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We all know Balor doesn't sleep with women. He probably put the rumour out himself.

He should just come out of the closet already. It's 2018!

WWE letting the Saudi government treat their roster like action figures, book w/e they want like a 7 year old playing w/ toys.

That stuff sounds like the rumors from that giant list of stuff that was probably 99% false.

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Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5182988)

Apparently a current rumor going around the net implies NXT's Lars Sullivan sold Mania tickets for sex in return. Supposedly happened before Mania 32.

Supposedly a similar incident happened this year but involved multiple wrestlers and may or may not have included an orgy. Also might be have been the same woman from the Lars story.

Then there is the new rumor of Balor channeling his inner CM Punk with the amount of women he supposedly slept with in NXT.

No attractive woman wants to go to WrestleMania that much.

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Okay, I am not a professional wrestler, and I do think Brie sucks, but couldn't Sarah Logan see where Brie was? Why does she need to phantom trip herself? Why couldn't she just run the ropes near Brie? Or tried to break on Ronda and repeat the finish from the night previous if Brie missed her cue?

Like, Brie is really bad, but don't get me wrong, and maybe I just need it to explained to me, but that looks like Sarah Logan being a geek herself to me. Like, if Brie is missing her spot, why not get in the ring and jaw-off to her to, get her focused, then hit the ropes and take the trip?

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I do feel it needs to be said that Nikki Bella is pretty much a perfect physical specimen. I don't think she should be the focus of the women's division, because being better than Brie is not really a standard to aspire to, but she is aesthetically very on-point and surely works damn hard to get that way.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">SHAWN MICHAELS: My career died at WM26 and there's nothing that could make me go back on my vow to stay retired.<br><br>VINCE: The Saudis want to give you $10 million for one tag match.<br><br>SHAWN: <a href="https://t.co/hwe2qd0TW9">pic.twitter.com/hwe2qd0TW9</a></p>— Just��️n (@Justin_SofOK) <a href="https://twitter.com/Justin_SofOK/status/1049453848383885313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In fairness to Shawn Michaels:

He probably could have taken a big paycheck to come back sooner. Maybe not $10 million for one match (and I don't know how much HBK is actually getting paid), but I'm pretty sure that when Rock and Brock blew up WWE's schedule, Michaels could have come back for several dates a year for several million.

Okay, now it's conspiracy theory time:

I called Shawn Michaels coming back as soon as The Rock rumors started coming out. I can't remember if I've posted this here. But as soon as, I think it was Brad Shephard or whatever his name is, said it and he's apparently got a bit of credibility, I was like "Welp, Shawn is going to come back." Why? Because Triple H does not want to be on The Rock's card. If there is going to be a Network spike because a genuine star like The Rock comes back, then Triple H is going to make sure his nose is right in there.

So why Michaels? Because Triple H isn't going to believably going to be able to spike the Network numbers with anyone on the roster currently. He's been doing that for years anyway. I thought about Batista, and I'm sure he was going to get the call if Michaels didn't say yes, but HBK would be the priority, because Shawn Michaels being back is special. Rock has wrestled more recently for the company. There's some believable Network-spiking cache in Shawn Michaels coming back.

And I honestly don't think HBK is coming back for the Saudi match. I think he's coming back to provide a main event act for Triple H to hitch himself to again so he can be a top guy when the WWE Network goes to 2 million subscribers or whatever it does when Rock wins the Royal Rumble. But you can't have Shawn return at the exact same time, because it gets diluted, and when you've got this business deal with the Saudis, you can't omit Shawn Michaels from those shows and have him work, say, just WrestleMania, because it looks disrespectful to them.

So I think Shawn's arm's been twisted by Triple H to make sure that Triple H can be in position come January, February, March and April. The Saudi match is just a necessary evil to get to that. And, to take it a step further, that's why I'm not surprised Triple H beat The Undertaker in Australia, and it wouldn't surprise me if DX wins the tag match with Triple H looking strong. If Triple H gets his way, he'll end up directly opposite The Rock at WrestleMania. They teased it in 2015 a couple of times. At first I thought it might be a match between Shawn Michaels and Triple H at Mania, but then I thought that even Triple H might find that a bit solipsistic. Then I thought it might be a Triple Threat between him, Shawn and Taker. It would allow No DQs, Kane to get involved, Shawn and Taker to pick their spots with ladders, caskets and sledgehammers -- like the "epics" they do in NXT and whenever Triple H needs to do a big match with Taker. And, sure, Taker only had one-on-one matches at WrestleMania, but what's sacred anymore? They're making up their own rules now.

But now I've come around to the idea that Triple H is going to be in the main event of WrestleMania 35 against The Rock. There have been no recent indicators, and the automatic belief seems to be that it will be Roman Reigns vs. The Rock. But if Triple H gets his way, he will end up directly opposite Rock so can be no divisor between them. If they do sell Mania to a television network, he will want that monster rating to his name. He doesn't want there to be any doubt about who was the main attraction on that show. Just like he had to headline in India, he had to headline in Australia, he had to headline at WrestleMania 32. His angle will be that he can take the loss at Mania, but they can't have a top guy like Roman losing at two Manias back-to-back as he's getting established, and Rock will kill him on the mic, and if he doesn't, people will be disappointed. The Saudis apparently Rock as Universal Champion, and you don't bring in Rock to lose, so that will fit that paradigm nicely.

