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MassRafTer posted:It was in the Alamodome and I think they papered the hell out of it. For what it's worth, reported attendance for other Alamodome wrestling shows: Royal Rumble 1997: 60,525 Nitro (2/2/1998): 21,213 Nitro (7/27/1998): 19,109 Royal Rumble 2017: 52,020 Royal Rumble 2023: 47,585 Possibly relevant to Eric Bischoff's strong take that only idiot money marks book venues they can't fill Drakkel posted:Most people in an airport wouldn't know who Roman loving Reigns is, let alone people from NXT Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Also, one would hope that Bischoff would be more than aware that it might end up more economical to book NBA/NHL-sized arenas because they already have the facilities for broadcast TV, whereas an arena that maxes out at 8–10k doesn’t.
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i mean there are more people who've watched nothing but wwe for years, so it would kind of make sense that a more or less completely random crowd would have someone who identifies baron corbin before they identify the bucks. corbin sucks, but like twice as many people were watching him suck. 
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Not that we needed more context but why not https://twitter.com/EnuffaDotCom/status/1773702624757289008
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Wasn't the story got the sham President of Smackdown job for five months that he would just shamble around from catering having no idea who anyone was or what was going on in general
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UnleashedDad posted:Wasn't the story got the sham President of Smackdown job for five months that he would just shamble around from catering having no idea who anyone was or what was going on in general By his own admission he never watched the product and had no idea what was going on and nobody really asked him to do anything anyway so at some point he just stopped going??? It certainly lends credence to my theory that him and Heyman were only there to be Vince's meat shields when the numbers went down.
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Bischoff is correct that Quebec City is a hot wrestling market as it's only 3-4 hours away from Montreal which is a hot wrestling market and they're both basically the same thing. It's the same logic that proves he's correct in saying Dave Meltzer wrote the Death of WCW book, Bryan Alvarez is a nearby market.
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MassRafTer posted:Not that we needed more context but why not Very easy for some of Eric's brain power to mistake Quebec City for montreal. Very easy mistake to make indeed
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Boy I hope nobody hires this Eric Bischoff to run any wrestling companies It doesn’t sound like he would be good at it
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Very easy for some of Eric's brain power to mistake Quebec City for montreal. Very easy mistake to make indeed The brain geniuses in the replies have helpfully pointed out that he didn't refer to Quebec City specifically and was speaking instead of the hot market of... the entire nation of Canada, I guess.
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Power Windows posted:https://twitter.com/TripleD37/status/1773438265078481171?t=y-HhkXtiG9WstyZ20pYCnQ&s=19 
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Endless Mike posted: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. It's extra dumb because most people don't know the popular players in almost any subculture. I don't know the best football players around the world I don't know the best fashion designers around the world etc.
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Mark Kermode lookin rough
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These made me blow air out of nose pretty hard. 
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Endless Mike posted: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. You can't be famous unless I personally think you're a big deal and you're only a big deal if you appear on the television shows that I watch. There actually is a metric for celebrity called the Q score. It never gets mentioned by fans during these kinds of arguments because reality won't actually prove the point they're trying to make. little munchkin fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Dave sure would be dumb if he accurately described the angle WWE did https://twitter.com/ImBathory/status/1773755927486660924
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The thing I've never understood is wrestling fans obsession with the idea of seeing a wrestler at the airport being like, an important thing. Like I've always assumed it was some dumb thing some old wrestling dude has said but I don't actually know where it comes from
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VideoWitch posted:The thing I've never understood is wrestling fans obsession with the idea of seeing a wrestler at the airport being like, an important thing. Like I've always assumed it was some dumb thing some old wrestling dude has said but I don't actually know where it comes from It's an old wrestling thing that I've heard a few old heads talking about. I guess it mattered more when live attendance was how you made your money and you'd be seeing how big people are in person. Now that we watch on screens it matters less because the cameras obsfucate how tall people actually are. Metzler mocks the idea of it mattering nowadays, some of the biggest draws in mma/boxing are smaller than the average man. He likes to use the example of d1college basketball/football players, those guys will crush the airport test but nobody actually knows their names.
