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Can you read?

Hey remember when Koko B Ware came out as the Blue Blazer? I cannot find a picture or video of that. It did happen though... Right?

@ me with answers boys

Yes.

I didn't read the article, because it sounds like a waste of time.

But is this guy's assertion that Fandango wad "cool"? I would argue Fandango represents everything that makes wrestling seem uncool.

Goooollldddbbbeeerrrrg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w5cpp3FwTE

Met Goldberg at a hot rod show in San Diego. Really cool guy. Had a nice little conversation with him and my dad about vintage hot rods before getting a picture.

Sweetheart, the page redirects to the big gold belt. I see that you've been assuming a lot of things as of late.

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lol man

Oh god the awesome things that would happen.

Yeah, reading stuff from people who actually worked for the company is a waste of time because it would ruin your bubble. Moron.

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Wonder which one of these people is CyNick

Bet like 80% of those people aren't even with the company anymore, actually. I saw Gaburick in there.

Fandango was presented by the WWE in a way that was uncool, you fucking moron. God, could you be any dumber? Losing my patience with this gimmick.

Would make a good sitcom

Powerful/strong/macho/COO of global entertainment company trying to balance that with living in a house full of girls

Apparently modern era NXT had a pilot episode that's never been shown. The code name for that episode was "Project H" and went through several revisions before actual tapings.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Another gem. Before there was &quot;NXT&quot; - a secret pilot was taped at &quot;Full Sail&quot;. Dream dubbed it &quot;Project H&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/1stdraft?src=hash">#1stdraft</a> <a href="https://t.co/jqJOr8nRLr">pic.twitter.com/jqJOr8nRLr</a></p>&mdash; Rob Naylor (@NINaylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NINaylor/status/701164768455954435">February 20, 2016</a></blockquote>
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NEW NEVER OPEN WEIGHT 6 MAN CHAMPIONS!!!!......and a challenge!!

So.....who will be the first champion of the 3....and by that I mean World Champion not Divas.

I thought that was Hogan for a second there :wtf:

I'd watch it. Too bad "King of Queens" has already been used.

Last Man Standing with Tim Allen better example

King of Queens is a show people actually liked.

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Finn Bayley

If you told me Vince, Hunter or Kevin Dunn wrote something, I would be interested. Some guy who got coffee for Vince, meh I'll pass.

And especially if the point of the article is Fandango is cool. Makes me think waste of time. But could also be you're just terrible at promoting something.

His gimmick was a joke. You get that right?

Macho man is a 3-time Big Gold Belt haver.

WWE's iteration of the World Heavyweight Championship, you adorable goof. Macho Man held the WCW Championship.

Holy christ he did it. :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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Apparently the reason Damien Sandow sort of disappeared from WWE shows is due to him taking a break away from wrestling to deal with some family issues.

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Still kind of surprised that the WWE didn't rename AJ Styles BJ Skills

Or Eden Stiles' long lost brother, Ajay Stiles.

Part of me really wants to see everything move forward as expected. Roman beats Triple H clean in the main event of Wrestlemania, no swerve or heel turn, and the crowd absolutely boos the shit out of it. Maybe 100,000 people categorically rejecting Vince McMahon's Roman Reigns project will make him realize what a failure it really is.

Vince won't realize it because in his mind, Roman is perfect. It quite literally will not fail because VKM won't let it. And you can believe that.

WWE would probably just go overboard with the music and celebrations or turn down the crowd mics once Reigns wins. Make it seem like the crowd's hatred is not as big as it really is.

Reigns has the same problem Ryback had in that the WWE didn't really care about letting him devlop gradually and just skipped the real midcard building needed for both guys.

Vince won't change anything because he doesn't have to. He's going to make piles of money regardless if he pushes talent that's actually universally over or not. It the ten year Cena run tells us anything, especially the initial run where the attitude era fans turned on him in droves and the company transitioned to more family friendly, it's that Vince is a man of conviction and he's not going to change what he wants until presented a valid reason, like getting beat in ratings and losing top talent.

Seeing as that's not gonna happen, it's more likely that things change when Vince let's go, which is probably another 20 years away, when he passes.

Maybe they will add some sort of stipulation like The Authority must step down if Triple H loses (but for REALSIES this time) just to try to raise some sort of doubt that Reigns will win.

In that scenario though you're still likely to get a clean Reigns win followed by the face locker room emptying and hoisting the triumphant Reigns on their shoulders while the announcers gush about it and confetti falls from the ceiling...yet the crowd will STILL boo.

First ever REALSIES match :D

Now I wanna hear a promo from both of them talking about their "realisies match"

I wanted to make a thread about this but there isn't much more to say than...

I AM SO FUCKING EXCITED FOR NAKAMAURA
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Will he get AJ Stlyes treatment and get to keep his name?

