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04-23-2019, 08:18 PM | #42 |
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04-24-2019, 09:27 AM | #43 |
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I think Vince was the only person in the company that found Big Dick Johnson's appearances to be a knee slapper.
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04-24-2019, 10:35 AM | #44 |
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04-25-2019, 02:39 AM | #45 |
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The Saudi deal is a ticking time-bomb for WWE. It could seriously be one of the dumbest fucking decisions the company has ever made. Short-term gain for potentially ostracizing future generations of fans and blackballing themselves from sponsors and maybe even TV networks should there be one really fast or really slow news day, and WWE becomes a prominent target for the media.
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04-25-2019, 08:02 AM | #46 |
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Let's be honest, does anyone REALLY care about the WWE doing these shows in Saudi Arabia? Judging by their stock prices they don't
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04-25-2019, 12:45 PM | #47 | |
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04-25-2019, 12:49 PM | #48 |
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they have the benefit of being bottom of the barrel. Nothing they do can really hurt them beyond another wrestler murdering their family.
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04-25-2019, 01:32 PM | #49 | |
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04-25-2019, 01:46 PM | #50 | |
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04-25-2019, 02:02 PM | #51 |
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04-26-2019, 08:13 PM | #52 | |
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They lost $5 million last time. Obviously not a net loss, but it's demonstrably not true that "literally nobody cares." |
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04-26-2019, 08:18 PM | #53 |
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People will care for a day like the John Oliver piece and move on because some other persin/company will do something worse and so on and so on
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04-26-2019, 08:31 PM | #54 |
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Going to make it hard to make new fans and younger fans though. You can get away with shit until you don't. If it becomes a story and WWE becomes "toxic," there's no guarantee that it won't be easier for business partners to just drop them. Then you'll see that stock price effected.
When it does start to affect the stock, it's probably too late to do anything to rectify it, because the investors are only going to panic about $40 million shows or whatever when the stink from dirty whore work won't wash out. |
04-26-2019, 11:16 PM | #55 |
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Surprised nobody has mentioned deciding to go on with Over the Edge 1999 after Owen was killed in that horrific accident.
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04-26-2019, 11:31 PM | #56 |
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* Greasing the wheels of justice for Jimmy Snuka (allegedly)
* Rita Chatterton (allegedly) * The tanning salon (allegedly) * Airing the Chris Benoit tribute show * The way he treats JR * Melanie Pillman interview * The exploitation of real life deaths on WWE TV |
04-26-2019, 11:43 PM | #57 |
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Speaking of deaths, he probably could've waited a few years and not had Eddie go in with the 2006 class, especially considering his family didn't want it at the time.
I also feel a by-product of Eddie's death was Rey getting shoehorned into the world title match @ WM 22, which was originally supposed to be between Angle and Orton. I still wonder from time to time what could've been. I ideally would've loved seeing Orton win the title. Really seemed like it should've been the time to put him back on the pedestal he had been prematurely elevated to a year and a half before at SummerSlam 2004. |
04-26-2019, 11:54 PM | #58 |
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Rey's push itself was fine. I was hearing someone talk about it recently, and they actually suggested him getting the belt in 2004 when Eddie cracked under the pressure. I've also heard Booker T suggested for the spot.
I would have preferred a straight forward Angle vs. Rey match without any of the Eddie nonsense around it. Their SummerSlam '02 match is one of my favorite short matches and openers ever. |
04-27-2019, 12:01 AM | #59 | |
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04-27-2019, 11:53 AM | #63 |
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I don't think airing the Benoit tribute show should be on that list of WWE's transgressions. They found out about his death only a few hours by showtime and when it went on the air very few of the details were known.
Based on a few shoots I've heard, the wrestlers were all sent home and most of them were watching the Benoit show from their hotels - and it wasn't until midway through the show that speculation of it being a murder-suicide was starting. I suppose WWE could've abruptly cut the episode halfway through and pivoted to random classic non-Benoit matches, but the details were still so murky by then I can understand why they didn't. They made up for it the next day by opening ECW with Vince basically saying fuck Chris Benoit and that was that. |
04-27-2019, 01:21 PM | #64 |
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The way Bart Gunn was punished after the Brawl For All stands out as a particularly nasty, pointless and destructive piece of booking in WWE history. Presumably Vince had to be involved.
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04-27-2019, 06:02 PM | #65 |
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Lol, they’re trying to get paid out the ass to be a propaganda firm for a regime that disregards human rights. It’s not a great look in a world where kids are increasingly becoming more aware about these things as consumers.
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04-27-2019, 06:02 PM | #66 |
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04-27-2019, 06:08 PM | #68 |
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Oh fuck off with that display.
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04-27-2019, 06:47 PM | #69 |
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Carl De Marco knew hours before show-time and let them know. It's possible they were all just in this collective state of denial, but it's more likely that they didn't want to admit guilt until it became an actual news story, because that would have bounced back on them knowing that wrestling makes people crazy and/or that their Wellness policy wasn't up to scratch. They also made up the Fragile X. WWE were awful around this whole thing. Yeah, it's a mess, but is it so hard for Vince to come out and say "Look, we're learning new stuff about this all the time. Benoit was a professional, but some of the news we've heard has challenged and disturbed us. We will not celebrate until we know for sure that we can have a clean conscience. We plan to do what we do best -- entertain -- so here is some first-run footage we have cataloged. Thank you to our wonderful fans for their patience." You can take a step back while making it look unexpected without putting your fingers in your ears and hoping you don't get shit on you. And trying to blame the fictional condition of a little boy for the stresses that drove the man to do this, as opposed to the concussed cocktail he was. |
04-27-2019, 07:02 PM | #70 |
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I remember Nash being one person who didn't think WWE should've done the Benoit tribute. As for the Saudi Arabia deal, I think there was one or two known politicians speaking on it b/c there were a few ppl on my Twitter TL who responded how WWE was getting flack for the same thing other businesses were doing.
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04-27-2019, 07:27 PM | #71 |
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Noid doesn't understand that posting then immediately quoting that post is spectacularly first-female-offspring behaviour.
Ban Noid ffs |
04-27-2019, 08:56 PM | #72 |
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04-27-2019, 10:42 PM | #75 |
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Lol, how does that even fit?
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04-27-2019, 10:45 PM | #76 |
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Brilliant. So you've never met a girl or aren't allowed around children.
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04-27-2019, 11:18 PM | #77 |
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Hey, I'm not the one having a sook. I hope you have the appropriate support networks in place to get you through this difficult time.
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04-28-2019, 06:44 AM | #78 |
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I am having a sook.
I love it. |
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04-29-2019, 12:58 PM | #80 |
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he only said that because you are a fucking nimrod, Noid.
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