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[CSL]

lol this is great

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I was shown this last night, just made me feel uncomfortable, dude looks fucking dead when he hits the floor

[#1-norm-fan]

Sounds like a repeat of the Owens feud.

In my mind they actually stretch it out and let the heat build though instead of having Owens beat Cena and then having Cena get his win back two weeks later, and then winning again in a month. The matches were great... but I never really felt there was any real drama or emotion behind the feud.

The original idea I had for this feud was a Joe attack (possibly with a couple other angry indy vets from NXT or something) on Cena to cost him the title and put him out of action. Actually taking advantage of his vacation to build a story as opposed to him just leaving which was beyond retarded.

Then you can have Joe spend a month and a half (which was pretty much the length of the Owens-Cena feud from start to finish. lol) explaining his actions while competing in and dominating a tournament to win the US title.

When Cena comes back, it's in the build to the rumble so we get to hold off the big showdown for another month since they're both in the rumble. Joe's indy henchmen are able to take Cena out before he's able to even get his hands on Joe.

Cena wants Joe and the US title now at Fast Lane but Joe says "no" because he wants to use Cena to create the WrestleMania moment he should have had a decade ago. He makes Cena put his career on the line at WrestleMania against Joe for the US Title. (Fastlane features Cena having to go through Joe's henchmen)

And there you go. You've spents 5 1/2 months letting the anticipation build to one big match instead of the same boring "match, rematch, rubber match" formula being squeezed into a month and a half.

[Tom Guycott]

Two random things:

1) during my watching of "Con Man", at one point Alan Tudyk makes the Cornette face.

2) About 3 blocks behind my house, there is a massive bilboard with Roman Reigns on it.

[The Condor]

Shawn Michaels at One Night Only in 1997 is some of the greatest heeling that the WWF/E has ever known. Amazing.

[Emperor Smeat]

Baring any sudden changes, New Japan has Yoshi Tatsu planned as the 3rd announcer for Wrestle Kingdom 10's English commentary team.

Yoshitatsu was announced as part of the English language broadcast team for the 1/4 Tokyo Dome show. He will be working with Kevin Kelly and Matt Striker filling in the holes needed to translate Japanese. He's very excited for getting this shot. This was a decision made some time back but New Japan just announced it tonight.

[Lock Jaw]

Can Yoshi Tatsu even speak English?

[Seth82]

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[Lock Jaw]

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[Seth82]

this is all kinds of amazing

from Titanes En El Ring in Argentina

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[Tom Guycott]

this is all kinds of amazing

from Titanes En El Ring in Argentina

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"Swing down, sweet chariot stop and let me ride..."

... aw, hell, that isn't George Clinton.

[VSG]

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Dana Brooke did her best to spam taunts WWF No Mercy style.

[Lock Jaw]

She always does

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

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The Slim Boss Woman.

[Dark One]

Asuka shirt shipped today, way earlier than expected.

Posting picture again because fuck you.

Yo, Asuka's new shirt is cool as fuck.

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[Emperor Smeat]

ROH's Kingdom stable and Bennett/Taven team splitting up soon due to contract issues.

Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis have finished up with Ring of Honor as of yesterday's TV Taping. The pair and ROH were not able to come to terms on a new deal.

Kanellis and Bennett's departure was not really a surprise and their exit had been expected internally within ROH for some time. There were signs dating back at least 4-6 weeks that ROH and the couple were not on the same page after Kanellis wrote on Twitter that ROH was advertising her for dates after her contract was done.

With their departure from ROH, it also likely means that the pair are done with New Japan Pro Wrestling.

While there have been reports floating around Bennett's partner Matt Taven was also done this weekend, those would be incorrect as he is signed with ROH through March or Apil 2016 we are told.

Kanellis and Bennett, when saying their goodbyes, told several different people we heard from that they were TNA-bound and would start with the promotion in January.

[Simple Fan]

I could get behind Bennett and Kanellis in TNA. I could see them coming in and aligning themselves with EC3. Big loss for ROH I suppose Cole and Taven could keep the Kingdom name orjust disband it.

[Fignuts]

THAT SHIRT IS SO GOOD BRAH

[Emperor Smeat]

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[Dark One]

THAT SHIRT IS SO GOOD BRAH

SO GOOD

[Dark One]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This charter is about to get fun! <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronSaxton">@ByronSaxton</a> <a href="https://t.co/xcvclQwUYO">pic.twitter.com/xcvclQwUYO</a></p>&mdash; Kevin Owens (@FightOwensFight) <a href="https://twitter.com/FightOwensFight/status/678777853811384320">December 21, 2015</a></blockquote>
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[Dark One]

KICKOUT AT TWOOOOOOOO

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[Dark One]

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[SlickyTrickyDamon]

SO GOOD

SO GOOD! SO GOOD! SO GOOD!

[Innovator]

I could get behind Bennett and Kanellis in TNA. I could see them coming in and aligning themselves with EC3. Big loss for ROH I suppose Cole and Taven could keep the Kingdom name orjust disband it.

The biggest loss is the NJPW cameramen

[Ruien]

https://scontent-lhr3-1.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpt1/t51.2885-15/e35/12298857_1665459910371783_997433655_n.jpgBang! Bang!

Who is this?

[drave]

Noelle FOley. Mrs. Foley's baby boy's baby girl.

[Ruien]

No way..... how the hell did that happen.

[Heisenberg]

Hell in a Cell matches and thumbtacks don't transfer to their children! He was a normal looking man before all that, plus his wife probably provided most of the genes

[DAMN iNATOR]

Don't know how it would play out, so my idea on how to book Reigns through WM won't be receiving its own thread. Instead, I will just leave it here.

Tonight at the Slammy Awards, whether the fans actually vote him or not, Superstar of the Year is the final category announced live and revealed. The presenter(s) start to read Reigns' name but are intertupted mid-sentence as Stephanie shows up and introduces back to RAW, her husband and COO of WWE, Triple H!

Triple H walks out, screams for his music to be cut, despite his nickname, he's in no mood to play games tonight. He demands Reigns get his sorry ass out here (on stage), and tells him he doesn't care if Reigns won the Superstar of the Year award or not, he's NOT taking home the trophy.

Instead, as a result of Reigns' recent actions, first physically against him at TLC and then verbally against his wife Stephanie and physically against the freaking CHAIRMAN of WWE, Reigns is going to have hell to pay. Triple H continues, saying he could've fired Reigns right here tonight but that's not good enough.

Triple H announces himself v. Reigns @ the Rumble PPV for the title, but if Reigns loses, he loses his job, too. And just to make it interesting, he loses the title and his job in the match by DQ or count-out in addition to pinfall or submission. Oh, and there's just one more thing, he tells Roman: there's a special referee for their match...Mr. McMahon's music plays and he walks out as Reigns looks shocked. Cameras fade to black to end the show.

Reigns defies the odds and wins at the Rumble, but Triple H isn't done with Reigns. He books himself in a title rematch at Fastlane, only this time it will be inside the HELL...IN A CELL! Trips wins the title.

Reigns must then navigate all kinds of obstacles in the weeks leading to WM 32, including having to face guys like Lesnar, Cena and Ambrose all in gruelling matches and finally gets a #1 Contender's Match in the main event of the RAW 6 days before WM and barely wins. Triple H walks out, impressed, and in semi-mock congratulations tells Reigns he's got his rematch at Mania, but it will now be a 3 Stages of Hell match. First fall, a singles match, Second fall, a street fight, and the 3rd fall, if necessary will be a ladder match.

In the fight of his life, both men battle on the top of a ladder. He knocks Triple H to the mat and a lightbulb goes off. He strategically sets up a couple ladders, climbs one till he's on the top rung and nails a spear to Triple H once he gets to the top, à la the famous Edge spot, then quickly climbs the ladder and retrieves the belt, celebrating ad the crowd roars its approval, while a motionless Triple H is attended to by doctors and finally comes to, walking off with help from them, and he turns around, scowling at the victorious Reigns who is smiling at him ear to ear. Fade to black.

[Simple Fan]

Ehh, just literally fire Reigns and every thing will be fine.

[XL]

Who won the Rumble, and what happened to their WM Title shot?

[Rammsteinmad]

I have no desire to see Triple H in a match at Wrestlemania, much less a "Three Stages of Hell" match, which will hog up at least 45 minutes of the show.

[Nicky Fives]

Who won the Rumble, and what happened to their WM Title shot?

Great idea, but this is a large loophole that would be need explored....

[Emperor Smeat]

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[Fignuts]

I had that pin up.

[Juan]

Reminds me of those old school WWF comic books

[slik]

KICKOUT AT TWOOOOOOOO

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omg Noam Dar is insane

[Tom Guycott]

The Slim Boss Woman.

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I am shocked that these were posted, and nobody dropped some "hard time" innuendo.

[Sixx]

Don't know how it would play out, so my idea on how to book Reigns through WM won't be receiving its own thread. Instead, I will just leave it here.

Tonight at the Slammy Awards, whether the fans actually vote him or not, Superstar of the Year is the final category announced live and revealed. The presenter(s) start to read Reigns' name but are intertupted mid-sentence as Stephanie shows up and introduces back to RAW, her husband and COO of WWE, Triple H!

Triple H walks out, screams for his music to be cut, despite his nickname, he's in no mood to play games tonight. He demands Reigns get his sorry ass out here (on stage), and tells him he doesn't care if Reigns won the Superstar of the Year award or not, he's NOT taking home the trophy.

