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Who should get the final Elimination Chamber Spot?
This poll is closed.
Finn Balor 5 6.58%
Seth Rollins 0 0%
Squeeze them both into one pod 35 46.05%
Give THE BIG DOG! two pods to himself 36 47.37%
Total: 76 votes
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DarkstarIV
Apr 6, 2010

OFFICIAL RACIST
Just wait until The Iconic Duo are called up and lose either their first or last name. Billie and Peyton, although knowing Vince we'll get Kay and Royce, and they'll be repackaged into detectives for the Fashion Police/Fashion Files.

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fart blood
Sep 13, 2008

by VideoGames
I just don’t get why Vince can’t let things be natural.

Granted, FCW was a horrid promotion that should be burned to the ground and their naming system was the worst thing in wrestling history (yes, literally worse than everything else :colbert: ), but if someone has an easy to remember first and last name, leave it alone.

I mean jeez, literally everyone has first and last names and Vince doesnt like that. Think about that. It boggles may mind even though it shouldn’t at this point.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Apparently he lost his last name because Vince never wants to hear the name “Cruz” on his programming again after the school shooting and Crews is too close

fart blood
Sep 13, 2008

by VideoGames

Luigi Thirty posted:

Apparently he lost his last name because Vince never wants to hear the name “Cruz” on his programming again after the school shooting and Crews is too close

That’s dumb.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
*maga chud shoots up a school*

vince: how can i punish a black person for this

Pinstripe Hourglass
Nov 27, 2008

=RIVER PEOPLE=
Ay yi yi! We look
like... cartoons!

I generally assume Vince's one name kick is because he wants wrestlers to seem like characters on a show, not people with lives outside of the WWE. Even if last names come from the WWE they imply things like family and a heritage, and unless you're a second or third generation wrestler Vince doesn't want that.

It's two of Vince's weird fixations: "our competitor is Disney, not the UFC", and the whole thing where the brand is the star, not the wrestlers.

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

Apollo’s merchandise (yeah he has merchandise) is literally a big AC logo too.

Tomahawk
Aug 13, 2003

HE KNOWS
Finn Club

Abroham Lincoln
Sep 19, 2011

Note to self: This one's the good one



The Bray Family
The Johnation
The Dean Asylum
The Kurt Slam

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

According to the New York Times sports business guy Kevin Draper, the moniker "205er" is going to start being used in lieu of "cruiserweight" to describe those superstars. The old term was never really popular with Vince and company but is being officially nixed on all programming for similar reasons to Crews being dropped

Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible



Because "205ers" just ROLLS off the tongue. :rolleyes:

Gonz
Dec 22, 2009

"Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"
Per LoP:

quote:

Posted in: WWE
Stephanie McMahon Discusses The Possibility Of WWE Being Sold
By Michael Pappas
Feb 18, 2018 - 12:46:00 AM

Stephanie McMahon was recently interviewed by Bloomberg Businessweek, she was asked if WWE could be sold to a large media organization such as Disney, 21st Century Fox and Amazon. Here were her comments:

"We've certainly thought about it. It would be foolish not to"


Stephanie also commented on her liking of WWE's business model to that of Disney.

"There was a time when it came across as seedy, kind of playing to barroom brawls. [Now] our lines of business are really more akin to Disney than they are to anything else."

With WWE's broadcasting rights up for renewal to keep Raw and Smackdown Live on USA and Vince McMahon focused on his partnership with Alpha Entertainment to relaunch the XFL, the chances of WWE being sold to these organizations are very high.

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

Luigi Thirty posted:

Apparently he lost his last name because Vince never wants to hear the name “Cruz” on his programming again after the school shooting and Crews is too close

Time to rename himself Apollo Cage

Abroham Lincoln
Sep 19, 2011

Note to self: This one's the good one



I hope WWE never hires back noted racist, Hulk.

Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible



Phil Brooks returns under the moniker "C"

reignofevil
Nov 7, 2008

quote:

"There was a time when it came across as seedy, kind of playing to barroom brawls. [Now] our lines of business are really more akin to Disney than they are to anything else.

Well that would be the issue everybody loves a good bar room brawl.

