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This thread has been amazing but I'm shocked we haven't had Cody emerging from the Gobbledly Gooker Egg yet
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Eh, generally in the past they would let the babyface win at Mania even if they didn't see them as the top guy. They would just cut the feet out from under them with bad post mania programs that made sure they didn't get over. Going with the heel winning really has been a post Mania 30 thing
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Apr 6, 2023 18:44
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I doubt they're gonna cut any big names but I suspect all of the recent rehires like the Good Brother, Jonah/Bronson Reed, Bray, will all end up getting cut soon. Maybe they'll cut Nakamura of the big names still around since they aren't using him Where things will get interesting is contract renewal time as UFC hates giving people raises and I can see WWE low balling or even just not offering raises or even lower money for talent to stay. Like I 100% think they're gonna low ball Bailey and let her walk
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Apr 7, 2023 00:55
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I'm sure WWE would make sure Edge & Christian get a wonderful final match in the fed by having them job to *rolls dice* Baron Corbin and Elias
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Apr 7, 2023 18:12
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Good Brothers probably will be the first to be released and I'll cackle especially since Karl kinda of kept the Never title hostage for a bit
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Apr 7, 2023 22:04
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Vince gonna learn how to work remotely so he can make changes to shows even when he isn't there
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Apr 7, 2023 23:55
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SirPhoebos posted:Roman is keeping the belt until he gets injured...(and even that's a maybe). I kinda want to see the Fed do an interim championship just to see everyone that hated on AEW doing it suddenly defending it when the fed does it
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Apr 12, 2023 04:44
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bartok posted:Isn't Bam Bam Bigelow a noticeable absence from the HoF? He main evented a Wrestlemania and he had the best ending in WWF: Wrestlemania The Arcade game. Bam Bam becomes a fire elemental and incinerates the entire arena and everyone in it. Bigelow's only WWE main event program had him losing to a NFL player and he never really had close to that. Even by WWE's lax Hall of Fame standards that's not really good enough
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Apr 21, 2023 17:11
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Ganso Bomb posted:Counterpoint, Koko B. Ware is in the Hall of Fame and as much as I liked Koko B. Ware as a kid, he never main evented against any NFL players at Wrestlemania. Koko has the nostalgia of the 80's WWF working for him while Bam Bam's run was during a very down period in business that people don't have nostalgia for. Also Koko was on Piledriver the album! Look the WWE hall of fame is a joke and Koko probably shouldn't be in but I see why the WWE put him in. I'm not sure WWe feels the same for Bigelow unless we get a huge nostalgia rush on that era of WWF and I don't see it happening
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Apr 21, 2023 17:55
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They're doing a rematch of Uso's and Zayn/Owens next week on Smackdown so they're not even giving the faces a month before switching the titles back lamo
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Apr 22, 2023 17:30
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So does that mean they've official merged the WWE Title with the universal now too? So not only did they create a novelty belt for Cody to lose but also tossed the lineage of their main title in the garbage for the Universal title....Never change WWE
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Apr 25, 2023 06:27
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Vince cutting time for Women's matches just makes Mercedes even smarter for being a free agent and Tony needs to give her the money
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Apr 25, 2023 22:13
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Shard posted:What is it that nxt does that makes their training so hard on their knees and is it actually needed to learn to be a wrestler or stay in shape to be a wrestler? Apparently they do a lot of heavy lifting that puts undue pressure on joints especially the ones you take bumps on like shoulders and whelp
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Apr 27, 2023 19:43
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Not saying they're not loving up somehow, but I never heard of heavy lifting increasing chance of injury. In fact I thought strength training reduces the chance. Fitness goons? Dave was mentioning on WOR that shoulder and knee problems are common for high end body builders for the type of lifting they do cause of stress on joints/high impact nature. It's just not as noticeable cause they're not doing bumps in bodybuilding And HHH and Vince are 100% marks for high end bodybuilding
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Apr 28, 2023 20:15
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They'll give Roman 3 belts lamo
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Apr 29, 2023 03:27
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I know it's impossible but I'm willing the finals to be Cody vs Kaito so we can fully cement the belt as the loser belt. We can have the Chicken in Cody's corner and mad fan Lady in Kaito's
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Apr 30, 2023 00:57
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Gonzo McFee posted:Always wild to think there was a decade of wrestlers who's prime was ignored because Vince was at least a decade behind and TNA was trying to emulate the death of WCW. For how influential ROH/early 00's Indy wrestling was to the current product it's wild that the only wrestlers to make the WOR hall from that period are AJ and Danielson and unless the Punk comeback doesn't explode I don't see that changing
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May 8, 2023 15:20
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Don't forget ROH also had the NOAH talent like KENTA and Marufuji who also greatly influenced the indy style which bled over to WWE and AEW
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May 8, 2023 17:15
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I mean if they have Cody go over Brock at NOC clean and not with a roll up but an actual dominant victory than yeah it's good booking but WWE gonna 50/50 book this
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May 9, 2023 06:47
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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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May 12, 2023 17:43
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Dr Strange Multiverse of Madness which rocked cause it was as close to Evil Dead as a Marvel Movie can get
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May 17, 2023 23:08
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Peacock feels like it's definitely gonna be the first of the big streaming services to die once people want to see actual money being made
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May 19, 2023 06:11
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Yeah the great thing about Okada's god reign is every finish was not only clean but also made the other guy strong and left you thinking "If they only did this than they would of been able to beat Okada" Roman's reign is just some variation of ref bump spot/interference leading to a visual pin before Roman wins the same way
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May 20, 2023 18:13
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Also I've been wrong about every prediction I've made about Smackdown on Fox but....given the numbers it pulls and the demo and the costs I think either Fox caves cause nothing could replace the numbers Smackdown does or it just doesn't renew cause the overall Fox Network is gonna be cut to the bone.
