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Midnightghoul posted:I don't think Sami is important enough to be lured into a consulate, tortured and killed by an assassin team flown in that day, his body (including his recently repaired shoulder) hacked into bits, put in boxes that are driven away in black vans to be dissolved in acid or dumped, and then the whole thing covered up by the KSA. Don't worry KSA banned him from the events so he's safe.
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rovert posted:Should be obvious and needed once you think about it. A modern weekly Wrestling show needs something to build to. Been told WWE UK will have Takeover style shows. If they're smart they'll stagger them between the NXT US Takeovers. But with how WWE Works, I expect these to kick off a Friday to Wednesday 20-hour block of non-stop WWE programming
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Mr. Carlisle posted:How many very public murders and admissions of guilt for said murders does it take for your PG company to go "eh we should probably create some distance" took 3 for benoit
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Oct 12, 2018 16:52
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The moral choice for WWE right now is to literally not take blood money and treat women respectfully and they're incapable of doing it because they would lose a small portion of their overflowing coffer. Capitalism is some insidious poo poo.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Pepsi are donating to Breast Cancer research so you can ignore them poisoning local water supplies to save 0.1 cents on a gallon of Pepsi. It's just even more brazen in this case because they're promoting an EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN show at the same time as the Saudi one. Did they try to get a TV deal for NXT UK? Seems like a bit of a failure to just have it on the Network.
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Chris James 2 posted:Yeah, they'd just toss him off a roof That didn't stop the Giant.
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Tomahawk posted:took 3 for benoit Someone In Back (of the Saudi consulate being tortured to death) Son of Man fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Oct 12, 2018 |
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Oct 12, 2018 17:23
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Triple H posted:“You can’t dictate to a country or a religion about how they handle things but, having said that, WWE is at the forefront of a women’s evolution in the world and what you can’t do is affect change anywhere by staying away from it.” Triple H posted:WWE is at the forefront of a women’s evolution in the world
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Oct 12, 2018 17:55
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wwe is at the forefront of awful television
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As we creep further into the darkest timeline, my wrestling and politics interests merge. This just came up in my feed Senators Urge WWE to ‘Pause’ Upcoming Saudi Arabia Event: Trump Should Maybe ‘Prevail Upon Them Not Doing It’ quote:“This is a brazen assault on the freedom of the press and a slap in the face to the United States, if this murder occurred as it seems it did,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told IJR when asked about the upcoming WWE event. Murphy not only sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he also represents Connecticut, where WWE headquarters are located. quote:“Private enterprise is private enterprise, different than a governmental entity,” Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) told IJR, “but because [Linda McMahon] is part of the president’s cabinet, it falls into the grey area where the administration really should give it some thought and maybe even prevail upon them not doing it.” quote:In response to the growing pressure linked to the November Saudi event, WWE provided IJR with only the following statement: “We are currently monitoring the situation.”
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Oct 12, 2018 18:05
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Bwahahahahagaha
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If they lose the Saudi deal that's going to cause a cascade effect that will destroy the company financially. That oil death cash is the only thing propping the financials enough for the network deals.
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Oct 12, 2018 18:15
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Oh God this is delicious. Not that the dude was tortured and murdered obviously, but that WWE might actually suffer some consequences from getting in bed with these people.
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Oct 12, 2018 18:17
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Losing the Saudi deal would hurt the stock price and a few quarters but they'll be more than okay with the new TV money. Now if they still go to Saudi Arabia and do propaganda pieces like the first trip than well the TV deals could be at issue
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Losing the Saudi deal would hurt the stock price and a few quarters but they'll be more than okay with the new TV money. Now if they still go to Saudi Arabia and do propaganda pieces like the first trip than well the TV deals could be at issue if the ratings continue falling off a cliff that fox deal isn't going to last long either
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Raskolnikov38 posted:if the ratings continue falling off a cliff that fox deal isn't going to last long either Good thing their ratings aren't falling off a cliff then
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The Kimoa Kid posted:Good thing their ratings aren't falling off a cliff then How long do you think it'll take for them to hit that sub 2-mil hour?
