Pro Wrasslin' Thread: I don't know what I just saw

[nachobro]

wasn't watching raw but this seems aight

[bork]

wasn't watching raw but this seems aight

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Didn't watch either, and guess I don't need to check anything out- Charlotte will be on NXT this week.

Did Rey get popped for steroids this time? 

Nah, but apparently MOA JOE is about to get a wellness violation.

 

[Trent Dole]

Saudi shows went from a 50 man Royal Rumble to getting HBK out of retirement for a DX vs Brothers of Destruction match to Undertaker vs Goldberg to Brock vs Cain Velasquez and Braun vs Tyson Fury to Brock vs.....Ricochet?
 

A WRESTLEMANIA EQUIVALENT EVENT
I wouldn't send too much top tier shit over either after they held all the talent hostage.

Nah, but apparently MOA JOE is about to get a wellness violation.

 

For what?

[TVC15]

Hahaha this mixed gender match is awkward. Kip Sabian is just beating this little Japanese schoolgirl wrestler while her partner Kenny Omega is in the corner gazing all intense like he’s a cuck in the closet watching his missy get bulled by a real man. This really is 100% Kenny’s fetish.

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[remy]

Hahaha this mixed gender match is awkward. Kip Sabian is just beating this little Japanese schoolgirl wrestler while her partner Kenny Omega is in the corner gazing all intense like he’s a cuck in the closet watching his missy get bulled by a real man. This really is 100% Kenny’s fetish.

the reason i know me and kenny aint compatible is he went for the cuck angle instead of the penelope ford femdom angle

[TVC15]

At the end of the match, Kenny was so horny that he gave this intense promo about how it was a new day because he brought us inter gender wrestling. He was seriously passionate. You could almost see the chub in his pants

[TVC15]

I’m watching again, this is so great! Riho is so small that it looks like Kip is violently abusing a young child in a ring surrounded by maniacs and perverts.

[remy]

Kenny been watching too much Sword Art Online

[Pissy F Benny]

Praying to the most high that  reviews it

[TVC15]

Oh, when he does there’s no way he keeps himself from mocking the AEW fans. The match was shot on a crowd potato cam so you hear all sorts of obnoxious crowd noise and embarrassing comments. I’m most expecting gold from his reaction to Omega’s promo, which reminded me of Howard Dean’s campaign ender.

[Trent Dole]

There's plenty of intergender stuff on the indies but hey it's cool some of it is on TV now via AEW which is ...basically a bunch of indie people.

[TVC15]

They called Jon moxley the “big boss” on AEW as he’s stomping around in his shitty Metal Gear cosplay. I hope somebody is outraged at this mockery of the business.

[Human Snorenado]

Actually, equating AEW to being the Kojima of the wrasslin world totally works for me as both have completely incomprehensible narratives

[TVC15]

Are they trying to do a we-know-it’s-bad thing with Brit Baker at this point like WWE does with Corbin?

[TVC15]

Well, they also just had her break the teeth of one of Kenny’s fetish Japanese schoolgirls in a post-match heel dessert assault. Kenny has this one wearing what look to be pastel colored garbage bags.

[remy]

A dentist heel who breaks her opponent's teeth so she can get extra scratch doing emergency surgery on them after the show


That would be the best gimmick in AEW tbh

Gotta respect the hustle

Was that a fan jumping mjf at the end there?  kayfabe lives

[TVC15]

This bucks/omega/page vs lucha/Bitcher and Blade match is really what AEW is all about man. I’m pretty sure I even saw Rey Fenix do a pirouette at one point.

[Tripon]

A dentist heel who breaks her opponent's teeth so she can get extra scratch doing emergency surgery on them after the show


That would be the best gimmick in AEW tbh

Gotta respect the hustle

Was that a fan jumping mjf at the end there?  kayfabe lives

https://twitter.com/MelsAEW/status/1225259340489203712

[TVC15]

I don’t even know what’s going on in this bad Janutella v Kip Sabian match. It’s worse than Sabian’s child abuse match the other night for sure.

[TVC15]

These belt whips are pathetic too. They’re so weak—I can guarantee you that you did worse shit to the runty one in your friend group as a youth. But Cody is writhing around like he’s Jesus carrying the cross

[TVC15]

dp

[bork]

Dream is back 

[nachobro]

wwe financials came out
https://corporate.wwe.com/investors/news/press-releases/2020/02-06-2020-132933376

revenues were up 18% & operating income is up 87% (fox deal + approx 17 mil for nxt), and cash flow is doubled. basically everything else is down: network subs, live shows, and merch. they did about 30 less live shows, mostly less in north america. international live show money is up even with less events, north american is down overall.

As we work to strengthen engagement in 2020, we are pursuing several strategic initiatives that could increase the monetization of our content, including the distribution of content in the Middle East and India as well as strategic alternatives for our direct-to-consumer service, WWE Network.

curious what these alternatives to the network will be

[Pissy F Benny]

 

[TVC15]

The weekly Omega rant on the 2/5 Cornette Experience is amazing.

