Kane feud.

    Given that Bryan had to leave the next month anyways it's hard to really push for him and Bray there though.

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  16. And of course two months later Cena himself pledges to expose his own monster and do things he isn't proud of against Brock Lesnar.


    Maybe Bray can claim a delayed victory in the feud after all?

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  17. Has any gimmick that got over in Full Sail NXT era worked on the big stage yet?

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  18. Brays worked until the Cena feud.

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  19. Paige. They ought to go straight up Army of Darkness. Paige in chains = ratings.

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  20. I was calling for Paige as Sister Abigail last year.


    Would have been interesting, hell it still might.

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  21. Yeah, 1996 has some rockin' PPV main events throughout the year even if the storylines sucked. Everything started to click around Survivor Series, leading up to what would be an awesome 1997.

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  22. If it means we get more of her ass, then yeah...

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  23. The gimmick could have had legs...if they'd had a point to it.

    What does Bray Wyatt want? Is it just to cause chaos? Well, for awhile, The Shield was doing that and doing it better. Is it to convert people to their cause? OK...what is their cause?

    Maybe the PG era makes it impossible to take the Wyatts further...but shouldn't they be more creepy? Like "they're going to kidnap one of the Bellas and take her to the swamp where they'll probably do unspeakable things to her and she comes back...changed..." type of creepy.

    It doesn't have to be Boogieman cartoonish...but the Wyatt Family simply doesn't come across as dangerous. They're slightly weird and very confused.

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  24. They did exactly what you wanted with Daniel Bella.

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  25. Kane's character has worked for 15 years. If they gave Bray a motivation, advanced his character, and gave him something new to work with it absolutely has legs. Anything has legs if you put effort into it. They got how many years of "dead guy" out of Undertaker? They could get more than one out of Bray.

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  26. A watered down version of something that worked ages ago! Brilliant!

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  27. I heard Kevin Dunn pitched for R-Truth to join the Wyatts. He'd be beaten down, then they'd bring him out the next week in chains and he'd get into a brutal fight with Mark Henry. Don't know why Vince didn't go for it.

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  28. Kane's "character"? He's had about a hundred of them since starting off as Taker's burned mute mutant brother.

    Hunter Hearst Helmsley didn't get over by giving him some new aspect of his blueblood character to work with. He got over by becoming something completely different.

    Which is what Bray's gonna have to do, because PG Cult Leader has no legs either.

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  29. Bring Bailey up from NXT to the main roster exactly as the character she is now. Establish her as the sweet, innocent "little sister" of all of the babyfaces backstage.
    Then have the Wyatts start pursuing her with an aim to convert her. It would be creepy and disturbing and exactly in line with what the Wyatts are supposed to be. At worst, you'd create some new feuds for the Wyatts against guys who are trying to save Bailey from their evil influence.

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  30. I still don't think the Cena feud was THAT bad of an outcome for Bray. In this character he's still a rookie, and within Year 1 he was feuding with the company's biggest star and went a respectable 1-2 in PPV matches against him. I compare it to rookie Cena feuding with guys like Undertaker and Angle. Even if he didn't win the feud, it didn't hurt him in the long run. A rookie isn't supposed to beat an A-plus player yet.

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  31. They really, really, really should have taken Sheamus off TV with a injury angle, had him grow his beard and hair out long and had him join.

    It would refresh a guy who's nearly as stale as Cena and would give the Wyatt Family some credibility back.

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  32. SISTER ABIGAIL IS DEAD. THEY'VE SAID THIS CONSTANTLY.

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  33. Well, they still need to figure out who Sister Abigail is!

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  34. Because wrestling.

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  35. Funny how they were basically copying the hogan angle but with just disastrous results. The ways they try to get him over on upcoming Raws are hilarious.

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  36. A black man in chains? I won't go for such a racially charged angle. No sir.

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  37. So..."cheap" then?

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  38. And they've also hinted that Bray Wyatt IS Husky Harris possessed by a demonic entity. Hence the creepy spider-walk. Which given Kane and Undertaker have supernatural powers, suggests Sister Abigail can take over Paige's body, or maybe Paige goes crazy and thinks she's Sister Abigail.


    I mean it's wrestling.

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  39. Because WWF. LOL ;-) Man this time was soooo bad... only WCW in 2000 was worse. Or WCW 95. ;-D

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  40. hey, it's Mike Bell! I only know the name because he was in that "Bigger, Stronger, Faster" Documentary about steroids (his little brother made it). Then when doing some research for it, I found out he died a couple years later.

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  41. How is that possible? Wasn't he getting really sick by that point?

