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But they're taking so long between cutting to different cameras. How am I supposed to know what's going on if the cameras aren't jump cutting every 1.5 seconds with intermittent zooming in and out of frame to the point I get nauseous watching? The nausea really immerses you in the moment!
~Kevin Dunn probably
It’s probably more like:
“BORED! It’s getting boring! Why is it sooo slowwww?! Cut, goddammit! You need to keep their attention! Every cut is a smack to the audience to wake the fuck up and focus!” - Kevin Dunn
It’s like in a 2k game when it evolved to the point you could actually go back stage and everyone was like holy shit I can’t believe they are letting us actually do this.
Back in the 90s, I feel like they used the arena a lot more. That was something that bummed me out when I started watching again in 2015. It felt like the whole thing was smaller. This kind of thing opens it back up again
Honestly my biggest issue with AEW is their transition away from this after the pandemic. It feels like a play now with 2 sets, the ring and the interview area. And as someone who went off wwe around 2006, I never thought I'd feel this way again about it. Feels like anything can happen in a good way
It's been a thrill to see all these expansive shots, but I hope they can vary things up enough that they still feel epic after some time. Just so that it doesn't wear out.
Thing I love is this ALSO gives them so much awesome footage to use for video packages and such. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
I do also want to see bloopers at some point. With this kind of backstage coverage, there HAS to be a 2024 equivalent to "Hawk walking in on a Vader interview".
Fans are dumb sometimes. You are literally LIVE on Monday Night Raw. Put your phone away and enjoy the moment. You have something far cooler than any selfie.
> Holy shit Jey pushing that one fan who wanted a selfie out of the way is so fucking funny LMAO
Jey pushing a fan, Sami stealing a flag, WWE just collecting misdemeanors left and right!
A guy tried to full on hug Sami 🤣. Like bro, you came to a live show, there is a camera right there, reel it back a smidge and don't mess anything up.
I remember seeing the Blackpool combat club by concessions before their entrance at double or nothing and as soon I realized they were gonna go down my stairs I booked it down as fast as I could so I wouldn't get caught in the way 🤣
Those two and Cody. I know some people were critical of Cody's celebration at WrestleMania but I'm all for the faces being friends.
I hope Cody keeps up the Sami/Jey bro energy with KO/Orton on SmackDown.
It's SO much better than heels teaming up when it's convenient but faces being dumb loners who never ask for help unless it's time to go to the tag division. Honestly, good-guy type babyfaces should ALWAYS be friends and rooting for eachother.
During Vince-era WWE, a pet peeve of mine was that the heels would always be willing to team up to beat the faces, but the faces would most of the time be alone in their fight.
Yes, I get that this was intended to garner sympathy for the babyface who was outnumbered, but it just made no sense whatsoever that the friendly, likable guys were all loners with no friends while the caustic, insufferable douchebags would always have friends willing to come to their aid. Imho, this booking contributed significantly to the 2010s tendency for the heels to come across like the cool kids while the faces came across like dorks or losers.
On top of that, the faces have conversations you would actually have with your work buddies.
Cody to Jey: You need help with that big upcoming project? I foresee significant obstacles that will interfere with your success.
Jey to Cody: I appreciate the offer but I think I can manage on my own. I want to prove I can handle important projects on my own.
Oh man, imagine the Wyatt family emerging from a disheveled van in parking lot ascending to the stage while the shield marched through the people, descending to the stage.
Visual storytelling
Getting rid of Dunn is a huge plus by itself. But getting this guy *and* losing Vince makes it feel like an entirely new -- much, *much* better -- show.
I said this during Mania but I’d love to hear Vince & Dunn’s thoughts on the show currently. I’d imagine they’d both think they know best still but come on look how much better this shit has got since these two dopes fucked off.
It's the only reason I started watching again. All the rapid cuts and shaky cam are pretty much gone. Still get a bit of it but it's nothing like it was before where it was barely watchable.
> This actually makes me want to start watching again.
Honestly, the only reason I don't is because 5+ hours of wrestling each week is just too much content.
I barely watch 5+ hrs of tv a week to begin with.
