DTTW

I'm really starting to laugh at decades of wrestler tough guy bravado against real athletes when those guys got such a better deal by being pussies.

Didn't someone on one of those best buddies dvd saying something like 500k is about 140k after everything?

Don't be, it was perfect.

I was thinking maybe there was a throw away match maybe when shawn was on a solo kick, kinda like the Savage and Flair matches.

Has anyone actually broken a neck screwing up a suicide dive? I've seen nasty looking stuff but I'm not aware of any serious injury. I'm of the mindset when you are free falling on a bump, you're safer from injury because you have control over your body. You could tuck your chin, rotate more to the right, etc. Where as piledrivers you are being moved around by a force you don't control making it more dangerous. Why isn't that true?

This got me thinking...did Shawn and Rude ever have a match?

30 writers and their brilliant plan is an angle with only a slim possibility off a pay off involving the Miz. Please WWE, can I get a paycheck to write something that will actually pay off! How freaking hard would it have been for an active wrestler to make the same point to then have an actual feud. Is it really that hard to figure out?

Aka a big reason people stopped watching - nothing means much and the show goes no where.

Fair point. None of it really rocked the boat, but this seemingly unending trickle of small issue after small issue doesn't speak well of the company. Totally forgot about the firing of Hugh Morris over rampant alleged sexual harassment. Really surprised that one didn't get more press. But as others have pointed out, wrestling has created it self into a very low perception point to the general public. So which is viewed lower in 2016, porn or pro wrestling? As a person who has worked in and around both, I really can't say anymore.

No. Making money is the whole point. Just ask everyone who tried to beat Vince.

Weren't both TNA and WWE pulled into congress post 2000 over steroids? How about Brock last month? Mickie James, Seth Rollins, and Isis brought sex related problems to the WWEs doorstep. And Hogan of course.

Steroids and sex scandals weren't out of the blue.

I'd like to argue too many belts cheapens them but do belts have much value in the era of sports entertainment?

I think WWE was/is a top 10 user of youtube so its undoubtedly near the top amount, but i suspect the amount for it is under 2 million a month. I think some other big YouTuber talked about a 1.5 mill in a month being their biggest payday, but who knows if all that was YouTube ad money.

40+ and full of arrested development.

Estrogen blockers.

Pretty long and storied history of WWE writers and WWE creative fucking up pretty much everything...and yet this mutant promoter in philly managed to take a 5 foot tall guy with little credentials and turn him into a monster and credible world champion. They didn't want that guy working in their creative world. Funny ain't it.

Without an understanding of wrestling, this is very wtf sounding.

You forgot to mention the courtney love connection.

So new album and tour for SP cause Billys gonna be broke again. Can't wait to spend $20 and pretend it's 1997 all over again.

At least the schmozzes typically involved a feud...even if it went nowhere.

Yeah, but firing his wife isn't one he's going to tackle. Publically traded company. Which is funny cause people dying barely mattered for 20+ years. It's only a matter of time before someone writes a damning article about "Why are so many former performers suing the WWE?"

They need to stop looking for guys trying to be pro wrestlers then.

Idk...he's probably the only guy who could not toe the company line and face very little blowback over. I'm pretty sure HHH has mentioned how NXT and RAW are booked under very different mindsets. NXT is for the smart audience and I guess that makes RAW for the dumb audience...which actually makes a ton of sense.

Being gay can get you killed in certain parts of the world. Wonder how the global brand is going to deal with that.