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Wazzu posted:So I'm catching up on some AEW unrestricted, and you can never tell how much a wrestler is working the gimmick, but QT seems like a real abrasive guy, but nice in how much he seems to value hard work from others and worked out that AEW as a startup needed someone who just does useful stuff. He better be getting paid a shitload with how everyone says he does so much. Cody said on some podcast that QT was hired to be his assistant (plus wrestling some) and now he doesn't have an assistant because QT is like running everything He told a story about someone, I think Christopher Daniels, busting into his office and asking "Where's QT, I need to talk to him now." And Cody was a little pissed and said, "Look, I'm one of the EVPs, I'm at the production board in gorilla with TK, I'm right here, anything you need to ask QT you can go ahead and ask me." And so CD gave Cody the list of questions and Cody was like "...let me go find QT" Also I think they screwed up on the B&V because Craig was checking promo code "THATBITCH" and I think it's "THATB" which might be something you could yell at someone at the reservation desk without offending them StarkRavingMad fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Jun 25, 2021 |
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StarkRavingMad posted:Cody said on some podcast that QT was hired to be his assistant (plus wrestling some) and now he doesn't have an assistant because QT is like running everything Craig's a dumbass and was probably putting a space, or putting THATB*TCH because his weirdo fundie tendencies wouldn't let him spell out a cuss
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I think QT is working but he's also right to have a chip, that feels like it comes from a real place. He's a surprisingly talented wrestler who just got overlooked and hit with bad injuries.
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Holy poo poo, I didn't know about black market babies in the US or Ric Flair being one of them.
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That and someone thinking about booking Bam Bam Bigelow vs Mike Tyson were the two biggest WTF moments on WOR
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Jun 26, 2021 19:55
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Lance Storm is suggesting that firing people would be better if you turned it into a 2-week storyline
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Penguin Patrol posted:Lance Storm is suggesting that firing people would be better if you turned it into a 2-week storyline Yeah I couldn't quite believe what I was hearing there.
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Penguin Patrol posted:Lance Storm is suggesting that firing people would be better if you turned it into a 2-week storyline lol what
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Jun 26, 2021 23:47
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His point was that if you're gonna fire guys anyways, you might as well incorporate their departure into a storyline (like they did with Daniel Bryan).
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wwe is by different turns too petty and too callous to give extra attention to anyone that's on the way out unless they're retiring
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Want a taste before you pay myself and Zellner to regale you with Paul Heyman shenanigans? Then check this out: https://twitter.com/BTSheetsPod/status/1408917817357914114
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Penguin Patrol posted:Lance Storm is suggesting that firing people would be better if you turned it into a 2-week storyline At the mass and frequency they're firing people these days all of Raw, Smackdown, and NXT would just be 2-week storylines writing people off the show.
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Incessant Excess posted:His point was that if you're gonna fire guys anyways, you might as well incorporate their departure into a storyline (like they did with Daniel Bryan). didn't Cornette have a whole thing about this like 20 years ago about....a Basham brother? getting called up from OVW & having his head shaved, saying "look if you want him to shave his head, that's fine, but give me a month's heads up and I'll book him to lose a hair match and draw you some fuckin' money with it"
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oldskool posted:didn't Cornette have a whole thing about this like 20 years ago about....a Basham brother? getting called up from OVW & having his head shaved, saying "look if you want him to shave his head, that's fine, but give me a month's heads up and I'll book him to lose a hair match and draw you some fuckin' money with it" I think it was somebody came to TV with their head shaved because WWE wanted it and Corny read them that riot act about how he could book around it if they'd let him know beforehand.
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Dawgstar posted:I think it was somebody came to TV with their head shaved because WWE wanted it and Corny read them that riot act about how he could book around it if they'd let him know beforehand. I hate to defend Cornette, but that’s not an unreasonable thing to ask, IMO.
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It's retroactively good WWE unintentionally did everything possible to sabotage and annoy Cornette in the early 2000s.
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edogawa rando posted:I hate to defend Cornette, but that’s not an unreasonable thing to ask, IMO. Cornette is an idiot but I've always liked that story. Also his History of X interviews (WWF 97? and WCW 92?) are really good. And as always I really enjoyed SMW. I intellectually get where Storm is coming from: Like in the old days you'd do an injury angle for someone who was going to Japan for a tour, or have a guy lose a loser leaves town match when they went to a different territory.
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algebra testes posted:Cornette is an idiot but I've always liked that story. And possibly using it to put someone else over. Lance is a big believer in going "out on your back" when you leave a promotion/retire from wrestling. Of course most of these releases wouldn't necessarily be giving that much of a rub, but I get where he's coming from.
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Angry_Ed posted:And possibly using it to put someone else over. Lance is a big believer in going "out on your back" when you leave a promotion/retire from wrestling. Mox was willing to put over Nia Jax and EC3 on his way out and they both got punished for not burying him hard enough.
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RealFoxy posted:Storm's theory only works if the WWE are willing to put people over on their way out. I mean there is also that.
