I remember someone at school who ordered the PPV telling me Benoit was now the WCW Champ... and I don't think going into the PPV he was even booked for the title match so I was surprised. I was very excited to see Nitro that night and what could happen with a Benoit title run. I think when I got home and turned on my AT&T dial up I found that Benoit had left WCW and signed with WWE. I was more shocked about that than the title win.

Had they booked Benoit to be the champ 4 months before.... I dunno man, I'm very optimistic but if they had committed to that choice I could see things being different potentially.

It's gonna look better selling out Mid Hudson than halfway filling a small stadium.

I agree. Tom is such a nice gentle guy, I really enjoy seeing a "former wrestler" that isn't all fucked up and jaded.

I couldn’t agree more. He came across as such a nice person.

Hopefully he's cashing in on this (from the sounds of it he is)

I recently learned that he never appeared on t.v in the US. I had no idea. I saw him a few times growing up in Canada

Huh? That can’t be right. I’m sure I just recently saw a match of his from Superstars.

There was a Canadian version of Superstars. They wanted t.v in Canada, but Canada has Canadian Content rules or "Can Con", so they'd have a Canadian version of Superstars. You'd see guys like George Wells(former CFL star) and Tom Magee on it a fair amount.

Just kill the brand split already


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Both shows revolve around the same 10-12 people now

Both shows are utter wank, regardless of who's on them.

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Yeah, it was a fucking dumb idea in the first place. Vince won't accept the abject failure of it though.

He probably had to get a 250k upfront payment to do even that much.

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This randomly pop'd up on my recommended list....

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One thing that bugs me is they had commentary for a match that was "never supposed to air". I think they intened to air it at some point and just didntfor whatever reason

Is this 'the market in general' or something specific to WWE, re: drop


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Terri Runnels arrested for bringing a loaded gun into the airport in Tampa

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It was probably going to air on International Superstars

pfffffft hahahahahaha

Stocks have been a bit down but I don't think the reasons it's down are reasons that affect WWE.

Mix of both. Wall Street over-valued their stocks to begin with and WWE doing nothing to really fix their woes. Probably going to be like this till the new tv deals kick in and levels off to WWE's real value.

Same happened last time with the debut of the Network. Their stocks shot up in price more than it should have been and then investors started to bail when they realized all those promises were hollow. Several months later, they lost almost all of the bump the Network's launch gave them and leveled off at a value slightly higher than pre-Network.

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Fightful current speculating that Tyler Breeze was the mystery person in WWE to get a $500k contract extension in order to entice him to remain in the company.

This was around the same time that WWE was trying to keep The Revival and The Club from leaving when they requested their releases and/or made it known they were not staying.

Good for Breeze on making that money. Wonder if he's staying in nxt.

It would be the best thing for him. Stay away from main roster hell.

I figured it was Breeze.

He actually lives near Full Sail so he might have as close as you can feel like a “normal job” in wrestling.

EC3 probably the safest bet to be the next person to ask for their release from WWE.

Posted a tweet earlier today in response to the Ambrose episode of Jericho's podcast show.

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He's just not that good. He's so bleh.

He’s no Fandango that’s for sure. HEY, speaking of folks who would crush it in AEW

was thinking the one advantage AEW has over TNA with establishing strong footing as a viable product is that the latter, from the beginning, was run by old guard guys. IIRC even before Hogan and the idiots ran roughshod, the Jarretts were involved.

AEW has young minds with their finger on the pulse. They seem like people whose perspectives are beyond wrestling and don't live in a bubble. You hear Cody and Kenny talk and you go "wow these guys are fucking smart."

It feels 'fresh.' I don't expect it to be perfect but I like a lot of what they've done so far.

Plus a bunch of them actually bring something different to the table from a backstage perspective.

Bucks have been the go-to guys for building up the tag division, Omega for women's division, Tony Khan for the sports outlook, Janela/SCU/Best Friends for indies scouting, and Cody for the NWA/old style wrestling outlook. Lets them all focus on the stuff they are good at while leaving the rest for others who have more experience with it.

but they don't have Baron Corbin - which will be their ultimate demise.

Wait...you mean....a wrestling company can be ran by more than just one guy?

I've said in the past that MORE wrestlers need to go to NXT. Not as a "demotion", which is generally what it would be seen as, but as a way to actually showcase themselves and have legit shit to do. You know, be booked like actual wrestlers.

I feel like we haven't seen Viking Raiders or w/e their name is in like a month...same for Tag Champs Hawkins/Ryder

Currently rumor going around the net hints that Impact Wrestling granted releases to both Killer Kross and Scarlett Bordeaux.

In regards to Kross, he teased a big announcement regarding his career is going to be made soon and in regards to Scarlett, she removed all Impact related references from her Twitter account.