Curt McGirt Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Seriously. Lemmy was a non-racist WWII enthusiast. He was also GOD. Leave your politics at the door, please. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 11 minutes ago, LoneWolf&Subs said: How bad are these shows doing for them to be repeatedly canceled? Like TNA house show bad? They are getting cancelled because now with the Wild Card rule - half the SDL has to be at RAW so there is no one left to run a proper show Now that being said - the Monday SDL were not doing well Of course no WWE house show is doing well at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf&Subs Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 They are really fighting to keep this brand split alive, with good reason. This roster is too big to not have a brand split. But they are losing this fight everyday. Last time it failed they were sort of thankful that they had a much smaller roster, and no competition. If the damn breaks once again, you will have an extremely unhappy locker room that will either not be on TV, or demoted to Florida, and maybe even the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said: Bix gave me shit for liking Motorhead on here one time. Fuck that guy. Well, he more than likely assumes that makes you a Nazi. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Similar to how liking Norse culture makes you a nazi too? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 What's the point of running house shows on the evenings you have a live TV show? I understand that audience isn't large enough to take away from TV views but it seems weird like running a house show on Superbowl Sunday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Conn Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 1 hour ago, Ziggy said: What's the point of running house shows on the evenings you have a live TV show? I understand that audience isn't large enough to take away from TV views but it seems weird like running a house show on Superbowl Sunday. Has WWE ran a house show on SuperBowl Sunday? Sounds like a TNA thing to do. Jim Cornette tells this story about during Jim Herds WCW run they ran a 18,000 seat arena on Easter Sunday in San Antonio a predominately Catholic town. They drew 500 people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 1 hour ago, Ziggy said: What's the point of running house shows on the evenings you have a live TV show? I understand that audience isn't large enough to take away from TV views but it seems weird like running a house show on Superbowl Sunday. In the perfect Utopia that the WWE wishes it operated in - this is how it works The biggest reason they keep the brand split right now is because of house show touring (Meltzer was just talking about this either this week or last). How it is supposed to work (when there isn't the Wild Card and people just constantly meandering between brands) is that two seperate brands allows you to run more shows and be able to advertise who will be on each show. (NXT is an example of the opposite where the market almost no one ahead of time and you have to make assumptions as to who is on each tour each week) The way it is supposed to work is that wrestlers appear on their TV show one night and have four nights of house shows with two days off. (The days between the TV show and when house shows start) So right now RAW is Thursday - Sunday, TV on Monday SDL is Friday - Monday, TV on SDL If you move SDL to Thursday - Sunday - you have folks then still have to travel on Monday to whatever city TV is in and twiddling their thumbs. If you eliminate the Monday show - SDL folks are wrestling one less time a week than the RAW side (in addition to the problem of SDL guys just sitting around in the city that TV is supposed to be in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 19 minutes ago, Web Conn said: Has WWE ran a house show on SuperBowl Sunday? Sounds like a TNA thing to do. Jim Cornette tells this story about during Jim Herds WCW run they ran a 18,000 seat arena on Easter Sunday in San Antonio a predominately Catholic town. They drew 500 people. Yeah, that sounds like a WCW thing to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 14 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said: Yeah, that sounds like a WCW thing to do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 2 hours ago, Ryan said: Well, he more than likely assumes that makes you a Nazi. You know that old adage about assuming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 He made an ass out of himself and you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 1 hour ago, odessasteps said: Similar to how liking Norse culture makes you a nazi too? Nazi! It's all about specifics really. Mel Gibson's father? Probably pretty close to wanting to be a Nazi. Lemmy? Not so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 (edited) Haha touche, just himself in this case EDIT: Especially since I'm sitting here watching the Delfonics on Soul Train right now Edited May 18, 2019 by Curt McGirt 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chanandlerbong Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Apologies but I don’t see a thread for it - just saw the Network’s Hart/Magee special and a couple of observations: 1) Tom Magee was a great athlete but just judging by his talking about his life since and his time back then, he is just not a “pro wrestling guy.” Nice dude, great accomplishments but not someone who seemed wired for the business. 