Aye Doc
Jul 19, 2007



Abroham Lincoln posted:

I hope WWE never hires back noted racist, Hulk.

it is an inevitability. they have probably had a team working on Hulk Hogan's return angle since July 23rd, 2015. there are somewhere between three and five hundred discarded skits, all of them featuring The New Day and Hulk Hogan preaching forgiveness and equality

Incessant Excess
Aug 15, 2005

Cause of glitch:
Pretentiousness
Is there any chance we'll see The on Raw in the next couple weeks? He has that Rampage movie coming out.

DarkstarIV
Apr 6, 2010

OFFICIAL RACIST
Another segment for tonight's RAW. Asuka will be addressing Nia Jax tonight. Can't wait for Nia's inevitable catty middle school level burn.

I hope Asuka speaks English just to gently caress with Nia.

MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR

Incessant Excess posted:

Is there any chance we'll see The on Raw in the next couple weeks? He has that Rampage movie coming out.

I also can't wait to see The return from his hip injury. His matches with Braun were great.

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

Abroham Lincoln posted:

Should we do the thing where we list out all the highly pushed guys who have last names or does this ruin the joke

It's a recent push so previously established guys don't really count :v:

It still seems kind of random who loses a name and who keeps them but then again that fits Vince perfectly so

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

I hope Nakamura is just kind of hanging out in the background during Asuka's rebuttal, and at one point he just leans forward and mouths,"AJ Styles, I'm going to beat you at Wrestlemania :laugh:"

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Luigi Thirty posted:

Apparently he lost his last name because Vince never wants to hear the name “Cruz” on his programming again after the school shooting and Crews is too close

Shame his name wasn’t McMahon

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


So is Chyna ever getting in the Hall

Marquis de Pyro
Sep 25, 2006

Evil Prevails

sportsgenius86 posted:

Shame his name wasn’t McMahon

"By God, it's Mr. M. He's here! Mr. M!"

schweens
Jan 14, 2011

kakarot ain't got shit on me

Luigi Thirty posted:

Apparently he lost his last name because Vince never wants to hear the name “Cruz” on his programming again after the school shooting and Crews is too close

Having just Apollo as a name is weak. If they want to avoid Crews/Cruz just have him renounce his name and be Uhaa.

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade
Vince loves a muscular man with a mythological Greek name. Cf. Hercules.

Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon

Chris James 2 posted:

So is Chyna ever getting in the Hall

if Stephanie dies before HHH

achillesforever6
Apr 23, 2012

psst you wanna do a communism?

Chris James 2 posted:

So is Chyna ever getting in the Hall
I think within the next 2-3 years

D.N. Nation
Feb 1, 2012

Vince McMahon, not a fan of sneezing, burritos, and last names.

You laugh, but these types of people are currently ruling the world, so.

D.N. Nation
Feb 1, 2012

achillesforever6 posted:

I think within the next 2-3 years

Trips name-dropped her on Raw 25; agreed

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
Vince takes away the last names of people Vince isn't interested in, so he can remember he already doesn't like them.



https://twitter.com/terrycrews/status/965725331305857024

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



D.N. Nation posted:

Vince McMahon, not a fan of sneezing, burritos, and last names.

You laugh, but these types of people are currently ruling the world, so.

TBF is anyone a *fan* of sneezing?

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Endless Mike posted:

TBF is anyone a *fan* of sneezing?

Sneeze 3 or 4 times in a row and you get a little bit of a buzz I guess :shrug:

DrKrankenwagen
Mar 21, 2005

Endless Mike posted:

TBF is anyone a *fan* of sneezing?

I have crappy sinuses and I like sneezing; clears you right out. We exist.

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

Jerusalem posted:

Sneeze 3 or 4 times in a row and you get a little bit of a buzz I guess :shrug:

That's a concussion. Your brain rattled around.

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

lol if you don't like sneezing and your histamine release is so imprecise that you always sneeze a bunch of times in a row

Blaise330
Aug 13, 2007

GOD'S FAVORITE CHAMPION

Chris James 2 posted:

So is Chyna ever getting in the Hall

Maybe, she does pass the single name test.

Gonz
Dec 22, 2009

"Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"
Just got here.



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Chinston Wurchill
Jun 27, 2010

It's not that kind of test.

El Gallinero Gros posted:

Aphasia is no joke, friend.

That's aphagia, dude.

H-A-DOUBLE-L
O-DOUBLE-F
A-M-E!!!

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