Edwin Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Not sure where to post this, but from the UFC weight ins: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bierschwale Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 I didn't want to derail the WWE finances thread with this. Downsides and royalties for lower end guys were discussed. What exactly do main roster wrestlers who don't work house shows or TV weekly do? Are they at every event regardless? Is JTG waiting by the phone for the next time he'll be used or is he actively travelling with them? Do any of these guys have normal jobs to supplement their income or stay busy? Not sure what JTG does - all I know is he has a young child and the anniversary of his 7th year under contract comes next week. The "Still Employed" Twitter account is off by a good eight months. His WWE debut was in late September 2006. Anyway, people speculated that he was a member of Rose's party posse from Raw because there was a black guy (who didn't really look anything like him) in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakla Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Weren't both of Cryme Tyme released in '07 and came back a short time later tho? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingSavage Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 JTG is at least slightly involved with Tyler Reks' new Body Spartan fitness deal. Judging by their back & forth jabs on Twitter, all signs seem to suggest that he's still under contract and just kept off TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Yeah, Cryme Tyme got in a fight with Cade and Murdoch and were released for a few months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerpride Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Botchamania vs RF Video seems to be the story of the day: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=789545167723205&set=a.139116242766104.24987.115215825156146&type=1 RF Video sent Maffew/Botchamania a cease and desist on using RF stuff in his videos. Link isn't working for me. Anything of note come of this? A 4,000 word tome that he eventually deleted but has been preserved here: http://pastebin.com/hcA3dkgt Is RF full of shit here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantastic Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 all signs seem to suggest that he's still under contract and just kept off TV. Maybe he's a really talented masseur and Vince, Stephanie, or Triple H swear by him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 I didn't want to derail the WWE finances thread with this. Downsides and royalties for lower end guys were discussed. What exactly do main roster wrestlers who don't work house shows or TV weekly do? Are they at every event regardless? Is JTG waiting by the phone for the next time he'll be used or is he actively travelling with them? Do any of these guys have normal jobs to supplement their income or stay busy? Not sure what JTG does - all I know is he has a young child and the anniversary of his 7th year under contract comes next week. The "Still Employed" Twitter account is off by a good eight months. His WWE debut was in late September 2006. Anyway, people speculated that he was a member of Rose's party posse from Raw because there was a black guy (who didn't really look anything like him) in it. That wasn't JTG I'm actually curious what the makeup of Rose's "party posse" is. I assume local casting calls for models mixed in with indy guys and backstage/crew members. Be interesting to see which ones stand out as every week regulars. The rabbit, obviously, could be anyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 I'm actually curious what the makeup of Rose's "party posse" is. I assume local casting calls for models mixed in with indy guys and backstage/crew members. Be interesting to see which ones stand out as every week regulars. The rabbit, obviously, could be anyone! Christ you have to ask this. I know way too much from just reading my Twitter timeline There's no NXT people in the main roster version of the Rosebuds. The girls at least on Raw were made up of mostly girls who WWE looked at during the December Performance Centre tryouts. Mostly unknowns - Melika Francis is one . WWE seem to want a core group under contract. On Raw included in the group Wrestler wise was Shanna - a female wrestler from Portugal who worked some matches with TNA and another indy worker called Barracuda Britney. ROH's Scarlett Bordeaux was among the troupe during Rose's pre-debut house show loop. I know they are doing Tough Enough but WWE is signing and looking at a near inconceivable amount of girls at the moment along having another all female tryout in June. Just this week they signed four of them: Leyvonna Zakari, Dani Jackson, Dasha Kuret/Gonzalez and Lina Fanene. Lina seems like a close relation to The Rock. She is a slightly younger and bigger version of Tamina too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 On the Bryan and Vinny show, Bryan was screaming about how Dolph outing Zach Ryder as the Adam Rose rabbit on twitter was going to get him buried even further. Incidentally, it's hard to believe people pay to listen to him carry on. I don't even think I'll listen another free show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillThompson Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 On the Bryan and Vinny show, Bryan was screaming about how Dolph outing Zach Ryder as the Adam Rose rabbit on twitter was going to get him buried even further. Incidentally, it's hard to believe people pay to listen to him carry on. I don't even think I'll listen another free show. It's kind of where I'm at. I find Alvarez almost insufferable at this point. I'm not one for hyperbolic name calling, but he really is an idiot plain and simple who seems to have absolutely no idea about how wrestling works, why people watch, or the basic history of the sport. Personally I think it blemishes the good name of Meltzer to even be associated