Shima Honnou posted:

im so glad im here watching this loving trainwreck lmao

VJeff posted:

Fight Cops. Impress Your Bosses.

Dango Bango posted:

It's amazing how WWE can make someone look weak winning a title

CarlCX posted:

it would've been nice if Ruby Riott was in that Ruby Riott match

Jerusalem posted:

Why the gently caress is Corbin dominating this match?

DLC Inc posted:

If Kenny Omega signed he'd have been put in this Baron Corbin cynosure of poo poo after 4 months

Gumball Gumption posted:

Who the hell looks at Braun and goes "this man needs to do extended beat down spots so he looks like an underdog and victim"

DLC Inc posted:

LOL @ the crowd standing there in silence

MotU posted:

3 Man Bland

IDONTPOST posted:

how in a match where ya have two loving stinkers hardy and orton do you eliminate samoa joe first huh????

Jerusalem posted:

_{..... kofi.....}

Little Mac posted:

They say wins and losses don't matter but Kofi was just an upper midcard dude last week. Then he won like three times in a row on Smackdown and he's the second most over person in the building.

AsInHowe posted:

Lost in the Kofi Kingston buzz is that Corey Graves is still a dogshit human being

rare Magic card l00k posted:

So apparently there was one person backstage who really, really wanted Becky/Ronda at Mania, but everyone else shouted at him until he agreed to go Charlotte/Ronda/Becky (these people didn't even want Becky winning the Rumble).

That person was Vince McMahon.

Everything is going to better when the people who insisted Charlotte be pushed over Becky Lynch have control, guys.

Incessant Excess posted:

I hope they add Lacey Evans and make it a 4-way.

uncurable mlady posted:

https://twitter.com/bryanalvarez/status/1097291680108097536

OctoberCountry posted:

So are her bosses

Raskolnikov38 posted:

lmao this company is doomed

rovert posted:

Chyna confirmed

Jerusalem posted:

[*] Ronda Rousey obliterated Ruby Riott in a few minutes to retain her title.

Davros1 posted:

VJeff posted:

Yeah well WWE doesn't watch Cavauro television

Aphrodite posted:

Someone in PYF got mad being forced to face the fact Spaceballs isn't a very good movie, then I discovered I no longer have that GIF.

Intruder posted:

Why is anyone surprised that Ruby Riott who has been basically a geek her entire Raw tenure got squashed by Ronda Rousey

rovert posted:

Waiting for someone to report it but WWE broke up Lashley and Lio Rush as there is a lot of heat on Lio. Apparently, Bobby has gone to bat for him/saved his job a few times.

PWInsider's Mike Johnson posted:

I can tell you behind the scenes there were not a lot of people surprised at that and not a lot of people surprised that Lio took the pin. There are times Lio has a reputation for rubbing people, including other workers, the wrong way.

BGrifter posted:

I've been watching so much 90s WCW lately all I can hear is Mike Tenay's voice talking about "the biggest stars from New Japan Pro Wrestling/the biggest stars in Mexico" 30 seconds before they get squashed by Buff Bagwell.

Gaz-L posted:

Triple H: "We won't call anyone up unless we have at least 3 months of storyline and a bunch of vignettes promoting them?"
Also Triple H: "Here's some guys we assume you all know despite us having measurable proof that only 20% of you watch NXT".

No Irish Need Imply posted:

hes chasing happiness by quitting, how is he not a face

Hiram posted:

What in the gently caress is going on

Drew McIntyre posted:

absolute utter silence lmao

pressedbunny posted:

How can you not love middle-aged men pretending to be 15?

sportsgenius86 posted:

Wow you picked a bad night to start watching WWE

Jiro posted:

Jesus, Black, Ciampa, Gargano, AND Richochet are actually called up???? This is the loving stupidest way to have done it bar none.

surf rock posted:

lol, the "moody" Aleister Black. Sounds real cool.

Big Queefy posted:

It never fails to dawn on me that Our greatest hope for fixing the inconsistencies of the company is the guy who hosed Katie Vick’s corpse.

Big Queefy posted:

What’s the point

Spiderdrake posted:

I don't understand either.

I'm sure Angry Grimace or whoever will bust in through the wall to explain to us why Vince's plan makes perfect sense though as the crowd falls asleep.

Infidel Castro posted:

That's it?

pressedbunny posted:

Squashed one night; have your finisher kicked out of twice the next.

Now your stable is beaten up 1-on-3.

They could at least try to make the Riott Squad look like a threat. That's three paycheques being flushed down the toilet right there.

Jerusalem posted:

Oh gently caress I only just realized that was the end of the show, hahaha

karmicknight posted:

Isn't this the time of year things are supposed to be happening?