Instead, as a result of Reigns' recent actions, first physically against him at TLC and then verbally against his wife Stephanie and physically against the freaking CHAIRMAN of WWE, Reigns is going to have hell to pay. Triple H continues, saying he could've fired Reigns right here tonight but that's not good enough.

Triple H announces himself v. Reigns @ the Rumble PPV for the title, but if Reigns loses, he loses his job, too. And just to make it interesting, he loses the title and his job in the match by DQ or count-out in addition to pinfall or submission. Oh, and there's just one more thing, he tells Roman: there's a special referee for their match...Mr. McMahon's music plays and he walks out as Reigns looks shocked. Cameras fade to black to end the show.

Reigns defies the odds and wins at the Rumble, but Triple H isn't done with Reigns. He books himself in a title rematch at Fastlane, only this time it will be inside the HELL...IN A CELL! Trips wins the title.

Reigns must then navigate all kinds of obstacles in the weeks leading to WM 32, including having to face guys like Lesnar, Cena and Ambrose all in gruelling matches and finally gets a #1 Contender's Match in the main event of the RAW 6 days before WM and barely wins. Triple H walks out, impressed, and in semi-mock congratulations tells Reigns he's got his rematch at Mania, but it will now be a 3 Stages of Hell match. First fall, a singles match, Second fall, a street fight, and the 3rd fall, if necessary will be a ladder match.

In the fight of his life, both men battle on the top of a ladder. He knocks Triple H to the mat and a lightbulb goes off. He strategically sets up a couple ladders, climbs one till he's on the top rung and nails a spear to Triple H once he gets to the top, à la the famous Edge spot, then quickly climbs the ladder and retrieves the belt, celebrating ad the crowd roars its approval, while a motionless Triple H is attended to by doctors and finally comes to, walking off with help from them, and he turns around, scowling at the victorious Reigns who is smiling at him ear to ear. Fade to black.

are you role-playing here?

i could swear you're role-playing

[The Condor]

Sucks that an awesome gimmick like Mantaur is viewed as the most retarded thing ever done in wrestling.

[Emperor Smeat]

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[The CyNick]

Don't know how it would play out, so my idea on how to book Reigns through WM won't be receiving its own thread. Instead, I will just leave it here.

Tonight at the Slammy Awards, whether the fans actually vote him or not, Superstar of the Year is the final category announced live and revealed. The presenter(s) start to read Reigns' name but are intertupted mid-sentence as Stephanie shows up and introduces back to RAW, her husband and COO of WWE, Triple H!

Triple H walks out, screams for his music to be cut, despite his nickname, he's in no mood to play games tonight. He demands Reigns get his sorry ass out here (on stage), and tells him he doesn't care if Reigns won the Superstar of the Year award or not, he's NOT taking home the trophy.

Instead, as a result of Reigns' recent actions, first physically against him at TLC and then verbally against his wife Stephanie and physically against the freaking CHAIRMAN of WWE, Reigns is going to have hell to pay. Triple H continues, saying he could've fired Reigns right here tonight but that's not good enough.

Triple H announces himself v. Reigns @ the Rumble PPV for the title, but if Reigns loses, he loses his job, too. And just to make it interesting, he loses the title and his job in the match by DQ or count-out in addition to pinfall or submission. Oh, and there's just one more thing, he tells Roman: there's a special referee for their match...Mr. McMahon's music plays and he walks out as Reigns looks shocked. Cameras fade to black to end the show.

Reigns defies the odds and wins at the Rumble, but Triple H isn't done with Reigns. He books himself in a title rematch at Fastlane, only this time it will be inside the HELL...IN A CELL! Trips wins the title.

Reigns must then navigate all kinds of obstacles in the weeks leading to WM 32, including having to face guys like Lesnar, Cena and Ambrose all in gruelling matches and finally gets a #1 Contender's Match in the main event of the RAW 6 days before WM and barely wins. Triple H walks out, impressed, and in semi-mock congratulations tells Reigns he's got his rematch at Mania, but it will now be a 3 Stages of Hell match. First fall, a singles match, Second fall, a street fight, and the 3rd fall, if necessary will be a ladder match.

In the fight of his life, both men battle on the top of a ladder. He knocks Triple H to the mat and a lightbulb goes off. He strategically sets up a couple ladders, climbs one till he's on the top rung and nails a spear to Triple H once he gets to the top, à la the famous Edge spot, then quickly climbs the ladder and retrieves the belt, celebrating ad the crowd roars its approval, while a motionless Triple H is attended to by doctors and finally comes to, walking off with help from them, and he turns around, scowling at the victorious Reigns who is smiling at him ear to ear. Fade to black.

I think HHH v Reigns makes perfect sense for Rumble. Don't see any reason to take the title off Reigns though.

Hunter should be used to heat up Reigns going into Mania. Then you put him against either Lesnar or Cena at Mania. Lesnar I feel would make more sense.

If Rock can go at Mania, then Hunter is still available.

[Innovator]

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[Volare]

Sexual Christmas Chocolate?

[Emperor Smeat]

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:lol: at the Sheetys. That needs to be used if the Wrestling Forum ever holds their own awards thread.

[#1-norm-fan]

Why don't we have our own awards thread. I'm sure it's been done before but how do we not have a yearly "Sheetys"?

[Lock Jaw]

Because no one cares enough to run it

[Lock Jaw]

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[Lock Jaw]

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[Emperor Smeat]

If nobody wants to, I could probably start a Sheetys nomination thread tomorrow or the day after. Probably hold it till end of the year and then the actual Sheetys awards.

[Shadrick]

If nobody wants to, I could probably start a Sheetys nomination thread tomorrow or the day after. Probably hold it till end of the year and then the actual Sheetys awards.

I'd better win a Sheety.

"Best Poster on TPWW with "Shadrick" in his name"

:y:

[Lock Jaw]

"Best Owen White Moment"

[Emperor Smeat]

Dirtsheets sponsored by Dance Hour with the New Day:
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The three-hour show did 3.37 million viewers, down 13 percent from last week's unusually large number. However, it was still above the levels of most of the Fall season. Just two weeks ago, the show had fallen to 3.16 million viewers.

Raw probably benefited from a low-rated NFL game on ESPN as competition as the Detroit Lions vs. New Orleans Saints game did 10.90 million viewers.

The first hour started at normal Fall levels, but the second and third hour decline wasn't there at the rate it usually is.

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 3.44 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.37 million viewers
10 p.m. 3.32 million viewers
For some stats, the show managed a 2.33 rating while the average drop was around 547k viewers compared to last week. Did not benefit from the lower than usual MNF game.

Laura Martin of Needham & Company, a stock analyst who has been super bullish on the WWE Network from the start, claiming that their three to four million subscriber goals were low, published a note about content creators cutting their own throats. She wrote about how WWE in 2013 got $6.37 per viewer per hour on PPV and after moving to OTT, they are now getting 67 cents per view per hour. She warned Viacom and Time Warner could follow suit if they pursue recently announced lower ad rate strategies. Here is the story.
Basically the good news being the WWE gets a larger percentage from what's left and total ppv revenues is higher than before because of the new percentages. Bad news being the huge drop in ad rates and Network is costing them $100 million on average which has eaten a huge chunk of those revenues made.
http://www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id=11169298

WWE is aware that last night's Slammy Awards weren't the most exciting of all time, made worse by the fact that several winners weren't in the building. There are discussions today about tweaking the format, including the idea of doing voting in advance so if someone wins and won't be there, they can air a pre-tape.

Big E promotes the 12/26 house show in Detroit. He said he'd like a singles match with Brock Lesnar. When asked what would happen in a powerlifting competition between he and Mark Henry, he said, "In his heyday, I'd give him his due. He would have beaten me handily. He's one of the strongest men to have ever walked the Earth. Right now, though, I'd smoke him."

PW.net reports that Jay Lethal has yet to re-sign with Ring of Honor. Lethal’s contract is set to expire early next year.

In addition, Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly’s contracts with the company expire at the end of this year, while Steve Corino’s ended with the Final Battle PPV and TV tapings. Corino is still in talks with the company, while Fish and O’Reilly’s conversations with ROH broke down a little bit ago and nothing changed at Final Battle. A deal could still be worked out of course, but if not the duo will be gone at the end of the year.

John Morrison, who goes by the name Johnny Mundo in Lucha Underground, spoke with Alfred Konuwa of the PodNasty Wrestling Podcast about having more creativity and Seth Rollins currently being sidelined with an injury. Here are the highlights.

On having more creativity:
“I do feel like there’s not handcuffs here, so to speak, and creativity is more encouraged and people are more receptive to ideas here. WWE is sometimes a little bit micromanaged, and backstage everybody’s dragging their feet, walking on eggshells a little bit and here I don’t think that exists.”

