"100,001" Replies (Wrestling Forum)

[VSG]

It is

http://botchedspot.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2016/08/2016-08-17-love-and-jobbers.jpg

Think this is based off that selfie pic between a celebrity stalker and those two at an airport:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqA5S2ZVMAADwEm.jpg

People naturally started Strowman x Jax fanfics I guess.

[Emperor Smeat]

http://i.imgur.com/q3IvB1w.gif

[Fignuts]

Watching that Evoultion of women special. Didn't even recognize trish. Lost weight. Doesn't look great. Way hotter with a little more weight.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Think this is based off that selfie pic between a celebrity stalker and those two at an airport:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqA5S2ZVMAADwEm.jpg

People naturally started Strowman x Jax fanfics I guess.

Wonder if he yells BRAUUUNNNN as he cums

[#BROKEN Hasney]

I'm not like most BRAUUUNNNNSSS

[Vastardikai]

http://i.imgur.com/q3IvB1w.gif

Pretty good counter by the wrestling hipster...

Also, the other guy fails in his headlocking technique. That counter shouldn't have taken place. :shifty:

[Mr. Nerfect]

Jack Gallagher is amazing.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I was thinking earlier this week that if they plan to run with Charlotte/Sasha as the Women's Title feud, it wouldn't hurt to have Charlotte win back the belt at some point, regardless of whether or not Sasha's been pinged.

[screech]

Had two guests join my podcast this week to preview NXT and SummerSlam. Stream or download from the link, or on iTunes/Google Play/wherever you get podcasts. Wooooo!

http://www.nextlevelradioonline.com/Podcast/Melting/MP49.mp3

[screech]

Not sure where else to post that in the rasslin forum in case people don't go into casual to see my thread.

So there it is

[#BROKEN Hasney]

I was thinking earlier this week that if they plan to run with Charlotte/Sasha as the Women's Title feud, it wouldn't hurt to have Charlotte win back the belt at some point, regardless of whether or not Sasha's been pinged.

Have Jack Gallagher win the womens title.

Had two guests join my podcast this week to preview NXT and SummerSlam. Stream or download from the link, or on iTunes/Google Play/wherever you get podcasts. Wooooo!

http://www.nextlevelradioonline.com/Podcast/Melting/MP49.mp3

I can exclusively comnfirm that Hasney was not that guest, but don't let that stop you from downloading.

[Frank Drebin]

Was it Y2J?

[screech]

Hasney is too famous for my show.

[Volare]

What would he be on a scale from Dennis Stamp to Paul Heyman?

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Porbably one of the Johnsons

[Volare]

https://averagenobodies.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/wpid-screenshot_2013-12-08-01-57-42_1.jpg

or

http://thewrestlingrevolution.com/images/wrestlers/rockyJohnson.jpg

[screech]

Ahmed, definitely.

[Black Widow]

Would have never gotten Rock if not for his dad.

I choose him easily.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Would have never gotten Rock if not for his dad.

I choose him easily.

Thanks. I appreciate the support.

[Vastardikai]

https://averagenobodies.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/wpid-screenshot_2013-12-08-01-57-42_1.jpg

or

http://thewrestlingrevolution.com/images/wrestlers/rockyJohnson.jpg

But you forgot about the Biggest Johnsons of them all:

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/001/189/176/2_display_image.jpg?1313429911

[Poit]

huh, according to wiki balor is gaelic for 'demon king'

That's because Balor was, in Celtic mythology, the king of the fomorians - a race of demon/giant creatures. The demon eye imagery Finn Balor uses in his body paint comes from the tales that Balor had a third eye from which he could shoot death beams.

Also, when Finn Balor's WWE name was announced, he tweeted a picture of a balor - a type of demon from Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder (that specific picture comes from the Pathfinder Bestiary).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Finn has risen... Everything is done for a reason. Finn McCool meets Balor. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FinnB%C3%A1lor?src=hash">#FinnBálor</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WWENXT">@WWENXT</a> <a href="http://t.co/4X2MgrTwN9">pic.twitter.com/4X2MgrTwN9</a></p>&mdash; Finn Bálor (@FinnBalor) <a href="https://twitter.com/FinnBalor/status/515498424922542080">September 26, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[Volare]

Wow Jeff Hardy looks pretty bad ass now.

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[Poit]

Did...

Did Matt Hardy kill his brother and animate him as an undead servant?

[Volare]

All I saw on youtube was Jeff thrown through a table....laughing like a drunken fool, called himself Brother Nero, and is now Matt's mule.

[Volare]

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Then this happened....

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[Volare]

And I didn't know where to post this.....because it features someone we love....and someone we still want to secretly kidnap somehow (depending on your perspective)....

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[Triple A]

funny

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[Fignuts]

Just ordered NJPW World.

friggin sweet

[Triple A]

Should I try to look for and watch whatever "special" NJPW had on tonight

[Wishbone]

Is TNA just letting/encouraging their wrestlers to use literally ALL the drugs? That stuff is proof that the Hardy's can't be trusted when left to their own devices...

[Fignuts]

Should I try to look for and watch whatever "special" NJPW has on right now

Lotsa great matches in this year's G1 Climax.That just finished up, so probably nothing really big til the dome show. Could be wrong.

[Fignuts]

sweet

lotta dynamite vs tiger mask matches

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Is TNA just letting/encouraging their wrestlers to use literally ALL the drugs? That stuff is proof that the Hardy's can't be trusted when left to their own devices...

OBSOLETE
OBSOLETE
OBSOLETE
DAHLEET

[Black Widow]

https://i.redd.it/6viaolaw6ngx.jpg

[Mercenary]

But you forgot about the Biggest Johnsons of them all:

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/001/189/176/2_display_image.jpg?1313429911

but what about http://imblog.aufeminin.com/blog/D20061118/56539_816306709_big_dick_H225958_L.jpg

[Volare]

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[Sixx]

http://img.jbzd.pl/2016/08/722518d6437747fac535f59693ecb031.jpg

[Volare]

I would too.

[slik]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">HOLY SHIT!!! HUGE Spear from <a href="https://twitter.com/DannyMaff1">@DannyMaff1</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheBossIsBack?src=hash">#TheBossIsBack</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CZW?src=hash">#CZW</a> <a href="https://t.co/kncWjgyhDl">pic.twitter.com/kncWjgyhDl</a></p>&mdash; Jocay (@Jocay19) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jocay19/status/767407796778401792">August 21, 2016</a></blockquote>
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[Sixx]

fucking name changes, who the fuck are you

stop with this nonsense bitches

[Lock Jaw]

Good chance that "sliksuke nakamura" is "slik"........

[Sixx]

no way, that's too easy

thought you were a detective, brah

[Lock Jaw]

Ok, it's Guru Dave.

[Sixx]

THOUGHT SO

[Lock Jaw]

If you are wondering where "slik" is, I think he is "Kenpachi Ramasama" now......

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Also, I used to be called Shadow.

[Sixx]

i used to be called triple a.

feeling "anxious". just ordered some kung pao chicken, it should be here like "20 minutes ago".

[Volare]

Also, I used to be called OBSOLETE!

[Emperor Smeat]

http://67.media.tumblr.com/a616e73912894c0698b9a1b10eaa91e5/tumblr_oc8ku1sHV31u1ljrzo1_500.gif

[GD]

The post match interaction between Asuka and Bayley came across as very uncomfortable.

[Poit]

A conversation I had recently:

Me: "Who's your favorite wrestler?"
Him: "Sheamus, because he's-"
Me: "I think this date is over."

[Innovator]

Just ordered NJPW World.

friggin sweet
Oneofusoneofus

[VSG]

Petty Poit is Petty

[GD]

A conversation I had recently:

Me: "Who's your favorite wrestler?"
Him: "Sheamus, because he's-"
Me: "I think this date is over."

A really sweet FedEx employee adored Sheamus. I don't think there is anything wrong in liking him.

[Wishbone]

I love Sheamus. Dude's just booked really, REALLY badly, but he's got talent and a cool look.

[Poit]

I didn't actually end the date at that point.

But we're not having a second date. He was a terrible kisser.

[GD]

I didn't actually end the date at that point.

But we're not having a second date. He was a terrible kisser.

That makes more sense.

[GD]

http://i.imgur.com/EALWB7N.jpg

[drave]

no

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

no

But yet. Yes.

[Triple A]

smh

[Juan]

Those two word titles are gonna look good together whenever they get unified.

[Fignuts]

So fucking terrible.

[Juan]

Also, they should alter the Women's title color to a brighter pink so it doesn't look so much like the Universal title

[Juan]

The color behind the logo, not the whole strap

[Juan]

Or white

[Juan]

All white everything

[Fignuts]

Feel like making it pink, would make it feel "girly" and go against the legitamacy they have established.

Actually pretty okay with the woman's title. The white and red looks good.

