The story of them finally winning the belts will be sick. There's probably this desire to split them with a heel turn, but they are really working in this role. Why change what isn't broken?

I think they're being called up before then. Cruiserweight division baby.

Noid channeling his inner Kane Knight.

Candice LeRae is hot. Gargano did really well for himself. :y:

Come to think it seems like there are relatively few women in the world of wrestling who aren't wifed up by or dating other wrestlers. And the ones that aren't usually met their significant others before they ever got into the business.

I guess it's not exactly surprising given the travel and lifestyle.

I'd probably make this my card:

WWE Title Match- Brock Lesnar (C) vs. AJ Styles

The Undertaker vs. John Cena

Grudge Match- Dolph Ziggler vs. The Rock

WWE Universal Title Match- Triple H (C) vs. Cesaro

Triple Threat Hell In A Cell Match- Dean Ambrose vs. Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins

WWE Women's Title Fatal 4-Way Elimination Match- Bayley (C) vs. Charlotte vs. Paige vs. Sasha Banks

WWE Intercontinental Title Match- The Miz (C) vs. Daniel Bryan's Mystery Opponent (Samoa Joe)

Big Show vs. Shaq

WWE United States Title 10 Man Ladder Match- Rusev (C) vs. Chris Jericho vs. Finn Balor vs. Hideo Itami vs. Kevin Owens vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Neville vs. Randy Orton vs. Sami Zayn vs. Sheamus

WWE SmackDown! Tag Team Title Triple Threat Match- American Alpha (Chad Gable & Jason Jordan) vs. Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa vs. The Usos (Jey Uso & Jimmy Uso)

Pre-Show- Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal- Aiden English vs. Apollo Crews vs. Austin Aries vs. Baron Corbin vs. Bo Dallas vs. Braun Strowman vs. Bray Wyatt vs. Brian Kendrick vs. Curt Hawkins vs. Curtis Axel vs. Darren Young vs. Epico vs. Erick Rowan vs. Fandango vs. Goldust vs. Heath Slater vs. Jack Swagger vs. Jinder Mahal vs. Kalisto vs. Kane vs. Konnor vs. Luke Harper vs. Mark Henry vs. Mojo Rawley vs. Primo vs. R-Truth vs. Rhyno vs. Simon Gotch vs. Sin Cara vs. Tajiri vs. Titus O'Neil vs. Tyler Breeze vs. Viktor vs. Zack Ryder

Pre-Show- WWE Tag Team Title Triple Threat Match- The New Day (Big E & Xavier Woods) (C) vs. Big Cass & Enzo Amore vs. The Club (Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows)

Pre-Show- WWE SmackDown! Women's Title Fatal 4-Way Match- Becky Lynch (C) vs. Asuka vs. Natalya vs. Nikki Bella

Pre-Show- WWE Cruiserweight Title 6-Way Match- Kota Ibushi (C) vs. Akira Tozawa vs. Cedric Alexander vs. Gran Metalik vs. Rich Swann vs. TJ Perkins

Pre-Show- NXT Title Match- Shinsuke Nakamura (C) vs. Bobby Roode

No way to have this show with the entire roster without having like 15 matches...

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Just changed my ringtone for the first time in 2 years from Voices to Glorious Domination.

It's not a picture...and it belongs here dammit!

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Vince to the Pyro guys: YYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUU'RRRRRRRREEEEEEEE FFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!! :mad:

So...how long until Drew McIntyre is back in the WWE?

Drew McIntyre & Nikki Cross vs. Sheamus & Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 34. Calling it now.

I'd mark out if to turn WWE on its head, John Cena suddenly jumped over to RAW and won the Universal Title on his first night back with the brand. He's exploited his connections with Vince McMahon and management to break the rules. Big Match John can basically do what he wants, and that includes get inserted into title matches despite losing his last match to AJ Styles.

Cena becomes the top heel in wrestling and goes on to hold the Universal Title until WrestleMania where he is challenged by Finn Balor. AJ Styles and Balor walk out of Mania with their belts and have an Eddie/Benoit moment.

Alexa Bliss should be someone's manager, but I'm not really sure who. Heel Dolph? Could you call up Blake & Murphy to be lackies for Ziggler?

Heel Mojo with Alexa could be interesting.

Actually, that's a faction I want to see: Dolph Ziggler, Mojo Rawley, Buddy Murphy, Wesley Blake & Alexa Bliss. Mojo's first feud is obviously with Zack Ryder. Curt Hawkins helps out Ryder against Blake & Murphy. Mojo gets cockier and cockier and eventually splits from Ziggler and the two have a match where Dolph puts over Mojo, who is hopefully getting over with his new asshole persona. Basically the Nation dynamic with Dolph playing Faarooq and Mojo playing Rock.

