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End of the Rosebuds?
Don’t you dare deprive me of my dose of Tessa Blanchard!
Is Tessa the Lara Croft one? Cause that’s the first one I want signed (#2-#5 on my list are all the other lady Rosebuds).
Tessa is the one in cat ears and blue undies, and she’s SMOKING. check her out: [twitter.com]
the Lara Croft rosebud wasn’t even my 2nd favourite rosebud on that segment. the best Rosebud was 100% Mandy Leon! (the one in the black dress and juggling parts) she’s usually really hot, but in this outfit on Main Event and Smackdown she was just SOMETHING ELSE, MAN, I CAN’T EVEN. irresistible!
Gotta agree with @themosayat on Mandy Leon. Hottest Rosebud for me, especialy on Main Event and Smackdown. JIGGLY BOOBS!
Yup, cat ears woman. She also rocked a smoking hot silver jacket a couple of weeks ago.
I don’t know the name of Mrs. Lara Croft.
@Cami
I know what her name will be: Mrs. Lara Croft-Slider.
They gotta end up signing Tessa, right? She’s practically a full-time Rosebud at this point.
Also, yes, I’ve enjoyed my week with the Lara Croft and Cat lady Rosebuds.
The limo driver has dog poo on his shoe cause his other job is taking care of Stephanie’s dog, a job vacated by Jericho after his 2005 firing.
Arm foreskin?! *Shudder*
I wrestled with whether I should include that line, but I’m glad I did.
After the way that lady in the crowd rubbed it a couple weeks back, it might be a foreskin.
“involved him finding a way to do his goddamn stupid rebound clothesline from the floor.” The pendulum lariat is a beautiful and creative move, you swine
it’s been beaten into the ground by Ambrose and some others over the past year plus. in fact, we’ve been getting sick of it since about the time Ambrose lost his US championship EIGHT MONTHS AGO. the timing for it is just usually off and it becomes a slow, easily-avoidable looking normal clothesline instead of what it’s purpose *should be* as a flashy, surprising come back at the end of the really hard-fought matches. if the one selling it can’t flip on his head like Rollins, it just doesn’t look good.
Ambrose should just start saving it for really big, really special matches as his secret weapon a la Orton’s punt.
Perfectly put, themo.
@themosayat Yeah he’s got to save it or else it will be as predictable and boring as a 619.
I’ve only seen the rebound lariat as an impressive move a couple of times, and in one of those ocassions Nigel Mcguiness broke a guy’s jaw.
@MagSeven
Or Reigns’ dropkick on the apron.
It’s the new Orton draping DDT — a cool thing that would only make sense in maybe 1 in 10 matches, but gets done 2 to 3 times per match.
Natalya certainly looks amazing in that photo! it’s not her body much, as much as her new hair-do and the blurriness of her face to not look as weird as usual. (but yeah, also her body, of course.)
I want Cesaro and Tyson to get higher and higher on WWE’s ranking and get that tag belts reign that the Real Americans should’ve gotten last year beating the Usos at Mania or something. would’ve kept Cesaro in a strong place since then. let’s hope he gets that this time. (and Tyson obviously deserves the best!)
After reading Mick Foley’s article on Facebook I absolutely want to see Cesaro and Tyson Kidd succeed more than ever and win the tag titles. They’re the absolute best tag team in WWE IMO with Miz/Mizdow in 2nd place. And yeah Natalya looked amazing too.
If Cesaro giant swings El Torito for 100 I’ll forgive Vince and co. for all the horrible, senseless booking of 2014.
If Cesaro swings Torito, he should toss him out of the ring and into the awaiting Los Matadores.
I cannot understand how WWE actually succeeded in turning Bray and Dean, the two best talkers in the company a year ago, into two of the least interesting talents for me. I mean, I remember all the steps they took to achieve this, and how each one was more concerning and frustrating than the one before it, but I still can’t believe it…
I can already sense Nikki’s, Miz & Mizdow’s and Rusev’s momentum slowing down, and I fear for them. they might not pull through like Rollins when HIS momentum started slowing down last year. they aren’t bullet proof like say, Stephanie and Triple H. I hope they keep strong through the Road to Mania.
They do it all the time — they find an effective talker/personality, then overuse them until the words coming out of their mouth lose all meaning, and eventually the guy saying them loses their passion. They did it to Punk, Ziggler, Bray, Dean, all of them.
The problem is they only have, like half a dozen guys they trust to talk at any one time, but a lot of filler talking to do, so as soon as a character heats up they’re *everywhere* on every show. If they let some of the lower profile, but still talented talkers handle some of it, the top guys wouldn’t get burned out as fast. Let Titus O’Neil cut a promo instead of having Bray Wyatt talk every single show.
@Nate Birch I couldn’t agree more.
@Nate Birch perfect solution.
“I can see what WWE sees in Roman Reigns. I just wish they also saw all the not-so-great stuff in between the highlight moments”
or also saw all the other better talents and actually treated them as well!
I honestly don’t hate Reigns in the ring. I can be patient and wait for him to hulk up. but it’s his dullness and staleness as a character that makes him not connect with me… I need him to evolve a little. I know he won’t develop the ability to carry interesting speeches any time soon, so he shouldn’t be exposed by being given the mic. he needs to change his gear, entrance and maybe not get forced into the main event before Summeslam AT LEAST.
