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Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

What I hate the most is when a guy goes up to the top turnbuckle, who very rarely if ever does so, and it's so obvious they're just setting up for a mid-air RKO. I remember Jericho doing that once where he came off the turnbuckle with his hands outstretched. I remember thinking, "what am I as a fan supposed to have expected him to be trying there?" It just looked so phoney and fake. That's why I can accept and enjoy it with AJ because the forearm off the rope is such a recognisable part of his arsenal.

The good ones are good, like the Evan Bourne one and the Seth one

Ones like the Christian one at Summerslam into the steel steps are awful though, in that if he didn't get RKO'd he was gonna faceplant the steps

I get what ya mean about AJ getting caught, and AJ is also really good at taking a move out the air, I think I saw it on reddit a couple days ago where when he was doing the forearm into the spear with Reigns, and AJ moved through the air like he was gonna hit the forearm, rather than jumping into the spear like a lot would have and it's why when he does get caught at some stage it will be amazing

Rowan pinning Mustafa Ali clean bothered me more watching it than it did when I read it.

Monokne wrote: »

But you'll have the exact same problem because the point at which he'd normally hit the forearm is the point at which he'll shape himself perfectly to take the RKO.

It should look seamless with AJ providing he adjusts slightly by keeping his left arm lower by his side than normal.

CastorTroy wrote: »

An RKO like this?

https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/status/1017588170546974721

Thats insane! On a sidenote Have ye seen, the rascals in action, they are very enjoyable to watch

what now for cena at mania ?

rey vs joe at mania and i wonder will joe get physical with dominic who is not so small nowadays

I’m sick of this bollocks with Kofi now

They are really sucking the momentum out of almost every single storyline leading to mania with this sorta craic

the issue with the KofiMania thing is timing. they have no idea how to time anything anymore.

Pro Wrestling 101 dictates that you want to give the crowd what they want at the peak of their interest, and at the apex of the emotion of the storyline. you want the biggest reaction possible.

but this fúcking company is obsessed with getting heat on heels. that's all they know how to do. they literally - and many of us have said this for the longest time now - have no clue how to book a babyface. if they happen to get a babyface over, it's by fúcking accident. just look at Bryan's WM30 run - 6 months too late, and it's only because he is so damn good, that they managed to get away with something where the payoff should've been months earlier.

look at the Summer of Punk. no clue what they're doing. instead of just going with it, they had to get heel heat on HHH, and the story was dead.

look at Roman Reigns when he was facing Brock at Wrestlemania for the first time, when Seth ultimately cashed in. in the run-up, even he was fúcking losing matches.

look at Bryan on his return to action after thinking he might never wrestle again. in the Wrestlemania match itself, they have him knocked out of the match near the start, because all WWE knows how to fúcking do is get more heat. and so, the match died. he then goes on to lose as much as he wins, and is only somewhat resurrected now.

they have no clue how to book a fúcking babyface, and they're now doing their damndest to fúck up KofiMania because they are obsessed with putting heat on Vince and Bryan. last night should've been the apex of the story. it should've been the moment Kofi finally get his shot, but instead, they choose to deflate the crowd once more. there's a fine line between coaxing the audience along and just píssing them off by never actually giving the audience feel good moments to feed off and build on. and WWE have no idea where that line is.

fúcking morons.

I think we might all be a bit too cynical, or FICKLE!, on here.

Crowds are going crazy for Kofi and even though the women's feud has cooled a little and they are running out of stuff to do, Becky got big chants again last night. Ric says they don't know how to book faces but if Kofi and/or Becky win at Mania, the place will erupt. I think that's a good sign of them getting things right. The Authority stuff is extremely overused but when it works, it works well. Working for Kofi, it didn't for Becky.

CastorTroy wrote: »

Does Asuka even have an opponent for Mania yet? Why is she being ignored?

And what you didn't see during the Kofi match was the hundreds of people watching from the left hand side of the tv.

They announced a fatal four way for next week between Mandy/Sonya/Naomi/Carmella to determine her opponent. The story isn't even about Asuka, it'll probably continue the Mandy/Sonya break up.

At least she got rid of the crutch.

Roman will be on smackdown for the fox beginning along with aj as the biggest stars

Orton goes to raw to feud with Rollins

Felt like a week too far for me. Story has peaked and we're past that point now. Everyone knows where we're going, let's just get there.