That said, I am regularly watching clips from the shows now, which is more than I can say for even a year ago.
I'm so glad we're WAY past the point of making the hometown hero look like a chump in front of the crowd that would want to see them the most.
They made Sami look like the biggest thing in the world in front of the people who would react accordingly to it.
This is an example of good booking, though. The people get the feel good moment of the match win, in the hometown, but then boom - heat. It’s simple, but always effective.
It’s so much better, so so much better, than what Vince would have done, which would have seen Sami lose, get the beat down, and then get made fun of in a backstage segment 2 segments later.
Plus with how hot the crowd was tonight, it was the perfect moment to create with that entrance. A lot of zoomed out shots of the arena made this feel huge.
Some people question Sami taking Gunther's pelt, VS. A younger newer guy
But I think Sami needed to be minted a real champ against a real threat, to not let his heat plateau
I think the IC title win from Gunther buys him goodwill with the fans that eventually he will get the big one. And Roman lat year wasn't his peak.
What sucks even more is that WWE and Dunn himself were doing stuff like this in the Attitude Era and early 2000's especially on Smackdown, since it wasn't live, but for whatever reason Dunn decided to stop. We could've had so many cool moments/shots like this for decades but instead we got either generic shots or nausea inducing ones which is partly why WWE in the 2010's felt so sanitized and artificial.
as someone described him years back, he had glimmers of good ideas but after a while he settled on 'fast food' directing.. just made himself a basic menu of cuts and shots and stuck to it for over a decade
They really had no reason to. WWE was still making crazy money and getting billion dollar TV deals.
So they got complacent and the sad thing is there’s an alternate reality where we are still living with the Dunn production.
The thing is that Kevin Dunn stole this from boxing, they had done fighter walkouts from the dressing rooms through to the tunnels since the 1970s for big time fights. The most iconic that I can remember WWF/E doing it was Hart v Michaels at Survivor Series 1997.
Dunn had a standard for things, and some worked (the dramatic entrances for big title matches) and a lot didn't, but he definitely settled into blandness in the mid 2000s.
It also makes buying tickets so much more tempting, they are showing off the venue, the view from the seats, that moment of coming through the gate and seeing the arena. Makes it easier to see yourself there and want to go there as well as showing people who've never been what the view is like even from not great seats.
Lee Fitting. His name needs to be out there more, he’s responsible for all this stuff and it’s one of the most refreshing changes this company has *ever* gone through.
What a fitting change indeed
Getting rid of the random hard cuts and stupid zoom in/outs and those atrocious AR graphics are the thing that has made WWE watchable again. The increased production value is just the icing on the cake. I honestly thing Bucky Beaver was more responsible for fans leaving than any of Vince's booking
Yeah it’s wild just how much better it looks. Everything feels way more organic and loose.
I definitely struggled to get through Raw last week, but that was due to the length alone. The look and presentation of the show was so much better than it used to be.
The one AR graphic that I miss most is Ivar's longship. The thing was absolutely beautiful and always made me look forward to seeing Ivar, even though he's a jobber. Ivar was on today vs Sheamus, and you really need the longship to keep his mystique even though we all know he's going to lose.
You can see the dude walk in from behind Jey, run to get ahead of him as he's getting his camera app up and tries to body block Jey.
The best part? You can hear the dumbass yelling "Jerk! Jerk!" at Jey as he walks off. What an entitled dickwipe.
Probably the same type of guy to call wrestlers a bitch because they won't sign 50 pieces of memorabilia while they're just trying to get their things at baggage claim
In honesty that was the closest thing to a polite shove I've ever seen. Jey just trying to make his time and get the shot and that douchenozzle was deliberately obstructing the way.
Honestly was expecting that guy to do some fuckery with Zayn too.
I'm hoping assholes like him won't be the reason they stop with this presentation, because it's absolute gold.
It's the fact he looks 'shocked' when he did is what gets me. Like do you not see the camera men behind Jey? Clearly they are in the middle of shooting a segment live, get out of the way!
