Grimmas

Is WWE a monopoly? Yes Are wrestlers being trained properly? Yes Has WWE philosophy on smaller guys changed? Yes Can a wrestler make a living without WWE? Yes What is the role of selling in wrestling in this day and age? Just as important as ever, the most important. What is the Performance Center's impact on future generations? Better trained wrestlers for WWE.

What's the roster cap at officially?

BINGO! Mystery is what is missing among other things. And storylines that actually develop instead of just a hot angle and then three months of no progress and three PPV matches that are carbon copies of each other. Smackdown has been pretty good building long term storylines and even has a current mystery (who attacked Nikki).

Ray Mendoza has been named head trainer of CMLL and has announced his first student in Miguel Perez Jr. from Puerto Rico. Mendoza thinks Perez has great promise and an interesting look and it helps that he is the son of the legendary Miguel Perez, who is one of the greatest draws in the history of Madison Square Gardens. Perez Jr. will start with some smaller arenas, but don't be surprised if he wrestles at Arena Mexico by summer time.

I can't handle 20 titles and wanted the fresh start with the new name, that came from leaving the NWA.

That should be fine. Just take Migeul Yes!! A really nice undercard up and coming rudo to join the roster.

Can I get in on this, there is a few people there who worked in CMLL and they would be cool to have. EDIT: or... Migeul Perez Jr. is left and undrafted, can I take him?

Big news coming out of Emresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) during their annual Christmas break. Everything started when Salvador "Chavo" Lutteroth Jr. retired as promoter leaving his nephew Paco Alonso (grandson of Salvador Lutteroth) to take over. Alonso made great waves immediately by mending fences with Francisco Flores and Ray Mendoza who had left in 1975 to form Lucha Libre Internacional (later called UWA). EMLL and UWA will be united under one banner as Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). CMLL also pulled out of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and no longer recognizes their champions. This new era deserves a new legacy, and the NWA is now in our past. The Mexican National Champions will be the titles recognized by the CMLL going forward. This leaves a lot of excitement in the air for the next Super Viernes (Super Friday) on January 4th, 1985 at Arena Mexico with new talent and new leadership. It may take several Fridays before we know what this new CMLL is all about. Paco Alonso made it clear the schedules would remain the same and Super Viernes would remain the biggest show of the week, with the highlights airing on Television on Sunday afternoons.

Yep, sounds good. Way under the 46 limit, as CMLL runs about a 5 match card consisting of trios, which is 30 people. So more like a 34 person roster. As long as I don't have to run things, and write the shows mostly only, I am good. More than that, is too much time for me, unfortunately.

I'd personally love to have Mexico involved. We'd have to work out a few kinks but I'd be all for it. I'd be cool with maybe like one foreigner, so it's not too bad. Rosters are untouched in this game, so it's an easy start. Just let me know roster limits or whatever.

Question? Would anyone object if I take UWA/CMLL merge them and run Mexico as one promotion in 1985? You'd get one Arena Mexico show a week, filled with trios and the occasional angle leading to a hair or mask match.

Maybe... let's just cut it down to America, and drop foreign promotions? If I get ECW and life is not crazy anymore, I can do weekly shows.

Cable subscribers in Canada were cut byv25% last year.

There is a whole section of the board dedicated to that, with threads on each individual. Plus podcasts by about 20 folks giving their individual lists. Enjoy the read and listen.

Why? That was reportedly the reason he was fired in the first place. In this particular instance, it's a relevant topic to bring up. Looks like he's not signed anyway (unless he's swerving everyone with his tweet), so moot point. If he is signed, I can't see him returning as KO, for obvious reasons. Hopefully they'd let him be Chris Hero this time. That was rumoured, it wasn't about weight after the story came out. Did you joint he board after May? We did two years of debate and discussion before voting on that list.

http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/topic/33853-greatest-wrestler-ever-master-rankings-list-do-not-post-in-this-thread/ 107) Low Ki (2046 points, 58 ballots, 66.00 avg, high: 2 - Mando>Eddie, 2006: honorable mention) 106) Sean Waltman (2073 points, 68 ballots, 70.51 avg, high: 23 - topropepodcast, 2006: honorable mention) 105) Akira Maeda (2113 points, 52 ballots, 60.37 avg, high: 13 - anonymous, 2006: 61) 104) Chris Hero (2148 points, 52 ballots, 56.69 avg, high: 18 - Mrzfn, 2006: honorable mention) 103) Carlos Colon (2185 points, 56 ballots, 61.98 avg, high: 12 - El Boricua, 2006: honorable mention) 102) Christian (2220 points, 56 ballots, 61.36 avg, high: 17 - ShittyLittleBoots, 2006: unranked) 101) The Rock (2228 points, 57 ballots, 61.93 avg, high: 8 - anonymous, 2006: 64) I guess he's only the 104th GWE...

The first thing I see when I see a picture of Chris Hero is an all time great wrestler. If you don't see a problem with calling someone who is healthy fat, then we have nothing to talk about.

Not true at all. What I original said was it's insane that Heros' body is the first comment someone would make about him being signed. I did mention calling him overweight or whatever is really stupid. First he looks like an ass kicker and second, what does over weight mean. There is no number that makes someone under weight or over weight. Hero is a great athlete (can do 3 hour matches) and his ring work is the best in the world. If Hero lost 10, 20, 30, 40, or whatever pounds, would he be healthier? Who knows, what does his blood work show? Jumping to the conclusion that skinnier is healthier is just wrong.

Except the all time great Regal match. Also NXT/WWE are completely different now then at that time. Let's hope they use him well, but I can't imagine they would sign him or he would sign if they weren't going to.

Ok, yeah Chris Hero will be in a bodysuit. He will be forced to lose 60 pounds before he debuts, even if it's through unhealthy lifestyle and will make him less healthy. You are right, I am wrong. Great job. The thing I don't get is, this super talent who is, perhaps, the greatest indie wrestler of all time. Who placed in the top 120 for GWE got signed by the WWE and the first thing people say is, boy he's fat. WTF is wrong with people? They signed Hero, because Hero is great. They didn't say lose the weight before they signed him or anything, which they easily could have. They have people like Damo, Joe, Owens, who people call fat too. WWE is a different beast then even two years ago. Fuck Ibushi comes in and just works tournaments. Maybe they signed Hero just to embarrass fat people, but I doubt that. I don't see why his weight would be #1 on anyone's mind. The guy wrestled 3 hour long matches this year, he's in great shape.

Fun facts: AJ Styles didn't change from indies. Samoa Joe didn't change from indies. Nakamura didn't change from NJPW. Bullet Club didn't change from NJPW. Everyone in the CWC except Mascara Dorada didn't change from indies. Why is Hero going to be changed? Bringing up Emma, do we know if this is something pushed on her or something she pushed for?

Again with this bullshit? Heidi gets signed. Will she be in a mask? Hero gets signed. Will he get a bodysuit? What is wrong with you people?

My review is here. https://prowrestlingsuperblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/11/evolve-74-review/

How dare you, don't you understand everything is the worst!

Learned a lot since then.