Is the empire crumbling before our eyes?

[funkdoc]

yall ready for Tessa vs. Nia to headline WOW???

[joeg]

A lot of these releases make sense, the person had their run, it didn't really go anywhere and now its done and time to move on. The two that stand out at Lee and Kross. WWE spent the last two years actively hurting their marketability and credibility as future stars before letting them go. Its mind boggling. 

[KawadaSmile]

Triple H effectively killed NXT by giving Kross an unbeaten run and his main roster stint lasted less than six months. What a joy.

[Coffey]

They didn't even put Scarlett on TV on the main roster either, did they?

I'll be curious to see if more names come out over the unvaccinated speculation.

[joeg]

And we are two weeks away from Survivor Series and not a single match has been announced and the TV these past several weeks hasn't done anything to build up any big matches. What a dumpster fire. 

[Alucard]

48 minutes ago, joeg said:

And we are two weeks away from Survivor Series and not a single match has been announced and the TV these past several weeks hasn't done anything to build up any big matches. What a dumpster fire. 

It's the only time of year where Raw and Smackdown go head to head in competition~!

[joeg]

4 minutes ago, Alucard said:

It's the only time of year where Raw and Smackdown go head to head in competition~!

Ah.... so we we have two ten man/woman tags with random folks and some midcard champion vs midcard champion matches... But it wont actually create any new or fresh matchups because the draft that just happened and mixed things up for that purpose was so successful. 

 

[Blehschmidt]

2 hours ago, joeg said:

Ah.... so we we have two ten man/woman tags with random folks and some midcard champion vs midcard champion matches... But it wont actually create any new or fresh matchups because the draft that just happened and mixed things up for that purpose was so successful. 

 

But....but......It's the only time of year where Raw and Smackdown go head to head in competition~!

#BuzzWords   #WWEUniverse  #IfWeKeepSayingIt #ItMustBeTrue  #TribalChief

[MoS]

They really had no idea how to book him huh lol. It is like the easiest thing in the world. I have said it before multiple times on this board, but he is like The Incredible Hulk come to life. Just let him smash. He'll make you money. 

[NintendoLogic]

The latest Observer says the wrestlers released for refusing the vaccine weren't big enough stars to get away with it, so that would seem to rule out Nia. That also raises the question of which WWE stars are unvaxxed. Talent can't work overseas without being vaccinated, so anyone who worked Crown Jewel is apparently out.

[Migs]

8 hours ago, funkdoc said:

yall ready for Tessa vs. Nia to headline WOW???

YES. That's just the kind of bizarro world weirdness that should headline WOW shows at 3am on Sinclair stations.

[Migs]

Survivor Series is in New York and I'm not aware of any indie companies running shows to draft off of it. That's pretty sad.

[KawadaSmile]

The only thing that seems remotely on the table right now is Big E vs Roman and even then that's not saying much. Might as well just pick names from a hat and book those matches.

[Strummer]

Observer also notes WWE's policy on hiring female talent is 25 years of age or younger

[NintendoLogic]

We need to talk about how Tamina keeps managing to avoid the ax when you figure she'd be among the first on the chopping block. She's never been remotely good or over, she's about as far from WWE's cosmetic ideal as you can get, she's well above the age cutoff, and her family name is poison. I genuinely have no idea how she does it.

[strobogo]

All those promos about Kross being the end of NXT were the most prescient promos since a lethal dose of poison, but it only took a few months instead of years to come true. 

[Alucard]

2 hours ago, KawadaSmile said:

The only thing that seems remotely on the table right now is Big E vs Roman and even then that's not saying much. Might as well just pick names from a hat and book those matches.

I guess Charlotte/Becky as well

[Blehschmidt]

2 hours ago, NintendoLogic said:

We need to talk about how Tamina keeps managing to avoid the ax when you figure she'd be among the first on the chopping block. She's never been remotely good or over, she's about as far from WWE's cosmetic ideal as you can get, she's well above the age cutoff, and her family name is poison. I genuinely have no idea how she does it.

That my friend is a damn good question. 

[Jmare007]

This is fucking crazy, lol.

 

[sek69]

Fightful reporting that Johnny Ace couldn't even be bothered to spell Oney Lorcan's gimmick name right ("Lorkan") in the email sent out to talent announcing the releases. 

[Rah]

4 hours ago, NintendoLogic said:

We need to talk about how Tamina keeps managing to avoid the ax when you figure she'd be among the first on the chopping block. She's never been remotely good or over, she's about as far from WWE's cosmetic ideal as you can get, she's well above the age cutoff, and her family name is poison. I genuinely have no idea how she does it.

I wonder what daddy told her about the strings Vince allegedly pulled to get him off the police's radar?

[sek69]

I honestly think Tamina is in that Nattie class of "everyone loves her in the locker room to the point of it would be a huge morale hit to let them go". 

[Coffey]

2 hours ago, sek69 said:

Fightful reporting that Johnny Ace couldn't even be bothered to spell Oney Lorcan's gimmick name right ("Lorkan") in the email sent out to talent announcing the releases. 

THROW IT UP! 

[sek69]

They cut more long time corporate folks, it really seems like they just put everyone's name into the Firing Hat and just pulled random names. 

[NintendoLogic]

A WWE source apparently told the New York Post that Nia was released partially because she was unvaccinated.

https://nypost.com/2021/11/04/keith-lee-karrion-kross-nia-jax-among-surprise-wwe-releases/

She commented on the release on her IG.

Note how coy she is when discussing her vaccination status, only saying that it was never mentioned. If she was vaccinated, you'd think she would explicitly say so.