pfffffft hahahahahaha

Stocks have been a bit down but I don't think the reasons it's down are reasons that affect WWE.

Mix of both. Wall Street over-valued their stocks to begin with and WWE doing nothing to really fix their woes. Probably going to be like this till the new tv deals kick in and levels off to WWE's real value.

Same happened last time with the debut of the Network. Their stocks shot up in price more than it should have been and then investors started to bail when they realized all those promises were hollow. Several months later, they lost almost all of the bump the Network's launch gave them and leveled off at a value slightly higher than pre-Network.

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Fightful current speculating that Tyler Breeze was the mystery person in WWE to get a $500k contract extension in order to entice him to remain in the company.

This was around the same time that WWE was trying to keep The Revival and The Club from leaving when they requested their releases and/or made it known they were not staying.

Good for Breeze on making that money. Wonder if he's staying in nxt.

It would be the best thing for him. Stay away from main roster hell.

I figured it was Breeze.

He actually lives near Full Sail so he might have as close as you can feel like a “normal job” in wrestling.

EC3 probably the safest bet to be the next person to ask for their release from WWE.

Posted a tweet earlier today in response to the Ambrose episode of Jericho's podcast show.

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He's just not that good. He's so bleh.

He’s no Fandango that’s for sure. HEY, speaking of folks who would crush it in AEW

was thinking the one advantage AEW has over TNA with establishing strong footing as a viable product is that the latter, from the beginning, was run by old guard guys. IIRC even before Hogan and the idiots ran roughshod, the Jarretts were involved.

AEW has young minds with their finger on the pulse. They seem like people whose perspectives are beyond wrestling and don't live in a bubble. You hear Cody and Kenny talk and you go "wow these guys are fucking smart."

It feels 'fresh.' I don't expect it to be perfect but I like a lot of what they've done so far.

Plus a bunch of them actually bring something different to the table from a backstage perspective.

Bucks have been the go-to guys for building up the tag division, Omega for women's division, Tony Khan for the sports outlook, Janela/SCU/Best Friends for indies scouting, and Cody for the NWA/old style wrestling outlook. Lets them all focus on the stuff they are good at while leaving the rest for others who have more experience with it.

but they don't have Baron Corbin - which will be their ultimate demise.

Wait...you mean....a wrestling company can be ran by more than just one guy?

I've said in the past that MORE wrestlers need to go to NXT. Not as a "demotion", which is generally what it would be seen as, but as a way to actually showcase themselves and have legit shit to do. You know, be booked like actual wrestlers.

I feel like we haven't seen Viking Raiders or w/e their name is in like a month...same for Tag Champs Hawkins/Ryder

Currently rumor going around the net hints that Impact Wrestling granted releases to both Killer Kross and Scarlett Bordeaux.

In regards to Kross, he teased a big announcement regarding his career is going to be made soon and in regards to Scarlett, she removed all Impact related references from her Twitter account.

I imagine how huge Cesaro would be down in nxt. The matches he'd put on, the reaction he'd get. And it'd allow him to work on things that he's not good at, and do it in an environment that'd give him time and that's he'd be perfect for.

Somehow the thought of Cesaro in AEW didn't even cross my mind. When's his contract up.

I would be surprised if they let him out of his contract, scarlett was a wasted push, why did they push her so much and not sign her longer, while booting happy allie to aew.

What can you do? Gotta make room for Kofi/Roman/Shane.

This person (the handle) got banned from future AEW events

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I imagine it's pretty hard to keep someone from going to wrestling shows in various venues..

Daniel Bryan and Rowan have been pretty active as sd champs

Watching this week's episode of NXT UK and Kassius Ohno managed to win his match via his fatness blocking the ref's view during a pinfall break.

Wasn't even blatant cheating or anything of sorts by Ohno.

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I think this is funny

Oh, you mean like that match he had with Sami Zayn during his Real American run? Everyone went apeshit for it. You'd think it would have led somewhere, especially with how much SZ was being showcased as "Best Bout Machine" before Kenny Omega even came up with that moniker. Then, he got called up, and it was nothing but hipster shuffles and annoying promos ever since. And Cesaro didn't get jack shit, either, even when fans were popping for the giant swing and holding up Cesaro Section signs.