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VJeff posted:How long do you think it'll take for them to hit that sub 2-mil hour? Careful here, he's close to having the opportunity for his bi-monthly "nobody's paying enough attention to me" spiel about how actually this wasn't what he was referring to at all in his original post and clearly it's not him who's acting like an rear end in a top hat
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Oct 12, 2018 18:44
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Saudi Murder Fun Bucks are also probably the only thing giving Vince the pretense of being a billionaire and you know he ain't giving that up
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Saudi Murder Fun Bucks are also probably the only thing giving Vince the pretense of being a billionaire and you know he ain't giving that up Someone doesn't trust in XFL 2.0 being a succesahahahahahah I couldn't even type that, I'm sorry
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Chris James 2 posted:Someone doesn't trust in XFL 2.0 being a succesahahahahahah I couldn't even type that, I'm sorry I've talked to people who actually think that poo poo is gonna succeed and like, swoop up a bunch of fan from the NFL. Maybe it's just cause I'm a Lions fan and I can smell football-related embarrassing failure a mile away. 
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Oct 12, 2018 18:58
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Its gonna succeed because Vince is going to personally make sure they all stand for the got dang anthem.
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Oct 12, 2018 18:59
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It's worth noting that the call for WWE to stop the events is bipartisan, sorta. Also I doubt WWE pulling out of the Saudi deal would sink the company (it would hurt their stock prices, but nowhere near as bad as the PR disaster that would hit them if they decided to go through with the event anyways even though that guy was murdered). Especially if sanctions become a thing. The worst thing that would happen is Saudi Arabia throwing a huge loving fit over it as sanctions are implemented. Vince already has part of their money it seems.
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Oct 12, 2018 19:00
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WWE is probably going to get even more money out of their next TV deal in 2024.
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i want them to go through with it and put JBL on commentary so when Michael cole brings up the murder he can go off about black helicopters and stuff
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Oct 12, 2018 19:03
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Tomahawk posted:took 3 for benoit That's right I forgot Benoit has the current high score Most WWE/WWF murderers in history stopped at 1 before it was covered up
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Oct 12, 2018 19:03
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Saint Freak posted:Its gonna succeed because Vince is going to personally make sure they all stand for the got dang anthem. It would be a very Vince McMahon thing to do to promise a no politics league where everyone wouldn't kneel and then hire Colin Kilpatrick as the top heel of the league.
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Chris James 2 posted:Careful here, he's close to having the opportunity for his bi-monthly "nobody's paying enough attention to me" spiel about how actually this wasn't what he was referring to at all in his original post and clearly it's not him who's acting like an rear end in a top hat Read your own post lmao. Anyway, it's objectively true that WWE's ratings aren't falling off a cliff, not sure what the problem is here. It's possible to believe something is bad without every single metric agreeing with you. I think Big Bang Theory is bad but they sure do get great ratings. And good for them, Jim Parsons seems nice.
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TV ratings are a work anyway. 2.9 out of what? How can they tell who's looking at the tv
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projecthalaxy posted:TV ratings are a work anyway. WWE started counting pets a while back to game the system
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I was a Nielsen house for like 2 weeks. They gave me a dollar and after i logged that i watched nothing but smackdown and cooking competitions for 14 days i was not invited back
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fatherofmustard posted:WWE is probably going to get even more money out of their next TV deal in 2024. If you want something to be optimistic about, that recent IPCC thing that unanimously says we (at best) have to get our poo poo together re: climate change before 2030? WWE has a max of two more TV deals signed in that timeframe. One of the first things that's going to be gone in the apocalypse is cable TV power lines, we're almost safe
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Chris James 2 posted:Someone doesn't trust in XFL 2.0 being a succesahahahahahah I couldn't even type that, I'm sorry Lol I legitimately forgot about the XFL until just now.
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I wasn't sure whether to count "Florida's gonna sink into the sea" under the optimistic thing. That's NXT gone, but Paul might pull a Titanic and insist on going down with the ship, so that's 50% a good thing
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Chris James 2 posted:I wasn't sure whether to count "Florida's gonna sink into the sea" under the optimistic thing. That's NXT gone, but Paul might pull a Titanic and insist on going down with the ship, so that's 50% a good thing I'm led to believe they have enough accomplished seafarers on the roster to survive. 
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WWE will still go and promote Saudi Arabia and nothing will happen and this is 2018 when you can lock children up in cages and rape women in high school and nothing at all bad will happen to you
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Rarity posted:WWE will still go and promote Saudi Arabia and nothing will happen and this is 2018 when you can lock children up in cages and rape women in high school and nothing at all bad will happen to you I mean. I don't know this for sure, but I assume that's always been the case, we're just burdened with the horror of knowledge, now.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:vince mcmahon is the last human alive in 2031. living in the remains of titan towers he continues booking matches between the burnt and melted remains of a handful of action figures Vince becoming real life Ted Faro would be oddly appropriate.
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