Are there any other guys you'd like to see the WWE bring in? to pad out the rosters a bit more?

* Scotty 2 Hotty for the Cruiserweight Division. I'd also like to see him play a more serious veteran and mentor to someone at some point, and be put in a tag team with them. I mean, could you imagine him making the face tag to someone who comes in and cleans house?

* Carlito to lead The Shining Stars. He's apparently holding the WWE up for too much money, but they've never been good at creating Hispanic stars, and Carlito is probably one of the more charismatic guys they've had that doesn't have the last name Guerrero or Mysterio. Given what is available to them, he'd be a good option. Don't beat him and placate his ego so he keeps doing good work. The dude can put out some really great stuff if he's allowed to.

* Charlie Haas to team with Shelton Benjamin. American Alpha vs. The World's Greatest Tag Team has got some appeal to it. Fuck it, have Rico return as their manager too.

* Chris Masters has got a lot of passion for what he does, is a lot better than he was when he was given his first push with the WWE, and it's rare to find a guy his size these days. He's still only 33 years old. He's at least worthy of a mid-card title. I wouldn't be upset if he was the guy to dethrone Rusev to be perfectly honest with you.

* Kind of think that New Day vs. 3MB would change the wrestling industry. I'm just saying. 3MB standing up to The Wyatt Family also has some charm to it.

* Rob Conway is still really shredded and having a guy his age come back could be an awesome heel gimmick. All the fat dads in the audience don't have an excuse to not look like him. Interactions between him, Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens could be hilarious.

* Trent Barreta for the Cruiserweight Division all day long.

* Victoria for a Women's Division. If they're bringing back Stevie Richards, why not revive that pairing? Richards should take Brad Maddox's gimmick and reveal that he's been training in a cave for the past eight years or however long it's been since we've seen him. Fuck it, bring back Ivory (even though she's talked shit publicly about Triple H), and have Richards be this guru of veteran women's talent.

When planning out how WrestleMania could go in my head, I really think the WWE could do two WrestleManias. I mean, when you consider that you'll have all these part-timers returning, you could space them out between the two brands and really give everything some breathing room.

I mean, Shane and Triple H will both probably wrestle. If The Undertaker wants to, he'll have a slot too. Then there's Brock. Cena. Orton. Rock. It'll all work out. Would doing two amazing 4-hour shows be more beneficial than doing one 7-hour one?

I'd say no, simply coz Wrestlemania is "the big one" with over 30 years of history, and just wouldn't be right being "the big two". Of course, they could solve the problem if guys like Triple H and Undertaker would finally fuck off and stop stealing the spotlight.

I'm sorry, but except for Dolph and Bliss, this might be the worst faction ever created.

Konnor was the minister at Sashas wedding. I hope there's some pictures.

I NOOOOOOOOOOOOOW PROOOOOONOUNCE YOU MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN AND WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFEEEEEEEEEE IN THIS WASTEEELAAAAAAAAAAAAAANDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!

Technically they already do with how they have treated SummerrSlam in recent years as another "Mania."

More likely all that would happen is every big star that wrestled in the first Mania show would just hog up the spots for the other Mania show. Brands themselves don't have the star power needed even with part timers returning to hold their own Mania shows so it would need to be co-branded ones.

NXT TakeOver Dallas was like having two WrestleManias.

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In honor of BO Dallas's recent arrest

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According to Cody Rhodes, the official reason why WWE has never done a War Games ppv or match is due to Vince likely being the person who refused to to spend the money nor extra space needed for it.

Triple H himself has been trying for years to convince Vince to do one after they started to bring back past WCW ppv names and ideas.

Part of a longer interview with Ring Rust Radio: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...back-wargames/

Found this on /r/SquaredCircle

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FiveThirtyEight put up an article yesterday about the recent rise of Japanese wrestlers in WWE.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...egan-in-japan/

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Change that to Tuesday Nights

std can find no report of Bo Dallas being arrested. Just a vague report he was kicked off a plane for being drunk, singing Lion King Song (Bo Repared?) and telling the pilot to fuck himself.

DUDE!! HE CALLED CROSSFIT JESUS A DICK! HOW DARE HE!!

I bet he dresses in drag and does the hula next time.

Mr. Fuji died, for anyone that cares.

I like that and would go along with WWE having matching titles.

He's definitely got the "eat you" part down. :shifty:

that camera does him no justice, he's a stick in real life

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Kevin Owens going to win tonight.