On Seth Rollins’ current injury:
“There’s nothing worse than being injured, especially for somebody like Seth because he’s an artist in the ring. To have a broken wheel like he’s got right now has got to be killing him. I wish him a speedy recovery because I want to kick his ass one day. And I will say that I’m sure he can talk all kinds of trash to you or whoever, as long as I’m not in the room with him. But I also think that after his interview with you—and I might have said a few things back—I don’t think he’s ever going to say anything about me again because he knows at the end of the day I’m smarter, more talented, I’ve had a much longer, better career than him and if we’re ever in the ring together it’s going to be painfully obvious how much better than him I am.”
http://wrestlingnews.co/john-morrison-on-seth-rollins-i-wish-him-a-speedy-recovery-because-i-want-to-kick-his-a/

New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the creation of the NEVER Openweight Six Man Titles. The WrestleKingdom 10 match between Toru Yano, Mark and Jay Briscoe and Tama Tonga, Yujiro Takahashi & Bad Luck Fale will be used to crown the first champions

* New Japan Rumble
* IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match: Champions Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly vs. Trent Baretta & Rocky Romero vs. Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson vs. Matt Sydal & Ricochet
* For The Vacant NEVER Openweight Six-Man Titles: Toru Yano, Mark and Jay Briscoe vs. Tama Tonga, Yujiro Takahashi & Bad Luck Fale
* ROH Title Match: Champion Jay Lethal vs. Michael Elgin
* IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship Match: Champion Kenny Omega vs. KUSHIDA
* IWGP Tag Team Championship Match: Champions Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson vs. Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe
* Hirooki Goto vs. Tetsuya Naito
* NEVER Openweight Championship Match: Champion Tomohiro Ishii vs. Katsuyori Shibata
* IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Champion Shinsuke Nakamura vs. AJ Styles
* IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Champion Kazuchika Okada vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi
Current card for Wrestle Kingdom 10

There were many Curtis Axel fans in his hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota last night wondering why he wasn't on WWE RAW. There was a "Where Is Axel?" search party gathering at Kieran's in downtown Minneapolis before RAW and as you can see, his fans are really picking up on the campaign that he recently started on Twitter.
http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2015/1222/606017/photos-and-video-curtis-axel-fans-ask-where-is-axel-before-wwe/

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When WWE pulled the "Who Killed Vince" storyline years ago, they got in huge trouble with investors who thought it was real and/or a ploy by the WWE to legit change company leadership without their input.


Some other sheet news includes:

According to the Observer, some new details regarding the TNA-POP tv deal includes ad revenue to be shared between both companies and was confirmed POP TV is not paying TNA to show Impact.
For those that like ROH and coloring books, the company is selling coloring books now. http://rohwrestling.com/catalog/coloring-book
Darren Young is rumored to be out again with another injury. May or may not be related to his previous injury.
TNA recently announced they have signed the Great Khali to a multi-year deal with the company.
Boogeyman recently revealed on Twitter he has signed a Legends deal with the WWE. https://twitter.com/realboogey/status/679125280472956928
In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, baring a sudden WWE title victory, 2015 will be the first time since 2012 John Cena didn't win the WWE (or World) title during the year. Will also be just the 3rd time since 2004 that has happened.
Update to the Gawker-Hogan lawsuit as Hogan's side could be in trouble soon if allegations of him having law enforcement friends block recent FBI investigations turns out to be true. The basis is the FBI launched a separate investigation related to the leaked tapes and supposedly it suddenly stalling has impacted Gawker's ability to request more info for their side. http://www.f4wonline.com/news/figure-four-weekly-122115-hulk-hogan-and-nelson-frazier-lawsuit-updates-204231

[Tammy]

I want to have sex with Paige

[Bad News Gertner]

Time to plug my column again. Over the past few months I've been reviewing old WWF House shows from 1982-1985 for 411mania.com. It's called Mr.Dufour's Wayback Machine. I've gotten great responses so far. So if you're into old wrestling check it out. The shows that I review can be found on torrent sites and sometimes youtube. Below is my latest review.

http://411mania.com/wrestling/mr-dufours-wayback-machine-october-22nd-1983-philly-spectrum

[Simple Fan]

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Lol I'd take Axeldust just to get him back on TV. Let him join the Cosmic Wasteland or team with Goldust. It would bbe a step towards Cody and Curtis teaming as the Perfect Dream that i have wanted for a while.

[Droford]

Call him BrakeDust cause he cant catch one.

[The CyNick]

I wonder how successful or unsuccessful WWE would be if the IWC made all creative decisions.

Wrestlemania 32: Rybaxel Explodes!!!

[Sepholio]

John Morrison vs Seth Rollins. Make that shit happen.

[Rammsteinmad]

John Morrison vs Seth Rollins. Make that shit happen.

Right now, I'd have more interest in seeing that than any Undertaker/Triple H/Rock/(maybe)Lesnar/Reigns match.

[Emperor Smeat]

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[Simple Fan]

I wonder how successful or unsuccessful WWE would be if the IWC made all creative decisions.

Wrestlemania 32: Rybaxel Explodes!!!

Rybaxel was a horrible idea. Natural heel Axel teaming with a natural baby face in Ryback. But WM32 headlined by Brock/Axel sounds great.

[Simple Fan]

John Morrison vs Seth Rollins. Make that shit happen.

Would be a steller match. Also would be better if it occured in Lucha Underground though.

[Bad News Gertner]

People talking shit about Rybaxel.

People wanna die

[#1-norm-fan]

I wonder how successful or unsuccessful WWE would be if the IWC made all creative decisions.

Wrestlemania 32: Rybaxel Explodes!!!

Even that might be better than what they actually did.

For once they were successful in building a prototypical Vince "big man" type up to the point where even smark crowds were rabid for him. They had everything they've tried so hard to create with Reigns in the palm of their hands... So naturally they jobbed him out, fed him to Mark Henry at WrestleMania and turned him heel.

lolWWE

[Simple Fan]

People talking shit about Rybaxel.

People wanna die

As of fan of Axel, I hated the pairing. Ryback should have stayed far away from that storyline and not become a Heyman guy.

[Shadrick]

Even that might be better than what they actually did.

For once they were successful in building a prototypical Vince "big man" type up to the point where even smark crowds were rabid for him. They had everything they've tried so hard to create with Reigns in the palm of their hands... So naturally they jobbed him out, fed him to Mark Henry at WrestleMania and turned him heel.

lolWWE

Man, I remember you being so into Ryback, and me being like "meh" at the time, and he grew on me over time that I'm like retroactively mad now lol

[#1-norm-fan]

It was pretty ridiculous. Most of the time when someone is getting over and they get de-pushed they AT LEAST have the "he's not our idea of a star" excuse. They didn't even have that. They took a guy who fit their mold, pushed him as a beast, it worked and they said "Cool, but nah."

Wanna go back and watch that video of him finally getting his hands on Punk again. It was like stepping into a time machine back to the 90s when live crowds were actually into it.

[Dark One]

KICKOUT AT TWOOOOOO

https://embed.gyazo.com/d4962e5ec4e5698092eee3fcae6e3468.gif

Easily the most dangerous spot I've posted.

[Emperor Smeat]

At least it was better than the WWE's version of a chair massacre:
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/1571534/cena-drops-chairs-onto-barrett-o.gif

Although doesn't top the classic ECW one:
http://media.giphy.com/media/7fMb8c3Qso7vy/giphy.gif

[Droford]

Wade Barrett likes the spotted dick

http://d2ws0xxnnorfdo.cloudfront.net/meme/149028

[Shadrick]

It was pretty ridiculous. Most of the time when someone is getting over and they get de-pushed they AT LEAST have the "he's not our idea of a star" excuse. They didn't even have that. They took a guy who fit their mold, pushed him as a beast, it worked and they said "Cool, but nah."

Wanna go back and watch that video of him finally getting his hands on Punk again. It was like stepping into a time machine back to the 90s when live crowds were actually into it.

The hard camera was shaking. jesus, that was a moment. JR sold that shit too.

[Droford]

http://i43.tinypic.com/dy2nav.jpg

Vintage Cole

[Emperor Smeat]

Dirtsheets sponsored by a BAD Christmas:
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Jeff Hardy was on Ric Flair's podcast and said there was a "huge possibility" that he might return to WWE down the road. He said he and Matt would love to end their careers in WWE and have one more series of matches with the Dudley Boys.
For some reference, the Hardys contracts with TNA expire around the end of February 2016.

TNA's debut on Pop TV last night drew 111,000 viewers for a "Best of" show which had little going for it past Internet and social mediapromotion.

TNA and Pop TV had been pushing 1/5 as the debut of the show, built around the final four in the world title tournament. It was only in the past week when the announcement was made that it would debut with taped programming last night in its new Tuesday at 9 p.m. slot..

The audience was barely half of the "Days of our Lives" show that did 211,000 viewers.

While the lack of publicity and fact it wasn't a new episode means the number really can't be taken as a strong sign of where they will end up, it is a number that points to where the TNA base audience is at this point. Between the change of network and change of day, and TNA, with the exception of the move from late Saturday to Thursday prime time, has always taken a hit when changing days, it took take some time before TNA gets to where it will probably be.

However, the idea that they will get back to Spike levels, which Pop TV execs spoke of, doesn't seem likely.
On one hand it was a "Best Of" show while on the other hand, TNA's core has been shrinking by a lot during the past year. Also the Days of Out Lives show was the lead-in to Impact for some reference.

The contracts for Ring of Honor wrestlers Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish may soon be expiring, but fear not ReDRagon fans — Pro Wrestling Sheet has learned they’re close to inking a new deal.
Supposedly ROH went really low with their initial offer to ReDRagon which is why they refused to sign a new deal. Rumors of TNA and WWE being interested ended up being debunked for the moment.

In what has turned out to be news to several in TNA, last night's show is up not only on demand but in HD on the POP TV website. POP is available in more of the country than Destination America, but if you don't get the channel, last night's show is up there and hopefully all future shows will be as well.