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  42. They could have made some random tag team action like Blu Twins vs Head Shrinkers or Bushwhackers vs Well Dunn and the TT final + the world title match so that Razor, Jarrett and Taker could have been in the Rumble. Trade Taker with KKB and let him interfere from the outside like with Giant Gonzales in 93. ;-)

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  43. No. I don't care that they're real life brothers. Savage and the Genius were never acknowledged as brothers on WWF TV, and they both did their own things. They were fine.

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  44. OR IS SHE?? *DUN DUN DUUNNNNNNNN*

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  45. Well it's against the rules....

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  46. I do recall Wyatt beating Daniel Bryan 100% clean, in a 1 on 1 match at the Rumble. What if there's no swerve, and Wyatt simply gets a clean win over an established veteran? That's what I'm hoping for, no need for swerves.

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  47. I find the 1996 shows very hard to watch. Most of 1995 is just dull, but 1996 has this awful air of desperation to it that makes it painful to sit through.

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  48. Such a great documentary, I've watched it a few times. Bell holding onto his dream of being a WWE superstar when everyone, including his wife, knows that it's gone was so tragic.

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  49. Being saddled with Jericho is the death slot.

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  50. If anything Randy being saddled with Lanny would have hurt him.

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  51. And Brays heat has been killed. I personally am bored of him.

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  52. Mister_E_BarrettsLastPrivateerAugust 14, 2014 at 6:10 AM

    The stable is utterly directionless, I don't think adding a new member is a good idea.

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  53. This would be more interesting than a Savage/Genius partnership though I think. Both Wyatt/Dallas are super extremes of negativity/positivity, both are completely deluded when preaching their messages, it would actually be perfect for them to interact/bump heads/join forces.

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  54. The Bryan feud was "Okay idea, HORRIFIC timing." Much like most things involving Bryan and the title right around that time...

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  55. Winning a PPV singles match on occasion might help also.

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  56. That was 8 months ago, it was never followed up on, and the only singles match he won on PPV since then he still visually lost and only won because of a child. A clean win that makes him look bad ass that they then continue to build on would help him more than anything.

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  57. Umm... It was a DEMON CHILD!~!!! *ahem*

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  58. Wait does that mean it was THEDEMONKANES child? Is Sister Abigail actually Katie Vick!?!?!? I THINK I AM ON TO SOMETHING HERE!

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  59. :: Cut to Harper and Rowan in the back watching Bray get beat up on a monitor ::

    "Fuck! If only the rules didn't state we weren't allowed to interfere! Oh well I guess we have to stick to our professional integrity."

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  60. Again that was 8 months ago and the feud was forgotten by the time that night was over.

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  61. Charismatic eNegro Jef VinsonAugust 14, 2014 at 6:40 AM

    They should pull the trigger and put the tag belts on the Wyatts.

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  62. If they went with an NXT person the only person who looks like they could fit the role is Bull Dempsey, and he is a waste of a roster slot.

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  63. Charismatic eNegro Jef VinsonAugust 14, 2014 at 6:49 AM

    If he did that it means Vince would have just gotten around to seeing Return of the Jedi.

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  64. Charismatic eNegro Jef VinsonAugust 14, 2014 at 6:50 AM

    Hornswoggle...the answer is always Hornswoggle.

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  65. That would automatically make Bret the bigger face, and you're basically setting up #LOLBRETWINS and dooming Deisel to failure.

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  66. You're joking right? Any football fan in America knew LT as a big deal. He was widely recognized as one of, if not the, greatest defensive player of all-time.

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  67. Charismatic eNegro Jef VinsonAugust 14, 2014 at 6:53 AM

    I had no problem doing the "DWy" gimmick if it led to him beating Cena for the title. But as you said that was the inherent problem with the gimmick: What is their end game?

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  68. It might not have been such a bad idea for Bray to win the belt in the MitB title match.

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  69. lulz mcmahon is stupid because he doesn't watch 4 movies a week! what a looooooser!!!

    Seriously, that kind of joke has jumped the shark.

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  70. Charismatic eNegro Jef VinsonAugust 14, 2014 at 6:57 AM

    Are you saying:
    a.) You would feel the need to pleasure yourself if you see Paige in chains
    b.) If Paige were to wear said chains she would get so aroused she would masturbate?
    Because suckas gotz ta know. (as a wise man once said)

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  71. Charismatic eNegro Jef VinsonAugust 14, 2014 at 6:58 AM

    Couldn't let me have my moment for 8 freakin' minutes, huh?

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  72. I like the idea of taping TV in smaller places. It got ridiculous when WCW and WWF taped their Monday shows in domes. HS gyms are too small, though.

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  73. He meant shit outside the northeast when it came to ppvs buys. Proof is in the buyrate

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  74. Well I meant A... but B could actually end up leading to A so it would be a Win/Win

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  75. Charismatic eNegro Jef VinsonAugust 14, 2014 at 7:06 AM

    Duly noted.
    *Top 3 Handshake*

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  76. Charismatic eNegro Jef VinsonAugust 14, 2014 at 7:09 AM

    "I know! Let's go to the catering table!"

