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Going rumor is that Roman and Solo are challenging Sami and KO for the titles in Saudi.
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Pylons posted:Going rumor is that Roman and Solo are challenging Sami and KO for the titles in Saudi. I thought the latter two refused to go to Saudi?
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May 12, 2023 15:11
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So Roman and solo win by countout, duh
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Pillowpants posted:I thought the latter two refused to go to Saudi? Supposedly Sami has no issues with Saudi anymore.
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May 12, 2023 15:13
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Turns out it's Sami Callihan and Kyle O'Reilly
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Pylons posted:Supposedly Sami has no issues with Saudi anymore. lol man that's bleak
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May 12, 2023 15:22
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May 12, 2023 15:26
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he never had a problem with it. he had concerns about how he would be received and ppl online decided things since he's the best person alive, etc.
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MJeff posted:The actual real answer is: Solo seems pretty decent though. I think the jury is still out on him but he doesn't have any personal baggage and his ring work is fine and getting better.
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May 12, 2023 15:35
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Roddy Piper was 43 and Hulk Hogan was 44 during the infamous Age in a Cage match at Halloween Havoc '97.
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May 12, 2023 16:07
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Hbk was 43 when he fought a 59 year old flair at wm24 and then he fought the Undertaker at WM25-26 when they were both 44-45. Wasn’t Batista oldish when he started too?
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bartok posted:Roddy Piper was 43 and Hulk Hogan was 44 during the infamous Age in a Cage match at Halloween Havoc '97. Pretty young for a big main event match
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I don't generally care about how old a wrestler is, it just became A Thing in WWE because they refused to make young, new stars anymore and only relied on the old ones. Old wrestlers can be cool as poo poo. It's just, you can't only have old wrestlers at the top of the card forever and ignore the young wrestlers who are getting over and could be huge stars as well.
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Also medical science, training, and drugs are a lot more advanced now than in the 80's/90's so a wrestler can still be in decent shape and perform great in the ring at a much older age But yeah you do want to be pushing younger talent as well
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Well yea, typically companies want to make money, so going all in on one old person to prop the company up for the next decade is kind of a dumb move.
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Invalid Validation posted:Well yea, typically companies want to make money, so going all in on one old person to prop the company up for the next decade is kind of a dumb move. You'd think that's such a sensible take that major wrestling companies would stop doing that but here we are
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Ganso Bomb posted:I don't generally care about how old a wrestler is, it just became A Thing in WWE because they refused to make young, new stars anymore and only relied on the old ones. Old wrestlers can be cool as poo poo. It's just, you can't only have old wrestlers at the top of the card forever and ignore the young wrestlers who are getting over and could be huge stars as well. I don’t care about the number but it’s kinda dumb to be giving a first main event push to a guy who’s already physically declining expecting to get 5 more years of top performance out of him is much more optimistic than realistic imo
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Julio Cruz posted:I don’t care about the number but it’s kinda dumb to be giving a first main event push to a guy who’s already physically declining I think it'd be sillier if it was a guy who had been in WWE for like 15 years already or something. Priest got to WWE in 2018, so it's not too crazy to me for a guy in his 5th year in the company to be possibly getting a big main event push.
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Ganso Bomb posted:I don't generally care about how old a wrestler is, it just became A Thing in WWE because they refused to make young, new stars anymore and only relied on the old ones. Old wrestlers can be cool as poo poo. It's just, you can't only have old wrestlers at the top of the card forever and ignore the young wrestlers who are getting over and could be huge stars as well. I only care about age because every time I watch Masato Tanaka I think "how the gently caress is this guy 50, been wrestling a hard hitting style for 30 years & still this good?" As opposed to classic Hulk Hogan where you watch him & think "how the gently caress is this guy 37, has been wrestling for about 15 years, is this bad & looks ancient?"
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Ganso Bomb posted:I think it'd be sillier if it was a guy who had been in WWE for like 15 years already or something. Priest got to WWE in 2018, so it's not too crazy to me for a guy in his 5th year in the company to be possibly getting a big main event push. imo, the main problem is how they've been treating Priest when they push him. If you're going to bring in someone in their late thirties, you want to treat them as a hot new competitor but you can't really call them rookies. That's what they did with AJ Styles and Kevin Owens. But Damian Priest doesn't have the kind of lengthy career WWE is forced to recognize and he's aged pretty well, so there's a recurring vibe that WWE is treating him like he's a new wrestler and not just new to WWE. It's just weird.
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It's kinda mindblowing that Bret was only 4 years younger than Hogan and 3 years younger than Piper, especially at that time. And also 1 year younger than Damien Priest is now at the time of Age in a Cage.
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Ganso Bomb posted:I think it'd be sillier if it was a guy who had been in WWE for like 15 years already or something. Priest got to WWE in 2018, so it's not too crazy to me for a guy in his 5th year in the company to be possibly getting a big main event push. pushing a guy in his 5th year with the company is fine assuming he's going to have at least 5 more years at the main-event level which Priest might, I don't know, but he's a lot less likely to than other, younger, potential main eventers like Bron or Montez Ford or
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Ganso Bomb posted:I think it'd be sillier if it was a guy who had been in WWE for like 15 years already or something. Priest got to WWE in 2018, so it's not too crazy to me for a guy in his 5th year in the company to be possibly getting a big main event push. that part is fine. it's more about their talent scouting system not being interested in anyone under 35.
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ChrisBTY posted:It's kinda mindblowing that Bret was only 4 years younger than Hogan and 3 years younger than Piper, especially at that time. Holy poo poo I never realized this, this makes their Mania torch passing moment with the IC title really funny
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RealityWarCriminal posted:that part is fine. it's more about their talent scouting system not being interested in anyone under 35. To be fair they'll gladly sign younger people they just need to send them down to the world class PC to make sure they have the brittle knees of a 35 year old by the time they hit the main roster
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When do we think R-Truth will retire
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History Comes Inside! posted:When do we think R-Truth will retire hopefully never
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Kvlt! posted:hopefully never
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Kvlt! posted:hopefully never
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Yeah, I don't think age is really too much of a factor these days with how healthy most guys are and how much nutrition and science has come along. Probably around age 50 is now what we should be looking at where it's going to be more difficult to keep up. But even then so many wrestlers now are just freakish about their bodies that it's possible they could keep going then, like R-Truth.
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quote:Fightful is reporting that, “2021 saw some major WWE contracts expire in Bryan Danielson and Adam Cole, but a gigantic part of the roster is signed through 2024 after huge contacts were handed out in 2019.” It is also worth noting that, “2022 saw a major regime change, but an implemented negotiation method seemingly stick around.” Explains the lack of progress on keeping Drew, it's their new policy now (against tradition) to wait till closer to the deals are up before really talking
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The difference between now and then is simple Nobody uses icopro nowadays
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https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1657143594623311873?s=20
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New Whale Inc. sounds super shell company-y.
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Maigius posted:New Whale Inc. sounds super shell company-y. nWi
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All this talk about age - it’s crazy to me that you could have a 40+ person Royal rumble with all the dead wrestlers who have competed in that actual match…through 2009 because that’s the first year everyone is currently still alive.
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Davros1 posted:nWi heeheeeheehee
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to be fair, and I didn't realize this, Damien Priest didnt start wrestling until age 33
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