[Poit]

wwe.com has posted a gallery of photos of the new Universal Championship: http://www.wwe.com/shows/summerslam/2016/gallery/wwe-universal-championship-photos

According to Dave Millican, who has created many belts for WWE and other companies, the gallery is just photoshopped pictures of Ambrose's WWE Championship: https://twitter.com/DaveMillican/status/767724864270692352

[Volare]

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[Jordan]

I don't like those titles at all

[#BROKEN Hasney]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqebGnnWIAAVgeQ.jpg:small

This is the most carny thing of all time.

[Blonde Moment]

I didn't actually end the date at that point.

But we're not having a second date. He was a terrible kisser.

That's the Poit we all know and love (body condem of course )

[GD]

wwe.com has posted a gallery of photos of the new Universal Championship: http://www.wwe.com/shows/summerslam/2016/gallery/wwe-universal-championship-photos

According to Dave Millican, who has created many belts for WWE and other companies, the gallery is just photoshopped pictures of Ambrose's WWE Championship: https://twitter.com/DaveMillican/status/767724864270692352

WWE.com is notorious for bad photoshop jobs.

[VSG]

xHamster, Brendan Dassey and WWE all together in one sentence is something I wasn't expecting today.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

https://i.sli.mg/VNrymO.jpg
https://i.sli.mg/i4WRd8.jpg
https://i.sli.mg/hQnTyk.jpg
https://i.sli.mg/qGSaah.jpg

[Volare]

Oh my god....the 100000's of showers they had to of taken after that...

[Frank Drebin]

Good gravy. Those are why you don't get a pic taken at one of those things. Poor Becky. I hope those are photoshop.

[Frank Drebin]

Brie gonna be haunted by that pic of her and Jered Fogel from Subway.

[owenbrown]

Oh my god....the 100000's of showers they had to of taken after that...

100,000's seems like an awfully low number to me.

[Emperor Smeat]

https://media.giphy.com/media/26uflLrt0Orj0G9Z6/giphy.gif

[Lock Jaw]

Becky crying out to be saved in that pic...... I will save you, Becky....... I'm on my way......

[Heisenberg]

100,000's seems like an awfully low number to me.

You need to stop impersonating owen, it's fuckin 2016.

[owenbrown]

You need to stop impersonating owen, it's fuckin 2016.

Dude, I am the real owenbrown. What the fuck?!

[Emperor Smeat]

https://67.media.tumblr.com/d9690f22c43575088d7ee661ed9adce5/tumblr_oc2wxcRqlj1tbybnpo5_250.gif

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Dude, I am the real owenbrown. What the fuck?!

No, the real Owen sold account years ago.

[BigCrippyZ]

:lol: at Becky's face. Poor girl.

[BigCrippyZ]

Also looks like Brie's starting to get quite a nice ass on her from these pics. Kudos.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

http://i.imgur.com/4541m7J.jpg

[Mr. Nerfect]

Hideo Itami and Kofi Kingston should have a feud over shoes for WrestleMania next year.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Poor Becky.

[Mr. Nerfect]

White and red are the right choices for the Women's Title. Big Red should be called Big Red all the time.

[slik]

Dudleyz really are done, after all...



Source: PWInsider


It was recently reported that Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley both signed new deals with the company but according to PWInsider, they just agreed on terms for a new deal and some time in the past 7 days, the two sides amicably agreed to part ways as the contracts had not yet been officially executed.


It was agreed that the former Tag Team Champions would finish up on last night's RAW and do the angle with The Shining Stars, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson. The beatdown with The Club was done to put some heel heat on them for ruining the big farewell, and to leave the door open for a potential match if The Dudleyz make a return.


Bubba and D-Von returned to the backstage area after the angle and the entire RAW roster, including officials and the McMahons, were waiting for them with a standing ovation.

[Volare]

I mean it sucks because I like them....just really did nothing with them IMO after their feud with The New Day.

[Evil Vito]

The Dudleys did what they were paid to do: come in and put over younger teams.

Sucks that Bubba didn't get a solo run though...especially after saying on Jericho's podcast a few years back that he'd never go back to WWE just to be Bubba Ray Dudley again.

[Lock Jaw]

http://giant.gfycat.com/ObedientWebbedCooter.gif

http://fat.gfycat.com/QuickUntriedCirriped.gif

[Lock Jaw]

https://67.media.tumblr.com/e78fdbe0f74adaa80ba063ac18cad875/tumblr_oc8ug5spEM1sjrxhco1_250.gif https://67.media.tumblr.com/ffa2c87c8f02f62aee744a4d40b22795/tumblr_oc8ug5spEM1sjrxhco2_250.gif

[Lock Jaw]

http://i.imgur.com/QDlzPa0.jpg

[Lock Jaw]

http://i.imgur.com/fz0Et0c.gif

[owenbrown]

No, the real Owen sold account years ago.

Remind me to neg rep you later

[#BROKEN Hasney]

So remember the news last week that WWE were sucking up to GLAAD? Well apparently if it gets out what Brock said to Jericho, it could land them in hot water.

Now Finlay and Regal were on the 'Working a Resthold' podcast calls Zack Sabre Jr.'s style gay. Off to a great start as always.

[Volare]

http://giant.gfycat.com/ObedientWebbedCooter.gif

http://fat.gfycat.com/QuickUntriedCirriped.gif

This as well as the MOST GLORIOUS THEME OF ALL TIME need to be on every page now.

[slik]

Finn Balor = Ratings




credit - wrestlininc.com


Monday's WWE RAW, featuring the fallout from SummerSlam and Finn Balor relinquishing his newly-won WWE Universal Global Title, drew 3.315 million viewers. This is up from last week's 2.915 million viewers.

For this week's show, the first hour drew 3.462 million viewers, the second hour drew 3.370 million viewers and the final hour drew 3.113 million viewers.

[Mr. Nerfect]

https://67.media.tumblr.com/e78fdbe0f74adaa80ba063ac18cad875/tumblr_oc8ug5spEM1sjrxhco1_250.gif https://67.media.tumblr.com/ffa2c87c8f02f62aee744a4d40b22795/tumblr_oc8ug5spEM1sjrxhco2_250.gif

Becky's abs will equate to ratings when they get them out again. :y:

[Mr. Nerfect]

So remember the news last week that WWE were sucking up to GLAAD? Well apparently if it gets out what Brock said to Jericho, it could land them in hot water.

Now Finlay and Regal were on the 'Working a Resthold' podcast calls Zack Sabre Jr.'s style gay. Off to a great start as always.

Didn't Braun Strowman's opponent on RAW say he wants big, sweaty men?

[Mr. Nerfect]

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[slik]

The Highest Rated WWE segment of all-time is NOT Rock/Foley "This Is Your Life"



https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/3x4pxx/til_a_undertaker_vs_austin_match_is_the/

Meltzer says that the reason the Rock / Foley segment is pushed so hard as the highest RAW rating is that WWE doesn't want to make it seem that a wrestling match can draw more than a skit, Alvarez says it's because Vince Russo always claimed that and people started to believe it.


A match where Steve Austin won the WWF title from The Undertaker in Charlotte drew the largest rating and audience to ever witness a pro wrestling match or for that matter, any pro wrestling segment, ever on U.S. cable television. The match did a 9.5 rating, which was 10.72 million viewers. Perhaps the most impressive is that one out of every six television sets in the U.S. that had cable that was on during that time was watching that match. Because for more than a decade, Vince Russo has made it a talking point to say how the “The Is Your Life: Rock,” segment was the highest rated segment in history (it did an 8.4 quarter), to show how skits outdraw matches, it’s become a talking point how that was the highest rated segment in Raw history. Actually there were a handful of different quarter hours that beat that total, including most of the second hour of the May 10, 1999 show.

[Mr. Nerfect]

That's really interesting. I actually didn't know that.

[Cool King]

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I get the feeling that Vince told him to say that just so he could get a laugh out of it.

[Emperor Smeat]

http://i.imgur.com/W8BUxwj.gif

[Mr. Nerfect]

I get the feeling that Vince told him to say that just so he could get a laugh out of it.

Oh yeah, completely agree.

[Emperor Smeat]

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[Mr. Nerfect]

I'm glad Bayley is main roster, but I really don't want her to beat Charlotte just yet. I like the idea of Charlotte being RAW's female AJ Styles. She's a bitch and you want to hate her because she's got that heel disposition, but in the ring she wins cleanly all the time because she really is that good.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

They should build her up over a few months with some decent amount of development for her character to get over on the main roster.

And not on main event either. Give her a long run away from the title on Raw until she catches some momentum.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I'd have honestly liked to have seen her debut against Natalya. Nattie is the perfect wrestling heel to tangle up Bayley for a few months.

