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WWE Raw (on Netflix) Superthread

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,601 ✭✭✭ShagNastii


    Ah yeah I forgot about the Trump stuff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,508 ✭✭✭ThePott


    He literally had Trump on his podcast and said why choose Batista (anti-Trump) when you could choose Undertaker and Kane (pro-Trump). Politics are politics at the end of the day and if every wrestler who was a Trumper or right wing got booed, more would probably be booed than aren't.

    As for why Hogan got booed. There's no shortage of reasons tbh. Some people are saying it was in a blue state. Then again he got booed at Wrestlemania in Florida too. They guy said horribly racist things and never really atoned or seemed apologetic for it. He is seen as consistently burying people for his own benefit, stopped wrestlers from getting a union. The list goes on and that might all seem trivial but in the age of so many fans being smart fans, they know enough about the guy to boo him for a multitude of reasons and his shoddy attempt to placate to fans only made them madder.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,043 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,043 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Mod Edit

    Warning issued.

    Post edited by ShamoBuc on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,741 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    All those reason plus he is an utter pathological liar. I’m sure you can find lists of utter lies he’s said. And I don’t meant the kind of stuff where a wrestler can’t remember things from the territory days, I means he makes up stuff that is clearly disprovable. One is he claims to have wrestled in the main event of summer slam 1992 in Wembley.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,043 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    I love Hogans lies. They are so off the wall I can't help but laugh. That side is hilarious.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,508 ✭✭✭ThePott


    This is true but like @beakerjoe I also find his lies pathetically hilarious.

    Like when he says Elvis was a big Hulkamaniac, even though he was dead two years before he even debuted. How he wrestled like 400 days a year cause he gained extra days because of all his flights back and forth to Japan or how Andre seems to keep getting heavier everytime he talks about slamming him.

    At least they're entertaining and so stupid nobody could feasibly believe him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,609 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    he claims to have wrestled in the main event of summer slam 1992 in Wembley.

    Are you implying that Hulkster in Heaven is based on a lie?????



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,043 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Hogan in the grand scheme of things isn't totally bad. He's a selfish selfish man who did a lot of things to keep himself on top for as long as possible. His racist comments are probably his worst crime and now his association with Trump is doing him no favors. Id say Taker and Austin are worse than him in my view.

    But in general many people within wretsling are horrible people, and it was a dirty business from around 2010 back to its inception. WWE is still a company with horrible values, it's just a helluva a lot more corporate now than it was back then. WWE is still full of bad characters in the office and it's a highly hypocritical company when it suits itself. (Firing people for domestic violence yet Stone Cold Steve Austin is still championed / firing Bob Holly and Perry Saturn for roughing up jobbers while Taker took liberties with Chris Kaynon because he was gay).

    They only got rid of Vince as a last resort and let's be honest, he may still wiggle out of justice and back into WWE soon enough that Trump is back in power.

    Loads of wrestlers are Trump fans and many of the greats are Republicans too. Hunter was just visiting Trump recently, his mother in law is in his cabinet as well. No one boos him despite being the right hand man to his father in law who has huge rap sheet for doing many many unsavory things over the years. He treated people bad over the years too and is in bed with the KSA too.

    My point is, if we are booing Hogan, many others deserve far worse.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭Me_Grapes


    To be quite honest, I for one don't really want to be trawling through wrestlers, or any public figures political views or opinions to find out whether I should be offended by them or not, I'd rather just watch them on their chosen medium and enjoy them, or not as the case may be based on their work. Vince is one thing, his rap sheet is horrific and rightfully should be shamed, but as long as they haven't committed any serious crime or anything, why would I seriously care if a wrestler prefers the Republican party over the Democraric party?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,215 ✭✭✭corkie


    I use to enjoy watching the week delayed broadcasts on Virgin Media to see Raw/Smackdown & NXT! But with the netflix deal looks like they have lost the rights to the broadcast of the shows!?

    "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
    "But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 26,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Yes all rights for Ireland/UK have gone to Netflix.

    The lifeboat has set sail



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,892 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    Which is your right.

    No one should force to to research people or dislike them for things you are unaware of.

    But for myself when someone uses their fame and platform to push opinions I find offensive, It's also perfectly reasonable to find them offensive.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,215 ✭✭✭corkie


    Thanks for that, I use to enjoying watching it as some background show to watch at the weekends.

    Suppose I have to rely on the bleacherreport and youtube clips to get the highlights from it!

    After the match, The Rock emerged from the locker room and placed the ula fala around the neck of the undisputed Tribal Chief.

    ^^ Good to know about the 'ula fala' and the OTC/UTC now!

    The Rock acknowledges Cody Rhodes and sets stage for Tribal Combat: Raw highlights, Jan. 6, 2025

    "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
    "But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,760 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    WWE have ruined there own suprise with them advertising 'Penta' merch

    More over 'Rey' there's a new mask seller in town



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,073 ✭✭✭✭ShaneU


    Going to the U.S. for the first time in March and Raw just happens to be on in Madison Square Garden the week I'm there! Can't wait! Haven't seen a show in 20 years and that was in the Point.



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 58,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro




  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,995 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    the mask and shirt are absolutely clean. Going to make bank on them.


    https://shop.wwe.com/en/?_ref=p-TLP%3Am-SEARCH&query=penta



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,760 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Thought that was just to advertise that Rey is still part of wwe and is going to be going 'dark'

    I kid



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,609 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    I would love to know just how much money the lucha bros missed out on over the 5 years in AEW by them not selling masks, has to be 6 figures.



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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,995 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    IMG_0932.jpeg

    Their shop site just posted his full look, lol



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,307 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    Same thing happened to me.

    I emailed support and they are refunding me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,043 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    AEW and TNA couldn't legally sell the masks due to AAA owning the IP.

    It would appear these masks are either distinctly different or WWE made a deal.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,760 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    As good as it is/was Drew vs Punk vs Rollins seems to be going around in circles and now they will all be in the rumble match together



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,760 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    already Penta masks=$$$



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,802 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    10 minutes into his debut and Penta has nearly killed himself twice already



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,802 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    That destroyer was a thing of beauty



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭Ridley


    Won't happen as it'll be Jey losing to Gunther or whatever but was thinking the main event of this coming SNME could have been a match where winner is #30 in the Rumble and loser is #1.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Is Nia after both champs, Rhea and Tiffany?

    I was kinda hoping Finn would win, hopefully the end of Finn/TJD/Damien feuding, wonder is the end of TJD in sight, Dom on his own or forming another faction



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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 58,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    I haven't watched Raw but I caught this on Twitter, the sell from Gable was what made it too he sold it like he was dead



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