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Why was Batista’s 2014 return so hated on?

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:26:51 No.16797498 View View Reply Original Report

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:31:07 No.16797510 Report

Quoted By: >>16797513

we didn't want him

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:33:09 No.16797513 Report

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>>16797510
Why not? He’s good

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:33:14 No.16797514 Report

Quoted By: >>16797523

>>16797498
audiences at the time thought they wanted small indie guys who looked more like an average guy but that nonsense didn't even last a decade thankfully

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:33:54 No.16797515 Report

Quoted By: >>16797526 >>16798007

>>16797498
Gaytista entered the rumble, and was
>looking lot less muscular than his 2010 look
>looking smaller and out of shape
>panting heavily within first 30 seconds
>unable to even stand
>making others look bad, since they had to sell for that powerless goblin
>facing a young and handsome Roman Reigns in the final 2, who was getting cheered like crazy

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:34:22 No.16797517 Report

Quoted By: >>16798225

Batista sucks, so does Orton and triple bypass. Despite what big muscle loving faggots on this board say, Bryan and Punk were the most over wrestlers of the early 2010s.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:36:13 No.16797523 Report

Quoted By: >>16798241

>>16797514
That’s still a thing and what majority of pro wrestlers are these days

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:36:57 No.16797524 Report

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>>16797498
Because as entertaining as Big Dave is, they seriously wanted him and Orton to main event WrestleMania. He came in and won the rumble (looked like shit) and it wasn’t even booked like a heel coming in. Most of the crowd seemed to want Daniel Bryan instead.
His reunion with Evolution was great though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:37:59 No.16797526 Report

Quoted By: >>16797532 >>16797563

>>16797515
>because he was looking less muscular and smaller and out of shape
you big sweaty men loving fags are the worst. in 2013 nobody cared about big muscley men.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:38:02 No.16797527 Report

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>>16797498
>Batista returns and declares he's after Randy Orton's WWE World Heavyweight Title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5BbliB9OWU

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:40:35 No.16797532 Report

Quoted By: >>16797541

>>16797526
Why is it such a bad thing to want pro wrestlers to look like pro wrestlers?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:43:49 No.16797541 Report

Quoted By: >>16797542

>>16797532
because it doesn't apply here. for whatever reason, in the early 2010s it was all about smaller guys with personality and agility. that's what the majority wanted as their top guys.
the last time a big guy was over in that era was Ryback and the crowd turned on him too.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:44:51 No.16797542 Report

Quoted By: >>16797548

>>16797541
What personality? Most of them can’t cut a promo. The only one is Punk

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:45:54 No.16797545 Report

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Because he was being primed as the next contender when Bryan was at his peak. Returns especially those that are looking to retire are expected to be full babyface runs but he was in perfect heel position so people hated the booking and in turn took it out on Batista

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:46:39 No.16797548 Report

Quoted By: >>16797680

>>16797542
Bryan was more over and charismatic than punk by 2013

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:49:39 No.16797554 Report

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>>16797498
vault released this doc about his return
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djVe395jL9Q

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:50:55 No.16797557 Report

Quoted By: >>16797616

Because it was very clear he was a buddy of Hunter and brought in so they could do some Evolution triangle match at Mania. When people shit on it, Vince made the switch to Bryan.

I know these is some revisionist history going on but Hunter was a selfish cunt for years and the old man had to do what was best for the business.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:53:01 No.16797561 Report

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>>16797498
Wrestling fans hate it when part timers come back once per year to take the spot from the talent that they followed the entire year

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:53:30 No.16797563 Report

Quoted By: >>16798032

>>16797498
Most of the vocal adult fans during this period grew up with the Attitude era and tuned out 2004-2011. >>16797526
>in 2013 nobody cared about big muscley men.
Sure they did. They liked Lesnar, they liked Dwayne. Guys with actual presence and aura. Ruthless aggression/PG was full of orange meatheads with limited charisma. Batista was one of the best of the bunch sure but he would have been a midcarer still in the 80s and 90s.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 12:54:23 No.16797566 Report

