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rare Magic card l00k posted:Rotating guys in and out is a thing that it feels like people have been saying forever but logically has zero reason to ever happen because you'd be asking wrestlers to take a significant pay cut. Maybe they can make them actual employees instead of private contractors then.
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“Hacksaw” Jim Duggan: You could always find a two-by-four lying around. Jake had to carry that heavy snake around. I’d just show up and break off a piece of a pallet in the back. Lmao
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The_Rob posted:Maybe they can make them actual employees instead of private contractors then. And maybe TNA can be a threat to WWE!
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Honestly wwe could probably solve a lot of the injury problems they have by cutting house shows down by a lot.
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bradzilla posted:Matches are rehearsed in NXT
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enzo's only move besides his chicken strip strut is just getting picked up by cass and thrown on top of someone
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Mulaney Power Move posted:enzo's only move besides his chicken strip strut is just getting picked up by cass and thrown on top of someone And that's cool and good.
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Putting Enzo in a singles match with Cesaro was a dumb move and it's part of the bigger problem where they refuse to play to their wrestlers' strengths and hide their weaknesses.
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I really want Enzo to become a manager and instead of using a weapon to hit Cass's opponent, Cass just picks up Enzo and uses him like a weapon and they have to sell being hit by Enzo just like they would getting struck with a belt or something.
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The_Rob posted:Honestly wwe could probably solve a lot of the injury problems they have by cutting house shows down by a lot. im an idiot but i dont even understand why they do house shows. you're a multimedia company that puts out hours and hours of material every week but your most talented and dependable guys spend the vast majority of their time and effort working matches that the vast majority of the audience never sees. doesn't the lion's share of their profit come from the network and television contracts, anyway?
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Under the vegetable posted:im an idiot but i dont even understand why they do house shows. you're a multimedia company that puts out hours and hours of material every week but your most talented and dependable guys spend the vast majority of their time and effort working matches that the vast majority of the audience never sees. doesn't the lion's share of their profit come from the network and television contracts, anyway? House shows, in addition to making a lot of money, allow their wrestlers to work together in-ring a lot to prepare for matches that happen on more important events.
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Yeah, house shows make a ton of money because they sell a lot of merch, get the gate (of course), and have almost no production costs
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The wrestlers also like doing the house shows.
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House shows have wayyyy less overhead. No paying for satellite time. The workers pay for their rental cars and rooms so the only cost to WWE is the flight to the first show, which they'd have to pay even if they only worked tv. They sell a ton of merch at the events. Sure it would keep the workers healthier but it would be an absurdly retarded move to get rid of them. If they were smart, they'd keep a rotation where everyone gets a few weeks off of house shows once or twice a year to heal up. I'd imagine even giving everyone one month per year where they only work tv would do wonders for a lot of them. It also allows them to bring the product to smaller towns where they'd never be able to run tv and keep interest up.
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Strawberry Panda posted:The wrestlers also like doing the house shows. This too. House shows are conductive to a lot more one-shot goofing off than a TV show designed to sell people on a major event.
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There are a lot of positives to house shows. In fact my favorite live wwe shows I went to were house shows, but man they are literally working 6 days out of the week. That's going to take a toll.
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The_Rob posted:There are a lot of positives to house shows. In fact my favorite live wwe shows I went to were house shows, but man they are literally working 6 days out of the week. That's going to take a toll. Uh, WWE has drastically cut back on the number of house shows since the 80s. Most work like 3 or 4 shows a week. House shows over the weekend, tv tapings on Monday and Tuesday.
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House shows also draw the worst fans
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Eli Wiggum posted:House shows also draw the worst fans ????????? but ive never been to a house show
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House shows are the most fun I've ever actually had watching WWE. You can get front row seats for cheap. There are actual matches, they play to the fans and do goofy poo poo, and everything has an actual finish that puts the babyfaces over and sends people home happy. House shows are cool and good
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We're about a quarter way (13 weeks) through the year now, and Sami Zayn has worked the most matches this year and he's wrestled in 43 matches, which is about 4 a week.
