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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:28:48 No.12892570 View View Reply Original Report

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Is Wardlow salvageable?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:30:19 No.12892589 Report

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>>12892570
Aubrey Edwards reactions make me want to punch her in her horse face

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:31:24 No.12892603 Report

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>>12892570
>all those empty seats
grim

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:31:28 No.12892604 Report

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>>12892570
With better writing, new move set, good promos and meaningful matches.... good luck

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:33:44 No.12892629 Report

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>>12892570
Phil buries another

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:35:15 No.12892643 Report

Quoted By: >>12892725

He always reminds me of Bron Breakker. They're both short but very strong and muscular.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:35:39 No.12892647 Report

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>dont want to bury him
>dont want to push him
this is why they invented triple threat matches

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:36:21 No.12892654 Report

Quoted By: >>12892671

>>12892603
But the biggest draw ever is in the ring so how does that make sense this must be photoshop or one of those funny apps that make it look like you are doing anything

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:37:31 No.12892670 Report

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>>12892570
>Adam Cole's goon
"no"

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:37:41 No.12892671 Report

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>>12892654
the aew brand has go away heat sadly

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:37:54 No.12892675 Report

Quoted By: >>12894665

>>12892570
Why does he love dick in his face so much

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:42:09 No.12892725 Report

Quoted By: >>12892753 >>12893049

>>12892643
Bron is short, Wardlow is 6'2

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:43:16 No.12892742 Report

Quoted By: >>12892773

Getting rid of the power bomb symphony was a good step and I'm not a huge Cole fan but I think he's someone who could get Wardlow over. He's got a long way to go before he can be considered a top guy that should be going over Cole or MJF though.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:43:27 No.12892746 Report

Quoted By: >>12893019

>>12892570
100%.

Legit run back the entire MJF / Wardlow storyline just with Cole in the MJF role and not drop the ball this time.

>Wardlow wins title at some point, gets tired of Cole's abuse, and refuses to hand the title over.
>Allies himself with babyface MJF and spends months dismantling Undisputed Kingdom culminating in a main event PPV against Adam Cole.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:44:12 No.12892753 Report

Quoted By: >>12892788 >>12893711

>>12892725
Wardlow is 5'10"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:46:10 No.12892772 Report

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>>12892570
No he's too small to be a hoss but for some reason he's pushed/treated as one to an extent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:46:11 No.12892773 Report

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>>12892742
Wardlow should go back to using "the casualty of war" as his finisher, that thing looked like it could legit kill someone

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:46:50 No.12892779 Report

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>>12892570
Should have put this zesty dude in Swerve's group and kept AR Fox there too. Then if he gets over again you can turn him and go with him. But they put him in some weird group with Arn and then forgot about it and I don't see any way to save this Adam Cole shit without a complete reset

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 19:47:22 No.12892788 Report

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>>12892753
nice fantasy you got going on in your head

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 20:04:27 No.12893004 Report

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>>12892570
>Is Wardlow salvageable?
Not with the stupid ass haircut he has

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 20:05:35 No.12893019 Report

Quoted By: >>12893042 >>12894690

>>12892746
>Legit run back the entire MJF / Wardlow storyline just with Cole in the MJF role and not drop the ball this time.
Seems like they're aiming to do exactly that just from what was said this past Wednesday alone

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 20:06:44 No.12893032 Report

Quoted By: >>12893051 >>12893067

>>12892570
Get him to the PC put him in some promo classes, some reps with a few of the trainers, he has potential.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 20:07:13 No.12893042 Report

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>>12893019
I mean, it wasn't a bad plan. Just really dropped the ball on it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 20:08:00 No.12893049 Report

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>>12892725
Anon, if they're billing him at 6'2" he's lucky if he's shoot 6 feet tall.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 20:08:01 No.12893051 Report

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>>12893032
He was already there several times and they kept giving him the boot.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 20:09:36 No.12893067 Report

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>>12893032
>PC
>promo classes
Does not compute.

