+1 Raw has been very good without him.

I will never understand the ADR hate

I don't hate him, I just feel better when he's not around.

His baby was Steve Lombardi AKA The Brooklyn Brawler

ADR should move to Smackdown and feud with Sheamus. ADR is rich, Sheamus is working class. They could put on some fine matches, imo.

are u sure it's not cuz of the OTHER guy who hasn't been on the show lately?

OMG Dylan what have you created? GOAT wrestling meme in progress.

EDIT: I have some great ideas for that so please share the template so we can all have some fun with it!

EDIT 2: Never mind, a similar one is already up on memegenerator.

Anyone who thinks ADR is bad is just plain wrong. Anyone who thinks he adds nothing to a show is also wrong.

ADR got over in the community by just going out there and backing his **** up and putting on great matches, but Raw is a creative black hole where dreams are sent to be crushed at the event horizon. If his first reign was his only reign and he was booked right people would miss him, hopefully we can get back to that point pretty quickly as they tweak him to address that he isnt getting the responses they want which should be pretty simple, just strip out all of the fluff and play up the fact he is a straight up MMA trained fighter and almost certainly the best shoot fighter on the roster.

I think we should all agree his work in the ring is first class, i understand entirely about criticism of his work outside the ring including his ESL promos and a gimmick that stopped developing not long after he debuted with little to no story for him. i have possibly overly high hopes that on his return they will streamline him, book him into an actual feud against a real human being and not Cena and maybe even go so far as to turn him face, though in reality he is going to get his third feud with Rey in 2 years if Rey can get back in time for WM as he hopes (ADR "injured" him to take him out of action), which isnt necessarily bad, it is just stale.

I hope the ending is like this. Lol at Vince tearing his quads and having to sit down in the ring.

That was the dumbest finisher ever.

93 was way worse. savage and yokozuna are the last 2. savage tries to PIN yoko in the ****ing royal rumble. yoko kicks out SO HARD that it sends savage flying over the top rope.

It was a legit botch.

Lol, wat? How was that meant to finish, was Batista meant to just bomb him then throw Cena out?

Not sure what the original finish was, but this is supposedly a former WWE writer:

https://mobile.twitter.com/sethmates...91222991552513

Agreed. That was a ****ing embarrassing finish.

alex riley got eliminated by accident last year, and i still think rock's feet hitting the floor in the 2000 rumble ending was an accident they turned into an angle

Loved the write-up on Riley's elimination last year. "He appears to be the first wrestler to ever be eliminated by 'get set up on the ropes and shoved lightly for five minutes straight.'"

I always assumed 2000 was an accident turned into a work too.

I just watched the Savage/Yokozuna elimination for the first time. Holy crap, that was terrible. Yoko didn't even do anything, Savage just jumped up and eliminated himself.

Vince tearing his quads looks so painful, and he no-sells that **** like a champ in the ring. I'm pretty sure I'd be crying.

I don't think anything will anything will ever be a bigger WTF?! moment than the entire Hogan/Piper Cage Match at Halloween Havoc '97.

http://youtu.be/34AuX-LfT5M

Cliffs:

WCW's history of not understanding their own stipulation matches is legendary, like stretcher matches ending with a pinfall or Foley/Vader where falls didn't count but the match couldn't end without one.