Did you guys check out the Official HOF thread? 'cause this is a wrestling forum. How about that :)

That is not a picture that should be in HD.

Here's a photo that should be in HD.

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Larry's speech was perfectly fine. Jericho was mad that he couldn't use the Name Living Legend because he didn't ask either Bruno or Larry for permission before using it. Jericho was in the wrong.

there was an old, smart guy named sigmund freud, and sigmund came up with the idea that dreams become the reality of your wishes.

Rikishi set off the right with a great passionate speech and I have to say this is probably the best Hall of Fame Ceremony in a long time (possibly ever.)

I'd say the Dana Warrior/Daniel Bryan/Father was the highlight of the show. Followed by Lanny Poffo's poems and acceptance speech for the Macho Man.

I loved Madusa's speech and how defiant she was about what she did and the legacy. Wished she had talked "give divas a chance", but it was really awesome.

Larry's was good even though he got a little bit off track. Loved his message about his dream and to make sure everybody follows theirs.

Bushwackers was really good as well. Really loved that they didn't buy into the WWE video packages that disregarded so much of their career. The Flag Bearer did a great job introducing him.

Nash wasn't that great because of time restraints still good for what it was and the time they were given to wrap up the show.

Tatsumi should have also been allowed to say something in Japanese too. Flair really should have spoken a big longer since he knew Tats wouldn't be able to say much clearly in English.

Bushwackers had me in tears.

So good.

'Divas will change halfway through the session'. :naughty:

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<font color=goldenrod>Hope it was worth getting arrested and missing the show you likely spent a fortune to go to.</font>

What a fucking moron!

<font color=goldenrod>Around this time of the year I get to thinking about future HOF inductees, and I wanted to look and see who on the current roster might get in.

Based on who WWE has listed in the "Current" section of their roster on WWE.com, I could see all of the following going in at some point:

Big Show
Brock Lesnar
Chris Jericho
Christian
Goldust
JBL
John Cena
Kane
Mark Henry
Mr. McMahon
Paul Heyman
Randy Orton
The Rock
Stephanie McMahon
Sting
Triple H
The Undertaker
William Regal
Zeb Colter

Many of them would appear to be locks already based on resumes alone so barring them pissing off the office they have a great chance at being inducted. If they want to continue to induct a woman every year they're bound to run low on candidates eventually, and Steph is definitely deserving assuming they don't mind putting in more McMahon family members. Vince has said he will never agree to go into the HOF himself but I couldn't help but put him on the list anyway...probably would be a posthumous induction, but I mean...it's fucking Vince.

A bunch of them spent a lot of time in the main event. I seem to remember a debate on here a few months back about the merits of Christian as a HOFer. Personally I believe they'll put him in as a midcard induction one year, ditto for Henry and Goldust in different classes. Lots of longevity there. Regal too, actually. He was always excellent, respected by everybody, and has been an asset both in and out of the ring.

Zeb, I imagine, would go in a few years after his character ends on TV and they'd just put him in as Dutch Mantell. With WWE not being afraid to bring up history outside of their own company he really contributed in a lot of different ways around the wrestling world.

Brock I guess would be slightly controversial given that he only was on the roster full-time for 2 years, but when all is said and done he'll have main evented multiple Manias, broke the Streak, had lengthy title runs, been a draw for a different audience, etc.</font>

AJ Lee Pregnant

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I actually think you are setting the bar quite high. I think other almost certainties would be The Miz (headlined Mania, WWE Champ, IC Champ), Sheamus (WWE Champ, office fav) and people like Ziggler and Swagger have already accomplished more than the likes of Rikishi, so a decent future on the roster should secure their places some day too.

Can't imagine anyone begrudging Brock with all he has done and the media attention he has garnered. He is a lock for me.

Would love to see the Dudley's back for a final run, now they are unattached, it would be a shot in the arm to the tag division and could induct them alongr with a last TLC match at Mania next year.

TAFKAPI sighting!

Are you talking about Larry Csonka's Pro Football Hall of Fame speech? That's the only way I can imagine that sentence making sense as you typed it.

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Should probably have spoiler alert on that for people who haven't watched Mania yet but are dumb enough to come to an internet wrestling forum and open up a thread.

Watching the HOF, Jimmy Uso is clearly the HBK of the Usos.

