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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 16, 2017 11:26:53 GMT -5
Fair, but there are others who get away with far more than that in WWE. Gotch just got fired after his 3rd backstage fight. JBL has been terrorizing people for years without repercussion. Others get fired or suspended for far less (see Titus). There was threat of a lawsuit! The guy Del Rio slapped had said he has to go or he'd sue the company. They had no choice. As soon as the dust settled, they rehired him. Because Vince cares about he threat of a lawsuit. See: Broken Matt Hardy trademark infringment
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 16, 2017 10:42:56 GMT -5
To be fair, he once got fired from WWE for defending himself against a guy making racial slurs against him. If I slapped a co-worker I'd be fired too. No matter what is said, you aren't allowed to get physical. Especially with a non-wrestler who is threatening a lawsuit. Fair, but there are others who get away with far more than that in WWE. Gotch just got fired after his 3rd backstage fight. JBL has been terrorizing people for years without repercussion. Others get fired or suspended for far less (see Titus).
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 16, 2017 10:17:39 GMT -5
To be fair, he once got fired from WWE for defending himself against a guy making racial slurs against him.
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 15, 2017 15:48:25 GMT -5
We have 240 pound guys moving around like cruiserweights today. He is absolutely right their athleticism is at a much much higher level than it was in the 80s and 90s
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 15, 2017 11:39:15 GMT -5
Cena does the job for Nexus
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 13, 2017 19:20:41 GMT -5
Did anyone get a travel pack for XXX, if so, which hotel did they put people up at? I did 30 without a pack and got an awesome French quarter hotel. Don't want to do 34 without staying in the quarter.
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 12, 2017 20:01:40 GMT -5
Varner without question made the worst tribal argument of all time. WOW
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 11, 2017 21:56:11 GMT -5
Just watched last weeks episode, late to the game. Before last weeks episode, Sandra received 3 total votes ever in 94 days. Its amazing how she took heat off of herself. Never won an individual challenge of any kind in 3 seasons, yet was still the scariest player. Also, Tai is so bad. Imagine if Sandra had 3 idols at this point in the game.
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 11, 2017 17:31:28 GMT -5
Rollins has been using a new finisher at house shows and darknmarches. RainMaker into jumping knee like Kenny Omega. Like he is doing a short-arm V-trigger (all in one motion) or he actually does the Rain Maker, lets the guy get up, and then hits the V-trigger? Either way, I love it. He's used every combination of that flying knee to this point anyway. The V-trigger feels like a nice consolation prize to not being able to get the curb stomp back. streamable.com/6vg4y
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 11, 2017 13:13:57 GMT -5
Rollins has been using a new finisher at house shows and darknmarches. RainMaker into jumping knee like Kenny Omega.
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 10, 2017 12:07:30 GMT -5
People stopped doubting his in ring work when he got an awesome match out of Braun. It was always "the other guy is carrying the math", then that match. His booking is horrendous and 100 percent predictable.
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 9, 2017 18:38:44 GMT -5
Cage match with kendo sticks and trash can lids.
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 8, 2017 16:49:51 GMT -5
Travel package is the way to go. It is not significantly more expensive than purchasing tickets individually. Most of the seats dead center of the ring are saved for people purchasing the Packages, so getting those seats via Ticketmaster are very difficult.
I have had issues buying tickets via TM in the past , tickets someone selling out in 10 seconds, only sections available are back of the arena etc. this takes the guess work out. Good thing about the packages are that they are scalper proof. You don't get your tickets til a couple of weeks before the event and at that point you can't switch the hotel rooms to a different name, so it's basically impossible to sell the packages as a whole on the secondary market. In short, it's easier to get TP tickets than normal ones cause you aren't dealing with robots.
I attended 30. The positives are that everything is walkable. No need to rent a car or spend cash on Uber/taxis getting to and from events. NOLA is also cheap for a major city. Food and drink are reasonable prices for what you get. So keep that in mind that you will need less walking around money than you would say, in NYC, when factoring in cost.
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 6, 2017 8:26:56 GMT -5
Probably going to be in Los Angeles' new NFL stadium. WWE is trending towards putting Mania in tourist spots so that there is stuff to do for everyone not just WWE events. 34= New Orleans 35= Los Angeles 36= Las Vegas 37= Toronto 38= Miami 39= Atlanta 40= New Jersey I can see them doing this, there's a good amount of tourist traps in all of those places, all while hosting Mania. I think you are pretty spot on with your predictions. 36 or 37 is definitly being held in Vegas.
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 6, 2017 6:06:46 GMT -5
I still have no idea why they put these guys over Enzo and Cass at the first Brooklyn show.
They had a hipster Indy gimmick that got over with one of the smarkiest crowds ever. DOA
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 4, 2017 22:06:19 GMT -5
You debut new wrestlers in front of hot crowds. You don't bring out Nakamura in Corpus Christi.
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 3, 2017 21:17:29 GMT -5
Lol almost the exact thing happened last year instead KO power bombed Sami through the table to allow Cesaro to return
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 3, 2017 11:19:59 GMT -5
Can you really have an Owen induction without having him as the headliner? No doubt he's been gone a long time and I'm not on the hype train but thats such a big name in wrestling and so long overdue that unless you inducted The Undertaker the same year Owen would almost HAVE to be the headliner. It would be disrespectful IMO to go any other way. We've seen how fast the posthumous inductions go, its just a short video package. He deserves more. If Macho Man wasn't a headliner, Owen isn't going to be.
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Post by jakksking1 on Apr 2, 2017 7:40:44 GMT -5
Ever was an embellishment, as they probably do lose ppv revenue from Mania each year. But it takes at least 300,000 buys to match what they make each month on the network, not counting the ppv company's cut. Most shows in the year never got that many, so it evens out as the year progresses. Plus Mania has so many other avenues for profit, that the buyrate loss isn't going to hurt to much right there anyway. That would only be true if the network didnt cost the company any money to run. Unfortunately, it costs them a lot of money to run, far more than PPV ever did. That's why even with the higher than ever TV rights, they're still making less profit than they were pre-network. The USA network does far more for the WWE's bottom line than the WWE network does. And that probably won't change. That is not true. WWE was giving up over half of its revenue per PPV to the cable and PPV companies. WWE is now paying a license fee to MLB network to use their platform, which is far less than the amount they were paying per month to PPV carriers.
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Post by jakksking1 on Mar 31, 2017 8:23:23 GMT -5
Hogan or Steamboat
It is debatable if Stone Cold was a "face". He was a heel, who did heel things and got cheered for it. Walter White and Tony Soprano were cheered for by fans and extremely popular when their shows were in, but they definitely weren't good guys.
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