I'm pretty sure in WWE, wrestl- err, sorry, SUPERstars and Divas have to rigidly stick to scripted promos and with the exception of maybe 3 people, are punished for any deviation from said script.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 20:44:34 No.12893445 Report

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>>12892570
>I'M HERE TO PUT OVER THE YOUNGER GUYS
>only loses 2 singles matches in his entire AEW run

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 20:45:07 No.12893454 Report

Quoted By: >>12893525 >>12894889

>>12893445
He put them over by markedly increasing PPV buys and exposure when he got signed.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 20:52:04 No.12893522 Report

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>>12892570
Worst hoss of all time. Just a normal-sized wrestler in any other era.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 20:52:16 No.12893525 Report

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>>12893454
kek

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 21:06:05 No.12893664 Report

Quoted By: >>12895233

>>12892570
No because Wardlow just isn't exciting to watch. There has literally never been a time where Wardlow has gotten over without major help from someone putting him over, as soon as he has to hold his own he just loses the crowd. It's like everyone forget how he was so nuclear over after he beat MJF but then he got nothing but lukewarm reactions from the crowd, people like to rewrite history and say this was AEW's fault for dropping the ball with him but the truth is that there was never a point in time where there was a ball to be dropped because this happened almost instantly, the very week after he beat MJF the whole "you fucking mark" promo happened and people only cared about that and Wardlow was instantly forgotten.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 21:10:55 No.12893711 Report

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>>12892753
That's Brian Cage

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 21:23:27 No.12893835 Report

Quoted By: >>12894650 >>12894674

>>12892570
yes, but not by the booker who

>had him feud with a lawyer
>had Samoa Joe humiliate him
>took him off TV
>brought him back as the muscle in a faction four years after he did it in the Pinnacle
>brought him back by helping Samoa Joe, the guy who humiliated him, win the top title

all the while having Wardlow work a minimal amount of singles matches, the thing he needs the most in order to grow beyond the "guy who spams powerbombs"

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 22:35:42 No.12894551 Report

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>>12893042
It wasn't at all, no. They didn't even really mess that part up. MJF and his own bullshit completely pulled the rug out from the big moment. Wardlow got the win he needed but it wasn't what anyone was focusing on because of the MJF drama that weekend. They did completely shit the bed with his booking beyond that though

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 22:37:23 No.12894575 Report

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>>12894551
MJF was a complete and total shoot drama queen at the time but he did show up, do the squash job, and got his payday afterwards so I'll forgive it.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 22:45:07 No.12894650 Report

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>>12893835
>the thing he needs the most in order to grow beyond the "guy who spams powerbombs"
yup. It worked with MJF because it was a punishing move to whatever guy who got it while getting him over as formidable force... but why even...why go through the trouble when a single good looking new finisher would get the match over just the same... and you could keep that symphony for special occasions.
But it's not the only thing he is lacking in the ring.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 22:46:48 No.12894664 Report

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He needs to go to NXT and learn how to wrestle.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 22:46:50 No.12894665 Report

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>>12892675
He's a Bidenfag

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 22:47:42 No.12894674 Report

Quoted By: >>12894800

>>12893835
He had years of working AEW Dark, opportunities to get as much ring time as possible against other guys, and he still never developed, never learned how to have a match, never learned how to do anything but powerbomb jobbers

He only has himself to blame

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 22:49:40 No.12894690 Report

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>>12893019
>Adam Cole and Wardlow winning the World title
Kek at Swerve and Ospreay

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 22:55:00 No.12894724 Report

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>>12892603
Actually this was the period where AEW was darkening their arenas for no fucking reason. This was around their peak popularity, but they never lit up the fucking crowd. Grand Slam 1 looked so tiny despite there being 20K people there. AEW's production is so small time and bush league.

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 23:01:49 No.12894790 Report

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No, he isn't.
Also he'd be even worse in WWE, they'd make him EC3 tier.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 23:03:07 No.12894800 Report

Quoted By: >>12894938

>>12894674
His Dark matches were always just squashes too though. Remember that one where he brained the jobber by choke/dropping him and kneeing him in the head from the top rope?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 23:12:06 No.12894889 Report

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>>12893454
>markedly increasing PPV buys
no he didn't, and even if he had that isn't putting someone over

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 23:16:26 No.12894938 Report

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>>12894800
he needs to go back to using that as his finisher

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 23:21:47 No.12894992 Report

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>>12892570
Anyone with his size is salvageable

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 23:30:02 No.12895081 Report

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>>12892570
Only if he adopts this as his finisher

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Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 23:33:38 No.12895104 Report

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>>12892570
No. They completely dropped the ball on him after his big win against MJF had zero follow through afterward.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Jan 2024 23:45:19 No.12895233 Report

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>>12893664

That's because he needed to be elevated immediately after to maintain momentum, and to've done so primarily off of quick, dominant matches. Tony just sat on him for months, and made him just wrestle matches like anybody else when he came back.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 00:06:40 No.12895494 Report

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>>12892570
Is he worth salvaging? No.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Jan 2024 02:42:54 No.12896919 Report

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>>12893219
>>12893285
Based virtuosa making you piss and shit your pants with rage

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