And Baron Corbin. Don't forget Corbin and all the <s>X-Pac</s> heat he generates. :|

... actually, Baron is worse.

At least X-Pac was cool for a hot minute, then just went to the well too many times with the same schtick/exact same match week after week after week. His apathy came from just getting stale. Corbin's act fell through even in developmental, but he got called up and pushed anyway. He's more like old debut fedora and "hoo-rah" Miz if Miz never improved at all and still sucked that badly years later.

I’d put Baron with The Ascension and have them be a lower card faction.

Vince would probably name that faction "The Algorithm"


"Everyone is talking about how powerful The Algorithm is today!"

X Pac was actually a great talent

lol duh.

If you can’t have a good match with X-Pac, you can’t make it in the World Wrestling Federation.

X Pac's apathy came from beating Kane over and over again

This doesn't even make sense, Brock didn't do anything 'out of line' he did what every single person who has ever won MITB does...


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HOW HARD IS IT TO JUST MAKE SENSE

lol

WWE are like those ants that march around in a death spiral.

The Authority are probably pissed he turned the case into a boombox and now have to spend money to get a new one made.

That's a few bucks missing from their giant money pool that Vince likes to take his daily swims in.

Oooh. Action. So scary.

WHAT WILL THEY DO?! :roll:

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Wouldn't be surprised if the recent legal issues with Lucha Underground played a big role in the inspiration for that bill.

Pretty much checks off all the issues talent had with LU contracts based on Cali's labor laws.

:rofl: at the end of the MJF episode of Steve Austin's podcast show.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...in_at_the_end/

Loved how Austin got into character on the fly.

Lmao that was great.

Austin is still fucking money.

Really good...

Austin had a new episode?

No it's the old one with MJF.

I want someone to bring up MJF singing "you are my Sunshine" on Rosie O'Donnell as a 5 yearr old

Make him wrestle in Saudi Arabia.

MJF has already addressed that... https://twitter.com/The_MJF/status/1113158510509002753

The “M” in MJF stands for “Money” right?

This woman is something.....

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I can't wait until this company goes out of business.

MJF cutting a promo on Rosie O'Donnell Lmaooooooooo. So great. Officially an MJF fan.

Yeah but..his singing was terrible even for a 5 year old

And Brittany Spears

That was not terrible for a 5-year-old.

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Looks like Flair and Michaels are having some words with each other.

was a guest on the podcast Stick To Wrestling.

http://mcadampod.com/index.php/2019/...ir-black-bart/

we had a lot of fun talking 1986 WCCW.

Oh, nice. That's part of the Arcadian Vanguard network, isn't it?

If Seam Godwinn wasn't so friggen unbearable I would be a regular listener. Love John McAdam.

WWE wants you to forget who the first RAW Tag Team Champions were.

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to WWE's credit if you go here he and Angle are listed as the first Raw Tag Team Champions. They wont obviously show him in a video so its kinda hard to acknowledge in the video.

I actually think they should have just started a new Lineage with the New Day as champions going into the split

Got "berated" on SquaredCircle for this.

I only do r/wwe since I got banned from SC even though I didnt break a single rule.

also r/wrasslin for memes and r/aewofficial for aew stuff and r/njpw for njpw

screw squaredcircle

It doesn't bother me. Why were you banned?

My comment was basically that it was a shame theyhad to resort to roman having "leukemia" to get him over as face (comment was deleted). The fact they were trying to get Ambrose to say shit about it backs up the idea he was never really sick (if he was really sick and they wanted Ambrose to cut promos about it then theyre worse than the worst), plus he went and filmed the movie with the rock and was supposedly "a long way off" from returning to WWE a couple weeks after "entering treatment" and suddenly hes "in remission" just conveniently enough to do the shield match and wrestle at Mania not even 4 months later.

