Wrestling Official WWE Thread

Started by Big Dangerous, Nov 24, 2014, in Sports Add to Reading List

  1. Epitome
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    Epitome Quality (posting) over quantity

    Dec 12, 2018
    They're never going to change it at this point, but they really do f--- themselves into a corner with these gimmick PPVs. Matches that don't even need to be on a PPV in the first place are forced into a stip match because it's TLC month. Ruby Riot vs. Nattie in a Tables match? Not one person wants to see that.

    They just need to go back the the generic PPV names like, Unforgiven and Armageddon and when a feud warrants a gimmick match, then do it.
     
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  2. Pinhead
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    Yeah, it's taken all the excitement out of gimmick matches for me since like 2010 lol. Unless it happens to be two great workers like AJ and Dean a few years back, I couldn't possibly care.

    Mustafa Ali impressed on SD tonight. Didn't get massively over, but the crowd was chanting "SUV" at him in support by the end. Also, thought the Charlotte/Asuka match was really dope. Essentially a rehash of the Ronda/Charlotte angle at SS afterwards, but Asuka came out a lot hotter than she did going in. Poor Charlotte got destroyed between her and Becky, can't imagine having a hard match before getting a beating like that.

    Two really good matches with time, a TLC last night, they're at least trying.
     
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  3. DetroitDGAF
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    DetroitDGAF Locked in Mariah’s Wine Cellar

    Dec 12, 2018
    I mean id watch riott put natalya through a table but honestly i agree whole heartedly with this.

    The simple times man

    I remember when they started bringing in more n more of these weird name ppvs n s--- n i got weary of it then.


    I liked when it was

    New Years revolution
    No way out
    Bad blood
    Judgement day
    Vengeance
    Great american bash
    Unforgiven
    Taboo tuesday/cyber sunday (i actually liked cyber sunday lmao)
    Armageddon

    s--- like that

    All this s--- started with vengeance:night of champions

    The next year it became night of champions, new years revolution was gone and the year after THAT... The great american bash was renamed the bash..... and the start of a new gimmick ppv era was kickstarted with "EXTREME RULES" like "yea so cool... wonder what kinda matches will happen on that ppv"

    Then night of champions was changed again to clash of champions n so on and so forth

    Bottom line is these ppvs have become an abomination


    #MakePPVsGreatAgain

    And for f--- sakes just put the MITB matches on the WM card and get rid of that stupid f---ing ppv.


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  4. Big Dangerous
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    Big Dangerous World Heavyweight Champion

    Dec 12, 2018
    It's called losing creativity and direction

    Instead of a feud leading to a gimmick match its "HYUCK, GARSH, LETS HAVE ONE PPV A YEAR WHERE WE DO THE GIMMICK MATCH HYUCK, WE'LL CALL IT EXTREME RULEZ"

    "HYUCK THATS A GOOD IDEA, LETS HAVE A h--- IN THE CELL PPV WHERE WE SHOEHORN IN A h--- IN THE CELL MATCH HYUCK. BUT LETS NAME THE ENTIRE PPV h--- IN THE CELL CAUSE WE HAVE NO CREATIVITY HYUCK"


    *meanwhile in the background*
    NO CHANCE

    NO CHANCE IN HELLL
     
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  5. Jay Zeus
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    Jay Zeus I am the god-favored weed strain

    Dec 12, 2018
    Where they first went wrong with this PPV and Gimmick Match Oversaturation crap. Nothing will beat the first three MITB matches anyway. Those were classics. Edge and RVD winning the first two always felt like the start of when creative really knew what the fans wanted. 2005 and 2006 > * in The Ruthless Aggression Era. Easily. I've missed so many shows because it just doesn't feel like an urgency anymore.
     
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  6. Pinhead
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    2007 MITB was really good too.
     
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  7. Jay Zeus
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    Jay Zeus I am the god-favored weed strain

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    First two are classics. That third one is the last one that felt like it held onto tradition. Even though the first PPV named after the match wasn't until three years after the 2007 one. So mad that Kennedy messed up his push with that big wellness policy violation.
     
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  8. Pinhead
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    Hurting Orton's shoulder again was the nail in his coffin.
     
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  9. Kon
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    Kon

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    I don't want them to get rid of the MITB PPV, it's one of my favorite PPVs of the year nowadays. fun matches and creates a mystery for later that night as to if they'll cash in or not.

    But yeah besides that i agree with you guys..WWE's just in a real bad spot right now..they dont know wtf they're doing and it's just sad...there tends to be some good matches still just cuz of the talent though, hopefully TLC will be worth watching, I gotta glance at the card and see how it looks..
     
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  10. Epitome
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    Epitome Quality (posting) over quantity

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    It’s the classic WWE ppv pattern of having a great top of the card and everything below that sucks.

    AJ/Bryan, SD Women’s 3-way, and SD Tag Team 3-way should all be f---ing great. Everything else, except maybe Fin/Drew will be s---.

    You’re right about WWE being in a s-----y place right now...they are so f---ing lucky they didn’t have this ratings free fall 6 months ago.

    There is no way they get $2.2 Billion in tv rights fees if they did. USA would have still kept Raw, but for probably 30% less. More importantly Fox never would have bid for SD for 1.9million viewers and SD would have ended up on Amazon getting no exposure to make new fans.

    There hasn’t been a better time in the last 25 years for a new promotion to start up and take fans away from WWE and we know there will be one that will be giving it a serious try next year.

    The WWE product may be the least interesting it has in a long time but the wrestling business itself in 2019 is going to be the most interesting it has been since 2001.
     
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  11. Pinhead
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    And they need what, 3-3.5 million minimum on Fox? :lmaooo:
     
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    Dec 13, 2018
    They’re f-----
     
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  13. Kon
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    Kon

    Dec 13, 2018
    Fox probably wishing they could already bail on the deal...how long is the deal again? Guessing WWE gets desperate to get ratings up at that point, which nowadays probably means 'THE RETURN OF DX' or 'THE RETURN OF THE DEADMAN!!' sure as f--- won't be any new stars.
     
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  14. Pinhead
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    Five years.
     
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  15. Epitome
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    Vince returning to Raw on Monday to “shake things up”

    For better or worse, I’m always interested when “No chance in h---” starts blasting
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    Ah the classic "the ratings are in the dump let's make Mr. McMahon a character again" arc.
     
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  17. Epitome
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    s--- it always works lol

    That SD last year that Vince was advertised for to confront Kevin Owens raised the rating by like 750k viewers
     
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  18. Kon
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    Kon

    Dec 14, 2018
    I bet Vince fires Corbin as GM and either brings back Angle as GM or brings in Hogan lol..Either way I doubt it'll change much if anything really.

    Then maybe he also announces something else for the Rumble, that'll be the 1 or 2 big announcements to 'shake things up' by Vince imo..No way they do the draft already, gotta save that for after Mania..it'd be weird to do the draft before the rumble and Mania anyways.
     
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  19. Pinhead
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    Lars Sullivan? Angle's gonna be there so it's probably just that.
     
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  20. tomroe93
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    Welcome to All Elite Wrestling, presented by the WWE Network!
     
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