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Roman was great the whole night yelling at the fans. And putting away the table was my favorite spot (and the safest to boot) part of the ngiht.
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46 minutes ago, ChesterCopperpot said:
Shoutout to Seth though for dying his hair for the SHIELD bit
I noticed that too. At first, I thought it was just guys dressed like the SHIELD in some Russo-style swerve.
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13 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
I think it may be that some people have had to step on eggshells for so long to keep in New York's good graces that they practically have Stockholm Syndrome.
There's also a chance that they might just not want to get involved in the discussion and don't want to come off like Ken Anderson.
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8 hours ago, Johnny Sorrow said:
I didn't watch it either, because these wrestling post show scrums stink. It's either Khan wearing his Inoki scarf saying how awesome everything is as chaos is happening, or HHH not having a prepared statement that didn't actually say anything, but wasn't him looking like a buffoon as he did.
Wrestling didn't need post show media press conferences. Get rid of them.
Now I imagine seeing Nick Khan with the Inoki scarf.
I second the ending of the press conferences. They don't make any sense, being that both HHH and TK run them so that they're half in storyline, half business. Not to mention, "wrestling media" are just a bunch of geeks. These companies have the media relations staff to do much better pitches.
Getting back to the post RR one, if all they wanted to do was talk about their business success of the week, why didn't they trot out Nick Khan to do it? He's much more adept at these things anyway.
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Just now, odessasteps said:
Wonder if anyone will be interviewing Rita Chatterton today. She’s certainly a person whose perspective would be interesting to hear.
Wasn't there something about Vince re-settling up with her in the recent past?
QuoteI heard someone say Vince not paying the women the rest of her settlement is like Vince not paying Stu for Stampede back in the mid 1980s. It’s what he does.
Knowing how revolting what he did was, I still can't get that he wouldn't honor this settlement. He literally threw away his "get out of jail" card.
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3 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
Should be noted that this Brad Shepherd idiot (probably wisely) deleted his Twitter account. Then couldn't help himself and created a new account.
It didn't go well for him:
Wonder if they're going to acknowledge this at all tonight. I sincerely doubt it, but even a 15 second thing from Hunter would probably do a world of good for WWE and its fans.
If they would say something, go all in and have the Rock do it. He's on the board of directors for a reason.
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3 minutes ago, Technico Support said:
Question is, are these people still close enough to their humanity to make moral decisions, or have they been so insulated by yes men and daily swims in hundred dollar bills that they've lost their moral compass? I know where my hunch would fall on that question but I'm older and have had 49+ years of seeing what rich men do when left unchecked.
I think they'll make the right decision, but not for morality's sake. They'll make it for the sake of protecting their investment. It's like if someone bought the formula for a soft drink from Dr. Pepper and he turned out to be a criminal. They've got the recipe, they don't even need him anymore.
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2 minutes ago, (BP) said:
They set up his shares in a unique way to be able to get him out the door as soon as something like this happened, so I’d imagine yes.
Yeah. He's done for.
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Putting my conspiracy theory hat on, I wonder if this is one of the reasons they rushed out the announcement of the Netflix deal and bringing the Rock on to the Board of Directors. Kick Vince out and Johnson gets to be a white knight.
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10 minutes ago, Matt D said:
The most interesting thing here is how streaming will affect production when it comes to things like match length/commercials/structuring where breaks used to be/etc.
Same here. I can tell I'm too into the wrestling bubble, as I was wondering how this will change ad revenues.
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21 hours ago, hammerva said:
The bad thing is that they didn't even show the worst thing that Paul Heyman did concerning Chris Candido and Sunny during ECW in my opinion
I’m drawing a blank. What was it?
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4 hours ago, Doc Townsend said:
Omos just standing there while almost every other person in the shot jumps up and down and does the fist pump reminds me of the time the roster tired to do Kofi’s fake Jamaican entrance routine. Cena just waved his hands a few times in a bad pantomime of Kofi then gave the camera a shrug and a “I dunno what the heck I’m supposed to do” look.
Also, as much as I appreciate Corbin giving me another reason to root against Duke, my brother and wife went to UNC so I don’t need the help.
Corbin looks like one of those guys who is way too old to still be hanging around his old college in that picture.
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54 minutes ago, Rev Ray said:
Eps 8, 9, 10 of the gorilla pod are up as well as Bobby and gorilla on the call of ding doing hello.
I love those way more than I should. The commentary over Sid/HBK is great.
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9 hours ago, caley said:
I remember Bret saying much the same in his book and how the two were on the booking committee and came in to tell Bret he'd beat Rock clean with the Sharpshooter (I can't remember if it was for the IC title or not) and Bret thought it was pointless because he didnt need the win and it would hurt Rock (also, Bret was probably also opposed to it because it stuck it to HHH and HBK a bit!) so he went and got the ending changed to Bret getting DQed for doing the figure four around the post on Rock and how Rock thanked him and Bret warned him to watch his back.
