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MJeff posted:Can he bring Dick Togo with him? As annoying as they have become I do not wish WWE on EVIL or Dick Togo
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Chris James 2 posted:Post-Mania NXT https://www.f4wonline.com/nxt-results/wwe-nxt-live-results-takeover-stand-deliver-fallout-338631 KUSHIDA left New Japan cause he couldn't get out of the JR division and lol he stuck in the minor leagues with cruiserweight title now. What a terrible decision
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Looking forward to Vince starting a feud with the NHL cause of the AEW number
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Apr 15, 2021 22:34
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I don't think Vince will ever sell the company but I would not be shocked if it gets sold a year or two after he passes. I don't see the remaining family having the kinda of pull Vince does over shareholders or refusing money And given how the company keeps falling upwards I can easily see someone making a big money offer. Probably NBC Universal
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Raw and Smackdown are still good ratings but if AEW keeps above a million it'll obviously be a much better target both cost and content wise
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Apr 19, 2021 04:49
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TV Zombie posted:I’m sure that wwe will try to put another show on Wednesday to stem AEW ratings. Oh WWE 100% wants another show on Wed and never wanted to move, but the NHL going to US forced it and while it doesn't do wrestling ratings it's close enough to NXT and does better ad rates. So WWE is in a pickle right now as they want a Wed show on TV super bad but no real place to put it unless maybe FS1 frees up a slot but given how in bed WWE is with Peacock that probably has a bunch of hurdles to clear MassRafTer posted:Smackdown is really borderline right now. It's demos are generally tied for 2nd on the night, and this week they were third losing to a CBS show. But even still, given the money invested in it if Fox or NBC could buy WWE for 5 billion they absolutely would and it would be a good deal given the nature of television. TNT tearing up the AEW TV deal is low key one of the bigger Wrestling stories of 2020 for a variety of reasons, the big one giving AEW a revenue source to ride out the pandemic and grow. If they didn't get it I don't think they go out of business but they probably don't end up signing a bunch of talent and probably have to end up cutting the roster too.
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BGrifter posted:Who’s the funniest person Disney/Amazon/whatever could hire to run a newly acquired WWE? Gabe Sapolsky
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Blaise330 posted:
WWE isn't quite desperate enough to claim they have anyone close to the charisma of Dio Brando
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Apr 20, 2021 06:02
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Fiend anime is real Probablyt wouldn't even be the worst Crunchyroll original either SMH
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Apr 22, 2021 22:36
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njsykora posted:That's the really terrifying thing, that enough people watch Crunchyroll Originals for it to be worth commissioning more. EX Arm's Quality is picture perfect for WWE! Also lol not wanting the numbers out. Must be very good, very huge yes!
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Kofimania Getting Big Cass fired
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Apr 22, 2021 23:56
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Stolen from the Social Media thread https://twitter.com/raulisonline/status/1385390876206112770 Yup this sure is some rogue employee and not company policy that someone finally had the guts to call them out on.
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Jon probably misread what the trash bag meant when he got his stuff back from his final All Japan run
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Apr 23, 2021 02:07
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Of all the moves Bryan could do I'm not sure what would be worse, resigning with WWE or working current CMLL
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Eat My Fuc posted:I've been thinking about the decline of wrestling in the early 2000s and how it's blamed on many different things, Stone Cold turning heel, the mishandled Invasion etc, but I think i've stumbled on a bigger reason and the reason I haven't seen it mentioned much is because for decades WWE has written their own history and wrestling journalists were pretty poo poo until a few years ago and many of them are still poo poo so they just towed the line and repeated the narrative. WWE misjudge Rock and Hollywood and came back to bite them in the rear end but it really didn't affect the Austin heel run being awful as he was still around on a mostly full time schedule for the next couple years. And it really didn't stop the decline the Austin heel turn caused The funny thing is the WCW invasion angle 100% could of stopped the decline and rebuilt business and kept things going but of course we saw how that ended up. Mania 18 and 19 kinda of hid the decline as the product still seemed hot but it was a mask and than the Rock leaving full time after the Goldberg feud ripped that mask clean off and whelp
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Reality Protester posted:She's Dean Malenko Dean Malenko had lots of classic matches and was involved in the best WCW cruiserweight angle. Natalaya is just....there She's much more a Dolph Ziggler
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May 14, 2021 23:13
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TV Zombie posted:I wonder why they didn't just scoop up Sendai Girls and Big Japan and combine them since they were friendly with Daisuke and Meiko. WWE buying a company in Japan would be more about using an established name to both make an impact and also to make it easier to do long term business with arenas/touring/signing talent. Buying a smaller company wouldn't help accomplish that I think NXT Japan is probably dead and buried and WWE will just focus on trying to sign Japanese talent and bury them in NXT/performance center but Covid is leaving a potential door open. Ticket sales cratering and TV money being non existent in Japan means a lot of companies are suffering and while Bushiroad/Cyberagent will probably be able to weather it other might not be. I could see if Japan isn't able to run full building till next year that a company like All Japan may look at WWE money and bite on it even if it'd probably run off most of it's fanbase Though odds are if WWE is looking to try take over a market thats fallen due to Covid it's probably going to look at Mexico first where both CMLL and AAA are very much in trouble for very different reasons
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It got public and is the type of scandal that matters in Japanese media. Plus Taka wasn't home grown so it was probably easier to let him go than say someone who went up through the Dojo system
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May 16, 2021 19:50
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Kenny/Bucks didn't help Harold in some parts of the company but what really did him in was feuding with Chono and causing him to go work with NOAH which pissed of pretty much everyone in the office. And with his contract being so expensive that did him in even if he did have some major wins on the merchandise side
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May 16, 2021 23:07
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Gonna be something when she tries to do Rush brawling spots next!
