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JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

https://x.com/rvd74/status/1773453374047850723?s=20

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Drakkel
May 6, 2007

IT'S LIKE I CAN TOUCH YOU!

I always love these tweets because it's always like "WE get Moxley, Danielson, Big Show, Mark Henry, Edge, Christian, AND Jim Ross for a full calendar year, and uhhh you can have Baron Corbin for one night."

Shard
Jul 30, 2005

Dustin for Ricochet honestly sounds fair to me

JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

i don’t think dustin has a particularly high trade value but even if you got ricochet for free why would you put him on the wembley card

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
To do flips, duh.

boxcarhobo
Jun 23, 2005

JUNGLE BOY posted:

i don’t think dustin has a particularly high trade value but even if you got ricochet for free why would you put him on the wembley card

preshow match vs kommander would be fun

Dawgstar
Jul 15, 2017

https://twitter.com/SuitWilliams/status/1773160411187053046

Nothing wrong with this tweet, of course, but is pointing why it's a tad silly to try and trumpet Eric for anything.

Dimebags Brain
Feb 18, 2013





Shard posted:

Dustin for Ricochet honestly sounds fair to me

Hell, throw in Tozawa and Uhaa and run Monster Express against BCG for the trios at Wembley.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
A company would be foolish to not have wrestlers learning promos from the charismatic enigma Kevin Kelly.

https://twitter.com/realkevinkelly/status/1773454158198100161
https://twitter.com/realkevinkelly/status/1773463894389887037

History Comes Inside!
Nov 20, 2004




I have this really good line you could use, all you have to do first is kick the other guy in the balls

rotinaj
Sep 5, 2008

Fun Shoe

MassRafTer posted:

A company would be foolish to not have wrestlers learning promos from the charismatic enigma Kevin Kelly.

https://twitter.com/realkevinkelly/status/1773454158198100161
https://twitter.com/realkevinkelly/status/1773463894389887037

Kevin Kelly, well known pro wrestler who has personally drawn butts to seats, is teaching people to promo

Oh ok

Suplex Liberace
Jan 18, 2012



i feel bad for sad dog kevin kelly

Jubs
Jul 11, 2006

Boy, I think it's about time I tell you the difference between a man and a woman. A woman isn't a woman unless she's pretty. And a man isn't a man unless he's ugly.
Is this where I post good tweets?

https://twitter.com/TheOnlyEdAsner/status/948275775479750656

https://twitter.com/Arbys/status/1108382695812419586

https://twitter.com/Wendys/status/662401394490662912

Jubs fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Mar 29, 2024

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

rotinaj posted:

Kevin Kelly, well known pro wrestler who has personally drawn butts to seats, is teaching people to promo

Oh ok


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4QYeZfib_g

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

JUNGLE BOY posted:

i don’t think dustin has a particularly high trade value but even if you got ricochet for free why would you put him on the wembley card

Lend him to Fénix and Penta for the show they're doing at the LU Temple.

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014

lamentable dustman posted:

didn't he relatively recently get re-hired by wwe to run raw or smackdown, move to Connecticut and then fired in like a month

that was pretty funny too

lol

Raeg
Jul 7, 2008

The top 1% of ducks have control of 99.9% of the bread.
Remember when Bischoff insisted TNA needed to go on the road, how did those crowds draw again?

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

Raeg posted:

Remember when Bischoff insisted TNA needed to go on the road, how did those crowds draw again?

Last night's bad AEW show would be one of the best TNA crowds in that era!

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014

Raeg posted:

Remember when Bischoff insisted TNA needed to go on the road, how did those crowds draw again?

remember when bischoff insisted TNA needed to have the time slot as RAW to reenact the monday night wars and they got murdered in the ratings and had to go back to their old timeslot

Raeg
Jul 7, 2008

The top 1% of ducks have control of 99.9% of the bread.

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

remember when bischoff insisted TNA needed to have the time slot as RAW to reenact the monday night wars and they got murdered in the ratings and had to go back to their old timeslot

This is a man who knows the business!

Edge & Christian
May 20, 2001

Earth-1145 is truly the best!
A world of singing, magic frogs,
high adventure, no shitposters
There were ten non-Impact-Zone PPVs that TNA held during Bischoff's time working backstage:
Attendances:
Lockdown 2010 (St. Louis) - 3,023
Bound for Glory 2010 (Daytona Beach) - 6,500
Lockdown 2011 (Cincinatti) - 4,000
Bound for Glory 2011 (Philadelphia) - 3,585
Lockdown 2012 (Nashville) - 3,000
Slammiversary 2012 (Arlington) - 5,500
Bound for Glory 2012 (Phoenix) - 2,900
Lockdown 2013 (San Antonio) - 7,200
Slammiversary 2013 (Boston) - 3,800
Bound for Glory 2013 (San Diego) - 3,000

Average Attendance for Bischoff-era PPVs: 3,350

There were some TV tapings that did way less than that outside of the Impact Zone, but who cares about those, it's apples and oranges compared to Dynamite shows. And even if Dynamite sometimes draws more than 3350 people, that doesn't even matter! A businessman like Bischoff knows the real money is in buyrates, which is why the PPVs he was involved in sold between ~8,000 buys on the low end, with some really hot shows getting more like 30,000 or 40,000!

I didn't look up any of the AEW numbers because they are probably embarrassingly low compared to what Bischoff was able to accomplish.

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.
Sometime near the end of Bischoff’s tenure, they ended up moving the Impact Zone to the smaller soundstage at Universal Studios. Totally a coincidence, of course.