We also got a lot of complaints about the picture quality of the TNA show last night. Because POP TV used to be the TV Guide channel, the channel guide is still up there and takes up the bottom ⅓ of the screen. We have gotten reports from people who did not see the channel guide, and we are told that there are two POP TV channels, one with the channel guide and one without. You can check to see if you have both on your cable system. Some people do, but most seem to have either one or the other.


Some other sheet news includes:

TNA announced they will be holding a live ppv on January 8th.
Forbes' wrestling blog awarded Brock Lesnar as their 2015 Wrestler of the Year. http://www.forbes.com/sites/housemoneystudios/2015/12/22/sorry-seth-rollins-brock-lesnar-is-the-real-superstar-of-the-year/
Dean Ambrose ended up being injured from his match with Sheamus on RAW which required 6 staples to close the wound on his head.
Newest episode of Botchamania was recently released. http://botchamania.com/botchamania-296/
For reasons unknown, the WWE recently pulled a new Micheal Cole weekly video interview with Heath Slater as one of his guests. Supposedly he was one of the most requested stars for an interview based on social media recently.
A segment from the Owen Hart dvd set involving Triple H telling a favorite Owen Hart rib stories was recently leaked online. https://streamable.com/xyvq
Atlasobscura.com recently had an article involving the origins and story behind one of Andre the Giant's famous pictures. http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-story-behind-the-famous-portrait-of-andre-the-giant-clutching-a-beer-can

[Dark One]

[LIST]
TNA announced they will be holding a live ppv on January 8th.

First live show on 1/5? FUCK IT. LET'S HAVE A PPV THREE DAYS LATER ON A FRIDAY.

If this wasn't TNA, there would be no way I could believe this was possible.

[Lock Jaw]

V useful gif to add to your archives:

http://i.imgur.com/EZFCwY4.gif?gif

[Droford]

Theres a show on pop called Schitts Creek which is probably close to where TNA is.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

At least it was better than the WWE's version of a chair massacre:
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/1571534/cena-drops-chairs-onto-barrett-o.gif



Buried.

[Droford]

Find it hard to believe Slater was #8 in the superstar of the year voting.

I think that whole interview was a joke which was why it got pulled.

[Droford]

https://media.giphy.com/media/yJYfRMOXECyVW/giphy.gif

12/9/15

Another day which will live in infamy

[GD]

Swagger rules baby!

[Volare]

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZN91-m1gjdk?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>




<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LTohF9avAZA?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[erickman]

https://media.giphy.com/media/yJYfRMOXECyVW/giphy.gif

12/9/15

Another day which will live in infamy

now if that would during the us belt fued instead of cena hogging in that would have been better.

[Black Widow]

ROH's Kingdom stable and Bennett/Taven team splitting up soon due to contract issues.Who willing goes to TNA in 2016?

Ha!

[Lock Jaw]

Is that Swagger gif from Tribute to the Troops? Did he make Rusev tap out and win the match?

[Emperor Smeat]

https://giant.gfycat.com/JitteryClosedJanenschia.gif

[Emperor Smeat]

https://49.media.tumblr.com/5b3108faf82e265cbf90b26cd21aedf9/tumblr_nzullk9tMX1sj4xr4o5_400.gif

[Lock Jaw]

T-BOOOOONE!

[GD]

I had a really weird dream where Kevin Kelly made his return to WWE television and they played a B roll. I was very confused.

[Lock Jaw]

Confused or aroused

[Droford]

yule can('t) tree me (http://m.imgur.com/a/uDedK)
http://i.imgur.com/ZW1hC9v.jpg

[Bad News Gertner]

Mongo is on Ric Flair's podcast this week and it is the greatest thing ever

[GD]

That's open for interpretation.

[Bad News Gertner]

Scientific fact

[Emperor Smeat]

WWE reuploaded the Heath Slater interview with Cole. Turns out he ended up 8th in the Superstar of the Year voting. Even the WWE was shocked which is probably why they didn't bother to put him in the special spotlight part of the Slammy video.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rR-QKx3llgg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[Bad News Gertner]

Love this so much. HEATH SLATER BABY!!!

[Shadrick]

Man, Heath could be a decent heel. And not a comical one, but i mean like a legit heel.

[Rammsteinmad]

WWE reuploaded the Heath Slater interview with Cole. Turns out he ended up 8th in the Superstar of the Year voting. Even the WWE was shocked which is probably why they didn't bother to put him in the special spotlight part of the Slammy video.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rR-QKx3llgg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Damn, genuinely thought that was gonna be a serious, shoot-style interview with Slater commenting on his status as #8, but how silly of me to think it wouldn't have be overflowing with scripted WWE unfunny nonsense.

[Volare]

Old School WSM.

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[SlickyTrickyDamon]

THAT'S WHAT I DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Emperor Smeat]

https://49.media.tumblr.com/f5e4537b68b06575ba69a475169f8c6b/tumblr_nzullk9tMX1sj4xr4o1_400.gif

[Lock Jaw]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;You bought me 2k15 instead of 2k16&quot; <a href="https://t.co/54VFjRPtNl">pic.twitter.com/54VFjRPtNl</a></p>&mdash; mayra* (@_mayraduarte_) <a href="https://twitter.com/_mayraduarte_/status/680239011911237632">December 25, 2015</a></blockquote>
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[Volare]

ROFL!!!

[Emperor Smeat]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Happy birthday to Jesus and <a href="https://twitter.com/RusevBUL">@RusevBUL</a> the best guys ever.</p>&mdash; Rusev (@RusevBUL) <a href="https://twitter.com/RusevBUL/status/680562302580580352">December 26, 2015</a></blockquote>
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[thekrow]

This time of the year always reminds me of the awesome Eric D matches we saw for the title. It seems like most of Eric D's matches were always in December. Wish Eric D came back, so many possibilities.


http://www.chwbackyard.com/uploads/2/5/4/6/25465882/6752351.jpg


I know his body building career has gone off but I think Eric D should give everyone a Christmas present and show up in CHW one more time for the holidays!

[Damian Rey]

He's probably happier doing something of merit and skill instead a playing around in his mom's backyard.

[thekrow]

He's probably happier doing something of merit and skill instead a playing around in his mom's backyard.

Well I think so, if that's what he loves. But I think he is wasting his wrestling potential. I really think Eric D could've been a WWE guy eventually. Maybe his bodybuilding career can take him there. Just too much to waste to imagine Eric D never wrestling again. The guy is pure talent.

[Shadrick]

Well I think so, if that's what he loves. But I think he is wasting his wrestling potential. I really think Eric D could've been a WWE guy eventually. Maybe his bodybuilding career can take him there. Just too much to waste to imagine Eric D never wrestling again. The guy is pure talent.

:y:

[Simple Fan]

He's probably happier doing something of merit and skill instead a playing around in his mom's backyard.

Backyard Body Building Federation.

[Rammsteinmad]

Well I think so, if that's what he loves. But I think he is wasting his wrestling potential. I really think Eric D could've been a WWE guy eventually. Maybe his bodybuilding career can take him there. Just too much to waste to imagine Eric D never wrestling again. The guy is pure talent.

If that's truly the case, perhaps he's gone to a proper wrestling school to learn how to actually wrestle.

[Emperor Smeat]

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/taDoXMrk6i0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[Droford]

WWE cant be dumb enough to think people want to see Goldberg vs Lesnar at WM again.

[Emperor Smeat]

Not just John Cena, but Vince McMahon will also be on Raw Monday night from the Barclays Center.

The WWE announced today that McMahon would return to Raw to confront Roman Reigns for giving him the Superman punch two weeks ago.

McMahon's return led Raw to a 2.66 rating, up nearly a full-half point from the 2.20 the previous week. It was the biggest rating of the year against football. But the number fell to 2.33 last week, roughly what it had been averaging during football season.

With a strong Cincinnati Bengals vs. Denver Broncos game, a normal Raw would threaten the recent record low marks.

[Dark One]

Asuka shirt was supposed to arrive today, but it's still in another state. What a terrible fucking day.

Let us all look in awe upon it once again to pass the time.

Yo, Asuka's new shirt is cool as fuck.

http://demandware.edgesuite.net/aaiw_prd/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-main/default/dwc2fec63f/images/large/W10723.jpg

[DAMN iNATOR]

Yeah the severe weather outbreak last week really fucked with USPS/UPS/FedEx's deliveries.

Try not to suplex the poor delivery person when they finally do show up with it.,.circumstances beyond their control caused it.

[Sepholio]

Indeed, the weather has been fucking whack the last couple weeks. It's mid 80's here every day right now. The nighttime lows are 15-20 degrees above what our day-time high should be. Tornadoes followed by a blizzard in other places. It's insane.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Tomorrow bring delivery?

UPS: Ohhh noo!

[Dark One]

SPINNING BACK FISTS FOR EVERYONE

[Dark One]

KICKOUT AT TWOOOOO

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OH SWEET JESUS HE'S DEAD

[Sepholio]

FATALITY!

[Vastardikai]

FATALITY!

R.I.P. Dragon Dragon.

[Dark One]

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ho7eJuJFdH8?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[Droford]

I was expecting another dragon head under the first

[Dark One]

Sting has that market cornered.

https://i.imgur.com/i3eLlh.jpg

[Hanso Amore]

KICKOUT AT TWOOOOO

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OH SWEET JESUS HE'S DEAD

What's with the flesh hips on his singlet? Trying to hide his body?