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Holy poo poo I am SO invested in the Mizanins vs Cenas feud. This week's promos on both sides were loving incredible (apart from Nikki) and I actually got chills during the "You can't see me.......because there is nothing worth seeing" bit and when he shifts to the serious and calm but intense promo. loving masterful. Give Miz the loving world title this year. I want to see him do worked shoot promos on everyone on the roster.
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Eli Wiggum posted:House shows also draw the worst fans This is so untrue. It's a lot of kids having fun and usually not some Fray-looking sweatbeard trying to get himself over on TV.
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Dias posted:You're telling me WWE picked a perfectly good wrestler that got over with their own schtick and then hosed it all up, making them look like unredeemable garbage in the process? Say it ain't so. That's exactly what I'm saying!
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quote:“There’s been guys that have made it that over the course of a couple of years that were constantly on the cut list,” Levesque said. “Enzo Amore, when I brought him in, everyone at the tryout was saying, ‘Get rid of this kid!’ I was like, ‘He’s got a huge personality. If he can annoy us all this bad here, imagine what he can do on TV.’ … Every time he’d get his review, they’d be like, ‘I’d cut him.’ Dusty [Rhodes] and I would be like, ‘Keep him.’ Look at him now. … Is he ever going to make you money from an in-ring performer standpoint? Probably not. But he’s money on the mic.
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extradite THIS! posted:Holy poo poo I am SO invested in the Mizanins vs Cenas feud. This week's promos on both sides were loving incredible (apart from Nikki) and I actually got chills during the "You can't see me.......because there is nothing worth seeing" bit and when he shifts to the serious and calm but intense promo. loving masterful. Give Miz the loving world title this year. I want to see him do worked shoot promos on everyone on the roster. I too love the WWE heel tradition of doing 95% of the good buildup to a Mania match leading to them eating a clean pin and being compromised/humiliated in the process Eli Wiggum posted:“There’s been guys that have made it that over the course of a couple of years that were constantly on the cut list,” Levesque said. “Enzo Amore, when I brought him in, everyone at the tryout was saying, ‘Get rid of this kid!’ I was like, ‘He’s got a huge personality. If he can annoy us all this bad here, imagine what he can do on TV.’ … Every time he’d get his review, they’d be like, ‘I’d cut him.’ Dusty [Rhodes] and I would be like, ‘Keep him.’ Look at him now. … Is he ever going to make you money from an in-ring performer standpoint? Probably not. But he’s money on the mic. back in the day we called these people 'managers'
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I feel like deference to Dusty Rhodes was the only thing that made HHH good at running NXT and post-Dusty death there's no one to check his ego and it's all hot garbage.
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NXT is basically Wrestlicious. A lame dude (HHH/the Wrestlicious guy) uses money he did not earn (Vince's money/lottery winnings) to pay cool wrestlers to pretend to be his friend and act like he isn't lame.
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PYF WM theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_7baOCYg-Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBAl9cchQac
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one of those better be LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1UsNubhZsQ Edit: Also the best promo ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srhd2fZyDB4
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No Irish Need Imply posted:Really? rehearsed matches is the secret reason to sasha being loving awful in the ring after she got called up
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*Dramatically points to Wrestlemania sign* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqgEuJBL-24
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmgrmna_hK4 e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MjY4yoB-us YOU CAN TAKE A SWIG OF MY EAGLE Abroham Lincoln fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Mar 29, 2017 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXuw0i0_aCI
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Efexeye posted:one of those better be LADIES AND GENTLEMEN That is, sadly, a guilty pleasure that I think somehow holds up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpN0CUn58l8
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Eli Wiggum posted:WrestleMania III took place exactly 30 years ago today. I'm more impressed that they managed to contact Roddy Piper from beyond the grave to comment.
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