10-24-2018, 09:37 PM | #45921 |
Former TPWW Royalty
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10-25-2018, 12:54 AM | #45923 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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10-25-2018, 01:07 AM | #45924 |
Taller than Adam Cole
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10-25-2018, 06:01 AM | #45925 |
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10-25-2018, 06:23 AM | #45926 |
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I had this idea after watching a brief clip of Kevin Nash talking about the current product:
WWE could experiment with different audiences by putting a more adult product -- or less produced, anyway -- on the WWE Network, where they don't have to adhere to TV standards or expectations. All the Attitude era stuff is already there for the kiddies to absorb anyway. I don't know whether or not this is possible with streaming services, but I'd toy with the idea of putting it up for a limited amount of time too. Maybe even a very narrow window of time in order to make it seem a lot more urgent. In my head, I was playing with 11pm on a Friday until 11am on a Saturday. The idea, although you would never promote it as such, would be to get the little kiddies to sneak a watch either while their parents are too busy drinking or nursing hangovers the next morning. I found wrestling through a Saturday morning show. It allows you to shake more fruit out of the tree. Very few talent can get the chance to show what they can do in an organic setting. I'm not saying they would be saying "Fuck" every three seconds or anything, but you can have more organic feuds and stories that have a bit more...testosterone than the current product. |
10-25-2018, 08:39 AM | #45927 |
TPWW's #3 Peep
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I use to love all that Indy nonsense, in particular, back around 2008-2010 or something I was a huge Chikara fan. But now I just see all these crap and none of it seems funny anymore.
The guy with the super strong penis who keeps flipping people over with it... never laughed once. Think I've lost my smile. |
10-25-2018, 10:16 AM | #45928 |
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I think at some stage it's natural for wrestling fans, given the stigma associated with wrestling, to say "Of course we know it's not real -- look at how deliberately fake it is." And that gets compounded with so many wrestling tropes being smacked over our heads that anything that subverts it seems "fun." But wrestling is really conflict drama. It has goals (winning and losing) and it should have stakes in order to justify emotional investment.
The thing with all the comedy wrestling is that is completely defeats the point of any of that. I don't think it's impressive to go out there and pretend that the goals and stakes are ludicrous. And I think to non-fans, as opposed to being an obvious edge into to a staged form of entertainment, it's actually as silly as someone trying to do a comedy song but not being able to remotely play an instrument or be able to sing. "Why do you watch this shit? You know it's fake, right?" "Of course I do! Look at that guy swinging people with his penis! They're clearly not trying to fool anyone!" "Yeah, but why do you watch this shit?" It's got even less of a point than WWE's sports entertainment, and I actually consider it a very self-conscious and self-hating form of wrestling. I'm sure the guys who do it think it is funny, but I can't help but think that they must be deeply insecure to need to overtly discredit any form of irony bribe. It's like they are too scared to actually try. And it's riddled with 15-year-old boy syndrome. |
10-25-2018, 11:02 AM | #45929 |
Resident drug enabler
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I think I know the Kevin Nash clip you’re talking about. He had a great line that went something like “How am I supposed to suspend disbelief when I’m watching a grown man say ‘I’m gonna kick your butt’. Meanwhile I go outside and two 14 year olds are getting off the bus ‘Your mom sucked my dick last night...’”
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10-25-2018, 11:05 AM | #45930 |
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10-25-2018, 11:16 AM | #45931 |
LUV CABBAGE/H8 JEWS
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10-25-2018, 11:53 AM | #45932 |
Feeling Oof-y
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6 of those guys are now contracted to WWE, with another who used to work there, and a guy they brought in as a big deal for a one off appearance.
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10-25-2018, 12:03 PM | #45933 |
LUV CABBAGE/H8 JEWS
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10-25-2018, 12:20 PM | #45934 |
TPWW's #3 Peep
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I do wanna see Chuck Taylor in the WWE. Even though I've "outgrown" the comedy stuff, I do think he's a pretty solid worker and has loads of goofy charisma.
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10-25-2018, 12:35 PM | #45935 |
Trickster Demon
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WWE responds to Megyn Kelly saying blackface 'not that bad' w/concern that Bella Twins appearance would be bad PR.
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10-25-2018, 01:48 PM | #45936 |
Feeling Oof-y
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10-25-2018, 01:49 PM | #45937 |
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Megyn Kellys comments weren't that bad. She was asking a question.
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10-25-2018, 02:02 PM | #45938 |
Resident drug enabler
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Did WWE pull their people from the appearance for was the show just scrapped by NBC? Because it sounds like the latter.
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10-25-2018, 04:29 PM | #45939 |
Quark is Less Impressed.
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They canceled the show and she is probably fired. WWE didn't do shit.
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10-25-2018, 05:09 PM | #45940 | |
Former TPWW Royalty
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10-25-2018, 05:21 PM | #45941 | |||
3 Dicks Out For Trips
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As it stands right now, the show is on the air and she is on a leave of absence. She wasn't on the show today, but probably will be on Friday as they pretape the Friday shows. We will know more when NBC makes an official statement or when that timeslot roles around on Monday. |
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10-25-2018, 05:22 PM | #45942 |
3 Dicks Out For Trips
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It's amazing to me that WWE will pull people from Megyn Kelly over some innocent comments because they fear backlash from being associated with that.....yet they are still going to Saudi Arabia. These 2 decisions literally don't jive.