[Dark One]

The last person to ask him that was the dragon.

[Emperor Smeat]

http://i.imgur.com/5fs9I5o.gif

[Mr. Nerfect]

Is Jack Swagger still getting his push? Love that man.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I want to see a Heath Slater/Vince McMahon segment next week. Hell, run Reigns vs. Slater for the WWE Title.

[Mr. Nerfect]

https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpa1/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/12356537_1528839387428401_905706217_n.jpg

Becky Lunch.

Is she still scheduled for that program with Charlotte. I think they could have a really good match. Hopefully people start caring about her.

[Mr. Nerfect]

http://i.imgur.com/9eZES4b.jpg

Got no clue why they get Becky Lynch to cover up.

[Emperor Smeat]

According to recent reports and rumors, Nikki Bella could join Orton in being out till late 2016/TBA 2017. Going to be out till at least the end of January and then will have a medical test to determine if she needs surgery or not.

If she needs surgery, likely done for the year and maybe even for the career. If not, still out for a few more months just because of how messed up her neck is.

Former WWE Divas Champion Nikki Bella has seven more weeks of rehab on her injured neck and will then undergo an MRI, according to Prowrestlingsheet.com. It will be determined at that time whether she will need to undergo surgery to repair the damage. Nikki later noted via Twitter that she will “know my destiny” at the end of January.

Powell’s POV: The story also states that the damage was caused by Nikki’s Rack Attack finisher and that she may no longer be able to perform the move once she returns to the ring. Here’s wishing her the best in her recovery.

[Mr. Nerfect]

It sucks for anybody to be hurt. The silver-lining here is that this will be good for the creative direction of the women's division. Some of the older faces needed to get out of the way for the fresher ones.

[Evil Vito]

http://i.imgur.com/9eZES4b.jpg

Got no clue why they get Becky Lynch to cover up.

<font color=goldenrod>I would eat meals off of her stomach.</font>

[Mr. Nerfect]

All day. :y:

[Lock Jaw]

I would, but not all day because I'd get fat.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I would burn off the calories with copious amounts of sex with Becky.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I am not trying to internet brag -- I would be too afraid of giving Becky Lunch a dissatisfying sexual experience, hence why I step my game up.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Instead of crying and cumming too early, like I would for maybe Alicia Fox.

[Mr. Nerfect]

http://pa1.narvii.com/5739/1e4cd2da1b50294479fb8fc244807a3db859672f_hq.gif

[Mr. Nerfect]

I would order the Royal Rumble just to see Becky Lynch win the Divas Title, but I think Charlotte will beat her.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Do you think it's going to be Charlotte vs. Sasha Banks vs. Becky Lynch vs. Paige at WrestleMania? Seems likely at this point. The one girl I'd consider adding in there is an Evil Nattie, sick of being overlooked in the division. Would five girls be too many?

[The Condor]

Would five girls be too many?

They ran with 14 two years ago.

[The Condor]

I swear, the only non-Pacific Islander I've ever seen regularly hit a Samoan Drop is Marc Mero.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Didn't Shelton Benjamin used to do one? Or am I completely imagining that?

[Mr. Nerfect]

New Japan are creating a set of NEVER Six-Man Tag Team belts. Toru Yano and The Briscoes will team up to face Tama Tonga, Yujiro Takahashi & Bad Luck Fale. I'm hoping for The Briscoes & Yano to take them. Six-man tags are en vogue at the moment, and it allows for different acts to come together and have a different style of match. Could be some great shine for guys.

[Dark One]

KICKOUT AT TWOOOOOO

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That seems like a bad idea.

[Dark One]

Asuka shirt scheduled to get here on Tuesday now.

Why the fuck am I even still living on this planet any more? What's the point?

[Bad News Gertner]

Time to rate Becky Lynch. She's a bit long in the tooth and she has a giant nose.

6/10

[Dark One]

MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: DEL RIO WRESTLES IN PANTS

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[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Stardust's pants?

[Nicky Fives]

serious lack of black leather on the roster with Rollins' injury....

[The Condor]

Time to rate Becky Lynch. She's a bit long in the tooth and she has a giant nose.

6/10

Accent is a plus, and she has nice eyes. 7.8/10

[Bad News Gertner]

The accent lowers her score

[Innovator]

Ever been to Ireland Gertie? The accent is majestic on a young lass

[Dark One]

http://i.imgur.com/gTkMHy3.png

[Dark One]

Day 28:

Asuka shirt has still not arrived. All hope fading. Life meaningless. Tomorrow brings sadness.

[Dark One]

New Day at Wizard World Portland in a couple of months.

Considering spending obscene amount of money to have my photo taken with a trombone.

[Dark One]

Asked Big E if the trombone will also be present. If so, I'm going to spend an obscene amount of money.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

The accent lowers her score

Sowry but you are wrong buddy.

[Bad News Gertner]

The whole United Kingdom is one big dumpster fire for women.

[Innovator]

Those are fighting words for Irish Gertie

[Corporate CockSnogger]

Slickytrickydamon's Irish ancestors didn't live and die to be mocked by Gertner

[Big Vic]

The accent lowers her score
How about Layla's accent? Is her score lower or higher due to her accent?

[Bad News Gertner]

Layla's is slightly more tolerable than Becky Lynch.

Layla's score gets lowered because she's 50 years old

[Bad News Gertner]

Slickytrickydamon's Irish ancestors didn't live and die to be mocked by Gertner

Irish. More like Freckled Faced Faggots!

[Savio]

Layla's is slightly more tolerable than Becky Lynch.

Layla's score gets lowered because she's 50 years old
That's not what I asked :(

[Dark One]

Day 29:

Asuka shirt theoretically arriving today. Losing hope. Send help.

[Fignuts]

Today brings danger, dark one. Stay strong, brother.

[Tom Guycott]

Day 28:

Asuka shirt has still not arrived. All hope fading. Life meaningless. Tomorrow brings sadness.

Today brings danger, dark one. Stay strong, brother.

Ohohoho, I see what you guys did there. I was gonna make a similar funny, but you beat me to it.

[Emperor Smeat]

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

[DAMN iNATOR]

First live show on 1/5? FUCK IT. LET'S HAVE A PPV THREE DAYS LATER ON A FRIDAY.

If this wasn't TNA, there would be no way I could believe this was possible.

(see also: WWE New Year's Revolution [2005-2007]).

[Dark One]

(see also: WWE New Year's Revolution [2005-2007]).

That isn't even remotely the same thing.

TNA is doing a PAY-PER-VIEW after their first live show--and more importantly their first "legitimate" show--in MONTHS. The first show in months with any storylines other than "a never-ending tournament to fill lame-duck TV" and it is immediately going to be followed by a Pay-Per-View.

[Dark One]

Also:

Day 29, Update 1:

Day is saved.

http://i.imgur.com/duhAhy0.png

[Emperor Smeat]

Dirtsheets sponsored by Ceasro channeling his inner Stephanie McMahon:
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As noted, ratings for last night's WWE RAW will be delayed until Wednesday due to the Christmas holiday.

However, Deadline reports that the Cincinnati Bengals vs. Denver Broncos Monday Night Football game scored a season-high 10.5 overnight rating. The MNF season finale also drew a huge 44.2 overnight rating in the Cincinnati market and a 42.0 in the Denver market. It will be very interesting to see how Vince McMahon, John Cena and WWE World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns did up against big competition from the NFL.

It will also be interesting to see what WWE announces for the January 11th RAW from New Orleans. RAW will face huge competition that night as the College Football National Championship game airs on ESPN at 8:30pm EST.

As noted, WWE announced Sheamus vs. Reigns with the title on the line and Vince as special referee for next week's RAW from San Antonio.
Probably won't be a good number for RAW especially with how the start and first hour was handled unlike two weeks ago with the Vince and Reigns stuff.

Vince McMahon triggered a bunch of calls to the NYPD after he appeared to get arrested Monday night on "Monday Night Raw."

Cops began fielding calls after some really bad acting, where Vince stepped in to protect his daughter from some rent-a-cops. Things got heated at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Vince got aggressive and the cops hooked him up and read him his Miranda rights.

It seemed real enough for viewers to call police ... presumably to either express their displeasure or lobby to have the book thrown at him.

Brock Lesnar's next opponent in WWE will be Sheamus as things are advertised.

A Lesnar vs. Sheamus match has been announced for a 1/8 house show at the Toyota Center in Houston. It is one of two Lesnar house show appearances thus far announced for this year, with the second one being on 2/16.

Lesnar is advertised for a Raw return on 1/11 in New Orleans, which will likely be the night that his role in the Royal Rumble show will also be announced.

After taking a nasty bump to the outside, Sin Cara was checked on by trainers. He was able to finish the match, but got further medical treatment once he returned backstage.

He later confirmed on Twitter that he suffered a dislocated shoulder.
Add Sin Cara to the growing heap of wrestlers injured now in the WWE.

Shinsuke Nakamura was announced today by ROH as appearing on its anniversary weekend shows on 2/26 and 2/27 in Las Vegas at Sam's Town. The 2/26 show, which will feature a number of New Japan stars (Kushida and Gedo have been announced, the Observer has also listed several other names) will be on PPV.