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VideoWitch posted:The thing I've never understood is wrestling fans obsession with the idea of seeing a wrestler at the airport being like, an important thing. Like I've always assumed it was some dumb thing some old wrestling dude has said but I don't actually know where it comes from There is also the idea articulated by old wrestling promoters that this was part of the appeal/mystique of attraction wrestlers back in the day, there's no question that your Andre the Giants and Abdullahs and Bruiser Brodys or whomever would be very noticeable at an airport. Less clear is the further theory that fans will notice Abdullah the Butcher flying into Dallas or Tampa or Memphis and immediately go "oh wow, that's wrestler Abdullah the Butcher, if he's at my local airport he must be wrestling this week, I'd better buy a ticket and tell all my friends!" Used nowadays it's basically a reverse justification for only wanting to push tall/brolic/flamboyant/very attractive wrestlers, a marginally more polite way of making GBS threads on 'vanilla midgets', where the idea that jobbers are the type of people who might be sitting next to you at the airport and you wouldn't really look twice at them, but STARS are people who you'd go "well that person must be something special!" It also seems to ignore that many of the most famous athletes, actors, musicians, performers, etc. are people of very average height, weight, conventional attractiveness, etc. A lot of pro athletes are taller/more muscular than the average person, but a lot of pro athletes are complete unknowns to the general public compared to Kevin Hart or John Oliver or Olivia Rodrigo or other very famous people, and I don't think BTS would automatically be more famous if they were the size of an average college basketball/football team. It's really just a way for generations of people in wrestling to poo poo on other wrestlers for being too short, too skinny, too quiet, not fuckable enough for them, etc. Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Now it is more literal than ever because people go to airports to mob wrestlers and get them to sign poo poo
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MassRafTer posted:Now it is more literal than ever because people go to airports to mob wrestlers and get them to sign poo poo
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If you bother me at the airport I might cry
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if i were a wrestler i would not want to be bothered at the airport because flying sucks
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He's New Japan 46  https://twitter.com/ThisIsNasty/status/1773855156523917647
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MassRafTer posted:He's New Japan 46 His knees are just moments away from turning to dust like Tana's did
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hes younger than reigns and rollins lol
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this guy has made a career out of telling me actually that cool thing you like, you're dumb for liking it. What a maroon
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MassRafTer posted:He's New Japan 46 Man isn't even trying anymore, you hate to see it
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In addition to being younger than Roman or Seth, Okada is younger than: - Either WM title challenger (Cody Rhodes & Drew McIntyre) - IC champion Gunther (and his challenger Sami Zayn) - Either tag champion (Balor & Priest) and all six of their announced challengers at WM (Gargano, Ciampa, Miz, R-Truth, Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston) - LA Knight or AJ Styles - Either Uso - Randy Orton and Kevin Owens As of right now, out of 22 announced male competitors at Wrestlemania XL, the only one younger than Okada is Logan Paul. Of course, Rock and Roman are a WWE 38/51 respectively, which means they're a Japanese 27.
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now they say all ages are created equal and you look at me and you look okada and you can see that is simply not true
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forkboy84 posted:Man isn't even trying anymore, you hate to see it The deli meat trays are getting harder and harder to come by.
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Plagiarizing content for twitter is shameful
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https://twitter.com/ryzye3/status/1773845841687748910?s=46 Show that’s been held down the road from WrestleMania every year for two decades is being held down the road from Mania, news at 11.
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oh that's a goldmine for nerds https://twitter.com/PeterThrasher11/status/1773579410228035702 https://twitter.com/JohnPeskyy/status/1773570240930058539 fez_machine fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Mar 30, 2024 |
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TinTower posted:https://twitter.com/ryzye3/status/1773845841687748910?s=46 I maybe misremembering this, but Tony talked about discounting this tradition at the media scrum for the first Supercard under his ownership. He talked about how he wasn't sure the look of holding a PPV directly down the road from the biggest player during their biggest PPV, but then the next reporter basically talked him out of it with a story about how he discovered the wrestling world outside the WWE by attending a Supercard show because he and his friends were hyped up for seeing Wrestlemania live and decided to give it a chance.
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post hole digger posted:hes younger than reigns and rollins lol yeah but while 36 is 46 in NJPW, 36 is 26 in WWE because they're focused more on the storytelling than injuring their bodies for pointless matches
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JUNGLE BOY posted:yeah but while 36 is 46 in NJPW, 36 is 26 in WWE* because they're focused more on the storytelling than injuring their bodies for pointless matches *Does not apply to knee ligaments
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MassRafTer posted:He's New Japan 46 This guy is a complete loving moron on twitter which is a real-life mashed potatoes for brains
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