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Post by JTJ on Apr 23, 2024 3:06:46 GMT
I love Lynch but that was possibly the most boring outcome.
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Post by JTJ on Apr 23, 2024 3:08:16 GMT
That is one way to make sure Becky is not going anywhere. Becky wasn’t going anywhere anyways.
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Post by c on Apr 23, 2024 3:14:38 GMT
That is one way to make sure Becky is not going anywhere. Becky wasn’t going anywhere anyways. She is one of the people they are being weird with contractwise in they did not offer to renew her early. Likely a restructuring thing, but you do not want to give Tony a chance to even make an offer. As we learned with Bret, everyone has a price.
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Post by JTJ on Apr 23, 2024 3:17:56 GMT
Becky wasn’t going anywhere anyways. She is one of the people they are being weird with contractwise in they did not offer to renew her early. Likely a restructuring thing, but you do not want to give Tony a chance to even make an offer. As we learned with Bret, everyone has a price. Agreed on all accounts. But she basically said that if WWE didn’t renew she still wasn’t going anywhere else. She could probably grow a brand outside of WWE with a good social media presence and her WWE following better than she’d get through an AEW connection. Something like a make-up or clothing line would immediately come to mind.
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Post by mikec on Apr 23, 2024 3:24:59 GMT
If you’re going to have a battle royal to decide the champion, don’t go with the obvious answer. Let chaos win. I was rooting for Chelsea Green though I knew it wouldn’t happen, but one of your other folk could’ve used the rub and they could’ve switched it to Becky on any Raw thereafter.
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Post by JTJ on Apr 23, 2024 3:33:38 GMT
If you’re going to have a battle royal to decide the champion, don’t go with the obvious answer. Let chaos win. I was rooting for Chelsea Green though I knew it wouldn’t happen, but one of your other folk could’ve used the rub and they could’ve switched it to Becky on any Raw thereafter. This guy knows.
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Post by c on Apr 23, 2024 3:37:37 GMT
She is one of the people they are being weird with contractwise in they did not offer to renew her early. Likely a restructuring thing, but you do not want to give Tony a chance to even make an offer. As we learned with Bret, everyone has a price. Agreed on all accounts. But she basically said that if WWE didn’t renew she still wasn’t going anywhere else. She could probably grow a brand outside of WWE with a good social media presence and her WWE following better than she’d get through an AEW connection. Something like a make-up or clothing line would immediately come to mind. The pitch would be I would give you a lot more cash than you make now, two more days to be at home with your kid and offer Seth the same if he chooses. That is a pitch that would be very, very hard to turn down for a family with a young kid. Issue I see is even if they convince Becky, which I think they could, Seth I doubt wants to return to an indy style fed ever again, and I doubt they want to be a couple who works in two different places. Seth never really was into indy wrestling and always had his sights set high, and now he made I just do not see him ever wanting to go back to the indy drama. They treat him right, he will be a company man.
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Post by Michinokudriver on Apr 23, 2024 5:13:31 GMT
The pitch would be I would give you a lot more cash than you make now, two more days to be at home with your kid and offer Seth the same if he chooses. That is a pitch that would be very, very hard to turn down for a family with a young kid. Issue I see is even if they convince Becky, which I think they could, Seth I doubt wants to return to an indy style fed ever again, and I doubt they want to be a couple who works in two different places. Seth never really was into indy wrestling and always had his sights set high, and now he made I just do not see him ever wanting to go back to the indy drama. They treat him right, he will be a company man. WWE can easily counter that pitch. Money is flexible, and Becky could well transition to a part time role / special attraction schedule with WWE; she doesn't necessarily have to jump ship to get that.
Not sure I'm reading WWE's web site right, but looks like they run at most Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon between both the Raw and SD roster -- divide that by two and you have one TV day and one house show day, which is already kinda reasonable for a part time schedule as is IMO. It's not a 5-day road schedule anymore.
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Post by c on Apr 23, 2024 5:42:20 GMT
It is when you bring in air travel. You generally work fri/sun or sat/mon. So thurs you fly out, work fri, fly out friday night, chill sat at a hotel, then work sun and fly out overnight. It is the extra flight and downtime in the hotel that I heard people say is the worst. Like they do not mind the extra show, it is the travel and that day in between that kills them. Sometimes you can drive between shows and people will gladly drive 4+ hours merely to not fly. Unless Liv drives some say <.<
Serious look for stories about Liv driving they are fucking hilarious. Ruby has a ton of great ones. They did some hilarious ones on Table for 3.
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Post by Michinokudriver on Apr 23, 2024 5:58:54 GMT
I did not consider that they'd work Fri-Sun or Sat-Mon with a travel-work-travel-work-travel schedule.
Assumed it would be, say, travel Thurs, wrestle Fri and Sat and then out late Sat or anytime Sunday - but having never wrestled before, I don't know if it's too physical to be done on back-to-back days.
Also, if it were up to me (it's not up to me, clearly) there doesn't seem to be a reason to have everyone on every house show tour.
Taking just the Raw roster, there are 33 men and 21 women. Split that number in half, add in a couple of NXT peeps who are close to callup anyway to compensate for injuries and you've got an Odd-Week and Even-Week house show circuit if that's something WWE wanted to keep doing. House show week is 5 days (two wrestling), TV only week is 3 (one wrestling). Maybe 4 if you have some contracted Boost Mobile signing but I'd assume that would happen day of the TV show, and certainly is not a thing every wrestler does regularly. Without being in the biz, that doesn't sound too awful?
