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Blaise330 posted:Buddy Murphy says the show was so horrible he'd keep up with WWE storylines by watching youtubers summarize it cause he couldn't watch it. Killian Dain says sometimes they'd watch AEW. I can't help but imagine people in the back crowded around a TV watching AEW while hovering on the "last channel" button on the remote in case someone walked in.
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explosivo posted:I can't help but imagine people in the back crowded around a TV watching AEW while hovering on the "last channel" button on the remote in case someone walked in. Didn't that literally happen back in the monday night wars?
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explosivo posted:I can't help but imagine people in the back standing five feet to the side of a TV watching AEW while hovering on the "last channel" button on the remote in case someone walked in. Fixed because it's still WWE.
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explosivo posted:I can't help but imagine people in the back crowded around a TV watching AEW while hovering on the "last channel" button on the remote in case someone walked in. And it’s easy to press because it’s HHH and Road Dogg’s TV so the remote is gigantic and the buttons are 3 inch by 3 inch
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I still can't believe how hard WWE dropped the ball with Aleister Black. A guy who has basically everything the WWE could want, who was insanely over with live crowds, merch sold well, and its seemingly like they forgot all this over the pandemic and just let him go. Same thing happening with Keith Lee.
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I can believe it
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"I just don't understand the tall, spooky, tattoo'd man" says Vince, unaware of why he's got the sudden urge to call The Undertaker and convince him to do one last match
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Remember when people were dead certain even WWE couldn't gently caress up Keith Lee and Rhea Ripley?
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I can believe it
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Drakkel posted:Remember when people were dead certain even WWE couldn't gently caress up Keith Lee and Rhea Ripley? Hey, to be fair, they didn't give Keith Lee a dancing gimmick ... yet
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Keith Lee is so easy to book, it’s amazing. Put the dude in a clusterfuck with a bunch of cruisers and let him toss dudes.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I can believe it
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Blaise330 posted:Buddy Murphy says the show was so horrible he'd keep up with WWE storylines by watching youtubers summarize it cause he couldn't watch it. Killian Dain says sometimes they'd watch AEW. <Copy+paste late era WCW here> coconono posted:short of killing someone live on network television, I'm not sure what else WWE can do to stop the bleeding. Please don't tempt Vince. rotinaj posted:book good storylines and treat their talent with respect, while also not talking down to or insulting the audience Armitage posted:Pretty much this, tried and true would likely help. Pages ago or so people talked about how WWE keeps booting "forever losers" who then go on to do great things. Not just PAC and Mox but formerly known as Darren Young and CJ Freakin Parker for god's sake! Vince is the issue. Nobody can write anything that he won't tear up in a fit of rage or whimsy and only his brainworms can decipher who gets a push and not. Sadly, as crazy as Vincent Kennedy is nothing will improve once he is gone. He has poisoned the environment so deeply that is ruins every aspect. In older versions of this thread we had glassdoor reviews and numerous people bitch about how toxic it is. I remember the consensus was that you have guys that have been there for centuries and don't want to do anything or you have guys doing GoT Littlefinger cosplay. Vince dies and you got tons of people who will just continue the status quo because that is how "things are done here" and "what ol Vince would have done." Fire Dunn? Then you got a whole trailer full of monkeys who learned the trade from Dunn and will continue the same BS. Hell even Trips has learned decades worth of bad habits and more than like would just continue the same ol same ol until his daughters started wrestling and then they would get Charlotte pushes. Don't look to NotTony Khan to save WWE as he is just a suit and has no love of wrestling, "sports entertainment" or whatever wwe is. As far as saving WWE from itself: why? It would take someone akin to the "legend of VKM: genius extraordinaire" to fix WWE and he would have to work ten times harder than if he just trashed it and rebuilt something else. Even the name WWE reeks of mismanagement and failure at this point. It is failing and only coasting it's current deals due to desperation on the part of broadcasters and grifting by WWE heads. AEW is succeeding on a smaller scale but still growing so there is a fanbase that exists. I know if I was a multimillionaire who wanted to do some wrassling I'd buy the massive library of WWE and all those companies it gobbled up but still create my own company. If that theoretical new company got a streaming deal then you would have an insane amount of content to add: WCCW, WCW, ECW, WWF post Bruno to late Attitude/early Ruthless Aggression. As far as keeping the WWE itself as an active promotion? gently caress that. Burn it to the ground and create something new. With the insane amount of talent being wasted you could create so many new promotions or revitalize old ones. Dbry and New Day showing up in Japan or AEW would be insane but those guys alone could grab a few lesser knowns and start their own company. Shinsuke could return to Japan and have an insane return pop and a pick of classic style feuds to try and prove he still has it. Corbin, as much as I dislike him, could redo the old Matt Hardy ROH run and I get the feeling he would be really good at it. Sometimes you gotta amputate. The limb is dead and just going to poison the rest of you if you don't. DogsInSpace! fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Jul 9, 2021 |
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Davros1 posted:Hey, to be fair, they didn't give Keith Lee a dancing gimmick ... yet They won’t give him any gimmick ever again
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Here’s how I’d fix WWE: turn it to ash
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Chris James 2 posted:They won’t give him any gimmick ever again seeing his debut on raw coming out in a singlet with buttrock was incredibly disappointing
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maybe if WWE fired Jeff Jarrett, it'd get better. That dude let TNA go to the dogs, leaves for the Global Force project which was also a shitshow and now he's in WWE which can't even keep contracts straight.
