They had a confrontation at Wrestlemania fought each other in a 6 man at Summerslam, fought at Survivor Series and headlined a MSG show

Roddy Piper, Duggan, and Bad News in particular.

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For a second I thought this was a Shisen post and almost lost my shit.

It's the Akeem avatar :(

The alternate version of "5 things Dean Ambrose did before The Shield"

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Moxley was so good

Braun Strowman showing off his basketball skills: https://streamable.com/z89pi

Kevin Owens response to Enzo Amore bragging on social media all day about his 10k seats to Mayweather/McGregor:


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WWE Network randomly playing WCW Road Wild 1998

Psychosis coming out and I'm like "F yeah, I remember this theme"

Now Rey Mysterio coming out with his theme

vrooom vrooom vrooooommm vroooom vroom

Stevie Ray murdering Chavo Guerrero

The cry of Baby Mario was annoying as hell. Would have been better had it been officially called Yoshi's Island and not Super Mario World 2: Yoshi''s Island. A direct sequel is what we all wanted.

Wtf is this, Jericho entering to a version of his wwf theme.... terrible......

I also loved Psicosis theme.

Remember being psyched when he ditched the technicolor dream bodysuit for a new "badass" black and white attire.

Had absolutely no clue Mahal has a personality.

You should listen to more of his interviews. Dude is oozing with charisma and he's funny as shit.

Terrible at replacing ddp theme with Jay Leno tonight show theme......... just so awkward.......

Pot calling the kettle black?

Rumor going around the net regarding the next SuperStar Shakeup hints at it happening in around 3 weeks assuming Vince doesn't change his mind or plans.

One of the rumored names swapping brands:

I am not particularly fond of having these shakeups in such a short amount of time.

lol When was the last one? Not even six months ago?

Jinder looked hotter back in the day

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They do that every Sunday

Mid-April.

The sheets hinted the WWE knew by May/June of how badly they screwed up with the handling of it and almost everyone who moved.

I swear to God, WWE over the past 15 years or so has been the most unorganized mess of a professional company in the world. How do you flip flop on the direction you wanna go so much? lol

Well I mean your owner who is a notorious micro manager is a legit psychopath and only progressively getting more senile.

Since 2001, WWE has used eight titles as a "world title". One company. Using eight different "world titles" over a 16 year span. That's one way to shit on the prestige of being world champion.

So apparently that Sexy Star bitch who won the Lucha Underground title is a piece of shit...

http://www.tpww.net/2017/08/gfws-ros...-at-aaa-event/

Outside the ring too?

I know that I'm days late for the topic, but this seems like an evergreen statement, because how much stock can you really put on that? Not calling Lana a liar or anything so harsh, but people deny shit all the time, especially on Twitter, then a week later, a day later, sometimes a few HOURS later, the original thing is revealed to be true, and they just wanted to be the one to break the news on their own terms.

I'm much more inclined to believe things from the source rather than via "internet rumours" and "rassling journalists".

True, but I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised or shocked if, in the near future, there is a "WWE has come to terms..." announcement on exactly the thing that was addressed.

Let me try to write them down

1. WWE Championship
2. WCW Championship (World Championship)
3. World Heavyweight Championship
4. ECW Championship (not sure if this counts)
5. Universal Championship

Are you considering the Undisputed Championship, and the WWE World Heavyweight Championship as separate entities? Or are you referring to the physical title that represents the world championship?

Remember when #FireJBL was a thing and the Universal Championship design was heavily criticized?

You didn't hear about how she left AAA for boxing because she didn't want to drop the Mixed Tag titles she and Pentagon had? And because she said another female wrestler was shooting on her and bullying her?


Then when she came back and demanded that she got the Women's belt handed to her, so tey had to fuck over Taya by stripping her of the belt?

Yeah, Sexy is a real peach.

Yeah, Sexy Star being a cunt isn't some new revelation.

WWE Championship
WCW/World Championship
Undisputed Championship
WWE Championship
World Heavyweight Championship
WWE World Heavyweight Championship
WWE Championship
Universal Championship

I think that's what #1-wwf-fan means. But they also considered the ECW World Title an actual World Title until 2007 too.

This is a genuinely amazing post.

Pretty sure TNA still beats them out.

