Big Fresh Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Pick up Joe, pick up Magnus, pick up Aries... That's about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleavy Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 they (WWE) should hire Curry Man 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 So I'm the only one who'd look forward to seeing Rey working big man style vs Spud, then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 I'd pick up Spud as a manager, send Daniels to NXT as a trainer, send Magnus & Gunner to NXT for seasoning and regimmicking, and pick up Roode & Storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontaneous Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 I cannot see them wanting Angle. How healthy is he? Seems more trouble than he could be worth, sad to say. On a similar note, would they sign Jeff Hardy back? He too seems like someone who is not worth the effort it takes to put up with. He has travel issues now due to his felony conviction but he is fairly popular. Did not think Roode was that old but he could still put in a few good years. Roode, Magnus, Gunner, and maybe Storm or Aries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Angle would have the same problem he had with UFC. He can't pass the medicals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Territorial Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Meltzer has said that Angle couldn't even get his calls returned by WWE last tine he sent out feelers (before signing his current contract). Supposedly, there is still interest in Jeff if he wants to return (per Meltzer, anyways). He'll be 37 this year and carries a lot of baggage, so I'd imagine his window is closing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Angle could probably milk a few big paydays out of a japanese promotion. Inoki still runs those IGF shows, doesn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Territorial Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 IGF still runs. Last show was New Year's Eve. Wonder if Angle could get a few paydays in NJPW? He's worked there before (though the TNA/NJPW relationship is dead). They certainly book worse gaijin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 I can't imagine WWE having much interest in Roode. Eveything about him screams midcarder, and they already have more midcarders than they know what to do with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scraylo187 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Man. This started off pretty well, and I actually really like Sassy Southern Heel Dixie. And then the beginning just...wouldn't end. And I stopped watching. Also, watched that Wolves contract signing video, and it already seems like they're going for Power Struggle V18 with a NEW INVESTOR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Lord Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Man. This started off pretty well, and I actually really like Sassy Southern Heel Dixie. And then the beginning just...wouldn't end. And I stopped watching. Also, watched that Wolves contract signing video, and it already seems like they're going for Power Struggle V18 with a NEW INVESTOR. These investor angles are always so stupid. Unless the investor managed to buy at least 50% of the company (which even in kayfab I can't imagine The Carter's selling that much), it's a moot point and makes no sense. At worst, Dixie would still control 51% of the company so she could always overrule the investor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEN! Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 When I was a kid, Boris Zhukov was one half of the AWA World Tag Team Champions. Then he eventually showed up on WWF TV as part of the nothing happening Bolsheviks and my little kid mind had trouble understanding how he could've been a champion in one place and such a loser in another. Much later on I learned that Zhukov got signed to the WWF under the condition that he not drop the AWA Tag Titles on the way out. The AWA at the time was a far distant third to the WWF. Fast forward to 2013-14. TNA and ROH, domestically, are a distant 2 and 3 to WWE. TNA's standard bearer for the entirety of the company's decade-plus history was walking around a free agent with their World Title and WWE didn't make a serious play for him. Two of ROH's top guys had to pay for a try out just to get told that WWE has enough short workrate guys already. If TNA goes under, nobody's getting a job with WWE right away and certainly not without having to eat a lot of shit first. WWE has spent a fortune on their Performance Center and they're banking the future of the industry on people that are going to get all of their pro wrestling experience under the WWE banner. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGFanJay Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 Thus someone like Roode, who works WWE main event style, actually having a shot in WWE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontaneous Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Plus Roode looks likes a wrestler, something much of the TNA roster lacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Roode is a guy I think would have been lauded greatly if he were in the ROH mix with Joe, Punk and Danielson. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Eat it, phone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEN! Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Roode was between contracts last year while he was still one half of the TNA Tag Champs. WWE didn't care. Over the next couple of years, I think the odds of anybody over 25 and under 6' getting any kind of look from WWE are going to be slim. They're going to want to produce guys out of the Performance Center quicker in order to tout it as being a success and justify the costs. They want to shoot a guy like Mojo Rawley up the ladder so they can point to him as someone that left the NFL (sorta) and got molded from scratch into a WWE Superstar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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