He compares Meltzer to a Republican lying to the masses for hyping him!

“He shouldve had his legs broken and he shouldve been run off, but that’s just me.”
 - Jim Cornette on Kenny Olivier as a wrestler

[Pissy F Benny]

Looking forward to listening when I get home 

I love how he directs most of his ire at Olivier when he's just a fairly unassuming weeb nerd, when the Young Bucks are far more objectionable all around.

[TVC15]

Looking forward to listening when I get home 

I love how he directs most of his ire at Olivier when he's just a fairly unassuming weeb nerd, when the Young Bucks are far more objectionable all around.

Oh, it spills over into the whole crew. Khan gets called a “money mark” like every 30 seconds. It’s towards the beginning of the show, but it will prob show up on YT.

[Tripon]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ex-mississippi-welfare-director-arrested-accused-taking-funds-pay-ex-wwe-wrestlers-rehab

[Pissy F Benny]

Vince is apparently thinking about selling off PPV rights to some other OTT streaming service, effectively knee capping the main selling point for the Network (Most recent PPVs and NXT are always the top two shows, NXT is now on TV). They're also still working on a higher tier that won't include the live PPVs but will have like...merch sales or some shit?


The fuck? He fired the presidents and then is openly thinking about tanking the thing he's built his company around for the past 5 years?  And is going to be spending most of his time on the XFL with no one to run the company? The vote of no confidence angle about to happen IRL.

That would be insane, who the fuck is gonna pay for ppvs again when you’ve got them plus a shit load of archive footage and all that for a 6th of the price us.

Plus the network probably wouldn’t be worth keeping around for them from a cost point of view if a shit load of people ditch it cuz there’s no more live ppvs on it, and you’re left with only hardcores who like watching old nitros n shit.

[TVC15]

Vince is apparently thinking about selling off PPV rights to some other OTT streaming service, effectively knee capping the main selling point for the Network (Most recent PPVs and NXT are always the top two shows, NXT is now on TV). They're also still working on a higher tier that won't include the live PPVs but will have like...merch sales or some shit?


The fuck? He fired the presidents and then is openly thinking about tanking the thing he's built his company around for the past 5 years?  And is going to be spending most of his time on the XFL with no one to run the company? The vote of no confidence angle about to happen IRL.

Vince must think if AEW can get 50 a PPV, WWE can probably be getting a lot more than 9.99 a month.

[nachobro]

damn if they remove ppv from the network i'll actually cancel it and i've been a mark paying for it since day one

however this is also the first quarter where subs have dipped under 1mil (to like 960k but still) so maybe that's got him shook

[Pissy F Benny]

A better idea probably would’ve been to not book smackdown immediately into the ground after they got some buzz with the fox move 

[TVC15]

Yes, the rant is 25 minutes long.

[Tripon]

Cornette and Meltzer been going at it on twitter the last day or so.

[Human Snorenado]

I'm just shocked that Corny hasn't blocked 5 Star Dave on ye olde tweet machine

[TVC15]

I'm just shocked that Corny hasn't blocked 5 Star Dave on ye olde tweet machine

No! I want a feud! I want Corny to expand the roster of people he ridiculously hates on.

https://www.ringsidenews.com/2020/02/05/jim-cornette-dave-meltzer-end-friendship-over-kenny-omega/

Hahaha the tweets are so awesome! I think Corny has that kind of senility where he’s angry all the time.

I'd get banned off here for saying what I wish would happen to Harpo & the rest of his ilk but you know how I feel so imagine it.Fuck all y'all.

[Human Snorenado]

If the Elite and Tony were smart, they'd book Vince Russo in an angle for a couple months, that would kill Corny

[Tripon]

So Reddit is just posting the wrestling online newsletter fully now. I'm sure Dave meltzer is okay with that. 

[bork]

Why do you guys keep watching that shit every week?

spoiler (click to show/hide)

He says, still watching Raw and SD

[close]

[nachobro]

[TVC15]

[nachobro]

was thinking it might be goldberg/cena at wm but i guess the saudi thing makes more sense. bill wants the big check

if it's an undertaker rematch in saudi

[nachobro]

goldberg/fiend

[Tripon]

Are they really going to spend 3 weeks trying to build Fiend/Reigns for Wrestlemania? 

[Tripon]

This Otis promo. 

[nachobro]

Seriously?

[Tripon]

They build up Naomi for weeks just for Carmella to pin her for Super Smackdown? 

[TVC15]

2K20 has released Southpaw Regional Wrasslin DLC but it appears that almost all of the characters weren't even in the series.

In fact it seems like the only character from it is the Tyler Breeze evil banker guy. There's a tower dedicated to Rusev's Big Bart character but he's not listed as one of the new characters. Other than that I don't think any of the others included were on either season of SRW.