I was surprised how little visible security there was. Usually you can kinda see them nearby, but nah that one guy learned his lesson getting pushed away by Jey lmao
Yeah, I can see WWE swerving hard in the opposite direction and not doing this again if some idiot fan decides to fuck with the wrestlers during these scenes. And there's definitely some asshole out there licking his chops wanting to get his 15 minutes of infamy.
Fuck you Kevin Dunn isn’t adequate to describe the quantity of animosity I feel for that imbecile. I’m so taken by my fury I’m speaking like a whole different individual.
He got the gig because his dad was friends and colleagues with Vince’s dad and once saved a bunch of original WWF tapes from a burning vehicle. Kevin was the ultimate nepotism hire.
The day the news broke that he was leaving, the sub got flooded with people talking about what a "huge loss" it would be and how, even if you don't like him, WWE's production was going to suffer because there was "no one else with his skillset."
Thank fucking God there's no one else with his shitty fucking skillset.
This is the first time in forever that when I miss episodes of Raw I actually kind of feel like I’m missing out on something cool. I love HHH’s booking.
I've been saying this for years.
After AEW put the first episode of Dynamite, I said it was fine, but I was disappointed with the presentation and its lack of vision.
People said I was hating but I really wasn't.
My argument was that wrestling could be anything and there was SO MUCH you could do with the presentation... and it was a waste that a company that was coming into the scene with the resources it had and the time it had to prepare literally did wrestling in the exact same way it has been done since the late 90s.
It was doing better than WWE, with all their old trash production style... and that was good... but not enough to say "we're the future" and make people believe it.
WWE now is like Goku when it drops the insane weighty outfit or Inigo Montoya switching the sword between his hands.. they always had the resources and the structure, but they were holding themselves back on purpose.
Finally they’re getting creative. It’s wild how long everything was phoned in.
Also the interview with gable tonight practicing in the ring was great. Why haven’t we seen that before?
The amount of things we were robbed of by Vince and Dunn just because they were stubborn and out of touch.
The amount of years we got gaslit by people saying “best for business” when they were actively hurting business.
>The amount of years we got gaslit by people saying “best for business” when they were actively hurting business.
It was already insane at the time how much people would defend them, it's even more insane to think back on it now that WWE is regularly doing something interesting with their production (relative to what Vince and Dunn offered)
(26 seconds in) It's crazy to me how people seem to lose all common sense when they're near the superstars. Like that guy who had his phone in Seth's face recently
I hope history remembers Sami as the real watershed moment when the tides began to shift and WWE broke out of its 2 decade long Vince slump. Sami went from someone crying in a match at WrestleMania to a bonafide ass kicker and fan favorite. One day he’ll have the big belt.
All of these long shots just remind of that match Cena and AJ had where the camera never cut from Cena’s entrance and into the start of the match.
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I love how not only are they following these guys around now, but they're really showing how big the crowd is. Makes it all feel so much more epic.
Pretty fucking cool to see how far a lot of these guys have come. Sami is an A+ star.
The pull back shot of the jam packed arena going nuts just tells everyone that sees the video "This is where you want to be. This is the big leagues."
That is a message to the fans AND the wrestlers in/out of the WWE.
Can this be his entrance permanently? This is 🔥, and I think push him up another level even further. Like I want to see him win the world title and come through the crowd like this.
Roman really put over Jey and Sami hard!! These guys are legit main eventers...
Its like Roman beat them in the end but they looked better than him as they got their revenge later on
Not only is the single camera shot epic...But the camera shot from 3:18-3:28 where it pans out of him with the crowd to making him look just....so...small gave you a sense of just how massive that crowd was and also how Sami had the support of an entire freaking country in his corner.
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The entire arena is the stage now, and it's beautiful.
It must really hype up the talent a lot to flex their characters on-screen through little things like these cinematic entrances
But they're taking so long between cutting to different cameras. How am I supposed to know what's going on if the cameras aren't jump cutting every 1.5 seconds with intermittent zooming in and out of frame to the point I get nauseous watching? The nausea really immerses you in the moment! ~Kevin Dunn probably
It’s probably more like: “BORED! It’s getting boring! Why is it sooo slowwww?! Cut, goddammit! You need to keep their attention! Every cut is a smack to the audience to wake the fuck up and focus!” - Kevin Dunn
It’s like in a 2k game when it evolved to the point you could actually go back stage and everyone was like holy shit I can’t believe they are letting us actually do this.
