TheVileOne
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I would like to see a one-on-one women's singles match at WrestleMania without a title involved, but I very much want a women's title bout between Rhea and Becky. That's a potential classic, generational match. They are already giving it the build worthy of a WrestleMania match that Ripley vs. Charlotte never had, and they wrestled each other at WrestleMania twice.
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While Triple H and Nick Khan were at least self-aware enough to not allow Brock Lesnar to be out into the stadium and be put on TV last night, Triple H should've been better prepared for questions like that. It was a bad, lose-lose situation but he still answered the questions in the worst possible way. He should've had a PR team better prepare him for that.
I like Cody and I believe Cody is a well-intentioned guy, but his comments were also tone-deaf.
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PWInsider is reporting that WWE/TKO wants Stephanie McMahon back in the company.
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I look forward to the reaction of The Rock winning the Rumble and closing the show tonight.
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3 hours ago, tbarrie said:
So any word on how well Dynamite did in the ratings this week, particularly the final quarter hour?
I'm curious whether Minoru Suzuki is, in fact, a ratings draw.
Yes (via WON)
QuoteQ1: Samoa Joe & HOOK segment/Hangman Page vs. Penta El Zero Miedo – 1,074,000 viewers, 424,000 in 18-49
Q2: End of Page vs. Penta/Orange Cassidy promo – 907,000 viewers (down 167,000), 406,000 in 18-49 (down 18,000)
Q3: Young Bucks & Top Flight segment/Wardlow vs. Trent Baretta/Adam Copeland vs. Minoru Suzuki video – 903,000 viewers (down 4,000), 395,000 in 18-49 (down 11,000)
Q4: Toni Storm & Deonna Purrazzo segment/Johnny TV & Taya Valkyrie promo – 841,000 viewers (down 62,000), 365,000 in 18-49 (down 30,000)
Q5: Jeff Hardy vs. Swerve Strickland – 793,000 viewers (down 48,000), 346,000 in 18-49 (down 19,000)
Q6: Hangman & Swerve segment/Thunder Rosa vs. Red Velvet – 754,000 viewers (down 39,000), 320,000 in 18-49 (down 26,000)
Q7: Sting & Darby Allin promo/The Acclaimed & Daddy Ass vs. Mogul Embassy – 729,000 viewers (down 25,000), 321,000 in 18-49 (up 1,000)
Q8: End of Acclaimed vs. Mogul Embassy/Adam Copeland vs. Minoru Suzuki – 737,000 viewers (up 8,000), 337,000 in 18-49 (up 16,000)
Overrun: End of Copeland vs. Suzuki – 705,000 (down 32,000), 293,000 in 18-49 (down 44,000)-
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Vince McMahon must be removed and he must be removed yesterday. WWE and TKO should be acting as this is an existential crisis. He can no longer reasonably serve as an executive of the company at this point.
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1 minute ago, Death From Above said:
Everything about it that I've seen reads as absolutely classic sexual predator stuff. Find someone down on their luck, befriend and groom them into thinking they have no choice but to comply with you, etc etc.
The thing beyond all that which baffles me is the implication that this broke due to Vince stopping his payments to the woman resulting in the NDA being null and void. How big is your ego? Christ. What a piece of shit.
Even then, how legally binding was that NDA? NDAs are not supposed to protect activity like this.
IMHO an NDA means like I watched some early screeners of The Mandalorian and I agree not to talk about any of the footage I saw until such and such date.
There should be no legally binding document or agreement to cover things like this.
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I'm not saying that person's name but I recall the "media blogger" who leaked her name when this story first got out. I totally believe someone gave her name to this vile scumbag who put it out publicly.
Most of the original reports in 2022 were not mentioning her by name until this scumbag did. One of the worst people on the planet.
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https://411mania.com/movies/masters-of-the-universe-revolution-review/
My non-spoiler review of the series.
This is not a direct continuation of the Filmation series. It's more like an updated AU that feels familiar to the original series but it combines elements from across the various sources to create a new singular definitive mythology. Like imagine the Filmation series but it's a bit more serious and mature. Characters can get stabbed, bleed, and die.
Like when they meet Gwildor, Man-at-arms references things that sound like "Oh shit, is the 1987 movie canon in this series?" No, it's more like in this series timeline, the characters previously met Gwildor and there was event that was likely very similar in the past that played out exactly like the 1987 movie.
Tons of Easter Eggs and cameos throughout the season. Star Trek's John de Lancie voices a dragon.
