But they were still brought in on their old names and presented as "check out these slightly popular names". They just weren't "check out these more popular names they are the best, love them immediately".

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Homegrown talent has always meant one thing. I’m not sure why it’s suddenly up for debate.

If people like Zayn, Neville, and Ciampa are homegrown nxt talent, then Jericho, Eddie, and Benoit were homegrown WCW talent.

Except they’re not. Because that’s not what homegrown means.

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The "Miz" version is pretty shit.

Goddamn that looked danger!

It was absolutely devastate!

Utterly viscious

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Homegrown Talent in WWE

Baron Corbin
Braun Strowman
Alexa Bliss
Bianca Belair
Street Profits
Liv Morgan
Charlotte Flair

Apparently the filming for the Swamp Fight match for tomorrow's Extreme Rules took around 6-7 hours to complete and part of the match was inspired by the Friday the 13th horror series, according to WrestlingInc.

No, that isn't the same thing at all.

Fucking get it right.

They also talked about the AEW VPs having a sook because they didn't sign with them, but you conveniently left that out. :lol:

I'm going to watch this with audio, but it seems to be some sort of "chasing the dream" video for Slater, which is really good, but I HATE the idea of being able to see his dreams. Why not just make it like a documentary of him driving in his car and training?

Come on, Heath -- you know better.

If that's his wife, then good for him too.

I think Keith Lee should have vacated the NA Title after winning in NXT and Slater should have come in and entered a tournament that William Regal says he needs to win in order to get an NXT deal, because "this isn't a charity" or whatever. Slater can win the tournament and have a feel-good moment with a singles belt. Probably triple AEW in the demos.

Not sure if you're doing a comprehensive list, but I think you can include:

Akam
Big E
Bobby Lashley
Bo Dallas
Bray Wyatt
Brock Lesnar
Carmella
Chad Gable
Dana Brooke
Dolph Ziggler
Jeff Hardy
John Morrison
Lana
Lars Sullivan
Mandy Rose
The Miz
Mojo Rawley
Nia Jax
Otis
Randy Orton
Rezar
Roman Reigns
Riddick Moss
Shayna Baszler
Shelton Benjamin
Sonya Deville
Tamina
Titus O'Neil
Tucker

Utter vicious.

It's even downright dastard.

Joey Ryan speaks out, feels he is 'under attack' by social media


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Because it had nothing to do with topic of the bad blood between Heyman and Styles, Anderson, and Gallows. The stuff with Triple H was associated but more of him being a minor player to the Heyman beef.

No one was talking about that. They were talking about homegrown talent. :lol:

And what does that have to do with my original post about the new details regarding the backstage issues between Styles and Heyman?

I'm not watching a 58 min Joey Ryan video but sounds like I'm not missing much


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I think it's uncool the level of detail sexually that Joey has gone into explaining all of this. Communicating she's tight because she does kegals has no value in this, and just feels slimy and gross.</p>&mdash; Andy Nemmity (@AndyNemmity) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndyNemmity/status/1284632518025601024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Joey Ryan is a fucking psycho.

I felt uncomfortable saying "Fuck Joey Ryan" because I have no watched the video and have no plans to watch the video, but fuck Joey Ryan.

Did he shave his stache for that video in an effort to not appear completely a sleazeball?

Thought the same thing

The men seem to be doing alright.

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The ol "Let's change the appearance to appear sorry/human" technique.

I mean my honest opinion was he was probably a dude who was good a fucking and got some of his fwb's (minus Candice and 1 or 2 others) to wrestle and do shit to...but jesus.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">For what it’s worth I am now officially unemployed. First time since I left SMW in Nov. 1994. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FutureEndeavors?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FutureEndeavors</a></p>&mdash; Lance Storm (@LanceStorm) <a href="https://twitter.com/LanceStorm/status/1284716703222382592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Yeah, no, I’m not watching an hour-long Joey Ryan video. Guilty.

Not watching current wrestling is such a pain when it comes to posting here. I get so excited when I see a thread I can contribute to lol

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yee-haw! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Slammiversary?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Slammiversary</a> <a href="https://t.co/uW0gfRO2Ud">https://t.co/uW0gfRO2Ud</a> <a href="https://t.co/9sqbz31HgQ">pic.twitter.com/9sqbz31HgQ</a></p>&mdash; Italo Santana (@BulletClubIta) <a href="https://twitter.com/BulletClubIta/status/1284667076926492675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Apparently WWE's quiet call up of Vanessa Bourne to the main roster actually happened months ago but it was only discovered very recently which shows how much WWE actually cared about it.

