I enjoy puns.... always feel like it is a wasted opportunity when people say "no pun intended".... people should strive to make as many puns as they can in the time they have on this planet...

LOL STD gave me my first neg rep in years because I don't like Seth Rollins. What a petty little bitch lmao. Probably still mad I whooped his candy ass in KoTF.

U MAD BRO? ;)

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Probably the best possible outcome of the Rusev/Ziggler feud at this point.

<font color=goldenrod>Charlotte is on the market? WOOOOOOO!</font> :shifty:

Can't believe how terrible this Dolph/Rusev/Lana/Summer stuff is.

WWE needs more Cesaro in a Suit.

Cesaro will also get a trillion times more over if he learns to do the upside-down bump ala Ray Stevens. In a suit.

Your avi isn't much better.


A random stranger on the internet doesn't like me:'(

This bullshit with Nikki Bella going for the Divas Title record should really have AJ Lee coming back and ending the reign. In a mask. As Spider Lady.

When is Zeb Colter going to return to the WWE and start slapping Jack Swagger and making him win matches?

I love how they're pushing that she's going for the record but hasn't defended it on a long ass time

Oddly enough, I've been reading some stats on the reign. Nikki has actually defended the Divas Title more than AJ did. :-\

AJ went like 70 days without defending it.

There also wasn't a giant spotlight on her breaking a record

<font color=goldenrod>It does amuse me that they're going to this length to have her break a pretty meaningless record just because Vince or whoever thinks it will upset AJ and therefore possibly upset Punk by osmosis. I guarantee they do not give one iota of a shit.

Seriously if the longest reigning Divas champ were anybody else...WWE never would have even acknowledged it, and Nikki probably would have dropped it to one of the new girls at Battleground if not earlier.</font>

Nikki hasn't defended since Japan which was pretty much a house show title defense. MITB is the last time she defended with a chance of her losing it. That's 79 days.

Just find it ridiculous how Saxon on Raw was all "oh! Can Nikki Bella make history, or is Charlotte going to change all that?!"

When Charlotte's title shot is set for after Nikki breaks the record.

If they were doing it to piss off punk the probably would have ended her first reign sooner or not give her the title 2 more times in the first place.

It probably has to do with filming of total divas honestly.

Does Charlotte get the shot at NOC or is it like next week?

If they were going to try to piss off Punk they should probably know that he doesn't give a fuck.

NOC.

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Pipers theme with lyrics

Piper's theme is Scotland the Brave. Band might have used some of it.

With Ziggler's new outfit I'm getting a Mr. Perfect, HBK and Bret Hart vibe from him.

Surfer Sting, Crow Sting, Joker Sting, Wolf pac Sting and now the elusive Military Sting:

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Maybe all bagpipe music sounds the same but he used this in WWE.

The War to Settle the Score.

Its on his wiki too.

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Love JR sometimes.

Think that got debunked or was found out to be missing some info that made it skew pro-Nikki. Only thing that was true at the time was length between title matches.

The real breakdown with house shows and overall matches stuff missing which skews in AJ's favor as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc..._nikki_bellas/


Very likely since its been rumored before the Bellas managed to get Vince/Creative to drop the Total Divas restriction for the belt. Had to do with Vince not wanting storylines to get all messed up which is why the Total Divas stuff never involved the belt and was always dropped whenever the show took a seasonal break.

I haven't cared for Nikki's reign, but let's not pretend AJ Lee's was crash-hot either.

I think that's a fair point to raise. I was watching RAW and got the message that they wanted Paige, Charlotte & Becky Lynch to be taken seriously as female athletes, but then Lana got into a brawl with Summer Rae and spent most of the time with her skirt around her chest. What sort of consistent message is being sent?

I haven't cared about the divas division since forever, anyway.

Probably not happening until the Bellas leave since its been teased in the past the show was their idea and just a platform for them to dominate the division.