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According to Ryback, the main reason he left the WWE was due to them constantly lying to him when it came to his career's direction. Promised him a lot of things only to abruptly pull support and/or pushes when it got close to being delivered.

Got to the point, Ryback felt it was better to walk away from a $1.5 million offer than continue working for the WWE.

He did offer some praise for being the start of his wrestling career and giving him some good memories he had there.

Link to more highlights and the podcast episode itself: http://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/ry...we-deal-219676

Read that earlier today and I don't blame him. Hope he does well in his own. Really think he would be a huge star in NJPW. Could be an instant IWGP Intercontinental title contender and possibly Heavyweight down the line. Feel like they would eat up face Ryborg in Japan.

Given how things turned out, it was probably the right decision to not squash AJ. Everything else sounds pretty shitty.

I'm not the biggest Ryback fan, but I think you have to objectively question how the company used him.

Ryborg should go to TNA and DELETE Matt Hardy.

You're joining slik on the unemployment line. Get out of my suddenly all-promotion wrestling writing office.

YOU CANNOT FIRE WHAT YOU CANNOT DELETE, BROKEN BROTHER HASNEY!!!!

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Love that video. It's an interesting story as is but most importantly the women in it are so hot.

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Ryback can go to TNA and become a has been!

Ryback should train in MMA for two years and then face CM Punk in a real fight.

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*clears throat...

What..the fuck...

People lighting up jim cornette's twitter about kevin owens.

It's like they never actually listened to what his problem was in the first place.

How is that a real sport...

Did they have beef for something? I've got no idea.

Owens was apparently very stubborn and difficult to work with in ROH. He also was in worse shape back then too, and cornette kept trying to get him to put down the cheeseburger and pick up some weights.

Cornette said that he'll never be successful unless he changes those aspects. Which he clearly did.

He also criticized owens ring attire, but I can't really blame him. I never thought I'd see a guy who dresses like a yard tard as champ either, but here we are.

Cornette's problem is he has a really bad way of giving advice or running things that it always ends up pissing whoever he gives it to. Even if the advice has some merit to it, it comes off more as insulting than constructive just because of his style. Its a big reason why every company he's ever worked for, he ends up burning bridges really quickly.

Came into the entire set of 1985 Prime Time Wrestling with Jack Reynolds and Jesse Ventura hosting. Very hard to come by. Got about 20 plus hours of wrestling to watch.

He's new, so how the fuck is he going to know what the 100,001 thread is?
swear some people need new eye's

Haven't done one of these in a while

ECW did you know: The Dudleyz didn't leave ECW because they weren't offered more money in 1999. They were essentially forced to. You might remember Heatwave 99 where D-Von and especially Bubba cut a ridiculous promo on the fans before the match. Bubba told an older female that she taught her daughter how to suck dick, among other things. Anyways, the cable companies told Paul Heyman that the Dudleyz were banned from appearing on ECW ppv and they'd drop them if they did.

So the Dudleyz left for the WWF.

Did these dumbass cable companies not know what they were getting into when they were broadcasting an ECW PAY PER VIEW?!

Lol so there's "House Show Bubba" and there's "PPV Bubba".
House Show Bubba showed up on PPV. House Show Bubba is WAY more vulgar than the cable companies had probably ever seen.

Funny you mention the promo Gerty, as it was recently posted somewhere around here.

Do people have problem with Samoa Joe's attire? The only difference is he doesn't wear a shirt

In a way, not surprised considering cable companies were very wary to begin with about carrying ECW stuff because of the promotion's rep.

Think Heyman made a few references or implied at how vulgar the Dudleys could get with the insults on the Rise & Fall of ECW dvd.

Question.... who were the dumbass parents that brought their young kids to an ECW show?! I noticed them in the front fucking row while Joel Gertner was talking. That had to been an awkward as fuck car ride home.

Check out the Best of the Dudleyz released by ECW. There's footage from a House Show where some kid dropped from the balcony of the Hammerstein Ballroom to get at the Dudleyz. Bubba was losing his shit on the fans. It was amazing.

My favorite Santino moment is still when he was cutting a promo about how Stone Cold wasn't going to show up that night.

"There is not going to be a can of the ass whip being opened. Nobody is going to stomp a mud pie. JR is not going to reach the point of orgasm."

Beer Truck 2.0

Lmao Santino. And mama mia it's Maria <3

Fucking this. Funny how people still can't actually listen to the words Cornette actually says. I heard an interview with this guy Sam Roberts, and Cornette actually tells him exactly what he meant, and then Roberts is like "It's funny how Cornette has twisted this to fit his..." HOLY SHIT! Are people really that fucking dumb?