[Emperor Smeat]

A Natty-Bayley feud would have been pretty nice and a good starter feud for Bayley. Had the WWE not panicked over Sasha's injury, could have still kept Bayley for Smackdown like the sheets were teasing.

Wouldn't take much to do a quick build for Summer or Alicia as a one-off feud for Charlotte till Sasha came back.

[Frank Drebin]

Hopefully, Bayley loses but puts up a good fight. Gets knocked down but earns another shot some time later. Loses again. Keep that build of her finally winning the big one going as long as you can.

[GD]

I miss listening to this track

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[GD]

For the folks who missed the WWE 24 Women's special, Benoit's name appeared in the part where they were focusing on Trish and Lita main eventing RAW.

[GD]

https://i.imgur.com/1HdDeLJ.png

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Brock Lesnar has been fined $500 for his vicious attack at Summerslam. He'll surely learn his lesson after such a huge fine.

[GD]

Chump change for one Brock Lesnar

[#BROKEN Hasney]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SenorBenjamin?src=hash">#SenorBenjamin</a> is the Hispanic Walter White.<br><br>He is the danger.<br><br>He is the one who rakes.<a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminSenor">@BenjaminSenor</a></p>&mdash; #BROKEN Matt Hardy (@MATTHARDYBRAND) <a href="https://twitter.com/MATTHARDYBRAND/status/768342851092611072">August 24, 2016</a></blockquote>
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[Innovator]

Get over Benoit.

[slik]

New RAW & SD sets are permanent!


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="und" dir="ltr">Permanent. <a href="https://t.co/XzDMcuyba5">https://t.co/XzDMcuyba5</a></p>&mdash; Mauro Ranallo (@mauroranallo) <a href="https://twitter.com/mauroranallo/status/768299254083268610">August 24, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/mauroranallo">@mauroranallo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE">@WWE</a> Do you know if the Sets from this Weeks <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RawAndSmackdown?src=hash">#RawAndSmackdown</a> are permanent or just up because the same venue was used?</p>&mdash; T.C (@ShowOffTC23) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShowOffTC23/status/768295678766292993">August 24, 2016</a></blockquote>
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[Big Vic]

The Highest Rated WWE segment of all-time is NOT Rock/Foley "This Is Your Life"

That's really interesting. I actually didn't know that.

Who has the ratings? because theres was this one site that did the breakdowns before which is now defunct which had the "This is your life" as the highest rated segment.

[Volare]

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[Volare]

Never thought about this, but Bullet Club could literally rule the world soon.
Guy posted this in the Elite comments...

Kenny Omega wins G1 Climax, check.
Adam Cole wins ROH World Championship, check.
The Young Bucks win ROH World Tag Team Championship, soon.
Gallows and Anderson win WWE Tag Team Championship, soon.
Finn Balor wins WWE Universal Championship, it's complicated.
AJ Styles wins WWE World Championship, soon.
Kenny Omega wins IWGP Heavyweight Championship, soon.

[GD]

Fun Facts:

1. The new Women's title and Tag Team titles on Smackdown aren't the first belts to have been been branded with the Smackdown name.

2. In 2005, when reigning WWE Champion John Cena was drafted to Monday Night RAW, Smackdown GM (at the time) Theodore Long announced a match to determine the first ever Smackdown Champion. It must be noted that the actual belt was never revealed (for obvious reasons).

3. JBL won the match and became the first ever Smackdown Champion. But his status as champion was demoted to #1 contender for Smackdown's latest draft pick, Batista's World Heavyweight Championship.

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[Cool King]

New RAW & SD sets are permanent!


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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/mauroranallo">@mauroranallo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE">@WWE</a> Do you know if the Sets from this Weeks <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RawAndSmackdown?src=hash">#RawAndSmackdown</a> are permanent or just up because the same venue was used?</p>&mdash; T.C (@ShowOffTC23) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShowOffTC23/status/768295678766292993">August 24, 2016</a></blockquote>
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When I saw that it was used on Raw, I had a feeling they would be permanent. SmackDown only confirmed it for me.

I think it looks pretty cool if I'm honest, but I won't lie, I am going to miss seeing titantrons during entrances.

The sets now just remind me of the old neon entrance set pre-titantron, but just on a much larger and grander scale.

[Cool King]

Also, Backlash poster.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/Backlash_2016_Poster.jpg

[XL]

When I saw that it was used on Raw, I had a feeling they would be permanent. SmackDown only confirmed it for me.

I think it looks pretty cool if I'm honest, but I won't lie, I am going to miss seeing titantrons during entrances.

The sets now just remind me of the old neon entrance set pre-titantron, but just on a much larger and grander scale.

Have the trons gone!? I was clearly paying attention.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

On mobile, but this is GLORIOUS

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7g1Pfs34Hyg

[#BROKEN Hasney]

WWE announced Monday a partnership with KFC to run the stunt with Ziggler and The Miz on WWE Network broadcasts throughout 2016, concluding with the Royal Rumble in January 2017.

“The stunt plays off KFC’s existing brand campaign where celebrities such as Jim Gaffigan, George Hamilton, and Darryl Hammond play the colonel,” WWE announced.

The spot is part of KFC’s marketing campaign about there being “no room in the ring for second-rate chicken,” prompting Colonel Ziggler to challenge imposter chicken Miz to a match.

[Innovator]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Coming soon <br>The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericanAlpha?src=hash">#AmericanAlpha</a> Ready Willing &amp; Gable Towel! <a href="https://t.co/C05SghZWdZ">pic.twitter.com/C05SghZWdZ</a></p>&mdash; WWE Shop Updates (@WShopUpdates) <a href="https://twitter.com/WShopUpdates/status/768550792391430145">August 24, 2016</a></blockquote>
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[Emperor Smeat]

http://i.imgur.com/CJItRGb.gif

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[Droford]

Apparently the Rock might wrestle Vin Diesel at WM.
Fast 8 comes out the week after WM next April

[Droford]

I just saw where NBC Universal owns the movie ticket site Fandango.

They should demand Fandango be traded to RAW and win the Universal Championship

[Evil Vito]

Michelle McCool has been diagnosed with skin cancer :(

[Emperor Smeat]

Turns out Triple H is a huge fan of the #GloriousBomb according to Johnny Gargano.

After we posted a few, someone showed us a text message from Triple H, saying ‘Tell Gargano and Ciampa I love the Glorious Bombs.’ So we are like, if he loves them, we gotta keep doing them.

Also revealed the origin of it.

This is the first time I’ve told this story on a podcast or anything like that; so we were doing walkthroughs for the Cruiserweight Classic and they played this ‘Glorious’ song. They played Bobby’s [Bobby Roode] song. And we all thought that was going to be the theme song for the show. That was going to be the Cruiserweight Classic theme; that was going to open it.

So we all got excited! Like, this is our song! This song rules! This is awesome! So we are all saying, ‘Glorious!’ and doing hand-motions and saying we should do this, we should do that. And we later find out it’s Bobby’s song. We immediately are really angry with Bobby. What the heck, that’s our song. Why does Bobby get such a cool song?!

So every single time we saw Bobby, we would tell him, ‘Oh man, we really want your song.’ And every single time we saw him, me and Tommaso would go up to him and be like, ‘Glorious! Glorious!’ and sing his song to him. So we do that.

One day I said to Tommaso, when the song got released on YouTube, I said it would be funny if we had a phone, and we played his song and ran up to him playing it and filmed us doing that. I’m more of an idea guy; Tommaso is the more the go and doer guy. He has no filter and will go and do things.

So we went up to Bobby and asked him and he was like, ‘Yeah, sure. Let’s do it.’ We filmed one in the gym first, and we had Bobby do a fake rep, and I want to point out that the fake rep Bobby does is with 70-pound dumbbells. He just picks them up and rips them out, no problem. So we filmed that first one and posted it. Then it starts getting blown up online and it’s going viral.

http://www.cagesideseats.com/2016/8/24/12633762/johnny-gargano-reveals-origin-gloriousbomb-tommaso-ciampa-bobby-roode-wwe-nxt-triple-h

[Volare]

On mobile, but this is GLORIOUS

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7g1Pfs34Hyg

EPICLY GLORIOUS!!

[Emperor Smeat]

According to the Observer, WWE's original plans for the upcoming Clash of Champions ppv was Finn vs Owens for the Universal title had Finn not gotten injured.

Then Balor vs Owens vs Jericho for the Universal title at Hell in a Cell ppv.

[Volare]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Seems like Owens gets the shaft on that one. Would've gotten a chance at some main event shine.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

According to the Observer, WWE's original plans for the upcoming Clash of Champions ppv was Finn vs Owens for the Universal title had Finn not gotten injured.

Then Balor vs Owens vs Jericho for the Universal title at Hell in a Cell ppv.

They also had some shit about Reigns since this was all still Plan B or C at this point.