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May 20, 2023 18:15
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Unless rights deals collapse completely I think the WWE gets a raise, especially from USA. Of course rights deals may end up collapsing what with streaming in flux and cable/broadcast TV dying
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May 20, 2023 19:46
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Fox does have a feel like it's just giving up and slowly dying as a network/media company so I can see them just passing on big rights and just ridding cheap reality shows till they are completely dead. I really get the feeling they're going to be out on the next NFL rights deal
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May 20, 2023 20:19
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Drakkel posted:It's kinda wild that we're in a time where network/cable television is slowly dying but at the same time streaming, the thing that was supposed to replace it, feels like a bubble that's about to burst any minute now. There's like no security either way anymore. Checks out for tech replacements *eyes Uber*
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May 20, 2023 22:31
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I'm guessing Nick is just saying whatever to try and pump up future rights deals but taking Raw off Mondays would be a horribly dumb decision given that outside of Football season Monday is the easiest night on TV just cause everyone else as abandoned it cause of football
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May 24, 2023 01:19
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So is that Karl Frederick's as the wish.com Shingo or is it someone else?
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May 29, 2023 17:34
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Roman only working 10 dates over the summer and they still keep the belt on him lamo
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May 31, 2023 05:01
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Pillowpants posted:Today I learned from Behind the Bastards that Pat Patterson is a child molester and Vince didn’t care. If that's the Ring Boy scandal stuff for Pat than the accusations against Pat have been mostly discredited and it's generally believed he wasn't involved. Pat's probably guilty of a lot of bad stuff but is innocent here Vince otoh did ignore the ring boy scandal and rehired Mel Philips even though he knew Mel was involved in it
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Jun 1, 2023 22:02
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After the Dom feud and losing to Brock at Summeslam we'll get...rolls dice...A Cody/Corbin feud that Cody loses
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Jun 6, 2023 06:03
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TV Zombie posted:I would hope that someone in charge watches a bit of wrestling to not fall for their traps or at least pay attention to analytics to show that these peoples are not worth the significant rise in payment that WWE is arguing for. TV execs care about numbers more than quality especially with TV dying. WWE is getting a raise even if Fox decides to not keep Smackdown
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Jun 7, 2023 18:09
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WWE creates another world title except the belt is just Cody's tattoo
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Jun 10, 2023 07:53
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I mean UFC belts are kinda of already corporate logo belts they're just mostly bland looking corporate belts instead of being ugly
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MJeff posted:lol holy poo poo. He's gonna have less title defenses than the guy who's gimmick is that he doesn't want to do title defenses
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Jun 17, 2023 21:29
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MJeff posted:Man, remember that Survivor Series when he just beat Big E and didn't even need interference to do it. The crazy thing is if you were a reasonable booker you had a chance to build up a star and not have Roman lose his belt and also set up a future PPV title match where Roman can get the win back and they didn't do it. Just mind numbingly stupid
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Jun 17, 2023 23:16
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LA Knight feels like he's Fandago over but why not run with it
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Jun 20, 2023 20:43
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While there is some crossover and media is way more friendly to wrestling than in the past just by the nature of the current market and the fragmentation it's hard to make a huge crossover star on the level of a Hogan, Austin, Rock, Santo, Inoki, and Baba. And it's not like wrestling needs one, it just needs a star strong enough to keep it's current audience from falling cause it produces better numbers than most things on TV
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The eyepatch wolf video going from Roman's cancer is back to covid/heel turn but not even mentioning Moxley leaving is an amazing omission and had to stop watching but than what do you expect from somebody that missed a wide open net on a what went wrong with Bleach video
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