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coconono posted:the PC's a crossfit deathcamp. You're not gonna learn how to properly wrestle there. You will however, be jacked as poo poo with hosed up joints. "Your knees... They're so beautiful...and unexploded..." Also apparently his son looks like a young Kenny Omega. That has to be weird.
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According to Alvarez on WOL Drew Gulak's contract ended because he asked for a raise when negotiating a new one and WWE yanked the contract they'd offered him.
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Mr. Carlisle posted:And you used to get the poo poo beaten out of you by Hugh Morris and Bob Holly but now you probably get the poo poo beaten out of you by two different unsuccessful midcarders I mean, who would you rather learn from? Someone with the experience of Jushin Liger, or Lacey Evans?
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Spiderdrake posted:Wouldn't you? Even if your plan is to go to WWE and get the big dollars, even if the performance center wasn't the shittiest part of the already lovely NXT, there's so little chance going through the PC will do your career well. Vince is impressed by people outside his system, once you're in NXT, most people get nothing. It all depends on how someone defines their career. Some people view the accolades, others the fame, and others making enough money to leave with your body intact. Corbin gets TV time every week, works a style that is not hard on his body, and is making main roster money. Do you think he cares about never being a world champion or being in lovely feuds?
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yea, is/was there ever a championship $$$ bonus? ie. you get a bonus for winning/holding a belt? or is it really just bitcoins for wrestlers. (obviously not including extra t-shirts sales commission if you some how become relevant  )
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Mr. Carlisle posted:
I'm the passed out guy in a hoodie, AND the black guy whose face is just pure anger that he has to listen to this piece of poo poo
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Hirez posted:yea, is/was there ever a championship $$$ bonus? ie. you get a bonus for winning/holding a belt? or is it really just bitcoins for wrestlers. Champions get to ride first class on flights.
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Who was that again, Blue Meanie or something? lol Undertaker stole his air miles. Undertaker Always Bad, Then, Now, Forever
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Hirez posted:yea, is/was there ever a championship $$$ bonus? ie. you get a bonus for winning/holding a belt? or is it really just bitcoins for wrestlers. I mean, there’s definitely perks. Former WWE Champion Jinder Mahal will likely make a lot more money on the indys than former member of 3MB Jinder would have, for one.
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Astro7x posted:Corbin gets TV time every week, works a style that is not hard on his body, and is making main roster money. Do you think he cares about never being a world champion or being in lovely feuds? And main roster money is a pretty wide range. You think he's making more than Nakamura, Balor or AJ Styles? Because that's the point here: Go through the system and be Corbin at best or go through NJPW and get treated better after having done your art. If you're Regal advising your wrestleson, I think it'd be pretty clear. I'm not saying Corbin is doing all that bad, but that's the ceiling unless you break out with something like the Shield, family connection, 4HW, etc. Even Drew left WWE and built something of himself to come back to NXT. Plus like I said that's ignoring the fact Regal must be absolutely aware of the fact the performance center and NXT is some kind of ligament exploding crossfit Hell. I've heard Matt Bloom isn't a bad guy either but the injuries are just mind-boggling. How is HHH not keenly aware that injuries weaken your career? Oh because him and HBK have no introspection, right.
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Mr. Carlisle posted:
I'm lolin' imagining the next slide being that shot of someone eating a donut out of Gallows' rear end
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It makes sense if you see NXT as a place to store wrestlers and strangle any competition. It also makes sense that a success elsewhere actually is more respected by Vince than "some 22 year old mark who always dreamed of being in WWE" coming up through the performance center
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perhaps a percentage of people would select baron corbin as their ideal self
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drat WWE, this thread is like a fire that doesn't stop having coal shoveled into it.
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Golden Gloves boxer turned Chilli's Bartender cosplay enthusiast. Sounds great to me
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Spiderdrake posted:And main roster money is a pretty wide range. You think he's making more than Nakamura, Balor or AJ Styles? Because that's the point here: Go through the system and be Corbin at best or go through NJPW and get treated better after having done your art. Oh god no, Corbin isn't making AJ Styles money. But I think that Corbin being the ceiling of the performance center is not only reflective of the PC system, but the people that join it. These people that are completely PC made are not the kind of people I see going to NJPW to do their art and then get paid in their later years.
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Alexa and Charlotte are the ceiling of the PC.