Revolution's biggest problem is the lack of time. They only get five episodes versus 10 episodes for the first season. Makes me feel like Netflix wants to bury the show.
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4 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
That's why I love the ignore function.
Likewise.
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We're almost two years on from the ROH acquisition, and what purpose is it really serving right now? It's just AEW's version of WCW Worldwide/Pro/Main Event at this point. They don't have major title changes on the TV. The biggest title matches are used on AEW TV. All the guys in ROH are AEW guys. What is the long-term plan here for ROH? Because it doesn't look like they have one.
It's time to fold up ROH. It serves no purpose anymore. It has no value.
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6 hours ago, Dewar said:
He beat Ortiz in October, and hasn't wrestled an AEW match since. Sounds like creative doesn't have anything for him.
This has been a problem with AEW for years. Guys will be in a big feud or win a big match and then just disappear from TV entirely and fall off the face of the Earth.
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Meltzer's words, not mine:
Quote"(AEW attendance) is not good. One of the things is like, there were a lot of weak advances in the last quarter, but they had a lot of the shows where they got late buys, whether it was bringing in Okada or Mistico, or having an MJF or Kenny Omega match, or just good local promotion, or lowering ticket prices, things like that.
"You're getting now to WCW 2000. And people hate when I use that term, but they're getting there. And that's a scary place to be.
"There's a lot of things that they could do, but they haven't. I know that Kosha Irby's in, and this is actually his job, his job is going to be to get this stuff up. And it's way too early to put any blame on him, he just got there.
"Even if you're the greatest promoter in the world, people are gonna buy more or less based on the product and the excitement of the product. WCW had Zane Bressloff in 2000 and they couldn't sell tickets because nobody wanted to buy tickets to the product, and with AEW, the number of people who wanna buy tickets to the product is… they'll buy the pay-per-views, they'll watch Wednesday night TV, but they're not going in any great numbers to the shows."
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2 minutes ago, The Natural said:
Kazuchika Okada to leave NJPW:
https://www.njpw1972.com/168267
That's massive news. Kazuchika Okada is in my top three wrestlers of all time. Fan of Okada ever since he returned from excursion as the Rainmaker at NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 6. Okada's had some of the greatest matches in wrestling history. Be interesting to see where he turns up and how he's used.
He really is the Rainmaker.
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On 1/17/2024 at 6:02 PM, odessasteps said:
Take this with a huge grain of salt of course:
An emailer to the Drive In said he went back thru all the TV Dynamite and collision tapings for 2023 and there were only two of the 77 (or close to that) shows sold more than 50% of the venue’s capacity: a show from Jan which was the finals of the Best of 7 and a show from the summer in Chicago.
I presume the big caveat is that any wrestling TV show from any company are never close to max capacity due to staging issues. And that is only for TV tapings and not PPVs.
Meltzer said this, not me:
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Hangman has still not overcome the stink of the CM Punk drama. He was never the same after losing the title.
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I'm sort of confused what is the point of Damian Priest holding the Money in the Bank Briefcase at this point? Edge had his longer than this and never had this many failed cash-in attempts.
Priest has become annoying with his amount of failed cash-ins, and it's making him look like a goofy idiot much like Theory when he held the briefcase. Not to mention, Priest has had plenty of opportunities where he could've cashed in but he didn't.
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2 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
That put a huge grin on my face. Was the first season any good? People in the comments were complaining everything happens in the first ten minutes of the episodes.
Yes, the first season is very good. Most of the complaining is nothing but anti-woke reactionary culture war garbage, mainly because of an awful channel called Clownfish TV claiming that Teela "replaces" He-Man and has a "girlfriend." The so-called girlfriend is Andra, who isn't Teela's lover.
The first season isn't perfect, but I think it finds its footing in the second half. The animation is great and it mixes in all parts of Masters of the Universe.
Kevin Smith IMHO didn't help matters by engaging with the trolls on social media. You should never feed the trolls, and it only made things worse. You never see Christopher Nolan debating or defending his decisions on social media.
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FYI, Season 2 of Masters of the Universe: Revelation, called Masters of the Universe: Revolution, debuts on January 25 on Netflix. Keith David as Hordak.
Also, John De Lancie voices Granamyr.
