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Benne posted:The New Day act has been stale as gently caress for at least 3 years now so I'd argue that they legit have "nowhere else to go." Big E going singles is the first interesting thing they've done since Kofi's title reign. I love how you say they have nowhere to go, then immediately mention the place they are going with it. But they were forced to do it due to injury, like all things WWE
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bartok posted:Does USA not have any original programming anymore? I thought Psych, Mr. Robot, and that Purge series were pretty decent. USA should spend that WWE money on finding a new Monk. Which is why WWE will fail upward with contract renewals since USA needs to keep WWE to remain relevant.
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I mean, a google search says he's worth $320 Million, and he put up half the money for the XFL, so $7.5 Million I'm curious as to what he is going to do with it. There is no way you can make your money back unless you revive it, right?
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1glitch0 posted:Yeah and maybe I'm missing some context (doubt it), but the question is.... Why is this happening? Within storyline why is this happening? Shane just decided to start a fight club and got WWE cameramen to come to it? Vince or HHH just allows it to happen? Are they happy about it? Angry? Why put it on their show? Why spend weeks building things up when you can just jump right in? Not that this thing would be any better if it stretched out for weeks where you see performance center people going into this back room that was guarded by a tall dude, had a week where you had a glimpse inside by accident, and then finally invited the cameras in the third week. But there is no anticipation. They showed what it was and the concept was executed so horribly that I can't see a reason to see what happens next. Okay, so Hurt Company has taken over? So... Lashley and Shelton are just going to destroy jobbers next week? Or is Hurt Company done since they beat up all the jobbers?
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I did not watch NXT, but should I be surprised that the opening and closing matches both run 20 minutes and end via interference or distractions? Only time there is ever a clean finish to a match these days is when the winner is obvious from the start. Why should I tune in for this garbage again?
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Lid posted:Pat Buck is feuding with Nia Jax in a segment that was worse than the fight club segments. This raw should be in a museum. Who the gently caress is Pat Buck?
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Where's the guy that bought WWE Calls before the last earnings call? How's that working out?
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So of course another opening match that goes to 8:20pm and ends in a DQ. gently caress this poo poo. Edit: which results in Sheamus DQing Corbin, and the Riddle helping Sheamus. Like literally 42 minutes of segments all decided by gently caress finishes. Edit 2: seriously, the only match that had a clean finish was Cesaro vs. Lince Dorado. This company only gives clean finishes when the result doesn’t matter Astro7x fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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Why do we care about the masked people who’s names we don’t know scaring off the performance center recruits who’s names we do not know?
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Chris James 2 posted:Raw and SD combined had 11 matches This is why I can't stand WWE. The matches are not good because they're just killing time for 15 minutes until someone runs in or the gently caress finish happens. I simply can't get into these matches anymore. Attitude Era did the same poo poo, but the matches were 3 minutes long and didn't have two commercial breaks. It was forgivable. This is just annoying with the constant gently caress finishes
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Aug 8, 2020 15:59
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Intruder posted:Someone must have told Shane he was getting made fun of for "That's good that's good!" because I didn't hear him say it this week This weeks raw was taped last week, so they would have had to edit out his live mic, all in a response to internet trolls. Highly unlikely
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1glitch0 posted:I was at that show. I think it's the worst match I've ever seen live. Is that one of those things where you realize how bad it was as it was happening? At least you got to see Goldberg/DDP without spoilers and feeds cutting out.
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I am sure the virtual fans will look great with all the whip pans and zooms with WWE's camera work https://twitter.com/FOXSports/status/1286281346390740993 If they don't put a guy front and center with a green shirt, I'll be disappointed
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Aug 13, 2020 22:53
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Reading the news about WWE leasing out the Amway Center for virtual fans, and adding 2,500 square feet of LED boards... we're not that far away from the show looking like WWE2K20's Wrestlemania 2029 arena with LED barricades and virtual fans
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So they did the same thing Monday as well, where they led up to the big moment to end the show and then cut the light? Like, JFC... it's like someone got this great idea to do this so they had to do it again.CarlCX posted:Bayley, Sasha and Asuka all rule, and whatever they do will rule, but it was already a salient point that the WWE had put every single women's championship on the main roster into the Bayley/Sasha angle and wrapping both of them up with a single challenger only makes that feel worse. It is the only good thing Raw/SD has going for it is the title feud. But it kind of sucks when you realize that WWE in almost incompetent of writing women's feuds around things other than the title, so 3 belts for 8 people is boiled down to just 3.
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I was wondering what NXT is looking like next week since its' unopposed to AEW Second Chance Qualifying Match: Johnny Gargano vs. Ridge Holland Second Chance Qualifying Match: The Velveteen Dream vs. Finn Balor Six-man Tag-Team Match: Santos Escobar , Raul Mendoza, Joaquin Wilde) Vs. Isaiah "Swerve" Scott and Breezango's Tyler Breeze and Fandango Adam Cole and Pat McAfee will go Face-to-Face Nothing about that makes me want to turn in. Who the hell is Ridge Holland?
