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I guess Meltzer has a 100% success rate on his stories now because you'd have to just be crazy to think maybe something didn't happen exactly the way he reported it.
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If Kurt's son is such a huge Braun fan then why didn't Kurt already get his son an autograph considering how often they have been backstage around each other since Kurt came back?
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Yea adding that stipulation feels like more of a "let's work everyone into thinking SummerSlam is Brock's last match" thing than a way to actually write him out.
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If you're not gonna sell a injured body part at the end of the match don't spend the first 2/3rds having it get worked over. If you can't figure out another way to "kill time" then ask for a shorter match. Spending a ton of time working a body part just to shrug it off when it's time to go into the finishing stretch is like having someone lose their arm in the first part of an action movie but magically have it grow back in time for the final shootout.
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People are all mad about Cena "killing" The Nexus but the real casualty out of that whole thing was Drew McIntyre because when The Nexus attacked Vince and took him off of TV that killed Drew's "Chosen One" push on Smackdown and he never recovered.
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It didnt seem like WWE wanted the tag team to be sucessful. When they came in they were immediately entered into the tag tournament and didnt even win it because all WWE wanted to do was push Gotch/English. Yea you're definitely not remembering all of the circumstances there.
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Bray is really trying hard to compete with Dolph Ziggler for "most tired act in WWE that needs to just go the hell away" People have kept wanting to compare him to Kevin Sullivan but guess what? Sullivan's shit got old after a while too and he had to move on to a different territroy while Bray is going to be the same shitty tired act for close to another decade.
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Hashtags are a pretty weak form of protest and WWE has made it clear they don't care so I think it's time for someone to just step up and self immolate in front of Titan Towers to stop the Roman Reigns push and get Vince to go away and retire.
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How do you make a comeback when you were FORCED to retire in the first place? Unless he's gonna wrestle somewhere else and I don't get the sense he would want to go slum it in GFW or ROH, especially considering how unhappy he looked when he got inducted into TNA's Hall of Fame.
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Pretty much. Does anyone think Vince when he hears about it, he'd be happy with Braun? He was rude to a mother and child asking for an autograph AND then grovelled to a GFW employer? No chance Braun gets booked over Reigns now, if there ever was a chance to begin with. I feel embarrassed reading this post and you should feel embarrassed that you typed it out.
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WWE does not own the St. Louis library then you have stuff like the Savoldi collection that has a lot of different stuff in it and the PM Films collection owned by the Martinez family that has stuff like Southwest and a lot of other odds and ends in it. Bruce Tharpe did say that he'd had other people reach out to him when he started the site & try to sell him their tape libraries but that he didn't have the time or resources to handle anymore than what he was already doing with Houston.
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If you do that EVERY time with EVERY title it'd be pretty damn boring.
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I agree with the people saying Houston footage being owned by WWE would be worse and not better. They're releasing full TV shows in order and nothing seems to indicate that they can do that with the Houston footage. Not to mention that a lot of the matches we got on NWAOnDemand wasn't played on TV so if they even did manage to put together the TVs and upload them we'd still miss out on a lot of stuff. I don't see any reason to believe that if WWE had gotten the Houston footage instead of Bruce Tharpe that we'd have seen more on WWE Network than what we've gotten from NWAOnDemand, I imagine it would be a LOT less.
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I don't really know why people hate title changes so much. Not every title reign needs to be long and full of successful title defenses, especially if you're trying to do a feud between two wrestlers who are supposed to be equals and it would make sense that either one of them could win on any given night. The Southern Title in Memphis used to change VERY frequently and it's not like that ever stopped people from caring about it. Having a title change hands frequently doesn't devalue it, having it disappear and never get defended is what devalues a title which we've seen happen somewhat regularly with the U.S. Title and at least that's not happening now.
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Between the Sheets #105 (July 19-25, 1984) (Featuring Beau James)
goc replied to KrisZ's topic in Publications and Podcasts
I guess I'm biased from having good interactions with Beau on twitter and also being a huge Southeastern/Continental fan but I always love when Beau is on the show. -
Meltzer hasn't been that good of a source for WWE in a while but people just go along with his "When I'm wrong, it's because Vince changed his mind" excuse. Sportskeeda guy isn't exactly perfect either considering in May he said Randy Orton was going to have a long title run and that Kevin Owens was wearing a suit because Vince hated his body and he was even going to make him WRESTLE in the suit.
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Yes. Nobody is going to miss Vince when he's gone more than Dave Meltzer because when Dave is wrong about something he'll no longer be able to just hand wave it away as "Vince changed his mind"
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That's not possible because he officially retired from MMA in February which stopped his suspension with 5 months left.
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When? Where? Every time I've seen her come out on Raw it's been to dead silence (and I like Mickie but it is what it is)
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I'm pretty sure I read a recap of Baron Corbin on Jericho's podcast that said Vince gave him more freedom in his promos on Smackdown BECAUSE of how he did on Talking Smack which goes against the whole "evil Vince killed it because he hates everything good and fun" thing. But of course people gotta stick to the tried and true narrative that Vince = 100% bad and HHH = 100% good so maybe Vince DID decide all on his own that Talking Smack needed to die but the real reason was because the pact with Satan required a new sacrifice to prolong Vince's lifespan.
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YMMV on how seriously you want to take him but that's pretty much what rovert said it was on twitter.
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What evidence do we have that they really LOST this audience instead of considering that the audience shifted their viewing habits? People love saying they lost "20% of the audience over the last year" yet where else is this showing up except live cable ratings? They didn't lose 20% of Network subscribers, 20% of ticket buyers, social media engagement isn't down 20%, I've seen nothing to say that merchandise sales are down 20% from last year so that doesn't really seem to hold up to scrutiny.
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Live cable ratings are NEVER going to make some big rebound. It's not going to happen in an era with cord cutting, DVRs, Hulu, youtube highlights, Sling TV, etc etc. The downward ratings trend has been going on since 2002. Despite their ratings drop they still have 2 of the top highest rated shows on cable so that tells you it's not like they're falling while everything else around them has been holding steady or going up. Isn't it a case that more and more younger people have new, more convenient ways to watch than tuning in live though? Not to defend them as Rollins, in particular, had a total business tanking quality run on top but aren't TV ratings meaning less and less these days? This. People can say "numbers don't lie" all they want but it's not a primary audience of old men that we see in live crowds at events or talking about WWE on twitter and facebook. Even the people I follow on twitter that are in their 20s and live tweet Raw or Smackdown are watching by some kind of stream and not live cable.
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Why would one assume that the people who are in the crowds make up the majority opinion about Raw instead of thinking that maybe they are a hardcore minority of people who spend tons of money going to shows? I'd trust the hard numbers more than I would fickle crowds who boo Roman and supposedly want someone else in his spot yet chant CM Punk while Sami Zayn is in the ring in a talking segment or play with a beach ball during a cruiserweight match. And before someone says something about how they might alienate their fans by pushing someone those fans "reject" let's not discount signs that say "I came to boo Roman Reigns" the fact that we already saw that didn't happen with John Cena or that a lot of "I'm a smart, REAL wrestling fan!" are actually really stupid and are the types of people who buy tickets so they can go and attempt to "hijack" the show with chants.