big bastards typically can't move.


amateur wrestlers usually have the fitness and agility. They then go to the PowerPlant to be coached on excellent scripted promos and get a new, weird hillbilly name that involves McGillicutty or Cotton.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tay Conti's match against Santana Garrett in NXT back in November was the first NXT segment to beat AEW in the ratings.<br><br>Tay Conti's debut episode of Dynamite as a full time signed talent was the first episode to hit one million + in months. <a href="https://t.co/nOi5hNm53z">pic.twitter.com/nOi5hNm53z</a></p>&mdash; All Elite Kyle (@kylesprescott) <a href="https://twitter.com/kylesprescott/status/1304161755699052544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

If Jericho is the "Demo God" then what would Tay Conti be for AEW?

uhhhh, eye candy?

Fuck that get the football players on muscle relaxers and the basketball players on steroids and protein.

You just made some rasslers

Did this mook just ask why amateur wrestlers make good pro wrestlers?

Yes...... you know now what must be done

Seems Ronda Rousey might be making her return to WWE soon.

Recently was seen training for wrestling again with Roddy Piper's daughter.

Link: https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/r...r-s-daughter-0

Just...damn.

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Can you imagine Big Show's career if he looked like that the majority of his career.

He's alleged to have gotten liposuction prior to his wwe debut as he looked much heavier in his last wcw appearance a few months previous.

He looked good there but probably still would have ended up being a heel\face flip flop machine regardless.

He quickly started to look like shit to the point where he was forgotten about during the Invasion angle despite having big runs with both companies. Lol remember the tag team with Billy Gunn

I didn't know until recently that he was sent to OVW after his first stint as WWF Champion.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">... what? <a href="https://t.co/mr3wqDwQ0K">https://t.co/mr3wqDwQ0K</a></p>&mdash; Mandy (@WWE_MandyRose) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE_MandyRose/status/1304808350417256448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

lol

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Enjoy that butt sweat :lol:

May as well trade her since Carmella is coming in and taking her gimmick.

Yup, and had legit weigh ins to lose weight, he alleges that JR at the time wasn't a fan of him as it was him that sent him there. His biggest legit weight was near 540 during his ECW run, he looked every bit of it as well.

Mandy Rose got traded to RAW..

Poor Otis..first his MITB contract is shown to be expired..now he loses his GF

Wonder if that Mandy trade is also related to the recent rumors of WWE releasing Billie Kay potentially soon since they supposedly no longer care about keeping her on the roster now that the IIconics split up.

No, I asked why they even bother scouting amateur wrestlers.
Amateur wrestling has nothing to do with professional wrestling so you'd be as well lining up a group of any athletes and teaching them.

Scouting amateurs of all kinds would be a smarter move.

Amateur wrestling obviously isn’t the same thing as pro wrestling but the skill sets of amateur wrestlers translate really well. Amateur wrestlers can make it look real because they know how to do it for real. Not to mention the fact that wrestling requires some of the most rigorous conditioning of any sport out there. There’s a reason why guys like Angle and Benjamin are such machines and it’s not just good genes.

I mean if you just want big bastards to lumber around the ring like a moose giving birth than sure grab your talent from anywhere. But a good roster has a mixture of styles and if you want to fill a spot with a quick technical grappler, amateur wrestlers are naturally disposed to that style.

Apparently if it wasn't for Hulu and other platforms, WWE likely would have cancelled 205 Live a long while ago according to PWInsider.

WWE manages to make just enough money from the brand to justify its continue existence despite being the most ignored or forgotten brand the company has.

The women’s revolution was kind of a scam huh

I haven’t followed WWE closely since the Rumble but it seems like there were four legitimate women’s tag teams: Sasha/Bayley, the Kabuki Warriors, the Iiconics, and Fire and Desire. And now none of them are teams. Is that right?

Yeup. I'd also add in Nikki Cross and Alexa Bliss since that pairing seems to be done after Friday's episode of SmackDown.

Only established women's tag team in the division right now is the Riott Squad but Liv Morgan and Ruby Riott only recently got back together as a pairing.

Not even NXT and their large pool of women talent have any real established teams on hand.

Always was.

Small handful of women had some great matches in NXT, and they jumped on marketing it as a “revolution” despite the fact that the majority of their female workers were the shits. That hasn’t really changed.

Loved the women's revolution.... for me it only seemed to "die off" only recently along with the rest of wrestling in general for me.