Kevin Doane talks to the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling. On the Spirit Squad gimmick and trying to make the main roster: “Eventually The Spirit Squad started coming about and they started liking it. They flew us into one of the Carolinas and they weren't sure about it then. So we all came up with this idea that we are going to wait in Vince's office and when he comes in we are going to blow the air horn in his face and do a cheer. We thought you either going to get fired or it will work. We don't want to be in developmental so he was stuck in the production meeting for quite a while so we said let’s find him and break in. So we bust into the production meeting and blow the air horn, we did a big cheer and we just kind of stopped in our position and Vince looked up and he said ‘great, you will be on RAW next week.’”
Semi-Wacky Vince story from back in the day.


Some other sheet news includes:

ROH recently announced NJPW's Tomohiro Ishii will be making his debut for the company during the upcoming ppv event in Las Vegas. http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/tomohiro-ishii-makes-his-roh-debut-las-vegas
Dana Brooke might be dealing with her own "Seth Rollins compromising images" situation within the WWE soon due to recently leaked photos of her.
According to the dirtsheets, WWE is rumored to be working on a deal with The Rock's movie studios to get him insured and approved for a possible match at Mania. Ever since the Cena series, movie studios have refused to approve a match or cover insurance for him in the WWE.
For those interested in NXT, next two weeks will just be Year End recap type shows with the next set of actual tapings occurring on January 7th and starting on the 13th.
Titus O'Neil will be this week's guest for ESPN's WWE segment with Coachman.
Gawker recently filed a motion to get their lawsuit by Hogan tossed due to claims of fraud against the court by Hogan's side regarding more tapes exisiting and recent allegations against Hogan. http://www.f4wonline.com/news/figure-four-weekly-12282015-gawker-files-dismiss-hogan-lawsuit-204541

[Fignuts]

Someone get me those Dana Brooks pics, ASAP.

[Volare]

Someone get me those Dana Brooks pics, ASAP.

[Dark One]

Fine you lazy bastards. They're way, way pre-NXT days.



No, really, NSFW. Like for serious.

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[SlickyTrickyDamon]

0.0

[Emperor Smeat]

Supposedly a story going around is that Brooke and Ziggler have been flirting a bit openly recently with Rusev telling them its a better idea to just send private DMs to each other instead of public tweets and messages. Doesn't mean Ziggler was responsible for the leak but that it was probably a lot easier for the pictures to end up in the wrong hands.

Also her having a unique tattoo on her butt gave away who was in the pictures leaked.

http://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2015/12/28/10677144/rusev-calls-out-dolph-ziggler-dana-brooke-who-respond-perfectly

[DAMN iNATOR]

That isn't even remotely the same thing.

TNA is doing a PAY-PER-VIEW after their first live show--and more importantly their first "legitimate" show--in MONTHS. The first show in months with any storylines other than "a never-ending tournament to fill lame-duck TV" and it is immediately going to be followed by a Pay-Per-View.

True. But you have to wonder WTF WWE were thinking, trying to cram a 2nd PPV into January. Maybe they thought doing both Cyber Sunday (2004) and the 2004 Survivor Series in November worked so well in a big 4 month that they'd try it in January 2005 as well.

Only real memorable moment (IMHO) from all 3 New Year's Revolution PPVs was at the end of the '06 show when Edge became the first man to cash in MitB, and after becoming the inaugural winner of the ladder match that previous spring of 2005 @ WM 21. Him toppling Cena was truly epic.

[Volare]

0.0

Shoot that booty is perfect!

[Heisenberg]

0.0

Meltzer sheep

[Heisenberg]

just thought about how we missed a chance to see Paul Bearer and Paul Heyman at WMXXX with the Lesnar/Taker match. Would have been sweet to see them interact at the height of that time

[Nark Order]

New Jack was on my favorite podcast Legion of Skanks and he told a bunch of stories about how Terri Runnells likes to blade before she has sex. So. There's that.

[drave]

New Jack was on my favorite podcast Legion of Skanks and he told a bunch of stories about how Terri Runnells likes to blade before she has sex. So. There's that.

That's just because she doesn't bleed on her own anymore at her age. Don't get it twisted.

[Emperor Smeat]

Dirtsheets sponsored by Evil Emma Bella:
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Even going against the highest rated Monday night game of the season, Raw did well above its fall season average with the Vince McMahon show-long arrest angle.

Raw did 3.53 million viewers, placing it third for the night on cable behind the Broncos-Bengals game that did 15.81 million viewers and an episode of SportsCenter.

The angle, as expected, helped maintain the audience as there was less of an audience drop as the show went on as is typical of Raw. The return of John Cena also played a part in that.

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 3.70 million viewers
9 p.m. 3.49 million viewers
10 p.m. 3.43 million viewers

Monday was the final episode of Monday Night Football. With the exception of the 1/11 show, which goes against the college football championship game, Raw will now be free of its top competition, and ratings should rise about 10 percent from the level they have been if history is an indication.
In terms of weekly stuff, this week ended up being around 198k more viewers than the Slammys but 348k less than 2 weeks ago. In terms of the year, down by around 448k on average compared to 2014. In terms of hour/show rankings, 8pm was 4th and the best hour for the WWE this week.

There has been some communication between Bill Goldberg and WWE about potentially working a match at Wrestlemania 32 with Brock Lesnar.

For the record, according to WWE this morning the Big Show is NOT going to be the number-one entrant in the Royal Rumble. Last night on Raw he made a confusing statement about being the first entrant which led to great confusion among fans and the announcers. I would laugh if all of this all led to him actually being put in the Rumble in the number one spot. Apparently Big Show will be shooting some segments clarifying what he apparently meant (he's the first man to throw his hat into the ring for the Rumble).



Some other sheet news includes:

Michigan University's head football coach recently hinted that if Detroit gets a Mania in the future, they should use the team's stadium since it can hold thousands of more people than Cowboys stadium. http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2015/12/30/wrestlemania-at-the-big-house-harbaugh-says-yes-please/?cid=facebook_Valenti_and_Foster
Update to the upcoming NXT Midwest tour as the WWE added an extra show for Chicago due to high demand which sold out just as quickly as the first show. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/3yt65l/nxt_chicago_sells_out_in_under_5_minutes_part_2/
Along with other previously announced NJPW wrestlers, ROH recently announced Okada will be wrestling at their Las Vegas ppv next month. http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/rainmaker-coming-las-vegas
Recent article by Rolling Stones dealt with NXT, their popularity growth in 2015, and the future for next year. http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/nxt-made-the-leap-in-2015-now-the-skys-the-limit-20151230
In a "WWE Did You Know", 2015 marks the first time since 2009 that John Cena wasn't the top draw for the WWE in terms of show attendance and main event spots. Seth Rollins had more than Cena did for the year using both categories. http://www.f4wonline.com/news/january-4-2016-wrestling-observer-newsletter-business-year-review-rock-wrestlemania-32-tons
Karl Anderson recently teased that if he ever leaves NJPW in the future, he'd consider going to the WWE because of Finn Balor. Even teased the idea of having the Ballor Club be an actual stable as an idea like Bullet Club.

[Black Widow]

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[Black Widow]

Golberg vs Lesnar again lol.

[Big Vic]

I guess its good for Lesnar to avenge that loss pretty much everyone forgot about. Hopefully give Goldberg his first entirely clean loss ever.

[Droford]

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[Volare]

Holy smokes Batman is Molly!

[Tom Guycott]

Also:

Day 29, Update 1:

Day is saved.

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This is me being totally jealous

[drave]

http://i.imgur.com/VcwkEa2.jpg

That a recent pic? Just asking because it looks like a very young Daniel Bryan next to her.

[Volare]

On Batista Getting a Match Finish Changed to Help MVP: “We had been doing a television feud. It wasn’t a pay-per-view feud, but, every week, he and I were going through something, wrestling, and he had beaten me, like, two weeks in a row on TV. And the finish that day was he was going to beat me again. And I know my role. I’m a heel! He’s the money guy. He’s a star. That’s what I’m there for. I have no problem with that. Dave had a problem with it because he said, ‘why am I beating you again? This does nothing for you. This does nothing for me. This is pointless.’ His exact words [were], ‘you’re a f–king guy we can do something with. Why am I beating you again?’. This is what Dave said. I said, ‘f–k it, Dave. I’m working in the main event against you. I’m cool. That’s fine. I’m making that main event money. I’m getting the rub.’ He goes, ‘no, f–k that. It’s bulls–t. Lets go talk to Vince [McMahon].’” MVP continued, “Dave literally took me in to Vince and said, ‘Vince, it doesn’t make sense.’ That doesn’t happen very often in the world of professional wrestling. There aren’t that many guys that think that selflessly and see the picture in that way, so that’s the kind of guy he is.”

That's fucking bad ass right there. More and more keeps coming out about Bats being like this, and it makes me like him more and hope he finds more success.

[Droford]

That a recent pic? Just asking because it looks like a very young Daniel Bryan next to her.

Apparently when he was in WWE developmental the first time back in 2002 Molly Holly was down there too.

[thekrow]

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TOMORROW guys, Phill Knoxx takes on Chris Vega in the first round of the KOTY tourney!

[Mercenary]

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TOMORROW guys, Phill Knoxx takes on Chris Vega in the first round of the KOTY tourney!


and not two fucks will be given.

[Emperor Smeat]

Dirtsheets sponsored by the evolution of Taker in video games:
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According to the WON, there’s a lot of discussion in WWE about Finn Balor and Bayley’s viability when they make it to the main roster. The site reports that several people have been talking about their media appearances where they’ve said they’re happy staying in NXT.

