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This is how WWE structure deals. They can fire you at anytime. When you're fired you are blocked from doing anything in the pro wrestling / combat sport world for 90 days. You continue to be paid for 90 days and are legally still under your original agreement. But in essence that original deal is terminated the second they release you. You have to fulfill the 90 day no compete (unless a legal agreement is worked out with WWE to avoid it), but they can't just go and say we messed up we don't want to terminate you. It's too late. They would need to renegotiate a new agreement with you. The 90 day no compete is a way to stop you from making a deal and singing somewhere hot off being a news story. Being on Raw Monday, getting fired Tuesday, being on Dynamite Wednesday. It's shitty. But until it's challenged legally, it's just part of the business. No other company in the wrestling space can offer you a deal, nor negotiate one, until that 90 days is over.

This Jeff Hardy stuff is just hand wringing for the sake of hand wringing. It's very unlikely Jeff faked anything. The situation how I understand it is Jeff had been drinking. He started feeling shitty mid match and bounced. Because of his history WWE drug tested him (thinking it was recreational drugs), They released him regardless of the results because working while buzzed or drunk is not okay anymore. Jeff was offended by the optics of taking a drug test he knows he didn't fail, and still being released. It's wayyyyyyy less nefarious than people are speculating on. Jeff didn't trick anyone. All that said, woof. The amount of corporate white washing here saying Jeff was the underhanded dirty one is gross. There's some hard core boot licking corporate sympathizers around these parts. WWE (the company as a whole not specifically "evil Vince") use these people up and spit them out. They don't treat them like human beings. They treat them like cattle. Nameless faceless warm bodies to hit stock price numbers and nothing more. Jeff would certainly not be the bad guy for tricking the corporate entity making him work 50 times a year when he agreed to a limited schedule. I could rant for hours on that so I will finish with this... anyone siding with the corporate entity over real live human beings is a bad person.

Her misquote did effect the promo. But sports team heat is dicey. I mean yeah it always gets you heat. But sometimes it turns the crowd's attention from the segment. That happened in this case. They stopped listening and just started chanting "Here we go Brownies here we go". Britt is usually one of the best in ring promos in the company, but she was a little off here. She spammed the Browns Steelers stuff too much. There was even an audible JR groan at like the 9th or 10th reference. It didn't help that there really wasn't a point to the segment beyond the sports team spamming. No challenger to talk about. No match to build up. Minor miscue, chalk it up to a learning experience. She's still one of the best promos in the company.

Saying they should have kicked it into the field of play isn't exactly hindsight. Romo was saying it in the moment and said he thought it was a mistake. Holding the receivers at the line is brilliant and exactly what should have been done. Now is that great sportsmanship? No. But well within the rule. What feels better, playing "right" or winning? Yeah overtime needs to be changed. I just don't understand how so many of the decision makers are okay with the current format. You spend 60 minutes fighting back and forth. Both teams just pouring their heart out playing out of their minds. All of that relegated o a moot point based on how a coin flip goes. (out of the last 1 1 playoff OT games, 10 were won on the opening possession). You don't need to get cutesy with new rules. Just tweak it wo where the other team gets the ball no matter what. If KC scores a TD, cool. Now Buffalo gets the opportunity to tie it to keep the game going. OR if they score a TD, they can try to end it with a 2pt conversion. Much more drama and strategy involved there. keep the exact same rules. Just let the second team posses it no matter what. Get rid of the touchdown game over garbage.

What a bummer. Both games today were fucking great. But man... 13 seconds. How do you let them get that? They played some full on hail mary defense for no real reason, knowing a field goal would tie it. Sure play two way deep safeties but don't send five that far back. The extreme conservative defensive calls cost them that game. Even before today I would have been pissed if The Giants hired Leslie Fraiser. But after today, pffftt I will riot. One of the best QB performances ever, and THE best WR playoff performance ever... and the lead with 13 seconds. And they lost. Rough one for Bills fans.

If it's someone who has potential to get an AEW or WWE offer, sure that's an awful deal. If it's someone not on their radar $14k + whatever random indy paydays is... $14k more than you'd have without signing. While it does lock them in and potentially get them into a situation like Pillman Jr was in, I'll take $14k + X vs just X in a heartbeat. Or just the $14k. That's going to be significantly more money than just about any non-name makes in a year from indy wrestling. (85%-90% of working wrestlers out there not signed to deals).