Professor Funk posted:

Wait this is hilarious and I want to know more

bradzilla posted:

Face Bray vs Heel Bryan is actually kinda intriguing, but not at the expense of the K O F I T R A I N

Raskolnikov38 posted:

owens and sami were also listed as possible opponents which are probably way more likely but bray is the worst choice so that's what will happen

Rarity posted:

Is it just me or does it feel like outside the two main events WWE has no clue what it wants to do with this year's Mania. Normally the card is leaked in January and feuds are starting up but this year just feels like a clusterfuck.

No Irish Need Imply posted:

Don't forget they stumbled upon a good story, then ignored it

fatherofmustard posted:

So is Kofi losing at Fastlane before winning at WM or what?

sportsgenius86 posted:

Lol this company literally held a loving mandatory seminar about the importance of using social media and how to get yourself over with it and then Zack Ryder went and did it and they said “lol not you”

And some people STILL try to find ways to defend the company and put blame on talent.

OctoberCountry posted:

Then they immediately made him the Authority's "enforcer" who got no mic time and Triple H got to start using the Bad News catch phrase instead

Jerusalem posted:

Lacey's current thing of walking in and out again feels like they're doing the Emmalina storyline again but this time with a wrestler who won't go,"This is dumb and I'm gonna half-rear end this so much that you eventually give up on it."

Dias posted:

WWE as a whole is kinda bad at using these types of dudes, which is weird when they have to book five hours of live television a week.

Prokhor Zakharov posted:

Remember when WWE said they were gonna have a mandatory meeting about racism and then it was just Trips saying "do your racisms away from where people can see and don't put it on Instagram" lmfao

That DICK! posted:

Lacey, mojo and Nia, all fit in a subcategory of wrestlers who have been determined to have “It” by WWE management and seem to think because of that they already know what there is to know about wrestling and won’t try to improve.

STAC Goat posted:

I just assume Mojo is there because WWE somehow thinks Gronk's knees can survive wrestling training.

rovert posted:

With the deepest respect to all of you you'd have to be aggressively dense not to see the potential in Lacey Evans on the levels that WWE operates:

https://www.wwe.com/shows/wwenxt/article/introducing-lacey-evans-lady-of-nxt

http://whatculture.com/wwe/wwe-nxt-star-lacey-evans-loses-home-to-hurricane-irma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjJJ0pu8UG4

You can go back to aggressive excuse making and projections on the WWE audience now.

Hollywood Reporter posted:

Chris Hemsworth will star as wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan in a biopic that reunites Todd Phillips with Scott Silver, the respective director and writer of the upcoming DC Comics movie, The Joker.

Deals for the Hogan project are in the midst of closing with Netflix. Producing will be Michael Sugar, the Academy Award winner behind Spotlight who will produce via his Netflix-based Sugar23, and Phillips and Bradley Cooper who will produce via their banner, Joint Effort. Also producing will be Hemsworth and Eric Bischoff.

SI posted:

Rob Van Dam’s new documentary, “Headstrong”, offers a fascinating look at Van Dam as a person and performer.

The original premise of the hour-long documentary was to reveal an inside look at a week of Van Dam’s comedy shows, but that soon turned into a vehicle for the aspiring comedian to share his thoughts on pro wrestling, concussions, and a look into his soul.

“At first, we were going to make a documentary of seven days of comedy shows,” said Van Dam. “But I couldn’t have predicted that, on day one, I would still have concussion symptoms from a wrestling match I’d had days earlier. I just thought it would go away and I wouldn’t tell anyone, because I normally wouldn’t, but it became something that I had to share.”

quote:

The concussion caused Van Dam to suffer from blurred vision during the documentary, and he openly discussed the reality of brain injuries in wrestling.

“There were times I had to close one eye so I wouldn’t see double during the documentary,” said Van Dam. “But I took pride in how hard I could take a hit. That was my mentality.

“I came into the business at 185 pounds when I met the original Sheik, and I had to prove to him I was tough enough for his school. It is a fighting art, and it was important to me, as a performer and artist, to show the boys in the back that they couldn’t survive the toughness of a match with RVD.”

Van Dam did not consider or concern himself with the possibility that WWE will not approve of the documentary.

“I’ve never even thought about that, and I won’t,” said Van Dam. “It is what it is. We are living tomorrow’s history, so it’s really important to me that I get it right. I don’t want anyone else giving their spin on me, it should come from me. Like Popeye said, ‘I am what I am.’”

The documentary also explores Van Dam’s spiritual vibration (“The higher I get my frequency, the better person I can be,” said Van Dam. “And I always want to be at my best.”) and reveals that he has pledged to donate his brain and spine to study after his death, all while showcasing his witty sense of humor.

Draxion posted:

Hey Ricochet being on the main roster is actually a terrible thing now because it's robbing me of a Ricochet/Orange Cassidy match at Evolve next month (he's being replaced by Dream, which is still very cool tbh).

Incessant Excess posted:

How does this compare to the boost Raw had?

OctoberCountry posted:

Hell, I'm hoping for it