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03-04-2013 , 08:55 AM
It's not totally impossible then.
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03-04-2013 , 12:17 PM
Is anyone else completely disappointed that they are having an old school Raw four weeks before Wrestlemania? Stupid. They are going to march out the same old old-school guys...I wonder who is going to beat up Sgt. Slaughter this week.
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03-04-2013 , 12:20 PM
I didn't know they were doing that.

Gotta say I'd love to see Undertaker come out in his original drab black and gray duds for nostalgia's sake.
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03-04-2013 , 12:23 PM
I'd actually like to see them do a nostalgia match at Wrestlemania each year, assuming they have people available to do it. It'd fill in like 3 minutes of match time, give their older fans some fun memories, and be a talking point akin to surprise Royal Rumble entrants.
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03-04-2013 , 12:25 PM
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I'd actually like to see them do a nostalgia match at Wrestlemania each year, assuming they have people available to do it. It'd fill in like 3 minutes of match time, give their older fans some fun memories, and be a talking point akin to surprise Royal Rumble entrants.
I don't disagree, but they are pretty tapped out of legends. So far tonight: Ric Flair (pimping the Miz), New Age Outlaws, Hacksaw, and the Sarge.

Now, if the whole night is to bring back UT with his old garb...that would be worthwhile.
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03-04-2013 , 12:42 PM
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flair/foley vengeance 2006

mvp/benoit judgment day 2007
That benoit mvp match is one of my favorites
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03-04-2013 , 02:59 PM
hopefully this means john cena goes old school rapper gimmick for the night
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03-04-2013 , 05:01 PM
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hopefully this means john cena goes old school rapper gimmick for the night
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03-04-2013 , 05:08 PM
I must admit watching Cena destroy Dwayne week after week last year leading up to Wrestlemania was extremely entertaining. Hopefully he does it again this year.
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03-04-2013 , 05:35 PM
im definitely most pro cena compared to this thread, but that was a cool segment and even better that it was vs dwayne.
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03-04-2013 , 06:10 PM
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I must admit watching Cena destroy Dwayne week after week last year leading up to Wrestlemania was extremely entertaining. Hopefully he does it again this year.
it always amuses me how badly the wwe limits otherwise incredibly talented mic workers/intriguing characters

cena when they just let him tear apart rock (which helps that they legitimately dislike each other)
batista's final run when they just let him do whatever since he was gone anyway
ditto for punk

i will never be convinced that pg wwe is a good thing. actually give these guys an inch and they will take it 100 miles
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03-04-2013 , 06:13 PM
It's more an indictment of the fact that they script every promo now vs. before when they let the workers write their own stuff and just gave them general direction. Give workers more creative control over their promos and they're far more likely to spring some genius on us than writers who are trying to cram the workers into a specific box.
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03-04-2013 , 06:23 PM
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It's more an indictment of the fact that they script every promo now vs. before when they let the workers write their own stuff and just gave them general direction. Give workers more creative control over their promos and they're far more likely to spring some genius on us than writers who are trying to cram the workers into a specific box.
Unfortunately, they're significant enough to attract the attention of the FCC and the media in general if someone goes completely off the rails when given creative control, and the business is big enough to need to protect it -- so I understand what they're thinking.
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03-04-2013 , 06:35 PM
Well fair enough, but you don't have to completely neuter the performer. The worker running the stuff he's written by someone before taking it to air would solve that problem.

Can't prevent him from going off-script and doing something offensive obviously, but that's already the case with the current system.
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03-04-2013 , 06:37 PM
Since when do Cena and Rock not like each other? I got the impression they had a lot of respect for one another. I guess that's pretty mutually exclusive from liking one another though.
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03-04-2013 , 07:46 PM
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03-04-2013 , 07:58 PM
Assuming we're getting a Taker appearance tonight, which seems a near-lock, I hope they do a lights-out swerve where everyone thinks its Shield instead. Surely they can't pass up that opportunity.
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03-04-2013 , 08:26 PM
wwe app just posted the undertaker cross. consider the obvious spoiled.
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03-04-2013 , 08:43 PM
It was pretty much spoiled last week when they showed the video.
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03-04-2013 , 08:55 PM
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Unfortunately, they're significant enough to attract the attention of the FCC and the media in general if someone goes completely off the rails when given creative control, and the business is big enough to need to protect it -- so I understand what they're thinking.
ummm no. FCC had that **** overturned a few years ago. Vince wants things to be PG.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_644837.html

and clearly Cena and the other untouchables are allowed to go off the script. i find it hard to believe his rambling promo that led to blowup doll jokes not long ago was written for him.
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03-04-2013 , 08:55 PM
Paul Heyman ‏@HeymanHustle
#Backstage @WWE #RAW #OldSchool I'm looking down the hallway, and #OMFG .. that can't be ... it just can't be ... is it really HIM?

I guess he's talking about Taker?
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03-04-2013 , 09:00 PM
just in case they don't open with it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVIDkgTw4FE
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03-04-2013 , 09:00 PM
as if it hasn't been spoiled enough already, punk's wm opponent:

Spoiler:
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03-04-2013 , 09:00 PM
!!!!!
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03-04-2013 , 09:00 PM
That didnt take long
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