If Reigns didn't get a wellness violation...

- He'd still be undefeated and he would have went over Ambrose and Rollins at Battleground
- Reigns/Rollins would have been the main event for Summerslam
- Styles would be the first ever Universal Champion
- Ambrose wouldn't even be a champion yet
- Balor wouldn't have become a champion yet

They also note that Takeover has been viewed more times on the Network than Summerslam.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

http://i.imgur.com/PPDvJ5b.jpg

[Jordan]

Just watched NXT, very hyped on TM161 they truly have a different style than the NJPW guys that have come over. It's not drastic, but it's a little different.

[Rammsteinmad]

Apparently the Rock might wrestle Vin Diesel at WM.
Fast 8 comes out the week after WM next April

Sounds awful.

But not as awful as Big Show vs. Shaq.

[Rammsteinmad]

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Almost seems like Lesnar is "having fun" and "getting involved with the boys" here.

It's so hard to tell, if Heyman is always in character or if he is just so super intimidating to talk to, due to his partnership with Lesnar. Used to enjoy it, but now the more I see it, the more I feel like he's actually a real-life prick.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Nah, I've heard a lot of stories where Paul is friendly and has great conversations with people, but as soon as the camera rolls, he turns it on. He's just that good.

[Heisenberg]

He's a Santa of some sorts on Twitter, always doing free giveaways and posting content that targets the demographic harder than Harambe's corpse.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Because WWE was unable to get a trademark on the term “Lady Balls,” the Stephanie McMahon autobiography was given a name change to “unREAL!” It comes out next month

[slik]

Sounds awful.

But not as awful as Big Show vs. Shaq.

WrestleMania 33 card:


The Feud 2 Fast 2 be stopped!
The Rock vs. Vin Diesel


The "BIGGEST" WrestleMania match ever!
The Big Show vs. Shaq


Loser Leaves WWE!
HHH vs. Shane McMahon


Undertaker's Last Stand!
Undertaker vs. Braun Strowman


RAW vs. SMACKDOWNLIVE
John Cena vs. Baron Corbin


WWE UNIVERSAL TITLE
Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Roman Reigns

[screech]

That sounds horrendous

[#BROKEN Hasney]

WrestleMania 33 card:


The Feud 2 Fast 2 be stopped!
The Rock vs. Vin Diesel


The "BIGGEST" WrestleMania match ever!
The Big Show vs. Shaq


Loser Leaves WWE!
HHH vs. Shane McMahon


Undertaker's Last Stand!
Undertaker vs. Braun Strowman


RAW vs. SMACKDOWNLIVE
John Cena vs. Baron Corbin


WWE UNIVERSAL TITLE
Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Roman Reigns

You're fired

[slik]

REVISED

slik's predicted card...





The Feud 2 Fast 2 be stopped!
The Rock vs. Vin Diesel


The "BIGGEST" WrestleMania match ever!
The Big Show vs. Shaq


Loser Leaves WWE!
HHH vs. Shane McMahon


Undertaker's Last Stand!
Undertaker vs. Braun Strowman


WWE WORLD TITLE
John Cena (c) vs. Baron Corbin


WWE UNIVERSAL TITLE
Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Roman Reigns


Grudge Match!
Dean Ambrose vs. The Miz


Grudge Match!
Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor


Divas Title
Sasha Banks (c) vs. Bayley


Andre The Giant Battle Royal!
Bray Wyatt, Randy Orton, Kane, AJ Styles, Cesaro, Sheamus, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, A New Day, Enzo & Cass, American Alpha, Nia Jax, Chris Jericho, The Club, Golden Truth

[#BROKEN Hasney]

REVISED

slik's predicted card...





The Feud 2 Fast 2 be stopped!
The Rock vs. Vin Diesel


The "BIGGEST" WrestleMania match ever!
The Big Show vs. Shaq


Loser Leaves WWE!
HHH vs. Shane McMahon


Undertaker's Last Stand!
Undertaker vs. Braun Strowman


WWE WORLD TITLE
John Cena (c) vs. Baron Corbin


WWE UNIVERSAL TITLE
Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Roman Reigns


Grudge Match!
Dean Ambrose vs. The Miz


Grudge Match!
Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor


Divas Title
Sasha Banks (c) vs. Bayley


Andre The Giant Battle Royal!
Bray Wyatt, Randy Orton, Kane, AJ Styles, Cesaro, Sheamus, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, A New Day, Enzo & Cass, American Alpha, Nia Jax, Chris Jericho, The Club, Golden Truth

Why is your desk not clear yet?

[slik]

idk...they should def hire me 4 wwe creative...

[#BROKEN Hasney]

That's it, I'm getting security to escort you off the premises.

[Innovator]

I have a dream card in my mind, but I can't think of anything past the main event of Nakamura's entrance

[Heisenberg]

Had to remove that Shinsuke/Asuka Hentai, sorry folks. Just because they are Japanese and Champions doesn't mean we need to fast forward to all that.

[owenbrown]

WrestleMania 33 card:


The Feud 2 Fast 2 be stopped!
The Rock vs. Vin Diesel


The "BIGGEST" WrestleMania match ever!
The Big Show vs. Shaq


Loser Leaves WWE!
HHH vs. Shane McMahon


Undertaker's Last Stand!
Undertaker vs. Braun Strowman


RAW vs. SMACKDOWNLIVE
John Cena vs. Baron Corbin


WWE UNIVERSAL TITLE
Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Roman Reigns

slik, no fucking way in hell should Cena nor Roman Roids be anywhere near the world titles at WM.

[owenbrown]

Had to remove that Shinsuke/Asuka Hentai, sorry folks. Just because they are Japanese and Champions doesn't mean we need to fast forward to all that.


Wait what?!

[Big Vic]

Why do Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins have the 2 worst themes in the company right now?

[Evil Vito]

Whilst Big Show vs. Shaq will be awful, I've just come to accept that some years will feature a celebrity attraction match. I'd argue it pisses me off less than part-timers getting high profile matches on the card because there is a historical precent for celebrities wrestling that dates all the way back to the first WrestleMania.

If Big Show makes good on his promise to finally retire after that match, I can accept it. Just get him the fuck off of my screen.

[Mercenary]

For the folks who missed the WWE 24 Women's special, Benoit's name appeared in the part where they were focusing on Trish and Lita main eventing RAW.



So?

[#BROKEN Hasney]

http://i.imgur.com/rOAeh08h.jpg

Nice of HHH to let that homeless man try and turn his life around with a job. New found respect.

[Emperor Smeat]

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[Jordan]

Heart Break Haggardy

[Mr. Nerfect]

I find it surreal that Matt Bloom is the head trainer in NXT. Shawn Michaels works under Albert.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I've got a feeling that Triple H will be wrestling Shinsuke Nakamura at WrestleMania next year. The Rock vs. Vin Diesel seems weird to me. I think Rock vs. someone with Vin Diesel in his corner would make sense. Or Rock & Vin Diesel vs. Kevin Owens & Bobby Roode or something.

[Mr. Nerfect]

While I am glad that the CWC is bringing people so much joy, I really don't think we need the Cruiserweight Title back. I'm just going to throw that out there.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Guys like Cedric Alexander and Rich Swann can be signed on their own merits.

[Droford]

Rich Swann should be in New Day yesterday

[Mr. Nerfect]

I think his energy would fit the group.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I was thinking about the Universal Title. It really should be on Brock if they want people to take it seriously, and status quo booking would suggest that Seth Rollins gets it and holds it until they get a spook when ratings go down or Balor returns to win it back. But if they really wanted to shake things up, and given that they aren't exactly roaring in the ratings at the moment, it might be the best thing to go with a new champion.

This immediately eliminates Rollins and Reigns from contention. That would leave it between Owens and Big Cass. While Big Cass is over and something fresh, I don't think he's the sort of guy that is going to benefit from being exposed in that position, and while he shouldn't be beat, he really should be going after the US Title before he wins Big Red.

That means Kevin Owens winning the Universal Title might be best for business. If people don't like his look or whatever, is business really going to be that badly averted? He's already signed and working in high profile matches and stories. He's already beaten John Cena. If business were roaring, I'd probably be against it, but in times where you have these NBC masters, maybe Kevin Owens is worth a damn shot?

You have him win the Uni Title on RAW. He can't pin Cass and he can't pin Reigns for this scenario to work -- therefore he has to pin Rollins. Nay. He makes Rollins tap-out. That's how you crown a new star. Owens wins the Universal Title and immediately as RAW goes off the air, Zayn starts beef with Seth Rollins for tapping out and making his arch-nemesis the Universal Champion.

Owens shows up on RAW, Stephanie asks why he isn't wearing a suit and Owens says that he's been kissing McMahon ass to get this opportunity and now that he's done it, he doesn't need to kiss ass anymore. He shoots on the belt design (because that will get a pop) and the only reason this is worth something is because he's going to make this the most hotly contested prize in wrestling. He's proven he can beat anybody and now that he's got this to put better food on the table for his kids, he ain't droppin' it to nobody.

