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3 hours ago, Ziggy said:

I felt the same way about Tamina, she would've been so much better had she stayed in FCW a while longer. She got alot of criticism for not being good in the ring but I don't think you can blame her because she got called up so quick because of her unique look.

I mean, she's been on the main roster for a decade now and has over 500 matches, at this point I think it is fair to say that she was just never gonna be any good.

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2 hours ago, username said:

I mean, she's been on the main roster for a decade now and has over 500 matches, at this point I think it is fair to say that she was just never gonna be any good.

She seems to have only figured things out now in her recent Smackdown run. She still isn't good, but she is competent and can be carried to solid matches. I like Tamina because she has great presence, but she has never shown much potential beyond that.

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On today's WOR, when Dave was talking about The Revival's debut, he said "they were booking to the BTE audience" in reference to Being The Elite, but I misheard it as "booking to the BET audience" and thought that the Bucks/Omega/Cody were booking to the viewers of Tyler Perry's The Oval and Being Mary Jane.

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1 hour ago, Southside Jim said:

On today's WOR, when Dave was talking about The Revival's debut, he said "they were booking to the BTE audience" in reference to Being The Elite, but I misheard it as "booking to the BET audience" and thought that the Bucks/Omega/Cody were booking to the viewers of Tyler Perry's The Oval and Being Mary Jane.

Not enough women tazing their own daughters to appeal to real Oval-heads.

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On 5/27/2020 at 9:51 PM, mattdangerously said:

Pretty Wonderful was a much better role for him.

Such an underrated tag team. Then you’ve got Power and Glory too and Roma doesn’t seem so bad 

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8 minutes ago, BurningBeard said:

Such an underrated tag team. Then you’ve got Power and Glory too and Roma doesn’t seem so bad 

I really loved The Young Stallions, but I was like 10 and I seem to remember it being a big deal that they beat Muraco and Orton, and I fucking HATED Bob Orton.

Pretty Wonderful is obviously the best of the three teams, and with the couple of title runs, the most successful. I have always thought Roma got a bad rap for the failed Horseman run, but he was perfectly acceptable in any of the mid-level roles he played other than that. I wouldn't go looking for Paul Roma's "best of", but I'm not going to skip a match of his just because, either.

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2 hours ago, grilledcheese said:

I really loved The Young Stallions, but I was like 10 and I seem to remember it being a big deal that they beat Muraco and Orton, and I fucking HATED Bob Orton.

Pretty Wonderful is obviously the best of the three teams, and with the couple of title runs, the most successful. I have always thought Roma got a bad rap for the failed Horseman run, but he was perfectly acceptable in any of the mid-level roles he played other than that. I wouldn't go looking for Paul Roma's "best of", but I'm not going to skip a match of his just because, either.

Power and Glory should have been in the Nasty Boys spot at Mania VII going over the Harts for the tag titles.  No idea why they got squashed by the LOD in 30 seconds and then broken up following Summerslam.

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10 minutes ago, Vgmastr said:

Power and Glory should have been in the Nasty Boys spot at Mania VII going over the Harts for the tag titles.  No idea why they got squashed by the LOD in 30 seconds and then broken up following Summerslam.

I recently read an interview with Roma and he said Hercules was hurt going into WM7, so Roma came up with the idea for the squash.

I would have been fine with Power & Glory in the Nasties spot. They would have been fine transitional champs, and Slick deserved to manage a champion.

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1 hour ago, Vgmastr said:

Power and Glory should have been in the Nasty Boys spot at Mania VII going over the Harts for the tag titles.  No idea why they got squashed by the LOD in 30 seconds and then broken up following Summerslam.

Power and Glory were a SUPER underrated tag team and would be better remembered if they lasted more than a year.  Hercules was dead in the water and Roma's 15 minutes with Powers was long gone.  But they clicked and had a bad-ass finisher.  And then they got to squash The Rockers at SummerSlam '90 and they were made.  Until Gorilla started this dumbass "He wants to be called "Romeo" Roma" shit.

This is speculation but I would assume when the Rockers beat the Harts for the tag titles, it would have been a transition to Power and Glory, making the WM7 LOD match for the titles.  Interesting Roma is now blaming Hercules, because ROMA has said for years that he was the one who was injured and just wanted to get it over with.