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World Champion BRAUN anyone? e: or did he not goto through PC? I thought he went from strongman --> pc --> wwe
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his name was originally braun stowman. i don't know why they made it strowman. probably because
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Hirez posted:World Champion BRAUN anyone? Braun is a PC project Braun has been exposed and probably wouldn't be champion if the WWE didn't feel like punishing Roman for caring about his health
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Cavauro posted:his name was originally braun stowman. i don't know why they made it strowman. probably because Wasn't Aron Stevens (or whatever) originally Damien Sandnow and then they changed it to Sandow?
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The PC is really good at teaching people how to have exactly one (1) match over and over until the loving sun explodes
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Wasn't Aron Stevens (or whatever) originally Damien Sandnow and then they changed it to Sandow? Funnily enough that guy’s career is just sad, now
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that ceiling fan is the ceiling of the performance center
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Blaise330 posted:that ceiling fan is the ceiling of the performance center
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Blaise330 posted:that ceiling fan is the ceiling of the performance center The ceiling fan got a t-shirt, which is better than a lot of people at the PC.
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extradite THIS! posted:Funnily enough that guy’s career is just sad, now The stuff he's doing in the NWA is far more entertaining than anything happening in the WWE
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Davros1 posted:The stuff he's doing in the NWA is far more entertaining than anything happening in the WWE I know, I just wanted to make that joke
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Hirez posted:World Champion BRAUN anyone? When people say the ceiling, I don't think we mean top accolade. When you have two World Titles it is very easy to just throw one of the belts on anyone. We had WWE Champion Jinder Mahal... but he wasn't billed as the top star at the time.
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Astro7x posted:When people say the ceiling, I don't think we mean top accolade. When you have two World Titles it is very easy to just throw one of the belts on anyone. We had WWE Champion Jinder Mahal... but he wasn't billed as the top star at the time. Wasn't that at the same time Brock was loving off for months with the Universal title? And they wonder why people don't give a poo poo anymore.
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Braun was a PC guy but never appeared on NXT.
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Mr. Carlisle posted:
he isn't wrong, technically
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fatherofmustard posted:Alexa and Charlotte are the ceiling of the PC. Even then, Charlotte had an extra step up being a legacy of one of the biggest wrestlers in history. Alexa and like most people said, Braun, are probably the best examples of completely homegrown talent they have.
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Charlotte started training under Lodi before going into the PC.
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Deonna Purrazzo gave some more thoughts in the aftermath of her release on WrestlingInc's podcast https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2020/05/deonna-purrazzo-calls-wwe-decision-to-ask-talent-to-perform-670444/Deonna on working during the plague posted:I never felt unsafe because I felt that this was my job and what I have to do and I'm getting paid for it. There's a lot of people that need a job and aren't getting paid so I'm grateful for that. But on the flip side, I thought it was very presumptuous to be asking people to make that choice – do you wanna work or do you not? To say, 'Oh, it won't be held against you' but we all know how wrestling works and it probably will. It was just a really sticky situation for people to navigate. Deonna on Zayn and if he got punished for taking them at their word posted:That's the thing – they tell you it's not gonna be held against you but things like that happen. I think as wrestlers we're bred to not take time off. We're anxious about things like this happening. If I get hurt then the title gets taken off of me. Or if I'm sick then I lose my TV opportunity. Then if I'm off TV for three weeks then I'm off TV for three months. All of these things trickle so you can't really say it doesn't get held against you when missing one week of TV could be detrimental to your career. Deonna on a union posted:I think it would definitely be beneficial but I don't know that everyone will be on board. That's one of the things – you need 100 percent of the body to be a part of. I feel like it would be a real struggle to get some of those top guys to agree to anything because they're taken care of. I don't really have an opinion on it because I'm kinda ignorant to all of that. I just feel that as much as we push, you need 100 percent and if you're not gonna have 100 percent, it's never gonna work. The bottom is the bottom and the top is the top and there is a big gap in between. To get those people to reconcile and agree on things, it would be hard.
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Taynara Conti interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfJVsZ5Z1fETaynara posted:I need to get better and think about my future and feel that I'm useful. In the last couple of months, I was not feeling that anymore.
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It's almost like the international signings were a cynical play at "diversity" while expanding into new markets and they had no intention of actually doing anything with the talent. Weird.
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Benne posted:It's almost like the international signings were a cynical play at "diversity" while expanding into new markets and they had no intention of actually doing anything with the talent. Weird. But Eric Bischoff was only brought on board to be a scapegoat last year (?), way after they made those signings.
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I would not have put her on TV at all for several years but that's my own personal preference. What little tape I saw of her, she was not ready to simply walk in front of the camera. A lot of that comes from confidence, which is a real hard thing to explain to some folks.
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