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Goldmined the minute after I posted it the first time, so I'll post it again hereFightful posted:WWE and Endeavor announced an agreement to sell on April 3. The sale will see WWE and UFC merge to form a new publicly traded company. The sale and merger is expected to go through in the second half of 2023. A new name for the publicly traded company has not been decided, but is currently listed as TKO.
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This man saw how much HHH had been humiliated over the course of years and prayed to top it, and pulled it off
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Maigius posted:The beating of Cody, this badly seems metaphorically like Vince wanted the symbolic representation of WWE, in Roman and Brock, to triumph over AEW (Cody). You'll get words about how this has to be exaggeration/hyperbole/no way it could be true, like it didn't literally happen before on a Mania in the form of WWE (HHH and DX) triumphing over WCW (Sting and NWO)
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Raskolnikov38 posted:forums? 
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If only Bray were alive to see this and gently caress it up further...
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They're seeing all the memes and negative-Twitter-trends over the last three days and loving it https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/1643733528881041408?s=20
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Cody even got namedropped for Tony's announcement that AEW's doing All In at Wembley this summer 
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https://puck.news/the-art-of-aris-wwe-deal/ The Endeavor deal was done late Saturday while everyone was around for Mania. It was close between them and Liberty Media (the owners of F1 racing)quote:The pair outlined their proposal during a meeting with WWE chairman Vince McMahon and C.E.O. Nick Khan at Raine Group offices, in New York, in mid-March, sources involved with the deal told me, and made a more emotional pitch one week later at WWE headquarters in Stamford. Still, they faced stiff competition from at least one rival bidder—John Malone’s Liberty Media, the owner of Formula One—until the very end, and it wasn’t until Saturday night that they signed the term sheet. As Shapiro described it, “it was nip and tuck all the way.”
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I assumed it because, while also being the funniest option, historically it's the safest bet to make regarding the company's booking Bryan at Mania 30 was the outlier even at the time, let alone ever since
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https://www.wwe.com/shows/smackdown/article/triple-h-wwe-universe-announcementquote:Triple H to address WWE Universe on SmackDown Chris James 2 posted:This man saw how much HHH had been humiliated over the course of years and prayed to top it, and pulled it off Trying his best to reclaim the throne
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Dell_Zincht posted:Wait
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Now HHH's last fans are going to turn on him. this really worked out great for everyone
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Grem posted:Cody losing might have always been the plan but the rubber chicken thing is taking off and that's the kind of embarrassing poo poo Vince hates and kills characters over.  Finally, good long-term booking
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Other stuff from Dave: Orton's nowhere near returning Logan Paul's deal expired after Mania but he's going to stay, if he hasn't re-signed already Vince nixed Bayley's segment on Raw. Damage CTRL is probably done They want to bring back Christian Cage whenever he's done with AEW (unknown how long that is), Edge wants to team with him again before being done for good
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https://twitter.com/WrestlePurists/status/1644322733327634432?t=RvmXZrjWv5_mRlRfVrpmvQ&s=33 Also won't appear on SD tonight
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Orange Carlisle posted:it's rad that the only thing we'll remember a few years from now of cody's triumphant return home will be the codyvator getting stuck, his broken titty and a rubber chicken dunking on him after he jobbed out at wrestlemania
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zetamind2000 posted:Half the roster is gonna get shoot drafted to dynamite Them doing a draft so soon after the sale and the buyers openly talking about layoffs coming soon does make it likely there are talent not picked anywhere so there's an excuse to fire them
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She got the ultimate wrestler dream, a part-time run between vacations where every single show she was booked for she held a belt. that's how you politic
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Cuts obviously coming, and they're in the middle of a hiring freeze until afterFightful posted:Several talent that Fightful have spoken with have claimed there’s a “hiring freeze,” and have speculated everything from Vince McMahon’s return to a potential sale being the reasons. Nobody that we have spoken to have explicitly been told there’s a hiring freeze, yet it’s a term that constantly emerged.
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HHH stopped himself from giving Cody the belt, and Vince stopped him from signing Nick AldisChris James 2 posted:Now HHH's last fans are going to turn on him. this really worked out great for everyone
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1glitch0 posted:Unironically, on average TNA/Impact has been better than WWE for most of the past 20 years and the IWC can't handle it. 
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The only Impact show in the last five years I can say I've watched and been disappointed by was their most recent PPV, and even that was mostly because their world champ tore his tricep off and had to vacate. Otherwise great matches and/or comedy They even killed off Eric Young at the end of last year just so HHH could sign him and do nothing with him, so the comedy isn't even limited to just being onscreen
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Gumball Gumption posted:I could be argued into 5 years. 20? No way, that is some dire TNA. Daniels/Joe/Styles was 18!
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zetamind2000 posted:The average episode from the bischoff and hogan era is better than the worst of vince mcmahon's triple power hour
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Joker Sting alone is literally the most I've ever liked Sting talking
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quote:The last 22 WWE PPVs (going back to July 2021) have all been main-evented by Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and/or Kevin Owens: Part Time Roman not scheduled for Backlash, it's up to Seth or Kevin to keep the streak alive
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:drat we're back to anger, really big setback
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He couldn't even will gravity into preventing a rubber chicken from landing on him
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:This is the low character of the average Cody Rhodes fan
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quote:Tuesday night's episode of WWE NXT averaged 528,000 viewers on the USA Network, down 4.9 percent from last week. This is the lowest viewership NXT has ever done for an episode that aired on USA Network.
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Dave reiterating that Drew's deal is up after the yearquote:McIntyre was off the 4/7 Smackdown show due to what was called a health issue. We do know that it dated back before Mania because he was happy to be able to work through Mania and put Gunther over. There’s no word of how long he would be out. As noted before, his contract is up at the end of the year and right now they are not close when it comes to money on a new deal
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now he's thinking if he Dwaynes/Cenas it they might finally cave and like him https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1647037205485846528
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Chris James 2 posted:Dave reiterating that Drew's deal is up after the year He just blacked out his social media pics and took out his bio that included WWE mentions 
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quote:Fightful has learned that Johnny Gargano re-aggravated the shoulder injury that had him sidelined for much of January. After only having a couple of matches his first few weeks back, Gargano ended up wrestling a dozen matches after March 4, in the process re-aggravating the injury
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Drew's deal up at the end of the year, Becky's up in 13 months https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1648057674385305600
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