dragonzombie Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 3 minutes ago, NoFistsJustFlips said: The sooner this new gimmick poster gets cashed the sooner we can get back to paying our air bills... just saying... Who are you referring to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 28 minutes ago, RunningFromAmerica said: I was never sure if the name 'Knights of the Lone Wolf' was supposed to a joke or not. Maffew had a bit a few Botchamanias ago, where he overdubbed Corbin talking, with that scene from Airheads where they are telling the DJ their name is "The Lone Rangers". 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 39 minutes ago, NoFistsJustFlips said: The sooner this new gimmick poster gets cashed the sooner we can get back to paying our air bills... just saying... Youll have to be more specific, since are seemingly mire every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoFistsJustFlips Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 27 minutes ago, D.Z said: Who are you referring to? RunningFromAmerica. Sorry, thought it was obvious with him running wild on the last two pages. Victim blaming & standing behind his use of a derogatory term for the mentally disabled are pretty shitty actions to begin with. More so when Dolfan told him to chill on the subject and he kept going. Sorry if I was too vague and you thought I might have been talking about you? I have been annoyed by some of your one line drive by posts before lol, but you post a lot of good information and always add a lot to the discussions. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 He's not new though. Been here for ages. Used to be Coming to America, even after he came back from America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEN! Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Wrestling fans are going to remember 2020 for empty arena shows due to the pandemic. That's fine but don't ever forget that 2020 was the year every company had groups of dark-clad cannon fodder mystery men running around. AEW with The Dark Order. IMPACT had EC3's followers. MLW with masked Contra soldiers. WWE with Tozawa's ninjas, Retribution, and the pre-Legado Del Fantasma in the most dangerous place in professional wrestling: the Orlando parking lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 (edited) 3 minutes ago, BEN! said: Wrestling fans are going to remember 2020 for empty arena shows due to the pandemic. That's fine but don't ever forget that 2020 was the year every company had groups of dark-clad cannon fodder mystery men running around. AEW with The Dark Order. IMPACT had EC3's followers. MLW with masked Contra soldiers. WWE with Tozawa's ninjas, Retribution, and the pre-Legado Del Fantasma in the most dangerous place in professional wrestling: the Orlando parking lot. I’m naming my faction “The Zeitgeist Antifa” Edited February 5, 2021 by Matt D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Service Time or Number of Posts is not an indicator of quality, just quality. (Many would say that about me and could very well be correct.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 4 minutes ago, BEN! said: Wrestling fans are going to remember 2020 for empty arena shows due to the pandemic. That's fine but don't ever forget that 2020 was the year every company had groups of dark-clad cannon fodder mystery men running around. AEW with The Dark Order. IMPACT had EC3's followers. MLW with masked Contra soldiers. WWE with Tozawa's ninjas, Retribution, and the pre-Legado Del Fantasma in the most dangerous place in professional wrestling: the Orlando parking lot. When does Vince do his recreation of the Capitol Assault, with Corbin dressed as Buffalo Face Paint Guy? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 31 minutes ago, BEN! said: AEW with The Dark Order. IMPACT had EC3's followers. MLW with masked Contra soldiers. WWE with Tozawa's ninjas, Retribution, and the pre-Legado Del Fantasma in the most dangerous place in professional wrestling: the Orlando parking lot. If only they headed Kenta's warnings about that parking lot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Am I the only one who's noticed that every time we talk about Lars Sullivan, the discussion just devolves into everyone being dicks to each other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontaneous Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 You know, with Lars Sullivan, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 22 minutes ago, mattdangerously said: Am I the only one who's noticed that every time we talk about Lars Sullivan, the discussion just devolves into everyone being dicks to each other? The solution is to stop talking about Lars Sullivan, which I have no problem with. 14 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 1 hour ago, odessasteps said: When does Vince do his recreation of the Capitol Assault, with Corbin dressed as Buffalo Face Paint Guy? Just another copycat. BFPG ripped off Warrior and Barbarian with that getup. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Regarding Steve Cutler - Meltzer frames it in the new WON that basically Cutler's release was due to him having the New Year's Eve Party Quote Steve Cutler, 33, was released on 2/4. He and Wesley Blake were put into a group with Corbin. Then Cutler, the boyfriend of Deonna Purrazzo of Impact, got sick and then the whole idea was dropped after he missed a week. This was said to be a disciplinary reason that got Vince McMahon livid when he heard about it. Purrazzo didn’t directly reference it, but moments after his release she only tweeted “COVID strikes again.” The belief is that it had to do with his New Year’s Eve party that led to that and that McMahon had promised a few wrestlers like Reigns a safe environment when he returned and Cutler was around all the talent. Cutler was training at the Performance Center in the big guys class on the day he got fired. He is believed to be the first pro wrestler fired for getting COVID Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 2 minutes ago, RIPPA said: He is believed to be the first pro wrestler fired for getting COVID This could get interesting/ugly quickly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Just now, Zakk_Sabbath said: This could get interesting/ugly quickly Eh - I think that is poor wording on Meltzer's fault or at least put it this way - rightly or wrongly, the WWE lawyers would easily defend it as saying that he was fired for not following COVID protocols they have in place not because he got COVID directly. In fact, if anything, they would use the fact that he tested positive as the reason why they don't want folks gathering. Obviously - if he hadn't tested positive - no one would have cared (in the WWE) that he had the party 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 To put a bow on the Cesaro stuff from way back in the thread Quote There have been reports going around regarding the status of Cesaro. Either he signed or verbally agreed to a new deal a few weeks ago. The gauntlet match that Adam Pearce won on Smackdown, the babyface star making spot of running through the field and then getting screwed at the end was an idea of Bryan, and his pick for the spot was Cesaro. However, since Cesaro hadn’t signed yet, it was switched to Nakamura, so Cesaro was going to be the face originally. But even if some thought Nakamura got over in that match, and without live fans there’s really no way to know, since he was a replacement, the plan wasn’t to follow up much which is why he’s basically in the same spot, only on the face side. He’s been told his role is to make new stars 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted February 5, 2021 Author Share Posted February 5, 2021 3 minutes ago, Zakk_Sabbath said: This could get interesting/ugly quickly And here's the difference between contracted employees and a full-time employee. I'll all but guarantee (and it being WWE, I'll double down on this) the employer has a conduct clause in their employment agreement. Basically, if you breathe wrong (!!!) you can be fired. Depending on the state you're in, if you're an employee, you have to be given cause to be let go. And then if you're a union employee, they can contest/litigate a termination. Short answer, Blake Cutler is gone and will not be back any time soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 6 minutes ago, RIPPA said: Eh - I think that is poor wording on Meltzer's fault or at least put it this way - rightly or wrongly, the WWE lawyers would easily defend it as saying that he was fired for not following COVID protocols they have in place not because he got COVID directly. In fact, if anything, they would use the fact that he tested positive as the reason why they don't want folks gathering. Obviously - if he hadn't tested positive - no one would have cared (in the WWE) that he had the party The wording from his post is a bit odd but does that mean that Cutler knew he had COVID and had the party anyway? Because if so then that's entirely on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted February 5, 2021 Author Share Posted February 5, 2021 4 minutes ago, RIPPA said: To put a bow on the Cesaro stuff from way back in the thread And see, this is the argument I'd make to make Cesaro/Nakamura the floating "TV Champ". If his role is to make new stars, he's basically wasted on one show. You know what he's capable of, so let him go to all three shows, have excellent matches with guys like Andrade, Damien Priest, Aleister Black, Cameron Grimes, Karrion Kross, and all the other guys who haven't been given the ball yet. Let them show what they can do and get big reactions. This is all tempered by what I said in the Raw thread as we won't get any kind of course correction until real crowds are back on the weekly shows. That's not happening until SummerSlam at the earliest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyLaw Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 If Cutler threw that New Years Eve party and has been working with the big guys at the PC, and Keith Lee was sent to big guy class, and now Keith Lee and others are out with COVID, then it’s easy to connect those dots. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontaneous Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 I don't have a ton of pity for Cutler. He's on Smackdown with Roman, who is immunocompromised, yet held a party during a pandemic. I don't like the greater perspective to it where WWE fires people like it is a body function. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 They *think* this is going to be the first Intergender Iron Person match ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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