Kana was renamed to Auska which I think was an improvement. Hideo Itami is not really as cool as KENTA but it's not bad either. I think he might get to keep his name considering all the publication of the signing.

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Best AJ promo since his debut.

I actually dug that about Ryback.

The problem then, was that once he was at "that level", they fucked up, didn't know what to do with him and made him a jobber/heel.

In fact, Ryback going from squash matches/mid-card matches to suddenly going after CM Punk was quite exciting. Gave a legit vibe that anything could happen in WWE.

When Punk turned around and Ryback was standing there, I marked a little. "Finally, something different" and then...meh.

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Another problem was after a while it became obvious he was just filling in for Cena and not actually get a real promotion or main event push. Lost a lot of momentum once the Punk feud ended and then whatever was left after the Mania loss to Henry and feud loss to Cena.

Ziggler was similar in the sense that his huge win in Survivor Series 2014 led to nothing since he was only filling in for Reigns and was never planned to get a real rub or push from it.

MAJOR Raw Spoiler if it's indeed true.

Lol if that actually happens I'll eat my hat. Whoever is claiming that is either a moron, or they work for WWE and are trying to bump the ratings.

I read a lot of reports of house shows and comments of shows on twitter, and almost every show i read "reigns got the biggest pop of the night". I think there is a disconnect between fans online who just watch the tv and complain vs the paying fans.

Why don't you ever hear it on TV or PPV's?

Some guys hit their ceiling faster than expected.

I like Ryback from what I've seen of him in shoot interviews. I just don't think he's capable of being THE GUY.

You do. He always gets a big pop. You just have the 15% of the crowd that are loud and are there to be against whatever the machine is pushing.

He'll end up like Cena. Not everyone will be for him, but he'll get a reaction.

Put it this way. I would rather Roman get the reaction he got during his match than the reaction AJ Styles got during his match.

Actual Raw spoiler

great chance its the latter.

I'll be watching Deadpool, so I'll have to check the "big surprise" after.

Just so I'm clear, you believe what you read online that someone else said, right? That's okay to do, right?

movie was awesome. so many easter eggs. its hard to keep track of them all.

Either way it might work. Question wtf would they have planned that's anymore interesting than what was going on two years ago.

Shades of grey.

There I fixed that for you, buddy. :y:

You think it's idiotic that Reigns gets massive pops at house shows?

How many shows have you been to where he gets no reaction?

From the Observer about when this supposed surprise is meant to happen. The original source on SquaredCircle hinted it was occurring at the end of the show.

The source at SquaredCircle also confirmed whatever the plan was, it got changed to happen sooner in the show.

There ya go fixed it again! You're welcome, buddy. :)

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I was there :)

Just love heel CM Punk.

I'll entertain you because this place needs the entertainment.

So the "IWC" or "Twitter Machine" or "Online Reports" (from HHH, or VKM Only of course) are okay when they serve your point, mkay ;)

I am (was until a few months ago) a paying fan. I have been to every show that has been in Indy since 92 when I went to WM VII. The product has grown stale for me. It has grown stale because the past 10 years the same formula has been in play with Cena and it is boring to watch, for me.

After seeing the build with Reigns, it is clear that the WWE Universe is in for more of the same. Even taking the kayfabe chest protector out of the equation, Reigns just bounced up at the end of the match as if he hadn't even been in a match. LOLCENAWINS will soon be LOLROMANWINS.

Sure he will garner a reaction, much like that of Cena. For me, personally, I don't want to pay $$$ to see that anymore. I cancelled my network sub yesterday and Shane//Taker isn't good enough to get me to renew.

Gotta love those rights fees that are exploding because of the immense reaction Reigns gets at house shows. WOOOOO!! :shifty:

So at the end of the day you feel WWE should cater to you over the thousands of people in attendance who are repeat customers. And you awknowledge Roman is getting massive pops at arenas. So why would they stop pushing him? When an audience is dead silent for his matches, then you move on. When crowds dwindle then you move on. Neither has happened. And that's without a true passing of the torch program between Reigns and Cena.

They had another huge crowd for RAW last night. Going to have somewhere close to 100k at Mania. The fans were going absolutely crazy for the closing angle. I can't imagine people there saying they didn't enjoy themselves.

If you don't think all the cool WWE programming on the Network is worth $10 a month, that's great, you made the right call. Lots more people like me still enjoy the product. So who should WWE cater to? Me or you? If enough business metrics are heading south, then you will see changes. But right now, the majority of metrics are improving. So why would they change course?

From what I heard the fans were cheering HHH beating Roman Reigns?

Drave is not the only one who stopped watching, many people have, check the ratings.

I never said they should cater to ME, that would be silly. I just said what they put out no longer interests me. I also believe it would be in their best interests to "take a chance" now and again instead of churning out the same shit on a different day/week/month. A passing of the torch isn't needed, any viewer can see the stark similarities without trying.

