Yes that’s the thing, he’s the heel. He’s supposed to say heel things and he’s doing his job. Sometimes I like to analyze people’s reaction to categorize them.
Fan reaction 1-TNA fanboy reaction ) OHHHH, he’s going in. This is awesome. NXT and Triple H are hypocrites. EC 3 is the truth.
Fan reaction 2- Not falling it. This is not a real “shoot” aka I’m too smart aka the maxx reaction
Fan reaction 3 - Pro WWE fan I hate TNA, and TNA wrestlers are second rate no matter what. This is just a crybaby wrestler who got released by WWE.
Fan reaction 4 - He’s playing his character and doing his job, Just wait and see where it goes
i’m not going with it because it isn’t interesting. and yeah, key word is WAS a show about obstacle courses and games. Now it’s not. Next to no one even remembers original NXT. Current NXT is the biggest thing in WWE right now if not wrestling overall.
and them being in TNA has nothing to do with it. I’m just tired of bitter ex wwe stars trying to get over at the expense of a company which gave them the exposure to get paid as much as they do in the indies in the first place. Its arrogant and self serving. Plus Gabe is a better booker than to stoop to this psuedo-shoot bullshit.
and you absolutely could hate AJ’s character in TNA and like what he’s doing in WWE. Why can’t you?
EC3 is a never was in WWE. Galloway got pushed to the god damn moon multiple times before putting him in 3MB and he couldn’t get over. Vince himself was even like “this is my guy” and tried to put him over every way possible and people sat on their god damn hands.
They are running with Drew Mcintyre being a heel talking shit and being bitter about wwe. Now they are doing it with ec3. Would love to see both guys back in wwe.
But nowadays bitter promos are boo’d out. Hell it was how Hero turned.
As for Vince giving Galloway his endorsement, he was project beta Roman Reigns and had just as big an anchor tied to his ass as Roman does because Vince sees them one way and one way only.
As for Gabe being above doing a worked shoot, that’s bullshit and you know it, his roh run had plenty of them in varying content and context.
Raven vs punk, punk going to wwe, roh vs czw, homicide vs corny are just a few.
While I’m not a fan of tna workers trying to blast the wwe system for attention in general as it is boring, neither Ethan nor Drew are and to my knowledge neither have blasted the system due to having an ax to grind.
Honestly the only reason they are doing it now is to build an exciting event imo.
I may have not been the biggest ROH fan (and usually hated the ROH-bots), but I’ve gotta admit the Punk vs Raven, Gen Next vs Embassy, ROH vs CZW, and Resilience vs No Remorse Corps vs Vulture Squad stuff was all pretty good.
If I’m not mistaken, the only reason why Drew lost his push was over his fiancée being arrested for domestic abuse. I can easily see Vince lose interest in him over something like that.
You can actually kind of feel for Ryback. Pushed way to hard, too quickly and found himself in the main event before he was ready. Gets made to look like a chump by Punk, and ends up getting Cena’d where he is then severely demoted down the card for no real reason. He repeatedly found ways to get over with whatever crappy thing they had do, kind of Lex Luger-esque quality, where he lacked any real upper tier talent other than his look, but did what he did well enough to get over.
Always works hard, a bit sloppy, but his heart is in the right place. Was showing signs of genuine improvement as well.
getting a chant over isn’t being over. people would be dead silent in all of rybacks matches until that shitty lariat where he’d hulk up and scream feed me more.