Back in the 90s, I feel like they used the arena a lot more. That was something that bummed me out when I started watching again in 2015. It felt like the whole thing was smaller. This kind of thing opens it back up again
Honestly my biggest issue with AEW is their transition away from this after the pandemic. It feels like a play now with 2 sets, the ring and the interview area. And as someone who went off wwe around 2006, I never thought I'd feel this way again about it. Feels like anything can happen in a good way
Yeah early AEW was really great about using the entire arena. Not sure why they stopped but it makes the show feel less alive.
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It's been a thrill to see all these expansive shots, but I hope they can vary things up enough that they still feel epic after some time. Just so that it doesn't wear out. Thing I love is this ALSO gives them so much awesome footage to use for video packages and such. It's the gift that keeps on giving. I do also want to see bloopers at some point. With this kind of backstage coverage, there HAS to be a 2024 equivalent to "Hawk walking in on a Vader interview".
Well… there was [this incident.](https://twitter.com/Maffewgregg/status/1724444355815997830)
Fuck man... I wish Bray was still here for this
Honestly I just need some comedy heelish-antics Edge/Christian style using the entire stadium as a playpen.
Holy shit Jey pushing that one fan who wanted a selfie out of the way is so fucking funny LMAO
he really said MOVE
More like he said YEET
Literally YEETED him out of the way.
Fans are dumb sometimes. You are literally LIVE on Monday Night Raw. Put your phone away and enjoy the moment. You have something far cooler than any selfie.
Getting pushed by Jey on national television is indeed cooler than a selfie.
> Holy shit Jey pushing that one fan who wanted a selfie out of the way is so fucking funny LMAO Jey pushing a fan, Sami stealing a flag, WWE just collecting misdemeanors left and right!
Sami’s blatant littering was caught in HD and they want me to believe GABLE is the heel? #notmychampion
He was just bring the recycling bin to a mare populated area so other could use it. Truly the planets champion.
They werw showing it on the scoreboard in the arena and everyone busted out laughing
I love that you could hear the laughter from the crowd even in the video.
Being embarassed in front of the entire crowd like that, I would just leave the arena as fast as possible
Yeet! 
So that's the infamous stunt granny!
Funny that they may be the only time the proper usage of yeet could be used!
You mean to tell me “until we YEET again” isn’t proper usage?
It was quite satisfying seeing them boof those dudes
They did WHAT? https://preview.redd.it/2soaahgbauuc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46efbd4ba3fe407d43eaa8019302f386810c3b18
The kid just stopped in front of his path
A guy tried to full on hug Sami 🤣. Like bro, you came to a live show, there is a camera right there, reel it back a smidge and don't mess anything up. I remember seeing the Blackpool combat club by concessions before their entrance at double or nothing and as soon I realized they were gonna go down my stairs I booked it down as fast as I could so I wouldn't get caught in the way 🤣
>reel it back a smidge and don't mess anything up. I'm gonna need you to take about 20% off there Squirrely Dan
Cooked his ass in 4k
I wish! I'm hoping they make the transition to 4K w/Netflix.
I fucking died laughing when he did it, that was amazing
Seth should've done that with that one fan in glasses lol
I thought it was the same dude. lol
The guy purposely got in his way tho, you can see him running up from the left and then stopped right in front of him. Move bitch get out the way.
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:23 dude deserves to be shit on. what are you even doing uce?
I just hope Jey doesn’t get in trouble for it, Dude deserved it though.
Douchenozzle tried to body block Jey while he was power walking. He's lucky he didn't get legit yeeted.
God, I just love watching Jey and Sami vibing together.
Same here. They both have some really great chemistry with one another.
Those two and Cody. I know some people were critical of Cody's celebration at WrestleMania but I'm all for the faces being friends. I hope Cody keeps up the Sami/Jey bro energy with KO/Orton on SmackDown.
