mattyy
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Post by mattyy on Jul 8, 2022 19:04:11 GMT -5
then maybe it shouldn't be around anymore. if vince mcmahon is the one thing keeping wwe together, then i'd rather the person who is a literal monster suffer some consequence for once.
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Post by Big BosskMan on Jul 8, 2022 19:08:56 GMT -5
Well, if he doesn't manage to escape this, I hear Disneyland is hiring for The Jungle Cruise ride...
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MrElijah
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Post by MrElijah on Jul 8, 2022 19:09:25 GMT -5
“Disgusting” cannot begin to describe Vince. We need a harsher word than this. In the words of a devoted worker killed by Vince’s negligence: Enough is enough and it’s time for a change! I said before, people should stop calling Vince a Carny he is not a Carny, he is much worse. A Fritz Von Erich?
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Jul 8, 2022 19:11:56 GMT -5
The netflix series looks to be toast. Winner for the most unprofessional comment? 'That shit's outta here' sounds like something someone wants to hear rather than something someone in that position would actually say. Granted, I expect lots of people to be cutting ties, it's just that they'll do it professionally, not like that. I suspect this was not the first time anyone at Netflix referred to a shit movie about a shit human as "that shit," and I think it's very believable someone would use it today of all days. The only way they'd release it now is if they could scoop something awful, Jinx-style, but the WWE's running the show so there's no benefit there.
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Post by SpillBeans316 on Jul 8, 2022 19:13:34 GMT -5
My local Fox News ad just promoted a story on the Vince hush money story on the news at 10.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Jul 8, 2022 19:16:28 GMT -5
Someone high up at Netflix saying an off-the-cuff remark like "that shit's outta here" is entirely believable. Not like they put it in a press release. Of all the threads that have ever existed, this is not one where you want to assume a position that people in power will conduct themself in any specific way even in official capacities, let alone in private, anonymous capacities.
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lionheart21
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Post by lionheart21 on Jul 8, 2022 19:17:45 GMT -5
Well Vince, remember that mindset of yours that "any publicity is good publicity?"
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Post by Mecca on Jul 8, 2022 19:29:41 GMT -5
For an awesome timing story...WWE is no longer concerned about backlash from the Ric Flair Dark Side of the Ring episode, they believe it's blown over.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jul 8, 2022 19:56:30 GMT -5
For an awesome timing story...WWE is no longer concerned about backlash from the Ric Flair Dark Side of the Ring episode, they believe it's blown over. So they didn't buy out DSOTR for the new season?
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Post by fw91 on Jul 8, 2022 19:57:34 GMT -5
For an awesome timing story...WWE is no longer concerned about backlash from the Ric Flair Dark Side of the Ring episode, they believe it's blown over. So they didn't buy out DSOTR for the new season? wasn't that quickly debunked by the show's creators? Or did I get that wrong?
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jul 8, 2022 19:58:08 GMT -5
So they didn't buy out DSOTR for the new season? wasn't that quickly debunked by the show's creators? Or did I get that wrong? DSOTR's future has been really weird, it feels like we've heard four different things and nothing's confirmed
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nm
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Post by nm on Jul 8, 2022 20:01:21 GMT -5
The netflix series looks to be toast.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Jul 8, 2022 20:05:11 GMT -5
With the Netflix documentary going the way it did, I imagine soon to follow will be the scripted drama about the steroid trial, which as a WWE co-production was always going to be absolute lies and dogshit. That's likely to end up on the shelf, too. It's a tragic comedy, isn't it? Vince was finally getting high profile puff pieces and mainstream acceptance, able to carve his own story and play revisionist history in the public eye as hard as he has in his own DVDs for years, and when everything is on the verge of finally lionizing him, his ugly side finally breaks out into the mainstream first and snuffs any hope of him getting things his way.
Which is to say, good, f*** him, he's a garbage man and he doesn't deserve that treatment.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Jul 8, 2022 20:19:04 GMT -5
Someone high up at Netflix saying an off-the-cuff remark like "that shit's outta here" is entirely believable. Not like they put it in a press release. Of all the threads that have ever existed, this is not one where you want to assume a position that people in power will conduct themself in any specific way even in official capacities, let alone in private, anonymous capacities. If Vince saying “f*** ‘em” after his big self-serving speech can be believable, a Netflix exec saying “that shit’s outta here” in reference to the Vince autobiography can be believable, too.
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Post by MiLB Fan on Jul 8, 2022 20:19:10 GMT -5
For an awesome timing story...WWE is no longer concerned about backlash from the Ric Flair Dark Side of the Ring episode, they believe it's blown over. I noticed that his “WOOOO!” was back in the signature open this past Monday. I’m surprised there was no thread about it.
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Post by chazraps on Jul 8, 2022 20:24:03 GMT -5
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jul 8, 2022 20:26:32 GMT -5
For an awesome timing story...WWE is no longer concerned about backlash from the Ric Flair Dark Side of the Ring episode, they believe it's blown over. Big “Detach the stone of shame, attach the stone of “triumph”!” energy with this.
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Jul 8, 2022 20:46:10 GMT -5
It’s absurd to think that only Vince can handle WWE creative and things would go left if he stepped away.
There are guys under contract with WWE who were bookers for entire promotions themselves. You mean to tell me people in WWE honestly think that if Vince went away and left Nick Khan in charge of business and, for instance, Paul Heyman in charge of creative that the fed would close their doors overnight? Bullshit it would.
People in the company really need to be reprogrammed out of Vince’s Jedi Mind Tricks before it kills their careers off for good.
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Jul 8, 2022 21:13:03 GMT -5
Well Vince, remember that mindset of yours that "any publicity is good publicity?"
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Jul 8, 2022 21:14:51 GMT -5
It’s absurd to think that only Vince can handle WWE creative and things would go left if he stepped away. There are guys under contract with WWE who were bookers for entire promotions themselves. You mean to tell me people in WWE honestly think that if Vince went away and left Nick Khan in charge of business and, for instance, Paul Heyman in charge of creative that the fed would close their doors overnight? Bullshit it would. People in the company really need to be reprogrammed out of Vince’s Jedi Mind Tricks before it kills their careers off for good. A lot of the people who support the narrative frankly are people whose careers are dead for good if Vince leaves. Kevin Dunn? Out. Bruce Prichard? Out? Johnny Ace? Already out in the first place because his only qualifications for being in the talent relations spot are that he's easy to dislike and Vince needs an Eiffel Tower buddy, and that last bit is what got everyone into this mess. Qualified business people who didn't buy into Vince's bullshit like his former chief financial and revenue officers walked because Vince wanted to overspend on talent he wasn't using to stifle AEW, and the only reasons he relented are COVID and Nick Khan being able to charm Vince into listening to sense for a hot minute. The company has been organized and set up in a way where very few people with any real power aren't simpering Vince cronies. This is by design. He wants that cult around him, and he wants a company culture where the feeling is that he's the genius saviour who absolutely can't be replaced. Everything to feed his ego. Everything to make sure that the world revolves around him. That's how he can end up in a situation where like five skeletons are dragged out at once and the response is "Damn but we're counting on you buddy how are we gonna do this".
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