Same for her situation being similar to Riddick Moss in regards to how sudden her promotion was and why it was done.

Outside of a few rare occasions, WWE's call-up system has been a big mess for years.

According to Bobby Fulton's son, Futlon's health has deteriorated and was rushed to the hospital earlier today.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is Dillon Hines. I’m sadly informing you today that my father has been admitted to the hospital. He’s in poor condition. Please send positive thoughts and prayers for him. Thanks! <a href="https://t.co/hDIHfymcJw">pic.twitter.com/hDIHfymcJw</a></p>&mdash; Bobby Fulton (@TheBobbyFulton) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBobbyFulton/status/1284877688763748354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

May or may not be related to his current battle with throat cancer.


Edit: Fulton's son revealed afterwards it was due to his throat cancer returning.

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Damn, come on, Bobby.

Weird they actually fired Lance Storm. That seems like a bad decision. You don’t want him to go to AEW and be ignored.

According to PWI, tonight is Kairi Sane's last day with WWE.

She's leaving for Japan after tonight's tapings which is covering tonight's and the July 27th episodes of RAW.

Seems WWE might be experiencing another coronavirus outbreak at the PC or some other major thing suddenly popped up since WWE's taping plans for today have been delayed big time.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pro wrestling will never be popular in the mainstream again. Its days of having mass appeal and 7 million weekly viewers is long gone. It’s just not taken seriously and sadly doesn’t appeal to casuals. This goes for WWE, AEW, Impact, NJPW, etc. <a href="https://t.co/oTzfEasH2K">https://t.co/oTzfEasH2K</a></p>&mdash; All Elite Wrestling Info (@aewinfo) <a href="https://twitter.com/aewinfo/status/1285042244693655553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

It's true.

The Boom periods were always because of cultural movements that wrestling could easily take advantage of.

I wouldn't say it will never happen again, because you never know where we'll go as a people.

That said it's not going to happen any time soon because have you seen our culture lately?

Could make a very strong case that there should have been a boom in the mid-2000s and the reason it didn't happen was due to Vince and WWE's stubbornness over adapting to what was causing it.

When Spike TV bought the tv rights to RAW, they used WWE's high profile at the time to help boost the profile of their smaller UFC property under the correct assumption that wrestling fans could become MMA fans as well.

Once that plan started to bear fruit and UFC took off in mainstream popularity, Vince and WWE failed to both recognize and latch onto it since they saw MMA as nothing more than a fad. The failure of doing that ended up leading to a big shift of wrestling fans moving away from wrestling and into MMA with the repercussions of it lasting to this day.

Within wrestling, ROH guessed right that the future of wrestling would shift more towards work rate for popularity but because they never could seriously challenge WWE, only way a new boom would actually happen is if WWE also recognized it. WWE failed to do so because of Vince's stubbornness over adapting to the changing wind in wrestling post-Attitude Era.

That same argument could be applied to the "Ryder Revolution". Whatever your feelings about him were/are, he was mad over and did it himself at essentially the dawn of social media. He was the right guy in the right place at the right time, and WWE just said "nah".

I will always liken it to an alternate timeline where Austin cut his infamous Austin 3:16 promo, and then in spite of all of the crowd signs and subsequent pops, Vince just wasn't feeling it, and didn't capitalize with the shirts and a push. Instead, he just randomly shows up in backstage segments at catering and does the occasional job on Jakked/Metal/Shotgun.

They were stubborn on getting behind a guy they saw little value in, and then almost insultingly, tried to use what he did to create their own less successful knockoff and back their own social media platform just a tad too late on that party. Basically, they dropped the ball twice there.

Zack Ryder was shit though.

Wrestling could have not gone down the slope it did, and it could have enjoyed little pockets of slightly increased popularity, but it was always going to get real cold after Austin shook Vince's hand. And the decisions they made -- namely to promote Cena so hard -- has allowed Vince to become richer than ever before without anyone that can hold a candle to him.

Vince "won" wrestling. Unless another billionaire comes along or The Rock decides to start his own promotion, you'll need Vince McMahon's empire to make you whatever passes as a star in wrestling.

Yeah, WWE's pettiness over Ryder's rise in popularity via social media was just another instance of their stubbornness to adapt to the changes in wrestling until it was unavoidable.

They'd latch onto social media afterwards but instead of making it feel organic or special like Ryder did, it quickly became just another cog in the WWE machine.

Even moments like Fandango's dance and Bryan's YES! chants becoming sudden crazes outside of wrestling ended up being quickly wasted by WWE.