Right, agree. This is wasted outrage. Who cares. It's just another Vince-ism. Is someone like Veer really a SUPERSTAR? No. But that's not literal. That's just the label they use instead of wrestler. And their label for former superstars that used to work for them (but hasn't been put in their HOF) is LEGEND. You know how Vince is about language. Probably thinks "former WWE superstar" makes it seem like they lost it and no one should care anymore. But god damn pal everyone pays attention to a legend.

That picture doesn't show under the goal post. Are we sure the 11th man wasn't under there waiting for a return possibility? Probably not, but just a thought. Turning into lolPackers and you just LOVE to see it. I can't stand The Packers nor Aaron Rodgers. So this was a wonderful outcome for me. My pre season Superbowl prediction is still alive too, Bills over Bucs baby. I like when we get some spice in the playoffs. Too many 1 vs 2 seed games in the Championship rounds of my youth. Love that both 1s were one and done. The curse of the lone bye.

Ben McAdoo with The Panthers? Will it be bowl cut McAdoo or slicked back mafia wanna be McAdoo? There's a big difference between the two. I am happy with The Giant's GM choice. I am pulling for Flores for HC, but with him being a defensive guy I am preparing myself to lose that battle. Dabol is not a sexy name to me. Even less so hearing he wants to bring Tribiski in with him. But I greatly prefer him to Dan Quinn. Like he is about the most bland head coach of all time. Him or Pat Shurmer. And we saw how that went. At least Dabol has shown he can mold a qb that's had a bad season into something closer to his potential. Daniel Jones / Mitch Tribiski are never going to turn into Josh Allen. But they could maybe hit prime Cincy Andy Dalton level until something better comes along.

Oh shit. I just noticed you're from Houston, Texas. Bruce Prichard is from Houston, Texas. I insulted Bruce Prichard. You said I insulted you. Did you... did you just out yourself as Bruce Prichard? It all makes sense now ? Edited to add : I wanted to end this on a lighter note, so that's why I added this dumb joke. I'm done now lol.

"I doubt you're befuddled even a little. Because it's a pretty obvious answer." That's an insult? Insinuating you are smart enough to not be confused by something is an insult? Dude trust me if I wanted to insult someone it would be much more direct. If you are "not bothering with my shit" there's a shiny ignore button. Hit that. But it's not going to have the functionality of stopping me from being able to quote your posts. Because that's one of the purposes here. And just for future reference since this site appears to be pretty user unfriendly for you, if you have a question you'd only like a response from only one certain poster on.... there's a private message function. Then no one else can add their two cents. Or use your question as a jumping off point. Or... gasp... quote you. I'll end by saying this. Me being unhappy with WWE's product has nothing to do with you. I have no personal agenda against you by speaking negatively of a wrestling product I don't currently enjoy. So please don't feel the need to defend their honor as if it's a shot at you. I'm not insulting you personally when I take a shot at WWE. Wouldn't think I'd have to specify that, but here we are.

Dude it's message board for discussion of wrestling. I'm adding to the discussion. You've pulled this before when someone else quoted you. That's how message boards work. I want to give you the benefit of the doubt as someone that just enjoys what he sees and wants to stick up for it. But you constantly get aggressive and shitty with people for using a message board... the way it's intended to be used. If you have such a problem with people adding their two cents to your opinions maybe a podcast is a better medium for you to not have to deal with any feedback in real time to your opinions? Also, leave you the fuck alone? Do you work for WWE? In what way did I say anything close to Eivion is a shitty man with shitty opinions, lets get him? Oh. I didn't. I added to the discussion by giving an answer to your question, but by also giving a legitimate reason why I think there's such an anti WWE sentiment in wrestling fandom. If you're taking that personally that's a YOU problem not a ME problem.