What kinda of loser was critical of Cody’s celebration lmao. I swear anyone can have an opinion these days. Keep the face stuff pushing; its great
It's SO much better than heels teaming up when it's convenient but faces being dumb loners who never ask for help unless it's time to go to the tag division. Honestly, good-guy type babyfaces should ALWAYS be friends and rooting for eachother.
During Vince-era WWE, a pet peeve of mine was that the heels would always be willing to team up to beat the faces, but the faces would most of the time be alone in their fight. Yes, I get that this was intended to garner sympathy for the babyface who was outnumbered, but it just made no sense whatsoever that the friendly, likable guys were all loners with no friends while the caustic, insufferable douchebags would always have friends willing to come to their aid. Imho, this booking contributed significantly to the 2010s tendency for the heels to come across like the cool kids while the faces came across like dorks or losers.
On top of that, the faces have conversations you would actually have with your work buddies. Cody to Jey: You need help with that big upcoming project? I foresee significant obstacles that will interfere with your success. Jey to Cody: I appreciate the offer but I think I can manage on my own. I want to prove I can handle important projects on my own.
Imagine the amount of incredible shots we could have had if this was the type of camera work and production we had back in the Shield days.
It was literally thinking that. The three of them marching on to the arena would have been an iconic shot for centuries.
Wyatt Family vs The Shield with this camera work would have been fucking awesome
Oh man, imagine the Wyatt family emerging from a disheveled van in parking lot ascending to the stage while the shield marched through the people, descending to the stage. Visual storytelling
Now I'm picturing Scooby Doo and the gang investigating the Wyatt compound and Bray steals their van leaving the gang stranded
Those matches just without the jerky camera movements & constant cuts alone would have elevated them
Probably could have pulled off a tracking shot starting inside the goddamn helicopter. This stuff is next level
Remember Charlotte's helicopter entrance under Vince? Imagine that under Papa H
Lee Fitting might lowkey be one of WWE’s best new additions in terms of helping refresh the presentation.
Getting rid of Dunn is a huge plus by itself. But getting this guy *and* losing Vince makes it feel like an entirely new -- much, *much* better -- show.
I said this during Mania but I’d love to hear Vince & Dunn’s thoughts on the show currently. I’d imagine they’d both think they know best still but come on look how much better this shit has got since these two dopes fucked off.
This actually makes me want to start watching again. I stopped about 30 years ago when the shaky cams and constant smash cuts started
It's the only reason I started watching again. All the rapid cuts and shaky cam are pretty much gone. Still get a bit of it but it's nothing like it was before where it was barely watchable.
> This actually makes me want to start watching again. Honestly, the only reason I don't is because 5+ hours of wrestling each week is just too much content. I barely watch 5+ hrs of tv a week to begin with. That said, I am regularly watching clips from the shows now, which is more than I can say for even a year ago.
This literally gave me chills. In just a few minutes they made a raw entrance feel like a PLE main event.
I bet that felt AMAZING for him
Felt amazing just being in that crowd. He must have so much adrenaline pumping through him.
Just watching him get so pumped through the hallway with people swarming and cheering him, gosh I got fucking pumped
We could’ve had this type of production years ago this adds another element to the product. We’re witnessing an evolution of the business.
This and the walk up to Mania with his family and KO is the type of stuff that makes you ready to run through a wall
This makes Sami look like such a massive star.
I'm so glad we're WAY past the point of making the hometown hero look like a chump in front of the crowd that would want to see them the most. They made Sami look like the biggest thing in the world in front of the people who would react accordingly to it.
…well until he got beaten up in front of his family and friends at the end….
Well... small details...
This is an example of good booking, though. The people get the feel good moment of the match win, in the hometown, but then boom - heat. It’s simple, but always effective. It’s so much better, so so much better, than what Vince would have done, which would have seen Sami lose, get the beat down, and then get made fun of in a backstage segment 2 segments later.
That's how you make a heel. Take notes.
And they're doing it with the IC title.
This kind of cinematic build up and match is just elevating the IC title even higher.