In Balor’s case, there’s a lot of talk about how NXT is relying heavily on Balor to have big main event matches, with concern that he’s breaking down his body too much with the brand’s expanding touring schedule. Balor is thirty-four and with more touring expected this year, the worry is that NXT is supposed to get him ready to be able to make it to the main roster, not break him apart before he gets there.

As for Bayley, the feeling is that she’ll either be the biggest female star in WWE history or will flounder on the main roster, with no in-between. Some in the company see her as a female John Cena in terms of her ability to do charity work and bring in younger fans, particularly younger female fans. WWE has never had a strong audience among young girls outside of the few periods where they were strong across all demographics. There’s concern that any attempts to contrive situations on the main roster like the young superfan Izzy, which helped promote Bayley in a big way, could lead to a backlash.

There’s also talk that Bayley’s current character plays well as a “big sister” type for young fans to idolize, which has an inherent shelf life. If the company waits too long to pull the trigger she could outgrow that image.

Which NXT Superstar had the best 2015? What was your favorite NXT match of the year? You will be able to make your voice heard on these topics and more, starting tomorrow!

WWE COO Triple H announced on Twitter that the first NXT Year-End Awards in WWE history, recognizing the best NXT had to offer in 2015, will be presented on the Jan. 13 edition of NXT on WWE Network. The NXT Universe will be able to cast their votes exclusively on WWE.com, beginning New Year’s Day at 10 a.m. ET in six categories. The awards are:

Overall Competitor of the Year
Male Competitor of the Year
Female Competitor of the Year
Tag Team of the Year
Match of the Year
TakeOver of the Year

Polls for the inaugural NXT Year-End Awards open tomorrow, Jan. 1, 2016, at 10 a.m. ET on WWE.com and close on Jan. 6 at 10 a.m. ET. Don’t miss the chance to help your favorite NXT Superstars win these prestigious honors!

TNA Impact for November averaged 244,000 viewers for the 9 p.m. show and 84,000 viewers for the midnight show. Spike in November last year averaged 960,000 viewers, so it was down 74.6 percent for one show, and down 65.8 percent when you add in this year’s number that combines two airings vs. one airing last year on Spike.

Hiroshi Tanahashi on his podcast was talking about how New Japan and the Japanese industry’s biggest problem, which is obvious from an outsider perspective, which is the television situation. While cable and satellite exist in Japan, it’s nowhere close to as widespread as in most other countries, cable in particular. So while there are small stations that wrestling is on, and the hardcore fan who has those stations is served, with the exception of New Japan on TV-Asahi for 30 minutes at 2:30 a.m., it’s essentially like Lucha Underground on El Rey. There is no other promotion in Japan that’s even available on TV in as many homes as New Japan is in the U.S. on AXS ... He also noted that the 30 minutes of TV in a bad time slot is a hindrance and with 60 minutes they’d be able to get more exposure, particularly of the mid-card guys and junior heavyweights.

The U.K. promotion 5 Star Wrestling has a huge series of shows on 1/13 in Newcastle at the Metro Arena (11,000 capacity), 1/14 in Sheffield at the Arena (13,500 capacity) and 1/15 in Liverpool at the Echo Arena (12,000 capacity), using Rey Mysterio, A.J. Styles, Colt Cabana, PJ Black, Johnny Mundo, Carilto, Jay Lethal, Magnus and Rockstar Spud as the top stars. Mysterio vs. Styles for the first time ever in a singles match is scheduled for Sheffield. This will be very interesting because, as noted, no U.K. group, even with imports, has ever been able to draw more than 4,000 fans to a show in decades

Cena’s regular appearances on the Today Show, including being a guest host on both 12/28 and 12/29, is part of NBC Universal’s attempt to change the image of pro wrestling given they’ve got so much riding on it, since the USA Network, which has long been the most profitable station in the empire, starts this week with five of its 21 weekly prime time hours as WWE programming. So it’s very important to be able to sell those hours to better sponsors than what they have been able to in the past, particularly they need the perception of it being okay to sponsor to offset the audience decline. Cena got good reviews coming off of “Sisters,” where he plays a drug dealer. Regarding Cena, his ability to do comedy is being noticed in Hollywood, along with his look, and he’s probably going to get more offers. As expected since they are loading up on the first Smackdown show on the USA Network on 1/7 (taped 1/5 in Laredo), is that Cena will be on that show.

It is confirmed that TNA will be doing a live PPV on 1/8 from Bethlehem, PA, just three days after what is the first show on Pop TV being promoted. Apparently due to the cancellation of the New Orleans show several months ago, followed by the cancellation of the India tour, that they needed product for the international special commitments in a hurry, and this was the date they were scheduled for a taped One Night Only show in the U.S. as well. With nothing taped (since a lot of the taped product with the tournament ended up being used to fill up months of Impact programming), they had to do a live show. The problem is that the TV taped on 1/6 and 1/7 will air after the PPV, meaning they either give away title changes ahead of time, avoid using belts on champions for a few days at the tapings, or do a PPV where no belts change hands and no major storylines that have to be followed up on take place

The WWE has just announced today its first WWE-brand network special for the year, "Road to WrestleMania" show on Saturday, March 12, from the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto.

Nothing has been announced for the card as of yet, but usually there is some sort of a hook for these shows.

Toronto would be the fourth WWE-brand network special thus far, with a North American exclusive PPV show added last year with an Elimination Chamber theme, as well as shows in Tokyo and Madison Square Garden built around Brock Lesnar matches.



Some other sheet news includes:

Outside of 1 match booked, Kurt Angle will be taking all of 2016 off from wrestling although won't make a decision on retirement until 2017. Wants at least one last appearance in the WWE and a possible retirement match with Daniel Bryan if possible. Think he's locked for the WWE Hall and likely for the 2017 class as the earliest possible.
Starting early next year, the WWE will change how it handles medical insurance with the biggest being them no longer as the sole provider. Everyone on the roster and those wishing to get hired needs to also have a separate provider by the time the new changes take effect.
According to the Observer, WWE could start announcing members of the 2017 Hall of Fame class as early as January 11th since ticket sales for the event starts on January 15th.
Also according to the Observer, Dana Brooke has been dealing with an injury recently with the WWE unwilling to reveal what it is. Could be a concussion based on recent past announcements of the injury type.
Rey Mysterio rumored to be unofficially staying with AAA once his current deal expires since his new Lucha Underground deal might also be tied to AAA.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>"Bayley will either be the biggest female star in the history of the company or she will flounder."

Well that's not vague or anything.</font>

[Dark One]

The problem is that the TV taped on 1/6 and 1/7 will air after the PPV, meaning they either give away title changes ahead of time, avoid using belts on champions for a few days at the tapings, or do a PPV where no belts change hands and no major storylines that have to be followed up on take place

It's even worse than I thought.

This went so well last time.

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[Emperor Smeat]

Should just pull a page from NXT's book and either just not use those people or go with the no titles route.

Then again the same company recently thought it was a wise idea to give Matt Hardy the belt even though they knew full well it would ruin a portion of the pool of matches they taped months prior.

[Dark One]

It's just mind boggling how every time they're given "a new start," they immediately shit the bed.

The fact that this is a company that exists is a disservice to every decently run company in every industry in the history of the world.

[Simple Fan]

Think they are just doing a live One Night Only PPV. Not sure of the theme for the show but probably won't have any titles on it if its a ONO PPV

[Frank Drebin]

Dixie Carter is in the middle of a bukakke party thrown for her parents friends while sitting on a pile of cash at this exact moment.

[Dark One]

http://i.imgur.com/W6152ea.jpg?1?1175

[Savio]

Who is the biggest "threat" to WWE now? ROH, TNA or CHW?

[Damian Rey]

NXT.

There's no threat. Nobody is going to compete with WWE at this point. The financial advantage is too great. Wcw only hung in the fight because they had a ridiculous amount of money to work with.

TNA, ROH, etc doesn't have that. It's a one man show as far where the big leagues are.

[GD]

I made use of the WWE Network and went back to watch Bayley versus Sasha. Got very emotional towards the end.

[Simple Fan]

I think its still TNA but its not as big of a threat as it had been 5 years ago. WWE is kind of attacking ROH because they know that that brand of wrestling is what NXT is trying to reach. ROH has alot of potential to take over TNA in that second spot but feel like they need to do bigger arenas that could at least fit 5000 people. TNA having a new start on a new channel again gives them a fresh start and I think they can do OK if they bring some fresh faces in and are creative. TNAs matches are pretty good most the time if the storylines could just line up they'd be OK I think.

[Savio]

NXT.

There's no threat. Nobody is going to compete with WWE at this point. The financial advantage is too great. Wcw only hung in the fight because they had a ridiculous amount of money to work with.

TNA, ROH, etc doesn't have that. It's a one man show as far where the big leagues are.I put "threat" in quotes.

[DaveWadding]

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[Emperor Smeat]

Who is the biggest "threat" to WWE now? ROH, TNA or CHW?

ROH assuming the dirtsheets are correct about WWE using NXT as a proxy to fight them.

Supposedly its all due to an action figure of Kevin Steen/Owens that ROH managed to release before the WWE that started the "feud." WWE felt ROH was taking money away from them and supposedly have held a grudge since then.

