Gaz-L posted:

They HAVE the second coming, in Charlotte, assuming Dunn doesn't poison the well because she doesn't look like a Playmate.

Nessus posted:

My only worry is that if like, Finn Balor made the transition, instead of being some dude who could feud legitimately with Bray Wyatt or something, he'd be a lovely gag jobber.

Piss in my rear end posted:

good news -- it looks like her boobs have mysteriously gotten bigger

Delsaber posted:

I'm dreading the commentary as well.

"He's a GOOFBALL, Maggle! Look at him! He thinks he's in some kind of fantasyland!"

Gaz-L posted:

It looked more like a really... supportive... top to me. Like, there was a close-up on Takeover and I was like "Is she wearing a push-up bra?"

Piss in my rear end posted:

nah remember when she was out recently due to a minor injury? that was a boob job

Piss in my rear end posted:

can you wrestle with rear end implants?

Piss in my rear end posted:

can you wrestle with rear end implants?

Luigi Thirty posted:

Here's an interesting thing that's ~not~ from that metsfan guy. Bryan said during his review of the NXT special that he got a message from a WWE guy talking about how main roster guys are getting unhappy that they have to be "entertaining" on TV while the NXT guys can just go out and wrestle. They're not mad at anyone in particular, they're unhappy that they don't get to show what they can do on WWE TV while people in developmental get to put on 4-star matches every week. Particularly the women wrestlers are angry that their TV matches are 2-minute rollupfests while womens' matches on NXT will be co-main events and get plenty of time.

NutritiousSnack posted:

Daniel Bryan was the tag team champions prior to the shield, so it makes for him to still be the dominant tag team in the WWE

Yorkshire Tea posted:

I mean the telling thing about the financials is that the haemorrhaged money on Cost of Sales, so all the extra Revenue they got was eaten. Like as a rule, it's really really unreliable to judge a company by revenue changes alone.

At a glance I don't think the company would put network setup costs in CoS since it's an investment expense and isn't anything to do with actually moving the product in front of them. So all the free months that they're doing are basically taking a dump on Gross Profit which is around $10m down on where it was in 2013. Then you add the network expense and you're hit with a $50m loss before tax vs a $5m gain before tax in prior year.

What's interesting is in Q4 they lost $11.9m before tax in 2013 and this time they only lost $3.5m. If that's because the network isn't making GBS threads itself then they might actually rake back the loss that they've made. But if they keep on having to throw out free months to keep people going it's going to end up lossmaking no matter how many subscribers they claim to have.

I mean in all honesty, what I'd absolutely kill for is a full breakdown of the Cost of Sales figure.

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I mean in all honesty, what I'd absolutely kill for is a full breakdown of the Cost of Sales figure.

sticklefifer posted:

I don't get how you have Kidd/Cesaro beat the Usos on Monday and then don't include them in a match featuring the whole tag division on the next show.

Though I guess New Day and the Dusts weren't there either, so they actually do have quite a few tag teams (at least 8), now if only they gave a poo poo about the division.

super macho dude posted:

A totally original and refreshing idea would be to have Balor/Owens/Zayne/Itami/Neville get called up to WWE as some sort of indie super faction who terrorize and feud with a big star like John Cena or Roman Reigns (or both omg can u imagine ) for a couple months so we can watch who is willing to grab the brass ring and who just couldnt cut the mustard.

Fat Lowtax posted:

It makes me wish they never did the Nexus thing because the cream of the crop in NXT is so much better top-to-bottom than the group that had Heath Slater and Michael Tarver.

I guess DB getting fired and Skip getting injured hurt them a bit, and there's no one in this crew who's as good as Barrett on the mic.

Gaz-L posted:

Can I also point out how insane (or... inZayn... huh, huh? ) it is that Sami Zayn wrestled for like a decade under a mask?

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WWE has not only stripped off El Generico's mask, but by repackaging him, the company has devalued him.

Canadian faux-luchador and indy star El Generico (real name: Rami Sabei) is now wrestling for WWE's NXT as Sami Zayn. Zayn as Generico was an explosion of energy in the ring, a performer whose tongue-in-cheek gimmick was one of the more entertaining things in independent wrestling.

WWE has decided to morph him into something else, something more, for a lack of a better term, generic.

Gone is the mask. Gone is the fake Spanish he spoke. Gone, for the most part, are the "Ole!" chants.

[...]

Turning El Generico into the unmasked Zayn sucks the fun out of his character and leaves a nondescript athletic wrestler in its stead.

El Generico would have been a great comic wrestler in the tradition of Hurricane Helms. He would have excelled in backstage segments or as an amusing addition to Raw or SmackDown's in-ring action.

What does Sami Zayn offer?

Gaz-L posted:

"What does Sami Zayn offer?"

A possible Wrestlemania main eventer?

Nessus posted:

It'd enhance your Stinkface.

Thauros posted:

I can't see that ever happening, but then again I also would've said that about Bryan not too long ago so hopefully I'm wrong again.

oatgan posted:

You should watch Survivor Series 98 again sometime because lol no

Red posted:

Shane McMahon stopping at the count of 2 to slowly give Austin two middle fingers, with Austin's eyes going wide, is one of the greatest things ever, and completely makes up for all the bad wrestling.

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

It was the first month of wrestling I had ever seen and it was amazing.
Why did Mr. McMahon betray Mankind like that?

Rewatching today it's an unbearable show with no good matches.

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

It was the first month of wrestling I had ever seen and it was amazing.
Why did Mr. McMahon betray Mankind like that?

Rewatching today it's an unbearable show with no good matches.

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

It was the first month of wrestling I had ever seen and it was amazing.
Why did Mr. McMahon betray Mankind like that?

Rewatching today it's an unbearable show with no good matches.

Astro7x posted:

HOTLANTA MAN posted:

The first wrestling thing I ever watched was Rock/Austin at WMX7.

So good on me starting with the greatest match of all time.

The Cosby Mysteries posted:

Waaa? Rey Mysterio won the tournament but John Cena invoked his rematch on Rey the same night for some reason and won the WWE Championship belt (not title because Punk had that in his fridge).

Actually what the gently caress was point of the tournament they should have just handed Cena the title like when Bischoff literally gave Triple H The Big Gold Belt.