The Undisputed Championship and the WWE World Heavyweight Championship are not separate entities. My post is through, mate :cool:

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What is new are the companies blackballing her this time for fucking once. Rosemary is apparently well liked and she was really nice on the New Legacy stream when she jumped on too, so she's been pulled from shows and even Cody has said she will not be on any show he's on (and he can probably make this demands tbh), so at least shit is happening.

I'm not even including when titles just changed their look (winged eagle, spinner, etc...)

1. WWF World Title
2. WCW World Title
3. Undisputed Title (Eventually the Smackdown "WWE Title")
4. World Heavyweight Title
5. ECW Title (Was even an option for the Royal Rumble winner. lol)
6. WWE Title part 2 (The one Rey Mysterio won, lost to Cena and then Cena lost to Punk in a unification match)
7. Re-unified WWE World Title
8. Universal Title

Was that the rumble stream? I know she donated, but I didn't know she was on it, as I haven't finished the marathon. Which rumble was it?

At some point after the MPire Rumble, think it might have been the Rumble directly after? She's quite quiet though, think she was just in the same place as Andrew Everett and chipping in every now and then.

is she the one married to johny mundo, if so he has heat now with gfw

1, 3, 6, and 7 are under the lineage of the WWE Championship.

That doesn't make things any less convoluted.

3 is a combination of two titles. 6 was a completely different title that existed at the same time as the other WWE title. Just because WWE decided to add a spot in the lineage where there were two champions at the same time, they were still two different titles being held by different people. And 7 is, again, a combination of two different titles that hadn't been unified before.

All 8 of those are distinctly different titles that were born out of distinctly different circumstances regardless of the lineage WWE chooses to use. It's a mess. Especially for such a short period of time. I can see it over the span of 100 years as companies are coming and going and merging titles becomes a necessity. This is all WWE just being fickle and not knowing what to do though. lol

No, Mundo is engaged to Taya.

IMO, it is the biggest clusterfuck creatively, in terms of why would you want to be (or root for or against) a wrestler if there's no clear definition of who the best in the world/company is and so there's no ultimate goal for the wrestler's career. I know, kayfabe is dead, blah, blah, blah. If you don't treat it somewhat consistently seriously though (and this is just one of the (many) ways WWE has simply shit on their own product), then what's at stake and the outcome has no importance. As a result, there's no reason for me to actually or even want to tune in to watch.

Kayfabe aside, shit has to matter in the story.

I love when people talk about how the outcome of the matches don't matter and the titles are just props. Until WWE starts building shows based on angles and WrestleMania is being headlined by simply a heated confrontation, the match outcomes better matter and the titles better be a pretty important/prestigious prop or else why the fuck is anyone supposed to care?

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Technically you are correct, but that has no bearing onto how things are perceived. If eight actors play one character in a TV show, you can still say "Hang on, it's only one character -- chill out," but if people are seeing the mechanics of it all, then it really doesn't matter.

To the layperson -- someone perhaps not technically researching title histories -- having the WCW Title change its name, the WWF Title unified with it, a new belt come in, a new old belt come in opposite that, a third belt introduced, one of those belts dropped, the remaining two belts smooshed together, a new belt created opposite it could get quite overwhelming.

It's about as ridiculous as saying "the stakes don't matter in a story." Um, okay? So why I am reading this book, or watching this movie? The belts are your easier way to introduce stakes. "I want to be the best!" "No, I am the best!" "Let's fight and see who is the best!" They're not the only stakes you can have, but they are certainly stakes. When you take the importance of them away, you might as well be saying "This doesn't matter." Every time a champion loses a non-title match, that's my emotional response. "Okay, being the champion means nothing. So why I am watching?"

A championship should be the answer to the question "Who is the best?" If you have two champions, you really don't have two champions -- you have two contenders. They should fight to find out who is the best.

I think this issue is underrated in terms of how off-putting it would be to casual fans. When it comes to comic books, cartoons, combat sports or wrestling, one of the most innocent and base pleasures of those forms is "Who would win between..." You want to know who the most bad-ass is. When you have "two World Champions" you are instantly negating that knowledge as a possibility.

