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Post by ________ has left the building on Dec 25, 2014 20:44:46 GMT -5
In addition, the bigger thing to realize for international PPVs is that...it's 2015. Spoilers are a thing unless you're going live...and if spoilers get out there, the ratings or buyrates take a nosedive. Fans WANT live TV and live PPVs, and international broadcasts just aren't feasible to go live (and if you're a European fan who doesn't see the problem, answer me this: Would you go to a big live event at 1 in the morning if it means your country gets a legit worldwide pay-per-view event?) If the question is "should Europe or Asia get their own PPV events live, like they had for the UK in the late '90s-early '00s? That should happen, and more WWE Network specials are a good thing...but in the modern, post-Internet era, a worldwide PPV coming from any country outside North America is just unfeasible for everyone. TNA did Bound for Glory in Japan. What? Stop laughing! Spoilers were out for that show before 2pm. So unless they are airing the show live at 2am Central time, it's going to be spoiled. Every Raw and Smackdown taped in the UK is spoiled before the last match happens.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 25, 2014 21:05:38 GMT -5
TNA did Bound for Glory in Japan. What? Stop laughing! Spoilers were out for that show before 2pm. So unless they are airing the show live at 2am Central time, it's going to be spoiled. Every Raw and Smackdown taped in the UK is spoiled before the last match happens. It was a (bad?) joke.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Dec 25, 2014 21:49:20 GMT -5
Yknow this thread could send Catch Us into a complete breakdown if he realized there are potentially billions of people in the world that will probably never be featured on Raw or Smackdown. Billions of people who deserve Roman Reigns' push more than Roman, too. I'm sure that least one of those billions probably can do more moves in a Match.
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Post by RadcapRadsley on Dec 25, 2014 21:52:33 GMT -5
With a population of 140 million and a leader like Vladimir Putin to inspire them Russia should have more home grown wrestlers instead of being reliant on Bulgarian imports.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Dec 25, 2014 22:08:16 GMT -5
With a population of 140 million and a leader like Vladimir Putin to inspire them Russia should have more home grown wrestlers instead of being reliant on Bulgarian imports. It's funny how a country that is almost so ubiquitously represented in wrestling is rarely represented by people actually from said country. At least Rusev's defection was slightly covered on TV so in the narrative he's still Bulgarian, just representing Russia now. Lana was born in the United States, but raised in Latvia during the fall of the Soviet Union, so it's not THAT much of a stretch as it seems. Others though? Nikolai Volkoff, as Soviet as it gets... born in what was Yugoslavia, but is now Croatia. Vladimir Kozlov? Ukraine, also around the time that the Soviet Union was still a thing. "The Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff? Canada. Nikita Koloff and Krusher Kruschev? F***ing MINNESOTA!
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 25, 2014 22:43:31 GMT -5
With a population of 140 million and a leader like Vladimir Putin to inspire them Russia should have more home grown wrestlers instead of being reliant on Bulgarian imports. I know this post was tongue in cheak, but anyone who hasn't should check out the IWF. It's the only regularly active Russian fed I beleive still around. Here's their website: www.wrestlingfederation.ru/
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Post by FinalGwen on Dec 25, 2014 22:53:36 GMT -5
Lana should bring in a North Korean and a Chinese wrestler as a tag team to back Rusev up on his way to the title. Can we come up with a catchy nickname for this stable? "Workers Of The World"?
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 25, 2014 23:06:56 GMT -5
With a population of 140 million and a leader like Vladimir Putin to inspire them Russia should have more home grown wrestlers instead of being reliant on Bulgarian imports. It's funny how a country that is almost so ubiquitously represented in wrestling is rarely represented by people actually from said country. At least Rusev's defection was slightly covered on TV so in the narrative he's still Bulgarian, just representing Russia now. Lana was born in the United States, but raised in Latvia during the fall of the Soviet Union, so it's not THAT much of a stretch as it seems. Others though? Nikolai Volkoff, as Soviet as it gets... born in what was Yugoslavia, but is now Croatia. Vladimir Kozlov? Ukraine, also around the time that the Soviet Union was still a thing. "The Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff? Canada. Nikita Koloff and Krusher Kruschev? F***ing MINNESOTA! To Be fair Kozlov was born in the Ukriane when the USSR existed so you could kinda say he was Russian in that respect
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2014 23:07:27 GMT -5
We need a new badass Samoan.
Yeah yeah, Reigns, but a new Islander kind of dude like Umaga.
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Dec 26, 2014 1:10:38 GMT -5
Can we come up with a catchy nickname for this stable? "Workers Of The World"? I'm stealing this name for future use.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Dec 26, 2014 6:44:15 GMT -5
Screw countries, I want planets represented. Where are the Perry Saturns or Planet Stasiaks? We need a new badass Samoan. Yeah yeah, Reigns, but a new Islander kind of dude like Umaga. Then people will complain that Vince thinks it's 1985 and/or call the gimmick racist. Just like they did when Umaga debuted.
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