Divas belt needs to go as well since that's also tied into Total Divas now and part of the stuff people want changed with the division. Should have started or been teased when Madusa/Blayze symbolically removed the classic Women's belt from the trash at the Hall of Fame. Could easily have set up a unification match at Night of Champs by now or tease its return as the prize for winning.

Whoever beats Nikki should call themselves the new Women's Champion. That won't happen, because the WWE loves the branding too much.

I still think that The Bellas and Alicia Fox being exiled from RAW and needing to survive on NXT would be a pretty interesting storyline that could really up their game and get them towards a position where they could be more important to the company.

Someone backstage reportedly claims that Bayley is "ungodly over." Like top star worthy.

They need to bring 3 former women champions back and have Team Woman. Lita, Mickie James and Gail Kim would do and have them refuse to wrestle for the Divas title and they have a triple threat to crown a new WWE World Women's Champion.

Gail wont be back. She hates VKM

To bad because she could do wonders for the Divas division.

That would be a good angle. You want this thing to have heat, have a female talent take direct issue with Vince McMahon on his perception of female athletes over the years.

Gail Kim would be PERFECT for it.

I've been thinking about the WWE's business plan for the WWE Network. Do you think the WWE have done the right things with it so far? Did they launch it too early, with too much content? Not enough?

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Lead to a long article by F4W about the real key to the Divas Revolution might not be the three that got called up for the Revolution storyline but instead Bayley if the goal is to change the perception of women's wrestling in WWE. For some comparisons about current merch sales, the Bellas have around 89 items to buy while the other Divas combined are around 69 items (think Bayley has around 4).

http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-t...le-face-of-wwe

Supposedly the WWE rejected a recent plea/apology by Hogan to get his status reinstated within the WWE.

Article by PWI has more details about the internal changes going on with TNA at the moment: http://pwinsider.com/article/96314/i...n-tna.html?p=1

I worry that if they jam Bayley down throats, she's just going to wear as thin as John Cena though. Presentation is really important when it comes to top faces, and you have to feel like they are achieving everything they are getting on their own. Keep Bayley on NXT until main crowds are chanting "WE WANT BAYLEY!" at the top of their lungs. In the meantime, have her seriously tested in NXT by her former trainer, Sara Amato. There's a huge emotional arc to exploit there. After that, move Bayley onto Sarah Stock (or whatever they want her WWE ring name to be) before they move her completely behind the scenes. Then bring in Rosita as Sarah's prize student to succeed where her mentor had failed. In the meantime, show Kanna in the audience watching all the matches.

I dunno -- just take your time with Bayley.

The more time that passes between it and now, the less I can justify Triple H going over Sting at WrestleMania 31. The same can be said for Cena vs. Wyatt at WrestleMania XXX. And even Wyatt vs. Taker at Mania 31.

Wasn't there a Smackdown match a few weeks ago where Charlotte was supposed to win against Naomi but didn't kick out in time? She's gotta fix that...

Also, Kane would have been a perfect opponent for Sting at WrestleMania last year if the story wasn't set up from the start so that it HAD to be Triple H. Kane's a guy you could use to put Sting over without fucking up his credibility. He's in a "solid" position to where he's not REALLY a jobber but he's also doesn't really have a "future" that needs to be protected.

Triple H vs. Sting was the right call, but it was the wrong finish. The start of the match was great, but they lost it in the overbooking. Sting looks good, Triple H cheats a little and beats down Sting. Cue Sting comeback, Triple H begs off, uses heel shenanigans to make a comeback. Maybe there's one Pedigree and Sting kicks out. Triple H punches referee, goes to get the sledgehammer. Triple H goes to nail Sting, but he gets a baseball bat instead. Scorpion Death Drop, new referee down...1-2-3.

Kevin Owens vs. Sting would be amazing actually. Or Owens & someone vs. Sting & Sami Zayn.

Observer speculated the stuff involving Ziggler yesterday on RAW might be based on a real life incident involving someone in Creative. Mostly because of how odd it came off on tv and the feeling this wasn't something planned for the feud but someone seeing their chance to vent a bit with the twist.

Believes Ziggler was representing the real life guy trying to explain his side of the story or him doing nothing wrong.

