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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 25, 2024 22:49:27 GMT -5
Heel has been used as a term for an unpleasant person before wrestling adopted it. It’s not heard that much now but it was common enough to be used more frequently in the past. IIRC the mother in Home Alone uses it. She says something like “don’t you feel like a heel being in first class when the kids are all in economy”.
Can’t recall any examples of it being followed by “turn” anywhere else though.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 21, 2024 17:50:53 GMT -5
Kudos to him for doing it. Still need a lot more of these though Hulkster to get yourself off the “naughty” list.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 21, 2024 17:36:11 GMT -5
No doubt that in the US the ad space in the superbowl would be more valuable. But every country that shows the World Cup final will also be commanding a high price for ad time during their broadcast of one match. One match, that bears repeating. The World Cup has sixty four (or thereabouts) matches. Some of those group matches probably have a higher global audience than the Super Bowl. Admittedly for the following, I just did a quick Google search but apparently the Super Bowl makes on average $750m. The last World Cup made $6b. I just don’t see how globally, the Super Bowl is a more valuable brand than the World Cup or the Olympic Games. I don't think either of us are saying that the Superbowl is bigger. Just that the airtime for an advert is. No companies are spending millions hiring celebrities just for an ad that will be shown during the World Cup, after all. I doubt any channels are charging $7 million for a 30-second ad during half time either. Who even watches the ads during half time in a football (soccer) match? It's only 15 minutes - just enough for a bathroom break and to get a drink. I actually never even mentioned advertising in my original post. I just said that the World Cup was a bigger brand globally based on the combined factors. Back to the topic at hand, I’m surprised to see AEW valued that highly. Not saying they’re not a big name but I never thought they were quite that valuable. But I’m not exactly a source on the subject.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 21, 2024 16:35:47 GMT -5
Hogan/Warrior at the 1990 Royal Rumble.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 21, 2024 16:08:13 GMT -5
The Superbowl will have tons more money in ads then the World Cup. Americans love adverts and the whole Superbowl ads is a massive thing. The World Cup final might have a bigger global audience but its spread out across every country and each countries specific channel so not like all eyes are on one channel. And in the UK at least as an example, most people watch it on BBC which don't have adverts No doubt that in the US the ad space in the superbowl would be more valuable. But every country that shows the World Cup final will also be commanding a high price for ad time during their broadcast of one match. One match, that bears repeating. The World Cup has sixty four (or thereabouts) matches. Some of those group matches probably have a higher global audience than the Super Bowl. Admittedly for the following, I just did a quick Google search but apparently the Super Bowl makes on average $750m. The last World Cup made $6b. I just don’t see how globally, the Super Bowl is a more valuable brand than the World Cup or the Olympic Games.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 21, 2024 15:23:09 GMT -5
The Superbowl is probably more valuable in advertising money. I'm sure the cost of advertising during the Superbowl is way higher than getting ad space during halftime of the World Cup final. I think virtually every country in the world that isn't the US would probably laugh at you if you said the Superbowl was a bigger brand though. Around 1.5 billion people supposedly watched the last World Cup final. I’d say overall the advertising in the World Cup final would be more. Twenty times more people watched the World Cup final than the Super Bowl and each country it was shown in would have different adverts for the final. And that’s just the final, there’s the dozens of matches in the tournament before it. And if you want to go with only yearly events, the Champions League final gets half a billion viewers. And then there’s the Tour de France, damn near half the population of the world apparently watches that bastard at some point!
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 20, 2024 18:01:44 GMT -5
Forbes hasn't been the Forbes of old so I take this with a grain of salt. Obviously, Tony will keep funding the company until he doesn't want to Forbes claimed the SuperBowl is a more valuable brand than the World Cup and the Olympics. Ever since then I stopped listening to anything to they say.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 17, 2024 1:49:24 GMT -5
Scott Steiner saying “he’s fat”.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 16, 2024 15:59:23 GMT -5
Well, that was a pretty dull night in the Champions League! And another. Come on guys, pull your fingers out!
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 16, 2024 5:16:06 GMT -5
The threads that were locked earlier were threads where the previous last post was well over a year ago, sometimes two years. If you’re posting in a thread that’s been inactive for a couple of months, then as long as it’s adding to to the topic, rather than an obvious bump or something similar, then I don’t see an issue with it.
There is no official rule about this (for the moment) but I’d say six months is about the limit from the previous final post. This is not binding in any way, just my own immediate answer when I thought about it.
There are exceptions. Say a thread is started about a film that is about to go into production. A year or so later, we get the first trailer released. In this example it would be acceptable to “revive” the thread with a new post containing the trailer. But I wouldn’t have an issue with there being a new thread started either.
Again, please don’t take this as gospel though. If we do need to make it an official rule, then it will be more clearly defined.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 15, 2024 9:13:09 GMT -5
35 years ago today, thousands went to a football match. 97 of those were unlawfully killed. Justice for the 97.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 15, 2024 0:06:05 GMT -5
It’ll be interesting to see if Alonso goes for the unbeaten record with seven games still to go in the Bundesliga. Obviously the feat of going undefeated in the league is a tremendous achievement but will Alonso rest players for the remaining league matches so his first choice team will be fresher for the cup competitions?
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 14, 2024 20:25:52 GMT -5
I hardly watch any more (mainly as I’ve cancelled the channel that shows games here) so I’m not that up to speed with recent stuff but can anyone stop the Celtics winning it all? I know that having the regular season record is no guarantee of victory in the play-offs but who is the most likely to stop them?
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 13, 2024 11:14:46 GMT -5
Stockport win! The Hatters are promoted again! Of course, everywhere will wank on about Wrexham being promoted and barely mention Stockport.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 12, 2024 19:26:06 GMT -5
It’s been a couple of days. Hopefully people have calmed down a bit now. There was discussion about this topic and whether or not just to keep this locked and leave it at that. But it is a big story regarding wrestlers and as we are a wrestling forum, it’s just too big a deal to not be discussed.
However, I would ask anyone who hasn’t yet to read this post and the one immediately above it. If you can’t discuss it without it how we’ve asked you to, then don’t discuss it at all. And if you still can’t do that and still hit “post” after typing a post of the kind you’ve been asked not to make. Then pack your bags, as you’ll be taking a nice break from this board.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 12, 2024 1:55:54 GMT -5
When the timing is right, some tag team finishers look amazing. Power and Glory’s superplex/big splash springs to mind. Total Elimination is another.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 11, 2024 22:06:06 GMT -5
The legendary Brazilian footballer that AJ Styles has a kick named for, his name is not pronounced Pay-lay. Please pass this onto your commentators.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 11, 2024 4:57:41 GMT -5
The main discussion thread on this topic has been locked for a reason, please don’t use this thread (or any others) to discuss it here.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 11, 2024 1:58:18 GMT -5
Right. I am going to say this once and that’s it.
Think before you post. Take a few minutes before you hit “post” and read through what you’ve just typed. Does it come across as inflammatory? Is it condescending? Is it baiting? Is it out and out flaming? Does it add to the “tribalism” that for some reason has to exist because God f***ing forbid there be two successful major mainstream wrestling promotions in the US? If the answer to any of those is even “maybe” then don’t post it.
I am locking this thread for a short period so people can take a few minutes to calm down, maybe even decide that it’s way too early/late to be having this argument and that I really should go to sleep and see how I feel about it later.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 10, 2024 17:13:48 GMT -5
She’s really good, she had a really good weekend and over time, could easily be (and I really hope she is) a worthy successor to The Fink.
But there’s still no contest. Finkel is the greatest.
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