I'm going to seriously be pissed about Billie Kay being released...yes her bff's husband is in AEW and she can go there....but I don't know it doesn't make sense to me.

Who else was like "WHO THE FUCK IS TRAVIS SCOTT AND DOES HE LIKE MICK FOLEY OR WHAT?"

I remember during the big cut down day a few months back, Billie was rumored to be released and that ended up obviously not being true, but there were never rumors about Peyton. She’s been earmarked for a push for ages, and I really don’t understand why. They’re both hot, their personalities are similar, neither is particularly great in the ring. But Vince somehow has decided one is salvageable and one isn’t.

Maybe instead of being released Billie will be sent to Smackdown as the other end of the Mandy Rose trade, but they’re clearly not gonna do anything with her.

I want to know who the idiot was that ran after Moxley...

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I wonder how long they will continue with the women’s Rumble match. They don’t have the numbers for it and I dunno how many more times they can trot out Kelly Kelly as a surprise entrant.

It was pretty bad last year. Women aren't built for over the top Battle Royals. They do the same "wrestler enters, does a big move and then moves on to something else", but they botch the move half the time.

They definitely have the numbers! Maybe not the depth or credible contenders but they have a huge roster without touching guest appearances.

RAW

1) Asuka
2) Bianca Belair
3) Billie Kay
4) Charlotte Flair
5) Lana
6) Liv Morgan
7) Natalya
8) Nia Jax
9) Peyton Royce
10) Ruby Riott
11) Shayna Baszler
12) Zelina Vega

SmackDown

13) Alexa Bliss
14) Bayley
15) Carmella
16) Dana Brooke
17) Ember Moon
18) Lacey Evans
19) Mandy Rose
20) Mickie James
21) Naomi
22) Nikki Cross
23) Sasha Banks
24) Tamina

NXT

25) Aliyah
26) Candice LeRae
27) Chelsea Green
28) Dakota Kai
29) Io Shirai
30) Jessamyn Duke
31) Kacy Catanzaro
32) Kayden Carter
33) Marina Shafir
34) Mercedes Martinez
35) Mia Yim
36) Raquel González
37) Rhea Ripley
38) Shotzi Blackheart
39) Tegan Nox
40) Vanessa Borne
41) Xia Li

+ 7 women on NXT UK

And that doesn’t count Scarlett (currently not a wrestler) or Mayrse (listed on SD brand).

Dunno why it suddenly popped into my head.... but I only just now got that Chris Saban's whole "Hail Saban!" thing was supposed to be like Hail Satan

That list of WWE's women talent is a microcosm of their atrocious call-up system since NXT shouldn't be hogging as much talent as they've been doing in recent years at the cost of improving RAW and SD.

Add like 3-4 women from NXT to RAW and SD each and both main roster women's divisions get a nice boost in depth and quality while NXT can go back to their old ways of focusing on building up the next set of women stars.

To get over the top, you often have women bouncing themselves up via the bottom rope too. The Rumble is basically a big brawl, and the women aren't trained to be excellent brawlers. They should have a gimmick that works towards whatever strengths they have. It's not progressive to just give them the men's gimmicks and say "Have fun."

I wish they'd let Brian Kendrick out of 205 Live and venture into NXT or Smackdown...

Former current wwe champions deserve as much

A kickstarter has been started for a comic book starring The Killer Bees


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...g-team-legends

According to Matt Cardona, WWE has been cheapskates for years in regards to paying their talent royalties from the sales of their wrestling games.

They paid their talent well in royalties for the first year a WWE game had DLC packs and then afterwards kept cutting smaller and smaller royalties checks over the years despite only WWE 2K20 suffering badly in terms of sales.

They pulled a similar stunt when the Network launched in regards to their shenanigans with royalties checks and pocketing a bigger share of the added revenues going into the company. Those shenanigans ended up being one of the big factors in CM Punk's departure from WWE.

I thought Ember had a career ending injury

Awesome YouTube channel. Dude has been putting up monthly WWF t.vs starting in 1986 and is currently up to 1996.


https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCHO8RIhwvgKcK6GBV__cUsQ

Giving ROH a shot now that they are back

https://www.rohwrestling.com/current-tv-episode

I like the rules for this tournament ROH is doing

3 rope breaks on submissions then no escape
No punches to the groin or head
20 count outside of the ring
Rule violations are a warning, then a DQ

LMAO at Nugenix commercial during ROH

Is there any wrestling program they don't advertise during

decent opener between jay lethal/dalton castle

Jon Gresham vs Wheeler Yuta was good

the rules give this a different vibe than AEW/WWE/Impact

WWE' is doing something similar with their NXT UK brand for their upcoming Heritage Cup tournament since unlike regular WWE & NXT style matches, those tournament matches will only be held under British Rounds rules.