 New WWE Superstar Characters:

Georgia Washington (Charlotte Flair)
Dosvetanya (Lana)
Bad Hair Day (Ember Moon)
Misfit Molly (Becky Lynch)
Samantha Urai (Kairi Sane)
Sasha Memorybanks (Sasha Banks)
Bay Lee Billionaire (Bayley)
Mackelroy (Tyler Breeze)
Glam Rocker (Johnny Gargano)
Sea Creature



Lana was in fact on Southpaw...as a completely different character. Even though there's a storyline dedicated to Rusev's character and angle, which she was a part of.

One of the arenas included is a Nitro Spring Break arena with the ring in a pool though, which would be neat for create an area in a game that wasn't completely broken.

I feel bad for the poor people working on this DLC while the public reacted to the 2k20 release. That must’ve felt like a death march.

[Tripon]

Seriously?

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[bork]

Kenny gets rightfully pissed at a fan's racist tweet and attacks Cornette's followers:

https://mobile.twitter.com/KennyOmegamanX/status/1225578608753827840
https://mobile.twitter.com/KennyOmegamanX/status/1225581358443106304
https://mobile.twitter.com/KennyOmegamanX/status/1225583827885731841
https://mobile.twitter.com/ThroneofGames01/status/1225643991221198849
https://mobile.twitter.com/KennyOmegamanX/status/1225584945923579905

[Human Snorenado]

Vince should fire all the writers on SD and put Miz and Johnny Mundo in charge, turn it into some sort of Lucha Underground-Dirt Sheet hybrid, couldn't possibly be any worse.

[Tripon]

I wonder why WWE has such a large creative writing team to the point where the wrestlers are forced to read pre-prepared scripts that they don't have time to remember. I also had to laugh that Vince still thinks that just grabbing and hoarding as much talent as possible will starve out the competition.

We're probably looking at a buyout of a smaller promotion like MLW just to get in hold of contracts at some point.

[nachobro]

The NJPW card looks good enough to stay up for tonight. Plus I have nothing else going on anyway

[Tripon]

https://www.twitch.tv/luchalibreaaa_en
https://www.twitch.tv/luchalibreaaa

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/f11cuv/live_lucha_libre_aaa_world_wide_we_are_born_to/

Announced Card (Subject to Change, even more so because it's AAA) 

Drago Kid, Iron Kid & Laredo Boy vs. Látigo, Low Rider & Parkita Negra Mini Trios Match
Dinastía ** (AAA World Minis Champ), **Big Mami, & Mr. Iguana vs. Lady Maravilla ** (1/2 AAA Mixed-Tag Champs), **La Hiedra, & Parka Negra Relevos Triple A Match
Los Parks (LA Park Jr. & 1/2 of The Crash Tag Team Champs Hijo de LA Park) vs. & Villano III Jr (1/2 AAA Mixed-Tag Champs) & Súper Fly vs. Los Jineteas del Aire (2/3 of AAA Trios Champs Myzteziz Jr. & Octagón Jr.) Three-Corner Tag Match
Hijo Del Vikingo (1/3 of AAA Trios Champs Los Jineteas del Aire), Rey Horus (1/3 of RoH Six-Man Champs) & Puma King vs. Los Mercenarios (Rey Escorpión, Texano Jr. & Volz Ultra Champ Taurus) Six-Man Tag Match
Psycho Clown (EMW Champ), Murder Clown & "Luchador Sorpresa" vs Nuevo Poder del Norte (Carta Brava Jr., Mocho Cota Jr. & Tito Santana) Speical Trios Match
Lucha Brothers (AAA Tag Team Champs Fénix & Pentagón Jr.) & Dr. Wagner Jr. vs La Faccion Ingobernable (La Bestia Del Ring, 1/2 of the Crash Tag Team Champs LA Park & KAOZ Champ Rush Toro Blanco) Lucha Estellar   Official Poster

AAA event starting right now as well.

[Tripon]

Ray Fenix just cannonball from the ring into the crowd completely missing his target. Uh, he might be hurt.

[Pissy F Benny]

 

On the new experience  reads an email outright calling Dave Meltzer an austisty

And also goes on another unhinged 10 min rant about Kenny Olivier

[TVC15]

On the new experience  reads an email outright calling Dave Meltzer an austisty

And also goes on another unhinged 10 min rant about Kenny Olivier

Jesus dude, you have me anticipating my commute tomorrow!

[Tripon]

On the new experience  reads an email outright calling Dave Meltzer an austisty

And also goes on another unhinged 10 min rant about Kenny Olivier

Jesus dude, you have me anticipating my commute tomorrow!

Edit: The fuck is this pseudo psychology trying to label Dave Meltzer having autism.  Jim Cornette trying to justify this last twitter outburst is fucking amazing.

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dave is an autisty