Cue Roman Reigns who basically says something like "You can't beat me, fat boy." First challenger. Both are super-confident. Owens is automatically babied by going against Reigns. Stephanie officially endorses Reigns as the champion RAW needs. Owens maybe even starts leaving the belt at home because he doesn't need physical possessions to prove he is the champion, and his kids like playing with it.

Owens beats Reigns at Clash of Champions, because Reigns is still in penance mode. Owens gets the pin with either the Frog Splash or the Swanton Bomb -- whichever he prefers to use. They probably fight again in Hell in a Cell, because that's how WWE works. Owens wins again. Reigns is the crazy one who takes the bump -- provided he's willing -- to earn further respect back from Vince or whatever bullshit. Owens teases like he is going to jump off after him, but then just climbs down, because that would be insane.

In a dramatic turn of events, Kevin Owens starts receiving weird messages in the mail addressed to his freakin' kids. They say things like "Your daddy is a bad man." Owens immediately suspects Sami Zayn. They have personal beef after all. Zayn says that Owens is nuts. He hates his guts, but those kids are like his niece and nephew, he could never hurt them. "You're a piece of crap, Sami! I know it's you!" Owens challenges Zayn to a match at Survivor Series, then when he taps out he won't have any more excuses other than to accept that Owens is the better man and he can stop this damn bullshit.

Owens and Zayn tear it up, with Zayn maintaining that he didn't send the letters. Owens gets Zayn in the Crossface, and actually tears up as he is pulling back on Sami Zayn with the Crossface, who passes out but doesn't tap. Owens doesn't have his closure because Zayn didn't tap-out. He's infuriated, but then a voice plays over the arena. It's distorted using some sort of device.
"You really think that Sami Zayn was the one who sent your children those letters? You really are a stupid idiot." Jericho then hits a Codebreaker on Owens to close Survivor Series.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I'm going to say it: The Rock's best WrestleMania option is Bobby Roode. Rock will win, but it will be tainted due to Vin Diesel assistance. Roode spends the next year calling out Rock and gets a guest spot on Ballers where they make obscure references to the loss. Roode becomes a big deal.

[Mr. Nerfect]

* Owens vs. Zayn for the Universal Title (versus Chris Jericho if he's on the roster)

* The Rock & Vin Diesel vs. Bobby Roode & James Storm (not together as a complete team, but as sort of allies -- think Jericho & Owens)

* Andre Battle Royal featuring Big Show, Shaq, Baron Corbin, Braun Strowman, Mark Henry and Kane

* Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor

* AJ Styles vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Title

* John Cena vs. Samoa Joe

* Dean Ambrose vs. Roman Reigns

* Triple H vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

* Nikki Bella vs. Becky Lynch for Women's Title Blue

* Charlotte vs. Sasha Banks vs. Bayley for Women's Title Red

* The New Day vs. The Wyatt Family

* American Alpha vs. The Revival for Tag Silver

* Gallows & Anderson vs. Enzo & Cass for Tag Bronze

* Rusev vs. Darren Young (w/ Kurt Angle and Bob Backlund) for US Title

* Hideo Itami vs. Dolph Ziggler for IC Title

* Rich Swann vs. Kota Ibushi for CW Title

* Sheamus vs. Cesaro vs. The Miz vs. Kalisto vs. Neville vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Heath Slater vs. Zack Ryder in a Money in the Bank Ladder Match

* Stephanie McMahon Invitational featuring all the women

The show will go for 8 hours.

[Mr. Nerfect]

If they don't get Jeff Hardy for WrestleMania, then that Ladder Match spot goes to someone like Brian Kendrick, Sin Cara or Curt Hawkins.

[Evil Vito]

Does that proposed card involve a whole bunch of trades taking place or are you banking on WWE just reverting back to "fuck the split" mode during Mania season like they did during the last brand split?

[Mr. Nerfect]

Does that proposed card involve a whole bunch of trades taking place or are you banking on WWE just reverting back to "fuck the split" mode during Mania season like they did during the last brand split?

Fuck the split, but also just interpromotional shit. The New Day vs. The Wyatt Family fight for brand pride, because that's something dumb. Ambrose and Reigns cost each other the Rumble and need to find out who is truly better. Money in the Bank is agreed upon by the General Managers and the Battle Royal features everybody. Oh, and Brock wins the Royal Rumble to jump brand. He's basically feuding with Shane McMahon now anyway.

[Evil Vito]

I'm personally hoping they keep the brands completely separated with the exception of the Royal Rumble match...and I guess the Andre Battle Royal because they need to do that to ensure everybody gets on the show.

Probably not gonna happen though once they decide on matches and realize the split hamstrings them.

[Evil Vito]

Actually I'd like to see the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal kinda turn into Bragging Rights. That's how they handled the pre-WM battle royal back during the early days of the split.

Have the GMs promise a title shot to the winner if the winner is from their show. That'll incentivize the rosters to work together until the end. Then you just have some shitbag heel turn on his own brandmates anyway.

[Evil Vito]

If they do an annual draft just make it like the 2004 lottery where each show gets X number of lottery picks and that's that. Don't do that stupid "wrestle for picks" bullshit. It never made any sense why a heel would want to bring more competition to their show.

[Evil Vito]

Actually I think they even demonstrated that once. Edge won the match by cheating, looked all smug at winning a draft pick for SmackDown. Then immediately became scared because the pick led to Khali joining SmackDown. Zero sense at all.

[Simple Fan]

While I am glad that the CWC is bringing people so much joy, I really don't think we need the Cruiserweigby tiitle back. I'm just going to throw that out there.

I agree, the reason the CWC is so great to me is because there is nothing else like it in WWE right now. I think it would be alot better if they just had the CWC as annual tournament each year.

[Simple Fan]

If they do an annual draft just make it like the 2004 lottery where each show gets X number of lottery picks and that's that. Don't do that stupid "wrestle for picks" bullshit. It never made any sense why a heel would want to bring more competition to their show.

I think the draft should just be for NXT talent each year like a real sports draft. Could have matches on NXT for talent to qualify for the draft. Each brand would get 5 picks or what ever.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I guess I can also see Triple H vs. Kevin Owens if they decide to do something different with Nakamura. Maybe they just go straight into Zayn vs. Nakamura: The WrestleMania edition? I don't think Rock will wrestle. I think he'll just Rock Bottom Heath Slater or something.

The Undertaker vs. John Cena is still something I hear people speculate about, but I honestly just can't see it happening. Taker's wife is sick, he was allegedly telling people he was done. Just let the man retire in peace. I do think we'll get Cena vs. Joe. They're good friends and it'd be a hot match.

AJ Styles will win the belt at some point. I think it'll be a good series of matches with Ambrose, but I can't see Ambrose holding the belt heading into WrestleMania. Brock's coming over to SmackDown to fight Shane, but I don't think that will be at WrestleMania. I think Brock wins the Rumble and faces him. Just a hunch. Maybe we see The Club try and get involved and prevent Brock from winning the belt?

Shane will probably wrestle. A lot of people are speculating it will be against Triple H. I don't think so. Bray Wyatt actually seems like a very natural fit. As does a heel Dolph Ziggler. Someone with profile but also someone that will probably do the job. Trying to get into the mind of Shane, I think he actually prefers the Bray match and story.

I do think that Hideo Itami vs. Dolph Ziggler for the IC Title would fucking rock. I also think those women matches are good fits. Big Show vs. Shaq is pretty much confirmed, but I do think they'd work better with partners. Shaq & The New Day vs. Big Show, Gallows & Anderson. The tag belts will probably be involved if that is the case. Enzo & Cass will be...doing something else. Cass might actually win the Andre Battle Royal.

What does Ambrose do? I actually think the Ambrose vs. Reigns idea isn't the worst. I also think that they might try and have an inter-brand MITB too. Ambrose could be the impetus for that. It just feels...low for him. But I think Reigns & Ambrose need to have their jets cooled soon. It gives both a chance to jump to the other show and beat on the other. But if they both end up in a Money in the Bank, along with The Miz and such, you can get some pretty good stories between all of them. I'm going to go with that, and also guess that Sheamus and Cesaro are in that match too, because they have to be somewhere on the card, but nowhere major, right? Rusev, regardless of whether or not he is the US Champion or not, is probably in that match too.

Randy Orton is the big question after that. Is he too "high profile" for a Money in the Bank Ladder Match? Does he really want to go out there and kill himself in a match all about those sorts of spots? If they make a play for Jeff Hardy, Orton vs. Hardy is not out of the question. I'm tempted to swap him for Bray in that versus Shane position as a heel, but there might be something else really obvious that I am missing. A match with Baron Corbin? I know it won't set the world on fire, but they need to do something with Corbin right, and putting him a match that everybody gets thrown into isn't going to help him. Orton vs. Corbin at least ensures the crowd is behind Orton. And the company seems fairly certain that they want Corbin to be someone.

