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Digital Jedi posted:HHH's speech was about the draft in a few weeks I'll give 'em this - the WWE Draft SHOULD be after WrestleMania, because your major storylines should end at WrestleMania. Putting it before Survivor Series just hosed with the flow of the year.
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Apr 8, 2023 05:39
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Majinfoose posted:The shows should be booked by the Muppets. Still less chaos than Vince, more charming, a lot less rapey. I still love that canonically, Beaker is Sheamus' cousin.
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Apr 8, 2023 06:08
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lol the loving draft this poo poo keeps getting funnier i'm so glad WWE is back to their old ways
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Apr 8, 2023 06:17
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But it’s going to be the biggest draft ever… I don’t even know what that means, honestly. The roster is smaller than previous years, and everyone usually gets drafted except that year Heath Slater didn’t get drafted somehow
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Apr 8, 2023 06:20
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In theory a draft is a great opportunity for storytelling, but it needs the following:
Otherwise it's just a Superstar Shakeup.
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Apr 8, 2023 06:42
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Oh boy, a brand draft, this will surely work out better than the last six times they've done this
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Apr 8, 2023 07:03
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Half the roster is gonna get shoot drafted to dynamite
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Apr 8, 2023 07:05
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are they going to have Vince and HHH on each side of the draft? How do you a draft with no show GMs? Have commentary make the picks?
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Apr 8, 2023 07:07
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skaboomizzy posted:Oh boy, a brand draft, this will surely work out better than the last six times they've done this 100% chance GUNTHER is moved to Raw to put over Roman
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Apr 8, 2023 07:08
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abraham linksys posted:are they going to have Vince and HHH on each side of the draft? How do you a draft with no show GMs? Have commentary make the picks? Have they ever had actual people make the picks? I always remember it being a dumb animated graphic that randomly picked or something.
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Apr 8, 2023 07:08
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1glitch0 posted:Have they ever had actual people make the picks? I always remember it being a dumb animated graphic that randomly picked or something. they had "war rooms" a few years ago, the Fox one had the football robot in it
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Apr 8, 2023 07:13
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skaboomizzy posted:they had "war rooms" a few years ago, the Fox one had the football robot in it Ah, I remember hearing about the football robot.
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Apr 8, 2023 07:20
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I like when Stephanie would come out, announce like 10 different names that were switching brands and then leave and they'd immediately cut to some eminently missable match while the announcers vaguely tried to talk about the roster changes and call the lovely match at the same time.
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Apr 8, 2023 07:26
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Remember that one year (maybe it was even last year?) where they did the draft, and within a month, the majority of Smackdown's picks had been released?
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Apr 8, 2023 08:27
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Superstar Shakeup
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Apr 8, 2023 08:49
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Stage 3: Bargaining Eat My Fuc posted:My brother in christ he lost one match, the main event of a massively successful show. The Rock lost to a heel at Wrestlemania. Kenny Omega lost to Okada like 2 times in a row. The first time was at Wrestle Kingdom! Nobody threw a chicken i’ll give you that one.
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Apr 8, 2023 09:09
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I dunno if I would compare Kenny Omega going on a two year quest across like three hours of in-ring time to hit Okada with the One Winged Angel and take his championship with "and then the guy who was ejected for interfering with the match interferes with the match." That finish made Cody look like a loving moron. Maybe he'll win the belt eventually, but it won't be part of some carefully laid out long term story like Kenny or Naito or Hangman. It'll just be like Bryan at Wrestlemania 30. Eventually, they'll stop loving up and do the thing they should've done months ago. And then they'll probably immediately screw it up afterwards anyway.
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Apr 8, 2023 09:27
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Roman loses the belts. Possibly at a Wawa. Just like Jericho that one time at Outback Steakhouse. Since the belts are missing, nobody will be able to beat Roman for them. Those are the rules.
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Apr 8, 2023 09:39
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The funnier outcome imho is Roman twists his ankle while working out or something and has to vacate the title.
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Apr 8, 2023 09:45
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Seams posted:The funnier outcome imho is Roman twists his ankle while working out or something and has to vacate the title. He appears so infrequently nowadays that the question is would they even bother?
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Apr 8, 2023 09:48
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Seams posted:The funnier outcome imho is Roman twists his ankle while working out or something and has to vacate the title. I assume this is what he's planning when he can't convince them to just put him over anymore. Not like he's gonna face any consequences for it.
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Apr 8, 2023 09:54
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I wonder if they are gonna use this draft to create another world title so Roman doesn't have to lose. He can be the then, now, forever champ.
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Apr 8, 2023 10:44
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On Roman, do we know who his next feud will be with? Coz Cody is done, and will be getting beaten up by Brock for the next month or two. So who is "big" or important enough to challenge Roman? On the same thought, what are they going to do wrt Bloodline stories? Usos vs KO/Sami will be something for a little while. But apart from that they have gently caress all. And even if they try, all the entertaining stuff was Sami, so will it just be interminable long segments of joyless Roman saying "Grr argh I am the Tribal Chief"?
