WWE has ran some good "shoot" angles in the last few years. TSC and IWC response proves they were believable in all cases:
I read a lot of people at the time say that while obviously the angle and confrontation was planned, Mayweather breaking Show's nose was not and neither was Show chasing him, Show was legit pissed off. I never bought that, but it was a great angle that got people talking.
"It's a fukking work" classic TSC thread, to even have that much of a debate on whether it was "real" on this type of forum puts it on the list.
http://forums.projectcovo.com/showthread.php?t=4020821
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Is9SdaC-X8]CM Punk Shoot!!! - Raw 06/27/11 [HD] - YouTube[/ame]
A lot of TSC thought he was really leaving WWE after MITB.
If the whole thing was worked and Vince knew about everything Punk would say, they cut this off at exactly the right time in that WWE has allowed Heyman and Joey Styles to bury them and their philosophy in the past but attacking their media campaigns is a deadly sin so it was believable to me at the time that this was a shoot that they would cut off if it went too far.
Any more examples you can think of? The Dean Ambrose thread brought this up to me because the promo I saw of them is an example of a worked shoot that didn't work and seemed obviously fake they way they set it up.
I read a lot of people at the time say that while obviously the angle and confrontation was planned, Mayweather breaking Show's nose was not and neither was Show chasing him, Show was legit pissed off. I never bought that, but it was a great angle that got people talking.
"It's a fukking work" classic TSC thread, to even have that much of a debate on whether it was "real" on this type of forum puts it on the list.
http://forums.projectcovo.com/showthread.php?t=4020821
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Is9SdaC-X8]CM Punk Shoot!!! - Raw 06/27/11 [HD] - YouTube[/ame]
A lot of TSC thought he was really leaving WWE after MITB.
If the whole thing was worked and Vince knew about everything Punk would say, they cut this off at exactly the right time in that WWE has allowed Heyman and Joey Styles to bury them and their philosophy in the past but attacking their media campaigns is a deadly sin so it was believable to me at the time that this was a shoot that they would cut off if it went too far.
Any more examples you can think of? The Dean Ambrose thread brought this up to me because the promo I saw of them is an example of a worked shoot that didn't work and seemed obviously fake they way they set it up.
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