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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Oct 20, 2018 11:02:27 GMT -5
If they just cancel the show altogether, how will they handle the world cup? Wacky multi-man match on RAW? Since Raw on the Monday after the Crown Jewel date is in England, they could move it there.
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Oct 20, 2018 11:05:02 GMT -5
If they just cancel the show altogether, how will they handle the world cup? Wacky multi-man match on RAW? Make it the Survivor Series tournament?
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Oct 20, 2018 11:07:21 GMT -5
If they just cancel the show altogether, how will they handle the world cup? Wacky multi-man match on RAW? Make it the Survivor Series tournament? They should also move DX vs. Taker/Kane to Survivor Series.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Oct 20, 2018 11:08:52 GMT -5
Next month they'll do a show on Cuba in honor of the great great humanitarian Raul Castro
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Post by nate5054 on Oct 20, 2018 11:18:38 GMT -5
Well the Saudis officially confirmed the journalists death It was a fight gone bad...wow. A week and that's the best they could come up with. Although I doubt they could have come up with anything, that's still really really bad. Like an excuse I'd be embarrassed if my 10 year old came up with it.
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Post by nate5054 on Oct 20, 2018 11:50:07 GMT -5
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't GRR a mandatory attendance thing for the Saudi people? Think it was, like the WCW show in North Korea I took a bit of a hiatus in watching wrestling from 94-97, so my history of the era isn't all that great. Keeping that in mind...I thought everyone here was just making a joke about WCW going to North Korea. f*** me if I just didn't look it up and found out it was real (or at least they were co-sponsors of the card).
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Oct 20, 2018 12:05:37 GMT -5
If they just cancel the show altogether, how will they handle the world cup? Wacky multi-man match on RAW? Since Raw on the Monday after the Crown Jewel date is in England, they could move it there. I'm hoping so, just for the ironic "Wrestling's coming home" chants.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Oct 20, 2018 12:17:29 GMT -5
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't GRR a mandatory attendance thing for the Saudi people? Think it was, like the WCW show in North Korea Did WCW run a North Korea propaganda video during that show?
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 20, 2018 14:00:56 GMT -5
Saudi Arabia - "One of our superstars was involved in hellacious carnage and like Hell In A Cell, it changed him forever"
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Post by Zombie Mod on Oct 20, 2018 14:24:33 GMT -5
If corporations aren’t humans, then explain Corporate Kane. *does Jerry Lawler nod* no one can, people have tried to explain Kane it never ends well.
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Post by Chainsaw on Oct 20, 2018 17:19:50 GMT -5
Again, they're going to have a show in Saudi Arabia, a nation that just had to admit to "accidentally" killing a journalist critical of the nation, a man who's an American citizen who was killed in a foreign country (even if the killing happened on technically sovereign soil), and in one of the biggest matches, the mayor of Knoxville County TN will be wrestling.
An American politician wrestling in a foreign totalitarian kingdom right after a journalist was brutally murdered by said nation.
If you sat Salvador Dali, Franz Kafka, and Haruki Murakami down and tried to explain this situation to them in detail, even they would think it's too bizarre to possibly be understandable.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Oct 20, 2018 17:36:46 GMT -5
Considering how much of a mark for America the owner of WWE is, one would think that the death of an American citizen orchestrated by a ruling government that his company has partnered with directly for special events would be enough to renege the deal.
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Post by Fade on Oct 20, 2018 17:44:57 GMT -5
Again, they're going to have a show in Saudi Arabia, a nation that just had to admit to "accidentally" killing a journalist critical of the nation, a man who's an American citizen who was killed in a foreign country (even if the killing happened on technically sovereign soil), and in one of the biggest matches, the mayor of Knoxville County TN will be wrestling. An American politician wrestling in a foreign totalitarian kingdom right after a journalist was brutally murdered by said nation. If you sat Salvador Dali, Franz Kafka, and Haruki Murakami down and tried to explain this situation to them in detail, even they would think it's too bizarre to possibly be understandable. Truly this is the strangest timeline. But yeah, if that report is true, it does sound like chump change. I dunno if we're savvy to all the legal details but if that's true and this shit goes on then it's down to ego. Which Vince has little of, as we all know.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2018 18:05:35 GMT -5
Considering how much of a mark for America the owner of WWE is, one would think that the death of an American citizen orchestrated by a ruling government that his company has partnered with directly for special events would be enough to renege the deal. You could say the same to the guy living in the white house. Let's be real, money triumphs all. If being patriotic makes money, then they'll do it. It is a sick world, but it has been like this since before ww2.
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 20, 2018 18:09:20 GMT -5
Kafka - "So wait a minute, let me understand this....the hero of these wrestling stories is unpopular with the audience, but the writers continue to claim he's a hero while blaming the audience for not liking him?
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Post by Perd on Oct 20, 2018 18:58:18 GMT -5
Kafka - "So wait a minute, let me understand this....the hero of these wrestling stories is unpopular with the audience, but the writers continue to claim he's a hero while blaming the audience for not liking him? “And they’re going to have an even about how great they are for treating women equally. Then, only five days later, they’re going to have an event where women can’t participate.”
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Post by Spiderf 4 on Oct 20, 2018 19:05:15 GMT -5
Kafka - "So wait a minute, let me understand this....the hero of these wrestling stories is unpopular with the audience, but the writers continue to claim he's a hero while blaming the audience for not liking him? Meanwhile Kefka from Final Fantasy 6 would say "I see zero problem with what's going on."
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Post by chazraps on Oct 20, 2018 19:19:49 GMT -5
Kafka - "So wait a minute, let me understand this....the hero of these wrestling stories is unpopular with the audience, but the writers continue to claim he's a hero while blaming the audience for not liking him? Rand - Who keeps stealing my moves?
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Post by honsou on Oct 20, 2018 19:42:07 GMT -5
To people comparing it to the NK event run by NJPW and WCW. Its pretty different because it was mostly a project from Inoki to try to encourage peace between SK and NK, as well as straight up being a terrible money loss for everyone but the actual wrestlers. I think its reasonable to argue that the NK show had a more "honorable" goal but was still an absolutely awful idea
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Post by BD Punk AKA SUSPENDED! on Oct 20, 2018 19:47:22 GMT -5
Considering how much of a mark for America the owner of WWE is, one would think that the death of an American citizen orchestrated by a ruling government that his company has partnered with directly for special events would be enough to renege the deal. I don't think Khashoggi was an American citizen, please correct me if I'm wrong. No doubt they killed Khashoggi in brutal fashion and probably cut him into many pieces under orders from Bin Salman. Killing people who disagree with the Saudi government is what they do. They are a horrible country in pretty much every way. Do a little research on them and you'll be sick. With that said, money rules all and they have tons of it. That's why Vince hasn't ripped up the Saudi contract and while our government has been slow to condemn them for this killing (among other reasons).
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