Objectively, so was Hogan. Precisely why I added the portion about how any reader may feel about him personally. He wasn't the greatest, and neither was one of the biggest stars in the entire history of the whole goddamn company and arguably the industry.

He didn't have to be Ric Flair or anything. And my Austin comparison isn't 1:1 for talent, just circumstance. You can't deny that Zack Ryder tapped into something far bigger than himself in the exact perfect moment in time, and WWE not only just rode right past it until the iron nearly completely cooled, but then tried to blatantly counterfeit it and nobody bought in.

I know you’re not saying it’s 1:1, but it’s not even close. Hulk Hogan had charisma for days and was a phenomenal worker. Amazing at selling and emoting. Zack Ryder couldn’t talk, couldn’t work and got over as a meme. When they tried to push him even a little bit, it was awful. Remember that promo he cut on Raw after winning the US Title?

Outside of being carried by Christian, has he even had a great match?

Fandango, on the other hand, is the biggest missed opportunity in the history of the business.

Maybe they looked at New Japan and saw how great that worked out for them.

Apparently WWE actually considered a potential Asuka vs. Natalya match for the RAW Women's Championship at SummerSlam.

Rumor going around the net is WWE's original plan was Asuka vs. Charlotte before that got dropped due to Charlotte needing boob fixing surgery.

Plan B was Asuka vs. Natalya before that also got dropped due to Natty currently doesn't feel comfortable working due to coronavirus related issues.

Plan C at the moment is Asuka vs. Shayna Baszler for the belt.

I tell you what moment in WWE history I'm surprised doesn't ever get mentioned.

That time when Rikishi did a full-on diving splash from the top of a steel cage onto Val Venis at Fully Loaded 2000. That shit was insane.

That was wild.

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That was during rave music Val Venis during his "business relationship" with Trish

Rumor going around the net is that both FOX and USA Network have grown upset with WWE's sluggish ratings in recent times and are losing patience with WWE.

Vince's response is rumored to be him not really caring despite others in the company becoming very worried.

Also starting in mid-August, FS1 won't be airing WWE programming on Tuesdays due to MLB. The network's statement to Post Wrestling did not mention if WWE programming would resume after this year's MLB Playoffs ended.

I actually, for reasons I can’t explain, think of this moment quite often.

[insert popcorn eating gif here]

That was SO a few weeks ago. They've changed their ways now.

What exactly is pulling higher ratings for USA Network right now? Fox probably doesn’t have too much doing better ratings for a Friday night.

Yeah I have that match on a dvd and it's quite the fall. Even my memory of it from the PPV doesn't quite live up to the actuall footage.

Val is a true hero for taking that splash.
He had to have visions of his own demise.

Nothing major and when they did have shows pulling in good numbers, not enough of them to put any real pressure on WWE. WWE still holds a big advantage of providing consistent 52-week shows per year compared to popular regular shows taking lengthy breaks in between seasons.

FOX is in a similar situation even though they also have a long time rep of not being shy when it comes to pulling the plug on under performing or expensive shows. The year before SD's arrival, FOX had a kids cooking contest show that was pulling in 3-4+ million weekly but only lasted for a few months at a time since it was seasonal.

There are also other factors besides ratings that contribute to both WWE's advantages and disadvantages with both networks.

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Nope. Not really. Then again, he never really got the chance to have one. Which is part of my overall point. We have no idea how he may have progressed if the machine actually got behind him and not one half-assed, late-to-the-party midcard title run or an angle where the payoff was to make him look like a complete asshole loser nobody should care about.

Remember, Vince is the same guy who even publicly admitted that he didn't see anything of value in one of his last great golden geese in John Cena. And if he decided to never pull that trigger, this conversation or some like it would likely be listing him as a failure of "all body, no substance". And even there, he didn't become the T-shirt moving company man overnight. It took YEARS and sustainability, not jobbing out in random matches on shows nobody watched once a month with him just walking by on someone else's backstage and spending the rest of his time going from city to city to be not booked.

Again, you personally didn't think much of Ryder. Fair enough. You look at him in nearly the same light I still see Keith Lee- whereas I can't deny the guy is over, but I personally still can only see him as one of the two schlub ex-football players as a tag team in ROH (the other guy was Shane Taylor, who's still there). He is a better talker than Shane, but just strikes me as a generic "big man" in a sea of "big men". I'm not creaming my pants over him. But he obviously has something I don't see, because he was getting reaction when crowds were real, and he seems like he should tick all the boxes for the Vinnie Mac approval checklist.