That's a bit ill-timed, Droford. Also, recovery/remission isn't the same in all cases.

granted, I didnt have the stuff about Ambrose back then but..if he really had Leukemia they wouldnt have done that to Ambrose

So if Brock is going to absolutely cash in Monday, and Taker will be at RAW...odds Taker screws him over to set up Taker/Lesnar again at WM

Always baffling to me that they chose to keep the SmackDown WWE Tag Team Championship lineage alive when they unified the belts in 2009.

I'd say no to the Brock/Taker idea, but that really does seem like something they would line up for Blood Money in November or Mania next year.

Here's the WTF story of the morning...Terri Runnels with a loaded gun.

https://www.prowrestling.com/terri-r...psGFqRHjRLN_Rc

I believe her explanation. Sadly, it sounds completely reasonable.

Think the idea was them wanting to break off from the older eras and establish the newer belts from the brand split era as the de facto titles going forward. That also meant ignoring all the old history attached to the belts with the exception of the IC and WWE belt.

Its also why the current RAW tag belts only trace back to 2002 since that was the original Smackdown tag belts when it became the de facto WWE tag belt prior to the 2nd brand split era.

That's why it is incorrect for them to suggest that The New Day are the first RAW Tag Team Champions.

Also, they even chose the Divas Championship's lineage over the original WWE Women's Championship when the titles were unified.

I'm actually glad that the belts don't mean anything anymore, so you can stop trying to trace lineages and such. Fuck it, Crash Holly is now a former 11-time WWE Champion. Who cares?

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roughly translated theres gonna be a fuckton of wrestling on august 31st

lol HHH had the whole fucking Giants Lockerroom to himself at Mania

I ended-up with a semi-coherent first draft for the thread about re-doing the year 1998-in-WCW.

However, work remains before I'll have a finished draft that I'm satisfied-with.

To fill the gap, here's some "comedy relief!"

If Vince Russo directed a pro-wrestling porno: One of the scenes would be Scarlett Bordeaux pegging Disco Inferno, while Disco makes-love-to Judy Bagwell -- on a (luxuriously padded) forklift, no-less.

According to Jon Moxley, Dusty Rhodes original vision for his Dean Ambrose character is going to be a big influence on the direction of his new character in AEW and the indies.

He revealed it during a recent interview with website 25YearsLaterSite.com

https://25yearslatersite.com/2019/06...he-indys-more/

That's a cool story.

TODAY IS A DAY OF CELEBRATION!!

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Watching the ladder match back. You can’t really get the sense of the lighting when you’re there in the arena but they did a great job of masking the fact that it’s really quite a small venue. Small enough that they took it out of their TV taping rotation 6-7 years ago.

Wish Hideo was around just for this.

Watching an old Raw from 96, Yokozuna just Rock Bottomed Vader.

Cool.

Tijari[sic] vs Taka, hits a sweet moonsault off the apron and Lawler says "Brian Christopher does that better" out of nowhere.

I also saw a WWE title match between Taka and Triple H from 1999 or 2000 which had Trips selling like Ric Flair. Crazy what you forget.

Real Men Wear Skirts

The Rock and Roll Express just appeared... on Raw in 1997...

Putting them in there with Skull and 8 Ball seems unnecessarily harsh at their age. Old Goldfish eyes Gibson getting beaten up as badly as Wrinkly Morton.

Jim Cornette looks more intimidating than they do. Pretty sure he was still using an old style racket there.

You know those graphics they put up of each fighter before the match? They don't age well.

Ahahahahaha Chainsaw Charlie!

I remember that. Terry Funk just wanted to try out a crazy gimmick for once.

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roflllllllllllllll Jinder in full gear on the golf course

if they must have the 24/7 title, this is exactly the kind of stuff they should be doing with it

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Worst thing just happened for WWE based on tonight's NBA Finals Game 2 result. They needed Raptors to win to preserve a potential sweep and instead they lost guaranteeing a Game 5.

Observer thinks next Monday could end up setting a new all-time low for RAW since its going head-to-head with Game 5.


Also seems Impact can't catch any breaks from their Pursuit Channel deal. Going to lose more of their dwindling television exposure due to AT&T no longer carrying the network.