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11-25-2015 09:27 PM |
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Originally Posted by Observer
According to reports, Vince McMahon settled on Sheamus cashing in his Money In The Bank contract on the afternoon of the Survivor Series pay-per-view.
The original show plans had Roman Reigns winning, which is still in long-term plans, but they want to first build Reigns up better as a babyface before doing so. Reigns gets booed at tapings, so WWE would like to get fans behind him by having corporate figures screw Reigns over and keep him from winning the title, which would mirror what WWE did with Daniel Bryan a few years ago.
Reigns is viewed in some fans’ eyes as the ‘corporate’ champion already due to being pegged as the next ‘face’ of the company. WWE is hoping fans will be more accepting of Reigns in this role, which they’ve tried to do on TV already, without getting such a negative reaction.
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Ended up using Bryan's cash-in at TLC 2011 as the basis for Sheamus' cash-in and possible future plans for Reigns.
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Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer reported on Wednesday that all plans for WrestleMania 32 were scrapped by the WWE creative team on Sunday. He says the company had a list of tentative matches for the big event, and they all fell apart for one reason or another. In other words, reports circulating the web on potential matches are just guesses at this point.
“Anyone reporting on a ‘Mania card now is guessing,” Meltzer said on F4WOnline.com. “They had a complete top six matches and everything fell apart. Everything changed again on Sunday.”
We previously reported that John Cena and The Undertaker were being booked in a match for ‘Mania. As far as The Rock goes, right now it’s considered highly unlikely that he will even appear at the show, let alone wrestle at it. WWE is trying to stack WrestleMania 32 with star power to sell out the 100,000+ seat AT&A Stadium.
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Originally Posted by PWI
As for other top matches at WrestleMania 32, Sting vs The Undertaker is not happening, and as of this writing WWE officials are still planning The Undertaker vs John Cena. This is a match that was discussed back in August, and it appears as if WWE is sticking to the plan.
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Originally Posted by Observer
TNA will be announcing shortly that the scheduled 12/2 to 12/4 tour of India has been canceled.
Talent that had been booked on the tour were contacted more than two hours ago stating the tour is now off. TNA had planned the semifinals of its world title tournament as well as a live PPV in India during the three nights.
TNA claimed to talent the tour was being postponed to 2016.
Talent was told the tour was canceled due to safety concerns. They were scheduled to leave this weekend. Everyone is scrambling now to find bookings for this weekend on short notice.
The tour was being promoted by TNA's broadcast partners, Sony Six, and TNA had already done advanced work for the tour as well as spent months pushing Mahabili Shera for its partners.
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JR's thoughts on Survivor Series and WWE in general:
- Sheamus is cold, and taking the title off him quickly will mean nothing. Reigns should be kept away from him til WM, and Sheamus needs to go on a tear from now til Mania to have a hope of being a hot heel.
- Doesn't like Reigns' super manpunch/spear combo, they're too similar in set-up, and Reigns hitting the punch then waiting for them to get back up to hit the spear looks foolish. Meltzer suggested he needs a submission finisher with the spear.
- Reigns should have (and Meltzer agreed) turned heel the day after WM 31 and become bitter at everyone.
- Feels Reigns is becoming predictable/repetitive in his late matches with the same set-ups, dangerous for a guy that young to stagnate.
- Titus O Neil has real charisma and needs a bigger role, despite his limitation in the ring. Meltzer suggested he needs a small and very skilled tag partner to complete him instead of Darren Young, similar to Gable and Jordan who have what the other lacks.
- Luke Harper is really underrated.
- Divas butterfly belt needs to go immediately.
- Criticized the commentary but not the commentators, who are just doing what they're told. Meltzer lamented that they do not change intensity as the match ramps up, they have the same tone throughout.
- If Bryan can no longer wrestle, he should be retained as a trainer and producer. Meltzer said Bryan is one of WWE's best for PR situations because he's genuine and not phony.
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Highlights from a recent JR podcast episode that had the Observer's Dave Meltzer as his guest.
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Originally Posted by Observer
The former La Sombra did an interview for Medio Tiempo talking his WWE career. He said it had always been his dream to come to WWE and he's been taking one-on-one English lessons three days a week as his main focus right now. He seemed to indicate that there is no rush to get him going in terms of choosing a character, a new name, a TV start date, etc.
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Originally Posted by Observer
WWE has begun uploading episodes of the old NWA World Championship Wrestling program on the WWE Network, years ranging from 1985 to 1987. It’s been a gradual process over the last day or so, but already around 30 episodes have been added.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Matt has a WWE Youtube observation: "Just thought I'd point something out from the WWE's YouTube account, since that's how I catch up on anything Raw related these days: They uploaded exactly zero seconds of Sheamus speaking from Raw. Plenty of Triple H, Stephanie and Roman Reigns from that promo, but nothing from the guy who actually won the company's top title. Guess they figured we weren't interested in what he has to say, which I guess is accurate, given the rating the show got. Not only have they not learned from the last two people they've done the cash in-Authority puppet trope with (Orton, Rollins), but they seem to be doubling down. Interesting."
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Some other sheet news includes: - Mexican promotion AAA currently suffering with more stars wanting out of the company. Main problems related to management and money issues with management problems as the worse of the two. Other promotions have already started to send offers to poach more talent away during AAA's crisis.
- Wrestling Observer currently holding a Black Friday sale for one month's membership to their newsletter and other paid services. http://www.f4wonline.com/sites/www.f...?itok=QfhDITOk
- For those interested, WWE 2k16 is currently on sale as part of Microsoft's Black Friday deals for Xbox platforms.
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