* AJ Styles vs. Brock Lesnar for the World Title

* Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor for the Universal Title

* Triple H vs. Kevin Owens

* John Cena vs. Samoa Joe

* Charlotte vs. Sasha Banks vs. Bayley for the Red Women's Title

* Big Show, Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson vs. Shaquille O'Neal, Big E & Xavier Woods

* Shane McMahon vs. Bray Wyatt

* Nikki Bella vs. Becky Lynch for the Blue Women's Title

* Randy Orton vs. Baron Corbin

* Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal (won by Big Cass or Braun Strowman)

* Roman Reigns vs. Dean Ambrose vs. Cesaro vs. Sheamus vs. The Miz vs. Rusev vs. Kofi Kingston in a Money in the Bank Ladder Match

* Sami Zayn vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (US Title?)

* Dolph Ziggler vs. Hideo Itami for the Intercontinental Title

* American Alpha vs. The Revival vs. The Usos vs. Harper & Rowan for the Silver Tag Titles

That's a 14 match card. I can imagine the Andre Battle Royal being kick-off, so they can get Enzo & Cass out to warm up the crowd. They'll probably give No Way Jose a spot too, and he'll get to do his big entrance. It's sad to say, but I could also see Becky Lynch vs. Nikki Bella being bumped to the Kickoff too, but it being labeled the "Kickoff Main Event."

[Emperor Smeat]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Have you ever seen a human being so excited by m&amp;m's? <a href="https://t.co/Bi8nVKgrMo">pic.twitter.com/Bi8nVKgrMo</a></p>&mdash; Kelly (@hughesytweets) <a href="https://twitter.com/hughesytweets/status/768762110327164929">August 25, 2016</a></blockquote>
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[Mr. Nerfect]

I kind of feel like Orton vs. Corbin would die a death, so maybe Orton does get frustrated with Shane getting in his way for a second Brock match, which leads to Orton turning on Shane and all those feelings of "Hey, you kicked my sister in the head once" come up. Bray tries to win MITB in order to complete his absolution. Ambrose and Reigns are probably too big for that match. They fight each other in a RAW vs. SmackDown; Brother vs. Brother Match and Corbin takes one of the slots in MITB they leave vacant. Kalisto for the last participant, just to kill himself for our entertainment? Apollo Crews?

[Mr. Nerfect]

It'd probably be Kalisto. Kota Ibushi would probably agree to work WrestleMania, so I'd throw his Cruiserweight Title match on there too. Rich Swann is probably the guy that is going to be the biggest star in that division -- Ibushi vs. Swann is not a far reach. Fuck me, I think I'm close to getting it:

Main Card:

* AJ Styles (c) vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Title
* Seth Rollins (c) vs. Finn Balor for the WWE Universal Title
* Triple H vs. Kevin Owens
* Shane McMahon vs. Randy Orton
* Big Show, Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson vs. Shaquille O'Neal, Big E & Xavier Woods
* John Cena vs. Samoa Joe
* Dean Ambrose vs. Roman Reigns
* Charlotte (c) vs. Bayley vs. Sasha Banks for the RAW Women's Title
* Sheamus vs. The Miz vs. Cesaro vs. Baron Corbin vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Kalisto vs. Rusev vs. Bray Wyatt
* Dolph Ziggler (c) vs. Hideo Itami for the Intercontinental Title
* The Wyatt Family (c) vs. American Alpha vs. The Usos vs. The Revival for the SmackDown Tag Team Title
* Sami Zayn vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

Kickoff:

* Rich Swann (c) vs. Kota Ibushi for the Cruiserweight Title
* Nikki Bella (c) vs. Becky Lynch for the SmackDown Women's Championship
* Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal

The most unrealistic thing about that card is the Hideo Itami call-up, but I still think it would be the best thing to do with the Bryan/Miz stuff, given the context of the feud and such. It's probably the best way to draw whatever you can out of Itami. He kicks Miz in the head a few times, wins the IC Title, Dolph eventually beats him for it and completes a heel turn, Dolph gets to be the defending heel mid-card champion he was always supposed to be.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Bray Wyatt wins Money in the Bank, by the way. He cashes in on Finn Balor on the RAW After WrestleMania, because that's how the WWE works.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Oh, and the US Title bounces around those guys in the Ladder Match in order to create "exciting" television. New Day all consider themselves the champion when Kofi Kingston wins it, and he holds the belt at WrestleMania, so Big E and Xavier Woods are announced as champions for their match too, as they play champions of America against those bald, white Japanese guys. Big E body slams Show. The New Day dance with Shaq and Jon Stewart after the match, of course.

[Mr. Nerfect]

* The cruiserweights are ushered out for some sort of "Cruiserweight Cavalcade." Just six of them. Brian Kendrick, Gran Metalik, Akira Tozawa, Cedric Alexander, Noam Dar and Drew Gulak or something. Give this to Metalik, I guess, so that lucha gets represented strongly at some point on the show.

* The Battle Royal comes down between Braun Strowman and Big Cass. No Way Jose makes his debut to do his entrance at Mania and eliminates someone that doesn't matter. Heath Slater lasts a long time, and is possibly in the final four. Cass eventually clotheslines Strowman out and gets a nice little feather in his cap.

* Becky Lynch wins the SmackDown Women's Title from the dastardly Nikki Bella.

* Rich Swann wins the Cruiserweight Title from Kota Ibushi. I've got Ibushi as champion up there, as I imagined Kendrick being inaugural champion, dropping it to babyface Swann, etc. The more I think about it, Ibushi beating Kendrick and sort of being the cocky champion against a guy he knocks off the CWC would be a better story. Swann wins the match and proves that he can be the man. Well, the man 205lbs or under.

* Zayn and Nakamura beat the piss out of each other. Nakamura's WrestleMania entrance would be epic. I imagine this would be a hard act to follow, but wouldn't it set an interesting tone for the night? Follow this, motherfuckers. Nakamura wins, unless you really want to tell the story of him and Zayn moving forward. It wouldn't be any more insane than having Chris Jericho beat AJ Styles. You also don't want to get the crowd too hot, do you?

* American Alpha win the belts, because they're American Alpha. Maybe make this elimination and have The Wyatts beat The Usos and Alpha beat The Revival before you go into hot finish mode between those two teams?

* Itami puts Heel Ziggler to sleep and becomes a two-time Intercontinental Champion.

* Bray Wyatt wins Money in the Bank.

* Bayley finally wins the Women's Title. Sasha Banks turns heel on her after the match, again having not been involved in the fall that has decided the champion.

* Seems very obvious to have Roman Reigns beat Dean Ambrose. Maybe a shock win for Ambrose would be good? The Rock getting involved here would be interesting actually. A Rock Bottom without Reigns knowing leading to Reigns winning? "You needed your cousin's help, Roman..."

* Samoa Joe makes John Cena tap out in a moment almost as shocking as the streak being broken.

* The New Day win and dance with Shaq and Jon Stewart.

* Randy Orton RKOs Shane into oblivion. Shane is smart enough to know that he doesn't need to win. It's also a rare win you can give Orton at Mania that won't cut anyone's legs off.

* I can actually see Triple H beating Kevin Owens, if just to screw him and set up more of a face movement behind Owens. It's risky though. Might just be healthier to have Owens go over Triple H cleanly. If Jericho and Owens feud, I just think that the current is better swum with, and that Owens should be the one who turns face -- because Jericho is just so good in his role, despite his legacy and all that. I can imagine they'll try pure babyface Jericho, but I'd rather see Owens be given the ball as a face. Triple H wants someone who is going to make him look good. The match between Owens and Triple H will be good, the promo work will be good. The reason could simply be that Owens starts disrespecting Stephanie and reveals he played her and her dumb husband. Might seem to set up Triple H to be the babyface, but the fans will cheer Owens. Whatever.

BONUS POSSIBILITY: Owens wins the Universal Title and reveals that he's not really such a stooge and gets into it with Steph. Triple H costs Owens the Universal Title to Seth Rollins, who takes it into Mania against Balor while Owens fights Triple H. It gives Owens more of that "main eventer" vibe.

* Rollins either wins the Uni Title on RAW or, as suggested above, at the Rumble when Triple H returns to cost Owens, sick of seeing him disrespect his wife. Brock wins the Rumble, chooses SmackDown, and Rollins brags about how he's got no one to fight when Balor returns and reveals that he will be ready for WrestleMania. Balor wins the belt, but loses it to Bray Wyatt very quickly.

* Brock wins the Rumble, faces AJ, probably wins the World Title.