Women's wrestling focused website Squared Circle Sirens recently announced that they are shutting down.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A message from the Squared Circle Sirens team: <a href="https://t.co/dgu93rAgkZ">pic.twitter.com/dgu93rAgkZ</a></p>&mdash; squared circle sirens (@SCsirens) <a href="https://twitter.com/SCsirens/status/1305535782296444929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

TPWW outlives another one!!

It's older yes, I just like seeing how Shawn laughs at Tyler's first chop.

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I'd suggest WWE books The Forum for WM weekend -- it's adjacent to Sofi Stadium and seats around the same number of people as The Staples Center.


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Actually....

I'm not sure WM will have a crowd (at least an in-person crowd)

They did just lay-off the live events staff and WM tix usually go on-sale in November...

There's no point in having WM in a football stadium without a crowd. Just save money and do it in a regular arena, probably in Florida or Texas where they're allowing limited crowds.

I could also see Vince giving it to Tampa for 37 and bumping Sofi to 38

Vince is foiled yet again from holding WM in LA in a large stadium where the Rams play

the key to that is if the NFL gets a crowd for the SB there 2 months earlier.

Just realized the solution

Wrestlemania goes to Saudi Arabia

They're lifting the travel ban on January 1sr, 2021

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Talk is Jericho announced on the 700th podcast....TALKNSHOPAMANIA 2!!! Nov 13th!

Wade Barrett has officially signed on to become NXT's new commentator.

NWA's lucky they signed a deal with United Wrestling Network for their new weekly PPV series since they've been bleeding talent and barely making any money during this coronavirus pandemic.

Out of the notable promotions in the US, they likely were going to be the first to fold or be sold off if their monetary situation didn't improve soon.

According to Post Wrestling, WWE lost another notable big supporter of them in NBC's upper management.

USA Network's President is leaving both the network and NBC Universal soon and had been the middle man between WWE and USA & NBC.

Very interesting

For those that listen to the Observer's Pacific Rim Pro Wrestling podcast or are aware of Jim Valley, Valley's recent health issues took another turn for the worst.

According to his wife, Valley's respiratory issues have gotten soo bad that he's on his fourth stint of needing a ventilator to help him breathe within the past month.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It's not good news. <a href="https://twitter.com/JimValley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JimValley</a> is back on a ventilator.<br>Please keep Jim and Kari in your hearts and thoughts and prayers today.<br><br>Thank you. <a href="https://t.co/vic9hoxL2h">pic.twitter.com/vic9hoxL2h</a></p>&mdash; Pat McNeill - True American (@RealPatMcNeill) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealPatMcNeill/status/1306306983675473920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Yeah I saw Bix post about Jim a week or so ago. So sad. He's been a guest on Between the Sheets a couple times. Just awful.

I had no idea

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I had never heard this before til right now on xm, I was like wtf?

I dont really hear Razors theme in it even though its slow like this where Austins is sped up

Honestly Jim has been sick since he went to Japan for Tokyo Dome this year. He's one of my favorite wrestling pundits.

Seems Forgotten Sons banishment from Smackdown and WWE television won't be ending any time soon since Jaxson Ryker continues to be a huge moron on Twitter due to his controversial social media antics.

Newest thing he's venting about is people wearing masks in public to help combat the coronavirus. He's one of those types that thinks wearing a mask means your giving up freedom to the government. Before that he was sprouting a bunch of QAnon-related nonsense on Twitter and social media.

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RVD, Taz, Sandman, Raven, and The Dudley Boys if teams count would be my list.

You forgot The Zombie.

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in no order:


Bill Alfonso
Mikey Whipwreck
Blue Meanie
Sandman
Steve Austin

RVD
Taz
Sabu
Shane Douglas
Raven

If we are basing this strictly on their ECW run

:lol: at the Zombie's promo.

That being the first match on the show made me quickly realize at the time Vince didn't actually care about ECW's revival and only bothered making it a third brand because of the lingering success from the first One Night Stand show.