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12 minutes ago, sydneybrown said:

Power and Glory were a SUPER underrated tag team and would be better remembered if they lasted more than a year.  Hercules was dead in the water and Roma's 15 minutes with Powers was long gone.  But they clicked and had a bad-ass finisher.  And then they got to squash The Rockers at SummerSlam '90 and they were made.  Until Gorilla started this dumbass "He wants to be called "Romeo" Roma" shit.

This is speculation but I would assume when the Rockers beat the Harts for the tag titles, it would have been a transition to Power and Glory, making the WM7 LOD match for the titles.  Interesting Roma is now blaming Hercules, because ROMA has said for years that he was the one who was injured and just wanted to get it over with.

If Roma was injured, taking the Doomsday Device doesn't exactly seem like a smart move.

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Yeah, Roma had said in an interview I'd seen, that his arm was fucked up and he didn't want to do the match and that Vince "made him".

He's also an asshole, so take what he says with a grain of salt.

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27 minutes ago, RolandTHTG said:

Yep - the Powerplex was fucking ace. 

A team needs to bring that back.

Didn't the Revival use it at least once? I also remember them using the Hart Attack and Demolition's decapitation elbow.

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https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/nigel-mcguinness-furloughed-wwe-312116

Nigel McGuinness furloughed by WWE. That's sad considering the coronavirus crisis, Nigel's great on commentary and his tenuous journey arriving to the WWE. Watch The Nigel McGuinness documentary by WWE last year if you haven't already.

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10 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Didn't the Revival use it at least once? I also remember them using the Hart Attack and Demolition's decapitation elbow.

FTR needs to go all the way with the gimmick.  Let them be absolute students of tag team wrestling who use the moves and finishes of other teams constantly.  The already did the old Brain Busters' spike piledriver on Wednesday night  I need to see them bust out the Rocket Launcher, Steiner Bulldog, Le Bomb De Rougeau, etc.  Have them beat the Bucks with a Meltzer Driver.  Fuck it, shout out Steenerico with a package piledriver rolled into a brainbuster.

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https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/nigel-mcguinness-furloughed-wwe-312116

Nigel McGuinness furloughed by WWE. That's sad considering the coronavirus crisis, Nigel's great on commentary and his tenuous journey arriving to the WWE. Watch The Nigel McGuinness documentary by WWE last year if you haven't already.

Every furlough and layoff they do is sad because there is absolutely no need for it outside of "we need to make the balance sheet look good so other greedy fucks savvy businessmen continue to invest in us."

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13 minutes ago, Technico Support said:

FTR needs to go all the way with the gimmick.  Let them be absolute students of tag team wrestling who use the moves and finishes of other teams constantly.  The already did the old Brain Busters' spike piledriver on Wednesday night  I need to see them bust out the Rocket Launcher, Steiner Bulldog, Le Bomb De Rougeau, etc.  Have them beat the Bucks with a Meltzer Driver.  Fuck it, shout out Steenerico with a package piledriver rolled into a brainbuster.

Every furlough and layoff they do is sad because there is absolutely no need for it outside of "we need to make the balance sheet look good so other greedy fucks savvy businessmen continue to invest in us."

I was going to post this yesterday but, I spoke with my contact who worked for WWE for years in a tech capacity. He told me a few things that I wanted to share with everyone.  The first thing was apparently the way Luck was fired from XFL was handled terribly.  I was also told that over 300 members were "furloughed" this includes truck drivers, audio guys, camera crew, tech guys, office staff, all the temps/contractors were let go.  The general consensus is they will not be hired back.   As sad as that is to hear it gets worse.  The gentleman told me that there are no plans for crowds to be at shows not just WWE but NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB for the rest of 2020. This gentleman did tech work on WWE's behalf for every arena in the country and had been told that their is almost 0 chance of crowds being at events this year.  He also confirmed Disney being interested in buying WWE as early as last year. He said at the time Vince didn't consider selling but the way things are now he may do it.

Lastly and more importantly, there will be another waive of "furloughs" releases, this summer. The list of names are already made.  It will be interesting to see how much of this is on air talent and how much is office/backstage talent.  

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