Also Rikishi amentioning Manu and getting Zero reaction from the crowd was funny

I'm sure EvanKaragias appreciated Madusa reminding everyone he existed

Come on guys, I know the show has been on and stuff, but you know the corteous rule. No "Spoilers" for 48 hours for those who may not have seen the show yet. Some posters still come on the forum to talk in other threads and don't want things being ruined, it's always been the rule here, and I'll make sure that it is continued to be followed.

Why do I feel like there are threads randomly disappearing in this forum lately? Hmm...

Brad.

It must be. "Brad" hiding stuff he doesn't like.

After the TODAY show, the Champions that didn't watch Mania(and should be stripped of their belts) are going to find out who the Champion is

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Seth has that play video games and scream annoyingly gimmick down to a tee. Bryan is great.

The Today Show is over now, at least in my neck of the woods.

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HOLY MOLLY!

nice

Whoa! I don't remember that happening.

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haha

I'm so pumped for RAW tonight. After pulling out all the stops last night, I am curious to see what surprises are in store for us.

What I expect:

Rollins being treated as a conquering hero.

Sheamus Brogue Kicking Bryan.

What I want:

Demon Balor

Would be interesting if Sheamus goes after Cena, leaving Bryan to feud with Ziggler and Bad News. Though I am expecting Cena and Rusev to have a match at Extreme Rules.

I also really hope that at some point in the next three years they book a solid program with Orton and Lesnar.

I want to see Jericho vs. Lesnar, with Brock being pissed off Jericho invented the Money in the Bank gimmick that cost him the title. :shifty:

NXT takeovers monthly now..ok

Yaaaaaas.

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Someone's idea on how Baley's main roster entrance should be done.

Yes!

Doesn't even mention Scotty 2 Hotty and Grand Master Sexay.

This would be awesome, but for some reason it made me imagine a Bayley dressed up a bit like Harley Quinn playing a psycho-heel character.

Which would be awesome.

such a cool pic


Hideo posing with Triple H & Tatsumi Fujinami after winning his spot in the Andre battle royal
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Hope they make him "somebody". He has the tools.

Seth is alive!

I thought you went and signed up to be an AJPW young boy

Eve Torres announced on Instagram she's pregnant. Our first superhuman will be born in September.

<font color=goldenrod>Kinda hope they don't do a NXT Title match at each one.</font>

It depends on the stories they can tell, but theoretically they could cycle through which title gets to headline.

Hideo Itami was the one guy I had ruled out from winning that tournament. In hindsight, it made perfect sense he won. He seems to be finding his "WWE self" in NXT, and I think that when he is ready, he will be ready big time.

There are far worse things the company could do at this point than have Hideo Itami built as a guy training for a huge match against Big Show down the line. Use the Floyd Mayweather storyline they did to get some ideas. Have Big Show mock Itami by getting on his knees and have Itami KO him with one kick or something.

I think it would work if they did two main events for each Takeover, cycling through as you suggested. So, in each three-month period, each of the three titles is defended twice.

On another note: The weird sort of disconnect that exists between NXT Hunter and main roster Hunter is kind of silly. In NXT he plays this inspiring, talent-loving, super-cool boss. Then he's The Authority on RAW.

Given the sort of guys that NXT Hunter backs, the feud against Daniel Bryan almost makes no sense.

Great idea, but they don't need to make it a rule. Just let things flesh themselves out organically.

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I am getting worked up in my pants.

One is the real Paul and the other is Triple H.

Note: Derp.

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He sucked so good riddance

i loved his character. kind of a shame.

I liked him after his heel turn.

Post-Dirtsheetmania news:

WWE made the mistake during the recent announcement for upcoming shows on the WWE Network.

According to a Forbes report, it was around 14% drop but they don't blame the Mania event itself for the drop. http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansol...estlemania-31/

July 23, 2012 was the RAW 1000th episode.

Very likely was deliberate since several WWE officials gave condolences to Rey and Aguayo's family.

Other fan reports have stated the crowd mics were turned down during the whole show and not just since the Divas match.

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Enzo Amore, Scott Dawson, Dash Wilder, Buddy Murphy, Solomon Crowe and NXT referee Drake were the soldiers for Triple H's Robo-King H Mania entrance.