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I hope one of the talent snaps and beats Vince to death
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but then again, people claimed Heyman was a genius when all he did was steal one liners from an open mic down the road from the Arena. Oh and keep everyone hosed up on drugs so they'd act goofy.
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I saw a bit of the innerworkings of a production truck and while they were focused on the action that they were paid for and had to do camera cuts and replay, there was a separate screen for other channels so whoever's in the truck probably saw what AEW was doing when NXT was up against them
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When was the last time WWE didn't screw up a sure thing?
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bartok posted:When was the last time WWE didn't screw up a sure thing? Bianca Belair at mania a few months ago
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Bianca Belair at mania a few months ago yeah agreed now the issue is shes got no one to feud with
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Bianca Belair at mania a few months ago Cole botched calling the finish. No points awarded. I love that match.
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Nick Jr. Face posted:I hope one of the talent snaps and beats Vince to death Not much of a face, Nick Jr.
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D.N. Nation posted:Cole botched calling the finish. No points awarded. legitimately one of the funniest things i've seen in wrestling, absolute golden comedy
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RealFoxy posted:"I just don't understand the tall, spooky, tattoo'd man" says Vince, unaware of why he's got the sudden urge to call The Undertaker and convince him to do one last match My theory is that Vince doesn't respect kicks. A big roundhouse spin kick confuses and annoys him because he is one of those men who grew up just before Bruce Lee made it big and still thinks a left hook all you need.
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Gonzo McFee posted:My theory is that Vince doesn't respect kicks. 
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Nick Jr. Face posted:I hope one of the talent snaps and beats Vince to death I think that's the desire. WWE is a backwards company. If they call you to fire you, you can get unfired if you cut a promo on them or just straight up fight them. if you don't like the angle you're in, threaten to fight someone in creative, suddenly you've got your own book and pencil if you don't like working WWE, leave and then they'll show up with better contractual terms.
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Biden admin is pursuing ending non competes, could this effect WWE?
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Cavauro posted:didn't work for Nailz
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coconono posted:but then again, people claimed Heyman was a genius when all he did was steal one liners from an open mic down the road from the Arena. Oh and keep everyone hosed up on drugs so they'd act goofy. paul heyman came up with 911, a big guy with a mullet and a goatee and a beer belly who would come out and chokeslam undercard geeks because the crowd was getting bored and called 911, objectively one of the greatest gimmicks of all time, so it kinda balances out
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sorry for calling nailz chains, 8-ball, skull, and bulk
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Blaise330 posted:Buddy Murphy says the show was so horrible he'd keep up with WWE storylines by watching youtubers summarize it cause he couldn't watch it. always wondered who watched these shows
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Eat My Fuc posted:Biden admin is pursuing ending non competes, could this effect WWE? Pure speculation but on paper you'd think it means wrestlers can take bookings outside WWE and Vince won't be able to stop them, maybe also let them do things like Twitch again. Then again, based on past history WWE will probably just ignore this and face no consequences for it while the wrestlers will continue to abide by the now-nonexistent rules out of some mix of fear and brainworms.
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Drakkel posted:Pure speculation but on paper you'd think it means wrestlers can take bookings outside WWE and Vince won't be able to stop them, maybe also let them do things like Twitch again. That's exclusivity. Non-comepetes are legal binding employees to not work for the comepetition for a set number of days after being released.
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That's something they'd have to take to court and WWE already proved they're willing to blow millions making an example out of CM Punk.
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Jonny Nox posted:That's exclusivity. Non-comepetes are legal binding employees to not work for the comepetition for a set number of days after being released. They are also designed to prevent skill transference from one workplace to another. I'm signed to a few non-competes that, in theory, would prevent me from setting up my own callcenter since I engineered one and promised I would do it for "the competition"
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