Not that there is any doubt as to who is better between Brock Lesnar and Jinder Mahal, haha. But how is being WWE Champion supposed to mean something if everybody knows there is someone who can kick the champion's ass?

https://mobile.twitter.com/WWE/statu...78454900490242

So just announce Cena V Reigns on a social media video giving them no real build, reason to fight or anything of the sort other than to make a PPV with a D-tier name value mean something. Are subscriptions down or something?

D-tier name? It's the name used on one of the best wrestling games of all time.

Agree with everything else though. They talked for like 20 seconds on Raw about having this match before being interrupted by the Miz. Also Cena not taking it seriously at all on Raw makes this feel so stupid right now.

If its like the Cruiser title change and other head scratching decisions, purely done to artificially spike RAW's rating for the week.

WWE has only 2 weeks left before the NFL season onslaught begins.

His replacement will be Downtown Bruno!

I want to see his ascent and how long the guy had to just lie down on that table. It should also be set to the Benny Hill Chase song.

But will this work as a ratings spike? We already knew both dudes would be at the show and now instead of looking to see tension build and seeing if there's an interesting way to get there, well have the usual "hurrr you're a part time, no I'm not!" Cena and opponent in-ring promo.

Remember when wwf didnt fear nfl season. Good times.

Remember when WWF didn't fear Love & Hip Hop?

A distant memory :-(

We need CyNick back to bolster our spirits!

I think it was always on their mind. Not as bad as now. It would take a lot of research but I don't think Raw has ever beaten MNF in the ratings even during the height of it's popularity. Football has always been king.

But they still kicked ass with their ratings regardless. Thus, they didn't fear NFL. Their ratings are so piss poor now they can't handle losing ANY viewers.

Ratings are pretty much meaningless nowadays

Wouldn't say meaningless but they certainly don't quite carry the same weight. Ratings sank well before they stopped meaning as much, still.

Xavier Woods rumored to have suffered a knee injury during Monday's house show for Smackdown.

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Dean and Rene being adorable together <3

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Never knew this existed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWF_Wo...t_Championship

Yeah, I have a couple shows where Inoki defends it. He defended it at the Showdown at Shea in 1980 against Larry Sharpe which I have and I think he defended it against Charlie Fulton at an 1984 MSG show that I have.

Wasn't it a "bullshit" title? I mean, he was led to believe he was supposed to win the WHC, but WWF wasn't keen on having a world champion that wasn't contracted and as a result, Inoki got the bait & switch? I think I might be confusing stories here and am actually just looking for clarification.

So the World Martial Arts Title was created for Inoki in 78.

Inoki won the WWF title from Backlund in Japan in 1979. The plan was for Inoki to drop the title back to Backlund right before Backlund's tour end. Instead of dropping the title, the match ended in a no contest. The WWF being double crossed refused to acknowledge Inoki's win. They tried to get Inoki over in the U.S but it didn't work at all. From what I've heard, Inoki booked the no contest to try and get a rematch at MSG. Nobody in North America ever gave a shit about Inoki or pretty much all of the Japanesse wrestlers except for Tiger Mask and later the Bomb Angels/Glamour Girls. And that includes guys like Yoshi Yatsu, Fujinami, Choshu etc...

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That's adorable. Glad that Curt Hawkins is having fun.

Does anyone else watch / follow 205 Live on a weekly basis?

Used to but haven't watched since Talking Smack went away.

Not sure if this is thread worthy but,

If you had to combine 3 past gimmicks to be dolphs new gimmick what would you combine and how?

I would choose for Dolph to be an Undead male pornstar who sells time shares for Puerto Rican condos.

Broken Zombie Model

Gay zombie tax collector

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What a stable the New World Order of Fries would have been

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Wwe should bring in the progressive liberal to battle adolph ziggler.

Random thought. I watched WCW religiously from 96 to 2001 and had no idea Brutus Beefcake was the Disciple until like the mid 2000's

I didn't recognize him for a long time as well. Probably the same amount of time if not longer tbh

i think i only realized it when i learned beefer was ed leslie, cuz at some point they called the disciple ed leslie.

According to Triple H, there was some talk in the WWE to name the Mae Young Classic after Fabulous Moolah instead. He rejected the idea in favor of Mae since he wanted her to be honored and felt she was a better symbol for the theme of the event.

Gee, I wonder why

Probably a good idea seeing as Moolah was a massive cunt.

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The Moolah Classic: Winner gets to be the pimp of the other girls