I really like her. I only rate Finkel higher (albeit a lot higher). We’ve established already today I hold some minority opinions 
However her call on Cody’s title win was a big botch.
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If she did it in different style I’d like her a lot, I don’t think her announcing talent is in question. I just can’t stand the streeeeeeetcccccccccccch ooooooutttttttttttttttt myyyyyy woooooooooooords reeeeeeallyyyyyyyyyy looooooooooudly presentation.
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I think Roman’s legacy is pretty secure at this point. His title reign was unique in the modern era and drew huge audiences, no matter what you think of the booking.
Even with the schedule he went onto after his new contract he averaged a defence every 42 days. That’s pretty immense over 3+ years.
There’s a couple of wrestlers she does it for where they really works. She’s started, possibly under direction, to do it for more and more which is silly.
Like when you’re announcing Roman Reigns, champion for 4 years, it’s justifiable to go a bit OTT. Less so for Otis.
I take it you enjoyed when Tony Chimel did it for Edge?
Because I couldn’t stand that shit either
Weirdly, it passed me by completely until I saw it in retrospect years afterwards
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I hate the Chelsea Green intro she does. Makes me cringe just listening to it.
That’s sort of the point given Green’s character, I would say. I get why it annoys people though.
I had my issues with the guy when he was on top as well but in hindsight I think he actually carried that company very well during a tricky time.
Austin was gone, Rocky was gone, Lesnar(who was supposed to be the FOTC) ditched them, Attitude Era was over, wrestling business was down, wrestlers were dropping dead every other week, Benoit killed his family, there was actively an attempt in the media to damage WWE and wrestling. They also had to go PG was a complete 180 from what made wrestling cool in the 90s.
Cena was affected so much he had to rename his moveset because his stuff was named after swear words.
I think he did his best to stabilise the ship.
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The best thing to happen to Cena’s popularity was when he went part time and started putting younger guys over.
The US open challenge was one of the better things he did
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That springboard stunner was corny though.
I always thought one of the more unfair criticisms of him was of his wrestling ability. The guy has been in a large proportion of WWE’s best matches over the last 20 years. That US title run had a couple of them in there.
Oh yeah he’s had great matches over the years. Punk got the best out of him in like 3 matches. AJ at Rumble. The triple threat match with Brock and Seth. He’s had some excellent matches.
Weirdly never got a great one with Randy.
They had like 100 matches together. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure there were some decent ones but I don’t recall a single one that blew me away.
And I rate both individually and on paper they should have great chemistry.
Nah they don’t have much chemistry together. Which is a shame because they’ve had some great feuds.
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https://twitter.com/Fightful/status/1788591585002672352
They also pitched new music to Orton. Fuck me.
What’s the obsession with ruining everyone by giving them a shitty Def Rebel song.
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Tbf this is back in the day, so we’re talking 06
Just had a look, Corey didn’t specify about whether he was talking about 2005.
I can’t see it being that period. Punk was a rookie at that point, he would be in no position to demand his own theme song, and we know he ended up using This Fire Burns till 2011.
So he’s gotta be talking about 2011(when he first made the switch to Cult of Personality in WWE) or 2023(when he returned).
Literally says “When Punk was first going to WWE” 