04-30-2020, 05:23 PM | #321 |
Taller than Adam Cole
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04-30-2020, 05:32 PM | #322 |
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R.I.P Rybaxel
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04-30-2020, 06:49 PM | #323 |
RoBOT Reigns
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Vince McMahon killed Nancy Argentino. Tamina has a job 4 life.
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04-30-2020, 08:16 PM | #324 |
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Axel also has one of my favourite themes of all time.
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04-30-2020, 09:07 PM | #325 | |
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Seems WWE wants to trim their roster down even more than before since the company is now open to granting releases to anyone who asks with some exceptions. Also trying to cut down even more costs despite them making a ton of money the past fiscal quarter compared to last year.
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05-16-2020, 08:47 PM | #326 |
President of Freedonia
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Drew Gulak’s contract has expired and he’s been moved to the Alumni page.
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05-16-2020, 09:05 PM | #327 |
Trickster Demon
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wow
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05-16-2020, 09:09 PM | #328 |
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I saw that earlier. Having a match with Daniel Bryan on his way out was a nice send-off.
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05-16-2020, 09:09 PM | #329 |
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Wow! This is official. Very disheartening.
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05-16-2020, 09:27 PM | #330 |
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Are you sure his contract expired, because I keep reading released.
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05-16-2020, 09:28 PM | #331 |
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As I say that everything changes to not re-signing.
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05-16-2020, 10:31 PM | #332 |
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So much for Gulak/Bryan III
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05-16-2020, 10:42 PM | #333 |
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Guess that's why Bryan requested to work with Gulak recently since he probably knew Gulak wasn't staying and let Gulak have an entertaining storyline on his way out.
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05-17-2020, 04:23 AM | #334 |
Feeling Oof-y
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Oh that sucks.
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05-17-2020, 10:52 AM | #335 |
It's a blood match!
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He's great. He would've thrived on the pre-Coronoa indy scene. Who knows now?
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05-17-2020, 11:30 AM | #336 |
You know that’s right
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Not re-signing? In this economy?
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05-17-2020, 12:06 PM | #337 |
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Probably more along the lines of “not being offered a new contract”.
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05-17-2020, 12:07 PM | #338 |
Feeling Oof-y
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Or they low-balled him.
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05-17-2020, 04:21 PM | #339 |
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That's probably more likely since Meltzer mentioned in this week's Observer Newsletter that WWE froze pay raises for their talent even if they were promised one before. Despite them making huge sums of money last fiscal quarter, they still are penny pinching when it comes to talent expenses using the coronavirus as the excuse.
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05-17-2020, 08:54 PM | #340 | |
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According to the Observer, Gulak could end up back in WWE since talks between the two sides didn't completely end yet.
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05-17-2020, 10:30 PM | #341 |
King of Love and Piss
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Kevin Owens released!!!!!
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05-17-2020, 10:57 PM | #342 |
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I don't think so.
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05-18-2020, 11:58 PM | #343 | |
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Add WWE's VP of Television to the growing list of people recently let go by the company.
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05-29-2020, 08:52 AM | #344 |
President of Freedonia
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Nigel McGuinness confirmed to have been among the furloughed workers.
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05-30-2020, 07:21 PM | #345 | |
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Another wave of cuts recently happened except this time it was more pay-based than released-based.
Also WWE's initial hope of bringing back those furloughed in July seem to be less certain now. Smackdown's lead writer also got released but apparently for a separate reason and not as part of WWE's cutbacks for the coronavirus. Quote:
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05-30-2020, 11:51 PM | #346 |
I am the cheese
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Many of the agent positions will be refilled once they begin touring again. Theyre losing unprecedented ammounts of revenue right now and if they want to survive they have to cut costs until they get the gate back
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05-31-2020, 01:07 AM | #347 |
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Considering they posted record revenues last fiscal quarter and are still well on pace to post record profits and revenues for this fiscal quarter and year, they didn't need to actually cut any talent or staff costs because of the coronavirus.
Even they admitted the vast bulk of the savings was due to them halting work on their new HQ. Because their new tv deals are massive, it dwarfs whatever their other departments were making or not making and why they'd still set new all-time records for revenues and profits during the next few fiscal quarters even if they don't hold any more live events this year. If anything, they've been saving more money by scaling back and not holding live events than had they been holding them based on recent years trends. |
05-31-2020, 09:53 AM | #348 |
boop/bop/beep
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05-31-2020, 01:36 PM | #349 |
Resident drug enabler
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I thought Noid was the worst.
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05-31-2020, 01:41 PM | #350 |
boop/bop/beep
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05-31-2020, 06:03 PM | #351 |
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According to Meltzer, something recently happened between Vince and former Smackdown lead writer Chris DeJoseph that lead to DeJoseph's sudden release last Friday.
Current rumor was DeJoseph was causing issues behind the scenes and got released due to his highly unprofessional behavior. |
05-31-2020, 06:31 PM | #352 |
Loque Ja
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He probably sneezed.
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05-31-2020, 08:31 PM | #353 |
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According to the Observer, agents/producers who were not furloughed got hit with around a 20% pay cut as part of WWE's newest cost cutting plans.
Refs also got hit with a similar 20% pay cut. Meltzer also reported that WWE's talent are pretty much safe from getting hit with pay cuts since their contracts likely would be voided if WWE went that far with the cuts. |
06-01-2020, 09:22 AM | #354 |
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What is the furlough scheme over there? The government are paying 80% over here.
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06-01-2020, 11:36 AM | #355 | |
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06-02-2020, 02:27 AM | #356 |
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06-02-2020, 02:28 AM | #357 | |
I W C DEEZ NUTZ!
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06-02-2020, 05:46 PM | #358 | |
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06-02-2020, 08:45 PM | #359 | |
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Seems the relationship between Gronk and WWE wasn't that friendly behind-the-scenes.
Apparently he had a lot of heat within WWE ever since Mania 36 and his initial hesitation to do his planned dive spot during the show. Quote:
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06-02-2020, 09:12 PM | #360 |
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Lol so don’t bet on Gronk returning once he retires again, then.
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