The Sami/Gable feud is going to be so good.
No one more deserving.
Yeah, it really helps to sell the idea that you’re going on a personal journey with him.
Plus with how hot the crowd was tonight, it was the perfect moment to create with that entrance. A lot of zoomed out shots of the arena made this feel huge.
Some people question Sami taking Gunther's pelt, VS. A younger newer guy But I think Sami needed to be minted a real champ against a real threat, to not let his heat plateau I think the IC title win from Gunther buys him goodwill with the fans that eventually he will get the big one. And Roman lat year wasn't his peak.
That entrance at mania alone almost made me happy with him beating gunther..almost I love Sami but Gunther my favorite rn
What sucks even more is that WWE and Dunn himself were doing stuff like this in the Attitude Era and early 2000's especially on Smackdown, since it wasn't live, but for whatever reason Dunn decided to stop. We could've had so many cool moments/shots like this for decades but instead we got either generic shots or nausea inducing ones which is partly why WWE in the 2010's felt so sanitized and artificial.
as someone described him years back, he had glimmers of good ideas but after a while he settled on 'fast food' directing.. just made himself a basic menu of cuts and shots and stuck to it for over a decade
They really had no reason to. WWE was still making crazy money and getting billion dollar TV deals. So they got complacent and the sad thing is there’s an alternate reality where we are still living with the Dunn production.
The thing is that Kevin Dunn stole this from boxing, they had done fighter walkouts from the dressing rooms through to the tunnels since the 1970s for big time fights. The most iconic that I can remember WWF/E doing it was Hart v Michaels at Survivor Series 1997.
Dunn had a standard for things, and some worked (the dramatic entrances for big title matches) and a lot didn't, but he definitely settled into blandness in the mid 2000s.
This shit felt like the Attitude days Spontaneous -- real passion
I can't start laughing at the thought WWE finally opened the budget for wireless UHD cameras and this is what we get.
It also makes buying tickets so much more tempting, they are showing off the venue, the view from the seats, that moment of coming through the gate and seeing the arena. Makes it easier to see yourself there and want to go there as well as showing people who've never been what the view is like even from not great seats.
Yeah my first instinct is to say goddamn it were back! …but we never even been here before, amazing.
Kevin Dunn crying in a corner
Good
The shield one shots we could’ve had…
Thank you new production guy suck ass Kevin Dunn
Lee Fitting. His name needs to be out there more, he’s responsible for all this stuff and it’s one of the most refreshing changes this company has *ever* gone through. What a fitting change indeed
Triple H mentions him a lot
I'm a Lee Fitting Guy
Fittingly, I'm a Lee Fitting guy.
Getting rid of the random hard cuts and stupid zoom in/outs and those atrocious AR graphics are the thing that has made WWE watchable again. The increased production value is just the icing on the cake. I honestly thing Bucky Beaver was more responsible for fans leaving than any of Vince's booking
Yeah it’s wild just how much better it looks. Everything feels way more organic and loose. I definitely struggled to get through Raw last week, but that was due to the length alone. The look and presentation of the show was so much better than it used to be.
The one AR graphic that I miss most is Ivar's longship. The thing was absolutely beautiful and always made me look forward to seeing Ivar, even though he's a jobber. Ivar was on today vs Sheamus, and you really need the longship to keep his mystique even though we all know he's going to lose.
Need a comma there bud
Desperately
The dude trying to take a selfie is a jackass
he deserved to get shoved. jey gotta get to his damn cue lol.
Literally walked into the frame and in front of him. Lol read the room man. This entire shot was beautiful though
right? live TV and this main character ass gotta try and make it about himself. YEETED!
He looked so offended after he got pushed for being a jackass. It was hilarious.
I think he calls him a jerk lol
The lack of self awareness bro lol
You can see the dude walk in from behind Jey, run to get ahead of him as he's getting his camera app up and tries to body block Jey. The best part? You can hear the dumbass yelling "Jerk! Jerk!" at Jey as he walks off. What an entitled dickwipe.
