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I'm sure there's tag or multiman stuff I'm forgetting but he legit hasn't had anything stand out in a positive way as a singles since Obama was in office.
 
I'm sure there's tag or multiman stuff I'm forgetting but he legit hasn't had anything stand out in a positive way as a singles since Obama was in office.
You must have forgotten The Greatest Match of All Time vs Edge from the Thunderdome Wrestlemania
 
His tag team stuff with Riddle was very well received at the time. The few matches I saw with Street Profits or Gable and Otis forced him to work faster. I do like Orton as a worker much more when he just speeds it up a little.
 
All of his feuds with Bray were hilarious. Burning down the shack. The fight in the haunted house. Burning people alive. Silence of the Lambs Janitor Orton. Fucking classic shit.
 
I’m not an orton fan but this seems a bit harsh.

Though I still remember when @Brooklyn Zoo tried to convince old chat that he was better than Bret. Luckily it was pre-slack era so there’s no record of it.
There was a moment when Orton was the hottest heel getting face pops in the company, when he was kicking people like Vince in the head, then Triple H ruined it, of course.
 

We were joking in chat about WWE involving Cody's dog in the Orton angle to try and get sympathy heat for Cody. Glad to see WWE is thinking in somewhat similar lines. Sad to see they chickened out. If you can't use a beloved family pet to get a cheap reaction, then what has happened to this business?
 
Ok I don't like what I'm reading there. You can talk shit about someone's dead dad but you can't bring up a dead dog? 'Your dog hated you so much he died to get away from you' is a perfect comeback. Roman should also repeat the Moxley line but that's probably too far too lmao.
 
Also Punk wasn’t phased about Roman’s line about AJ coming back to make the big star money like Roman, so at least we know Phil isn’t buttoned on that detail.

my point to make there is he doesn’t care about the Moxley line because Seth and Drew already done it so it’s not a fresh one and Punk didn’t care about it nor did he care that AJ makes the bigger money. but the dog tho, don’t go that far now.
 
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Ok I don't like what I'm reading there. You can talk shit about someone's dead dad but you can't bring up a dead dog? 'Your dog hated you so much he died to get away from you' is a perfect comeback. Roman should also repeat the Moxley line but that's probably too far too lmao.
not to be a dog dad apologist, i do think a key detail is that Sika was a carny fuck to the extreme, so i don’t think it’s out of line in the wrestling business to invoke Sika. He probably had the expectation that he would be used after his passing, especially if it meant his boy was in a main event program.

it still worked in the context that Roman never had issue bringing up deceased family members before until his dad died so it wasn’t just a drive by insult hurled at him for the sake of it.
 
Punk is also kind of a thin skinned bitch with this stuff.

Dude hasn't even laid into Roman for those veneers.
 
“Fragile ego. Fragile body. Weak mind. Weak spirit” would sail over the heads of 95% of a WWE event crowd, but that would be a fucking awesome callback for those who know.
except it’s been done verbatim twice by Seth and Drew already, it’s a beaten down quote that does nothing. Roman should be more unique than reheating Moxley’s nachos.

He might as well make Rocky references if he wants to wink at his buddy. or just bring up AJ’s mental disorder if he wants to be edgy.
 
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Roman dropping RFK Jr knowledge on his wife has potential
 
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