Wrestling News & Rumours Thread ***NO CHAT***

leggo wrote: »

Yeah there was one weird moment during Raw after Rollins did his thing with the Street Profits. He gets all amped up like he’s going to wrestle next, then they cut to Becky walking towards her match and said “Seth Rollins’ girlfriend Becky Lynch takes on Alexa Bliss next!”

And let's not forget "The man's man"

I haven't seen it here but maybe I missed it but the WWE tv taping in September from MSG in New York aren't selling well for either raw or smackdown. I mean how bad have things gotten when even a tv tapping in the garden can't sell out for WWE ? I know there are issues with unions in New York and it became cost prohibitive to run MSG for WWE hence why they haven't done a raw there in ten years. So, while WWE are to blame I think the management of MSG which is headed by that blithering idiot James Dolan who owns the knicks have to take a lot of blame also. They have forgotten that the WWE made the Dolan family a lot of money over the decades drawing big numbers to that venue. It's also why I'm not a fan of other wrestling companies having shows in MSG.

Itssoeasy wrote: »

I haven't seen it here but maybe I missed it but the WWE tv taping in September from MSG in New York aren't selling well for either raw or smackdown. I mean how bad have things gotten when even a tv tapping in the garden can't sell out for WWE ? I know there are issues with unions in New York and it became cost prohibitive to run MSG for WWE hence why they haven't done a raw there in ten years. So, while WWE are to blame I think the management of MSG which is headed by that blithering idiot James Dolan who owns the knicks have to take a lot of blame also. They have forgotten that the WWE made the Dolan family a lot of money over the decades drawing big numbers to that venue. It's also why I'm not a fan of other wrestling companies having shows in MSG.

I just dont think unless its a big event wrestling ala mania,summerslam, all in, all out etc that wresttling is a draw. I think we will see this in AEW once they start touring more often.

Harley Race has passed away at the age of 76....RIP

https://www.wwe.com/article/wwe-hall-of-famer-harley-race-passes-away

lawlolawl wrote: »

King Cuerno has apparently signed up to start in NXT soon.

Kinda sucks, he's really good and they'll definitely waste him. I can understand he probably signed because he is 35 so he'll be 40 by the time he finishes his first run with them and he'll get paid well.

This reminded me to check the status of Lucha Underground and seems it's still not officially cancelled yet.

Yeah was reading about some of the legal action that has happened.

I can't remember, are they staying in an AEW Zone or are they touring weekly?
And what kind of numbers are they talking compared to the PPVs?

It does give them some peace of mind starting out as it means they don't have to have great storylines going in from the PPV to attract a live crowd, while viewers will watch outta curiosity, so that's when they'll need to hook with storylines and wrestling.

I guess this would be better suited in the AEW thread, but who's writing? Are Cody and co going to do a Vince with the final say?

He has a history of doing that they were leaks years ago.

If the worst things wrestlers are doing these days is sending dick pic's to other adults there is a few old school wrestlers rolling in their graves.

If someone is sending someone unsolicited dick pics, that’s creepy as **** and the equivalent of an auld lad in a trenchcoat flashing people in a car park.

The picture your man painted makes it sound, whether he knows it or not, like it wasn’t unsolicited. Her reaction isn’t the reaction of someone who’s got sent a nude unexpectedly from a co-worker.

Then again these people just sound like broken messes Jeremy Kyle never got around to having on his show.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2019/0803/1066850-smack-down-the-rock-confirms-that-hes-quit-wrestling/

Seems the Rock has said he's retired from wrestling

Sad news about Rick retiring. I loved Strike Force back in the day.

von Smallhausen wrote: »

Harley Race has passed away at the age of 76....RIP

https://www.wwe.com/article/wwe-hall-of-famer-harley-race-passes-away

Trevor Murdoch put this up on his facebook page. Well done to Vince for this


"I just wanted to put this out there. Harley needed to be transferred from Atlanta to St.Louis. He needed to take a Med flight because he was in rough shape. Medicare wouldn’t help him. A call was made to WWE and 10 mins later it was paid in full. Vince McMahon never blinked an eye. He wanted to make sure Harley was taken care of.
Thank you Vince, you gave me 2 more days with Harley.
#ThankYouWWE
#EveryoneShouldKnow"

JBL?

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Poor Kayla has been hounded off Twitter by fans,

Bastards every single one of them.

She’s still on Instagram but some of the ****e wwe superstars get online is ridiculous.

I don't know the background of all his beef with Goldberg, Jericho, Lance Storm and Booker T but being honest I kinda like him telling all the old fogeys to, more or less, fúck off...

https://twitter.com/superkingofbros/status/1158374974501113861?s=21

Need more guys with his piss and vinegar instead of this...

I'm really enjoying Riddle's stuff and hope it goes somewhere.

Having said that, nostalgia is a phase people go in and out of. Currently people are hungry for new stuff, new names etc so that's what is hot and people act like nostalgia is the worst thing ever. But people also loved when they did that stuff at Raw 1000 or Raw 25. Now it's not 'cool', so some act like Raw Reunion was them spitting in the face of wrestling, when essentially it's the exact same type of show that people loved when it was 'cool'. If anything, I found it better than normal because at least the nostalgic names and pairings (e.g. Cena with Rikishi, Santino, Melina etc) were fresh and we hadn't seen in that spot before, whereas in previous years you'd be able to list off who to expect and they'd just show up and do their shtick (e.g. Ron Simmons is going to say "Damn" at some stage).

So it's not like nostalgia is this evil thing. It's perfectly fine and every company uses it (sure AEW are milking Tony Schiavone, Jake Roberts and Tully Blanchard is Shawn Spears' new manager). Riddle is just working and getting over by picking up on the current mood and, like I said, I hope they capitalise on it. Riddle/Goldberg is becoming a WrestleMania-worthy match because of this.

Yeah he definitely told Jericho he’d bash him publicly to get in AEW’s good books.

I wanna live in your brain for an hour, I’d say it’s ****ing wild.

Out of curiosity lawlolawl, what is the last WWE thing you enjoyed?

Smackdown goes live in October on FOX and will be preempted in its 3rd week on FOX by the the World Series.