Also started feeling afterwards that some of the stuff he mentioned about ECW in the Rise & Fall documentary were very likely BS.

Christian the best ECW star ever

Lol. I heard Scy Fy wanted a science fiction element. They were originally gonna cane an Alien but the network said no so The Zombie made his debut.

What was the consensus on the redesigned ECW Championship? Was it well received or panned? Personally, I thought it looked quite good on Christian.

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Instead of the blue dot , Christian should have worn that massive belt around his face

Early WWE ECW did have some good moments like the time WWE decided to run a show at the Hammerstein Ballroom and the crowd completely shat on the Big Show vs. Batista match because they came to see ECW style action and not WWE style sports entertainment.

That might have also been the last time WWE ran a show at the Hammerstein Ballroom at least for their ECW brand.

Also RVD being a double WWE and ECW champion even if it only lasted for a brief time because of weed issues. He was the only other person besides Cena who made holding the Spinner style WWE title look cool.

:lol:

I feel bad for Christian at times. While he's seen some success in form of championship victories, the way he was booked in WWE always left a sour taste in my mouth.

At the time, I felt it was very bold of them to announce Rob Van Dam as the new ECW Champion after he defeated John Cena at the second ONS PPV.

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RVD just the worst

RVD was so good in ECW and yet so fucking boring in WWE.

New ECW title was a good looking belt but it didn’t fit ECW at all.

The redesigned WWE ECW belt looked okay at the time but in a way also ended up being the forefather to the bland looking title designs WWE would debut years later like the current RAW and SD tag title belts.

Its like WWE wanted their own version of WCW's Big Gold belt for their ECW brand but made it look weak by comparison due to the choice for an all-sliver solid design belt.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Why is Tessa Blanchard in WWE 2K Battlegrounds? Screen cap from <a href="https://twitter.com/newLEGACYinc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@newLEGACYinc</a> Twitch stream. <a href="https://t.co/E54XApS59P">pic.twitter.com/E54XApS59P</a></p>&mdash; HeelByNature.com (@HeelByNatureYT) <a href="https://twitter.com/HeelByNatureYT/status/1306741368874729473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Someone's gonna get in trouble

I've had two different people who are sometimes in the know tell me WrestleMania 37 is going back to Tampa and Sofi will be getting WrestleMania 38 instead. WWE will obviously announce it somewhat soon as WM tix will still go on sale likely in November.

According to Fightful, Pete Dunne now works as both a talent and backstage producer for WWE's NXT UK brand.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pete Dunne Listed As A Producer For NXT UK <a href="https://t.co/2HfsMPG5gv">https://t.co/2HfsMPG5gv</a></p>&mdash; Fightful Wrestling (@FightfulWrestle) <a href="https://twitter.com/FightfulWrestle/status/1307045111566684160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


Also the photographer of the Tessa Blanchard image used in WWE 2K Battlegrounds is claiming it was used without his permission.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/WWEgames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WWEgames</a> you wanna tell me why you took my photo without my permission to use it in your game? <a href="https://t.co/xgGoFRzoUW">https://t.co/xgGoFRzoUW</a></p>&mdash; Basil Mahmud (@Beezzzzy) <a href="https://twitter.com/Beezzzzy/status/1306763424400113665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

+1 Melina since she's coming back to WWE

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Because <a href="https://twitter.com/SilverNumber1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SilverNumber1</a> demanded it. The Office-style DARK ORDER credits. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/joindarkorder?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#joindarkorder</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisBrodieLee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ThisBrodieLee</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/EvilUno?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EvilUno</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/stu_dos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@stu_dos</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/YTAlexReynolds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YTAlexReynolds</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Pres10Vance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Pres10Vance</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Alan_V_Angels?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Alan_V_Angels</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ColtCabana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ColtCabana</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/annajay___?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@annajay___</a> <a href="https://t.co/sqmmXKJV0d">pic.twitter.com/sqmmXKJV0d</a></p>&mdash; spooky aimee (@avidlyaimee) <a href="https://twitter.com/avidlyaimee/status/1304898250051170305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This will always be the greatest WWE segment of all time. I challenge you to find one better.

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Lol yes

There's one JBL segment I've been trying to find for years.... like one of the first times they went to Iraq, maybe the very first time.... and JBL comes out in full hazmat protection suit

i like how the numbers to call are blurred but stacy still says it clearly

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...stmas_in_iraq/

I cant embed it but there you go

That's only a gif, but nice try