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Random Wrestling Thoughts (Part 2)

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  • #5012
    ShagNastii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭ShagNastii


    I've never been so far away from wrestling and the WWE.

    A huge part of it is 100% due to the whole TKO venture. I never really bought into people harking on about things “selling out” but by gawd I feel it with present day WWE. It has lost its soul completely. The advertising is wholly obnoxious, the deals with Saudi absolutely stink and ticket prices should rightly push toward fan boycott.

    HHH, Kahn and the fed need to be called out on it more explicitly.



  • #5013
    Apple Dumpling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Apple Dumpling


    I’ve started watching AEW on ITV over the last while and I’m really enjoying it lots of great wrestling. They are two totally different products at this time night and day between what they offering.



  • #5014
    Apple Dumpling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Apple Dumpling


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123804734#Comment_123804734

    There is no chip in my shoulder I’m just pulling you on your hypocrisy calling the guy a twat in your post and previously posting calling them thieving bastards yet you keep freely giving them your money and because you and others do they keep increasing the prices that what businesses do just like any other business.

    I also don’t follow NFL so I don’t care what people pay over there.



  • #5015
    Apple Dumpling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Apple Dumpling


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805589#Comment_123805589

    Exactly what the WWE once was is no longer the WWE. TKO/WWE are one and the same since the WWE was taken over corporate entity out to only make money at the expense of their fan base.



  • #5016
    The Nal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,637 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805820#Comment_123805820

    UFC part of it too. Fleecing people.



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  • #5017
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,653 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123805810#Comment_123805810

    Aren't we all hypocrites to an extent

    We buy brand groceries every week/day with prices go up

    Some buy McDonald's etc and prices go up

    Petrol prices etc

    You can still buy things but be disgusted with the price rises

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  • #5018
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,653 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    War games



  • #5019
    Apple Dumpling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Apple Dumpling


    The WWE kept telling us last night that we are now in the ESPN era how many eras has the WWE had now.



  • #5020
    NITRO95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭NITRO95


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123838481#Comment_123838481

    They can call it whatever they like, it'll always be the sex trafficking era.



  • #5021
    ShagNastii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭ShagNastii


    You'd think they would take the hint and stop aggrandizing record breaking gates, multi gazillion dollar TV deals etc etc etc. They get absolutely destroyed on social media after any of these announcements. And rightfully so.

    It doesn't even just turn people off. It riles them up.

    "WHAT??!!!!! WWE have signed the a 20 years contract with PeacockNetHuluSky for $30 billion!!!!!. As a fan, excitement wise, this is up there with the Eddie winning the title at XX. Wonderful. Just bloody wonderful".



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  • #5022
    ShagNastii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭ShagNastii


    I was never one that gave the whole “WWE superstars should unionize” stuff.

    But with the mental ticket prices and heady TV deals the superstars have never had a better time to get a piece of the pie.



  • #5023
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,653 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


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  • #5024
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,500 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    The fact he supposedly no-showed WWE then turns up in AEW so soon makes me wonder if he was in discussions with AEW.

    Otherwise it looks bad to others there that he can do something unprofessional like no-showing then have AEW to fall back on.



  • #5025
    The Nal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,637 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


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  • #5026
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,653 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Ok you don't need this you don't need this

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  • #5027
    briany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,623 ✭✭✭✭briany


    The Undertaker says he wrestled his first match against Bruiser Brody in mid 1987, but he finishes his 'training' with Buzz Sawyer (who absconded with the money) in late 1986. Wikipedia says he learned 'on the job' thereafter.

    Although Undertaker might like to tell people that Brody was his first match, does he mean that in the sense of first proper match? Did he wrestle any, what Jim Cornette would call 'outlaw mudshows', in the intervening six months or so in order to gain some experience and just doesn't mention it because he doesn't regard those matches as legitimate and thinks its just a better story for Brody to be his first match?



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