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10-25-2018, 05:23 PM | #45943 |
Former TPWW Royalty
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Apparently WWE's live events took a huge hit for the fiscal quarter based on WWE's recent report. Both revenues and attendance were at their lowest in years with Vince pleading to investors not to worry since he can quickly fix it.
Numbers-wise, everything else in the report that the WWE tried to present as positive had a hidden negative or counter which is why their stocks took a hit afterwards. Like them boasting at having 1.65 million subscribers for the Network but yet they only made 2% more in revenues compared to last year. |
10-25-2018, 05:25 PM | #45944 |
Inno Knows.
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Sounds like NBC wanted a reason to get rid of Megyn Kelly
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10-25-2018, 05:52 PM | #45945 |
Trickster Demon
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Not surprised as live events
Tickets too expensive for non-big shows. |
10-25-2018, 05:55 PM | #45946 | |
King K Cool
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Uncaged VI is being released tomorrow and the track listing is as follows:
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The only themes I'm really interesting in are Katie Lea's, Natalya's (but we've already got the full version from the SvR games but it's still a good theme), Beth Phoenix's, Molly Holly's and Ivory's. I've also noticed that just over half of the themes are from the 05-09 period but you can't really complain as the vast majority of women before 2005 were only given really generic sounding production themes, especially in the late 90's/early 00's, which are only represented by Ivory, Stacy Keibler and Molly Holly. I'm not counting Stephanie's theme there even though it's from 2002, because she's the boss' daughter so obviously she would have been given her very own theme. I think it's cool that we've been given two themes that were only ever used once, with those being Beth Phoenix and Emma, who by the way, is the only "2010's" theme on the album and yeah Tamina's theme is from 2012 but I can't really recall her using a remix of "Tropical Storm", so I think that may be a completely unused theme all-together. I think maybe she was going to use it but plans were made to pair her up with AJ Lee, so she just began using AJ Lee's theme instead. I remember reading somewhere that although the Uncaged albums are credited to Jim Johnston, he has never had anything to do with the albums as it's all CFO$ doing. I remember reading that they're given free range to the WWE music library and they select which themes get added to the albums. They are also apparently allowed to change the names of tracks which they did with Viscera's theme from Uncaged III. It's original Jim Johnston title was "Fuck Me" but they changed it to "Gut Punch". I think maybe they've done the same with Molly Holly's theme as its title is simply "Molly Holly". I'm sure its original title was "Virginous", "Virgin" or "Wholesome". Something that was related to her gimmick at the time anyway. "Molly Holly" is kind of a boring and unimaginative title and doesn't really scream that Jim Johnston made it. I think CFO$ may have wanted to change it but couldn't think up of something so they just went with "Molly Holly" because as we've seen with their themes, they are just simply creative Gods. |
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10-25-2018, 05:57 PM | #45947 |
Trickster Demon
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WWE should make house shows tix cheaper
They often get too close to being the same price as RAW/SDLive ticket prices |
10-25-2018, 06:03 PM | #45948 |
3 Dicks Out For Trips
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Yeah my last house show ticket was like 63 bucks and they were good seats but not great. First row of non-floor seats. Good view though considering I was sitting above everyone in front of me by a good bit.
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10-25-2018, 06:13 PM | #45949 |
Trickster Demon
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10-25-2018, 06:15 PM | #45950 | |
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Think it was the Observer who mentioned the only reason why WWE runs house shows on the same day as a RAW or Smackdown episode is due to Vince and co not wanting wrestlers and road crews to have an extra day off. Nor do they feel like shifting the schedule so that the off day starts on a Monday or Tuesday depending on the brand. |
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10-25-2018, 08:53 PM | #45951 | |
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The simple answer would be to end the brand split and let someone else handle SmackDown, making it a unique show with its own feel and storylines that get people hooked. You know -- actually putting the work in to make the show feel important while you still have talent on Raw and live events. But that requires effort. Much easier to just give it a "unique" roster and then act surprised when things are so watered down that no one gives a shit and you need to jack-up ticket prices. |
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10-25-2018, 09:05 PM | #45953 |
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Also, fuck this company and their hypocrisy.
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10-25-2018, 10:52 PM | #45954 |
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Lol the airport in Jacksonville in the show the Good Place is Randy Macho Man Savage Non International Airport
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10-26-2018, 02:58 AM | #45955 |
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Didn't realise Evolution was this weekend, is anyone actually going to watch it?
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10-26-2018, 03:58 AM | #45956 |
is brat
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I'm pretty hype for it. Not as hype as if WWE did a good job at all of booking and building it up, but still I'm looking forward to it.
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10-26-2018, 05:35 AM | #45957 |
LIMITLESS
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In 2 years, we're going to be talking about how former UFC Champion Ken Shamrock wrestled a match against the 46th President of the United States, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and the UFC fighter lost.
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10-26-2018, 06:22 AM | #45958 |
It's a blood match!
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10-26-2018, 06:30 AM | #45959 |
LIMITLESS
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Also, got tix for Takeover Phoenix.
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10-26-2018, 08:17 AM | #45960 | |
King K Cool
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I'll maybe watch the two main brand Women's Championship matches but I'll only be watching the Raw Women's Championship match because I want to see the terrible decision that Vince & Co. will make when Nikki Bella defeats Ronda Rousey to become champion. |
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