2) Magee was weirdly awkward in doing almost everything but backflips and armdrags - maybe he could’ve gotten better with about a year on the road but hard to say. 3) Harry Smith’s Bret impression is INCREDIBLE. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 23 minutes ago, West Newbury Bad Boy said: They were only on together for five months, and unfortunately I couldn't find the ratings to specifically compare the half-hour that Thunder was up against Seinfeld. I see the game you're playing. You're trying to goad me into posting a Seinfeld clip in an attempt to have Rippa ban me again. Not gonna happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 (edited) I was playing, not comparing their ratings in earnest. Just looked up the ratings for Seinfeld's final season the other day for the GOT thread. Safe to say there's no way Thunder ever touched first-run Seinfeld. Edited May 18, 2019 by West Newbury Bad Boy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 3 minutes ago, West Newbury Bad Boy said: I was playing, not comparing their ratings in earnest. Just looked up the ratings for Seinfeld's final season the other day for the GOT thread. Safe to say there's no way Thunder ever touched first-run Seinfeld. I know, dude. It's all in good fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 19 minutes ago, Ryan said: He made an ass out of himself and you? I did Nazi that coming! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 (edited) 3 minutes ago, sabremike said: I did Nazi that coming! If you want Nazi jokes, the 2016 Impact thread when it looked like the Harris Brothers were going to get the company is chock full of them. Edited May 18, 2019 by Nice Guy Eddie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said: If you want Nazi jokes, the 2016 Impact thread when it looked like the Harris Brothers were going to get the company is chock full of them. I'll let somebody else make a Faulty Towers reference: "How did zey ever win ze war???" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Web Conn said: Jim Cornette tells this story about during Jim Herds WCW run they ran a 18,000 seat arena on Easter Sunday in San Antonio a predominately Catholic town. They drew 500 people. That's also how I got in and out of Vegas for $400 a few years ago. Total. Flight, room, food, drink, gambling. I saw super cheap rates for everything and booked it and only later realized I was flying in on Easter Sunday. And it's Fawlty. EDIT: Fucking hate when I make a joke to the previous post and I show up on the next page. Edited May 18, 2019 by sydneybrown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 1 hour ago, chanandlerbong said: 2) Magee was weirdly awkward in doing almost everything but backflips and armdrags - maybe he could’ve gotten better with about a year on the road but hard to say. Something as simple as giving Magee a house show program with someone who could teach him how to work a little snugger would have done so much for him. Give him a few weeks of working with Haku, and see how much better he could be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 On 5/16/2019 at 1:49 PM, OSJ said: Hey Paul! Get me this guy on the phone, willya, pal? Whenever you get done with whatever you and Steff are doing back there... Hey, this guy's A WRITER! We need some more writers don't we? He even does a funny book, he's got this dead guy who hangs out in hotels so they call him the INN Spectre, cause ya know, "Inn" is another word for "hotel" HAHAHAHAHA!!! This guy will slay ya, pal. Some really funny shit. Did ya know that a big fear people have of travelling is something coming up out of the toilet to GET THEM!!!! I SHIT YA NOT!!! HAHAHAHAHA! See what I just did there? There's your first twenty minutes of RAW, shoot it in the lobby and have that fat Samoan guy play the bell-hop and have this Vic guy sign a release and show up dressed as the INN Spectre! Have him chase the fat guy around the ring a few times, I don't think creative has anything else for him to do. I'm sure that we can get this Vic guy for fifty bucks and some t--shirts... We've got a lot of those shirts for the Saudi show, don't we? They wish, sixty bucks and action figures, that is where the money is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 4 hours ago, mattdangerously said: Something as simple as giving Magee a house show program with someone who could teach him how to work a little snugger would have done so much for him. Give him a few weeks of working with Haku, and see how much better he could be. He might be dead after that. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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