My bold prediction is that Rock wins the Royal Rumble, they tease Roman vs. Rock, but then there is some sort of match, or even just an angle, where Triple H gets the Universal Title. It will probably be because of Shawn Michaels, who will start up issues with Roman Reigns in time for Mania. So Roman isn't being demoted, you see? He's getting to work with Mr. WrestleMania at WrestleMania, and it's a match they can actually put him over in. Roman can keep on being Roman and get the belt back from The Rock at SummerSlam or something. Everybody wins in this scenario, Vince.

And as for why Shawn would say yes. Well, Taker had his moment and didn't go. Staying retired out of respect to him seems frivolous and unnecessary. Plus, his kids are older and might want to see him live (well, his daughter won't in Saudi Arabia). But he also might just fucking want to, because he's Shawn Michaels.

TL;DR: Shawn Michaels isn't coming back because of Saudi Arabia. Shawn Michaels is coming back because of The Rock making Triple H feel insecure about his star power, which has always been the case, historically. Saudi Arabia is a necessary pit-stop to appease WWE's business partners because they can't just have Shawn Michaels and not fly Shawn Michaels to Saudi Arabia.

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Originally Posted by Lock Jaw (Post 5183002)

We all know Balor doesn't sleep with women. He probably put the rumour out himself.

He should just come out of the closet already. It's 2018!

He wants that sweet sweet Saudi oil.

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Who joined Balor Club?

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Originally Posted by Noid (Post 5183089)

From what I remember, WWE's women's division is a lot more scripted for in-ring stuff so that botch is simply just a timing issue. Considering the noticeable gap in skills in the division, makes sense why they lean heavily towards that and less on calling stuff on the fly.

Last thing the Riott Squad need is more people standing up for the Bellas because the internet is mean to them again. Paige and Bully Ray recently stood up for the Bellas and even blamed the Riott Squad more for Liv's recently injury.

Just saw WWE Kaitlyn post on her Twitter about turning 32 and for some reason I thought "Damn! I'm STILL older than her after all this time!"

Which I guess makes sense.

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Originally Posted by Noid (Post 5183089)

I guarantee they rehearsed the spot earlier in the day and that was where she was told to hit the ropes, assuming Brie was going to be there and couldn't shift over that 12 inches on the fly to make it look believable in the moment..... Definitely something that would not have happened 20 years ago....

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Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5182988)

Lot of sexual tension between Bayley and Balor at the moment.

http://i38.tinypic.com/260peyq.jpg

Is it wrong that my first reaction to Buddy winning the Cruiserweight Title was that he went to the hotel room he shared with Alexa to celebrate, only to hear Braun's voice from the other side of the door tell him to "Come back later."

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Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5182988)

Don't know if I should make a "consensual penis" joke or not.

I don’t think the WWE understand the idea of a World Cup.

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Originally Posted by Danny Electric (Post 5183235)

I don’t think the WWE understand the idea of a World Cup.

lol they really don't. May as well call this a Tournament of Champions or King of the Ring.

KOTR would fit on Crown Jewel - I'd be surprised if no one thought about that.

so tna did a better job with the x cup

WWE presale for Royal Rumble begins in under two hours and still no seating chart listed...

I wonder if WWE hasn't hired more people in Stamford despite business 'exploding' the last few years financially...seems like they would mention 'increasing workforce' at quarterly conference calls if so...I bet a lot of employees have 'too much on their plate' r/n

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Originally Posted by screech (Post 5183261)

lol they really don't. May as well call this a Tournament of Champions or King of the Ring.

KOTR would fit on Crown Jewel - I'd be surprised if no one thought about that.

Maybe they were just going to hold a King Of The Ring but they were told they couldn't do that as it would be an insult to the Saudi King if another King was crowned in the country.

Something stupid like that anyway. This is Saudi Arabia we're talking about.

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Originally Posted by Lock Jaw (Post 5183002)

We all know Balor doesn't sleep with women. He probably put the rumour out himself.

He should just come out of the closet already. It's 2018!

I've had my suspicions about Bálor for a long time.

I've said this before but he's got to be at least Bi.

And that orgy rumour is crazy.

I can't imagine many women would be willing to partake in an orgy for WrestleMania tickets.

I can.

Not attractive women, mind you.

Balor is definitely bi. He is (or at least was) dating Cathy Kelley.

His stomach was chiseled from granite so it's not much of a surprise that a lot of women would sleep with him if given the chance.

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Originally Posted by Cool King (Post 5183282)

Damn, didn't think about that. You're probably right. Good catch, former tag team partner

Royal Rumble tix are on pre-sale w/o a seating chart.

That's ridiculous.

https://www.sporcle.com/games/nscox/...h-participants

Try this quiz if you want to be depressed about the oversaturation of gimmick matches

Finally released a seating chart, looks like a WM19 type setup

https://i.imgur.com/NsdVuMw.gif

I wonder how some wrestlers are going to navigate that turn when they come running down at full speed.

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Originally Posted by Conspiracy Victim Vito (Post 5183310)

https://www.sporcle.com/games/nscox/...h-participants

Try this quiz if you want to be depressed about the oversaturation of gimmick matches

53/109. Did ok until I hit 2008.

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Originally Posted by Slik (Post 5183315)

Finally released a seating chart, looks like a WM19 type setup

https://i.imgur.com/NsdVuMw.gif

Looks like a Space Invader to me!

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Originally Posted by The Dastardly One (Post 5183375)

http://i.imgur.com/n7yBDPA.jpg

This picture is so fucking cute. OMG :yes:

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Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5183399)

I don't get it. Seems like it was under the speed limit.

Apparently WWE isn't holding a Royal Rumble next year.

Instead they are going to debut a brand new event called Royoal Rumble.

https://www.wwe.com/wwe-royoal-rumble-arizona