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May 18, 2021 06:12
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coconono posted:money's not as good and the travel sucks even for a short dude like him. Harold Meij's NJPW def undervalued foreign talent too. He'd like Master Wato right now for Taguchi Japan which actually sadly is still better than how's being used in WWE
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May 19, 2021 02:13
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AEW can't sign Cole though as he's dead in that universe
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May 23, 2021 05:16
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Have to love letters/posts that are meant to prove innocence but end up being a smoking gun for being 100% guilty
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May 24, 2021 19:23
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I get the feeling this is more Khan trying to centralize power than cuts to keep Stockholders happy
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May 25, 2021 18:18
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WWE really feels like an unholy combination of being a "wrasslin" company run by a promoter but also a modern publicly traded company. Both can be awful to work for, but combined together seems like just next level horrid
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Davros1 posted:I'll laugh if this somehow results in Khan wresting control of the WWE away from HHH & Steph in the end AEW beating NXT every week causing HHH to lose out on taking over the company would be an amazing ending
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May 26, 2021 01:43
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I mean WWE already does it with some entries that are boardline anyways so why not go all in? Now the Observer Hall is going to be the interesting one as the guys with the best shot right now (Orton and Edge) have pretty much ruined their chances of getting in over the next few years. After that who has a real chance? Even NXT guys you might want to sell on work rate have cooled off with the show getting destroyed by AEW. Plus also how are you going to induct an NXT guy in on workrate when Ishii still isn't in the hall.... We may not see a WWE guy in the Observer hall at all over the next 10 years
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May 26, 2021 19:02
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MJeff posted:I doubt he was getting in anyway but boy did Edge torpedo his case this year. Thing is I could see votes overlooking the Orton feud cause of Covid messing everything up but the Roman mania feud bombing so bad they had to add Bryan into save it pretty much killed his chances.
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May 26, 2021 19:45
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That makes a lot more sense on the New Japan side, working out an individual date on a guy is not close to having a working relationship. But also lol if Bryan bites on it when he can do it now and also use working NJPW/AEW on his own to drive up the price on a WWE contract next year
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May 28, 2021 20:15
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https://twitter.com/voiceswrestling/status/1398353159567941636 Yeah that makes a lot of sense from the WWE side. It's not about working with New Japan more as a way to keep Bryan away from AEW
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May 28, 2021 20:41
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Funniest thing about everything this past week is that it's clearly shown that Nick Khan is way better at this game than HHH is/was. Finally someone has buried the shovel
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May 28, 2021 20:45
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coconono posted:the last sensational rumor I heard was the longterm plan was to become a NBC product. I mean given how in bed WWE is with USA and Peacock that probably is the end game and I could see it happening super quickly if Vince dies or if the money is big enough
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May 28, 2021 21:19
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I'm actually a bit shocked at the amount of power Khan has gotten as it seems like he's taken over some of Vince's power too on the business side
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Jun 2, 2021 19:19
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Vince managing to pass the blame on to other when releasing talent is amazing though this time it may have some truth to it cause of Khan
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sportsgenius86 posted:There’s still that fact that if he liked you or saw anything in you, you wouldn’t constantly be buried. In a way the product right now probably is what Vince ideal vision of wrestling is. WWE doesn't need to pay attention to PPV/House show gates and change on the fly as all the money is guranteed. TV contract being locked in means ratings really don't matter. Vince can now push the product he wants all the time and doesn't need to change anything based on any feedback
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I don't think Nick is involved in creative beyond probably making it easier for WWE to get in outside celebrities like Bad Bunny
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xbilkis posted:Three guys with equally bright futures in WWF hahahahahahah
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It's a Holiday weekend where a lot of people are going to be able to go out relatively safely for the first time in awhile so I wouldn't put to much stock in this number as the new trend. Now if they keep around that level especially with the NBA playoffs on well than whelp
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Gonna bet that Labor Day Raw will have a third hour lower than 980,000 (TNA's final number on Spike)
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