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WWE TV - 5/19 - 6/1/2025 - Love Is A Battleground
username replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
I think she had a pretty bad knee injury before as well, I know modern medicine is great but that felt like it could be career altering. -
Hooters is in massive debt so this may just be an attempt to grab some cash before it all falls apart anyways. As far as the money behind Hogan, I always assume Peter Thiel until proven otherwise >_>
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I think heating Hayter up is less a matter of giving her some big wins and more working on her presentation IMO, I'd sort that out first.
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I mean I know I shouldn't respond but there is a world of difference between using a drug, and using a drug while at work where others depend on you for their own safety. Don't know if that has anything to do with Sabu's last match but he did have a very infamous one with a Sandman where Sandman was out of his mind on acid, and I am comfortable saying that was a pretty bad idea.
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It is a bit sad how this last Cena run isn't really working but I agree with the thought that physically he's got seemingly got so little left that while as a character he might have more easily found a groove as a face he probably needs all the smoke and mirrors he can get in-ring.
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To this day every single time a wrestling show does the light out deal I hold my breath for a sec and go "...Sabu!?!" and I doubt I'm the only one.
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AEW TV - 5/7 - 5/13/2025 - RUSH Rush To The Yeyo
username replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
John Silver is sadly one of those prototypical "you can't hold off pushing someone who is hot forever" tales as the crowd was ready to ride with him for a while and for whatever reason AEW never did and it basically all went away. -
Like... Kobashi lost his first 63 matches and he ended up pretty okay, right? >_>
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If you want someone to actually move up someone else generally has to move down. If you try to protect everyone you really don't push anyone. EDIT: This also causes the "if we let them look competitive all the time then we don't ever have to actually let them win and they'll still be fine!" flawed thinking that AEW mightily struggles with at times. Also someone going "5 minute match = automatically bad" hurt my heart a good bit.
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WWE TV - 5/5 - 5/11/2025 - Rusevmodel (You Better Work)
username replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
Eh, kid is 21 years old, the industry is full of wrestlers who said and did much worse/dumber shit at that age. Probably shouldn't make a habit of it though. FWIW I recall Orton saying that he had new theme music made for his return from injury but they decided day of they needed the old music for it, and the crowd ended up still loving it so much that said new theme got tabled. It's probably in their back pocket in case they ever need it, but I don't know that it means anything beyond that. -
Completely random memory: I was in an e-fed ages ago and one person who joined and created someone quit after a few weeks, so their wrestler ended up just being beaten up a lot and tossed out of the building a la Jazz in Fresh Prince of Bel Air, followed by a single $20 bill as his pay. I ended up asking and taking control of said wrestler and re-dubbing him the $20 Man and just doing all the old Million Dollar Man bits with him only being able to offer $20 and it never working out. Was good for a few months of fun back then so... yeah, probably about the same now.
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I mean, she's the one who chose to leave it ain't like they ever asked her to go away. It's like reporting that New Japan would like to work with Okada or Ospreay again, kinda goes without saying.
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I think they can get around with the number of matches/wrestling they have now... but not with the roster size they have. They are actually short an hour compared to when Rampage was a thing and they simply cannot feature the roster/talent they have with the format/number of hours of tv they have. Unfortunately WWE and AEW assume if they don't sign someone good the other will grab them so people get snapped up so quickly, we should have both main companies with more sensibly sized rosters and a vibrant indie scene instead of this. I know there is a type of fan who is like "I don't need to see wrestlers I like appear more than once a month or do anything of consequence", I ain't. I remember people telling me that Beast Mortos losing out in the Continental Classic wasn't a bad thing and he'd come out of it better off, we're in May now and if he spent all of 2025 injured instead not a lot would have been different. Stuff like this is what drives me and I assume some others up the wall, and we may struggle going "I wish it was more like X" when X had its own issues but it is coming from a point of legit frustration that not even all the bestest best matches in the world can fix.
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Bit of a digression but I do think Pillman Jr. is clearly working his butt off to get better and has improved and deserves a tip of the cap for that. I also remain unconvinced that his ceiling is all that high, but that's a separate discussion.
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In an odd silver lining note... in all likelihood Kross probably legit worked his way off of this "future endeavored" list with his recent work and should probably be proud of that.
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Anyone who thinks Mone is actually handling those deserves to lose their money.
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Austin Theory should probably hope for the release TBH. Vince McMahon becoming obsessed with him for a bit probably poisoned the well for him and probably no one else in WWE fits the Drew McIntyre "you're young, get released and rebuild yourself and still have time to make it back" mold more than him. I'm not saying he's a can't miss prospect or anything, but as-is he's stuck at the bottom of the card and he's got enough pieces that a reload is probably his best shot.
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It was probably Sid or Vader, just because the powerbomb was awesome.
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April 2025 Wrestling Discussion
username replied to The Natural's topic in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
I hate to pick an AEW example as a WWE one feels like it'd be more relevant... but look at Swerve and Hangman. They were both widely loved and cheered within what, a month of the most horrible stuff they did to the other? If burning someone's childhood house down or creeping around their newborn child can't get you heel heat anymore because it was done well you start to bump up against some very existential type questions. -
AEW TV - 4/30 - 5/6/2025 - Since U Been Paragon
username replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
Taven and Bennett really should find a third and come back after Cole/Strong/KOR even if I wouldn't be rushing to see it. They backed Strong when his neck was jacked and went along with the whole Devil nonsense, then got dropped by them both when their old bud comes along. That's a classic wrestling set-up. -
There was just a gif of some lucha guy looking like he blew out his knee mid-entrance a couple months ago.
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WWE TV - 4/28 - 5/4/2025 - Aleister Black Velvet, If You Please
username replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
TBF I'm not sure this is a "WWE crowds are broken" deal, it may simply be that Bron is ascendant and the crowd just isn't gonna boo him right now. If you want a historic example Eddie Guerrero once turned on Tajiri, viciously beating him and slamming him onto his lowrider to massive applause; a few weeks later it was forgotten and he was face again. I'm not saying this is the case right now but sometimes a crowd simply goes "nah, this is our guy". -
WWE TV - 4/28 - 5/4/2025 - Aleister Black Velvet, If You Please
username replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
That was an interesting Raw simply because they clearly sent Sami out there to deal with Seth's new group as he is the most sympathetic guy on the roster and would be good in establishing said new group as heels... but the crowd came closer to turning on him instead. Heck they were even cheering for his death at the end (TBF Bron killing folks is generally too fun to boo). Could be a one-off, or it could mean long-term plans aren't going to work the way people intended. -
April 2025 Wrestling Discussion
username replied to The Natural's topic in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
I would say wrestling fans have consistently been trending this way across the board in the US at least for well over a decade now, like I probably said something along these lines around 2010 if not earlier. I don't care for it, the AEW, WWE and the indie audiences each have their own bits I am particularly less fond of, but this is a battle that was lost a generation ago. This isn't to say that every audience is always bad 100% of the time, but I ain't gonna go pine for the time every promo was destroyed by WHATs, every match had everyone waiting for a chance to go TWO~, and I sincerely hope the meat stuff fades away.