Originally Posted by Iceman King Gertner (Post 5310232)

If you have netflix you gotta watch "The Toys that Made Us" on Netflix. They have an episode on wrestling figures. It's amazing.

Originally Posted by Fignuts (Post 5310233)

Originally Posted by Seph (Post 5310239)

For a minute I was like wtf I don't remember Johnny Cage saying that then I saw who posted it.

Originally Posted by Guru Dave (Post 5310306)

So when Ultimo Dragon won the J-Crown and performed in WCW, did it include the WWF Light Heavyweight title as well?

Originally Posted by Iceman King Gertner (Post 5310313)

Yes it did

Originally Posted by Fightful

Triple H appeared on the "After The Bell" podcast and spoke about NXT the brand branching out and having some of its wrestlers compete for a number of other promotions such as EVOLVE and Progress. He would go on to say that there will be some promotions that will go out of business but it will be the ones that either don't take care of talent or don't have proper medical care on hand. The companies that WWE has worked for as of late are the ones Triple H said are cultivating talent.

“I think all of that is important in that this feeder system of what the business is. People that have misunderstood, like when we went to the UK, what we were trying to accomplish there because of small thinking or short sightedness. Yes, some of these indies are going to go away. The ones that are going to go away, the ones that were paying you $25 when they promised you $75, the ones that have a ring that wouldn’t hold up and didn’t have medical care, the ones that didn’t care about you. [They] cared about booking you because they were hoping to sell some extra tickets because you had a little bit of a buzz. We wanted to work with the ones that were cultured, that were cultivating talent, the ones that were encouraging them to get better with promos or giving them guidance, right or wrong, on their matches and had equipment that was functioning and medical care in case you got injured while you were there that at least you weren’t lying there for 45 minutes while trying to figure out if they could get an ambulance in here or call an Uber. All those things were important to us and those were the people we partnered with and let people work for. From what I’ve been told, the system has changed a lot and there’s a lot more of them policing it and the talent being able to police it. There are reasons some [promotions] thrive and some don’t,” Triple H said.

Originally Posted by Observer Newsletter

Brock Lesnar’s next match will be on the show. We haven’t been told outright it is a WWE title match, but the other option is the Rumble and WWE hasn’t put the champ in the Rumble in years, plus it makes no sense with the Rumble being for the Mania title shot. There is no obvious opponent for Lesnar at this point for either the Rumble or Mania. Usually you can tell by this time. Because nobody is obvious for those spot, there were rumors this past week of Cain Velasquez (who is in the Rumble as of right now) and Tyson Fury as Lesnar’s WrestleMania opponents popped up. The only thing we’ve been able to confirm is Lesnar will be on Mania barring injury, and neither Fury nor Velasquez will be the opponent.

Originally Posted by Guru Dave (Post 5310709)

So Mike Rome won the 24/7 title last night.

Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5310714)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">At <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWEPittsburgh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWEPittsburgh</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeRomeWWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MikeRomeWWE</a> became the 24/7 Champion, but not long enough to announce it... <a href="https://t.co/4AiwC9Dk49">pic.twitter.com/4AiwC9Dk49</a></p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1211041229246517254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Originally Posted by Fightful

Discussing this while reviewing the May 11, 1999 episode of Monday Night Raw on podcast, Bruce Prichard reveals that this is a philosophy preferred by Vince Russo, the head writer of WWE at this time, but will occasionally be altered for a week at the suggestion of either himself, Pat Patterson, or another wrestling traditionalist.

"[Russo] liked starting off the show with the in-ring segments and felt that that set the tone for the rest of the evening. Get everything out. Let people know what they're going to see for the next two hours," Bruce began. "A lot of times that change up would come from, for example, me or Pat Patterson or more of a traditionalist as it's sometimes you sit there with a stopwatch and go, 'Okay. We had forty-two minutes to talk and we only had so many minutes of wrestling.'"

Bruce would also say that at the time, this style fit the product and that the belief was as long as the dialogue was good, the more talking that was seen from top stars, the better the show would be received.

He continued, "I think that the audience, and it's been proven time and time again, that if it's good talk and it's entertaining, then they like it. I know I used to watch wrestling just for the interviews. I would watch the matches, obviously, but I was waiting for those interviews. I wanted to hear my guy talk. And that was the philosophy during this time. The more talk you had, a lot of times the feeling was the better the show was."

Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5310422)

According to Triple H, all the British indies that have shut down since WWE got involved in the region with NXT UK deserved their demise and claims WWE's involvement was not a bad thing.

Claims the only ones shutting down have been those who pay their talent terrible or don't care for their well-being despite the opposite being true for a few that have shut down.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Holy shit HHH just basically says &quot;Yeah, we're putting some indies out of business, but just the ones that have shoddy equipment and endanger the wrestlers&quot;. Yep, no indie you work with has ever had equipment problems. Certainly not leading to a career ending injury. Nope. <a href="https://t.co/2YzJZ4s1CR">https://t.co/2YzJZ4s1CR</a></p>&mdash; Trevor Dame (@TrevorDame) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrevorDame/status/1210166015130136576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Originally Posted by Slik (Post 5310672)

WWE so greedy....who pays $500 for some random ass episode of RAW, not even a PPV


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Originally Posted by Splaya (Post 5311091)

Any update on Orton's new injury?

Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5311457)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sometimes I actually<br>Smile in pictures... and yes, there’s my<br>Butt. Enjoy. ������█♀️ <a href="https://t.co/R2Mn0xdIbz">pic.twitter.com/R2Mn0xdIbz</a></p>&mdash; Lexi Kaufman (@AlexaBliss_WWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexaBliss_WWE/status/1211301101582114822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat (Post 5311490)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here's what Karl Gotch thought after he saw Harley Race wrestle. <a href="https://t.co/CWQYDUkCu7">pic.twitter.com/CWQYDUkCu7</a></p>&mdash; SoCal UNCENSORED (@socaluncensored) <a href="https://twitter.com/socaluncensored/status/1212076251063578624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>