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Ok, 1 guy in Hit Row was good. The other 3 could maybe possibly have been something as long as B Fab didn't wrestle and Dolla improved rapidly in the ring. Please stop trying to rewrite Hit Row history.
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Sigma posted:Katrina Cortez was selling her ring gear to finance her trip back to Chile. So yeah, dire if you can’t have some sort of permanent residence status or a new work sponsor lined up Yeah, this poo poo really sucks. Too bad the company can't, like, use some of their record profits to help her out? But then we remember Cezar Bononi's story (making $600 a week, told not to befriend other Brazilians or folks outside of the WWE bubble, had green card issues, crickets from WWE after he's released suddenly while his wife is pregnant). I think what a lot of the brainwormed WWE true believers don't understand isn't that the releases themselves are so damning: it's the circumstances surrounding them. The cuts are almost always out of nowhere. How many stories have there been of talent just settling in Orlando or buying a house/apartment before getting the news? For the international talent, there's seemingly no time to get your poo poo together. It's downright cruel. At the very least, WWE could give advance notice (90, 60, 30 days) and some sort of severance (something like 30 days pay upfront, more if you honor your 90-day non-compete, etc). People in bad faith act as if letting contracts run out (like AEW) is somehow just as bad as the WWE does business but it's absolutely not. Not being featured on programming for weeks/months and not being approached for a renewal at least gives you some sort of mental/financial preparation. Not to mention you can still work on the indies! Edit: I'll also add that in any ordinary working environment, a promotion (ie getting called up to the main roster) would imply at least some form of job security or longevity. Like, they're going to give you AT LEAST a few months to let a push play out or see how you connect with the crowd. Someone pointed out in a tweet how many of these releases have been fresh call-ups that were drafted. I can't imagine the mental exhaustion of having absolutely no job security while everyone around you tells you you're doing a great job and everything's great. Destroy My Sweater fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Nov 19, 2021 |
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Fish Of Doom posted:Daniel Bryan apparently told them months in advance that he was going to AEW and they didn't gently caress him over, though I wouldn't put that level of pettiness past them. They can still make money off Brie (who was just on The Bachelorette like two weeks ago) and maybe even Johnny Ace won't try to gently caress over his stepdaughter's husband.
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Benne posted:https://twitter.com/BrandonThurston/status/1461712030839320585 If you take out NXT UK and 205 Live, which seems basically inevitable at this point, it's a lot closer to the old days. But you can also clearly see where NXT is going to get gutted again--its roster being bigger than Raw+Smackdown is most definitely not going to last.
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Nov 19, 2021 22:29
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CarlCX posted:If you take out NXT UK and 205 Live, which seems basically inevitable at this point, it's a lot closer to the old days. But you can also clearly see where NXT is going to get gutted again--its roster being bigger than Raw+Smackdown is most definitely not going to last. They're only doing 6 month contracts for NXT now and if they don't like your progress, you're getting cut.
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Nov 19, 2021 22:31
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More SmackDown!quote:Fatal 4-Way showdown decides final member of SmackDown Survivor Series team quote:Roman Reigns ascends his throne
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Nov 19, 2021 22:31
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Codependent Poster posted:"Each WWE Superstar is like a Marvel franchise!" Of course WWE picks 90s era Marvel to aspire to.
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Nov 19, 2021 22:34
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"The island of relevancy" is the cringiest poo poo. That whole thing about Roman ascending his throne really sucks but "the island of relevancy" is particularly stupid sounding and every time I see it I laugh.
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Rarity posted:Top Dolla strikes me as the kinda guy who thinks acting a certain way is bad until he does it at which point it becomes cool and good So, a person
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Nov 19, 2021 22:40
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Pylons posted:They're only doing 6 month contracts for NXT now and if they don't like your progress, you're getting cut. I mean that's probably what they should've been doing all along, instead of letting the Aliyahs and Kona Reeveses hang around for loving 7 years without ever getting better. Real wrestling schools will throw you out on your rear end in a month if you're not improving every day.
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Nov 19, 2021 22:42
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Sigma posted:Katrina Cortez was selling her ring gear to finance her trip back to Chile. So yeah, dire if you can’t have some sort of permanent residence status or a new work sponsor lined up They fired my boys when Matt has a 7 1/2 month pregnant wife at home and both of them didnt at the time have the ability to work in the states (since wwe sponsored the Visa natch the Visa gets pulled right?) Thank the heavens my boys landed on their feet because it could have gotten ugly
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Nov 19, 2021 23:25
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Digital Jedi posted:More SmackDown! Wait, if Sami Zayn is out of the Survivor Series team because Jeff Hardy beat him.....why isn't Jeff Hardy getting the spot?