I also don't acknowledge Reigns getting massive pops. Ambrose easily gets bigger pops consistently. He gets pops, not massive, and they are LARGELY mixed (hence the Cena reference). I also never said they should stop pushing him, just that it is the same ole formula and boring as fuck.

They can have huge crowds any given night, especially following a PPV. You think the place went nuts because Reigns was getting over or because HHH came off as a fucking badass and more people want to see THAT level of aggression? Surely you are joking if you believe people were cheering for Reigns (unless you REALLY wanna be tongue-in-cheek saying the cheers for him getting his ass beat are cheers regardless) :|

Mania will always sell itself based on name alone, period.

The backlog of content is great, no doubt. It also servers as a reminder that they could do much better if they actually tried harder. When they had competition, they were much better, out of necessity to defeat competition.



TL;DR

They can do what they want (and will regardless). It isn't for me as I don't get any "entertainment" from it anymore and therefore will no longer support them as a business. If they change their game in the future, I'll reconsider.

You also like to spin things and are inconsistent with your "arguments".

WrestleMania this year has an early 2000's feel to it. WMX7, WMX8, WMXIX - all fantastic WrestleManias.

Shane/Undertaker will be Taker's most entertaining match in years. It will be like Undertaker/Flair at WrestleMania was - except Shane is more agile and takes bumps.

I have my doubts that a 46 year old Shane McMahon who hasn't wrestled in 6 years and has three kids is going to be taking all that many bumps.

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Figured he would've done one of these a while ago....

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bunch of old wrestlers who feel compelled to do "shoot interviews" seem like the dumbest fucking people alive

cynick will ignore it.

It will still be Kurt vs Taker. No idea how but it will be.

It would make sense if Undertaker came out on monday and told vince "No". being that Vince is a face n all.

"I won't fight for you, I will fight for Shane"

Taker refusing to do Vince's dirty work would be an interesting spin on this.

I just hate to think this could be Takers last match. The only good thing is that he will prob be the one carrying the match and it will make him look better in a sense. That's obviously in contrast to the last few years where he has to get carried by his opponent and usually looks pretty rough in the process.

But yea, I could see Taker refusing and then Vince forcing him to do the match with the added stipulation that if Taker doesn't win he is forced to retire. That would be Vince's insurance to make sure Taker fights for real and doesn't just let Shane win.

Kurt wins and then we build up to next year Kurt vs. Brock at Mania as "the only two to defeat The Undertaker at Wrestlemania"

Did Nattie lose weight?

Lol. You're a joke.

EDIT: I'm not longer going to interact with CyNick. It's funny, but feeding the trolls.

Nobody liked that shit

Guess who was at WMX8?

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Around 423k more viewers than last week but the 3rd hour had a drop of around 800k. In terms of historical stuff, same week last year had around 240k more viewers. In terms of more historical stuff, it took until June of last year before one of the hours went under 3.5 million while its happened 4 times this year so far.

Supposedly the Observer implied the Shane vs Vince storyline had been something the WWE wanted to do going as far back as the Road to Mania 30. Also supposedly a big reason why the real life split happened was due to Vince favoring Stephanie to be in control of Creative back in the day and refusing to split the company between Shane (business side) and Stephanie (Creative side).

Some recent changes the WWE made to their ppv schedule this year.

Figured that might be interested for those in the area and wanted to go to the event.


Some other sheet news includes:

• Lucha Underground announced they will be hosting a live show during next month's SXSW event in Austin, Texas. https://twitter.com/luchaelrey/statu...62723468091392
• NXT tag team Dash & Dawson are getting renamed as "The Revival." Would be their third team name since forming with the original name being The Mechanics.
• Could just be a typo or possible sign of post-Mania plans but Ticketmaster recently revealed an upcoming RAW show in May is currently titled as "WWE Monday Night RAW vs WWE." Assuming its not a typo, could be looking at a possible new brand split or even "invasion"-like civil war storyline for the big post-Mania story. http://www.ticketmaster.com/wwe-mond...004F8AE1514B5C
• Xavier Woods was a recent guest for Hot Pepper Gaming and gave a review for Street Fighter V while eating a hot pepper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgv881gtSb0
• According to the Observer, WWE title match at Mania currently rumored to involve a guest ref with Bastista as the original option before he declined the offer. https://twitter.com/davemeltzerwon/s...62503459188736
• Recent press conference Shinsuke Nakamura had revealed he is currently trying to keep his NJPW name in the WWE although will be getting a new theme. http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/6774...-note-and-more
• New DLC pack for WWE 2k16 was released today which includes several new matches featuring WWE Hall of Famers. Online retailer Amazon is currently holding a sale for the game for $40.

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He said TNA!

Dumb.

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