with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blehschmidt Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 I know this past Monday on Raw, a local worked from my area who wrestles as Jimmy Nutts was part of the posse. He was the one wearing glasses. During the early appearances of the character in NXT, a guy named Logan Shulo who wrestled in the Pittsburgh area that they signed to a contract was one of the guys in the posse. I haven't seem him in it since, so maybe they are planning something else for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anarchistxx Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Only just realised that the start of The Shield's theme music spells out their name in the phonetic alphabet. Amazed at my idiocy to not notice this in over a year, always wondered what the 'sierra, hotel, india' thing was about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJRogers Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Only just realised that the start of The Shield's theme music spells out their name in the phonetic alphabet. Amazed at my idiocy to not notice this in over a year, always wondered what the 'sierra, hotel, india' thing was about. To be fair, its really more of a covert organization/military thing. So its not that much of a D'OH *face palm* thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Evans Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 At NXT last night, Jo Jo from Total Divas and Kendall Skye that used to be the announcer was part of the Rose Party. As was Alexa Bliss. Wasn't Justin Gabriel in the bunny suit on Raw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 I know that GQ Money from XPW was the guy in the lemon/sun/whatever that yellow thing was tonight in the posse for RAW. Although he works for NXT now so it kind of makes sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfman Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 This is disturbing. Never liked this guy.... http://www.inquisitr.com/1246387/wwe-news-former-superstar-jailed-for-molesting-daughter/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 That isn't news, and the slant of that article is pretty ridiculous. In what world is he a "former WWE superstar"?! The seedy underbelly of pro-wrestling is one thing, not sure how this can be construed in a way where WWE is thrown under the bus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 Wow, they acknowledge in the article that he was mostly associated with the AWA and still manage to mention WWE twelve times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tofu_chipmunk Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Wow, they acknowledge in the article that he was mostly associated with the AWA and still manage to mention WWE twelve times. Not to mention dropping "former WWE jobber" five times. And they didn't even follow up by pointing out that he's jobbing to justice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artDDP Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Triple H's first televised WWF match was against Zumhofe. It was on his old "That Damn Good" DVD. Everything leads back to Triple H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjh Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Even though he was just a jobber, you'd think they'd be more careful than to use a convicted sex offender after the Mel Phillips & Terry Garvin scandal of 1992. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Speaking of Mel Philips, does anyone know if he was really the reason Hogan/Andre at mania 3 was only released with the hard camera footage on some recent DVD releases? It looks like a fancam. Really bizarre, and the network has the original version, so it seems arbitrary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chief Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Speaking of Mel Philips, does anyone know if he was really the reason Hogan/Andre at mania 3 was only released with the hard camera footage on some recent DVD releases? It looks like a fancam. Really bizarre, and the network has the original version, so it seems arbitrary. Totally unrelated and as far as I know, they only used the hard camera footage on the 50 years DVD. They did it because they wanted to put a different spin on a match they've released on dozens of sets. It puts over how big the Silverdome atmosphere was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMJ Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Not sure if I should be posting here, but looking at the title, I thought I'd ask... As I'm a relatively new poster, what is the etiquette for starting a thread in the Microscope? I'm rewatching WCW 92' stuff on The Network and I was really curious what people's views are about Ron Simmons and his World Title run. Was he more over in late 91' against Luger than he was in 92' when they gave him the belt? I've heard that his title reign was done to take heat off of Bill Watts' infamous comments in an interview (the exact wording escapes me, but the story goes that it came across as racist and eventually was one of the reasons Watts got fired), but barring that, was Simmons still in line for a title run? I thought Doom were pretty dependable for good matches in 91' and Simmons had a great look and could actually do good work against quality opponents (vs. Luger at Havoc 91' and I just watched a pretty solid-if-unspectacular match against Cactus at CoC XX). Am I wearing rose-colored glasses? What was the critical reception of Simmons at this time? Anyway, I just thought this discussion would be better in a Microscope thread, but didn't want to be presumptuous. Maybe I should move it there or a mod can if they feel its worthwhile? If it's not, I'm still curious about people's thoughts on him at this time. I do think, whether it worked or not, his build and the vignettes of him at FSU were really well done - which was almost a rarity when you consider WCW's production quality compared to the WWE's even back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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