[Droford]

TIR Cryme Tymes announcer is Eva Marie's.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

I love you, Noid. But you need to get off your Monday morning booker chair and go out and load up on butterscotch m&m's to charm Becky when you inevitably meet

[thecc]

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[Droford]

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[Mr. Nerfect]

I love you, Noid. But you need to get off your Monday morning booker chair and go out and load up on butterscotch m&m's to charm Becky when you inevitably meet

I'll carry them around on me at all times.

[Mr. Nerfect]

How fucking good are DIY as a tag team though?

[Mr. Nerfect]

The story of them finally winning the belts will be sick. There's probably this desire to split them with a heel turn, but they are really working in this role. Why change what isn't broken?

[#BROKEN Hasney]

I think they're being called up before then. Cruiserweight division baby.

[Big Vic]

Noid channeling his inner Kane Knight.

[Evil Vito]

Candice LeRae is hot. Gargano did really well for himself. :y:

[Evil Vito]

Come to think it seems like there are relatively few women in the world of wrestling who aren't wifed up by or dating other wrestlers. And the ones that aren't usually met their significant others before they ever got into the business.

I guess it's not exactly surprising given the travel and lifestyle.

[mike adamle]

* Owens vs. Zayn for the Universal Title (versus Chris Jericho if he's on the roster)

* The Rock & Vin Diesel vs. Bobby Roode & James Storm (not together as a complete team, but as sort of allies -- think Jericho & Owens)

* Andre Battle Royal featuring Big Show, Shaq, Baron Corbin, Braun Strowman, Mark Henry and Kane

* Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor

* AJ Styles vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Title

* John Cena vs. Samoa Joe

* Dean Ambrose vs. Roman Reigns

* Triple H vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

* Nikki Bella vs. Becky Lynch for Women's Title Blue

* Charlotte vs. Sasha Banks vs. Bayley for Women's Title Red

* The New Day vs. The Wyatt Family

* American Alpha vs. The Revival for Tag Silver

* Gallows & Anderson vs. Enzo & Cass for Tag Bronze

* Rusev vs. Darren Young (w/ Kurt Angle and Bob Backlund) for US Title

* Hideo Itami vs. Dolph Ziggler for IC Title

* Rich Swann vs. Kota Ibushi for CW Title

* Sheamus vs. Cesaro vs. The Miz vs. Kalisto vs. Neville vs. Jeff Hardy vs. Heath Slater vs. Zack Ryder in a Money in the Bank Ladder Match

* Stephanie McMahon Invitational featuring all the women

The show will go for 8 hours.

I'd probably make this my card:

WWE Title Match- Brock Lesnar (C) vs. AJ Styles

The Undertaker vs. John Cena

Grudge Match- Dolph Ziggler vs. The Rock

WWE Universal Title Match- Triple H (C) vs. Cesaro

Triple Threat Hell In A Cell Match- Dean Ambrose vs. Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins

WWE Women's Title Fatal 4-Way Elimination Match- Bayley (C) vs. Charlotte vs. Paige vs. Sasha Banks

WWE Intercontinental Title Match- The Miz (C) vs. Daniel Bryan's Mystery Opponent (Samoa Joe)

Big Show vs. Shaq

WWE United States Title 10 Man Ladder Match- Rusev (C) vs. Chris Jericho vs. Finn Balor vs. Hideo Itami vs. Kevin Owens vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Neville vs. Randy Orton vs. Sami Zayn vs. Sheamus

WWE SmackDown! Tag Team Title Triple Threat Match- American Alpha (Chad Gable & Jason Jordan) vs. Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa vs. The Usos (Jey Uso & Jimmy Uso)

Pre-Show- Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal- Aiden English vs. Apollo Crews vs. Austin Aries vs. Baron Corbin vs. Bo Dallas vs. Braun Strowman vs. Bray Wyatt vs. Brian Kendrick vs. Curt Hawkins vs. Curtis Axel vs. Darren Young vs. Epico vs. Erick Rowan vs. Fandango vs. Goldust vs. Heath Slater vs. Jack Swagger vs. Jinder Mahal vs. Kalisto vs. Kane vs. Konnor vs. Luke Harper vs. Mark Henry vs. Mojo Rawley vs. Primo vs. R-Truth vs. Rhyno vs. Simon Gotch vs. Sin Cara vs. Tajiri vs. Titus O'Neil vs. Tyler Breeze vs. Viktor vs. Zack Ryder

Pre-Show- WWE Tag Team Title Triple Threat Match- The New Day (Big E & Xavier Woods) (C) vs. Big Cass & Enzo Amore vs. The Club (Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows)

Pre-Show- WWE SmackDown! Women's Title Fatal 4-Way Match- Becky Lynch (C) vs. Asuka vs. Natalya vs. Nikki Bella

Pre-Show- WWE Cruiserweight Title 6-Way Match- Kota Ibushi (C) vs. Akira Tozawa vs. Cedric Alexander vs. Gran Metalik vs. Rich Swann vs. TJ Perkins

Pre-Show- NXT Title Match- Shinsuke Nakamura (C) vs. Bobby Roode

No way to have this show with the entire roster without having like 15 matches...

[Volare]

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[Simple Fan]

Just changed my ringtone for the first time in 2 years from Voices to Glorious Domination.

[Volare]

It's not a picture...and it belongs here dammit!

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[Emperor Smeat]

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[owenbrown]

Vince to the Pyro guys: YYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUU'RRRRRRRREEEEEEEE FFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!! :mad:

[Mr. Nerfect]

So...how long until Drew McIntyre is back in the WWE?

[Mr. Nerfect]

Drew McIntyre & Nikki Cross vs. Sheamus & Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 34. Calling it now.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I'd mark out if to turn WWE on its head, John Cena suddenly jumped over to RAW and won the Universal Title on his first night back with the brand. He's exploited his connections with Vince McMahon and management to break the rules. Big Match John can basically do what he wants, and that includes get inserted into title matches despite losing his last match to AJ Styles.

Cena becomes the top heel in wrestling and goes on to hold the Universal Title until WrestleMania where he is challenged by Finn Balor. AJ Styles and Balor walk out of Mania with their belts and have an Eddie/Benoit moment.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Alexa Bliss should be someone's manager, but I'm not really sure who. Heel Dolph? Could you call up Blake & Murphy to be lackies for Ziggler?

[Mr. Nerfect]

Heel Mojo with Alexa could be interesting.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Actually, that's a faction I want to see: Dolph Ziggler, Mojo Rawley, Buddy Murphy, Wesley Blake & Alexa Bliss. Mojo's first feud is obviously with Zack Ryder. Curt Hawkins helps out Ryder against Blake & Murphy. Mojo gets cockier and cockier and eventually splits from Ziggler and the two have a match where Dolph puts over Mojo, who is hopefully getting over with his new asshole persona. Basically the Nation dynamic with Dolph playing Faarooq and Mojo playing Rock.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Are there any other guys you'd like to see the WWE bring in? to pad out the rosters a bit more?

* Scotty 2 Hotty for the Cruiserweight Division. I'd also like to see him play a more serious veteran and mentor to someone at some point, and be put in a tag team with them. I mean, could you imagine him making the face tag to someone who comes in and cleans house?

* Carlito to lead The Shining Stars. He's apparently holding the WWE up for too much money, but they've never been good at creating Hispanic stars, and Carlito is probably one of the more charismatic guys they've had that doesn't have the last name Guerrero or Mysterio. Given what is available to them, he'd be a good option. Don't beat him and placate his ego so he keeps doing good work. The dude can put out some really great stuff if he's allowed to.

* Charlie Haas to team with Shelton Benjamin. American Alpha vs. The World's Greatest Tag Team has got some appeal to it. Fuck it, have Rico return as their manager too.

* Chris Masters has got a lot of passion for what he does, is a lot better than he was when he was given his first push with the WWE, and it's rare to find a guy his size these days. He's still only 33 years old. He's at least worthy of a mid-card title. I wouldn't be upset if he was the guy to dethrone Rusev to be perfectly honest with you.

* Kind of think that New Day vs. 3MB would change the wrestling industry. I'm just saying. 3MB standing up to The Wyatt Family also has some charm to it.

* Rob Conway is still really shredded and having a guy his age come back could be an awesome heel gimmick. All the fat dads in the audience don't have an excuse to not look like him. Interactions between him, Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens could be hilarious.

* Trent Barreta for the Cruiserweight Division all day long.

* Victoria for a Women's Division. If they're bringing back Stevie Richards, why not revive that pairing? Richards should take Brad Maddox's gimmick and reveal that he's been training in a cave for the past eight years or however long it's been since we've seen him. Fuck it, bring back Ivory (even though she's talked shit publicly about Triple H), and have Richards be this guru of veteran women's talent.

