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Post by Feargus McReddit on Nov 19, 2021 4:11:32 GMT -5
What gets me from a viewer standpoint, how can you get invested in a show where they have people debut and have storylines and angles one week and then the next, they're just gone with no real explanation on television?
Like, even if it happens on other shows, it at least can happen in advance enough for viewers to be informed and feel sentimental about it but are WWE going to address why Hit Row are suddenly not in the tag team battle royale on Sunday? Or even on Smackdown tonight? Because they haven't for anyone else so far.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Nov 19, 2021 4:14:27 GMT -5
I'm not 100% sure it's accurate but I read wwe have released 140 wrestlers since April of 2020 and it seems about right. It genuinely saddens me to see what WWE has become. What the ever loving f*** are wwe up to releasing Tegan nox ? On top of everything else really positive you can say about her, the main one is she’s welsh ffs. The nation of people scientifically proven to be sound. They are taking the piss with this one. Maybe PAC will put a good word in for her as they're both from Wales (source: JR). Not sure if you are kidding with the JR thing. But PAC is not Welsh, he is a Geordie
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Nov 19, 2021 4:16:39 GMT -5
I'm not 100% sure it's accurate but I read wwe have released 140 wrestlers since April of 2020 and it seems about right. It genuinely saddens me to see what WWE has become. Maybe PAC will put a good word in for her as they're both from Wales (source: JR). Not sure if you are kidding with the JR thing. But PAC is not Welsh, he is a Geordie JR said he was Welsh, I think, at Double or Nothing.
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Post by Andew9001 on Nov 19, 2021 4:21:10 GMT -5
Also Swerve continues the absolute cursed North American Title lineage Like throw that damn thing into a furnace already. Damn i've got a Miles Morales Spider-Man controller holder holding the mini belt on my shelf at home. I've got to take it down before Into the Spiderverse 2 gets cancelled.
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Post by Bo Rida on Nov 19, 2021 4:21:29 GMT -5
Not sure if you are kidding with the JR thing. But PAC is not Welsh, he is a Geordie JR said he was Welsh, I think, at Double or Nothing. ...and then got really pissed off because he was corrected.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Nov 19, 2021 4:22:45 GMT -5
JR said he was Welsh, I think, at Double or Nothing. ...and then got really pissed off because he was corrected. It sounded more jokey pissed off but then I couldn't see his face so maybe he was, I don't know.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Nov 19, 2021 4:29:01 GMT -5
Also, yeah, Taya Valkryie is pissed on Twitter and I really can't say I blame her at all considering.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Nov 19, 2021 4:29:37 GMT -5
Mean while once again the WWE 2K people are pulling out there hair again, if they have any left at this point. At this point they may have the most outdated roster ever. Unless they do WWE Wrestlemania arcade style and have only 10 roster spots.
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Post by Andew9001 on Nov 19, 2021 4:39:52 GMT -5
JoMo they wasted
Nox had a hard time with injuries and it was always going to be hard for her moving forward. A tag team was the best option for her. Her and Dakota had good chemistry but they had other plans i guess.
Hit Row. I guess they thought it would work without B Fab and then decided Hit Row just didn't work. Waste of 4 talented people.
Drake deserved better and Shane Thorne i don't know enough about to comment on.
f*** Gunner
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Post by pinja on Nov 19, 2021 4:42:11 GMT -5
Mean while once again the WWE 2K people are pulling out there hair again, if they have any left at this point. At this point they may have the most outdated roster ever. Unless they do WWE Wrestlemania arcade style and have only 10 roster spots. It's the only game that gets continuously delayed because the developer has to cut some more content.
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Post by Gopher Mod on Nov 19, 2021 4:46:17 GMT -5
Two years ago they were hiring everything that moved. Now they're firing everything that isn't bolted down. All while making record profits. While I wouldn't say record profits, they earned $43.5 million last quarter in net profit. FOURTY-THREE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. ...and John Laurinaitis/Nick Khan have the temerity to say the reason they were all released was "budget cuts"!? Get out of here with that! To me, this screams that WWE is still wanting to be bought out by some other company and they're trying to make themselves look more and more presentable by the day. Anyway, here's to hoping that most of the releases land with their feet on the ground. Most.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Nov 19, 2021 4:47:42 GMT -5
Here we go again.
I must admit this shows how little attention I pay to todays product as I don't recognise most of the names. Ofcourse that doesn't make it suck any less that people have lost their jobs.
Disappointed to see John Morrison go, honestly I would have swapped him with Miz in beating Otis for the suitcase, cashing in on Drew at ec then losing it 8 days later to Lashley. Sure it would have been short but at least he would have had a WWE title reign to his name.
None the less I'm sure he will do ok.
and Drake getting released for the 2nd time now..Damn.
Hopefully everyone will end up doing OK in the long run.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Nov 19, 2021 4:49:45 GMT -5
What gets me from a viewer standpoint, how can you get invested in a show where they have people debut and have storylines and angles one week and then the next, they're just gone with no real explanation on television? Like, even if it happens on other shows, it at least can happen in advance enough for viewers to be informed and feel sentimental about it but are WWE going to address why Hit Row are suddenly not in the tag team battle royale on Sunday? Or even on Smackdown tonight? Because they haven't for anyone else so far. Hit Row laughing and joking around and having to act like B-Fab never existed and was never there for the limited time that it happened was the most awkward thing ever. It was like something out of a Twilight Zone episode where people keep getting ripped out of reality but no one is the wiser and they act like they were never there in the first place...
