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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
Royal Rumble & Triple Threat are going to be shown on Raw.

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Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


ayn rand hand job posted:

Yes, they stole something that they used 16 years before the XFL even came into existence.

They can't explain how balls were deflated, much less time travel.

quote:

NBC debuted the first wire-flown remote-controlled camera used in sports coverage at the 1985 Orange Bowl.[3] But its use did not become widespread until February 2001 for the XFL.
If you use it once for a college game and then shelve it, you didn't really use it. But I'll concede that it was technically extant before the WWE made use of it and turned it into a thing the NFL could steal from them, like Brock Lesnar.

Sigma
Aug 24, 2003

...
Grimey Drawer
There was a great moment after the Rock came out where you could hear them playing with the levels.

CubsWoo
Aug 17, 2005

Where the big boys RAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGH FUCK YOU
Cole was on the pre-show, Raw tonight will be a re-air of the triple threat match and the Rumble plus interviews with Lesnar, Rollins and Reigns.

Nilbop
Jun 5, 2004

Looks like someone forgot his hardhat...

Tezzor posted:

the biggest problem with the xfl was that it was garbage football for idiots

That's a pretty serious problem.

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



CubsWoo posted:

Cole was on the pre-show, Raw tonight will be a re-air of the triple threat match and the Rumble plus interviews with Lesnar, Rollins and Reigns.

Someone please let me know how much they sweeten the crowd noises.

Lazer
Jun 26, 2011

V A P O R W A V E
So Meltzer said that letting Bryan win the Rumble would be going to the well one too many times for Wrestlemania... But hasn't John Cena been in like 8 or 9 back to back Wrestlemania heavyweight title matches? I just find that very :psyduck: if that's the deciding factor.

Nilbop
Jun 5, 2004

Looks like someone forgot his hardhat...

TheJoker138 posted:

Someone please let me know how much they sweeten the crowd noises.

I imagine that 1.5 second high-pitched cheer soundbite that OSW like to mock will be worn out from overuse.

Big Coffin Hunter
Aug 13, 2005

yeah but bryan's not over, you don't want a guy the crowd really isn't into to win the rumble two years in a row

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Nilbop posted:

That's a pretty serious problem.
I'll drop it because it's obvious I have a specific axe to grind with how the XFL was handled by other entities, and while there were significant on-field talent level issues there were also several systems in place designed to ensure the XFL's failure as well.

Nilbop posted:

I imagine that 1.5 second high-pitched cheer soundbite that OSW like to mock will be worn out from overuse.

Are you talking poo poo about the SmackDown!! roar?

NutritiousSnack
Jul 12, 2011

TheJoker138 posted:

Someone please let me know how much they sweeten the crowd noises.

Going to insert porn noises when Rock holds up his hand.

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

CubsWoo posted:

Cole was on the pre-show, Raw tonight will be a re-air of the triple threat match and the Rumble plus interviews with Lesnar, Rollins and Reigns.

Way to make the people who paid $50 to order the PPV hate you even more, WWE

Psybro
May 12, 2002
I'm making myself feel better by watching stuff on the Network from Bryan's heel run with the WHC. Watching him lording being champion over the likes of the Big Show with his big poo poo-eating grins is really cathartic now.

StarkRavingMad
Sep 27, 2001


Yams Fan

CubsWoo posted:

Cole was on the pre-show, Raw tonight will be a re-air of the triple threat match and the Rumble plus interviews with Lesnar, Rollins and Reigns.

Remember how last night we made fun of the people who bought the PPV instead of subscribing to the Network to get the Rumble? Now we can make fun of the Network subscribers by just giving that poo poo away for free. Unsubscribe from my Network, will you? I'll show you! I'M VINCENT KENNEDY MCMA

Big Coffin Hunter
Aug 13, 2005

btw in honor of Roman's reign I request the new WWE title be "they give us a desert and call it Sports Entertainment" tia kung-fu grip

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004


Out here, everything hurts.




CubsWoo posted:

Cole was on the pre-show, Raw tonight will be a re-air of the triple threat match and the Rumble plus interviews with Lesnar, Rollins and Reigns.

How can they think this is a good idea.

I mean, if your live audience, and Network audience both poo poo all over the Rumble, why would you push it to your TV AUDIENCE as well? :stare:

ch3cooh
Jun 26, 2006

CubsWoo posted:

Cole was on the pre-show, Raw tonight will be a re-air of the triple threat match and the Rumble plus interviews with Lesnar, Rollins and Reigns.

I'm honestly intrigued to see what they do with the crowd noise

Nilbop
Jun 5, 2004

Looks like someone forgot his hardhat...

Everblight posted:


Are you talking poo poo about the SmackDown!! roar?

Yep. I was listening for it as soon as Reigns won the Rumble and I was glad I wasn't dissapointed.

Minitrue
Aug 6, 2010

Lazer posted:

So Meltzer said that letting Bryan win the Rumble would be going to the well one too many times for Wrestlemania... But hasn't John Cena been in like 8 or 9 back to back Wrestlemania heavyweight title matches? I just find that very :psyduck: if that's the deciding factor.

No, he said that WWE supposedly considers inserting Bryan into the Mania main event (to make it a triple threat) going to the well on too many times.

