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Yes, Vince. It's all those midgets' fault. Ignore the fact that AEW are kicking your rear end up and down the street with guys you couldn't get over, and keep thinking that if you make them taller and less mobile, it will all turn around. Hey pal, go put on this hazmat suit and cut a 5 minute promo about how the audience are doo doo heads and how the girls have cooties. It's good poo poo, pal!
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Blaise330 posted:any other women near 40 years old who should be scared they're gonna get the mercedes treatment? 42 - Samoa Joe 39 - Danny Burch 38 - Drake Maverick, KUSHIDA, LA Knight, Roderick Strong, Timothy Thatcher 37 - Dexter Lumis, Santos Escobar, Franky Monet 36 - Karrion Kross, Tomasso Ciampa 35 - Oney Lorcan, Candice LaRae 34 - Joaquin Wilde, Kyle O'Reilly 33 - Johnny Gargano, Ridge Holland, Dakota Kai, Xia Li Kind of funny that a lot of those over 35 people are relatively new signings/re-signings. I would say a lot of these people are 'safe' but who the hell knows at this point. In terms of main roster women, the only ones in this age band are 43 - Tamina 40 - Shayna Baszler 39 - Asuka, Natalya 37 - Nia Jax 36 - Eva Marie 35 - Charlotte Flair 34 - Becky Lynch 33 - Carmella, Naomi Likewise a year ago most/all of these people would be considered totally safe (maybe not Shayna in that period post-Heyman) but now, it's anyone's ballgame for future endeavors.
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Blaise330 posted:Old guys just have this weird fetish for big guys. Cornette only calls AEW All Petite Wrestling. Like personally I'm kinda over how big a guy is after I've seen them the first time or so. Like the first time I saw Commander Azeez I was like "daaayum" and the first time I saw Omos I was like "daaaaaayum" then the 2nd time it's like "k, cool, here they are again". The only time a wrestler ever being small annoyed me was Marko Stunt cause its like... dude I know you can't control your height but at least lift some weights. It's an 80's thing, everyone was roided up to the gills and people just don't accept that everyone has moved on to fast and spectacular as the mainstream
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JUNGLE BOY posted:Lmao remember like a month ago after Vince visited the Performance Center and there were reports from people there like “it was really positive, a real breath of fresh air” and Vincels were like “hahaha you stupid marks thought he was gonna fire everyone” I believe the phrase was "stop being loving weirdos about everything"
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I wasn’t watching during hunter’s reign of terror but I assume the schadenfreude for those of you that did is out of the lower atmosphere based on where mine is
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Gonzo McFee posted:It's an 80's thing, everyone was roided up to the gills and people just don't accept that everyone has moved on to fast and spectacular as the mainstream "But when people see how big they are when they bump into them in the airport they'll be like 'WHOOOAAAA'. That's the poo poo that draws money" Can we stop hiring 60-70 year olds to run wrestling companies please? Blaise330 fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Aug 8, 2021 |
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Bring in Russo and reboot NXT with New Blood vs Midgets Club
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DMorbid posted:Oh boy, it's Ruthless Aggression 2.0. Soon, we're back to WWE fans talking about how nobody actually cares about good matches or that workrate bullshit you IWC smarks always go on about. Can't wait! Nah. Alarm bells started going off for me when they changed the RAW theme to that Union Underground poo poo. DMorbid posted:Oh yeah, hmm, I guess Ruthless Aggression 2.0 might have been a bit inaccurate then. What did they call the period in the mid to late 00s when most of those people were gone from the company? (Aside from various synonyms of "terrible", that is?) Toothless Aggression FullMetalJackoff fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Aug 8, 2021 |
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Aug 8, 2021 12:43
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hgh on a pole match. get the juice or loser leaves town.
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Prichard: While we're turning back the clock a bit, how about we bring divas back? I haven't seen a bra and panties match in a hot minute
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Edge & Christian posted:Oldest Folks in NXT I wonder if Joe can pull off a new record and be fired by WWE twice in one year
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Rarity posted:I wonder if Joe can pull off a new record and be fired by WWE twice in one year By dodging this round of releases, Drake Maverick let us down when it comes to this achievement. He does have a curse where people he teams with or manages gets released though
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Lamuella posted:They have a point. What kind of dumbass company would try and get short guys over? i would rather see ryback wrestle than the skateboard kid
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Sanguinia posted:Ah yes, noted main character box office attraction Curtis Axel. Monty Brown ruled, take it back.
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Gonna be real exciting to see the new record low ratings NXT gets every week because of this change.
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Would unironically consider watching an hour of this product if they brought back Monty Brown and Vladimir Kozlov for that hour
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Mulaney Power Move posted:i would rather see ryback wrestle than the skateboard kid It's not illegal to have awful opinions.
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Imagine being a WWE diehard stan, defending absolutely everything they do and saying the company cannot fail ever. In general imagine it, but especially imagine it being the case on January 1 2021 Later that month it's announced the company's abandoning ship on its failure of a Network and moving to Peacock By April the Network's dead in the US; also NXT bails on Wednesdays after failing to cripple AEW A few months later NXT gets stripped to barebones They just admitted the international expansion's dead and the Performance Center's a failure Chris James 2 fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Aug 8, 2021 |
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I'm looking at the list of every main event in the last 10 years, and its literally all Guys From Ruthless Aggression Or Attitude Era, and then people Vince wouldn't want in NXT because they're not potential main characters or box office attractions since they're old or short: Like, the only people who main evented a PPV in the last literal decade Vince would want are Shaemus, Roman Reigns, Baron Corbin and Charlotte. This isn't counting Ryback or Braun because he fired them, of course. Maybe Drew and Lashley, but they're probably so old they wouldn't have been rehired. Maybe Ronda because she's a star outside the company, but I dunno, look how short she is... Sanguinia fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Aug 8, 2021 |
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The dark timeline where WWE actually got a foothold in Japan is such a grim thing to consider.
