Tom Turkey
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Post by Tom Turkey on Sept 4, 2020 20:29:21 GMT -5
fyi - Here is a list of active, on-screen talent who use their real names as ring names: Tozawa, Orton, Cena, Garza, Lashley, Humberto, Shelton, Keith Lee, Roode, Mickie, Shayna, Gulak, Jeff Hardy, Shinsuke, Fish, Gargano, Candice, Raul Mendoza, Chelsea Green, Jessamyn Duke, Catanzaro, Santana Garrett, Ariya Daivari, Kendrick, Nese Randall Norton,Minnie Jane,Chelsea Olive and Robby Rashey would be great additions to AEW What’s Donny Gargano doing on Impact? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 20:30:13 GMT -5
Punk, dick that he is, has a good point. Call their bluff. Want out of your contract because you're miserable? Open a twitch stream. Jado, Gedo, and Tony Khan are all probably on a group call right now laughing their asses off at this and waiting to see who they can get on a firesale. Seriously. Is Vince really going to fire Asuka, Adam Cole, and the New Day all at once while AEW is salivating at the prospect? New Day would fit right in with a trios division if AEW did one. Asuka would slip right into the AEW women's division no problem. Adam Cole with Heel Britt would be money. Even thinking of other talent that I think streams... -Orton is probably set for life and could tell Vince to piss up a rope and retire. I could also see him as basically being a more mobile and better version of Jericho in AEW. -AJ could probably go back to New Japan in a heartbeat. Those are two BIG names that as much as Vince would like to pretend otherwise, would hurt to lose over something as stupid as this new policy. It's not 2006 anymore when WWE and LOLTNA were the only options. Before the pandemic, the indies were thriving. AEW is proving to be more than a flash in the pan. New Japan has rebuilt themselves. Vince makes evil choices all the time, but rarely does he make a decision that's both evil and as stupid as this one. |
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Post by Slingshot Suplay on Sept 4, 2020 20:30:30 GMT -5
f*** this company.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 20:30:33 GMT -5
There's no way this isn't actually about the couple of wrestlers who appeared for NL with AEW guys and have had other AEW crossovers like Dakota and Xavier.
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Post by ayumidah on Sept 4, 2020 20:36:06 GMT -5
this is vague but if it's about THIS, yeah ouch. I forgot it was his birthday today.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 20:37:38 GMT -5
There’s a video of John Cena on Howard Stern from a few years ago how Vince owns “John Cena” the real life person, not just the wrestling character.
I think this comes down Vince wanting a percentage of any money a talent makes while under contract.
I’m sure random comments from twitch getting to Vinces ear probably struck a nerve as well.
The way I look at it. When you have 70 talents building their own brands, when it comes down to it, the sum (WWE) is worth more than the parts the (wrestlers.) If someone becomes a fan of WWE because they follow Dakota Khai that’s a win for everybody.
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Allie Kitsune
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Sept 4, 2020 20:39:43 GMT -5
I don't like to s*** on Old People for being Old, since someday I'll be Old myself (some people here would already consider me Old, I think), but this is the biggest "Old Man does Spitefully Stupid Thing because he resents the Younger Generations" moment Vince has had yet.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Sept 4, 2020 20:41:18 GMT -5
Seriously. Is Vince really going to fire Asuka, Adam Cole, and the New Day all at once while AEW is salivating at the prospect? New Day would fit right in with a trios division if AEW did one. Asuka would slip right into the AEW women's division no problem. Adam Cole with Heel Britt would be money. Even thinking of other talent that I think streams... -Orton is probably set for life and could tell Vince to piss up a rope and retire. I could also see him as basically being a more mobile and better version of Jericho in AEW. According to the ol' Internet, Orton's worth about $11 million so he could easily retire right now and be fine. And if he did need money, every wrestling company in the world would bring him in for top dollar to do a quick run. He proved how bad Vince wants him just by teasing that he might go to AEW last year, he knows he holds all the cards in his relationship with Vince. |
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Post by rocket on Sept 4, 2020 20:45:55 GMT -5
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Sept 4, 2020 20:47:55 GMT -5
There’s a video of John Cena on Howard Stern from a few years ago how Vince owns “John Cena” the real life person, not just the wrestling character. If Cena is sending Vince a single cent of his movie checks because Vince owns his screen name, that's obscene. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 20:49:16 GMT -5
Vince reportedly tells talent to dance on shattered glass as they are his property god damn it!
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Allie Kitsune
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Sept 4, 2020 20:49:25 GMT -5
There’s a video of John Cena on Howard Stern from a few years ago how Vince owns “John Cena” the real life person, not just the wrestling character. If Cena is sending Vince a single cent of his movie checks because Vince owns his screen name, that's obscene. Also, if Vince owns the name "John Cena", what about John Cena Sr.? |
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Sept 4, 2020 20:50:14 GMT -5
God bless the Rock for telling Vince where he could go with wanting to claim a percentage of his movie earnings, especially now that he's been the highest paid actor multiple years running.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 20:51:02 GMT -5
If Cena is sending Vince a single cent of his movie checks because Vince owns his screen name, that's obscene. Also, if Vince owns the name "John Cena", what about John Cena Sr.? He's still alive after what Randalpf did to him?  |
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Post by mistery on Sept 4, 2020 20:54:51 GMT -5
Fightful Select updated their original report to reflect that Vince never said that he owns a wrestler's real name.
And several wrestlers have renamed their twitch channels to either their real name (in the case of Paige) or a new alias altogether (Mia Yim). Alexa Bliss also updated her cameo page so now it lists her real name instead of her ring name, at least URL wise.
Mike Rome also mentioned on his twitch stream that he was just told to change his twitch handle because WWE didn't want the talents profiting off of their IPs (which is scummy, but an entirely different level of scummy opposed to banning them from being on any platforms at all). SRS/Fightful seemed to back this report up as well.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 20:55:22 GMT -5
God bless the Rock for telling Vince where he could go with wanting to claim a percentage of his movie earnings, especially now that he's been the highest paid actor multiple years running. I honestly think that Rock doing better outside of WWE than he ever did in it financially mixed with Brock owning him in court completely broke Vince and he's been getting more and more psychotic since. |
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Post by kidkamikaze10 on Sept 4, 2020 20:56:04 GMT -5
I think it’s about time the wrestlers sue Vince and the E. Independent Contractors my butt.
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Post by boliv84 on Sept 4, 2020 20:56:35 GMT -5
I don't like to s*** on Old People for being Old, since someday I'll be Old myself (some people here would already consider me Old, I think), but this is the biggest "Old Man does Spitefully Stupid Thing because he resents the Younger Generations" moment Vince has had yet. He has also in younger years been this way when he realises he doesn't get a cut from everything they do. The most prominent example may be the fall of King Kong Bundy from Wrestlemania main eventer to released jobber. Bundy got 1987 a commercial offer from a Dutch computer company. Since it's in Europe, Bundy assumed nobody in wwf will get to know this and he did the ad without going through wwf and them taking a share. However somebody got wind of it, according to Bundy then Vince McMahon got angry at him and soon after he was not even a midcarder anymore.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Sept 4, 2020 20:58:35 GMT -5
Didn't read all 14 pages but now I know why Paige changed her Twitch name to her real name and legit her yesterday stream she was getting messages and calls from she said her boss.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 21:03:23 GMT -5
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