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What? There were a lot of threads on Balor's super push, none of them positive. There are also some pretty key differences between AJ and Balor


Balor was given the keys to the kingdom from day one and has all of one impressive NXT match in nearly 2 years, and it had nothing to do with him besides him being the one to accidentally bust Joe open. AJ was destined to be Cesaro-tier until he turned shyt into gold, and he's consistently been the MVP of every show he's been on all year. He was also proven to be a draw and merch mover even with poor booking. Balor wasn't even particularly a stand out in NJPW, and his shtick got old before he even came to American. Meanwhile, AJ has been on of the top guys in the world for over a decade, and THE top guy in the world over the past 3 years. There's no comparison between the two.

As for complaints about Roman, if they had just waited to bring back Bryan until after WM, that whole backlash (:youngsabo:) would have never happened. Male fans were just as excited for Roman's big push as the female fans were to get his spear...until Bryan came back. Although that CM Punk podcast sure didn't help, even though the point of his "make Roman look strong" story wasn't even about Roman. Wrestling fans are stupid. :yeshrug:

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Balor's push is what people think Roman's push was, AJ came in with no hype and blasted out of the mid card because it couldn't contain him
Agreed except for the merch comment. Aj hasn't passed Cena, Reigns, New Day, Enzo, and KO yet according to WWE Shop.

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You know, having 12 minutes of your 25 minute match be leg work, which plays not one bit into the finish nor does it prevent Dean from hitting any of his spots is the definition of filler work. Dean can bring even AJ down to his level :wow: At most it made Dean stumble once during his shytty Euro corner run, but breh is stumbling all the damn time naturally that he might not have even been selling. Didn't stop dives, didn't stop going to the top multiple times, didn't stop the wacky line, didn't stop him from running across all the tables and diving into the crowd.
 

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K, first bad sequence of the match. Naomi and Natty gotta work on that head scissors spot some more :francis:

Decent boos when they jobbed Baeomi out

Thank God it wasnt Nikki

Carmella's face is hilarious, she looks like a muppet

Cool finish for Becky, Idk about putting the belt on her immediately like that. Generally try to create 1 or 2 legit people before putting the belt on the obvious best performer
 

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Becky's arms
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What the fukk is this.

Hey you know how Miz just cut an amazing promo with the potential to take his career to a new level? Yeah fukk that. We only push Miz when nobody wants to see him. Now that fans are behind him and interested in him for the first time ever, lets stick him in skits with this Beiber-fagit and turn him back into a joke.

I thought Smackdown wasnt gonna be about this foolishness
 

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Agreed except for the merch comment. Aj hasn't passed Cena, Reigns, New Day, Enzo, and KO yet according to WWE Shop.

Go ahead and sub-comment on this my biggest marks, @Silkk @mrken12

I saw this comment and was curious what was....

WWE T Shirts: Official Wrestling Shirts & Tees | WWE

Owens and AJ are the top 2 according to when I filter them by best sellers:jbhmm:


Edit: Now when you try to sort by best sellers it defaults to new arrivals sort but when I clicked sort by best sellers the top 2 were the new AJ and KO shirts and then Big Cass, Cena, RKO and Ryback still for some reason
 
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