We don't know what could have been for Zack if he actually had gotten a fair shake while he was hot.

As for Fandango, I agree that was another dropped boat. Different way, though. Like, they seemed to think the whole reason he caught on was the dumbass song and not because he was talented. And even later when the Fashion Police started breathing new life into his and Tyler Breeze's careers, they got pushed to backstage segments (which were still getting huge pops), and then shuffled THAT off to "internet exclusive" territory. You basically had to go out of your way to watch one of the more talented and popular acts of the time. Almost as shameful as TNA's treatment of MCMG when they were the hottest tag team the company had in spite of barely being on TV.

Hopefully they ask why they still divide stables by race.

She's obviously going to have a bunch of speechwriters help her say absolutely nothing (which is smart, because at least she won't incriminate herself).

But I'm reallllllly hoping for a classic Stephanie blunder, like the time she equated 9/11 to the steroid trial.

If the McMahon family is as good at hiring speech writers and having self-awareness as they are at hiring wrestling writers and having self-awareness then I expect her to just walk up to the podium, say “nigger” 100 times in a row and then walk off stage thinking “That was such good shit”.

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Stephanie McMahon has single-handedly started the women's revolution, ended bullying, and now she's going to end systemic racism.

What a life.

gotta watch dat chronicle tho

Stephanie McMahon is so beautiful and powerful, she truly could end racism.

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Love how the giant black ninja makes an appearance for a week, does fuck all and has never been seen again.

The video package for her HOF induction will be something to behold.

Don't even remember that theme, must have been a memorable run. :wtf:

That was when he wore the plain white tights right?

That was his attire in No Mercy, but his theme and video were the "old" ones.

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Yeah when Trish was his manager. He was still mostly wearing the black and purple tights

It was his theme during his last IC title run. Right before he joined RTC.

That'll be on the NEW free version followed by RAW talk

I used to love Val Venis. Probably because I wanted an "other" so bad and I enjoyed his player/coach work in Sunday Night Heat more than Raw or SmackDown most weeks. And I remember reading an article that was right into that specific heel run where they pointed out he wasn't quite like the other Right to Censor members.

I think they could have pushed the Right to Censor out. In retrospect, it would have been nice to see the RTC make a Judgment Day PPV. But I do seem to remember people being ready for them to end at the time.

Bull Buchanan and D'Lo Brown were a tag team in All Japan for a while. They were part of a faction led by Taka Michinoku with Mike Awesome. Umaga, Rico Constantino and Justin Credible were also in there for a while. If they were around today, they'd probably be as over as The Bullet Club, haha.

Yeah Noid, we know you used to love Val Venis.

Can someone please quote Dale and my posts so they are visible to Noid?

Noid, we are aware of your creepy obsession with Val Venis.

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According to ESPN, current MLW Heavyweight champion Jacob Fatu is staying in MLW for the foreseeable future.

He recently signed a new deal with the company locking him up until 2025. Also his new deal has similar terms as other recent deals offered by MLW where talent are allowed to take outside bookings except if it involves WWE and AEW.

MLW managing to sign several new tv and distribution deals during this on-going coronavirus pandemic has been a huge blessing for them.

Jacob Fatu in the G-1 fucking do it you cowards

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JBL would be my pick because of how brutal his Clothesline from Hell looked at times but Stan Hansen also had some really good and brutal looking lariats.

If there is one thing I've liked about modern clotheslines/lariats is the little spin most guys do after taking it. Helps make the move look even more devastating.

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JBL hands down. Stan Hansen is in my top 5 favourites, but JBL had the best.

Never really liked JBL but this is a no brainer. JBL by a wide margin.

You also have to put Rick Steiner in there, somewhere.

I think JBL’s hits harder, but he also hits it very clean. I like Hansen’s more because he’s kinda sloppy which actually ends up making it look even more brutal.

Like there’s only so much you can protect someone when you’re blasting the ever living fuck out of them with a lariat, and I feel like JBL at least tries. Hansen can’t even see shit so he just swings for the fences.

You know who had an awesome clothesline: Hercules


I gotta find an example

Oh here we go, his match vs Foley. Around the 1:55 mark

One more at around the 2:10 mark. The whole match is great. PowerPlex baby!

Hercule's roid belly is out of control by the Power and Glory days.

They were a great team.

Xavier Woods' computer crashed during he and Tyler Breeze's Battle of the Brands SmackDown vs. Raw 2006 GM Mode livestream, completely wiping out all of the current roster CAWs he'd spent months creating and ranking up, as well as the GM Mode file itself.

Lol nerds