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01-29-2019 , 10:51 PM
I think they missed an opportunity by having him trash the belt and not recycle it.
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01-29-2019 , 10:52 PM
Randy comes out and cut to commercial.........
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01-29-2019 , 10:54 PM
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It just seems to obviously be this. Watch the Ronda/Becky promo. It wasn't "booo she said she was gonna break Becky's face booo" it was a legit drowning out of anything she was trying to say. There's a particular vitriol there that doesn't appear to me to be kayfabe related instead it seems to be entirely based upon the fact that the fans view Ronda as a threat to Becky's reign.

The funny thing is I agree with your original point JH. If they were trying to make Ronda the heel in this matchup and Ronda was giving heel promos and the heat she was getting was a reaction to that it would be awesome. I'm just not even sure WWE views her as the bad guy in this feud.
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The thing is that the only thing that can ever get WWE crowds to be truly molten hot is the sense - correct or not - that they're sticking it to the man (in this case Vince).

Mind you, I'm very appreciative that they scorched the earth to get Daniel Bryan his WM XXX moment, and the fact that they **** all over Bootista and Orton in the run-up to that Mania was totally appropriate, but Ronda is just an awful target for them to turn against. To me she's more compelling in the ring than Becky is, which is not at all an insult to Becky, who I love also. But Becky was NXT and Ronda wasn't, so **** Ronda.

Again I could be getting their intentions wrong, but that's just my sense.
NXT fandom is my least favorite wrestling fandom of all time. NXT is a great product* but the super smarky NXT crowd has been awful for a long time and has creeped into the main audience.


*A big reason why the product is so good is the fact that they aren't filling 5 hours of TV a week + a PPV a month. Storylines get time to breathe and build up, we don't see people fight each other 10 times in 2 months, and it makes championship matches feel important.
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01-29-2019 , 10:55 PM
winning royal rumble to losing clean to r-truth in a year
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01-29-2019 , 10:58 PM
OH snap AA meeting to Jeff Hardy who somehow is in the ring with many other's now.
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01-29-2019 , 10:59 PM
Samoa Joe just saved that segment
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01-29-2019 , 11:01 PM
Oh ya setting up Elimination Chamber makes sense now,lol. (somewhat).
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01-30-2019 , 04:53 AM
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Originally Posted by GeoffRas22
It just seems to obviously be this. Watch the Ronda/Becky promo. It wasn't "booo she said she was gonna break Becky's face booo" it was a legit drowning out of anything she was trying to say. There's a particular vitriol there that doesn't appear to me to be kayfabe related instead it seems to be entirely based upon the fact that the fans view Ronda as a threat to Becky's reign.

The funny thing is I agree with your original point JH. If they were trying to make Ronda the heel in this matchup and Ronda was giving heel promos and the heat she was getting was a reaction to that it would be awesome. I'm just not even sure WWE views her as the bad guy in this feud.
Becky fans didn't boo Asuka who actually had "her" title. So I think this is more Ronda/kayfabe specific and it's great. WWE was very careful about putting Ronda in situations where she'd get cheered, but the fairy tale was eventually going to run out when she faced actual popular wrestlers who fans view at her level. Charlotte got huge cheers for heelishly bashing her with a kendo stick too.

This feud seems a little more nuanced than heel/face, but WWE obviously understands Becky is mega-popular (despite behaving heelishly) and fans are invested in seeing her get the moment they think she deserves. Fans chanting "kick her ass" at her opponent should be exactly what they want since that's what pro wrestling is based on.

I am curious if Ronda gets scripted to be more overtly heel (like she is on Twitter) or if they think she's like a Cena type who provokes strong reactions that vary based on her opponent.
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02-04-2019 , 11:20 AM
RAW just got a little more tedious to get through for at least the next month as Seth's gone with an injury for that time.
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02-04-2019 , 12:13 PM
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RAW just got a little more tedious to get through for at least the next month as Seth's gone with an injury for that time.
So the entire Shield is off of WWE TV (or will be soon).
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02-04-2019 , 12:38 PM
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RAW just got a little more tedious to get through for at least the next month as Seth's gone with an injury for that time.
Push wrestler -> wrestler gets injured.

Seth bores me to tears so I don't mind too much.
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02-04-2019 , 09:09 PM
I have already turned the channel twice as I don't want to hear Stephanie and this seems bad.
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02-04-2019 , 09:10 PM
Is Becky legit injured? That would blow. Anyone left to wrestle?
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02-04-2019 , 09:13 PM
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Is Becky legit injured? That would blow. Anyone left to wrestle?
No as she was selling the wrong knee at Royal Rumble and the ref had to come over and tell her she was selling the wrong knee,lol.
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02-04-2019 , 09:16 PM
Why the hell would they suspend her then? I hope this isn't just a way to squeeze Charlotte into this match.
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02-04-2019 , 09:17 PM
It's a work.

Becky is great, but Stephanie's character is so confusing at this point that I feel like she brings down anything she's involved in. Also don't know if we needed another meta "authority" angle here.
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02-04-2019 , 09:22 PM
Yeah Stephanie sees a women's angle getting hot and just has to insert herself. She adds nothing to the storyline.
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02-04-2019 , 09:35 PM
So Nikki is a heel this week and stuck with Alicea Fox. God damn it! She'll be off TV like the rest of Sanity after this.
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02-04-2019 , 09:50 PM
Let's see what this Kurt Angle business is...........
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02-04-2019 , 10:01 PM
That was a sweet chair throw.
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02-04-2019 , 10:02 PM
Shenanigans to set up...a tag team match playa.
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02-04-2019 , 10:15 PM
Sasha injury cover-up beatdown?
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02-04-2019 , 10:35 PM
Remember a month or so ago when Vince and family announced things were changing and we're going to see new faces...

Jeff Jarrett and Road Dogg are currently in the ring singing.
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02-04-2019 , 10:36 PM
Elias save us!
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