We're now 8 months removed from a full crowd at any show.

Bleak.

Fucking hell :eek: The way he fell looked like all his bones had turned to jelly.

https://i.imgur.com/va84xMt.png

Chubbs strikes again...

Nia Jax is so shit she belongs in the AEW Women’s Division.

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How is that Nia's fault? Mandy missed grabbing the ropes on her way out.

I bet Cena

Supposedly WWE is currently considering the idea of running their shows at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida according to the Observer.

The big downside is Tropicana has power issues so WWE would need to reconfigure their ThunderDome to be less of an energy hog and hope they don't run into a power outage during a show if they move there.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It's not impossible <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWE</a> could run Tropicana Field (an idea <a href="https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@davemeltzerWON</a> discussed), and it would give the it flexibility to run bigger events, but it's a downgrade in terms of facility quality, and the power has gone out multiple times (!) during Rays games last couple years.</p>&mdash; Jon Alba (@JonAlba) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonAlba/status/1326209969469988864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Lmao that poster isn't wrong

Watching the vid of it she seems to throw her pretty hard so might not have given her an opportunity to grab the rope. She goes far out between the ropes with the momentum behind her so would have been hard to get a hold of the rope properly.

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No harder than anyone else gets thrown. That's not Nia's fault one bit.

Yup. How could that extremely-seasoned shooter Mandy Rose make such a simple mistake....:roll:

Lol exactly. We aren't talking about friggen Kurt Angle here

vince was back there sayng take out lana not mandy wrong blond

No Instagram in 3 days...somethings up apparently with her.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">On this date in 1989, a special Test of Strength took place between the Ultimate Warrior and Dino Bravo in which we would see the WWF debut of the man who would be known as Earthquake. <a href="https://t.co/MlFWoK3FqZ">pic.twitter.com/MlFWoK3FqZ</a></p>&mdash; Monsoon Classic (@Monsoon_Classic) <a href="https://twitter.com/Monsoon_Classic/status/1326508034596741121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Vaguely remember watching this as a kid although still not sure if it was that year or 1988 when I started to watch wrestling. Usually go by when the Bushwhackers were in the WWF and the Mega Powers storyline took place as the basis for when I started watching.

I remember watching that as a kid and being completely shocked.

Lol since there's no nxt thread lol at Leon Ruff beating Gargano for the NA championship

That only gets them to March.

Well....

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Unless WWE were to have their own Daily's Place type venue, none of the options for a new ThunderDome, both current and in the future, are going to be long term solutions assuming things don't really start to get back to normal till late 2021 or early 2022.


Clean or via shenanigans?

Nevermind Volare posted a video of the match while I was typing out the post.

Either way that is such a waste of a title change and should have just kept the belt on Priest since he was on a roll in terms of becoming more interesting to watch.

i wonder if vince can get the old impact zone they can put a smaller thunder dome in there.

That would actually be kinda awesome.

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Don't think Johnny Gargano understands what the word "developmental" means since the main goal of developmental is to not get stuck there since that would mean something went wrong with your training and progress. Same for the main brands can't be developmental since that's the "major league" of WWE in terms of a sports perspective.

If a main roster talent gets sent down, in a normal sports sense that would mean either they are rehabbing an injury and using the minors to get back into top level production shape or they are struggling and need to go down a level to work out some issues.

WWE's whole developmental system and call-up system has been messed up for years because of a few morons running things in the company.

@Smeat

Gargano is just doing some spin/PR. Not really anything to take from his comments other than he's saying the "right things."

Him and Tommaso Ciampa have made similar claims in the past regarding their views of WWE's developmental system and people's issues with it over the past year or so.

If this was just a one-off, then yeah it would be nothing more than simple PR speak from him but based on stuff him and Ciampa have mentioned before, they really do not like to be considered as "minor league" stars nor like NXT being seen as less equal to the main roster since that makes their star status look weaker.

Ciampa was also the one who ranted about how NXT stars shouldn't be used as the crowd for WWE's empty arena shows since that's below their status and used the excuse of main roster talent not being given that treatment as his reasoning.

According to WrestleVotes, WWE is currently considering the idea of pushing back next year's WrestleMania by a couple of weeks under the hope that it might give them a better chance to have fans at the event.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">There has been internal discussions about moving the scheduled date of WrestleMania from 3/28 to 4/11 or even 4/18. The goal remains to have fans in attendance for the event. The thought process of moving back the show a few weeks only helps that out.</p>&mdash; WrestleVotes (@WrestleVotes) <a href="https://twitter.com/WrestleVotes/status/1326930139616317442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That's not a bad idea really. If the forecast of getting a ton of people vaccinated by that time is correct then that'll give them a shot to get a live crowd. I do think they should scale down the venue size tho.

That's really awful.

All for the giggles. No wonder I dont watch WWE anymore.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fund the movement.<a href="https://t.co/jClVGM9U9H">https://t.co/jClVGM9U9H</a><br><br>This merch is way better than that big yellow N merch since you all love to compare us to The Nexus so much. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RETRIBUTION?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RETRIBUTION</a> <a href="https://t.co/EDUZN7ohUO">pic.twitter.com/EDUZN7ohUO</a></p>&mdash; T-BAR (@TBARRetribution) <a href="https://twitter.com/TBARRetribution/status/1323698329721647105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Would have made more sense from a kayfabe or storyline perspective if they sold their merch at Pro Wrestling Tees and/or other wrestling merch places instead of giving money to WWE considering their whole beef with the company and wanting to topple those in charge.

Lex Luger is the greatest.

T-Bar needs to stay off the twitter.

The T stands for Twitter

The only people possibly getting the vaccine that fast are senior citizens.

Everything's going to be locked down anyway around March and WWE/AEW/any us organization won't be exempt so wrestling except for NJPW is going to be gone for the spring anyway

Doesn’t a good chunk of WWE’s rating come from the 50+ market?

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