One looked like a bum, the other looked like a fighter.

Yeah, Samoa Joe wears kickboxer shorts which fit with his gimmick. I could pick up the same shorts owens wears for 8 bucks at walmart.

Honestly, I've gotten used to it, and I don't really care anymore, so whatever.

$5 on Rollback days.

$3 on rollback days with a family discount.

I miss the days when WWE games played more like games and not a 'wrestling simulator'.

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Like In Your House? Like Warzone? Come on brah. It's all the evolution of No Mercy.

No mercy was awesome, aside from frame rate issues could be the best wrestling game ever.

on the PS I'd say the series peaked at SYM/HCTP

I don't. I want it to be a realistic as possible.

They should make another All Stars game for people who want a more arcadey eexperience.

Eva Marie is now All Black Everything.
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I'm hoping they really slow burn this HHH/Rollins feud until WrestleMania. I know it's tough in this age because of the amount of programming, but they could pull it off.

-Rollins demands answers on RAW for several weeks, to which HHH never shows up to confront him and he also ignores the question when asked by interviewers. Triple H is strictly NXT and does not show up on RAW or SD

-Rollins goes on to have various feuds, meanwhile the whole "Triple H is a coward" is threaded throughout a lot of his promo work.

-Rollins gets a shot at the Universal Championship at TLC (for argument's sake), to which Triple H yet again costs him the match.

-Rollins says he's done asking, he's going to find Triple H himself.

-NXT has a TakeOver special later that week (or month), and Triple H opens the show with his "WE ARE NXT" bit. Rollins runs through the crowd invasion style and puts a nasty beatdown on him and it causes a big pull apart.

-Triple H finally admits to the world that he's jealous of Seth, and refuses to let his protege actually surpass his success, as Seth is trying to claim a Championship that Triple H has never held.

-Add water, it could work

Thought the bullet point style would make it easier to read lol but yes please let's not see this match at Clash of Champions and be over by late October. PLEASE

For anyone interested, someone on /r/SquaredCircle is running a 64-song tournament to determine the best song CFO$ has done for WWE.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc..._your_fantasy/

Until around noon Eastern on Thursday, you can make predictions, and voting will start Thursday afternoon.

Obviously the final will be Roode vs. Nakamura.

Di-di-diggity. Di-diggity dawg.

(Socko)

Does anyone know if the interview Bryan did with Coach was kayfabed at all? He was saying the spot with Miz was unscripted for the most part and that they kind of just got into it.

Then Bryan didn't REALLY address it on Smackdown almost skirting the issue and transferring it all to Dolph Ziggler. Could see it all as being kind of organic and shit actually just getting out of hand, which is kind of awesome lol

House Show Bubba is the realest guy in the room.

I usually hate double champions, but I'd be feeling AJ Styles with the WWE and IC belts right now. Styles beats Ambrose at Backlash by burying that forearm into his fucking face. Dolph Ziggler wins the IC Title when he kicks Miz right in his smug mug. Ziggler comes out on SmackDown, looks at his IC Title and says that it sure is pretty, and it is a part of many great legacies, but he's done this song and dance before. He's won this title five times now -- everyone knows he's at this level, but he needs to prove that he can be the WWE World Heavyweight Champion. He needs to get AJ Styles in the ring, and he'll put his belt on the line to do it.

No Mercy is then headlined by AJ Styles vs. Dolph Ziggler -- Title for Title. Dolph cuts promos heading into it about how he watched The Ultimate Warrior beat Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania 6 and all that. Styles talks about how he's the best wrestler in the world and he's beaten John Cena and Dean Ambrose in back-to-back showings. Ziggler's done at No Mercy.

The two tear it down. Dolph maybe even gets a lucky Superkick off a Phenomenal Forearm attempt, but he kicks Styles out of the ring and can't capitalize. Styles eventually wins the match and walks out with both belts. Then you do whatever it was you were going to do with Dolph. Styles starts defending both belts at the same time. So their histories are continued, they're just both on AJ Styles. He takes both into the main event of WrestleMania with him.

The Miz being a fan of Mushroomhead is so obscure and out-of-nowhere, it's amazing.

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On Bischoff's podcast, Hogan is apparently claiming that he called Kevin Owens being a big deal.

He was probably talking about his weight

Ha.

Triple H being the evil genius that he is, I imagine that he'd make Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns fight for the right to get their hands on him. Then he sends Braun Strowman out there to destroy them both at Clash of Champions. Or Gallows & Anderson.