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Ali seems like a pretty good guy, though the parallels are there I don't think that's what they are going for.
i mean, vince always does this shit while making wwe/himself the 'bad guy'
Pretty stoked on this. Ali is so damn talented and this is a pretty big spot for him to show what he can do. I have his signature up in my office
There are numerous things wrong with this.
The fucking right wing Antifa caricature, Ali being the leader, the fact that they're ganging up on a black (heel!) stable, but the thing that legitimately upsets me the most is that fucking camerawork. That was borderline unwatchable.
The fucking right wing Antifa caricature, Ali being the leader, the fact that they're ganging up on a black (heel!) stable, but the thing that legitimately upsets me the most is that fucking camerawork. That was borderline unwatchable.
It feels like they pivoted Retribution away from being ANTIFA to some weird mix of Party City Mad Max rejects. Its tough to reconcile the concern with the fact that at least they are giving a talented middle eastern wrestler a chance to shine (though its the WWE, their creative team is absolute trash, so its really more of a chance to turn chicken shit into chicken salad)
They are their actual names I think, but it's weird because they were wrestling under other names on their NXT brand (which is like the development brand before someone gets called up to work on Raw and/or Smackdown), so I think it's more like their codenames for this group or...something.
Camera cuts are determined by a cat that walks across the board and the people holding the cameras work drunk.
I've been in and out of this(mostly out) how were they portrayed at first and what changed? I haven't really watched WWE so I've just been hearing about the "Bane themed Nexus" from a buddy of mine lol
Ali's being pushed as a big heel (or supposedly) and the Hurt business looks like they are in for a New Day like push.....
I would say I like the ideas but...I have a feeling Retribution is gonna be just another Nexus....
So what happened to that whole hacker character????????
Wasnt Ali suppose to be that...now he's a leader of a new heel stable? What.
They got terrible names but at least people can say that Bane is in WWE now....
I would say I like the ideas but...I have a feeling Retribution is gonna be just another Nexus....
So what happened to that whole hacker character????????
Wasnt Ali suppose to be that...now he's a leader of a new heel stable? What.
They got terrible names but at least people can say that Bane is in WWE now....
true, but he's recently been fairly outspoken about corruption in the police department. Check out this article, even if you have 0 interest in wrestling he offers some pretty nuanced perspective shaped by his own life experiences.
Ex-Cop Mustafa Ali Understands Need for Systemic Overhaul
Mustafa Ali’s support of Black Lives Matter was inspired by the things he witnessed first-hand in his four years as a police officer.
www.si.com
Also worth noting he quit the police because he thought it was a corrupt organization and that he couldn't stay in it in good conscience despite trying to help people.
It's not like these kind of stables can't work in the modern day or anything. One only needs only to look at Bullet Club and their various offshoots for how to properly manage an nWo-lite stable and keep them relevant for years. Problem is every stable in WWE since the WCW/ECW Alliance not led by Triple H or one of his protégés has followed the same pattern of being booked well for only a couple of months at most before getting steamrolled by the top babyfaces and being treated like a bunch of geeks for the rest of their existence.
OT.
MVP is back in the WWE? I swear I've seen him not to long ago fighting on some random wrestling brand I've never heard.
Think the channel it was on was Bein Sport or DAZN, so it must of been after a watching a soccer match or something.
MVP is back in the WWE? I swear I've seen him not to long ago fighting on some random wrestling brand I've never heard.
Think the channel it was on was Bein Sport or DAZN, so it must of been after a watching a soccer match or something.
This is a pretty hard stretch all around. Ali is of middle eastern descent, but he's hardly been pushed as that in what little pushes he's had. His Chicago/Cop background has been pushed much more. I'm not even sure of middle easterners and antifa connection IRL regardless... Anyways, big spot for him here and im glad to see him get.
To Vince McMahon , there is no difference between Pakistan and the Middle East . It's all just one big brown patch to him and to him that equals bad guy ( I'm Pakistani by the way)
It never occured to me that Retribution was a take on antifa but it makes sense if you think like a fuckwit racist, such as Vince McMahon.
Should i be offended by this? I dont know the origins of the group as i dont follow WWE and it could very well have been an antifa analogy considering its vinces trash ass but what i saw in that clip was a goofy gang of villains in Bane masks.
And its dope they got a pakistani dude as a (major?) heel.
And its dope they got a pakistani dude as a (major?) heel.
Was about to comment on the camera.
This and the rapid zoom-in, zoom-out whenever someone is getting beaten down on the ground are things that stick out to me whenever I see clips of WWE