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Post by Mozenrath on Nov 19, 2021 5:09:13 GMT -5
No, that’s exactly what happened. Hunter absolutely took the blame for not crushing AEW, and with his health issues sidelining him from work the dismantling happened a lot quicker then it likely would have otherwise I just don't know how Triple H wasn't able to destroy AEW, what with all the promotion NXT didn't get on the main shows. Around Survivor Series, NXT did rather well, and when that ended, their numbers eroded, only really doing well again for occasional shows like Halloween Havoc. I think the bias was already likely there even before the AEW humbling, though, as NXT has always been very expensive. I think it was a wise investment, but when you have a very impatient Vince and stockholders, having this huge cost cutting into WWE's profit margin already put the crosshairs on Triple H.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Nov 19, 2021 5:12:33 GMT -5
Xia Li and Veer are gonna have more hype packages before they debut in the company than Hit Row would have Main Roster appearances before getting fired.
Think about that. Also at this point I'm not entirely sure we'd even see Veer or Xia debut before some random release. It's just getting that f***ing weird.
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Nov 19, 2021 5:27:52 GMT -5
Hit Row is super surprising as they seemed like a good act and the company seemed to be very into them. I guess once they got to the main roster Vince saw them and didn't get them and that was that. With that said I don't feel too bad for Top Dolla after that tweet he sent out at last month where he came off like a brown nosing dip shit. Guess he couldn't transition to the main roster either like those others who lost their jobs that he put down.
Morrison was another I didn't get. I get that he's up in age but he's still in great shape and he can still go so who cares.
All the others I can't say I'm that surprised. With the Tegan the potential was definitely there but unfortunately she was so injury prone and as a result very unreliable. As a result I could see them being leery about them wanting to commit to her in anyway and honestly I don't if I can say I blame. Still feel bad for her as she's been through a lot and seems like a very nice girl in real life.
Thorne I'm kind of surprised lasted as long as he did. Not a bad worker but pretty bland and non descript. After the Retribution disaster finally ended the writing was pretty much on the wall for him as of all the people in that they clearly thought of him the least. The Outback Jack 2.0 gimmick they were trying in dark matches I'm sure would've bombed if it ever made air. He's another I also don't feel sympathy for after just now finding about the thing with Kairi.
With Drake there was always going to be a low ceiling due to his size. Comedy act bit player was really all he was going to be good for. Honestly he was lucky to still be there for another extra year and a half with them rehiring him after his sob tactic worked.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Nov 19, 2021 5:30:05 GMT -5
Two years ago they were hiring everything that moved. Now they're firing everything that isn't bolted down. All while making record profits. While I wouldn't say record profits, they earned $43.5 million last quarter in net profit. FOURTY-THREE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. ...and John Laurinaitis/Nick Khan have the temerity to say the reason they were all released was "budget cuts"!? Get out of here with that! To me, this screams that WWE is still wanting to be bought out by some other company and they're trying to make themselves look more and more presentable by the day. Anyway, here's to hoping that most of the releases land with their feet on the ground. Most. It certainly looks like they are preparing the company to look attractive to a buyer. But what if it is simpler. Vince McMahons ego. When the company first went public it was super hot and turned Vince into a billionaire. Since then the company slowly went downhill while Vince also blew money on a football league, a movie studio, etc. Hence Vince becoming "a millionaire who should be a billionaire" as CM Punk said. And he is now old and insecure so Vice wants to increase the stock and his own wealth as much as possible. And he is doing so like all other business by increasing profit at all cost.
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Post by Mecca on Nov 19, 2021 5:51:34 GMT -5
Two years ago they were hiring everything that moved. Now they're firing everything that isn't bolted down. All while making record profits. While I wouldn't say record profits, they earned $43.5 million last quarter in net profit. FOURTY-THREE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. ...and John Laurinaitis/Nick Khan have the temerity to say the reason they were all released was "budget cuts"!? Get out of here with that! To me, this screams that WWE is still wanting to be bought out by some other company and they're trying to make themselves look more and more presentable by the day. Anyway, here's to hoping that most of the releases land with their feet on the ground. Most. That number actually came in under projection and made their stock go down... we've since had 26 releases...
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Post by BorneAgain on Nov 19, 2021 6:08:32 GMT -5
Poor Morrison; guy puts in a great effort to make an A List Celebrity look great at the biggest show of the year, only in less than a year gets depushed, sees his wife released, and likely either:
A - Gets released himself a month after or B - Is so unhappy at Taya's release that he asks to be let go
Also there's something of a twisted irony in WWE creating a (fairly lackluster) storyline of the company being attacked by a group of disgruntled ex employees in Retribution, only to actually release half of them by the next year in real life (with the likes of Mace & T-Bar hardly looking too safe themselves given these cuts).
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Post by CeilingFan on Nov 19, 2021 6:11:01 GMT -5
Well, Hit Row vs The Elite is now a possibility.
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