yeah i see bray going liv and a few others

I am likely the only person in the world to think this, but Aleister Black isn't a big loss. Nobody looks like him, but everyone wrestles like him.

On top of that, he is the only guy who got helped by the WWE's NXT Name Generator.

I actually think Braun could be a good fit for New Japan

Ruby would be a great fit for AEW's womens division

yeah japan likes big guys

Just eyeballing the roster, Keith Lee and Jeff Hardy being let go wouldn't surprise me. The former has seemingly disappeared and the latter probably makes a pretty high wage to be relegated to Main Event.

i figured they will do all the cuts today thats why i am waiting around

What a wild story it would be if the WWE/NJPW talks were actually WWE talking with New Japan's parent company, Bushiroad, about potential sale of WWE. Stranger things have happened...

I know NBCUniversal/Comcast would seem like the prime buyer but my gut instinct thinks it would be someone unexpected. I mean no one thought a talent agency in Los Angeles would buy UFC, that came out of nowhere.

Braun isn’t going to have trouble finding work. He’s fucking massive, he’s a big enough name and there isn’t a promotion in the world who doesn’t need a huge monster to crush people.

Kevin Dunn needs to be sent to federal prison for attempted murder because I am sure he causes seizures with the 97,000 camera cuts he does in a show

how much money does bushiroad have,i think wwe will sale to a big streaming co.

Would be cool if they let Ricochet go free . . .

Keith Lee would be sweet in AEW also . . .

I'd be shocked if they sold to a streaming company unless it was NBCUniversal for more WWE on Peacock content.

Insane scenario would like be Amazon buying WWE and WWE announcing like 3 more shows a week for Amazon Prime, each 2-3 hours long.

amazon has all the money they can buy it if they want it

fox sports too they have money after selling there movies to disney

Going public with WWE was a fantastic decision for the McMahon's net worth but it might not have been the best idea for wrestling as a whole.

WWE is basically a content-producing company now, whose goal is to put out as much content as possible and constantly top prior profits. The future goal will be to increase growth and thus have even more content than they do now. There has to be a bubble burst moment at some point.

Not gonna lie, AEW should bring Braun in as their Brock Lesnar. Should come in, beat the hell out of Moxley with ease in a squash match, then handily when the world title off of Omega.

Then a lengthy title reign where he barely appears/wrestles except for the big events

I think the only women's tag teams in WWE now are Nattie/Tamina, Nia/Shayna, and Mandy/Dana. Might be time to close shop on the women's tag division.


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Or they are getting ready to do a bunch of callups from NXT perhaps, who knows

Strowman's career is pretty surreal.... get the fans into him, build his momentum.... kill all his momentum and interest, give him a title run only then, and then release him.

Should definitely also straight up have him murder Orange Cassidy and Jungle Boy too

They have a metric fuckton of women in NXT who haven't even debuted on TV yet so they've got options.

No big shocks here. Well, it doesn’t seem like WWE to separate from Braun, but he is the drizzling shits. It’s a cut that makes sense, it’s just odd to see the WWE do something that makes sense.

Aleister Black is miserable and isn’t that good. Lana is miserable and costing the company half-a-million per year. Murphy is boring and a flippy guy without much more. Santana Garrett is fine looking and fine in the ring, but not much better.

It’s the circle of life that wrestling needs to keep freshening itself up by cutting people in all sorts of roles that just aren’t working any more.

I even forgot about Ruby Riott here, which speaks itself.

They missed the boat soooo badly on Braun during his feud with Roman

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Sean Ross Sapp reported the Braun release was because his contract was expensive and worth over 1 million per year. Other names might be released too who have expensive deals.

AJ Styles maybe? He's a current tag champ, but lol at that actually making a difference.

Sami Zayn or KO wouldn't shock me, same for Cesaro

seth has a big contract and no belt

Feeling more confident in my Jeff Hardy prediction. There's no way that dude isn't making bank off of tenure/name value.

R-Truth is not a main eventer or anything but he's been with the company for 13 years now so given his tenure he might make more than you'd expect for someone at his spot on the card, and they seem to have gotten bored of the 24/7 title gimmick.

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A level-headed analysis if I've ever seen one.

I don't know where else to put this but someone on my Facebook just said "if you're a wrestling fan, you gotta be more confident in AEW than WWE."

You could theoretically make a wrestling company that could surpass WWE within a year just with a roster made up of guys they’ve missed the boat on.

It was a nice run, Shelton.

Was it though?

Ugh. Not every thread needs to turn into WWE vs. AEW, but holy fuck no. They have ruined EVERYBODY they have gotten their hands on. Christian isn’t special. CHRISTIAN. Miro is a goof that they are now presenting as serious (soon to be doing more comedy with his wife, possibly in a feud with Cody and Brandi once baby is born). FTR are worse off. Luke Harper showed up in a school sowing class costume. The closest thing to a “star” they have created is Darby Allin, and who really gives a fuck.

Neither wrestling promotion is that amazing at pushing talent. But at least the WWE are trimming dead weight to clean themselves up for a sale and stand to make billions.

Not really, content-wise, but he got to milk 5 years of WWE money to basically pretend he enjoyed being there.