04-15-2021, 06:25 PM | #41 |
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Who amongst this list of wrestlers do you think is actually sad they got released?
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04-15-2021, 06:28 PM | #42 |
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I can’t imagine Billie Kay and Peyton Royce are too bummed that they don’t have WWE creative kneecapping their shtick that they got over all on their own.
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04-15-2021, 06:47 PM | #43 |
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Bo Dallas? When was he even last on tv?
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04-15-2021, 07:02 PM | #44 |
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Mojo Rawley is gone
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04-15-2021, 07:04 PM | #45 |
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There's a tweet going about saying its due to budget cuts.....LOL
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04-15-2021, 07:34 PM | #46 |
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Not Bo Dallas!!!!
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04-15-2021, 07:39 PM | #47 |
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Sad Bo never got to work with Bray.
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04-15-2021, 07:44 PM | #48 |
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i guess bo is just going to sale houses and work a few indy shows and do a signing or 2.
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04-15-2021, 08:04 PM | #49 |
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I BOLIEVE these releases are fucking bullshit
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04-15-2021, 08:43 PM | #50 |
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gonna assume Mojo being cut means Gronk burned his bridges with the WWE and they won't be calling him back when he reretires.
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04-15-2021, 08:48 PM | #51 | |
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04-15-2021, 09:30 PM | #52 |
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04-15-2021, 10:32 PM | #53 |
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Any usefulness Gronk had for WWE evaporated the moment Bad Bunny showed up and caused their online shop sales to skyrocket. Same for him generating way more mainstream interest and social media talk for the company.
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04-16-2021, 12:22 AM | #54 |
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According to Fightful Select, Samoa Joe's release was less due to "budget cuts" and more over issues of him wanting to wrestle again while WWE wasn't willing to medically clear him.
Both sides ended up agreeing to go their separate ways leading to his release yesterday. |
04-16-2021, 12:29 AM | #55 |
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did someone post this gif of Samoa Joe shoving MJF already
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04-16-2021, 12:41 AM | #57 |
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The IIconics being released is funny to me. Not funny "haha", or even funny at them, but like... weird. A couple of years ago, WWE was insistent that they were going to be the biggest thing ever. I'm not saying they're godawful, but I feel there were obviously better in-ring girls than them and there are better looking girls than them in general. They were poised to be the act that the whole women's tag-team division was centered around in spite of that... and now they're post-Wrestlemania housecleaning fodder.
To put in perspective how weird that seems to me, let's substitute them with, say, Roman Reigns. Given his current position, status, push, etc... then they decide around, say, September or October to just not give him anything to do, then unceremoniously release him during next year's April sweepstakes. |
04-16-2021, 12:47 AM | #58 | |
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04-16-2021, 01:07 AM | #59 |
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Peyton: Just let me go and see what happens WWE: Ok. |
04-16-2021, 06:13 AM | #60 |
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They did let her go, and what happened was that even Asuka couldn't hide that Peyton is sloppy in the ring.
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04-16-2021, 06:28 AM | #61 |
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04-16-2021, 07:44 AM | #62 |
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Not too surprised with many of the releases really , the roster including developmental is massive and if they are going to be doing the post Wrestlemania call ups then they need to clear some space.
Maybe the Iiconics could have stayed but they will get opportunities and a pay check elsewhere. I am not too aware so asking with the international guys ie Wesley and Kay (Royce is married so I’m guessing is ok) what is the score with them staying in the USA if they are unemployed as guessing they are there on visas. |
04-16-2021, 09:40 AM | #63 |
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04-16-2021, 11:26 AM | #64 |
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Tucker fascinates me in terms of opportunity - he's not a guy that's going to be able milk his WWE career for much on the nostalgia circuit, because he doesn't have much value in that regard without Otis. Nor is he going to immediately have major promotions clamoring to book him aside from AEW Dark-esque enhancement matches.
We don't know what Tucker outside of WWE looks like, because I don't think he's wrestled anywhere else. But if he still wants to wrestle he's someone who strikes me as more than talented and capable enough to reinvent himself and prove his worth elsewhere I can see him either pulling a Thomas Santell and completely transforming himself on the indies, or else having a good run as an import somewhere like NOAH or one of the smaller Japanese promotions. There's just something about him that makes me think we haven't seen his best yet. |
04-16-2021, 12:01 PM | #65 |
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04-16-2021, 01:53 PM | #66 |
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04-16-2021, 01:58 PM | #67 |
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Ok I want Tucker on the first good podcast. Don't care who gets him first but I wanna hear this shit.
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04-16-2021, 02:38 PM | #68 |
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According to the Observer Newsletter, a second wave of roster cuts is currently rumored to happen soon and mostly target NXT and developmental.
No other details were given besides that being what was getting spread around backstage. |
04-16-2021, 02:48 PM | #69 |
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Yeah not faulting Gronk one bit, just saying had Gronk been at Mania this year, Mojo would likely still be employed. Mojo had a job for so long because of the possibility of having Gronk, it's as simple as that. Without Gronk Mojo wouldn't have had his biggest win, and he would have been let go years ago.
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04-16-2021, 02:53 PM | #70 | |
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04-16-2021, 04:40 PM | #71 |
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04-16-2021, 04:56 PM | #72 |
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Apparently, part of the reason Billie Kay was released was because Kevin Dunn didn't "get" her.
How do you not get Billie Kay? Her character isn't complex or unorthodox in any way. |
04-16-2021, 05:03 PM | #73 |
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04-16-2021, 06:13 PM | #74 | |
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Just wait, Dexter Lumas will be the first hand picked by Kevin Dunn WWE Champion |
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04-16-2021, 06:53 PM | #75 |
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Kevin Dunn also didn't "get" Becky Lynch and thought her accent would make it hard for fans to take interest in her.
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04-16-2021, 06:56 PM | #76 |
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Fuck Kevin Dunn
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04-16-2021, 08:19 PM | #77 |
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I agree. Becky would be much better without that retarded accent.
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04-17-2021, 08:07 AM | #78 |
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wat
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04-17-2021, 01:13 PM | #79 |
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https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/20...eleases-today/
"It was just reported by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the rumor going on Thursday said more cuts could be coming today, April 16, with a focus on NXT." So after the releases on the 15th, Dave took a calculated guess that more releases were coming in the 16th, played it as if he has "sources" and is a credible journalist, and then surprise surprise, there were no further releases... Guess Plans Changed, That My Friends, Will Be $11.99. |
04-17-2021, 01:19 PM | #80 |
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Yeah he has no sources in WWE anymore. I think his big source was possibly Bruce but I don't really know for sure. I guess it could have been Patterson as well, that would make a bit of sense because since Pat died he's really had nothing.
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