Cyanide Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 H/t to Cageside: this upcoming Raw travel leg sounds like it should be illegal. Quote Live event, Sun., Aug. 26: Rochester, New York Monday Night Raw, Mon., Aug. 27: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Live event, Wed., Aug. 29: London, England Live event, Fri., Aug. 31: Osaka, Japan Live event, Sat., Sept. 1: Shanghai, China Monday Night Raw, Mon., Sept. 3: Cleveland, Ohio 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 ...fucks sake...Rochester!? 2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 1 hour ago, FlaeBlazer said: I can't wait to see him working outside of WWE again. I would love to know what his breaking point with WWE was. Jobbing to Enzo, having one shitty t-shirt available, being relegated to pre-shows, and working in front of dead crowds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 2 hours ago, Smelly McUgly said: So you're saying, in a metaphorical sense, that Road Dogg and the writers aimed for WWE fans' hearts and instead hit them in their stomachs? Little lower, I would think... 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Jesus they should really use the Smackdown roster at least for that last raw. Christ. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 That upcoming tour schedule is literally Hogan levels of traveling. If somebody is skilled and willing enough to pare that down, how many matches will that roster have wrestled in those days? (I can’t word this as eloquentally as I hear it in my mind, but you know what I mean.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 With that kind of travel, I think I'd pull a Nathan Jones, go home, and never go back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 It’s insane. @Cyanide, what is the Smackdown schedule through that same set of dates, if you don’t mind pasting that as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilwaldo Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 8 hours ago, D.Z said: WWF might have most likely died without the attitude era. (Very sure their financials was bad) But WCW probably might have been spared of pure Russso. ECW probably might have tapped into the zeitgeist of the times (market) even more so without the WWF around. Anyway the current wrestling industry is already a niche market. They were in bad shape at the time. My uncle was an opening match JOTS for the WWE at the Garden in the late 70's/early 80's. When the NWO happened, Vince called my uncle and asked him if he would come back. Promised him a new character and an IC title run, maybe more if the character stuck. My uncle had moved on from wrestling and was working an office job at the time. Vince called my uncle at his job. My uncle turned it down because he did not want the travel schedule. He wanted to be around his wife and kids. They were more important than the money. Here is why I will always have a soft spot for Vince. Instead of thanking my uncle and hanging up, Vince asked about his kids. Opened up about how much he was scared of Ted Turner with his open pockets. Vince was terrified of losing his business to TNT/Turner/WCW. How he did not like doing the Attitude stuff because he did not want Shane and Stephanie to be around that but he felt like he had to do it in order to save his business. They spent an hour talking about kids, wrestling, and everything under the sun. Vince never had to do that, especially for an opening match JOTS. But he did. At the time, Vince was very worried about the WWF. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 20 minutes ago, PetrolCB said: That upcoming tour schedule is literally Hogan levels of traveling. If somebody is skilled and willing enough to pare that down, how many matches will that roster have wrestled in those days? (I can’t word this as eloquentally as I hear it in my mind, but you know what I mean.) That's almost as bad as flying from New York to Bally's, back to New York, then to the Golden Nugget and then back to New York again. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 15 minutes ago, evilwaldo said: -snip- That’s quite nice. Care to elaborate any more? Who’s your uncle? If you don’t mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 4 minutes ago, Niners Fan in CT said: That's almost as bad as flying from New York to Bally's, back to New York, then to the Golden Nugget and then back to New York again. Right? That’s going full Michael Jordan. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyanide Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 15 minutes ago, PetrolCB said: It’s insane. @Cyanide, what is the Smackdown schedule through that same set of dates, if you don’t mind pasting that as well. Poking around the Events page, it looks like the SD crew just has Eastern Canada dates on their Saturday 8/25 to Tuesday 8/28 run, and then Ohio and Michigan shows from 9/1 to 9/4. So Raw (and Roman, and Ronda) still enjoying the flagship "perks" at the moment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 That’s ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 1 hour ago, PetrolCB said: That’s ridiculous. Did you say ridicurous? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peck Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 7 hours ago, OSJ said: Honey badgers are nothing to fuck with, they will attack lions if they're feeling froggy. Why has no lucha guy used "Honey Badger" as a gimmick, I mean this shit just writes itself... There is a female wrestler who goes by Regina "Honey" Badger and she also appears to be non-fuckable-with. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSJ Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 1 hour ago, Peck said: There is a female wrestler who goes by Regina "Honey" Badger and she also appears to be non-fuckable-with. She appears to be absolutely terrifying. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Green Meanie Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 17 hours ago, NikoBaltimore said: I might end up going there this weekend just because of these tweets. You mean you don't already eat there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Speaking of Scott Steiner... 5 6 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 An absolute legend. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Lord Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 15 hours ago, PetrolCB said: ...fucks sake...Rochester!? And all of that just to go to Cleveland. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph2112 Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 So here is an airport story. I was traveling out of Spokane around 2007/8 and Raw was there the night before. The concourse there is really small and I was in the same area as most of the roster. I remember Cena, Bautista, Arn Anderson, Matt Hardy and a whole bunch of others. I stood right behind Punk, Evan Bourne and Hornswaggle boarding my flight. Hornswaggle was in first class, Punk somewhere in the back and Evan Bourne and I were sitting in the front row behind first class with a empty seat in between us. Have you ever had that empty seat beside you and the plane is almost full and you are praying no one is going to sit there? Me too. It had to be near of boarding and right in the doorway appears Mark FUCKING Henry standing there, and I am not looking forward to this at all. Turns out he was sitting in the very last row of first class and the seat went empty. And just to tie it back to the previous pages, I hate it when people talk to me at an airport, so I sympathize with those who have to deal with it on a regular basis. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 2 hours ago, Phantom Lord said: And all of that just to go to Cleveland. It's impossible to get a direct flight from Rochester. I think they programmed that whole week around the minimum number of connections they could find. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paintedbynumbers Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 15 hours ago, OSJ said: She appears to be absolutely terrifying. you are talking about the wrong person in this pic. Katie is really good, She had a great cage match with Lufisto and took a beating. I think she will be a big star. Just like with DJ Z and Elias I am glad to say I saw her first match. She has come a long way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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