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| Austin Aries goes to Philly... | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 23 2017, 03:51 PM (46 Views) | |
| Crann | Nov 23 2017, 03:51 PM Post #1 |
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So A-Double showed up in Tommy Dreamer's House of Hardcore recently and cut a good, introspective promo about his future in the business/his past mistakes and issues with the WWE, Cornette and others. It was a solid promo, but the crowd gets aggressive (even chanting "shut the fuck up" at one point). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etGjVPi_DGE What do you think about the promo? Too self-indulgent? Too long? Great work? |
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| Fauche | Nov 23 2017, 08:09 PM Post #2 |
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In the sense that the promo wasn't working with the crowd it was presented to, it was bad. The delivery and message were just dandy, Aries is excellent and I hope that his return to the indies works out. It would be great to have him back in ROH. But this crowd sucks. Fuck the chant-happy mark movement. Fuck the "I paid for my ticket so I can behave however I want" mentality. An adult is talking. You're an adult. Fucking listen. Don't like what you're hearing? Not being "entertained"? Fucking chill out. There are a couple other hundred people in the room too. Be considerate you fucking tools. Also, develop a fucking attention span. A bunch of assholes trying to capture the OG ECW hardcore fan vibe when chances are they were fucking six years old when ECW went off air. And even if they weren't, who gives a shit? Try and enjoy the show, don't go out of your fucking way to try to be disappointed. Fuck. Drunk or not, the over-entitled wrestling fans are one of the worst things about pro wrestling today. One more reason why Japanese shows are better most of the time. All that said, maybe he should have bailed on the promo or changed direction. He definitely had something he wanted to say, but him following through with a shitty crowd that didn't want to hear it wasn't so good for anyone involved. Not so different from a scripted Reigns babyface promo that nobody buys. Gotta play to the crowd, that's what Terry Funk would say. EDIT note - this post was before I had supper and also it rained all day even tho yesterday was -20 and it's hard to build a fourplex in the cold november rain. so maybe I was a little grumpy. but I stand by it all. Edited by Fauche, Nov 23 2017, 09:12 PM.
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| SemiObsessive | Nov 26 2017, 12:58 PM Post #3 |
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I watched that the whole way through and I do simpathise with Austin Aires. Infact I can’t lie, I teared up a little. He told everyone his problems and the people just didn’t care. It made me think about how little wrestling fans actually care about wrestlers, they just pretend to care when they done something worth mentioning. That pisses me off. While Austin was saying how miserable he had became up to the best day of his life the crowd were chanting “shut the fuck up”. I get that the crowd are a specific one but by god they are idiotic. I really feel where you are coming from Fauche. The crowd are dog shit, unsympathetic bastards who when they aren’t getting excited about someone doing a flip or going through a crazy object like a lightube, barbed wire or a table, they might just fall over from the mass of their chub. It’s just horrendous as a whole for this shitty mentality of “oh, look he did something cool” then that’s the only reason they like them. To summarise my point (that I normally wouldn’t make this long) I do care greatly for Austin and all of his abilities and it’s a travesty that these stupid Philadelphians think that they are higher because they can chant whatever the fuck they want. Wrestlers center their whole lives around their jobs and I actually can’t believe how this mentality is now. I mean it’s not like it’s changed too much. When I was a kid (2010-ish) I would see drunk people even at WWE shows, chanting extremely loudly and throwing their beer everywhere and just generally being obnoxious. These fans are just huge marks, might sound ironic coming from a reasonably hardcore fan but I do believe the fans are killing it as well as making it. And that’s the bad part. |
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