[Simple Fan]

Yep, WWE doesn't like that ROH does shows during WM in the same area. ROH has a lot more potential than TNA in my opinion. Ring of Honor has some great talent and if they could keep WWE from poaching a lot of them they could grow a lot. I think Sinclair is really behind ROH and are slowly building the company and themselves. TNA has been in a downward spin since leaving Spike with EC3 being their only glimmer of light. I hope they can get going on POP but don't think POP will get what they are expecting. Really don't see TNA reaching 1 million viewers anymore but I hope I'm wrong.

[#1-norm-fan]

In order for anyone to compete with WWE, WWE needs to get better and bring in a new boom period for wrestling as a whole. Right now the business just doesn't bring in new fans so it doesn't matter if a company comes in and does everything right because there just aren't enough people who care about wrestling. Obviously, having an assload of financial backing wouldn't hurt either.

[Simple Fan]

Watching This is Impact. 1hour special that aired on POP today at 1. Had a good EC3 promo the rest is pretty much a yearly review.

[Emperor Smeat]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">My only goal for 2016 is to drastically increase the number of little kids who get kicked out of class for shaking their pelvises like me.</p>&mdash; ShinigamE (@WWEBigE) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWEBigE/status/682737446602338304">January 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
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[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Who is the biggest "threat" to WWE now? ROH, TNA or CHW?

Vince?

[Emperor Smeat]

WWE.com's Top 10 List of things they'd hope to see in 2016:

10. Triple H wins the new Grand Slam by winning the U.S. Championship.

9. A Diva wins a male championship. (The staff suggested Sasha Banks winning The Intercontinental Championship)

8. A Superstar wins the Royal Rumble Match in his Rumble debut. (Some of the people mentioned by the staff are Kevin Owens, Neville, and Braun Strowman.)

7. Dean Ambrose breaks an Intercontinental Championship drought. (Ambrose WILL hold the Championship longer then 300 days, the first time that that was done since Honky Tonk Man's record breaking reign.)

6. A Hall of Fame Diva returns to the ring. (The three mentioned by the staff were Trish Stratus, Lita, and Alundra Blayze.)

5. The Undertaker competes in a Casket Match sometime in the year 2016.

4. A woman joins The Wyatt Family.

3. A WWE World Heavyweight Champion vs. NXT Champion match.

2. Roman Reigns teams up with The Rock. A tag team match with the two of them on one side will take place in 2016.

1. John Cena clinches his 16th World Championship.
http://www.wwe.com/inside/10-things-we-want-to-see-in-2016

Can see everything except #8 and #9 happening. #5 and #7 are toss ups mostly because it requires the WWE to plan long term stuff.

[Simple Fan]

Sascha could join New Day and be a Tag Team champion or New Day could win a singles title and share it.

[Dark One]

TNA having a new start on a new channel again gives them a fresh start and I think they can do OK if they bring some fresh faces in and are creative.

Spoiler: They're already shitting the bed.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Sascha could join New Day and be a Tag Team champion or New Day could win a singles title and share it.

Bank on It. The only thing that isn't booty is unity!

[Simple Fan]

Spoiler: They're already shitting the bed.

I don't see how they are already shitting the bed. If its simply because of the ONO PPV on the 8th I dont see that as a big deal. They had that date for a ONO anyway an nothing recorded so doing one live seems like a good idea. They'll probably do something along the lines of the Global X Cup or something that fits the ONO format but I don't see that as shitting the bed.

[Simple Fan]

WWE has announced the second competitor in the 2016 Royal Rumble. The company revealed that Curtis Axel has joined Big Show in the thirty-man match. Axel still claims that he was never eliminated from last year’s Rumble match.

The company also noted in the five-point preview that more entrants will be announced on RAW.

Hell yeah, should have had him in the Raw segment last week.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Don't change the channel!

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Something will happen to prevent Axel from entering again and it'll be the next recurring Rumble joke along with Kofi always finding new ways to avoid elimination.</font>

[Frank Drebin]

Kinda rooting for Axel to find his niche. One of the best themes. If Sandow couldn't do it through a comedic route I don't see Axel doing it though.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Should just do what was going to do before AxelMania: go down to NXT full time. He has been in the past training buddies of the Rock and Brock Lesnar. So, he's not going anywhere as long as Brock is around.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Had no idea Zack Ryder and Emma were dating. Apparently have been for a while.

Getting to bang Evil Emma is a pretty great consolation prize for having basically nothing to do on the main roster for 4 years.</font> :y:

[Damian Rey]

Isn't Emma still traveling with the main roster? That's a pretty great thing to do.

[Fignuts]

Kinda rooting for Axel to find his niche. One of the best themes. If Sandow couldn't do it through a comedic route I don't see Axel doing it though.

His theme is really all he has going for him though. Textbook definition of average. If even.

[Savio]

I like Axel as the guy who doesnt know he sucks

[DaveWadding]

<font color=goldenrod>Had no idea Zack Ryder and Emma were dating. Apparently have been for a while.

Getting to bang Evil Emma is a pretty great consolation prize for having basically nothing to do on the main roster for 4 years.</font> :y:

Yeah, but on the downside, he's stuck teaming with shitty ass Mojo Rawley.

[Droford]

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Car 1 The King 0

[Lock Jaw]

Yeah, but on the downside, he's stuck teaming with shitty ass Mojo Rawley.

I'd take that exchange.

[Curtis]

Who is the biggest "threat" to WWE now? ROH, TNA or CHW?



CHW. If they push Robb Banks WWE might as well close up shop. He's the Hogan of this generation.

[Tom Guycott]

His theme is really all he has going for him though. Textbook definition of average. If even.

I like Axel as the guy who doesnt know he sucks

On one hand, that's pretty entertaining.

On the other, that's precisely the problem that lead to not having enough "star power" right now. After what seemed like a surefire start in his re-christening at the hands of Paul Heyman, he was relegated to comedy status and jobber meatshield within, what, like 3-4 weeks? Imagine for one second that Lesnar's debut was booked similarly... where he came in and 2x powerbombed people like he did at first, but only for like two weeks, then proceeded to lose every match and do shit to look dumb and weak just to prevent people from attacking Paul Heyman. He would have gotten nowhere near top draw potential, and would be mentioned in the company of guys like Heidenreich or Nathan Jones today. Axel is almost in the same boat as Cesaro... except that Henning* has a boat with more holes and a smaller bucket and less TV time in which to bail it out.

Even a (regular) stint in NXT would help him out. Book him to be a legitimate threat. Say he's focused. Give him televised victories to help get his stock up. That part of the "getting people over" equation should not be so hard, but WWE makes it like it is impossible.

[Simple Fan]

Love all the Axel talk. I think it would be pretty cool to have Axel enter the Rumble at #30 and about 5 guys left. Axel last to the last 2 and who ever WWE wants to win the Rumble gets shoved under the ropes to the outside and Axel starts a 10 count with the fans and thinks he's won the RR by countout so he starts to celebrate while the other guy get back in and dumps him over the ropes to win. Gives Axel another gripe with the RR match and also goes back to when he debuted and was beating people by countout(HHH and John Cen).

[Savio]

I'd like the WWE to specifically state "If you do not enter the ring before the next entrant you will be disqualified."

[Simple Fan]

Rey Mysterio will meet AJ Styles for the first time ever in a “dream match” on January 14th in Sheffield, England. The match is one of the indy dates that Mysterio is working while he appears for Lucha Underground.

As noted earlier, Mysterio’s deal with Lucha Underground is for two years and while his AAA contract has ended as of the end of 2015, he is likely to stay linked to AAA and do some events for them

Might be an alright match. Anyone close to Sheffield, England?

[Dark One]

KICKOUT AT TWOOOOO

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[Shadrick]

That was actually a pretty good movie

[Lock Jaw]

Is Ambrose a good actor

[Frank Drebin]

Obligatory Renee Young reference.

[Shadrick]

Is Ambrose a good actor

I'd say he was pretty good. I think he fit this role very well.

[Droford]

Triple H hates google

While the arrest angles are quite similar, there is one major difference. WWE released a mug shot of Vince (through social media, and it was shown during Raw), but not of Stephanie. Kevin Eck, who was on WWE's creative team at the time, explains in his latest column why there was no mug shot of her.
While tossing around ideas for the angle in a creative meeting, Eck suggested that a mug shot-style photo be taken of Stephanie and shown on television. Triple H, however, hated the idea.
Eck wrote, "Vince loved it. In fact, I think I may have gotten one of his "that's good thinking" figurative pats on the back. However, when the creative team ran the angle by Triple H, he didn't care for any of it, and he especially hated the mug shot idea."
"His reasoning was that the faux mug shot of his wife would exist forever in cyberspace, and therefore if someone did a Google search on Stephanie and the photo popped up, people might think she had actually been arrested, which could be detrimental to her career as WWE's Chief Brand Officer."
Eck noted that Triple H stated his case to Vince, who nixed the proposal.


linkydink (http://kevineckwrestling.sportsblog.com/posts/9789241/the-reason-why-there-was-no-mug-shot-of-stephanie-mcmahon-when-she-was-arrested-on-raw.html)

[CSL]

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[Emperor Smeat]

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[Innovator]

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CONTINUOUS RAINMAKERS UNTIL TANA IS NOTHING BUT HIS GLORIOUS HAIR

[CSL]

lol legit think the finish could be something like that, 3-4 consecutive RAIN-MAKE-AHHHH!