sek69
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No doubt Hunter sees Shane as a threat to all the effort he put in to making sure he's in control of the company post Vince. -
This paragraph elicited a lol from me: Except of course for the times where Vince instructs his performers to do just that.
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To be fair, you kind of have to grade on a sliding scale when you had guys who were open KKK members in those days. Casual n-word usage seems kind of tame by comparison. It all looks bad with 2016 optics, but there is a "element of their time" aspect to it as well.
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I mean, I just don't see how anyone could look at Butch Reed (as good as he was) and think he'd be on the short list to be world champion unless it was a 2 week angle kind of deal.
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Well she did tip off Pat Patterson that George Zahorian was "hot", which helped Vince beat the steroid rap. That helped their success a lot.
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Well it would be interesting since she trumpets her role in growing the company if it came out how they kneecapped JCP by strongarming the cable companies into not airing their PPVs at the risk of not getting access to Wrestlemania. The pick absolutely deserves ridicule since the entire administration she's joining is the most woefully unqualified in history.
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Every Trump nominee facing more scrutiny than normal (does anyone even know who the current head of the SBA is?) doesn't bode well for WWE and their usual MO of their business practices sliding under the radar because "it's just that fake rasslin stuff".
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The Miz continues to be excellent. I loved him coming out for the post PPV Miz TV segment and asking the crowd "no "You Deserve It" chants?".
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Announced as the pick today. Deadspin already has an article up talking about how WWE benefits from their wrestlers being independent contractors, so this might end up causing a backlash.
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My kid's four. I put him down as a 6 out of 10 since he doesn't really know what wrestling is either but he likes it when he sees it on the TV.
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I'd love to see a breakdown of votes to see how many people view Total Divas/Bellas as must have programming. They always keep the viewing numbers close to the vest but it seems clear no one gives a shit about their wanna-be TV programming since none of their created series seem to last more than a season.
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I got that survey, I can only wonder the troll responses that will come as a result with WWE thinking their most popular stars are James Ellsworth and Liv Morgan.
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They finished the 2011 uploads so the entire run of Raw is up except for the Raw Bowl episode that apparently ran afoul of the copyright gods for some reason.
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Seems people are being just a tad hyperbolic over Sting. No, he's not the best candidate but he's far from the worst. Definitely not a guy to act like the sky is falling over.
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It's so weird that backdrop of all things is a deal breaker for a lot of people when that's been a spot in wrestling since the beginning of time.
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I wonder if there's anything to be said about people who were fans as kids who get kind of peer-pressured out of being fans. If you were unlucky enough to come of age in a time period where it was uncool to watch, there was a definite stigma attached to watching that dumb rasslin stuff.
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Nearly everyone I know who used to be a fan and isn't now stopped watching because their favorites left. My wife was a big fan during the Attitude Era but once Rock left/was just part time her interest dropped dramatically. She'll still go with me if I go to a show but it's more her taking one for the team rather than any interest on her part. Most of the people I was friends with growing up stopped watching the WWF after the Hogan/Savage/Warrior era ended too. People get attached to the guys who first got them interested and if/when they leave, it's just the crazies like us who keep watching. I think it's probably part of why current WWE tries so hard to make the company the main draw rather than the wrestlers. Among other reasons, in theory it would stop people from drifting away when their favorite left.
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I was watching Survivor Series with a friend who's a longtime fan but not a real inside/smart/whatever you want to call it type fan. When Roman hit the crucifix powerbomb for 2 he wondered aloud why would you do a move like that if it's not going to pin someone. So I wouldn't say it would ruin the business, but it does seem to create diminishing returns in terms of what guys can do do try to get a match over with the crowd. Plus, I'd say the garbage wrestling fad of the 90s did more actual harm than pandering to the "this is awesome" chanters today.
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It's starting to become hilarious how irrationally angry some people are getting over crowd chants these days. I mean, yeah sometimes they can get a little eye rolling, but folks are acting like these chants are destroying the business.
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On the other hand, Rusev is amazing on Twitter.