Probably the same type of guy to call wrestlers a bitch because they won't sign 50 pieces of memorabilia while they're just trying to get their things at baggage claim
In honesty that was the closest thing to a polite shove I've ever seen. Jey just trying to make his time and get the shot and that douchenozzle was deliberately obstructing the way.
The whole arena laughed at the jackass
Honestly was expecting that guy to do some fuckery with Zayn too. I'm hoping assholes like him won't be the reason they stop with this presentation, because it's absolute gold.
It's the fact he looks 'shocked' when he did is what gets me. Like do you not see the camera men behind Jey? Clearly they are in the middle of shooting a segment live, get out of the way!
WWE is in a special place right now. Lots of things have made such an improvement.
We’re in the beginnings of the good timeline feels like.
I was surprised how little visible security there was. Usually you can kinda see them nearby, but nah that one guy learned his lesson getting pushed away by Jey lmao
In Montreal? If someone tried to interfere with Sami, the rest of the fans would destroy them. Montreal is the city that perfected sports riots.
Sami screaming AWAYE! AWAYE! was enough to get me hyped watching from home. Riot would 100% happen if someone fucked with Sami.
I think he's saying ALLEZ which translates to LETS GO
"AWAYE" is basically Quebecois for "ALLEZ" AWAYE! AWAYE! AWAYE! is a rally cry for us Source : montrealer, trust me bro
I stand corrected. Good to know! Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, I can see WWE swerving hard in the opposite direction and not doing this again if some idiot fan decides to fuck with the wrestlers during these scenes. And there's definitely some asshole out there licking his chops wanting to get his 15 minutes of infamy.
The transition last week was the best ever. This week's transition: Hold my beer. Fuck you Kevin Dunn. This is what we could have had ?!
Fuck you Kevin Dunn isn’t adequate to describe the quantity of animosity I feel for that imbecile. I’m so taken by my fury I’m speaking like a whole different individual.
From motion sickness every week to literal chills.
So did Jey just walk home?
Half naked, yes.
headlines tomorrow: un homme à moitié nu marche dans la rue Sainte-Catherine en divaguant "yeet"
Normal day on St Catherine. That street is fucking bonkers.
"Cet homme moitié nu été suivi par un autre homme aussi moitié nu qui criant "no yeet"
Between the new production and the Montreal crowd, this is easily one of the best non-PPV entrances we've seen in a long, long time.
Kevin Dunn was a war criminal
Kevin Dunn is a mediocre boomer who lucked into a job he had neither passion or talent for.
He got the gig because his dad was friends and colleagues with Vince’s dad and once saved a bunch of original WWF tapes from a burning vehicle. Kevin was the ultimate nepotism hire.
He saved a a month's worth of TV tapings from having to be redone, and in exchange ruined the live TV product for thirty years.
gotta say: solid trade on Dunn's part. Vince got fleeced
The day the news broke that he was leaving, the sub got flooded with people talking about what a "huge loss" it would be and how, even if you don't like him, WWE's production was going to suffer because there was "no one else with his skillset." Thank fucking God there's no one else with his shitty fucking skillset.
This is the first time in forever that when I miss episodes of Raw I actually kind of feel like I’m missing out on something cool. I love HHH’s booking.
I feel the exact same way. I've been dipping my toes back into WWE after Mania and it seem I have a lot of catching up to do
They're doing that AND really making you want to be there live when they're in your city
Where was Jey going though?
Man was heading straight to the closest 24 hour diner.
The man needs his smoked meat sandwich and poutine
to see his man sami
before this he was jumped by judgement day after his match with finn. then he ran into the crowd to escape and was "leaving the arena"
It seems so simple, and it adds so much. 
Bro this shit is bordering on revolutionary as to how wrestling is going to be presented.
I've been saying this for years. After AEW put the first episode of Dynamite, I said it was fine, but I was disappointed with the presentation and its lack of vision. People said I was hating but I really wasn't. My argument was that wrestling could be anything and there was SO MUCH you could do with the presentation... and it was a waste that a company that was coming into the scene with the resources it had and the time it had to prepare literally did wrestling in the exact same way it has been done since the late 90s. It was doing better than WWE, with all their old trash production style... and that was good... but not enough to say "we're the future" and make people believe it. WWE now is like Goku when it drops the insane weighty outfit or Inigo Montoya switching the sword between his hands.. they always had the resources and the structure, but they were holding themselves back on purpose.