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DarkstarIV posted:Gonna be real exciting to see the new record low ratings NXT gets every week because of this change. They should take it off TV to make room for more Law and Order
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Drakkel posted:It'll be like the Jackie Chan fighting game where if you beat Jackie Chan he just no-sells it and gives you a thumbs up It would actually work perfectly for him because in the intro, he can use the same line of "I'm Triple H! This is my game!" and have The Game as one of his three versions in it (not including the Mysterious Lion). Also, he would absolutely not give a thumbs up, he'd just stand up, put on a pair of sunglasses, and smirk. forkboy84 posted:Monty Brown ruled, take it back. Thank you for beating me to this. Anyone who uses the POOOOOOOUUUNNNNCEEE!!! (period) rules.
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Did looking like an action figure ever matter a lot to the mainstream crowds? Those are the guys that got chances, but guys like Dusty, Jerry Lawler, there were lots of guys who got over who didn't. It seems a lot more important that you cut exciting promos, have a consistent and distinctive character, and have charisma. Looking like Brian Cage helps a bit, but it doesn't make up for lacking any of that.
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The only people in WWE that are "safe" are probably like Roman, Becky Lynch and Omos because he's a big lad but that's only until they come across an even bigger lad. Not even people that joined recently are safe: Alex Zayne signed in like January, Tyler Rust was there for literally four months and just debuted on TV. This talk of "more cuts to come" and whatever makes me think that there could be people on that Takeover card (either officially already, or on the internal card they are building to) that get cut immediately after. Like at this point would it stun anyone if they released Kross in September? If they decided that WALTER's "I'm not working in the US" contract was too much of a hassle? If Gargano and Ciampa's insistence that they never want to work the main roster didn't fit with the new vision of NXT? There are things that might happen that would surprise people even though I don't know whether they should at this point.
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So place your bets now: Will Vince's version of NXT draw more than 500k viewers or less than 500k? And in the 18-49 demo will it be higher than .15 or lower?
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DarkstarIV posted:So place your bets now: Will Vince's version of NXT draw more than 500k viewers or less than 500k? And in the 18-49 demo will it be higher than .15 or lower? I would bet there's a bit of intrigue for the first episode, and by the third episode it's under.
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El Generico posted:Did looking like an action figure ever matter a lot to the mainstream crowds? Those are the guys that got chances, but guys like Dusty, Jerry Lawler, there were lots of guys who got over who didn't. It seems a lot more important that you cut exciting promos, have a consistent and distinctive character, and have charisma. Looking like Brian Cage helps a bit, but it doesn't make up for lacking any of that. They were over with the only person that mattered, Vince. That meant they got treated like a big deal, and crowds react to that.
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Omos showing up on NXT this week: “You know who I am. But you don’t know why I’m here”
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IceAgeComing posted:This talk of "more cuts to come" and whatever makes me think that there could be people on that Takeover card (either officially already, or on the internal card they are building to) that get cut immediately after. Someone elsewhere said it feels very much like a curtain call show. I've thought about that more and more since the cuts
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JUNGLE BOY posted:Omos showing up on NXT this week: “You know who I am. But you don’t know why I’m here” "You know who I am" is pretty generous here
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They already said no one over 30 for NXT! The older giants will have to skip straight to the main roster, so the Raw Breakout Tournament 2022 can feature Vladimir Koslov, Big Dan Rodimer, Matt Morgan, Eric Escobar, Jackson Andrews, Bam Neely, Eli Cottonwood, both of the Gymini, and any of the giants they've released from NXT in the past year, all of the people who never got the shot they deserved thanks to BIZARRO WORLD fans incorrectly cheering for people who don't even wow them at airports. Lil Braun Strowman will be the special referee for all of the matches, and will have to pass a YOU MUST BE THIS TALL TO BE IN THE TOURNAMENT sign mournfully before entering the ring for each match.
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IceAgeComing posted:Omos because he's a big lad but that's only until they come across an even bigger lad. I think he's safe unless Hagrid's brother gets signed
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An important thing to remember is that Vince has the attention span of a goldfish so everything could potentially go back to business as usual within two weeks. But this is much funnier.
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Rarity posted:I wonder if Joe can pull off a new record and be fired by WWE twice in one year I think Jannetty got fired twice in 1993. I wonder if nxt uk is going to survive this. Apparently a lot of contracts are expiring soon, and even though the company is obsessed with creating content I doubt viewership in the US exceeds the 4 figure range each week.
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NienNunb posted:An important thing to remember is that Vince has the attention span of a goldfish so everything could potentially go back to business as usual within two weeks. But this is much funnier. True, but Bruce Pritchard, Johnny Ace, and Kevin Dunn do not. And Kevin Dunn in particular does not like NXT because of its production quality. Probably the lack of 394,727 camera cuts per minute.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:I think Jannetty got fired twice in 1993. I don't see how they could, they're not running shows with any real frequency, it doesn't draw big money, and like a lot of the talent in the US NXT, there seems to be no rush to call any of them up.
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Bruce running creative, Johnny Ace running talent relations, only roid monsters to get hired... Are they trying to manifest the year 2007?
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