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sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

yea ok posted:

Hulkamatt on twitter said to make a new one of these threads. Put your spoilers here but don't put them behind spoiler tags because that's the rules. No company is safe from their results being posted here, so browse at your own peril of getting wrestling matches like pentagon jr. being the Lucha underground champion ruined for you. Rumors & betting lines are good too because a lot of times they turn out to be legitimate.

But Pentagon Jr isn't LU champion.
























Pentagon Dark is. :getin:

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sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
I had no idea Usos/Breezango was even a match. Was there an actual segment, or just "tag teams lol"?


Mulaney Power Move posted:

if the silhoutte wwe.com put up means anything, it doesn't look like bayley. looks more like nikki. that's my scoop.

Reminder that they were using Alex Riley as the male mystery participant silhouette for years.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

Benne posted:

It's more like "poo poo we forgot to book a pre-show match, uhhhhh Usos/Breezango"
Good, I was in a panic for a moment because I thought I'd missed a Breezango segment. :supaburn:

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
Same.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

Great White Hope posted:

WWWF World Heavyweight
WWWF Heavyweight
WWF Heavyweight
WWF World Heavyweight
WWF Championship
Undisputed WWF
Undisputed WWE
WWE Championship
WWE World Heavyweight
WWE World

Not as extreme of name changes, but they're there!

There was a lot of merging/splitting/new belt introduction/company name changes over several decades so I don't know if that counts quite as much as TNA's "we're gonna do a whole new thing every other week" title.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
Does TNA genuinely get bored/ADHD about their own concepts way faster than Vince? Or is it more that too many people are deciding which direction to go?

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

nooneofconsequence posted:

What's the S stand for?

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
Lashley should've put on a wig and a skirt and won the Knockouts title imo.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

NotQuiteQuentin posted:

So Dragon Gate's doing a non-televised Triangle Gate defense on 9/4 so I've gone from 75/25 that Akira Tozawa's heading to WWE to 90/10.

I'm starting my pre-crying now.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
I can't wait until there are so many members they have to split into BROKEN black & white and BROKEN Wolfpac.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
I keep reading ONO as "oh no" and it makes it so much better.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
The only reason I think Crews is taking the IC title is because they won't shut up about the New Era being an opportunity for new talent and Miz with any belt is old news these days.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

89 posted:

So Finn Balor winning the championship, Gallow & Anderson winning the tag team championship, and AJ Styles beating John Cena.

Go on.

Surprise return of Camacho and debut of Tama Tonga to Smackdown incoming.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

oatgan posted:

Gran Metalik def. Akira Tozawa
:negative:

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
I sort of figured Clash of Champions was going to be a show vs show PPV. But really it's just Clash of Champion vs Challengers.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
Punxsutawney Phil, scared of his own shadow.

How has nobody ever used that in a promo?

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
It was never going to be anything but what Vince decided 10 minutes before and probably during the show while munching a steak wrap. We just have more insight into his changes by the minute nowadays.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
I wonder how much of Corbin being a HHH pet project is predicated upon being a fellow Motorhead fan.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

Mob posted:

There's no way they'd break up the merch machine, not with them being featured in the first WWE Slam Crate and having a Toys R Us exclusive Funko Pop, both coming out next month

tbh you could've made all those words up and I wouldn't know the difference.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

81sidewinder posted:

Hero was the skinniest he had been since signing when they fired him, so the weight issue doesn't make much sense.

Yeah, he looked great at the time. From what I heard he was repeatedly talking above his station. I can't speak for how that is in wrestling, but I know that in theater and film, you don't tell other actors what to do in a scene when the director has other ideas, no matter how much experience you have. You generally go through the director and hope they agree with your advice. I imagine it works the same for all performance-based entertainment, in addition to the usual politicking and pettiness.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

dromal phrenia posted:

wasn't vince supposedly oblivious to the fact that some men find some asian women attractive? anderson's repeated references to his 'hot asian wife' probably confused vince, and confusion infuriates him

I believe the story goes that Vince was reluctant to hire Gail Kim until JR pointed out that a lot of men find Asian women attractive, and Vince was baffled that there was an entire porn subcategory devoted to it. Class acts at WWE.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

Endless Mike posted:

Here's a hot scoops:

They're doing a TLC match at the TLC show!!!!!

