The WWE Thread

[AndyDiaz]

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Why the fuck did SJ and all the tourists not get this Rollins vs. Neville match four months ago?

[dhads7161]

Why the fuck did SJ and all the tourists not get this Rollins vs. Neville match four months ago?

Because the people the next week did.

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Why the fuck did SJ and all the tourists not get this Rollins vs. Neville match four months ago?

Because the people the next week did.

No, those people got an Angle vs. Cena 2002-style match.

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Exactly who in WWE thought it was a good idea to have them lose the tag titles? They are a fool.

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Observer:

Keep this story in mind for about a year from now, but WWE and the Brooklyn Cyclones are working together on WWE Night at their ballpark on 8/19, which is three days before the Cyclones host an ROH event head-to-head with the NXT show. Ryback, Fandango, Eva Marie and Charlotte will appear at the game and also play in a celebrity softball game that includes people like Chris Mullin and John Franco.

The WWE debuted the name The Submission Sorority for Charlotte, Lynch and Paige on Raw, but that may be short-lived. The company didn't do its research and quickly found out that was the name of a porn site. I've heard it could be changed to Submission Sisters and the idea of Horsewomen has always been thrown around although that would be stepping on Ronda Rousey's toes.

There has also been talk internally regarding the added emphasis on women to create a Divas tag team title. I'm not against it, but they would really be a lot better off in the long run dropping the Divas name, because that in and of itself is exactly the opposite direction of what is working in society as far as the increased popularity of women's sports in the U.S. and the Rousey phenomenon.

Apparently the rocket on Lana's ass, so to speak, is about to be switched to Eva Marie per the people at the top. To Eva Marie's credit, she is busting her own ass in training now but they are going with the storyline of the woman that everyone shunned and made fun of for being so bad who works hard and makes herself into a superstar.

A few more notes on the 2002 idea of Lesnar as a gay kickass character. While Brian Solomon was involved in the formation of the idea, the person who actually pitched the writing team on the idea was Aaron Feigenbaum, who at the time wrote for WWE magazine under the name Aaron Williams. The actual idea came from Dr. J. Kober Zehner. Solomon and Feigenbaum then tried to develop the idea. Stephanie McMahon wasn't there the first time the idea was pitched. The people it was pitched to were the lead writers at the time, Paul Heyman, Brian Gewirtz and Seth Mates. Heyman was not at all receptive to the idea and kept responding to every pitch Feigenbaum made saying, "What? You want to turn HIM gay?" Lesnar had already debuted as a killer at the time Zehner came up with the idea and Feigenbaum and Solomon came up with it. He was already established to the audience as a badass, which was one of the reasons they thought the idea would work. Once Feigenbaum was in a conversation with John Layfield (this was when Layfield was just a mid-level wrestler in the promotion before he was remade as John Bradshaw Layfield, the J.R. Ewing like singles star), and Layfield laughed at him and said, "You tell that to Brock." Lesnar would have likely hated it, and probably for good reason since it would have blown up in any one of ten different ways, whether it be the older people in charge crapping on it to the point they'd make sure it would fail, to Lesnar likely hating it to it being an embarrassment because Lesnar had made some anti-gay remarks in the media just a few years earlier that would have come back to bite WWE had he taken that role. And he never would have taken the role and Vince, paying him as much as he was at the time, wouldn't have allowed it anyway. But an excerpt of the pitch said: "Of all the possible Superstars, it appears that Brock Lesnar may have the most potential to reach that number. He's physically dominant, has impeccable credentials concerning believability, and because he is new and relatively unknown, his character can be crafted easily. His ascension could also raise the scores of other Superstars with whom he feuds. The following possible scenario to increase Brock's ability to grow the industry is radical. It's unprecedented and may appear crazy at first. There are risks involved, but if it works, it has Austin/McMahon like potential. The solution: Turn Brock Gay. Everything else about him stays the same. He's pushed in a traditional babyface manner. He's not the stereotypical Billy/Chuck character. He's Brock. He continues to annihilate people. He's just gay. It has to be presented as completely real, especially in the beginning."

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On my way to Everett.

Spoiler: show

PWSpyware reports Danielson is backstage.

[bik100]

DB should be some sort of authority figure on TV tbh.

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Excellent live experience tonight, especially sitting behind a celebrity that actually gives a shit. More details tomorrow and I look forward to what will hopefully be a celebratory hangover when Raw returns here on February 8... the day after Super Bowl 50. (That'd be a great event to announce D-Bry being cleared too as the cherry on top.)

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Stephen Amell is the best.

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SEATTLE = RATINGS

WWE News: Raw ratings best in nearly two months

Tuesday, 11 August 2015 14:03

Last night's Raw did 3.84 million viewers, up four percent from last week. It was the most viewers since June 15, which was the show immediately after the death of Dusty Rhodes.

It was the second highest rated show for the night, behind Major Crimes on TNT.

The three hours were:

8 p.m. 3.79 million viewers

9 p.m. 3.95 million viewers

10 p.m. 3.78 million viewers

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http://www.foxsports.com/buzzer/story/r ... lam-081215

Reigns on whether we'll see The Rock at SummerSlam:
"I wanna tell you, but I don't want to give anything away."

http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-top- ... urn-to-wwe

Later he said, "Let's just put it this way: It's The Rock, Dwayne Johnson, biggest superstar on Earth, possibly. If he wants to show up to Brooklyn, he's going to show up to Brooklyn. It wouldn't be the first time and it probably won't be the last time. It'sw WWE. Anything can happen."

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WWE News: Amell injured in training

Friday, 14 August 2015 15:28

Stephen Amell, who is scheduled for a tag team match at SummerSlam, was injured in doing a weight workout this morning.

According to a video he posted, Amell was doing a snatch, which is a lift where you take the bar from the floor to overhead without pausing at the shoulders (which would be a clean and jerk or clean and press). When doing the lift, he ended up smashing the bar into his jaw.

He suffered a cracked jaw, his molars were indented into his tongue and his tongue was swollen. No word on how this may or may not affect his match next week.

[IchaelMelgin]

"You have no idea what you're getting yourself into" - HHH

[ryanraze]

It had a fantastic main event. It was crazy seeing those 4 in the ring together in a main event.

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Jon Stewart hosting Summerslam sounds fun. He cut a good promo on RAW.

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It's good to see involved celebrities that give a shit.

[DXvsNWO1994]

It's good to see involved celebrities that give a shit.

The one thing I've always thought about WWE and celebrity involvement is that, if they're going to use them, why not use celebrities who are actually fans of wrestling, like Stephen Amell & Jon Stewart. It just makes it so much better because, like you said, they actually give a shit.