I don't watch Young Rock, do they put current WWE wrestlers/characters on the show? Maybe since Shawn is still very much a part of WWE they have an understanding with WWE not to portay current characters/wresters?!
They've had HHH as a character on the show a few times.
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1 hour ago, Doc Townsend said:
Question: how well know is the Hart family in Canada these days. Would the average person who doesn’t follow wrestling know who the Harts are? Or care? It’s been a few decades now since Stampede was much of a thing or since Bret and Owen were active and on tv. I’m thinking that, by this point, the Harts are a lot less famous than fairly unknown pro athletes, but I don’t know.
Reason I am wondering is that I watched Dangerous Breed - Peacock’s Teddy Hart documentary - and basically cackled when the filmmaker talked about being sure a reality series about an Indy pro wrestler who breeds showcats would be the next big thing. I’m sure even more unlikely people have become reality tv stars, but it seems farfetched to think Teddy Hart would generate that much interest.
Isn't there still some law in Canada that they have to broadcast a certain percentage of homegrown content? Maybe his logic was that he could sell it in both Can/US markets and double his potential audience.
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9 minutes ago, Craig H said:
That was pretty much my same trajectory. Muta, then Liger, then thinking all Japanese wrestling rules.
I still remember the first time I went on the internet at my local public library. I was searching for them, and Masa Chono and Kensuke Sasaki. Loved all the Japanese stars that crossed over into early 1990s WCW.
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35 minutes ago, Log said:
I'd bet you could trace a TON of North American wrestling fans' interest in Japanese wrestling directly back to seeing Muta for the first time.
Edit: And after making it to the end of Schneider's article, I see he already made that observation.
Growing up I had a passing interest in wrestling. Then when I saw Muta, followed by Liger, I became instantly hooked.
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1 hour ago, Craig H said:
Fuck. This has been nearly as hard to handle as Brodie's passing. That picture with them in the van with their kids really got to me. It was very hard driving my own daughter to daycare today and leaving her there at daycare. It was hard saying bye to my older daughter when my wife took her to school today too. It just feels so fucking wrong to be so young and to be taken from your family like that. Too fucking wrong.
There's no question about how great he was as a wrestler. But what's really made me as a fan (especially as a dad of a daughter) is how much he loved his family. In between his Instagram posts about wrestling, he'd post something showing what an awesome dad he was. To me as an adult, that was more impressive and important to me than wrestling. It's heartbreaking seeing this.
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20 hours ago, Dog said:
I have to think that if the Khans did buy WWE, Tony would be smart enough to just let HHH continue doing whatever. Ratings and ticket sales were up, they're mind-blowingly profitable; don't mess with success.
And in a bizarro world where WWE wins up buying AEW, I would love them to keep Tony around so they could do a program where he has access to the tape library for a curated show like "Toon In With Me" where he randomly picks matches and does intros/outros for them.
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1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:
I counter with the legendary Dayglo Abortions, and SNFU. (Somebody will get older school than me and bring up DOA but I never cared for 'em.) There are a load of really great crust bands up there too but that's leaning more towards the following side of the equation
Canada has a long history of great metal bands: Exciter, Razor, Blasphemy, Anvil, Slaughter, Cryptopsy, etc.
It baffles me that nobody's mentioned Rush yet... or Triumph haha. Fight the Good Fight!
No love for Strapping Young Lad?
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16 hours ago, Peck said:
Speaking of Dan Spivey....
Completely random, but I really never saw Dan Spivey ever on television but remembered his name from the magazines and those silly elementary school book fair wrestling books. That said, when Gary Spivey debuted with Paul Orndorff in WCW, I thought they were the same person and was completely confused.
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6 minutes ago, John from Cincinnati said:
Ace got that NDA in 2012 and got a PPV match vs Cena. At this rate, Vince is probably gonna book himself on SummerSlam.
Or just go full on crazy and be Flair's last opponent that weekend.
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2 minutes ago, Technico Support said:
Holy shit this covers wrestlers, too.
Now I need to go see who was released in 05.
From Chris Harrington's old site: : Christian, Charlie Haas, Jackie Gayda, Mark Jindrak, Rhyno, Spike Dudley, Molly Holly, Luther Reigns, Maven, D-Von Dudley, Bubba Ray Dudley, Muhammad Hassan, Kenzo Suzuki, Dawn Marie, Christy Hemme, Matt Morgan, Lance Storm, Jackie Gayda, Joey Matthews, Chris Jericho, Akio, Eddie Guerrero (died)
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WRESTLEMANIA XL - 4/6 & 4/7/2024
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Those are all good. I do remember Roman having a really good match or two with AJ Styles.