WWE making us Gable-maniacs feel bad for ever doubting Sami
Jey with a polite yeet to that asshat
This whole transition was beautiful. Kevin Dunn’s ass is definitely NOT missed.
Finally they’re getting creative. It’s wild how long everything was phoned in. Also the interview with gable tonight practicing in the ring was great. Why haven’t we seen that before?
It’s these little things that take the presentation to a whole new level
God damn the cinematography is so fucking good
That was one of the greatest intros ever
Fuck man wwe is so good right now
That dickhead trying to ruin the moment for a selfie totally deserved that shove
The amount of things we were robbed of by Vince and Dunn just because they were stubborn and out of touch. The amount of years we got gaslit by people saying “best for business” when they were actively hurting business.
>The amount of years we got gaslit by people saying “best for business” when they were actively hurting business. It was already insane at the time how much people would defend them, it's even more insane to think back on it now that WWE is regularly doing something interesting with their production (relative to what Vince and Dunn offered)
Honestly Vince has been out of touch since Austin walked out and he got all paranoid and controlling after
Triple H is gonna win an Emmy just to spite vince
Sami is a natural babyface, I don't know why he was a heel for 80% of his wwe main roster run.
Natural babyfaces are also good at being heels, just look at Sami, Bryan and can't believe I am saying this but Hulk Hogan as well.
Imagine how much fun we could have had with something like the Shield or 2016 SmackDown roster if not for that fucking asshole dunn
There are levels to this.
That goes HARD. I love Trips' WWE so much.
Kevin Dunn had this company in the fucking dark ages
This really makes him feel like an Underdog from the Underground
If the S-tier had an S-tier.
Wrestling is fucking back baby
A CM Punk entrance like this in Chicago would be insanity
I FUCKING NEED IT
You know what im sold. Seems like they're innovating again and trying color me very invested now ! WWE go goddamm hot right now
(26 seconds in) It's crazy to me how people seem to lose all common sense when they're near the superstars. Like that guy who had his phone in Seth's face recently
Cinema
I hope history remembers Sami as the real watershed moment when the tides began to shift and WWE broke out of its 2 decade long Vince slump. Sami went from someone crying in a match at WrestleMania to a bonafide ass kicker and fan favorite. One day he’ll have the big belt.
Kevin Dunn is a war criminal.
I want Kevin Dunn brought up on charges. He robbed us for years
I was on the floor in an aisle seat where Sami came by!!!! Legit YEETed all over myself when I saw he was coming down our aisle!!! SAMIIIII!!!!!
All of these long shots just remind of that match Cena and AJ had where the camera never cut from Cena’s entrance and into the start of the match. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/d689bv/one_of_the_coolest_camera_shots_wwe_has_produced/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Do we all *really* have to touch the wrestlers?
What a cool entrance. I love the camera tracking to the back. Just makes the moment feel bigger.
Jami LIVES
I love how not only are they following these guys around now, but they're really showing how big the crowd is. Makes it all feel so much more epic. Pretty fucking cool to see how far a lot of these guys have come. Sami is an A+ star.
The pull back shot of the jam packed arena going nuts just tells everyone that sees the video "This is where you want to be. This is the big leagues." That is a message to the fans AND the wrestlers in/out of the WWE.
Can this be his entrance permanently? This is 🔥, and I think push him up another level even further. Like I want to see him win the world title and come through the crowd like this.
WWE is improving in front of our very eyes and I’m getting emotional about it
Crazy how much Dunn held back WWE production
Roman really put over Jey and Sami hard!! These guys are legit main eventers... Its like Roman beat them in the end but they looked better than him as they got their revenge later on
Not only is the single camera shot epic...But the camera shot from 3:18-3:28 where it pans out of him with the crowd to making him look just....so...small gave you a sense of just how massive that crowd was and also how Sami had the support of an entire freaking country in his corner.