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Apr 8, 2023 11:00
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zetamind2000 posted:Half the roster is gonna get shoot drafted to dynamite Them doing a draft so soon after the sale and the buyers openly talking about layoffs coming soon does make it likely there are talent not picked anywhere so there's an excuse to fire them
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Apr 8, 2023 11:17
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Dear King Chicken and Chickensan: "Kingdom" cover when? https://youtu.be/AVlzryCQg8s
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Apr 8, 2023 11:59
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BrigadierSensible posted:On Roman, do we know who his next feud will be with? Coz Cody is done, and will be getting beaten up by Brock for the next month or two. So who is "big" or important enough to challenge Roman? Don't forget endless bits of Paul Heyman screeching about the Tribal Chief and "ACKNOWLEDGE HIM!" Roman was Vince's pet from the go, and Vince is going to ride that train as long as he possibly can. Roman certainly costs less than Brock and he's now on a Brock-esque limited appearances schedule, so he isn't dropping the titles until SummerSlam at the earliest, and I honestly wouldn't be shocked to see him hang onto the titles until next year's WrestleMania, which will likely be billed as yet another SHOWCASE OF THE IMMORTALS or some poo poo like that. (Vince is still convinced that he can get The Rock back, but even though his schedule has dried up after the wet fart of Black Adam, he can't get insured to wrestle after he ripped his ab muscle in his last match.) Brock is probably going on vacation again, so now that Cody has been decisively demoted to the midcard, I'm guessing Roman's next feuds will be with some permutation of Omos, Gunther, Bron Breakker, and maybe they recycle the Seth Rollins feud since Logan Paul's a part-timer. Finn, too, possibly, if there's a shakeup in the draft.
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Apr 8, 2023 12:18
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Finish the story was obviously referencing the Seth Rollins feud. They had at least... 20 more chapters to go there.
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Apr 8, 2023 12:21
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BrigadierSensible posted:On Roman, do we know who his next feud will be with? Coz Cody is done, and will be getting beaten up by Brock for the next month or two. So who is "big" or important enough to challenge Roman? They build up ko to challenge roman until summerslam where he gets squashed and sent down to feud with cody until mania
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Apr 8, 2023 12:49
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Lamuella posted:In theory a draft is a great opportunity for storytelling, but it needs the following: I agree with this but I would have both brands draft from nxt. Give each brand maybe 5 picks or something. You could also add trades to the show to shake up the existing roster.
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Apr 8, 2023 12:52
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BrigadierSensible posted:On Roman, do we know who his next feud will be with? Coz Cody is done, and will be getting beaten up by Brock for the next month or two. So who is "big" or important enough to challenge Roman? Who says it won't be Cody again? We already heard Roman isn't appearing on the next PPV and will only wrestle on the Blood Money show. That's a Saudi show so they can just have him wrestle, I dunno... Headbanger Mosh or someone else a coked up sheikh remembers from his youth. Then take a month off because why not, it's cool when the holder of both of your belts doesn't do poo poo with them, by then Cody's had a couple of months to feud with Brock and is ready to be squashed by Roman again at Summerslam!
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Apr 8, 2023 13:02
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MJeff posted:I dunno if I would compare Kenny Omega going on a two year quest across like three hours of in-ring time to hit Okada with the One Winged Angel and take his championship with "and then the guy who was ejected for interfering with the match interferes with the match." lol
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Apr 8, 2023 13:27
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I like Dominick Mysterio a lot. Love that there’s a wrestler with an AJ Soprano gimmick and it’s over.
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Apr 8, 2023 13:43
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The last post of the goldmined thread should be edited to be a repository for all of the absolute gold like this that got posted after its closing. Because jesus christ.
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Apr 8, 2023 14:02
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I assume that right after the draft with the commentators talking up the impact certain people will have on the brands that most of those said people get fired that week
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Apr 8, 2023 14:08
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Or they’ll get drafted and still show up on each show cause who could possibly give a gently caress?
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Apr 8, 2023 14:21
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NienNunb posted:I like Dominick Mysterio a lot. Love that there’s a wrestler with an AJ Soprano gimmick and it’s over. He’s so good. Best heel in the company
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Apr 8, 2023 14:23
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I’ve been enjoying his work on Monday and/or Friday nights
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Apr 8, 2023 14:28
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The last draft (2021): Night 1: 1) Roman 2) Big E 3) Charlotte 4) Bianca 5) Drew 6) RK-Bro 7) The New Day 8) Edge 9) Corbin/Moss 10) Nikki ASH/Rhea 11) Hit Row 12) Keith "Bearcat" Lee 13) Naomi 14) The Mysterios 15) Jeff Hardy 16) Theory Night 2: 1) Becky 2) The Usos 3) Lashley/MVP 4) Sasha 5) Rollins 6) Nakamura/Boogs 7) Priest 8) Sheamus 9) Styles/Omos 10) Baszler 11) KO 12) Xia Li 13) Street Profits 14) Viking Raiders 15) Finn 16) Ricochet 18) Garza/Carrillo 19) Alexa 20) Cesaro 21) Carmella 22) Holland 23) Gable Steveson 24) Sami Takes: Big E  ; wow, good for Sami and Rhea; and they're never doing anything with Steveson are they
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Gable Steveson is surely a first round pick. He’s undefeated on the Raw roster since being drafted in 2021
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