Some other sheet news include:

• New WWE game was announced to be in development for mobile devices and will act as a complement to the WWE 2K series. Being developed by n-Space and Visual Concepts.
• Besides the usual Hall of Fame ring, WWE gave away custom side plates for this year's WWE Hall of Fame class: http://www.wwe.com/f/styles/photo_la...2494928861.jpg
• May or May not just be an April Fools gag but the Observer teased the WWE is considering another free month for the Network starting next month.
• In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, last year was the first time Kofi went by a whole year without winning at least one belt since his debut (2008).

SUV driver obviously.

Yeah, the guy himself was whatever but the character was enjoyable. Wish it was given to someone else now.

Kofi could really be more than he currently is. I'm not the guy's biggest fan, but he's such a natural babyface with proper fire when he's given the chance.

Would be great to have a distressed CJ Parker fan take up his cause and claim that the close-minded sheep in the WWE rail-roaded Parker's message.

I've worked for some publicly traded companies, and Wall Street is 1000x worse than the IWC. They're even further removed from reality.

It's not even whether you have positive results or not. Hell, half the time it's not even if you meet their "calculated" but ultimately pulled-out-of-their-ass estimates that have no basis in anything real, although that helps. A lot of times it's just perception and whether or not they like your company for a thousand different reasons. It's really frustrating.

The subscriber number went up 30% in two or three months. Sure, it was for the biggest show of the year, but 30% is a significant number, especially when you look at the initial numbers for last year at this time of year, but Wall Street people seem to think it should be doing forty million subscribers because they have no idea what the wrestling business or its fanbase size is like.

Really frustrating, and hopefully doesn't dissuade WWE from their current creative direction.

That said, John Cena will be champion by the end of April.

The WWE needs to bring back Kaientai for the WWE's Network launch in Japan. This much is obvious.

They also need to debut a new Bollywood gimmick who has grand entrances every week. If they can't find an Indian guy they like enough for this, Damien Sandow can beat The Miz and then go Bollywood.

Investors can be really shitty at times especially if too many of them are speculative ones since they are there just for the quick buck.

To be fair though, this year's drop was smaller than last year and the WWE probably hasn't regained all the trust back from their antics and false promising done last year.

Seth Rollins is now the second ever "Latino" heavyweight champion in the WWE.

Make it third. Just realized that Rey Mystery was also a WWE Champion for like 2 hours.

His name is Colby Lopez. According to Wikipedia, he is of Armenian descent and his last name comes from his Latin-American stepfather. Explains his awesome tan. Still wonder which side of the family has giraffe genes in it.

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But seriously, I love me some Seth Rollins. He reminds me of late 90s/early 00s HHH combined with HBKs athleticism.

Miz goes Bollywood would be hilarious but we already had Khali and Mahal do the Bollywood connection previously so maybe we need to look elsewhere.

Pretty sad to see Scott Steiner was on the HOF ban list to even attend motherfucka! They let a known pedobear attend and not BIG PoPPA PUmP? Get the fuck out of here. You want to come in my ring and challenge me to a match at Wrestlemania 32? I'll end it. Anyways, just coming in to say hi. I'm watching over everything right now. I'm inside the forum, Champions.

Random Twitter roundup:

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/HEELZiggler">@HEELZiggler</a> you're the best man. Class act, always w/ a smile and workin your ass off. Company's fortunate to have you.</p>&mdash; Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/582694662902652928">March 31, 2015</a></blockquote>
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100% agree, but hey, it won't happen.

Apparently Smackdown's commentary team is Byron Saxton, Tom Phillips, and Jerry Lawler.

So, that at least confirms that Byron Saxton wasn't immediately incinerated by Vince McMahon's incandescent rage when he went backstage.

Am I the only one who sees he was supposed to be doing it low-key? It was a tense situation and his colleague had just been F5ed and everybody else around him had been carted off.

There's being low key and then there's calling the PGA tour.

STFU golf announcers are way more exciting than Byron.

can't wait to see JBL no selling his injuries on his weekend Fox news gig

Just looks like some biker and a surfer to me...

Pedro Morales.

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thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RAW?src=hash">#RAW</a>
&amp; DB, I'm not through with you yet</p>&mdash; Dolph Ziggler (@HEELZiggler) <a href="https://twitter.com/HEELZiggler/status/582987856395657216">March 31, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Ladies and gentlemen, our WWE World Heavyweight Champion

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I bought the network 2 days ago and they still havent charged my card yet, is this a usual thing?

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