[Mr. Nerfect]

When planning out how WrestleMania could go in my head, I really think the WWE could do two WrestleManias. I mean, when you consider that you'll have all these part-timers returning, you could space them out between the two brands and really give everything some breathing room.

I mean, Shane and Triple H will both probably wrestle. If The Undertaker wants to, he'll have a slot too. Then there's Brock. Cena. Orton. Rock. It'll all work out. Would doing two amazing 4-hour shows be more beneficial than doing one 7-hour one?

[Rammsteinmad]

When planning out how WrestleMania could go in my head, I really think the WWE could do two WrestleManias. I mean, when you consider that you'll have all these part-timers returning, you could space them out between the two brands and really give everything some breathing room.

I mean, Shane and Triple H will both probably wrestle. If The Undertaker wants to, he'll have a slot too. Then there's Brock. Cena. Orton. Rock. It'll all work out. Would doing two amazing 4-hour shows be more beneficial than doing one 7-hour one?

I'd say no, simply coz Wrestlemania is "the big one" with over 30 years of history, and just wouldn't be right being "the big two". Of course, they could solve the problem if guys like Triple H and Undertaker would finally fuck off and stop stealing the spotlight.

[DaveWadding]

Actually, that's a faction I want to see: Dolph Ziggler, Mojo Rawley, Buddy Murphy, Wesley Blake & Alexa Bliss. Mojo's first feud is obviously with Zack Ryder. Curt Hawkins helps out Ryder against Blake & Murphy. Mojo gets cockier and cockier and eventually splits from Ziggler and the two have a match where Dolph puts over Mojo, who is hopefully getting over with his new asshole persona. Basically the Nation dynamic with Dolph playing Faarooq and Mojo playing Rock.

I'm sorry, but except for Dolph and Bliss, this might be the worst faction ever created.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Konnor was the minister at Sashas wedding. I hope there's some pictures.

[Volare]

I NOOOOOOOOOOOOOW PROOOOOONOUNCE YOU MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN AND WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFEEEEEEEEEE IN THIS WASTEEELAAAAAAAAAAAAAANDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!

[Emperor Smeat]

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[Emperor Smeat]

When planning out how WrestleMania could go in my head, I really think the WWE could do two WrestleManias. I mean, when you consider that you'll have all these part-timers returning, you could space them out between the two brands and really give everything some breathing room.

I mean, Shane and Triple H will both probably wrestle. If The Undertaker wants to, he'll have a slot too. Then there's Brock. Cena. Orton. Rock. It'll all work out. Would doing two amazing 4-hour shows be more beneficial than doing one 7-hour one?

Technically they already do with how they have treated SummerrSlam in recent years as another "Mania."

More likely all that would happen is every big star that wrestled in the first Mania show would just hog up the spots for the other Mania show. Brands themselves don't have the star power needed even with part timers returning to hold their own Mania shows so it would need to be co-branded ones.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

NXT TakeOver Dallas was like having two WrestleManias.

[Poit]

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[slik]

In honor of BO Dallas's recent arrest

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[Emperor Smeat]

According to Cody Rhodes, the official reason why WWE has never done a War Games ppv or match is due to Vince likely being the person who refused to to spend the money nor extra space needed for it.

Triple H himself has been trying for years to convince Vince to do one after they started to bring back past WCW ppv names and ideas.

Q: You've been a part of some very exciting storylines and matches in WWE, and my favorite was the work you did with Goldust and Dusty against the Shield leading into and at Battleground in 2013. What was that experience like for you, working with Goldust and Dusty, and do you hold that program as special as myself and other fans do as well?

A: "I'm going to disappoint you. There is so much about that time period that touched me and was really something that will stand out as a favorite memory of my father and what he was able to do the day of Battleground. How we were able to get people to see what we couldn't, but it's not even in my top five of the things I did with WWE. The reason being, when I got into WWE I wanted to be anything other than Dusty's kid. I didn't want to have any connection with Dustin either as far as Goldust, not because I don't love them; it's just nostalgia if I was paying tribute to them. So I wanted to be very different than the three Rhodes on paper. I never really saw us as having that family moment, but we did.

"There are so many things about that match and people might know this, but Battleground was originally designed to be War Games. War Games was going to come back and somebody—and I don't actually know who so not I'm not trying to be vague—but somebody said 'No it takes up too much ticket space so we aren't going to do the War Games.' So then it became a tag match. Before it was ever a tag match, it was to be me returning in this cool drifter-like Midnight Rider mask that I had commissioned and paid for and was all excited about. So many things didn't happen for it to just be a family match, but I'm glad people loved it. When I look at it now, I wonder "what if" about all the other things, especially with the War Games portion."
Part of a longer interview with Ring Rust Radio: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2016/0826/616970/cody-rhodes-talks-wwe-almost-bringing-back-wargames/

[GD]

Found this on /r/SquaredCircle

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[Poit]

FiveThirtyEight put up an article yesterday about the recent rise of Japanese wrestlers in WWE.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/wwes-new-era-began-in-japan/

[Droford]

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Change that to Tuesday Nights

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

In honor of BO Dallas's recent arrest

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std can find no report of Bo Dallas being arrested. Just a vague report he was kicked off a plane for being drunk, singing Lion King Song (Bo Repared?) and telling the pilot to fuck himself.

[Volare]

DUDE!! HE CALLED CROSSFIT JESUS A DICK! HOW DARE HE!!

[Black Widow]

I bet he dresses in drag and does the hula next time.

[Rammsteinmad]

Mr. Fuji died, for anyone that cares.

[Simple Fan]

Found this on /r/SquaredCircle

http://i.imgur.com/v3ad6qXh.jpg

I like that and would go along with WWE having matching titles.

[Emperor Smeat]

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[Vastardikai]

He's definitely got the "eat you" part down. :shifty:

[Emperor Smeat]

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[Heisenberg]

He's definitely got the "eat you" part down. :shifty:



that camera does him no justice, he's a stick in real life

[Droford]

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Kevin Owens going to win tonight.

[Droford]

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[Emperor Smeat]

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[Emperor Smeat]

According to Ryback, the main reason he left the WWE was due to them constantly lying to him when it came to his career's direction. Promised him a lot of things only to abruptly pull support and/or pushes when it got close to being delivered.

Got to the point, Ryback felt it was better to walk away from a $1.5 million offer than continue working for the WWE.

He did offer some praise for being the start of his wrestling career and giving him some good memories he had there.

On the debut episode of his podcast released on Monday, Ryan "Ryback" Reeves opened up about what led to him leaving WWE ...

He said that he was never the company's guy and wondered why they put the Intercontinental Championship on him in 2015. After winning the title, he was presented with a new contract offer. Reeves said he wasn’t happy with the offer considering what he had done for the company.

But Reeves said he didn't leave because of monetary value of the offer. "Not about a money issue, just so everybody knows, I walked away from the WWE, the contract offer that I walked away from was a three-year $1.5 million contract.” Reeves said.

Reeves mentioned that there were other things he wasn't happy about. He said that there were merchandising opportunities that didn’t pan out and noted how expensive travel expenses were, saying the way professional wrestling has always done things isn’t always right.

Reeves said that he had been lied to at many times in his career about booking and other opportunities. He claimed that Vince McMahon told him that he would be the number one heel in the company and have the title put on him if he listened to McMahon and read his promos as they were scripted. Reeves also claimed that he was supposed to face AJ Styles at WrestleMania 32, with McMahon telling him that he would "squash that little twerp."

That changed and Reeves would go on to face Kalisto on the WrestleMania 32 kickoff show. He said that he was set to sign a new contract but sent a revised offer to the company after not being happy about how he was handled.

On his last day at television, Reeves said he knew that WWE wasn't going to accept the revised offer and thought the booking of the show was intended to make him look bad before he left. He claimed he told Mark Carano to take him off television, but didn't talk to McMahon because he had been lied to too many times before ...

He claimed that he was offered magazine covers but WWE wouldn't let him do them despite allowing other talent to. He said that WWE wanted Roman Reigns to appear on a cover instead of him at one point.
Link to more highlights and the podcast episode itself: http://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/ryback-i-walked-away-3-year-15-million-wwe-deal-219676

[Simple Fan]

Read that earlier today and I don't blame him. Hope he does well in his own. Really think he would be a huge star in NJPW. Could be an instant IWGP Intercontinental title contender and possibly Heavyweight down the line. Feel like they would eat up face Ryborg in Japan.

[Fignuts]

Given how things turned out, it was probably the right decision to not squash AJ. Everything else sounds pretty shitty.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I'm not the biggest Ryback fan, but I think you have to objectively question how the company used him.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Ryborg should go to TNA and DELETE Matt Hardy.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Ryborg should go to TNA and DELETE Matt Hardy.

You're joining slik on the unemployment line. Get out of my suddenly all-promotion wrestling writing office.