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Wrestling Thread 5: FKA The Viking Experience • Page 13

Discussion in 'Sports Forum' started by Henry, Apr 15, 2019.

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  1. PeacefulOrca

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    It will only be remembered as the lights were too bright at mania match anyway
     
  2. Oddpac87

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    Looks like Quack may be down at the PC again, which is always good news.
     
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  3. Groogz

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    How long do we have to wait until Vince does his name elimination game and just makes them The Vikings?

    EDIT: They'll be SUPER popular in Minnesota.
     
  4. They got injured and the gimmick died because it was terrible

    It doesn’t matter if they were champs / they were DOA with the crowd
     
  5. Groogz

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    He could say that he's proven his dominance there and now he wants to re-establish himself as the top guy on another brand. :shrug:
     
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  6. Mick

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    What is there left for him to prove over there?

    Edit: Damnit, @Groogz
     
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  7. oldjersey

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    The gimmick died because Rowan got hurt badly
     
  8. Henry

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  9. Taketimeandfind

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    Bludgeon Brothers was a bad name too but not The Viking Experience bad. Bludgeon Brothers somewhat fit the gimmick. You could buy that it is a wrestling gimmick. But The Viking Experience sounds like a tour you sign up for at the museum or some shit. And now it’s going to turn into this huge meme and they will never be taken seriously. At least BB was still Harper and Rowan
     
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  10. Taketimeandfind

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    I’ll take that honestly
     
  11. oldjersey

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    I guess my point is, for either of these teams, the name will not make or break them IMO. If they put on, or rather are given to opportunity to put on good matches then they will get over. I don't think names or gimmicks hold back good talent too much, shitty booking does.
     
  12. Nick

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    Didn't they debut as a heel group last night? They're faces on NXT. May not be shitty booking, but it's inconsistent.
     
  13. preppyak

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    Thing is, the Bludgeon's didnt. Their first 4 PPV matches, they got 1* and three 2* matches. They were boring slogs because the gimmick demanded they be big bruisers, when Harper is far more interesting as a nimble big guy. The only good match they had (summerslam 2018 v New Day) ended in a DQ where they used the hammers. They turned the smackdown tag division, which had been on FIRE, and killed its momentum entirely.

    They took two good workers and decent talkers and reduced them to some monotone pretaped promos and carrying hammers. And with the way they talked about TVE last night, Id suspect dumber ideas are coming. I dont know what "living the Viking lifestyle" is, but Id put money on it being dumber than the obviously fake mallets the Bludgeons had.
     
  14. oldjersey

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    That's a good point, they were with the heel team but they definitely were acting like babyfaces. Weird.
     
  15. oldjersey

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    I hear ya, the tag division has been massively under booked for years though. Look at the fucking Revival right now. That's true though, "The Viking Lifestyle" bullshit is gonna be brutal.

    But also, they were not given an opportunity to have solid matches, right?
     
  16. oldjersey

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    You gotta let shit flesh out and breathe though sometimes in wrestling, putting a stamp of failure on a team that was together for what? 3 months maybe? Sound unfair.
     
  17. Shrek

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    i mean Bludgeon Brothers is a terrible name but it is leagues better than The Viking Experience, some things just really are that bad
     
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  18. preppyak

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    Yeah, but they intertwine. You ruin two popular guys, the audience checks out, they end up in the preshow within two months and never get PPV time. Harper went from fans wanting a Kofi level push to nobody caring pretty quick with that change

    They squashed Breezango in Dec 2017, won the titles 4 months later, dropped them 4-5 months after that. They had almost a year when you count the weeks of vignettes before their debut.
     
  19. preppyak

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    We also usually find out these things because they think the audience is stupid.

    Like we’ll find out in a couple weeks that they thought Hanson and Rowe sounded too much like Harper and Rowan and they thought people were going to confuse it with the bludgeon brothers or something.
     
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  20. oldjersey

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    Yeah i'm done defending the Bludgeon Bros, they were cringey lol
     
  21. Henry

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  22. Taketimeandfind

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    You know I didn’t even think about Hanson and Rowe sounding like Harper and Rowan. That’s actually a good point.

    But they didn’t have to fucking give them the names that they did. And The Viking Experience still sounds like a bad 4D ride
     
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  23. Oddpac87

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    Imagine being his neighbor and walking out of your front door to this.

     
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  24. But if it was over wouldn’t Bludgie bros have come back instead of Rowan being a valet and Harper toiling away at PC
     
  25. PeacefulOrca

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    Of course dan likes bb
     
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