Strummer Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 Do they trust Brie to take out Steph at Mania? They seemed to have lost all faith in her being involved in top storylines after the debacle last fall in the Orton program Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anarchistxx Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 Has Brie's relationship with DB even been akknowledged on television? I usually skip the divas stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbo Slice Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 Definitely. Right when Bryan started getting into the shitty stuff with Orton, there was one time where I think he got put through a table and Brie came out to stop the beat down. They then acknowledged that they were engaged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russellmania Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 what made Brie's involvement in the Orton/Bryan feud a debacle? I didn't really see it...did she botch something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 Last fall during the Orton/Bryan feud they had Orton stalking and harassing Brie backstage for a few weeks and she was so terrible that they completely dropped it and never mentioned it again. Well it was mentioned on Total Divas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMJ Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 I don't recall it being THAT bad...but, personally, I think it's more like one of those things where they know they have it, they just don't think its necessary. And, while I totally see Brie/Steph being a great catfight, I also think it'd be overkill at this point. The comparison isn't super apt, but it reminds me of Flair/Hogan in 92'. They knew that was a PPV worthy storyline. They made money with it at MSG and would've made even more if the feud had been extended into WM9...but things happened and they never could maximize their profits with it. The same could be said for Cena/Taker if it isn't at Mania next year (which, I think is a keyless, combinationless LOCK). I think Punk/HBK and Jeff Hardy/HBK were "gimmes" that never got "given." The stars just didn't allign, but they were obviously dream matches in terms of the WWE folklore around these characters at different times in their careers. So, yeah, Brie Bella vs. Stephanie McMahon sounds really natural. Brie & Daniel vs. Cena & Nikki sounds really natural. Brie Bella getting stalked by Bray Wyatt during the Bryan/Wyatt feud sounded really natural. And while maybe there is some truth in Brie not getting that kind of screentime because she's a poor actress/worker, I really think it has more to do with Creative thinking things through and realizing that it just isn't necessary (and could actually be detrimental to Bryan's popularity) when this feud already has so much heat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Redman Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 To be fair to Brie, running in on the match and hitting Steph doesn't require her to act like an extended acting skit does. She'd pull that off fine, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted March 28, 2014 Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 It was in Dave's news update today that every living megastar of the past three decades has been contacted and asked to do a cameo at Wrestlemania, so I suppose we'll find out if I'm on the creative team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmare007 Posted March 28, 2014 Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 Latest WON says Daniel Bryan has been "the biggest ratings mover the past several weeks". It's funny because right when the company supposedly said they couldn't push him because he didn't move numbers he started to move numbers. Now second in merch sold and he's moving the tv needle. It probably was a matter of time after the reactions he was getting but the company seemingly no longer has patience They did start pushing his merch heavy since February though. I don't know if it was a late reaction to the Michigan State stuff or Punk leaving, but it has been very noticeable how they've done a 180° on Bryan when it comes to promoting him. The ratings thing was never a real issue imo. That was just Dave or one of his sources panicking or finding lame reasons to explain why the company booked him so weirdly from November to January. He may not have been a big ratings mover in that period, but he wasn't a bust by any means either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted March 28, 2014 Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 The ratings stuff might have been bullshit but I believe the merchandise stuff was legit. They ditched the beard and goat stuff for a reason. Who knows what was going on from HITC till February and what the reasons were for not pushing him stronger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted March 28, 2014 Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 Speaking of Taker-Brock, with Taker's love of MMA is this his chance to have a very MMA like match. He has showed signs before with the Ken Shamrock and Kurt Angle matches. Him facing a former UFC Champion at WrestleMania is his best chance. We know his body is broken and him doing crazy dives and a big impact match may be difficult. Could he do a MMA looking contest? I think that's how they'll work the match. I don't know if it will be "good" necessarily, both guys are great performers so it should be a good match, but I wasn't very high on Taker's faux-MMA stuff a decade ago, so who knows I wouldn't be surprised at all if they trot out HBK to be the ref for the Bryan-HHH match, but I'd hate that. I don't like Michaels as a guest ref at all. It's way overdone. It works for the story/angle, but it would make the finish so predictable IMO. HBK as the ref for the Taker-HHH match at 28 completely ruined it for me, and I'm actually an HBK fan, I just hate the way they use him. Why does every single angle he's in have to involve HHH? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted March 28, 2014 Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 There's not much they can do with HBK besides shill DVDs and add star power to HHH angles. He doesn't want to wrestle or even be there every week, and he's found other interests that he's making money at. The best thing he's done post-retirement was the promo with Bryan, where he started with the nice guy/respect schtick and slowly lost his patience until he calls him a little puke in the 97' Shawn voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted March 28, 2014 Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 Yeah, that Bryan/HBK segment was great and I loved that HBK went into dick mode and Bryan got over on him (two things that never happen), but the HIAC match the night before was ruined by all the HHH/HBK nonsense HBK will obviously be at WM in some capacity. Use him at the HOF, the pre/post shows on the network, all the fan fest stuff, you can even use him on RAW next week in the final buildup to HHH-Bryan and mix him up with Orton (who he has a bit of history with) and Batista too, but making him the ref of the HHH-Bryan match would be really dumb. Every time he's the special ref he ends up becoming the focus of the match, and the focus of the match should be on Bryan Heck, I wouldn't even mind if he was named special ref for the triple threat, just as long as he isn't reffing the singles match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted March 29, 2014 Report Share Posted March 29, 2014 Amazingly, I think Daniel Bryan is on the verge of potentially making more money for a single night's work than he did in every year he spent working the indies combined. Pretty crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted March 29, 2014 Report Share Posted March 29, 2014 when Shawn was on the podcast with Renee you could tell he's mentally done with wrestling. And in read between the lines stuff he was clearly not happy they way they had been booking Bryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmare007 Posted March 29, 2014 Report Share Posted March 29, 2014 when Shawn was on the podcast with Renee you could tell he's mentally done with wrestling. And in read between the lines stuff he was clearly not happy they way they had been booking Bryan What did he say about the booking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted March 29, 2014 Report Share Posted March 29, 2014 Nothing specific but said he'll always being rooting for him to succeed no matter what. It was the tone of his voice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruiserBrody Posted March 29, 2014 Report Share Posted March 29, 2014 But they developed the whole Wyatt family gimmick in NXT, so it's not a big deal to say something like 'they couquered NXT before moving on to WWE'. Acknowleding that Bray was Husky Harris before that kind of hurts the whole vibe, but at some point you just have to draw the line re: suspension of disbelief i guess. As for why they're in WWE...I think with this type of gimmick you can sort of just assume that they're in WWE because they're crazy and wrestling is a business in which they can be as crazy as they want to be, hurt people, and make a living doing it. Bray's twitter said something like "The Demon needed a host, and he found one" or something like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efrim Posted March 29, 2014 Report Share Posted March 29, 2014 Yeah, I really appreciated Bray's little lampshade hanging with the Husky Harris is the host of Bray Wyatt nod. It doesn't matter to any except the hardest of the hardcore, but I think its a really good sign of his ability to think on his feet and fully inhabit a character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillThompson Posted March 29, 2014 Report Share Posted March 29, 2014 Perhaps I'm odd, but I never bother to watch Raw and Smackdown. I do make sure I check out Main Event, Superstars, and NXT every week. Superstars is iffy, and NXT has been off its game for the past few weeks, but Main Event is a darn fine wrestling program that has given me plenty of stuff to be happy to watch. I'll probably get around to Raw and Smackdown at some point now that they're accessible a month after the fact on the Network, but Main Event and usually NXT are the only two weekly shows that eve seem like they are must see for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted March 29, 2014 Report Share Posted March 29, 2014 Bill, I would recommend you DVR Raw and SD. There have been too many good matches to just willingly skip out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillThompson Posted March 30, 2014 Report Share Posted March 30, 2014 Bill, I would recommend you DVR Raw and SD. There have been too many good matches to just willingly skip out. No cable for me anymore, and I'm going to try and make it a point to catch the replays when they show up on the Network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim Posted March 30, 2014 Report Share Posted March 30, 2014 So I keep hearing that Wrestlemania 32 will be in AT&T Stadium, though I haven't seen any official announcement to that effect. Is this just a bullshit rumor? Could WWE have a chance in hell of drawing 100k? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted March 30, 2014 Report Share Posted March 30, 2014 According to Dave tomorrow's "Go Home" RAW has already been written and few if any changes are expected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anarchistxx Posted March 31, 2014 Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 Could WWE have a chance in hell of drawing 100k? If it was in a big enough, well connected metropolis and the card was stacked, they could get close. They could definitely draw around that number if they did Wrestlemania in the UK, at least 80,000 anyway. If The Rock and Brock Lesnar were working in marquee, never seen before matches they could probably do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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