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edogawa rando posted:I hate to defend Cornette, but that’s not an unreasonable thing to ask, IMO. Not only that, it was two OVW guys (The Damaja and Doug Basham) who were in the midst of a feud in OVW at the time. They get called up to do some dark matches, and someone in the back is like "Hey, we want to book you as a tag team. Brothers even. So how the one with hair shave your head so you look alike?" Then after the tryout (which I think even made it on air to Smackdown), they sent them back to OVW, leaving Cornette to explain why two guys who were in a blood feud were suddenly teaming together. WWE learned their lesson though. When the brought up Gargano and Ciampa to the main roster, they didn't make Johnny shave his head. Everything else was the same though.
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Davros1 posted:Not only that, it was two OVW guys (The Damaja and Doug Basham) who were in the midst of a feud in OVW at the time. They get called up to do some dark matches, and someone in the back is like "Hey, we want to book you as a tag team. Brothers even. So how the one with hair shave your head so you look alike?" Cornette, to his credit, pulled a rabbit out of his hat with how he made sense of it: The heel, Doug, possibly having pimped out his valet to curry favor, was in league with corrupt WWE talent relations head John Laurinaitis to mess with Damaja by "forcing" him to team with Doug as his brother or else lose his contract. Laurinaitis even worked a match on OVW TV to blow it off. Eventually, it ended with some kind of angle—I forget what—that turned Doug babyface in OVW and built up to Damaja saying he'd be honored to be his brother. I dunno when exactly Cornette completely lost his fastball as far as creative, but he still had it in mid-2003.
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davidbix posted:Making it even dumber: They HAD been a team right before the then-current feud. WWE had plenty of footage of them as a team to evaluate. And now Nick Khan is going to probably inherit the company after 20 years of Triple H trying to leverage himself as the favorite son
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RealFoxy posted:The moral of the story is that Triple H got fleeced just like Cornette and Heyman in trying to run a developmental territory where people are just going to be be called up on a whim and thrown away when Vince gets bored of them.
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davidbix posted:Seriously, I wonder how much talk of finally drawing up a formal succession plan for investors there has been now that Khan is in place and Vince adores him so much.
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Remember when people thought Trips would take over and he'd turn the WWE into a Real Wrestling Promotion again?
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The discussion about writers needed an editor.
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Dawgstar posted:Remember when people thought Trips would take over and he'd turn the WWE into a Real Wrestling Promotion again? Gonna send him a fruit basket after he books his first NWA PPV
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Alvarez: This listener here says WWE is booking Roman like a heel version of Hulk Hogan in 1987, and AEW is booking Omega like Ric Flair in 1986. Sempervive: Well the reality of the situation of the fact of the matter is quite frankly we'll have to see how it plays out but concerning the matter of the fact that the situation may change but we'll just have to see what happens and some people might think otherwise but the reality of the situation of the fact of the matter is quite frankly we'll have to see how it plays out but concerning the matter of the fact that the situation may change but we'll just have to see what happens and some people might think otherwise but the reality of the situation of the fact of the matter is quite frankly we'll have to see how it plays out but concerning the matter of the fact that the situation may change but we'll just have to see what happens and some people might think otherwise but the reality of the situation of the fact of the matter is quite frankly we'll have to see how it plays out but concerning the matter of the fact that the situation may change but we'll just have to see what happens and some people might think otherwise but the reality of the situation of the fact of the matter is quite frankly we'll have to see how it plays out but concerning the matter of the fact that the situation may change but we'll just have to see what happens and some people might think otherwise but the reality of the situation of the fact of the matter is quite frankly we'll have to see how it plays out but concerning the matter of the fact that the situation may change but we'll just have to see what happens and some people might think otherwise you look at the two companies and they're doing it different.
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Hey look, it's the reason I cant get through an entire episode of WOL anymore.
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Jun 28, 2021 18:14
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Every combination of hosts besides Bryan and Vinny is nigh unlistenable at this point.
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I loving hate Mike’s passive aggressiveness
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A few years ago Sempervive guested on a podcast with Rich from Voices of Wrestling who has a tendency to make a point in three sentences and then spend 5 minutes rambling at top speed just restating that point over and over with slight variations. I thought I was going to have to skip the episode but oddly both of them were relaxed and focused, and didn't indulge in either of their worst habits. It was actually kind of bizarre. I feel like I've heard Semp guesting on other pods and he's much better than he is on WOL.
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Jun 28, 2021 20:40
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i dont have anything insightful or interesting to say so let me belt out some metaphors that make no loving sense so i feel smart
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I like Rich, I think he's a smart, funny dude, but he is so bad about repeating the same thing five times, I honestly cant listen to him without Joe because he gets so unfocused and rambly and repetitive.
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I still miss between the ropes with Fritz and dickerman - when he did impressions of Andre I would cry I laughed so hard
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Sempervive is much better at getting to the point on other podcasts. He still has a tendency to be long-winded, but I chalk up his WOL weirdness to being one of the many byproducts of just how difficult that show is to do with all of the time restrictions etc.
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it’s been a long time since i heard him do it but i remember semp being a lot better flying solo on WOL than being bryan’s cohost
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