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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Nov 17, 2015 0:24:44 GMT -5
Back in 2009.... I wanna say, he did a shoot interview with them. A four disc one! I have seen it, it's alright. But something happened with them with money. I remember he gave the NWA Title to Highspots as collateral. He owed them like $20,000 or something. I don't remember the whole story, but this happened back in 2011 or so. I am sure it's on the internet some where. damn thats crazy Do you know if they sued him? Yeah, as @doobie2650 stated, there was some legal matters at hand. I believe Highspots kept the NWA Title because of that, and wouldn't give it back to Ric until they got their money. And this was the original NWA Title that he had in 1986 before they switched over to the Big Gold Belt.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 0:26:56 GMT -5
damn thats crazy Do you know if they sued him? Yeah, as @doobie2650 stated, there was some legal matters at hand. I believe Highspots kept the NWA Title because of that, and wouldn't give it back to Ric until they got their money. And this was the original NWA Title that he had in 1986 before they switched over to the Big Gold Belt. I really hope he was able to get the belt back.
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Post by cmiller79 on Nov 17, 2015 0:27:38 GMT -5
damn thats crazy Do you know if they sued him? Yeah, as @doobie2650 stated, there was some legal matters at hand. I believe Highspots kept the NWA Title because of that, and wouldn't give it back to Ric until they got their money. And this was the original NWA Title that he had in 1986 before they switched over to the Big Gold Belt. was that the whole deal where triple h paid them and ric gave HHH the title belt in exchange for paying off his debt?
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Post by cmiller79 on Nov 17, 2015 0:29:11 GMT -5
Yeah, as @doobie2650 stated, there was some legal matters at hand. I believe Highspots kept the NWA Title because of that, and wouldn't give it back to Ric until they got their money. And this was the original NWA Title that he had in 1986 before they switched over to the Big Gold Belt. I really hope he was able to get the belt back. I'm sure hhh paid it then ric gave him the belt in exchange for paying off his debt I know I remember reading or hearing about that somewhere but I didn't know it was cause of his whole deal with high spots
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Nov 17, 2015 0:29:28 GMT -5
Yeah, as @doobie2650 stated, there was some legal matters at hand. I believe Highspots kept the NWA Title because of that, and wouldn't give it back to Ric until they got their money. And this was the original NWA Title that he had in 1986 before they switched over to the Big Gold Belt. was that the whole deal where triple h paid them and ric gave HHH the title belt in exchange for paying off his debt? Oh maybe! That would make a lot of sense then if that was the case. I wouldn't be too shocked after that, Ric took the boys out and drinks were on him. The guy loved to make people happy at his own expense, and I don't truly ever think anyone went out and did the same for Ric. I sometimes wondered if Ric Flair was trying to buy friendship.
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Post by cmiller79 on Nov 17, 2015 0:31:22 GMT -5
was that the whole deal where triple h paid them and ric gave HHH the title belt in exchange for paying off his debt? Oh maybe! That would make a lot of sense then if that was the case. I wouldn't be too shocked after that, Ric took the boys out and drinks were on him. The guy loved to make people happy at his own expense, and I don't truly ever think anyone went out and did the same for Ric. I sometimes wondered if Ric Flair was trying to buy friendship. when people say money doesn't buy happiness the first person that come to mind is the nature boy
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 0:35:38 GMT -5
Ric was totally doing that. Piper commented on it on wife swap when they were on there. It was really sad.
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Post by J12 on Nov 17, 2015 0:46:24 GMT -5
I don't know, but if the Championship tournament was an election, and Dean Ambrose's platform was the promise of replacing Michael Cole with a fishtank, he would have my vote.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 0:48:27 GMT -5
I don't know, but if the Championship tournament was an election, and Dean Ambrose's platform was the promise of replacing Michael Cole with a fishtank, he would have my vote. Don't forget breakfast for dinner. Who doesn't love that.
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Post by A-Rob on Nov 17, 2015 3:07:29 GMT -5
Kevin Owens vs. Neville was great, ot was like an ROH tv title match.
The match placement was wrong, Roman Reigns vs. Cesaro should have closed the show since it was awesome. Cesaro is the man. Damnit Vince just give in and push him to the moon.
ADR vs. Kalisto was weak and it didn't help that the crowd was dead like they were for half the show.
The Paige vs. Charlotte contact signing was intense and if it was in the middle of the show it would have been perfect. I just hated the fact that they mentioned Reid, it just felt wrong.
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Post by Mr. #1derful 🇵🇸 on Nov 17, 2015 3:50:03 GMT -5
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Nov 17, 2015 7:17:33 GMT -5
You can't not care about a feud for weeks and then put them on last and say "SEE WE CARE". That's not how any of this works. It's not about them saying "SEE WE CARE!" It's more of them trying to get the feud over because they want the feud to feel important.For weeks paige has been talking smack and beating up people and yes she did take a lost last week BUT she did attack becky making her come out at least a dominant heel who isn't gonna take a lost and let them get away with it.There trying to make You care so they wanted to take a risk and let them close the show.Do you care about the match after everything that happened after that segment? Do you want to see Charlotte get revenge on paige after that low blow comment about her family? Too little too late. It's always been about giving the impression that they care. Like they want people to think they care because they had the girls close the show, whole not putting much effort into the feud. Just like when they called up the nxt girls and they said "DIVAS REVOLUTION" a million times so it could trend and it could seem like they cared while giving us meaningless tag match after meaningless tag match.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 7:54:13 GMT -5
Yes, it's good that they're actually trying to give reason and story for a Diva feud, but they could have gone about it in a much better way than that. Bringing up Charlotte's dead brother and Ric's dead son was uncalled for and classless. I'm sure both Ric and Charlotte feel the same way.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 8:00:08 GMT -5
It's not about them saying "SEE WE CARE!" It's more of them trying to get the feud over because they want the feud to feel important.For weeks paige has been talking smack and beating up people and yes she did take a lost last week BUT she did attack becky making her come out at least a dominant heel who isn't gonna take a lost and let them get away with it.There trying to make You care so they wanted to take a risk and let them close the show.Do you care about the match after everything that happened after that segment? Do you want to see Charlotte get revenge on paige after that low blow comment about her family? Too little too late. It's always been about giving the impression that they care. Like they want people to think they care because they had the girls close the show, whole not putting much effort into the feud. Just like when they called up the nxt girls and they said "DIVAS REVOLUTION" a million times so it could trend and it could seem like they cared while giving us meaningless tag match after meaningless tag match. Let's skip the fact that they closed the show.This is us talking about the feud itself.From All the Promo work paige has done,From attacking Becky and Charlotte,To the Contract signing was that enough for you to be invested into the match at Survivor Series? Do you want to see Charlotte get revenge on paige after what paige said on raw?