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>>16797498
Batista sucks. he got everything handed to him cause he’s a big guy. faggot never paid his dues

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 13:01:20 No.16797578 Report

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>>16797498
It was Danielson’s story

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 13:07:12 No.16797588 Report

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I was barely hanging on when they added ADR and the raped bitch to the Punk angle, and then when I did my every few years check-in after I stopped watching, I'm seeing the same guys from 2004 in 2014. It was just like...fuck man.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 13:21:30 No.16797616 Report

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>>16797557
We know the plan was for Punk to wrestle HHH. It would have been HHH vs Punk and Batista vs Orton.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 13:25:38 No.16797630 Report

Quoted By: >>16797663

>>16797498
Because the WWE audience back then started getting injected with ICW retarded faggot smarks who wanted to pretend they knew wrestling extremely hard while only consuming WWE because they were too retarded to find alternatives so they cried and shat themselves to get that midget Daniel Bryan pushed, which was ultimately worthless because he KWABd himself and never did anything worth of note after the "Yes movement".

These were basically the manchildren who booed and hated Batista on his return since in their eyes he was the opposite of their precious vanilla midget but after he became a huge deal because of the heckin yummy MCU movies they suddenly wanted him back and these are the same manchildren who used to boo the shit outta Cena and piss their pants about him and now love him and wanna suck his dick because they realized he was the last "guy" left and had no more draws.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 13:36:15 No.16797663 Report

Quoted By: >>16797673 >>16799428

>>16797630
why are you so angry? being in the closet has strained your mental health.
You're wrong on so many levels.
Bryan was over with the casuals AND KIDS! he looked funny so kids loved him too. There weren't tens of thousands of obese sharks packing out ppv after ppv chanting for Bryan, it was the majority of the audience of casual fans, because he was over.
your boner for big boring muscley men has blinded you from the truth.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 13:40:58 No.16797673 Report

Quoted By: >>16797940 >>16797985 >>16799499

>>16797663
>Bryan was over with the casuals

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 13:42:22 No.16797680 Report

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>>16797548
>Bryan was more over and charismatic than punk by 2013
Because of teaming up with Kane.
Once Team Hell No was gone, B+ Bryan went back to being a midcarder that he truly was

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 13:42:33 No.16797681 Report

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>>16797498
Because he returned during Bryan's white hot storyline and tried to steal the spotlight which obviously made fans shit on him hard. Also his cardio was so bad he got gassed just walking to the ring and his wrestling skills had dropped off horribly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 15:27:48 No.16797940 Report

Quoted By: >>16797948

>>16797673
doesn't change the fact he was the most over guy at the time, retard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 15:29:35 No.16797948 Report

Quoted By: >>16797968

>>16797940
He was the least over guy since he tanked the ratings.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 15:32:31 No.16797968 Report

Quoted By: >>16797985

>>16797948
>Bryan was the only guy on those shows
Whether you like Bryan or not, he was the most popular wrestler on that roster.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 15:35:48 No.16797985 Report

Quoted By: >>16797992

>>16797968
He was the most PUSHED guy. The fans hated it, hence they stopped watching >>16797673

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 15:38:04 No.16797992 Report

Quoted By: >>16797997

>>16797985
were you watching at the time? they tried to push Sheamus, Big Show, Orton, Batista, Bray and even Cena over Bryan, unsuccessfully because the crowd turned on it every time.
Go back and watch. WWE was forced to push Bryan because they rejected the guys WWE tried to push over him.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 15:39:09 No.16797997 Report

Quoted By: >>16798003 >>16798027 >>16798057 >>16798105

>>16797992
>they tried to push Sheamus, Big Show, Orton, Batista, Bray and even Cena
And the ratings were higher.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 15:40:11 No.16798003 Report

Quoted By: >>16798014

>>16797997
>ignores the rest
ok, so you're just a butt-hurt faggot that needs big muscley men or you have a hate boner for Bryan for some reason.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 15:40:48 No.16798007 Report

Quoted By:

>>16797515
>>facing a young and handsome Roman Reigns in the final 2, who was getting cheered like crazy
lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 15:41:26 No.16798014 Report

Quoted By:

>>16798003
I'm just relying on facts and logic. Sorry that you're arguments aren't supported by any.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 15:41:27 No.16798015 Report

Quoted By: >>16798039 >>16801248

>>16797498
The crowd was full of faggots that thought a midget homeless guy should've been the face of the company, also they thought peak wrestling was shouting "yes! yes! yes!" like a 5 year old at a clown show. This led to them turning on Batista because he was "taking Dbry's moment". Very similar shit to The Rock and Cody, except Dwayne completely mogged Cody in the entertainment factor and turned the crowd back to popping nonstop for him.

Pushing Dbry was the single biggest mistake after all the smarks claimed he was the right pick. Roman was always the right choice but he needed to stop being constrained by shitty material and boxed into a babyface role, which sadly lasted for a few more years

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 15:42:41 No.16798027 Report

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>>16797997
You atheistfags are unbearable
>ERM.. ACTUALLY THE DATA AND SCIENCE DISAGREES
literal edrones.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 15:43:38 No.16798032 Report

Quoted By:

>>16797563
non sequitur

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 15:45:00 No.16798039 Report

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>>16798015
why come edrones pretend Sami Zayn wasn't more over than Roman and Cody 2 years ago.
did those faggots from 2013 magically reappear?

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 15:47:56 No.16798057 Report

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>>16797997
the ratings fell because of Vince's terrible booking of a three hour show as a whole, retard. They continued to fall with le Big Dawg on top

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 15:55:02 No.16798105 Report

Quoted By:

>>16797997
Orton is a ratings killer

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 16:14:04 No.16798203 Report

Quoted By: >>16798217

>>16797498
Smarks hated him because he wasn't a flabby indie midget.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 16:15:54 No.16798217 Report

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>>16798203
So everyone watching WWE in 2013 was a smark? even connor, the child dying of cancer who's dying wish was to see Bryan win, was a smark?

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 16:17:41 No.16798225 Report

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>>16797517
>Bryan and Punk were the most over wrestlers of the early 2010s
Wasn't that time some of the lowest ratings ever?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 16:20:15 No.16798241 Report

Quoted By: >>16801080 >>16803466

>>16797523
Not in WWE.
Roman, McIntyre, Rhodes and Gunther aren't average looking geeks.
All of the vociferous smelly smarks who used to invest the show have left for AEW, and they've left space to be filled by normal fans who enjoy watching real wrestling. Lo and behold the manlet fed for smelly smarks is dead while WWE, pushing real wrestlers again, is flourishing.

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[[{(GØATALITY)}] Tue 21 Jan 2025 16:23:41 No.16798265 Report

Quoted By:

>>16797498
People Were Losers.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 16:25:08 No.16798275 Report

Quoted By:

>>16797498
Cause Bryan mogs

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 20:10:59 No.16799428 Report

Quoted By:

>>16797663
Go back faggot you won't get any upvotes here.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 20:18:31 No.16799469 Report

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It was terrible timing. People wanted Bryan to beat Orton and the authority and having Batista swoop in instantly and do it got people angry

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 20:22:48 No.16799499 Report

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>>16797673
Based Wolfgod. When he's right, he's right.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Jan 2025 20:49:38 No.16799597 Report

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>>16797498

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jan 2025 01:01:17 No.16801080 Report

Quoted By:

>>16798241
Roman and Gunther look like aids patients.

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jan 2025 01:16:23 No.16801248 Report

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>>16798015
>Pushing Dbry was the single biggest mistake after all the smarks claimed he was the right pick. Roman was always the right choice but he needed to stop being constrained by shitty material and boxed into a babyface role, which sadly lasted for a few more years
You're an anti-smark faggot so you swallowed whole all the roman babyface shit. When the 'smarks' turned out to be right about Roman heel turn you pretend like you were with it all along. Eat shit, cocksucker!

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jan 2025 06:28:45 No.16803466 Report

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>>16798241
#1 contender is Kevin Owens kek

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