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Are Roman and Sami the only ones deciding to sit out right now? I assume some talent have travel restrictions
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Edge & Christian posted:I looked it up and here's a complete list of everyone listed on the Raw & Smackdown talent pages on WWE.com who haven't been on TV in at least a month: Good summary. Yeah, I think Roman and Sami are the only ones willingly sitting out. I think Carmella may be in Retribution or a 'creative has nothing for you' place.
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Codependent Poster posted:Sasha and Bayley seem like they're having the time of their lives right now. They were unhappy not too long ago. So I guess that shows that if WWE actually lets you have input that you'll be happy. They gave two friends the two main titles and the tag titles, TV time across Raw, Smackdown and sometimes NXT, working less dates with no house shows and TV tapings, both working a program with the only other women on the main roster that can go... yeah, they're probably peaking right now.
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Rick posted:E: honestly all irony aside Raw Underground is a welcome break from the rest of the show. Like okay these people are gonna have a bad worked fight for 30 seconds. It’s simple. I think it serves its purpose of getting to the point of a segment much quicker by not having an actual match. Like the Nia thing... okay, so if it was in the ring, one of the MMA horsewomen would have a match, entrance and all, beat up some jobber for about 7 minutes. Then Nia would come out and attack her after the match, then Shayna would come out. It's like a 10-12 minute segment condensed on Raw Underground in about 2 minutes. The Dolph/Viking Raider thing, that would have easily been a 15-20 minute match with 1 or 2 commercial breaks, just to get to the loving point of setting up a match for next week against the other dude.
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So can you actually sign up for the Thunderdome thing or no?
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RealFoxy posted:I've read everything they've released on it and I still don't loving know what it is, so I'm guessing they don't either. Earlier today this was not up. Now it says they are allowing registrations. Once you register and give them your information it says registration is closed. https://www.wwethunderdome.com/ Which is why you always use your junk mail yahoo address for this poo poo and a fake name.
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Rarity posted:WWE have set down the following rules for the Virtual Fan Experience but can I wear my Nation of Domination or Retribution attire?
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Some footage of the THUNDERDOME being installed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPH-gVzZH_w&t=4s To no surprise, it's the exact same main stage used for all shows. Just surrounded by LED
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Seams posted:I’d imagine most trainees would be happy to help break down the ring after practice if you asked them (most people like to be helpful!) but it’s important to have all these silly unwritten rules just in case anybody feels comfortable at any point in time. Imagine being an actor, getting signed to a major TV show with nationwide syndication, and then you're expected to start breaking down the set when you're done filming for the day.
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Davros1 posted:The fact that's it's just a big flat wall is what gets me. Stagger them like normal arena seating. It kind of looks cool from a wide angle where you can see the screens staggered.  But the main shot just makes it look like a horrible wall of screens. I can't believe they are locked into this concept for 3 months!
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I don't know why people think there will be a 5 second delay. I can stream video to clients out of Adobe Premiere and have it be within 2 frames
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Pylons posted:You've probably got good internet for that though, right? Half of this crowd is gonna be phones and laptops. You can transmit anything in high quality near instantaneously if you're willing to pay for the fiber access to distribute it. That's on WWE's end
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It's not every seat in the arena, it's like a quarter of the lower bowl I am surprised they won't have the trainees in the front row surrounding the ring....
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Pylons posted:Part of the point of moving to the THUNDERDOME is that the coaches were getting pissed off that the trainees weren't training anymore but still getting paid. So the coaches were pissed that they were getting paid and not training people?
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explosivo posted:You can't put that genie back in the bottle, I don't see them ever treating NXT as a proper developmental program again now that it's on TV and generating even a fraction of viewers as their main shows do. I don't even know what the gently caress proper developmental is. Since they went to two hours, it's like half nobodies I do not care about mixed with some people I still care to see. It would be just like splitting the NXT show in half, and then putting the nobodies on the Network only or soemthing. WWE has this loyal fan base that will apparently watch anything they put in front of them
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What the hell is the point of booking hair vs hair if they changed it to career vs career, which just makes me think there will be some fuckery to end the match.
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Hirez posted:all ratings are dinosaur data by advertising companies to keep their profits going and keeping commercial rates up/down for their clients in their never ending cycle of profit. It really doesn't matter how many people watch your show illegally if you are not paying for PPV or watching commercials. Why would Nielson care if you are pirating the show if you are watching it without the commercials? Ratings may be a bit antiquated, but the whole business model is to track how many people are watching live commercials to sell commercials in those time slots. Yeah, there is the hope that some of those viewers convert to paying customers, but you can't exactly buy a ticket to a live show right now. Maybe those people are buying merch and video games, but unlikely.
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Taintrunner posted:God, imagine doing free labor for the WWE It's only a matter of time before they start charging fans for premium placement in the Thunderdome. I don't know... I watched Summer Slam and the Thunderdome presentation was immediately better than anything they did out of the performance center, regardless of what people are doing on the screen. If they want people to remind people to clap and move, whatever, that's on them for signing up for that bullshit where they are encouraged to sit perfectly still in a silhouette on their webcam.
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