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Post by c on Apr 23, 2024 7:24:31 GMT
Think the reason they stopped back to back was air travel delays and people missing shows. Before they moved Smackdown was not uncommon for some chunks of the roster of miss shows due to delays. And that was before mass layoffs really started to fuck up air travel. They tend to use the dark matches to practice feuds so generally if you are on TV you are on the shows. Some big names do not do many house though.
They easily could split up house shows though to do week on week off, but that could see a drop in the gate from reduced star power. But guys like Brock or Roman never did work them anyway these days.
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Post by mikec on Apr 23, 2024 12:23:10 GMT
House shows aren’t separated by brands, so if you’re working the house shows you are probably working the two days of your weekend plus your show. You can see a schedule with results here - prowrestling.fandom.com/wiki/WWE_House_Show_(March_9,_24%27) Your flying days if you’re a Raw superstar are likely Friday/Tuesday. Seth/Becky, like most the big names, live on a bus each weekend so at least they aren’t having to drive themselves between shows, but there is still almost certainly time off they could work in if that was what they wanted in their deals.
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Post by Ed on Apr 23, 2024 15:53:16 GMT
Gable is such a jerk!
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Post by Emperor on Apr 23, 2024 18:03:34 GMT
Jey Uso and Damian Priest kick off the show. It wasn't bad, but it was a shadow of the Rollins/McIntyre promos. Felt like a midcard promo at best. Gunther cut a much better promo, it was quite the babyface promo which made it a bit jarring when New Day interfered and started cutting jokes like it was 2014. I was certainly sports entertained, but I chuckled at the fact that Xavier Woods of all people is the last King of the Ring winner. Then followed yet another New Day/Imperium match, New Day wins, and at long last Kaiser snaps. Imperium have felt stale for a while so that shakeup was needed. Drew McIntyre and Sheamus with a nice back and forth. Not sure how I feel about the body shaming, or that they're making Sheamus' "out of shape" condition into a storyline. Like System said, I'd love to be as out of shape as Sheamus is. Roll out perpetual jobber Nakamura, Sheamus wins. I like Sheamus but this is a huge step back for McIntyre. I love Lynch but that was possibly the most boring outcome. I don't love Lynch and it was the most boring outcome. I am not surprised that it happened though. What else happened? Oh yeah, Chad Gable. Nobody commented about the segment in the promo thread, and I understand why. It wasn't very good. His justification was all over the place. "I gave Sami his moment, and I gave him the moment again, then he celebrated with his family which took away MY MOMENT!" Whuh? Then an out-of-nowhere burial of his entire stable, gotta get that heel heat even if it makes no sense. Not a fan of the sudden 180 personality change heel turn. I guess Gable will beat up his cronies for a while and move on.
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Post by System on Apr 23, 2024 23:42:16 GMT
Emperor If Gable hadn’t lost to Gunther so many times I’d be into the segment more. Can’t be mad at Sami for stealing your opportunity if you failed at yours. Knew it, the whole build of this match was leading to Ronda tapping but not surprised she pulled the “that doesn’t work for me brother.” Still believe she kicked out intentionally too.
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Post by CM Punk'd on Apr 30, 2024 0:01:54 GMT
The Kid, your golden boy, Mahomes is here at RAW.
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Post by Michinokudriver on Apr 30, 2024 0:02:35 GMT
paging The Kid to check out the top of Raw
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Post by CM Punk'd on Apr 30, 2024 0:07:33 GMT
I think we all figured out now why Becks won the title last week. It's all to keep her protected on RAW.
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Post by Dukezilla on Apr 30, 2024 0:07:50 GMT
There's a part of me that wants to see Mahomes take a bump
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Post by Michinokudriver on Apr 30, 2024 0:09:14 GMT
Completely forgot it's WWE draft season
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Post by Michinokudriver on Apr 30, 2024 0:12:01 GMT
also who woulda guessed out of the riott squad liv morgan would be the breakout wwe'er
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Post by Michinokudriver on Apr 30, 2024 0:23:25 GMT
this isn't the first year they've done this but it's bs that one can draft a group as a whole. like, why couldn't someone just draft nxt in its entirety?
also i am not sure wwe understands what one round means
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Post by CM Punk'd on Apr 30, 2024 1:00:45 GMT
BRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUNNN!!!
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Post by The Kid on Apr 30, 2024 1:04:44 GMT
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Post by CM Punk'd on Apr 30, 2024 1:05:34 GMT
Arrived with Logan Paul, and then got in Braun Strowman's face.
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Post by The Kid on Apr 30, 2024 1:06:49 GMT
Arrived with Logan Paul, and then got in Braun Strowman's face. No way! Thats awesome!
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Post by Michinokudriver on Apr 30, 2024 1:07:39 GMT
and R-Truth is about to seek him out for a state farm bundle deal
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Post by The Kid on Apr 30, 2024 1:10:14 GMT
and R-Truth is about to seek him out for a state farm bundle deal Really? Is he showing up again? I need my wife to go to sleep so I can regain control of this television.
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Post by Michinokudriver on Apr 30, 2024 1:12:06 GMT
and R-Truth is about to seek him out for a state farm bundle deal Really? Is he showing up again? I need my wife to go to sleep so I can regain control of this television. In all honesty? Kinda doubt it, he's had his one TV interaction, anything more than this is gonna have to be a physical spot and we all know what the odds of the Chiefs letting that happen are
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Post by JTJ on Apr 30, 2024 1:33:03 GMT
I hope Drew just obliterates everyone that got drafted before him!
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