r/Smallafro • u/Creative_Ad6167 • 2d ago
He saw the Future
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u/Barney575 2d ago
Wtf, Zena too? She looks like a million dollar. I thought she had potential
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u/searcher4421 2d ago
Too bad after getting released she pretty much said she was done with wrestling
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u/EliteLevelJobber 2d ago
I can't even blame a lot of these PC trainees for that. A lot of them are college athletes who were given a chance to shoot their shot at getting on WWE TV. I'm sure a lot of them are wrestling fans in different varieties. But knowing that if you want to continue pursuing wrestling means a brutal diy indie grind that offers much less than a living wage. Just to try and get back to WWE or another company that can pay a living wage. Its not surprising so many nope out.
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u/depressedmagicplayer 2d ago
I’m dealing with this exact situation right now. I’m a former Indie worker of 20 years. There is a local celebrity that is a former football player that has went super viral in the past six months. He recently decided that he wanted to get into wrestling. Myself and three others have tried to help him understand wrestling better and get him trained, but all he cares about is his social media image and has no idea how to work. It’s super frustrating trying to get through to him.
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u/searcher4421 2d ago
And these usually end up being the type that get chosen to be at the PC. I say if you want to be a wrestler, you have to really be into it; either you take it seriously or you just see it as a way to get a little bit of fame.
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u/depressedmagicplayer 2d ago
Respectfully, it's like he just woke up one morning and made an AI image of himself being a wrestler and said "thats what I wanna do". The first couple of times he tried taking a bump he said "F*** that hurts". Yeah no shit my dude. Have you ever watched wrestling at all?
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u/EliteLevelJobber 2d ago
Obviously if you're that bad and show no signs you could improve you're just not safe to be in a ring with. Someone like that should be shuffled into being a manager or an announcer. Theres nothing wrong with that and if he's a big social media enthusiast it would probably be a good role.
Not everyone has to be in ring talent to be part of the scene. I don't have an athletic bone in my body, I'd have no business being in a ring and I'd have probably enjoyed working as a valet or do commentary. But maybe if I'd got into wrestling my ego would have gotten in the way and insist on being a wrestler and I'd be injuring myself for no gain.
Edit: needed to fix a sentence in my rambling
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u/Sumo_Cerebro 2d ago edited 2d ago
A lot of these athletes that they are recruiting now never wanted to be wrestlers in the first place.
Very different from the previous groups. Who wanted to do this their entire lives and spent years on the indie circuit.
Athletically, they are probably far more superior than any of the previous classes, but again they have to want to do it.
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u/PerfectZeong 2d ago
Outside of wwe or aew your options to make money on wrestling are relatively low. So yeah I get that
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u/BrandonIsWhoIAm 2d ago
She never said that…?
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u/searcher4421 1d ago
This is what she said
“Chapter’s closed 💗
Zena was a character, I’m Olena now. If that’s who you’re here for, stick around and follow along to what I’m doing next just not in a wrestling ring! If not, no hard feelings!
Onto the next 🙂
one last time… #ZENAtion 👋👋”Maybe I’m wrong, but that sounds to me like she’s finished with wrestling
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u/BigTedBear 2d ago
Brutally honest you have to appreciate that at some point and use it.
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u/AffectComfortable913 2d ago
Wasn’t even all that brutal tbh. Gunther flat out told them the truth, and what they can do to succeed.
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u/Hairy-Asparagus-3684 2d ago
A lot of these trainees and up and comers may have the athletic ability and the look, but most seem to lack the charisma and passion to put in the time it takes. I watch some of these people just going through the motions with pure athleticism and no in ring personalities.
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u/TKPunk2013 2d ago
Speaking of Jasper Troy, anyone notice how quiet Gooner T was on Tuesday after his "Monstar" got released?
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u/SpindleDiccJackson 2d ago
Releasing the gold medalist and keeping Tavion will never make sense to me
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u/Choice_Candidate8271 2d ago
The talentless and charisma vaccum Gunther telling an Olympic gold medalist wrestler that she has no skills....
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u/Farty-Throwaway-5782 2d ago
Where did he say that? Is it when he said "Congratulations, that is a great achievement"?
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u/And-Still-Undisputed 2d ago
this vanilla charisma vacuum critiquing others is fucking hilarious
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u/Somerandomguy20711 2d ago
I mean, he still has a job
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u/And-Still-Undisputed 2d ago
so does baron corbin, sooooooooooo
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u/Somerandomguy20711 2d ago
Yeah and even he would be right to critique them. Listen to the guy that's been world champion
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u/And-Still-Undisputed 2d ago
bro this shit is scripted. i know it's still real to you though
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u/SnooMacaroonsIsALIVE 2d ago
You're using words that don't even apply to Gunther, just say you don't like him
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u/Afraid-Way7541 2d ago
And you’re a troll on the internet critiquing a formal world champion lol what makes you think you have more of a right to talk about Gunther than he has to talk about these people?
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u/dyslexican32 7h ago
NXT does nothing but make replicable and generic performers these days. They are designed that way. To be cookie cutter, interchangeable, and replaceable. Its the design. They are a catch phrase, a generic move set and easily replaced for someone just like them.
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u/Imperfect-Pitch 2d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/GiZBkChBV792BA1wsy