Lazer
Jun 26, 2011

V A P O R W A V E

Minitrue posted:

No, he said that WWE supposedly considers inserting Bryan into the Mania main event (to make it a triple threat) going to the well on too many times.

Ah thank you. I was a bit confused on that bit.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Minitrue posted:

No, he said that WWE supposedly considers inserting Bryan into the Mania main event (to make it a triple threat) going to the well on too many times.

Because having the company's most over face win the Rumble outright is beyond the pale, because of ~*REASONS*~

Nilbop
Jun 5, 2004

Looks like someone forgot his hardhat...

Everblight posted:

Because having the company's most over face win the Rumble outright is beyond the pale, because of ~*REASONS*~

Vince can't relate to him. The End.

NutritiousSnack
Jul 12, 2011

Everblight posted:

Because having the company's most over face win the Rumble outright is beyond the pale, because of ~*REASONS*~

He's only catchpharse/rating/network subscriber over

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

Tezzor posted:

the biggest problem with the xfl was that it was garbage football for idiots

So is the nfl

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

Everblight posted:

Because having the company's most over face win the Rumble outright is beyond the pale, because of ~*REASONS*~

Once bitten, twice shy.

GLOSS
Apr 10, 2005

PEARL GROWLS "TAKE OFF THAT SHIRT, STEVEN." I COMPLY, REVEALING THE FULL LENGTH SHIRT TATTOO. PEARL RETREATS INTO HER GEM, DEFEATED.
I hope they reduce Bryan's elimination to a commercial break.

Perdido
Apr 29, 2009

CORY SCHNEIDER IS FAR MORE MENTALLY STABLE THAN LUONGO AND CAN HANDLE THE PRESSURES OF GOALTENDING IN VANCOUVER

Lazer posted:

Ah thank you. I was a bit confused on that bit.

I guess you could say it was ~*~ ONCE IN A LIFETIME ~*~

oblique
Sep 20, 2001

Like me, they have no way to go but up.

Lazer posted:

So Meltzer said that letting Bryan win the Rumble would be going to the well one too many times for Wrestlemania... But hasn't John Cena been in like 8 or 9 back to back Wrestlemania heavyweight title matches? I just find that very :psyduck: if that's the deciding factor.

To be fair, he said that this is what Vince thinks about it

cronox2
Jul 24, 2010



woah, you look
REALLY pissed off...

GLOSS posted:

I hope they reduce Bryan's elimination to a commercial break.

WWE Discussion is Daniel Bryan gets eliminated on the App for 1/26

Jetfire
Apr 29, 2008

Everblight posted:

This one is actually true though. He didn't do himself any favors with some of the carnier poo poo like the cheerleaders being pushed to date the athletes

Wait, was this like a "I don't give a poo poo if you date the players" kind of thing, or a "bang the players, dammit! We need backstage drama" kind of thing?

achillesforever6
Apr 23, 2012

psst you wanna do a communism?

Liquid Communism posted:

How can they think this is a good idea.

I mean, if your live audience, and Network audience both poo poo all over the Rumble, why would you push it to your TV AUDIENCE as well? :stare:
This is it Vince is injecting the poison to kill his own company!!!

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
I didn't see the Rumble but I read the results online. Are people really THIS pissed off that Daniel Bryan didn't win the Rumble? Because seriously.

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen

achillesforever6 posted:

This is it Vince is injecting the poison to kill his own company!!!

Um... he needs the nWo to do that. :colbert:

Minitrue
Aug 6, 2010
Remember when Triple H made his triumphant return from his torn quad,... only to be eliminated from the Rumble unceremoniously by Val Venis, then going on to face Rikishi at WM.

Skeezy
Jul 3, 2007

They should play the last NXT Takeover instead of this. Show everyone how good NXT is.

Lord Of Texas
Dec 26, 2006

Lazer posted:

So Meltzer said that letting Bryan win the Rumble would be going to the well one too many times for Wrestlemania... But hasn't John Cena been in like 8 or 9 back to back Wrestlemania heavyweight title matches? I just find that very :psyduck: if that's the deciding factor.

It's a total bullshit rationalization.

Austin essentially won every Rumble during the attitude era that he was healthy for (even though he technically didn't win '99, he was final two, was the focus of the whole match, and got the WM title shot soon after.)

Cena was in a title match or the final match on the card every year from '05-'13.

If they wanted Bryan as their guy, they wouldn't have any problem putting him in the main event back-to-back years.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

Everblight posted:

Are you talking poo poo about the SmackDown!! roar?

I call it "the hair dryer".

ParanoidInc
Apr 27, 2013

You dun scuffed me for the last time you no-good Zayn boy!
Fun Shoe

Retail Slave posted:

I didn't see the Rumble but I read the results online. Are people really THIS pissed off that Daniel Bryan didn't win the Rumble? Because seriously.

It's not just Bryan not winning the rumble, it's him getting taken out like a chump and all of the fan favorites getting lightly tossed out by loving Kane and Big Show

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



Retail Slave posted:

I didn't see the Rumble but I read the results online. Are people really THIS pissed off that Daniel Bryan didn't win the Rumble? Because seriously.

#CancelWWENetwork is still trending on Twitter. What do you think?

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TEGGS
Nov 21, 2004

Spoony Bard!
So what channel is Lucha Underground on? I went to their site and it seemed kind of vague.

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