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Syd Lexia
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So Nash announced he's signed a 5 year deal with WWE. I imagine it's one of their Legends contracts, though he didn't say. If WWE had any interest in using Nash in any real capacity, he'd have been on TV the Monday after the Rumble. Basically, his contract entitles him to be DLC in the upcoming WWE All-Stars video game and come out for a cheap pop every once in a while, like Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Nice work, Big Lazy.
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FNJ
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And that's why we love him.
The guy's getting old. Wrestling takes a lot out of you, especially being on the road all the time and not having time to properly recover. What's so bad about making money off of the name that he made for himself doing all that hard work in the past, instead of doing the hard work now?
If anything, I applaud him for not taking the Ric Flair/Hulk hogan route, and being a bloated, dying glory hog that could barely keep up with the current wrestlers, but still insisting on being the big name.
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Douche McCallister
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FNJ wrote: |
And that's why we love him.
The guy's getting old. Wrestling takes a lot out of you, especially being on the road all the time and not having time to properly recover. What's so bad about making money off of the name that he made for himself doing all that hard work in the past, instead of doing the hard work now?
If anything, I applaud him for not taking the Ric Flair/Hulk hogan route, and being a bloated, dying glory hog that could barely keep up with the current wrestlers, but still insisting on being the big name. |
Amen to that.
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Doddsino
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I'm cool with it. I figure with the stare down between him and Big Show, we could get a nice 5 minute match at Mania or something. It's kind of a shame I couldn't trade him for Hall though, since I would love to see a Razor comeback...just not in the shape he's in. We'll possibly see a HOF induction down the road...probably not this year, but definitely in the next 2 years.
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Syd Lexia
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I just think it's funny, he talked about wanting to retire in the WWE. Well, Legends contracts are for retirees, so good work.
I would have liked to have seen Nash work one last big angle, and judging by Twitter, that's what he wanted too. Well, that's apparently not what he got. A Barrett/Nash program seems to be off the table, unless Vince wants to start it after 'Mania, but fans these days don't have that sort of patience or memory. Feuds used to last a year, sometimes two, now a BIG feud is lucky to last two months.
I want Nash on my TV, dammit. And if WWE isn't going to deliver that, then I wish he was still in TNA.
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Look at it like this, if Nash signed a busy schedule he would likely get injured and would probably take huge time off recovering.
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Knyte
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I think WWE knows they are only going to get a couple of matches out of him, so they are saving up.
I mean, remember the last time he was WWE?
He came back in Febuary 2002 with Hall and Hogan. He tore his bicep in march. (One month later.)
He returned from injury in July (4 months later), and almost immediately tore his quad, and was out for another 9 months.
He spent 13 of his 24 month contract sidelined with injuries. And, that's was almost 10 years ago. His body has only gotten worse.
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Syd Lexia
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So don't have him do house shows. I think you guys are underestimating him. He worked the TNA schedule, which sometimes required him to work 3 matches in a day, because they'd do up to 3 weeks of TV tapings at a time, and he was fine. But do one match a week, or even a match every other week and run-ins on the other weeks, he'd be fine.
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Doddsino
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Also, to be fair...according to Nash, his quad tear was due to the fact that they announced his ring return without him knowing, thus he didn't have all his gear ready for the night, since he probably has very weak legs. It doesn't make the incident any less funny though.
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Syd Lexia
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Funniest thing ever was when Vince McMahon injured himself GETTING INTO THE RING.
Or how about when Hulk Hogan (and sadly this wasn't a televised incident) injured himself by standing up too fast?
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Knyte
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Syd Lexia
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Sid was pissed about that, too. He never did rope moves, but Johnny Ace booked the match and told him to. So he did.
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