HA! It came off more to me like the WWE trying to capture the sizzling aspects of the Attitude era, but not really knowing how to keep it PG at the same time. These alleged adults come off as really childish as a result, and it severs their connections with audiences.

Although I did laugh at Summer saying "...And this is when I realized Dolph was trying to seduce me..."

Seriously, can't these four people just want to fight each other?

Rusev and Dolph have to become a tag team and ditch the women

Looking back, there was no way Triple H wasn't gonna put himself over in that match. That's why I think maybe going in another direction with someone who has enough of a name to where it's not a COMPLETELY lopsided match but also doesn't stand to lose much from jobbing to STING would have been a better call.

Should have been Sting vs Rollins at mania, Orton vs HHH. Have the old guy put over the new guy, Piss break during Orton vs HHH, Orton finally gets a singles win over HHH.

Sometimes people miss the bigger picture.

The way WWE told the HHH v Sting story was this was the Monday Night Wars revisited and come back to life. This was done in part to sell one of the major features of the WWE Network. Which is the #1 priority for WWE through the rest of the decade.

Plus Kane isn't on the same level as HHH star power wise. Kane v Sting would have come off as far less of a high profile match. Would have been a good Survivor Series match, not a featured fight at Mania.

Back to the Monday Night Wars. Anytime you do something that pits the WWE brand vs the WCW brand, the WWE brand should always win. WWE should never be in the business of making those 3 letters inferior to any other brand. No matter who currenyly owns the other brands. It's just poor brand management to create a story where WCW rises from the ashes and beats WWE.

The angle also set up this current Sting storyline which plays into the larger and more important angle of Rollins v HHH. Rollins now has another challenge to face to prove his worth to HHH. Another thing that HHH already did that Rollins has to live up to. He's constantly trying to step out of the shadow that HHH casts as a mentor and a boss.

Sting winning would have been a nice moment for Sting, but HHH is the weekly character. Sting is going to have maybe 2-3 more matches in his WWE run. Putting over Sting would have been a mistake because there is no long term gain. Good on WWE to see the bigger picture.

I disagree the only time WCW had success was when it had the 2 WWF guys come over and make all the WCW stars look like fools against them.

Also, the feud should not have been about WWE vs WCW. Sting himself said that was stupid

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Unusual to see Andre having to run the gauntlet so to speak to get to the ring. :wtf:

The NWO literally makes the point I'm talking about WCW was careless with their brand image. NWO was cool WCW was uncool. They made a one night attempt to rebrand (they should have gone all the way with that) and then got cold feet because of one rating. They went on to devalue the NWO brand making it less cool than it was. But they did damage so much damage to the WCW brand it hurt them down the line

The storyline that should have been used fir Sting v HHH is up for debate. Point is they went with the Monday Night Wars angle to have a high profile way to promote an important aspect of the Network. Given the storyline idea they came up with, the outcome was the right one.

But if WCW had Nash and Hall job on their way in because "WCW has to look better than the WWF" then the nWo would have just be a miniscule footnote on the story of WCW. Not the ratings winner.

Was Sting planning to start a 5 year run on the road with WWE or was he there for 1 or 2 shots? Do you now see how your comparison makes no sense?

I'm not talking about stings case I'm talking about how you said "Brand A should always look better than Brand B if they are owned by Brand A"

In the case of Sting vs HHH its a wash, Sting winning made more sense storyline wise since after the match HHH seemed to drift away anyways.

However the is still more money to be made out of HHH than there is to be made out of Sting.

Financially it makes sense for HHH to go over.

kickout at 2?

Except they're now using Sting in a title match. Whoops.

Also, Sting vs. Triple H should NEVER have been about WCW vs. WWE. Why the fuck would Sting come to fight for WCW's pride and honor FOURTEEN YEARS after the company has sank? He clearly showed up because he had a problem with the abuse of power The Authority was wielding. At least, that should have been the reason he came back.