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Drakkel posted:Wait, if Sami Zayn is out of the Survivor Series team because Jeff Hardy beat him.....why isn't Jeff Hardy getting the spot? Jeff Hardy is already on the team.
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Nov 19, 2021 23:35
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Remember when the WWE had writers who were allowed to plan ahead, so that when they knew Survivor Series was coming up they found a few factions who had a grudge or dudes who were feuding and could concievably call in some friends, and built up to it? Good times, good times. Hey you want a red or a blue t-shirt, I've got both but keep in mind you need to be very very angry at anyone who takes the other one
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Nov 19, 2021 23:38
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The Lord of Hats posted:Jeff Hardy is already on the team. A problem easily remedied 
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Nov 19, 2021 23:39
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Digital Jedi posted:More SmackDown! lol they made xavier king of the ring and then immediately gave it to roman
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Nov 19, 2021 23:47
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ASenileAnimal posted:lol they made xavier king of the ring and then immediately gave it to roman They even officially recorded the result as "No contest" so Roman wouldn't have to lose by DQ.
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Nov 19, 2021 23:51
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Answers Me posted:Are the non-American talent that get cut pretty much hosed now for being allowed to stay in the country? Do they have to get snapped up by another company immediately to be able to stick around? I remember the iconics and Jonah rock in a bit of a panic because their visa status was connected to their employment to wwe. Hopefully any non American talent gets their visas straightened out by being by signed by another company or other means.
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Nov 19, 2021 23:57
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ASenileAnimal posted:lol they made xavier king of the ring and then immediately gave it to roman It's ridiculous that for nearly two years Corbin's gimmick was "King name" and so many of his feuds were about the crown, to the point where his only character growth was from losing it, then they give it to Woods who is immensely creative and they turn him into another "King name" and it's all about the crown again.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I just have to wonder how bad morale is now. We'll know when we get the weekly news story about how morale at WWE is at an all-time low
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Psychepath posted:It's ridiculous that for nearly two years Corbin's gimmick was "King name" and so many of his feuds were about the crown, to the point where his only character growth was from losing it, then they give it to Woods who is immensely creative and they turn him into another "King name" and it's all about the crown again. after the year 2000 or so has there ever been a king of the ring that didnt culminate in the same dumbshit "king" character for the winner that doesnt lead to anything like, worth giving a poo poo about wwe is just paint by numbers now. the big cage matches are this month and that month. survivor series is names drawn out of a hat for an exhibition. if you win king of the ring it doesnt make you stone cold steve austin it makes you mabel. just a cargo cult of things that worked in the past for various reasons but just going through the motions not actually understanding why they worked.
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Drakkel posted:We'll know when we get the weekly news story about how morale at WWE is at an all-time low "wwe morale unmoved, theoretical morale floor reached; vince mcmahon reportedly ecstatic"
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shiksa posted:after the year 2000 or so has there ever been a king of the ring that didnt culminate in the same dumbshit "king" character for the winner that doesnt lead to anything like, worth giving a poo poo about Outside of 2002 with Brock, not really
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Maxwell Lord posted:I just have to wonder how bad morale is now. i have trouble keeping all these NXT names apart but im pretty sure they fired him
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Pylons posted:They even officially recorded the result as "No contest" so Roman wouldn't have to lose by DQ. So wait, the Usos pull Xavier out of the ring and beat his rear end in front of the referee... and it's not a DQ loss... and this means Roman is the king now Did i miss a page of the script or something?
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Destroy My Sweater posted:remember constable corbin Well, their plan to hire The Elite fell through so they had to bring up some NXT people.
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https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1461836963561017347 Whose that third guy Ricochet named?
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Digital Jedi posted:https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1461836963561017347 nobody take this lil pop quiz. you may think u have to watch this crap but u cant make us do it.
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Nov 20, 2021 00:56
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Pylons posted:Well, their plan to hire The Elite fell through so they had to bring up some NXT people. in the alternate timeline Kenny Omega suffers a career-ending injury in his debut match with constable Corbin
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Digital Jedi posted:https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1461836963561017347 Oh poo poo, Ricochet named every match he won in the last 3 years.
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John Romero posted:going to smackdown tonight, hartford is usually a pretty smart crowd, i am excited to see how much audience noise gets piped in/chants get muted Please have pics of how full it is there too! I'm always really curious about that.
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CapnAndy posted:What a very generic single guitar riff. all the effort put into a theme for a guy leaving in 3 months with the track title 'this is it'
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Nov 20, 2021 01:03
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Ricochet trying to justify a spot on the Survivor Series team is just... sad
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poo poo Row from the W poo poo E company.
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Rarity posted:Ricochet trying to justify a spot on the Survivor Series team is just... sad is "I'm The Main Event of Main Event" a good catch phrase?
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