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Tony Khan should've fired Jungle Boy immediately after All In and done it in an even more public way than what happened with Punk. He should've sang "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" with new lyrics talking about Jungle Boy being fired. A lot went wrong before that whole mess, but that was not the night to pull shit. Jungle Boy is a pissant 26-year-old manchild who made everything about him and proved he's unreliable backstage and onstage. He shot his way out of a job in AEW and likely from ever getting a shot in WWE. An entitled dumbass.
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The Samoa Joe stuff was good at least. This is kind of the Joe I wanted to get as world champion in TNA and WWE, but they would never execute. I feel we got a bit of it with Joe in NXT, but that's still NXT. People don't even really acknowledge that as a world title run for Joe. It's just sad to me Joe never got those opportunities when he was still in his prime, but better late than never.
The promo segment was good. Set up potential title programs with Hangman and Swerve, and pushed his title bout with Hook, which is fine. Tony Khan social media meltdowns aside, there's easily precedence for the experienced veteran champion defending his title against a surging younger contender on TV in every major wrestling promotion. Tony Khan just comes off as embarrassing when he tries to justify it by bickering with people and trying to clap back to USA Network over Cagematch ratings, while also taking shots at Jinder Mahal, who like it or not, is a former WWE Champion.
Bret Hart wrestled 123 Kid for the title on Raw. Ron Simmons wrestled Cactus Jack on WCW Primetime. The Undertaker defended his title against Jeff Hardy on Raw in a Ladder Match. Jack Perry got a title shot against Kenny Omega on Dynamite. You can find plenty of other examples, but there's really nothing wrong with Hook stepping up and getting a shot, especially for a TV main event.
I get that at 64, Sting is incredibly limited with what he can do in the ring, but that main event was still kind of scary, especially that table deathdrop. I was truthfully kind of hoping that Flair would turn on Sting after the match because I always found the idea of Flair coming in to be Sting's what? His buddy or something as Sting goes into his retirement was kind of goofy and dopey. If you're going to use Flair on TV, and let's say the last match for Sting is Sting and Darby versus the Bucks, why not have Flair side with them? Seems more keeping in characters with them. Just have Flair say he made Sting 36 years ago, and he can't stand that Sting is getting all this glory and celebration when there's no Sting without Flair. It tells itself. And the only reason I say this is because the present matter with Flair being Sting's valet simply doesn't work. Sting and Darby never needed a manager. If anything, Sting was basically the manager to Darby; a pairing that worked out surprisingly well for the two.
Claudio and Hangman had a solid opening match at least. Claudio did the job and made Hangman look good.
Still not sold on Adam Cole's evil Kingdom stable. I'm willing to let this whole scenario play out, but this seems like a step down for Wardlow after he broke away from Pinnacle and MJF. But AEW squandered all that, and it feels like he's back to square 1. Same thing kind of happened to Hobbs and now he's in the Don Callis Family and just mainly serving as an upper-tier midcarder who jobs to the babyfaces for big tag team matchups. For one thing, it could've easily been Wardlow in Joe's spot right now. The main problem is that Wardlow is not good on the mic and can't cut the type of lengthy main event promos that Joe can. But oh well. It is what it is.
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55 minutes ago, Dog said:
Not when people say "imagine a wrestling CEO acting this way." We don't have to imagine it. It happened, for decades.
That's not excusing Tony's rants. Of COURSE he probably shouldn't be doing this (although he did get Jinder to promote the match, so a win there). But for people to get the fainting couch because a wrestling executive glibly needled some fans, in a world where Vince McMahon threatened insurrection before it was cool, is either being willfully obtuse or weirdly ignorant of very recent history.
Tony Khan acting more erratic and more comparable to Eric Bischoff and Vince McMahon is not a good thing.
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48 minutes ago, Infinit said:
Did you ever see Vince McMahon on the Bob Costas Show?
Whataboutism.
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3 hours ago, Kevin Wilson said:
Have you ever worked a real job before? The boss can do whatever they want, rules don't apply. At my job only Friday is casual, yesterday the CEO came in wearing jeans and a hoodie. I didn't run home and change, excited about the change of policy, he can do what he wants and I can't.
The difference is that your boss violating the Casual Fridays taboo is confined to your office. Tony Khan routinely does this publicly and embarrasses himself, the AEW roster, his own company, and his broadcasting partners at Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Elimination Chamber XIV - 2/24/2024
in WWE PROGRAMMING
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Charlotte shouldn't have even been in the WrestleMania 35 main event. That was Becky and Ronda's match, and we never got the opportunity to see Ronda vs. Becky one-on-one again after that.