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How does WWE not yet pay in company script and have company towns they only can use company script in? I think Nevada is trying to bring them back to lure companies.
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How big is RevPro? I know they still have the NJPW connection.
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Power Windows posted:How big is RevPro? I know they still have the NJPW connection. No bigger than a standard indie. The New Japan link will keep them going but they're nowhere near getting TV here
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Digital Jedi posted:How does WWE not yet pay in company script and have company towns they only can use company script in? It's called Orlando Florida and the United States Dollar.
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PROGRESS was probably the closest thing we had to a PWG/GCW super-indie and they were the biggest fish in the pond. There’s nothing remotely approaching say an ROH-level to get even a lovely youtube quality show on a nobody freeview channel. The wider UK scene is going to be deep in the shitter outside of 2-3 promotions and it’s gonna depend on how tight WWE is holding the reigns over the NXT UK people when shows can start again. Even if you discount that and look at it from a fresh blood perspective, a lot of trainee wrestlers have also lost almost an entire year of training to this, working out is one thing but they can’t get together and actually learn to wrestle under lockdown conditions. It’s going to be a slog to recover back to where it was with a relatively healthy circuit of “local” promotions all over the country if it even can.
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Power Windows posted:How big is RevPro? I know they still have the NJPW connection. Their biggest shows are at York Hall in London which has a capacity of 1200. More often they're putting on events at smaller venues like the Cockpit which has a capacity of 200.
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Lamuella posted:I have 5% more hope for the future of the UK scene than most. There's no chance of a native promotion getting TV, and honestly little chance of any shows running until the entire population is vaccinated, but there's creativity and artistry there that I think can be harnessed. Riptide and Resurgence are both on IWTV, which sets them up to get shows to a broader audience. People like Charles Crowley are finding ways to work in the pandemic with projects like You Are Cordially Invited, and several promotions have managed to put together non-shabby codes of conduct and models of operation. Resurgence especially have done a good job with this. It's a weaker scene than before (Covid, Speaking Out, and NXT UK each had an effect) but there's ground something could grow in. This reminded me to go watch more Riptide stuff, thanks!
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women are about the only group that i don’t necessarily blame for signing with wwe. aew doesn’t seem to be interested in giving women more than one tv segment per week typically, and even then it seems like it’d be pretty hard to crack the regular rotation. if what you care about is money and exposure, wwe’s probably still a sensible choice.
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sleepwalkers posted:women are about the only group that i don’t necessarily blame for signing with wwe. aew doesn’t seem to be interested in giving women more than one tv segment per week typically, and even then it seems like it’d be pretty hard to crack the regular rotation. if what you care about is money and exposure, wwe’s probably still a sensible choice. I dunno if I even fully agree with this anymore. NXT's women's division is great but pretty full right now and most people would pretty easily get lost behind all the talent currently sitting at the top. Raw's division is dominated by Charlotte and Alexa and is laughed at regularly, it's probably in a worse place than AEW's right now. Smackdown's division is a fine place for women to want to go to but they can't because they have to go to NXT for 3 years first. That being said depending on how many of the joshi from the tournament come to the states I don't think AEW needs to sing any more women anyway unless it's a homerun hire.
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mooseinfants posted:I dunno if I even fully agree with this anymore. NXT's women's division is great but pretty full right now and most people would pretty easily get lost behind all the talent currently sitting at the top. Raw's division is dominated by Charlotte and Alexa and is laughed at regularly, it's probably in a worse place than AEW's right now. Smackdown's division is a fine place for women to want to go to but they can't because they have to go to NXT for 3 years first. That being said depending on how many of the joshi from the tournament come to the states I don't think AEW needs to sing any more women anyway unless it's a homerun hire. I agree at this point too. I think really they’re just dead even now, which is a gain for a company like AEW. I’ll add one more example. I read a scoop today on the dumb Twitter that WWE has already cooled off and the “honeymoon stage is already over for Priscilla Kelly and Cora Jade”, who they hired and threw right into their tag tourney to lose. WWE has no current plans on what to do with them from here and they’re shelved for now. I’m dead serious. That’s a terrible play for the women’s division to prop up a new signee and catapult off the new signing. Sad really.
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Sign up for WWE and you too may one day debut 3 years later than you should and get injured by Nia Jax or Charlotte
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ICR posted:I agree at this point too. I think really they’re just dead even now, which is a gain for a company like AEW. I’ll add one more example. That's gonna be a LOL from me, dawg.
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sleepwalkers posted:women are about the only group that i don’t necessarily blame for signing with wwe. aew doesn’t seem to be interested in giving women more than one tv segment per week typically, and even then it seems like it’d be pretty hard to crack the regular rotation. if what you care about is money and exposure, wwe’s probably still a sensible choice. How much exposure are they going to get while trapped in Performance Centre Purgatory for the next three years?
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If you still need training AEW seems like a way better option.
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Pylons posted:If you still need training AEW seems like a way better option. Two words. Tay. Conti.