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  77. STEEN! GET OUT OF THE WAY!!

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  78. I'm sure Patterson liked his share of big men to.

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  79. Right, just look at him at WM15 which was in 99, looked like he could barely breathe

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  80. might be a little thing, but if I was in WWF for years and never got in the actual Rumble Id be a bit dissapointed. Though with the way things are going the Duds as surprise Rumble entrants next year would be fun.

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  81. Stardust joins....leave him completely as is, being the crazy tweaker but a total enthusiastic lapdog for Bray.

    Or of course Bo....have Bo being Bray's polished smiley soulless disciple caring Bray's message to the masses

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  82. Sadly, that's been the case these days. It's almost a chicken-or-egg type thing, I guess, because could working with Jericho still matter? Sure, he's a (deserving) future HOFer whose name still means a lot. But he comes back for feuds that don't matter, then they go nowhere, so when he comes back again his stuff goes nowhere because it doesn't mean anything....

    I think he's one of the guys who have it figured out in terms of his place in the business; find something else you can do and basically do a tour of WWE once a year when it works for your schedule. (Of course, this is a luxury only those who can afford it, would be wanted back for just part of the year and have the ability to do something else full-time.) But the finite end date of whatever run he's on just lends an air of placeholder-dom to whatever he's working.

    The last thing he did that was worth anything was his program with Punk. But even that...I thought it was pretty great, but not everyone loved it and I can see their point.

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  83. I still think Miz as the media savvy televangelist for the Family would be incredible.

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  84. Abeyance hasn't been doing anything since his last title run. Maybe they could add him to the family to spice things up.

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  85. It's not like Bo's going anywhere at this rate, dude has a low ceiling with the gimmick.

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  86. It's a perfectly fine mid-card gimmick, he still has quite a bit of mileage left with it. I mean he can join the Wyatts in a year or so, but certainly not now.

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  87. Nice tribute to Abeyance's posting style there. (if that's what you were going for)

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  88. You think the Wyatts will be together another year? Even though the gimmick- and Bray's feud with Jericho in particular- has gone kinda flat lately, they seemed like they were prepping both Bray and Harper/Rowan for life without each other for awhile.

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  89. YankeesHoganTripleHFanAugust 14, 2014 at 7:50 AM

    What about the Bray lookalike guy that has been ringside at Raw for the last few weeks?

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  90. He's that dude that Saturn messed up that one time.

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  91. Stealing my own post from a previous thread, but they should have Adam Rose trip out on drugs and join the Wyatts.

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  92. Rowan dressed as a lemon would equal $$$$$

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  93. Hints and gimmick leftovers from the cartoony 80s WWF are not the same thing as flat out stating something.

    Yes, it's wrestling. They can, have and will do whatever they want, storyline consistency be damned. It's just like nails on a chalkboard when people try to identify Sister Abigail or assign an NXT diva to the role when it's been stated multiple times that Abigail is dead and her lack of presence is what drives Bray's insanity.

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  94. This would be a better comment if your third paragraph wasn't completely wrong. He spoke of the title, and competed for it at Money in the Bank.

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  95. If I stop and think about it, WWF in 1995 wasn't terrible overall, but it seems that nearly everything that happened in pop culture that year just goes into a black hole of being forgettable.

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  96. If there's not, play in the mud.

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  97. If you have sex, you will get pregnant and die.

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  98. Good think you're here to defend him!

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  99. Vince might have been under the weather to do a live dub or VoiceOver.

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  100. Ambrose is the really the only one, plus bo Dallas is kinda over

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  101. Im so happy Wyatt has been cooled down this much, he's just another afterthought on the roster. He's not that good in the ring, he cuts the same king Curtis/dungeon of doom rip off promo everytime and he's really only over because of his entrance. He's like road Dogg except worse at wrestling and not as charismatic.

    Dragging this awful feud with y2j out another month won't do him any favors and if wwe creative doesn't have something awesome for him to do after NOC its all over for Wyatt. Good riddance.

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  102. I was with you completely until the "he's worse at wrestling than Road Dogg" bit.



    People should only be so mean, jobber.


    ......So hurtful.

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  103. Loved Bray at the beginning. He got stale, and now I just forward through his promos because they're always generally the same.

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  104. The Love-Matic Grampa!August 14, 2014 at 8:57 AM

    He's like road Dogg except worse at wrestling and not as charismatic.

    I'd say Bray is a better worker, but Dogg did far more with far less. Otherwise, I agree.

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  105. Working with Cena did wonders for him.

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  106. He'd get a pop once he ripped the lemon suit off.

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  107. That's always what he's going for with the yeps.

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  108. Yeah, wow, last time he won at a PPV was in February.