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
eric bischoff begins booking for AEW and on the first episode Hulk Hogan returns he reforms the NWO he buries all the younger talent and everyone will love it

Raeg
Jul 7, 2008

The top 1% of ducks have control of 99.9% of the bread.

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

eric bischoff begins booking for AEW and on the first episode Hulk Hogan returns he reforms the NWO he buries all the younger talent and everyone will love it

Where's Bubba The Love Sponge?

rotinaj
Sep 5, 2008

Fun Shoe

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

eric bischoff begins booking for AEW and on the first episode Hulk Hogan returns he reforms the NWO he buries all the younger talent and everyone will love it

NWO is copy written, brother, gotta be aces and eights the Dead Man’s Hand

Seams
Feb 3, 2005

ROCK HARD
i think ive got two more in me jack. give me a win against this ospreay dude, brother. ill return the favour in the rematch

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
70 year old hulk hogan burying the young backs in a 2 on 1 match and the hulkster says he'll let them win next time only for him to die of old age out of spite so they never get their win back

JethroMcB
Jan 23, 2004

We're normal now.
We love your family.

Raeg posted:

Where's Bubba The Love Sponge?

Facing Mancow in the over-the-hour (billed as a No DQ Falls Count Anywhere Showdown; finish is somehow declared a No Contest)

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

Eric just wants everyone to look at his hog

bartok
May 10, 2006



Edge & Christian posted:

There were ten non-Impact-Zone PPVs that TNA held during Bischoff's time working backstage:
Attendances:
Lockdown 2010 (St. Louis) - 3,023
Bound for Glory 2010 (Daytona Beach) - 6,500
Lockdown 2011 (Cincinatti) - 4,000
Bound for Glory 2011 (Philadelphia) - 3,585
Lockdown 2012 (Nashville) - 3,000
Slammiversary 2012 (Arlington) - 5,500
Bound for Glory 2012 (Phoenix) - 2,900
Lockdown 2013 (San Antonio) - 7,200
Slammiversary 2013 (Boston) - 3,800
Bound for Glory 2013 (San Diego) - 3,000

I was at that Cincinnati show because I got free tickets. It was better than going to see a live Smackdown or Raw but since it was a Lethal Lockdown every match was in that stupid red cage which made it hard to see.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
https://twitter.com/CMatt666/status/1773365474044072438

Funny when you think that WWE has not only sued journalists but HHH did an interview with The Masked Man where he made up a story to discredit Wade Keller and Shoemaker had to issue a correction which was also incorrect. Do not bring up the Punk/Cabana lawsuit over a podcast that was just a WWE employee suing them with no backing from the company what-so-ever.

Erin M. Fiasco
Mar 21, 2013

Nothing's better than postin' in the morning!



bartok posted:

I was at that Cincinnati show because I got free tickets. It was better than going to see a live Smackdown or Raw but since it was a Lethal Lockdown every match was in that stupid red cage which made it hard to see.

I would have been at the show and started making plans with friends when it was announced but then Victory Road 2011 happened and completely killed any desire I had to make it happen. Not having a car at the time was the final nail.

Ganso Bomb
Oct 24, 2005

turn it all around

Edge & Christian posted:

There were ten non-Impact-Zone PPVs that TNA held during Bischoff's time working backstage:
Attendances:
Lockdown 2010 (St. Louis) - 3,023
Bound for Glory 2010 (Daytona Beach) - 6,500
Lockdown 2011 (Cincinatti) - 4,000
Bound for Glory 2011 (Philadelphia) - 3,585
Lockdown 2012 (Nashville) - 3,000
Slammiversary 2012 (Arlington) - 5,500
Bound for Glory 2012 (Phoenix) - 2,900
Lockdown 2013 (San Antonio) - 7,200
Slammiversary 2013 (Boston) - 3,800
Bound for Glory 2013 (San Diego) - 3,000

What’s with that huge bump for Lockdown? Texans just love a night of cage matches?

Power Windows
Dec 29, 2004

Brasky used to ride upon a steed, perchance to spy a lady.

https://twitter.com/TripleD37/status/1773438265078481171?t=y-HhkXtiG9WstyZ20pYCnQ&s=19

https://twitter.com/TripleD37/status/1773455603756585209?t=dbgTfxYGEWnToK4MskUFlQ&s=19

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

Ganso Bomb posted:

What’s with that huge bump for Lockdown? Texans just love a night of cage matches?

It was in the Alamodome and I think they papered the hell out of it.

Ganso Bomb
Oct 24, 2005

turn it all around

MassRafTer posted:

It was in the Alamodome and I think they papered the hell out of it.

That was my second guess

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



I hate the "well-known" thing since like no one outside of a handful of guys are known to non-fans, and even then it's because they've been in movies and such. No one has a clue who like Baron Corbin is.

Actually, maybe they know Baron Corbin since he was on the loser side of a feud with ChefReactions.

Elephant Ambush
Nov 13, 2012

...We sholde spenden more time together. What sayest thou?
Nap Ghost
I will forever be caremad that in Kurt Angle's retirement match he had to put over Baron loving Corbin. What a worthless boring turd of a wrestler

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

How is anyone known in NXT when they get fed into the name machine?

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rotinaj
Sep 5, 2008

Fun Shoe

“Apparently facts hurt your feelings” is enough for me to hear. Opinion discarded.

It is starting to become nice to hear certain key phrases, they signify that I can go ahead and ignore literally anything a given person has to say, like “as a libertarian,” or “my president trump” or “chemtrails” or “truth seeker”.

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