I doubt you're befuddled even a little. Because it's a pretty obvious answer. Just like why there's call in talk radio for sports and people call in talking shit on their favorite team. Fandom is fickle. But just because you hate the current management team of your favorite franchise and criticize all their moves, doesn't mean you can just walk away. At it's core WWE is what a lot of us grew up on. We'd like to like it. We just don't agree with a lot of the dumb management decisions. If you're entertained, cool. But doing dumb shit like putting a singlet on Keith Lee and calling him Bearcat for no reason is dumb as fuck to me, since Keith Lee was over AF both on the indies and on NXT. But I digress. And the truthful reason you see so much anti WWE sentiment is because once the tides turn it's almost impossible to turn it back. WCW was awesome as fuck up until a certain point. Then it became god awful trash so bad it could never be redeemed. When in reality in late 2000 they started righting the ship a bit. But it didn't matter. The tide rose so high there was no coming back. That's where WWE is the court of public opinion. I'm sure swimming against the tide with your thoughts gets frustrating but it's never going to change at this point. WWE is going to be ragged on until there's a major management shakeup for the better. I know Vince takes all the heat (and he deserves a lot of it) but the truth is the decline of creative coincides 1,000% with Bruce Prichard's return. He's bringing out Vince's worst instincts and until something changes there, WWE is gonna stay being the red headed step child.

Ah so we now have confirmation Vince's pop culture knowledge has hit at least 1989 / The Simpsons. Because there's no way Vince isn't basing this new Gunter character off of Gunther from The Simpsons...

Hard disagree. At least in my opinion. Adding Rampage has been subtraction by addition for me. Throw in The Battle of the Belts deal and AEW is actually producing too many first run hours for me to keep up with already. Wish they stayed at just 2 hours of Dynamite. But that's just me maybe. If they add any more it's gonna start to overwhelm people tho. They're already burning out the live audiences taping Rampage after Dynamite.

This doesn't count the 42 random shots of him watching from the crowd we've had to endure on Dynamite & Rampage lol.

Weird reply. Clearly WWE won't be using that licensed song so that nice bit of info is a little out of place here lol.

Certainly could happen. The big pop comes from the recognizable music being played tho. Does anyone know what either Graves or McAfee's music is? Nope. So while it'll get a reaction once the fans see their name on the screen and figure it out, kind of a bad use of 'trying to get a pop' if either of them are in it.

Just spit-balling here but since the attitude era they've kind of conditioned audiences that using anything connected to the ring / ring area is legal. (Except the time keeper chairs for some reason). Basically the steps, the post, the rails, announcer and time keeper tables. If you are using them where they lay then it's not illegal. You bring the steps in the ring illegal. But just whip a dude into them, legal. That table was the ring announcer table and not manipulated or brought into the ring, so it's fair game. Now no one has ever explicitly said that. But that just seems to be the rules as I understand them at least.

God damn pal self mutilation is uncouth. Murdering journalist and regular mutilation is just the cost of doing business.

Idk guys... this was... aggressively dull. Like when you mail something in and it's dull, it's just kind of there. To be this kind of dull you actually have to put in some work to achieve it. I'm quite surprised to see mostly positive reviews in here. Maybe knowing the source material makes it easier to follow along? To me, someone who knew nothing about the property, it gave me great physical pain to finish all 15 hours. What's that... it was only 2.5 hours? Coulda fooled me. My best way to describe this movie would be to say it's like someone setting up a security cams in the Sahara and you had to work a double shift watching the cameras with nothing happening what so ever all night long. I did enjoy the 2 minutes of a drunken troll we got in the mid credits scene. Cue up that Alvarez sound byte of the minus five stars deal. That's my official rating. No sir, I didn't like it.

Or... hear me out... Brock keeps the belt. Roman keeps the belt. Brock enters the rumble and wins because he wants Roman. Unify the titles at mania. Becky keeps the belt. Charlotte wins the rumble. Unify the titles at mania. Usos keep the titles until mania. Street Prophets win the titles before mania. Unify the titles at mania. A man can dream...

No shit anyone with one working eye could tell you that lol. Gettleman is about as stuck in the past as any executive in NFL history. Instead of embracing what the NFL is evolving into that hire just keep them stuck in the past until he was gone. Now The Giants are minus Beckham, entirely due to Gettleman. The Franchise is far worse off now than when he took over. The mark of a true visionary.

I'm soooo glad The Giants pulled the ripcord on Judge. I don't think Judge was the worst they've done the last few years (McAdoo was a derp and Shermer was just bland as all hell) but he certainly wasn't inspiring the players. New GM, new coach, picks 5 & 7 in the draft. This shift *should* mean improvement. Not looking for an immediate playoff jump. I'd be happy just still being alive by week 10. I posted on her around week 3 or 4 about knowing they were eliminated. Just get me into the double digit weeks before I know the season is over lol.