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Lone Goat posted:How much exposure are they going to get while trapped in Performance Centre Purgatory for the next three years? i don't actually believe that, tbh. though someone signing with nxt uk isn't gonna be at the PC but they're also going to be on nxt uk and lol who watches that mooseinfants posted:I dunno if I even fully agree with this anymore. NXT's women's division is great but pretty full right now and most people would pretty easily get lost behind all the talent currently sitting at the top. Raw's division is dominated by Charlotte and Alexa and is laughed at regularly, it's probably in a worse place than AEW's right now. Smackdown's division is a fine place for women to want to go to but they can't because they have to go to NXT for 3 years first. That being said depending on how many of the joshi from the tournament come to the states I don't think AEW needs to sing any more women anyway unless it's a homerun hire. but your last sentence is basically my point ultimately: for as many faults as wwe has with how they handle signees, aew's not exactly a place that's got a lot of spots for women, so i think it's understandable why a woman with experience on the indies would sign with wwe.
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Io Shirai was one of the best wrestlers in the world, signed to WWE around 4 years and she's on a brand getting less viewers than AEW is. From what I keep hearing the money isn't even that good for NXT contracts either so unless you're signing with WWE to basically retire I can't see how it's worth it. They've got like 300 people on the roster, they use like 25 each on Smackdown and Raw so there's no guarantee you're even getting paid in exposure.
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It’s ok, they have like 2 dozen more women starting at the PC next week.
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Rarity posted:Yeah once COVID ends things will start growing again. There'll never be a shortage of idiots who want to throw themselves off of balconies for a crowd of dozens. it's true, i am very excited to get vaccinated so I can go back to jumping off balconies.
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MassRafTer posted:Maybe stop bashing WWE for a minute and appreciate all the good they do? This is for WWE Employees. It says nothing about WWE Independent Contractors. That is one of the things that astounded me. Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins saying that wrestlers have to buy their own toys/T Shirts/merch etc. at full price. I would have thought that it would be just courtesy to send them one, or if they asked, just give one to them out of professionalism. Edit: Related to Why sign up for WWE? For a lot of people, and a large majority of wrestlers of a certain age, WWE still represents "the big leagues", and having made it to the top of your profession. So sure, it is easier, better, better paid, better conditions, less restrictive, more creative, and better regarded literally anywhere but WWE. WWE still, in the minds of many represents what you have worked for. The pinnacle. This is also how WWE strips the love destroys the souls of those who end up there so quickly. Because they have in their minds that after busting their bodies, and honing their craft they are now going to be stars. Instead they get paid a pittance for 5 years to destroy their knees and learn how to recite a madmans script to the hard camera. All whilst watching lesser performers get called up on the whim of an ever madder man. Another thing, (although this is lessening), is that if you say to friends and family "I am a pro wrestler", unless they are fans, they will say "Oh, like WWF?". So if you want to impress your friends and family, and show them that the work and struggle you have put in has been worth it, and you do do something real and important, then signing for the WWE is a way to show legitimacy in their eyes. BrigadierSensible fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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ICR posted:I agree at this point too. I think really they’re just dead even now, which is a gain for a company like AEW. I’ll add one more example. Got a link to this?
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Rarity posted:No bigger than a standard indie. The New Japan link will keep them going but they're nowhere near getting TV here Tbf, I'm sure they got a few tapings on that Freesports digital TV channel before the pandemic hit.
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Does being signed mean going to NXT and not languishing in the PC?
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TV Zombie posted:Does being signed mean going to NXT and not languishing in the PC? Everyone in the PC is signed, so not necessarily.
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TV Zombie posted:Does being signed mean going to NXT and not languishing in the PC? The two are not mutually exclusive
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"Comments on this post have been limited." loving nazi coward.
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smikey posted:Too bad wrestlers aren't employees, no discounts for them. They get scrip to purchase legendary brass rings!
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Digital Jedi posted:How does WWE not yet pay in company script and have company towns they only can use company script in? You take sixteen bumps What do you get? Another knee injured and the contract extends Saint Tony don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe five years To development bore
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I'm pretty sure that the main reason why people sign with WWE isn't some mathematical ratio of TV time per woman but rather that they've got a lot more money to throw around and nothing excites the carny spirit as much as a fat wad of Benjamins.
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I don't know where I should ask this, but could I get an invite to the WrestleHut Discord?
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Asteroid Alert posted:I don't know where I should ask this, but could I get an invite to the WrestleHut Discord? https://discord.gg/pHsV3Hrm here you go big man. its not Officially Goon Sanctioned or w/e u know typical disclaimers.
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today in Very Good Rassle Twitter https://twitter.com/ChameleonPw/status/1362033526397411330
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BrigadierSensible posted:This is for WWE Employees. It says nothing about WWE Independent Contractors.
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Kaveman posted:Tbf, I'm sure they got a few tapings on that Freesports digital TV channel before the pandemic hit. That was back in 2018 at the latest I think, fairly sure Freesports gave up on the wrestling thing after the amazing success of 5 Star Wrestling folding literally in the middle of the tour because they spent like £100k a show for an audience of about 500.
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Endless Mike posted:Wait seriously? Even comic companies, which are notoriously cheap, send their creators boxes of comped issues of the stuff they work on plus usually a bunch of other comics. just about every single quality of life expense you think the wwe could do to make their wrestlers feel respected or treated well in the slightest is something they don't do where's that bayley interview where the other person was baffled that they had to drive themselves to venues
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flatluigi posted:just about every single quality of life expense you think the wwe could do to make their wrestlers feel respected or treated well in the slightest is something they don't do Here you go. https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1150120053947412480?s=20
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