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[OCT 2016] WRESTLING DISCUSSION THREAD


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29 minutes ago, Sublime said:

Without the all red everything gimmick she can start to get over by really use her natural chari....natural beau....natural athleti................acting sk......umm...being alive

"Voice over guy."

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Maybe Eva's getting ready for Halloween.  She has the perfect soulless eyes to portray a living dead girl.

But seriously, taking the red hair out now it's best to demote her to NXT and have Mandy come up, it'd be a significant upgrade.

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7 hours ago, PetrolCB said:

I'm watching Bloodsport on Showtime, and realize that Frank Dux' pal, Ray Jackson is a dead-ringer for Strowman (if he had crazy DDP hair). Who should be the Chong Li to finally knockout Strowman, in your opinion? 

(This is how my mind works, while full of enough alcohol to keep a torch lit for 72 hours, at 5:30am. Bear with me.)

Tenzan?

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8 hours ago, PetrolCB said:

Who should be the Chong Li to finally knockout Strowman, in your opinion? 

I figured they would move Strowman on from smashing local wimpys by having him interrupt a cruiserweight match at some point. I would be ok with him steamrollering some of the smaller dudes like Swann and Lince Dorado if it led to one guy stepping up to him, and the perfect guy would be Cedric Alexander. I think some of his offense is explosive enough to look credible against Strowman (His handspring kick and springboard clothesline could chop down a big dude, though he aint gonna be using the Lumbar Check). Though it looks like Cedric is going to be busy with the Dusty Classic. The crowd are getting behind him big time though, it looks like he's gonna be the breakout star from the CWC.

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Oh, I should have mentioned. I don't think Cedric should definately go over if that were to happen. But I think they could have a pretty good cat and mouse match at a PPV that could continue to establish Strowman as a monster and further build Cedric as an underdog babyface, even in losing.

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I like the idea of someone like Cedric being the on to topple Strowman, someone like him to help establish a newer guy if not that than something to help catapult someone into the upper card/main event, such as Sami, Big E or Cesaro. but we all know what the answer is :

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15 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Was John Cena in a porno? That definitely looks like it. 

It's the trailer for The Marine 5. 

The budget isn't quite up there with the first one. 

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8 hours ago, PetrolCB said:

I'm watching Bloodsport on Showtime, and realize that Frank Dux' pal, Ray Jackson is a dead-ringer for Strowman (if he had crazy DDP hair). Who should be the Chong Li to finally knockout Strowman, in your opinion? 

 

You want Samoa Joe or Nakamura.

You'll get John Cena in a cross-brand match at WrestleMania.

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9 minutes ago, DTTW said:

Listening to the Death of WCW...how are Vince and co not freaking out majorly over raw given their current rating trends are worse than WCW while it was declining.

WWE's business model and television at large has changed in the last fifteen years. Their biggest concern ratings wise is probably not having legerage when their contracts are up for renewal. 

WCW was hemorrhaging money, fell under the umbrella of a corporation with no interest in its survival, and lost a television slot when that was its most attractive feature to potential investors. 

It doesn't really compare with a public company whose majority shareholders are long term family owners who have their own network if they miraculously couldn't get a TV deal one day. 

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What about a returning Luke Harper as the guy who takes out Strowman? You have the former Wyatt Family member dynamic and it would be a cool way to give him a push up the ladder. Plus I think Harper could get a pretty good hoss fight out of Strowman.

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44 minutes ago, (BP) said:

WWE's business model and television at large has changed in the last fifteen years. Their biggest concern ratings wise is probably not having legerage when their contracts are up for renewal. 

WCW was hemorrhaging money, fell under the umbrella of a corporation with no interest in its survival, and lost a television slot when that was its most attractive feature to potential investors. 

It doesn't really compare with a public company whose majority shareholders are long term family owners who have their own network if they miraculously couldn't get a TV deal one day. 

Look I get all of that and even how the internet has changed the way people watch content, but with their flagship looking worse than their dead competition, someone had better see the need to do something because this looks really ugly. Christ didn't that comic writer get fired when they dipped below 3.0?

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Because it's 2016 and there's no competition, dead or otherwise. "WCW had higher ratings in 2001" is meaningless. TV ratings across the board are down, and even having dropped, Raw and SD ratings aren't BAD for basic cable. PG means that even if USA decides to change it up, someone else will gladly pay for them, albeit less, which hurts WWE less now then it might have due to the Network reversing the loss of PPV revenue, and increased merch sales making up for lost ticket sales.

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1 hour ago, cwoy2j said:

What about a returning Luke Harper as the guy who takes out Strowman? You have the former Wyatt Family member dynamic and it would be a cool way to give him a push up the ladder. Plus I think Harper could get a pretty good hoss fight out of Strowman.

YEAH YEAH YEAH

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