Any weird wrestling conspiracy theories you have or believe?

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[Allie Kitsune]

I don't think anybody thinks highly enough of WWE management to classify any conspiracy theory as "weird", or beyond the realm of plausibility for the McMahons, McDevitt, and Kevin Dunn to pull off...

[Bub (BLM)]

Biggest one I can think of is the Daniel Bryan situation. I definitely think their forcing him to retire was more about politics than his personal safety.

[jagilki]

I've always suspected wrestling may not be 100% on the level. I suspect maybe sometimes a wrestler takes a fall or something. Something's just not quit 100 legit.

[Deleted]

The Arn/Flair 95 feud was nuked and the turn on Sting/horseman reforming brought forward rapidly because they were getting great reactions (as was Sting as Luger's advocate in the angle with Hogan) and Hogan was getting destroyed by the crowd.

The most over angles were Arn/Flair based on former partners fighting, Savage not trusting Luger's alignment and Sting trying to play peacemaker.

Within weeks of Nitro beginning Hogan had accused Savage and Sting (his best friends) and got turned on by Jimmy Hart. There's more to it as well but I haven't watched those shows in a while, but it's pretty clear to me Hogan not only killed the angles that had better reactions than them but also cannibalised the main storyline aspects to arrest his own slide.

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Feb 2, 2018 15:08:29 GMT -5 Bub (BLM) said:

Biggest one I can think of is the Daniel Bryan situation. I definitely think their forcing him to retire was more about politics than his personal safety.

Yes, I've also thought this to an extent.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

I choose to believe every eccentric story about Vince McMahon because it makes the world a more enjoyable place.

[bootytea]

I'm not totally convinced the Montreal screwjob wasn't a work.

[Gerard Gerard]

On occasion, I feel like the design of the main shows is laid out in a manner that deliberately undermines NXT alumni. Sometimes I see the likes of Balor's title win or Nakamura's Rumble deal and feel like a pure tinfoil-hat nut and other times I look at the likes of American Alpha DOA-ing and go "hmm, maybe."

[Push R Truth]

... I fully believe the best way to "get over" with Vince is to treat him like a normal person and call him out on his business shit when it needs to get called out. But then the opposite is true with his non-business shit. You just go along for the ride and he'll love you.



Basically Business Vince respects people that don't bow down to him on every little detail, but Party Vince wants somebody to eat 50 snocones and compliment his old-white-guy dancing.


The tricky part is the balance between knowing when to disagree with Vince. Because if you just say NO all the time that's worse than just always doing everything he says.

[MrElijah]

Well.....Jack Tunney was on the Take.

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

BOMBSHELL TONIGHT!

[Urethra Franklin]

Feb 2, 2018 15:26:56 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

I choose to believe every eccentric story about Vince McMahon because it makes the world a more enjoyable place.

ACHOOO!!

[CMPunkyBrewster]

Feb 2, 2018 15:29:59 GMT -5 bootytea said:

I'm not totally convinced the Montreal screwjob wasn't a work.

As the years have gone on, and I've watched all the footage from the event a million times, plus the "Wrestling with Shadows" stuff a million times, and heard all the interviews with Hart, Michaels, and many others close to those 2 and the situation...

Yeah, something is fishy there. Especially when Hall, Nash, and X-Pac have all alluded to or flat-out said they think it was a work. These are Michaels' and Triple H's best friends, and even they know some shit ain't right.

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

Feb 2, 2018 18:29:44 GMT -5 CMPunkyBrewster said:

Feb 2, 2018 15:29:59 GMT -5 bootytea said:

I'm not totally convinced the Montreal screwjob wasn't a work.

As the years have gone on, and I've watched all the footage from the event a million times, plus the "Wrestling with Shadows" stuff a million times, and heard all the interviews with Hart, Michaels, and many others close to those 2 and the situation...

Yeah, something is fishy there. Especially when Hall, Nash, and X-Pac have all alluded to or flat-out said they think it was a work. These are Michaels' and Triple H's best friends, and even they know some shit ain't right.

And my rebuttal to that is, at this point it's been 20 years. 20 years, and between the at least one dozen people who would have to be involved for this to be a work.....ALL of them, to a man, still maintain that it was a shoot. When almost none of them stand to gain anything from them not selling THAT story to the highest bidder, not even greedy f***er Earl Hebner has said it's was a work. In 20 years. If it were a work, someone would have slipped up long before now. Hall, Nash, and Waltman may have been HBK's best buddy, but they also weren't there, so their suspicions carry zero weight with me.

[Push R Truth]

Believe it or not, Undertaker has been manhandled like that before.

[Deleted]

Somehow I doubt that tonight is the greatest night in the history of our sport.

[Final Countdown Jones]

I believe that Wellness is crooked as shit when it comes to steroids, and they'll make exceptions for dudes. Roman getting busted for Adderall has no bearing on whether or not he'd get a Wellness "exception" for anything performance-enhancing he might take, and they punished him for it expressly because he was taking recreational drugs as the golden boy that that specifically would not be allowed. Wouldn't be the first time someone in wrestling said they got shit for taking the "wrong drugs".

[Manute Bol]

Feb 2, 2018 15:08:29 GMT -5 Bub (BLM) said:

Biggest one I can think of is the Daniel Bryan situation. I definitely think their forcing him to retire was more about politics than his personal safety.

I am surprised I don't see this speculated more often. You couldn't convince me in a million years that if Roman Reigns was approved by all those doctors they'd still keep him out of the ring.

[CMPunkyBrewster]

Feb 2, 2018 18:38:49 GMT -5 2coldMack is even more baffled said:

Feb 2, 2018 18:29:44 GMT -5 CMPunkyBrewster said:

As the years have gone on, and I've watched all the footage from the event a million times, plus the "Wrestling with Shadows" stuff a million times, and heard all the interviews with Hart, Michaels, and many others close to those 2 and the situation...

Yeah, something is fishy there. Especially when Hall, Nash, and X-Pac have all alluded to or flat-out said they think it was a work. These are Michaels' and Triple H's best friends, and even they know some shit ain't right.

And my rebuttal to that is, at this point it's been 20 years. 20 years, and between the at least one dozen people who would have to be involved for this to be a work.....ALL of them, to a man, still maintain that it was a shoot. When almost none of them stand to gain anything from them not selling THAT story to the highest bidder, not even greedy f***er Earl Hebner has said it's was a work. In 20 years. If it were a work, someone would have slipped up long before now. Hall, Nash, and Waltman may have been HBK's best buddy, but they also weren't there, so their suspicions carry zero weight with me.

Ok. Good for you.

I'm not going into my reasonings because this is a thread where we discuss wrestling conspiracy theories we may believe. It's going to be ridiculous, and that's the point. Leave your rebuttals elsewhere.