I just thought of this:
every year, my favourite parts of the Royal Rumble are the random face offs between talent that haven’t interacted with each other much throughout the year, that feel fresh and could be interesting in the future or for just that one night, rather than when rivals try to eliminate each other or whatever.
for example, for this year, I’d like to see Ambrose look confused by guys like Mizdow and get mad at guys like Stardust, rather than just punch Bray a lot and get eliminated along with him. so, I surely hope they minimize that.
Well aren’t you chatty.
I drop around with all my thoughts about WWE every few weeks, haha
I actually thought the rebound lariat on the ground was a neat revamp of the move. I like it. God damn has WWE forced me to not care at all about Dean Ambrose though. This Bray Wyatt feud has sucked from the very start.
Also, in case Ms. Lara Croft ever sees this, hey ;)
How is what happened on Raw E&C’s fault? Are non-medically cleared guest hosts supposed to fight? Is GrumpyCat supposed to be able to Tornado DDT Torito?
I’m cool with the ascension beating up on jobbers for a bit. At least the fall of man looked like it hurt for once.
True. The guy in the pink Brian Kendrick tights took a nice bump for it.
Nice to see ROH’s Rhett Titus out from under the “Romantic Touch” mask long enough to be Local Jobber #1.
For a second I worried I was the only one who remembered Titus. But what is this whole “Romantic Touch” nonsense? Next thing, you’ll be telling me Curry Man is Christopher Daniels.
Curry Man is Christopher Daniels. But only because you TOLD me to do it…
I wish the Lara Croft Rosebud would have cosplayed the reboot Lara. Imagine her showing up to the match covered in blood and burns. Diva’s champ please.
Have her fall off the apron but sell it like she just fell off a 100-foot waterfall.
“The Ascension destroys local athletes” is the best newspaper headline ever
This is akin to a, “Rain in Seattle” headline.
true, but I enjoy watching the ways wwe slithers out of using the word ‘wrestler’
I’ve always said that the best use of the Exotic Express is as a secret stable of sorts. Like how in NXT, they were basically “unique” jobbers, but they were at the beck and call of Adam Rose. It furthers my (kayfabe) theory that Rose is a vampire (demonic, perhaps?) and the Express are his willing thralls. That’s the only way that shit could ever be interesting to me. Of course, that just ties in my obsession with having Becky Lynch take on a vampire hunter gimmick and hunt Rose down, but I excitedly digress.
I remember thinking the rebound clothesline being cool the first few times I saw it, but it’s one of those things that Ambrose just does way too much of, and in a way too whacky manner. I know that he loves whacky, kitschy, dorky wrestling shit, and who doesn’t? But a rebound clothesline really only works if it’s an “out-of-nowhere” rare card and it really only looks good if you’re taking a normal bounce off the ropes. The fall-back into the middle rope and leap back again thing IS an intriguing feat and not one I could replicate, but it always comes off as way too silly for its own good. His promo work, about all the horrible stuff he plans on doing to his opponents, should be mostly honored. Much like only ‘Taker and Kane get to do piledriver variations, so should Ambrose (and by extension, Bray) be able to blade. I know; it’s a barbaric practice and from what we now know about air-born diseases (especially from blood), it’s not a bright idea. But I’ll be damned if one didn’t admit to how fucking great blood looks in wrestling, and how it would only make sense and give it that gravity that the Wyatt/Ambrose feud desperately needs.
There actually is a secret president for Ryback’s leg being his Achilles’ heel. It just didn’t make any sense until now.
[www.youtube.com]
+1
Secret president? Like Quentin Trembley III, Esq?
+1
@Spaghetti Day
That was so good, I’ll allow it
my favorite part is Roman rolling Rusev about halfway across the ring so they’re in position for Shows interfearence.
Yeah, that was…not good.
I thought the Uso trying out the pirate hat was him being spontaneous at first but I re watched it and the Rosebud knocked it off his own head mid jump.
Not a Diva’s match anywhere .
Could Roman knocking down the Russian flag be foreshadowing for a future feu- wait what am I talking about creative doesn’t know what “foreshadowing” is.
The problem with Reigns is this: When Red Letter Media did its excellent “reviews” of everything wrong with the Star Wars prequels, they asked people on the street to try to describe the prequel characters (qui gon, padme, etc) and nobody could come up with any meaningful explanation of their personalities. I feel the same way about Reigns. Ask me to describe the “characters” (not just their physical appearance, but their personality) of Ambrose, Rollins, bray, etc to a stranger and I can do it. But if someone asks me to describe who Roman Reigns is? “Well, he has long hair and he punches.”
So Christian offers no explanation for how a gut shot from the briefcase put him into a coma?
Obviously gave him another concussion, so therefore has no recollection of it happening.
To be honest, if you hit him hard enough, Christian would forget that the Authority went away… or that he was in TNA.
I know they’ve already feuded 100 times but part of me would like to find out Christian was working with Rollins to set up Edge. Edge gets the big HOFer, 11 time world champion, career tragically cut short, video package on RAW. John Cena giving him the big verbal blowjob backstage while Christian stood in the background. Christian never even got an acknowledgment about his retirement. That’s the perfect fuel for a jealous betrayal angle. Set up Edge to be humiliated and be seen as responsible for bringing back the authority.
And then one…more….unsanctioned street fight between E & C at WrestleMania
Edge is finally the underdog because of the neck issues, a la HHH/ HBK. I dunno.
First off, does the Nattie Neidhart Meaty Thighs Enthusiast Club have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
Also, I want WWE to bring in Norv Fernum and Dewey Barnes to feud with the Ascension.
Lara Croft was Renee Michelle
Looks like not. She commented that she had a look-alike