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Post by Chainsaw on Apr 11, 2019 19:19:29 GMT -5
See, finding out that it was RD Evans that quit before he got fired really pisses me off now. Dude is great, and he didn't deserve this crazy b(m)illionaire bullshit.
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Post by Chainsaw on Apr 11, 2019 19:31:53 GMT -5
WWE was always a dream of mine but the more I read about these backstage stories, it seems like a god awful place to work. I've had friends who have worked at WWE at various times, and have one friend currently working there, and all of them say it's a real drag at times. I feel like it's like any job that we build up as being a dream job, there are moments, but for the most part, it's no dream. Not only is it like most corporate jobs where there's all sorts of nutty things going on, bosses to answer to, anxiety through the roof, they also cute having to live in Stanford and not being paid enough to afford to live there as another big concern. I'm glad now that I never got the job I went for the one time I got an interview there, and that was probably at a time where business was better and everyone was more sane.
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Post by MrElijah on Apr 11, 2019 19:44:18 GMT -5
I'm calling it now - Vince will not be running the company in a year's time. Can they vote him out? WOULD they vote him out?
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 11, 2019 20:11:05 GMT -5
I'm calling it now - Vince will not be running the company in a year's time. Can they vote him out? WOULD they vote him out? There are ways it can be done, but it involves lots of lawyers and such usually.
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Post by lildude8218 on Apr 11, 2019 20:28:08 GMT -5
so moments after Mixed Martial Archie loses his job an MMA fighter attacks Bret Hart.
We've found the connection, people.
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Post by nisidhe on Apr 11, 2019 21:51:57 GMT -5
I'm calling it now - Vince will not be running the company in a year's time. I have noticed a distinct lack of any public announcements concerning the establishment of the XFL since the initial ones. There have been none about executives being recruited, no team branding has been unveiled; nothing about which venues are being chosen and no information about advance ticket prices. For a league set to begin next year, you'd think there'd have been some hype during the process. It feels eerily as if Vince is hoping that the talk of XFL will die down and be forgotten.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 11, 2019 21:56:04 GMT -5
Yeah, this whole thing is ridiculous. It’s fine if Vince would rather not be mentioned during these speeches, especially if the reasoning is that the spotlight should be on the talent (though it clearly isn’t always, remember them using Beth Phoenix’s induction as an excuse to play Edge’s music?), but to make some hard and fast rule about it when, ideally, your inductees should be getting the chance to speak from the heart and say something genuine and real about their careers? And then somebody backstage has to fall on their sword over that? Get the hell out of here, that’s ridiculous.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Apr 11, 2019 22:01:15 GMT -5
I'm calling it now - Vince will not be running the company in a year's time. I have noticed a distinct lack of any public announcements concerning the establishment of the XFL since the initial ones. There have been none about executives being recruited, no team branding has been unveiled; nothing about which venues are being chosen and no information about advance ticket prices. For a league set to begin next year, you'd think there'd have been some hype during the process. It feels eerily as if Vince is hoping that the talk of XFL will die down and be forgotten. AAF was scheduled to still be running 2 more weeks I believe, I didn’t expect them to have anything major planned until after they were done. I imagine once May hits, we’ll start seeing more info released.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Apr 11, 2019 22:03:05 GMT -5
It feels eerily as if Vince is hoping that the talk of XFL will die down and be forgotten. Well, except for that whole thing where they're releasing press notes almost every day at the moment and were just covered two days ago by every major sports outlet for some new rule they're instituting...
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Post by pottsy87 on Apr 11, 2019 22:06:22 GMT -5
Hopefully this leads to more HoopzChat
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Post by ChitownKnight on Apr 11, 2019 22:55:18 GMT -5
I'm calling it now - Vince will not be running the company in a year's time. That would be a pretty surreal thing. He’s been running the company since long before I was born. Hell the wwe we all know from Hogan to present day is Vince. Even though it would be for the best I can’t imagine a wwe without him being the head guy
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2019 0:10:43 GMT -5
Has the F4W updated info been posted here yet?
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Post by Starshine on Apr 12, 2019 0:16:51 GMT -5
WWE just keeps sounding like a great place to work. All those eggshells make such a soothing crunch when stepped on.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Apr 12, 2019 0:19:41 GMT -5
Ok, I get stuff being tense after the Bret stuff, I really do. But that’s on security for doing nothing and I get wrestlers have a right to defend their own but honestly, security’s job is to PREVENT that from happening too even if you could argue the guy deserved it.
Blaming something that you have probably seen already and gave the approved of because you’re still mad about something? Yeah, I don’t get that.
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Post by sfvega on Apr 12, 2019 0:45:34 GMT -5
How do people still defend this legitimately crazy overgrown baby? The HOF is not about the wrestlers getting honored for their entire careers of service or about the ability of people who work there now being able to put on an entertaining show or even about the fans getting to hear anecdotes from legends. No, what these shows are about are the unpredictable mood changes of a guy who is 3/4 of the way through the John du Pont playbook, minus the drugs. He should have went off on security instead of berating whomever and making him lose his livelihood.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Apr 12, 2019 2:58:50 GMT -5
Oh I skipped like 4 pages lol Anyways regardless of how wrong it is I gotta say I'm shocked I could only name two names off hand like that. Vince seems like the kind of dude that would have a lot of dudes that would wanna knock him one. This thread made me try and think of that too, and those were the only 2 names I could pull. There has to have been more then those 2 who have punched Vince There was that story about Vince telling Kofi "Maybe you'll be over someday" years ago and Jericho telling Kofi to go and stand up to Vince about it. It wasn't a punch, but it was something.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Apr 12, 2019 9:33:33 GMT -5
Hunter should rehire the guy, have him wear a fake mustache, and see if Vince recognizes him.
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Post by spagett on Apr 12, 2019 18:59:33 GMT -5
See, finding out that it was RD Evans that quit before he got fired really pisses me off now. Dude is great, and he didn't deserve this crazy b(m)illionaire bullshit. At least by the sounds of it RD Evans left with dignity and style. Bryan Alvarez says Vince flipped his lid and kicked Evans out of Gorilla position so Evans said "I'll do you one better, I quit", shook Vinces hand and told him "I hope you learn a lesson" then left. That sounds pretty badass to me. He immediately took all the power away from Vince in the situation.
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Post by adamclark52 on Apr 12, 2019 21:13:34 GMT -5
I liked RD Evans in Ring of Honor. Great mouthpiece and heat magnet.
If those really were his lines to Vince than I like him even more.
(but Vince will never learn any lesson)
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Apr 12, 2019 21:59:17 GMT -5
If Vince really has nobody to rein him in then it must be more of a nightmare to work there by the day. Power in WWE is too centralized, and as Vince gets older and loses more of a grip on shit, it's really looking like things are going to get worse until he's out of the picture
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