Pff. I have predictions for next year already: At Royal Rumble 2017 there's going to be a Royal Rumble match.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
I can't wait for the debut of Field in the main event.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

Frankston posted:

IMO he's too green to be main eventing.

Field probably won't show up anyway because he's a farm.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
Yeah, but he's not the one who's trying to be your enemy. That's something YOU need to change.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

Benne posted:

I just think it's a problem with not creating new stars to hold the high standards NXT created for itself with the women's division. They coasted off the Horsewomen for almost two years, and brought in Asuka to act as a bridge for the new generation, but somehow forgot Step 2 in building up fresh faces. They were trying to build up something worthwhile with Nia/Alexa/Dana/Carmella, but those all got sniped in the draft. Now the division is Asuka, Ember Moon who may or may not get over because she's still new, the Aussies who've been spinning their wheels for a year, and a bunch of random people. Nikki Cross has potential, but she's busy in a stable right now.

Billie still needs some ring work but she's found a character that works for her, and Peyton is solid but needs to refine her character, which makes putting them together a really good idea. Nikki Cross will probably still get a major push and I think Sanity is going to elevate her status, not hinder it.

I hope they use Daria more on TV, she was really impressive in her first televised match and her MMA background makes her a more credible threat.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
Ganso Bomb through the cell, kick out before one.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

extradite THIS! posted:

Well, apparently Randy is getting a baby. Any chance Taker could replace him in the SS match?
I'd actually be cool with Taker being the SS mystery partner again. It'd be a fun callback, and Bruce Pritchard is kinda relevant again lately.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
"Here's our team, which is a TEAM and not enemies, and will represent Raw going into Survivor Series as a unit!


...


Okay now fight each other for no reason."

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

Benne posted:

loving lol that Apollo Crews jobbed to the comedy jobber
Someone please tell me there was some fuckery involved because I can't deal with my man Uhaa falling this far.

However, if the Cruisers become exclusive to SDL, that means Uhaa and Tozawa reunite. :dance:

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
Jinder status: Hindered

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

long-rear end nips Diane posted:

On a 2 hour show I'd rather see a focus on the WWE Championship/Cruiserweight/Tag than all of that + fitting the Intercontinental belt in there too.

I definitely get this point, but there's also a whole lot of singles midcard that would just be doing nothing with no midcard heavyweight title. I guess they could form a ton of new tag teams, or drop weight, but at any given time there's always going to be only like 2-3 guys around the main belt so I don't know what happens with the rest.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
Trading Fulton for Damo is the best possible direction for Sanity. Now aside from Young they're actually a Euro anarchist stable.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

extradite THIS! posted:

RAW and SD pre-shows are on the chopping block

I'm fine with PPV kickoff shows, but I don't know a single person who watches these.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

SamuraiFoochs posted:

There is no guarantee he won't go back to the Chris Hero name eventually, and it's a unique situation because he came in right before most guys kept their indy names and they might want to keep continuity instead of having to awkwardly go "THE MAN FORMERLY KNOWN AS KASSIUS OHNO, WHO WILL NOW BE KNOWN AS CHRIS HERO IS BACK!" especially on the first appearance, AND that's assuming what we saw wasn't just a dark segment where they used the old graphics because they had them.

They could easily do a reverse-Itami/Asuka where he comes in and says "I'm known here as Kassius Ohno, but I will now be known as Chris Hero".

The one I'm still miffed about is Apollo Crews. Uhaa Nation was such a badass name and if he'd held off on signing just a bit longer he probably could've kept it.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
Wait until Vince hears the dadbod physique is in. He'll be hiring all the softbodies once he hears about it, so like 2074 when he's just a head in a jar kept alive by sheer stubborn willpower.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
I can't quite explain why, but Chris Hero is a fat guy who doesn't look like he should be a fat guy, while Joe and Owens totally look like they should be fat guys.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

Blast Fantasto posted:

Still miffed hours later. If you're trying to relaunch the promption, Josh Barnett would have made a great transitional champ.

lol at anyone thinking this company will ever be salvaged and is still watching for anything but the trainwreck.

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

Basic Chunnel posted:

I hope the post-Rumble Smackdown has an Ascension match but the Broken Hardys come out as Konnor and Viktor and neither the absence of the originals or the Hardys' past are ever acknowledged

Nah, screw that. Ascension as the Broken Hardys bumbling lackeys would rule.

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sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames
2017 is the Era of BRAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUNNNNNN :black101:

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