They also ran the nWo out there who were Sting's mortal enemies. Trust me, I've tried to rationalize this like you have, but it's just too much work and glossing over history to try and sell history. It was bad. Then Triple H came out in a suit later for a promo in the middle of the ring. Great war, dude.

Ric Flair has also come out and said he was not a fan of it.

The money may not be in Sting working every PPV -- but there would be more mystique, more credibility and more excitement behind every performance he didn't lose his first match and then shake hands with the guy he apparently started a war with.

Jim Cornette has also come out and said he was not a fan of it.

I'm sure Hiroshi Tanahashi was not a fan of it.

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Probably the last good rating and viewership show for the rest of the year now that football season starts next week.

Probably the one time the WWE didn't need to actually fib the numbers since they had already legit broke a record.


Some other sheet news includes:

• WrestlingDVDNetwork managed to get the official preview trailer for Owen Hart's upcoming DVD release. Video itself is unlisted likely because the WWE would take it down since it wasn't meant for official release yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIUiWmaX1cg
• Tyler Breeze is currently selling some of his match worn NXT gear on eBay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/191679535367
• Chris Jericho revealed he will be wrestling Kevin Owens for the upcoming MGS house show special on the WWE Network. https://twitter.com/IAmJericho/statu...35151381204992
• Sports Illustrated had a recent article about their wishlist of indie guys they'd hope to get signed by the WWE in the near future. http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015...ndie-wrestlers
• Daniel Bryan is currently supporting the #JustKeepDancing movement for the Pediatric Cancer Awareness and Connor's Cure charities. https://twitter.com/WWEDanielBryan/s...946933760?s=03
• Newest episode of TPWW's TLP podcast was released today. http://tablesladderspodcast.podbean....st-119-090215/

Didn't Sting say he was fighting Triple H because he didn't respect him and thought he was a power-hungry megalomaniac who needed to be stopped (while everyone else ignored his stated reasons and said it was because of WCW vs WWE)

But now he is all respecting Triple H, and pretty much James Steeling him...

Imagine the heat Triple H/Seth Rollins tension they are trying to build would have if Rollins was trying to beat the guy that beat Triple H? As it stands, Rollins NEEDS to beat a guy that Triple H beat in order to be as good as the guy who stands around in a suit, even though he's meant to be the fucking champion.

They could have had Seth Rollins beat Sting, causing an insecure rift to develop between Triple H and Seth Rollins -- leading to Triple H turning on his prodigy and having clearly defined face/heel lines. As it stands, if Seth loses the World Title to Sting and Triple H and Stephanie McMahon drop him, how does Seth really have any sympathy or credibility?

Yeah, but let's forget that to tell a story about the nWo vs. DX...because that will apparently sell the Network.

I love you CyNick, sorry; but I just refuse to accept Triple H going over was the right choice. And I don't blame Triple H. His NXT guys had the sense to put Jushin Liger over Tyler Breeze. Reports say that it was Sting's wish, but someone needed to tell that dude to shut the fuck up and make some money. Be humble when you're against a young guy in a few months.

Pleasantly surprised, and pleased, to learn that Xavier Woods might be the second best true promo in the company.

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What a ladies man....

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Meme

I thought he was Bill Kazmeier's love child with Eugene.

Let strauman kill everyone and then bring in the mountain to challenge him in hoss fest 2016

Current card for the special MSG show on the Network next month:

Supposedly Sting was just playing mind games with Rollins to put a bigger wedge between him and HHH and I guess the rumors of Rollins vs HHH in the future could be true.

Apparently John Laurinitis now engaged to Mom Bella.....

Nice family they found....

Looks like Dean is picturing himself having a family with Renee.

So basically summerslam on repeat

Needs to be an angle with Big Johnny coming back to TV and behaving like 50s/60s sitcom dad to Daniel Bryan and John Cena.....

Can start calling Cena "Little Johnny" or "John Junior".

"Now Little Johnny, I told you... no title shot until you clean your locker room, mister! Maybe afterwards we can go play some catch, would you like that, sport?"

rad jonny jon

With special guest appearance by little Jimmy