Damian Priest Fell the fukk off brehs... Edit: I'll take the L LOL

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I'll take the L

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I mean.. that’s what happens when y’all rush loud opinions out there prematurely for the sake of having a loud opinion. We’ve seen how poorly ya’ll Roman takes aged. Just watch how bad these Austin Theory ones look 5 years from now lol
 

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I don't have a "loud Roman take" at all. :dahell:
Not you specifically lol.. wrestling fans in general. I think this guy hit the nail on the head

Circa 2014: Roman Reigns = BUST


I bet if we dig back far enough into the internet, there were also posts like this about John Cena, Orton, and Batista in 2003 :mjlol: But smarky marks gonna smark, no matter the year.

And it's not that RR was always a total package superstar heel, but people are so quick to wanna be the smartest smark in the room, they think that someone can't ever possibly improve or be a star based on where they are early in their career. Wrestling history has taught us different I don't know how many times, but folks never wanna learn this.
 
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Not you specifically lol.. wrestling fans in general. I think this guy hit the nail on the head

Circa 2014: Roman Reigns = BUST


That's him and others but it ain't me, I'm cool with Roman holding the title forever. I said time will tell on what happens with Cody.

But back to the Priest shyt, I didn't see this push coming. He was cooled off pretty severely but good for him and I'll gladly take the L. He's a good talent.
 

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That's him and others but it ain't me, I'm cool with Roman holding the title forever. I said time will tell on what happens with Cody.

But back to the Priest shyt, I didn't see this push coming. He was cooled off pretty severely but good for him and I'll gladly take the L. He's a good talent.
I’m more so speaking towards early Roman. People who wrote off Roman as a bust in 2014 would have never envisioned dude carrying the business on his back 10 years later.. I know I didn’t.. but shyt, it be like that sometimes lol..

I think wrestling fans in general are just too quick to rush reactions and opinions out there as if what we’re seeing is the finished product with these guys, when it likely isn’t.


don’t think anybody saw Priest having the year he’s had coming, but we were quick to write him off the second it looked rough for the boy. People have to get out of that habit lol


Which is why I’m calling it now. Ya’ll Austin Theory takes are gonna age like milk, and it’s gonna be super evident one day how wrong y’all had it lol
 
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Which is why I’m calling it now. Ya’ll Austin Theory takes are gonna age like milk, and it’s gonna be super evident one day how wrong y’all had it lol

I don't remember what everyone has said but yeah he's been shyt on. I remember what I've said and I'll stand on it. He's not ready. I essentially have said the same thing as Cena did lol. The dude is not ready for primetime and he's shown that quite a few times now.

Now, will he be ready one day? Will he grow into a star of some kind? Yeah, that's possible but with wrestling it also kinda depends on how many chances you get. Austin Theory is like a mediocre white quarterback. Sometimes they are out of the league in 2 years. Sometimes they get to hang around (unlike black QBs) and get to carve out a career for themselves.

It might be unfair to say people are "wrong" about Theory if the WWE just decides to force him down everyone's throat for a decade. Everyone would improve after a decade of reps in the midcard and near the main event. The more reps you get, the better you're gonna be no matter who you are.
 

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Nah he still sucks. Doms got 3 people over and dumb laveck giving all them pushes but him lol.
 

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I don't remember what everyone has said but yeah he's been shyt on. I remember what I've said and I'll stand on it. He's not ready. I essentially have said the same thing as Cena did lol. The dude is not ready for primetime and he's shown that quite a few times now.

Now, will he be ready one day? Will he grow into a star of some kind? Yeah, that's possible but with wrestling it also kinda depends on how many chances you get. Austin Theory is like a mediocre white quarterback. Sometimes they are out of the league in 2 years. Sometimes they get to hang around (unlike black QBs) and get to carve out a career for themselves.

It might be unfair to say people are "wrong" about Theory if the WWE just decides to force him down everyone's throat for a decade. Everyone would improve after a decade of reps in the midcard and near the main event. The more reps you get, the better you're gonna be no matter who you are.


Ehhh.. the last part is a bit of a copout

Saying he isn’t ready is a fair criticism. Many of our favorites weren’t ready at 26 either. We saw Seth sink for a little while after the mega push. We saw Roman sink for damn near 8 years, but eventually they became exactly who WWE intended on them being.

But I’ll tell you right now, there’s not a lot of level headed “he’s not ready yet” rhetoric going on around theory. It’s a whole lot of “he’s trash” chatter. A lot of flop talk. A lot of “xxx is everything WWE thinks theory is” talk.. and I personally think it’s gonna age horribly. We won’t know till way down the line because homie ain’t even 27 yet, but we’ll see..


I’ll say this though.. if 2nd year Jason Tatum is struggling and I’m calling him trash, overhyped etc. and saying he’s not who Boston thinks he is… I shouldn’t be able to go “well he was at the time, he improved with more reps tho!” When the nikka becomes exactly who the franchise thought he was. If muhfukkas gon be loud, stand on that wrongness when the time comes
 

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Not you specifically lol.. wrestling fans in general. I think this guy hit the nail on the head

Circa 2014: Roman Reigns = BUST

Well, to be fair, if the pandemic hadn't happened, he been forced to walk away, which changed their plans for him, he probably would still be getting booed out of buildings all over America. :yeshrug:

I'm pretty sure just about every living breathing individual in America said Roman needed to be turned heel 5, 6 years ago, just like they said it needed to happen with Cena a decade ago. :francis:

It's like nobody knew thta Roman would be a great heel, pretty much everybody did, it's just nobody thought Vince would pull the trigger on him turning.:ehh:
 
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