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Nov 17, 2015 8:06:53 GMT -5
Too little too late. It's always been about giving the impression that they care. Like they want people to think they care because they had the girls close the show, whole not putting much effort into the feud. Just like when they called up the nxt girls and they said "DIVAS REVOLUTION" a million times so it could trend and it could seem like they cared while giving us meaningless tag match after meaningless tag match. Let's skip the fact that they closed the show.This is us talking about the feud itself.From All the Promo work paige has done,From attacking Becky and Charlotte,To the Contract signing was that enough for you to be invested into the match at Survivor Series? Do you want to see Charlotte get revenge on paige after what paige said on raw? Everything before Paige's second turn was HORRIBLE. Since her second turn, the feud has been alright. I don't care much for Charlotte as a sympathetic babyface so I don't care to see her get revenge, but I can see how some people may want to see that. I already also noted that if that segment was in the middle of the show, it would have been okay outside of the Reid stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 8:17:33 GMT -5
Like I said, the segment itself wasn't very good already due to both girls' poor mic skills, but the Reid stuff tipped it over the edge. In today's day and age, there is no room on a PG show for a comment mocking somebody's dead brother. You'd think WWE would have learned from how pissed off people were when Orton made the comment about Eddie being in hell a few years ago, but no.
Also, it's quite hypocritical that Jim Ross was fired from WWE after inviting Ric Flair to a panel which resulted in a drunken Flair talking about Reid for basically the entirety, and now they're using him as material in a feud.
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Post by cmiller79 on Nov 17, 2015 8:23:28 GMT -5
Too little too late. It's always been about giving the impression that they care. Like they want people to think they care because they had the girls close the show, whole not putting much effort into the feud. Just like when they called up the nxt girls and they said "DIVAS REVOLUTION" a million times so it could trend and it could seem like they cared while giving us meaningless tag match after meaningless tag match. Let's skip the fact that they closed the show.This is us talking about the feud itself.From All the Promo work paige has done,From attacking Becky and Charlotte,To the Contract signing was that enough for you to be invested into the match at Survivor Series? Do you want to see Charlotte get revenge on paige after what paige said on raw? but we are talking about it for all the WRONG reasons we aren't talking about it cause it was so great and such good story telling And no I don't want to see her get revenge waiting till 6 days before the ppv to TRY and get people to care just doesn't cut it Without reid and without being the main event it would have been an ok segment AT BEST but for the main event of a go home raw before a big 4 ppv it was the sh*ts
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Post by y13 on Nov 17, 2015 8:32:59 GMT -5
If they want Reigns as the top face in WWE, having him go over Cesaro and most likely Ambrose isn't the way to do it. Find it hard to believe he's not turning Sunday. However, Ambrose/Ziggler, Owens/Neville and Reigns/Cesaro were great TV matches. Hopefully the good wrestling translates to Sunday
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 8:43:53 GMT -5
Let's skip the fact that they closed the show.This is us talking about the feud itself.From All the Promo work paige has done,From attacking Becky and Charlotte,To the Contract signing was that enough for you to be invested into the match at Survivor Series? Do you want to see Charlotte get revenge on paige after what paige said on raw? but we are talking about it for all the WRONG reasons we aren't talking about it cause it was so great and such good story telling And no I don't want to see her get revenge waiting till 6 days before the ppv to TRY and get people to care just doesn't cut it Without reid and without being the main event it would have been an ok segment AT BEST but for the main event of a go home raw before a big 4 ppv it was the sh*ts IMO there was weeks of build up to it it wasn't just a last minute thing.From kayfabe point of view they want you to hate paige and after last night I think they did just that.Because the crowd Was booing her after the fight.I mean I understand it was a low down dirty move to do but look at us right now 4 pages of us talking about it instead of talking about Roman vs Del or taker vs wyatts so in some way they got the job done.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 8:46:13 GMT -5
but we are talking about it for all the WRONG reasons we aren't talking about it cause it was so great and such good story telling And no I don't want to see her get revenge waiting till 6 days before the ppv to TRY and get people to care just doesn't cut it Without reid and without being the main event it would have been an ok segment AT BEST but for the main event of a go home raw before a big 4 ppv it was the sh*ts IMO there was weeks of build up to it it wasn't just a last minute thing.From kayfabe point of view they want you to hate paige and after last night I think they did just that.Because the crowd Was booing her after the fight.I mean I understand it was a low down dirty move to do but look at us right now 4 pages of us talking about it instead of talking about Roman vs Del or taker vs wyatts so in some way they got the job done. I don't think they were booing her specifically, but moreso WWE for making her say such an awful thing.
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