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  109. Extant1979 - Ghetto SuperstarAugust 14, 2014 at 9:05 AM

    Yeah, but now that he's not undefeated, it's crunch time for Bo to see if he can follow through. I give him a few more weeks before he's a complete afterthought.

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  110. Having Jericho win was death.

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  111. Completely forgot about Extreme Rules.

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  112. Incorrect. He won the cage match with Cena at Extreme Rules

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  113. The Love-Matic Grampa!August 14, 2014 at 9:09 AM

    Which is what Bray's gonna have to do, because PG Cult Leader has no legs either.

    This is the key. It's like an ECW gimmick in the "international object" era of WCW. Just doesn't work UNLESS you go completely over the top and turn them into cartoons.

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  114. Remember that couple weeks when they tried to promote how much of a thinking man Ryback actually is.
    Ryback reads as many as 2 books during a week!

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  115. I realized that, look below.

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  116. Being saddled by Benoit is the death slot.

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  117. I would repackage Fandango as a Jesco White type "Dancin' Outlaw" with the multiple personalities. (Jessie/Jesco/Elvis) and make him be the Wyatt's next follower. The Fandango character is all done so there is nothing else left for him unless they can repackage him.

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  118. He got that Damien Sandow bump.

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  119. Should have happened MONTHS ago. I have no idea why they see the Usos as top guys. Good workers, LAME gimmick.

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  120. Ryder makes some story sense...he was there in the locker room after Jericho was attacked, he grew up a big Y2J fan (as he noted when he wrote the bonus intro to Jericho's second book), and as I've noted several times before, there's a good storyline reason for him to follow the Wyatts in terms of him being disillusioned by his failures as a babyface. He tried appealing to the people, he was Cena's good buddy, and look where it left him.

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  121. WWE presented the same show 3 times miles apart. of course those shows weren't going to draw. Same problem in Cali when they ran Fresno, San Francsico, etc. on consecutive nights with the same lineup.

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  122. I always laugh at those intros where the commentators are so clearly green screened into the arena. Would it kill them to just change their clothes at the taping?

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  123. Upvote for name dropping Jesco White.

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  124. Kane was dead, too.

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  125. well, they can't all be del rio's

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  126. and paying homage to mr. jumpin' farmer

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  127. The Love-Matic Grampa!August 14, 2014 at 11:13 AM

    Clearly you've never watched soaps. People come back from the dead all the time on soaps.

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  128. HowmuchdoesthisguyweighAugust 14, 2014 at 11:33 AM

    I think Usos are still holding them so they can be sacrificed to the Ascension

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  129. HowmuchdoesthisguyweighAugust 14, 2014 at 11:34 AM

    Sister Abigail is Katie Vick....

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  130. That's a major reason to love the Attitude Era: The Attitude Era made the major wrestling companies finally get rid of the green screens and make them use real sets.

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  131. That they see The Ascension as more important long term than Harper and Rowan is nuts.

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  132. HowmuchdoesthisguyweighAugust 14, 2014 at 11:35 AM

    Sami would be awesome

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  133. HowmuchdoesthisguyweighAugust 14, 2014 at 11:36 AM

    Oh I agree 100%. I think Harper will get his push on his own. He is awesome and I'm sure everyone knows this.

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  134. That's how I feel about the current WWE product in general: There's enough good stuff every week to override the bad stuff and I don't even hate the bad stuff to the extent that others do because I've seen a hell of a lot worse. It just is what it is.

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  135. Gorilla calling Attitude Era shows is just so odd. He was out of place to say the least.

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  136. Charismatic eNegro Jef VinsonAugust 14, 2014 at 11:57 AM

    I hope he's better at catching people than Road Dogg.

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  137. Charismatic eNegro Jef VinsonAugust 14, 2014 at 11:59 AM

    "n00bs, I swear."

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  138. Time to introduce Sister Abigail; a brainwashed Bayley would work best, but Emma would be good too.

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  139. If they do this, my vote is for Damien Sandow. He could say he was disillusioned with the treatment he's received lately, and sought out the Wyatt Family for salvation.


    And he already has the beard.

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  140. I'm a huge mark for Super Dave and his USA special and weekly series were awesome!

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  141. What's funny about it to me (I JUST saw it for the first time) is that it comes across as very "Steroid Apologist" in terms of the health risks associated with it (many people are quoted stating it's not that bad for you), while admitting that America's "Win at all costs" culture basically requires it. And yet one of the major subjects of it died only a couple years later. Apparently he also had a thing with pain pills, though.

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  142. "but pretty much everyone is sexually active at 16"


    I wish.

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  143. Everything is s a good idea at the time! Lead in paint was a good idea at the time. Nuclear testing you could look at was a good idea at the time.

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  144. I was excited to see the second ever ladder match (well, that's what I thought at the time).

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