| Emperor Smeat |
02-05-2015 07:46 PM |
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Originally Posted by Observer
We were told that Reigns was originally set to beat a top heel and that Bryan was to be used to get Bray Wyatt over for Undertaker in the original plans.
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Rumors for a while was Reigns vs Big Show or Reigns/Orton vs Big Show/Rollins for Fastlane.
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Another story regarding the perception of WWE right now. Someone that I know who works in TV ad sales was working with Dodge, which had bought time on shows that underperformed in the ratings, so they were owed make good spots. The person suggested since the ads were essentially free at this point, to make good, how about moving some spots to Raw, since it draws well in the 18-49 demo, which is the demo that buys cars. The advertiser when given the suggestion first said that WWE would not be something they would ever purchase. There were reasons given, having to do with a theme WWE was doing locally that made the company more advertiser friendly in theory in that market. Still, the response was, “I do understand that but WWE doesn’t make sense for Dodge Dart. WWE is very trashy. Not, appropriate for our target.”
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Even with the PG Era, WWE still having trouble getting more big advertisers on board (and more money for them).
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Originally Posted by Observer
Corbin pinned Dempsey in 1:31 with the end of days, which is a delayed downward spiral. The fans aren’t nearly as much into Corbin now that he doesn’t win in 30 seconds and they can’t count the seconds until it ends. We’ve heard Dempsey is likely to be repackaged.
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Originally Posted by F4W
There’s a lot of speculation that Daniel Bryan vs. Dolph Ziggler at WrestleMania 31 may have been nixed after Bryan vs. Reigns in a #1 contender’s match was made for WWE Fast Lane.
It’s still not confirmed that Bryan vs. Ziggler was nixed so Bryan could face Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Title at WrestleMania 31, and most expect Lesnar vs. Reigns to still happen, but there’s already talk that Ziggler may be in tag team action at WrestleMania 31.
Ziggler and Ryback will team up on tonight’s SmackDown and apparently there’s a reason for tonight’s match. WWE officials are considering putting the two together as a permanent tag team and have them wrestle together at WrestleMania 31.
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Spoiler used since its relates to this week's Smackdown episode.
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Former UFC star Chael Sonnen claimed during a TSN “Off the Record” appearance that WWE had invited both him and Wanderlei Silva to WrestleMania this year to talk business. WWE has since issued a statement denying any invitation has been made to have Sonnen attend WrestleMania.
According to The Wrestling Observer, WWE has wanted to work with Chael Sonnen for quite sometime, however when he tested positive for steroids, WWE decided to back off on negotiating with him until the steroid heat/label ran its course. Once ESPN began working with Sonnen and made his name more mainstream again, it seemed likely WWE would once again pursue negotiations.
With regards to why WWE might be wanting to negotiate with Sonnen and/or Silva, speculation is everything from pro wrestling to them having an exhibition fight. At one point, WWE was interested in having Sonnen work for the company as an announcer.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Regarding all the criticism of the Rumble match, Jamie Noble was the producer of the match with Joey Mercury as the assistant. Also involved in putting the match together were Michael Hayes, Pat Patterson and Brian James. That’s probably why James wasn’t happy when he went on Twitter and people were calling it the worst Rumble ever. I’ll bet Lucha Underground did their own version with fewer than five agents and spending a whole lot less time on it and came out with a three times as good match even while having less name talent at their disposal.
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Originally Posted by Observer
One week after WWE had confirmed and gone full steam ahead with Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns as the WrestleMania main event, things may have changed.
On the 2/2 Raw show from Denver, a promised major announcement was that Daniel Bryan would face Seth Rollins on the show, in a match Bryan won. The winner would then face Reigns on the 2/22 Fast Lane PPV in Memphis to determine who faces Lesnar at WrestleMania.
The show saw Reigns positioned heelish in a late show confrontation with Bryan, and again in a face-to-face on Smackdown. Reigns also inexplicably lost to Big Show in what is believed to have been his first singles loss on the main roster after more than two years, or at least on a major show, which was thrown away in a meaningless situation that was never even brought up.
If the idea is to go with Reigns as the hot babyface, the guy he should be kept away from is Bryan, who is considerably more popular. With Bryan having already gotten screwed in the eyes of the fans at Royal Rumble, having him lose to Reigns will only infuriate the fans more. If the belief is that making the fans madder will heat up business, the post-Rumble boost of WWE Network numbers could be taken as evidence of that, well, then they can go put Reigns in a situation where in the end it’s going to hurt him getting over. And there is also a situation where you push too hard in always beating the most popular face and it starts to wear our and backfires.
If the idea is to go with Reigns as a heel champion, then beating Bryan would make sense, but he would need someone to talk for him in that situation. It does make sense since he’d have far more viable opponents as a heel champion, since as a face champion you’re pretty well limited to Rusev and Rollins.
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Some other sheet news include the WWE only has Triple H vs Sting set in stone for Mania with everything else being reconsidered (ex. Reigns vs Lesnar) or likely dropped (ex. Orton vs Rollins because of Orton's injury status). |
