Mochi Lone Wolf
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Jan 10, 2023 19:20:32 GMT -5
How many former talent have talked shit about Steph? I'm pretty sure it's all been that they liked Steph. Gail Kim, Scott Steiner
Scott Steiner doesn't like anybody. He's not a reliable source on how good or bad someone is. Gail Kim is someone who's opinion I'd take into consideration.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jan 10, 2023 19:21:00 GMT -5
If Trips steps down, TK is gonna be blowing up his phone asking if he and Steph want to join AEW/ROH. TK has been kind of struggling to find a good Talent Relations person. If HHH leaves WWE, one would basically fall into his lap. Steph as the top PR exec.
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Jan 10, 2023 19:21:59 GMT -5
The replies Stephanie’s statement which she posted on instagram back up the belief that many of us have that Stephanie was very well liked in wwe by the talent. Renee young, Escobar, Shotzi(who wrote a very warm reply), and Tegan nox liked her statement. This is not good. How many former talent have talked shit about Steph? I'm pretty sure it's all been that they liked Steph. I forget who it was, but there was a story about one of the wrestlers pitching an idea to Steph and Steph telling him it was one of the goofiest ideas she'd ever heard, but they'd go with it if he believed that much in it.
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Post by ace on Jan 10, 2023 19:22:10 GMT -5
Scott Steiner doesn't like anybody. He's not a reliable source on how good or bad someone is. Gail Kim is someone who's opinion I'd take into consideration. Gail acknowledges that Stephanie eventually did positive things for talent, women in particular. But Gail worked there when she wasn’t doing those things.
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Jan 10, 2023 19:22:25 GMT -5
Vince's treatment of his children actually would make him worse than Saddam Hussein. Genuinely. Its seriously messed up. I can't get over just how pathetic he really is. Its bad enough what we learned about the pay offs but to have so little respect for his own, its simply astonishing. And yet as others have pointed out, the fans will cheer him very soon when he comes out to rub it everyone's face. It would at least make it more tolerable if I knew he would catch absolute hell from the fans...but he won't. If you're an advertiser and you see Vince getting cheered, do you run screaming the other way or stick around? Considering how little advertisers like wrestling to begin with, I'd assume any still around are there for the long haul.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Jan 10, 2023 19:22:40 GMT -5
We are 10 days into the year
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Jan 10, 2023 19:22:47 GMT -5
Trips isn’t going anywhere I think. Like Vince will probably take over creative but I don’t see hunter having the Will or gumption to start his own shit or buy a company. He’s engrained in this, even if he’s demoted. The family is, even if they “lose official roles” in it. Vince wins again. That’s it. Honestly? I don't even see the guy getting demoted. Vince has more of a say, sure, but I don't think EVERYONE leaves. I know there's a lot of "OMG IT'S VINCE!" going around right now, but two thirds of your leadership team doesn't inspire investor confidence and for all the nonsense about him being obsessed with WWE, he's probably more obsessed with making money and leaving on top.
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Post by mc74 on Jan 10, 2023 19:23:17 GMT -5
This type of self-sabotage puts Billy Graham's to shame. It's one thing for a wrestler to sabotage their own character out of sheer pettiness, but what Vince is doing is next level. This son of a bitch is willing to sabotage any kind of chance of WWE succeeding under Trips & Steph in order to make it clear he's not letting WWE move on without him.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Jan 10, 2023 19:23:44 GMT -5
The only bright side to any of this is that Vince McMahon is so thoroughly torching his reputation with every move he makes that anyone except the mouthbreathers who cheered him the night he came out after his allegations were aired has to think he's scum by now. Vince might be taking back what he wants, but he is losing so much in the process.
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Post by john84 on Jan 10, 2023 19:23:49 GMT -5
Somewhere in Stamford, Regal is swinging a bat around their head office and screaming WAR GAMES To which the RAW, SmackDown and NXT rosters respond with
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Jan 10, 2023 19:23:52 GMT -5
TK has been kind of struggling to find a good Talent Relations person. If HHH leaves WWE, one would basically fall into his lap. Steph as the top PR exec. If you're trying to tell people you're Pepsi, but then you start hiring lead execs from Coke, that might start making people think you're Coke. Even if they were available, I highly, highly doubt Tony would want them, and I doubt they'd want to go.
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Post by Kalmia on Jan 10, 2023 19:23:58 GMT -5
I saw that Stephanie had resigned on a wrestling memes page and thought it was a joke.
She seems really well-liked by the wrestlers and staff. IIRC, some weren't overly enthusiastic about her writing back when she was in creative, but I don't recall much negativity about her as a person and she's largely been liked since she left the day-to-day creative team.
She still has her shares, right? I know her and Trips have off loaded some, but they still hold most of them, I think.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jan 10, 2023 19:24:50 GMT -5
How many former talent have talked shit about Steph? I'm pretty sure it's all been that they liked Steph. I forget who it was, but there was a story about one of the wrestlers pitching an idea to Steph and Steph telling him it was one of the goofiest ideas she'd ever heard, but they'd go with it if they believed that much in it. It was the John Morrison "We're gonna eat your lunch" shirt. He told Steph about it, she said it was the dumbest thing she ever heard but they'd make the shirt.
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Post by Error on Jan 10, 2023 19:24:59 GMT -5
Well, guess I'll keep up with the Bray Wyatt stuff from afar.
This is amazing. I think Vince has some Elon like deal with the Saudis to take WWE private again. 51/49 with them gaining control when the old man croaks in a few years.
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Post by XIII on Jan 10, 2023 19:25:24 GMT -5
Vince and his sexual harassment NDAs vs. his family. It’s a shoot, jabroni mark brothers.
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Post by john84 on Jan 10, 2023 19:25:29 GMT -5
Felt compelled to put this small edit together Give this post a 1000 likes people.
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Jan 10, 2023 19:25:32 GMT -5
I saw that Stephanie had resigned on a wrestling memes page and thought it was a joke. She seems really well-liked by the wrestlers and staff. IIRC, some weren't overly enthusiastic about her writing back when she was in creative, but I don't recall much negativity about her as a person and she's largely been liked since she left the day-to-day creative team. She still has her shares, right? I know her and Trips have off loaded some, but they still hold most of them, I think. She's going to get paid when they sell either way, so I doubt she really cares, honestly. She gets to go home and chill with her kids while they presumably make a shit ton of money off the deal. She's not some white knight in all this, either.
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Jan 10, 2023 19:26:23 GMT -5
How many former talent have talked shit about Steph? I'm pretty sure it's all been that they liked Steph. I forget who it was, but there was a story about one of the wrestlers pitching an idea to Steph and Steph telling him it was one of the goofiest ideas she'd ever heard, but they'd go with it if he believed that much in it. That sounds like Stevie Richards and his idea to make Sunday Night Heat "Stevie Night Heat" or something like that.
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Post by XIII on Jan 10, 2023 19:27:36 GMT -5
We are 10 days into the year 2023 = hold my beer Juvi on a tequila fueled PCP ecstasy binge in Australia
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Jan 10, 2023 19:27:54 GMT -5
So with the unanimous vote, is this because the board actually believes VKM is the best person for the job or a self-serving action to avoid any retaliatory action? Or a bit of column A and a bit of column B.
What I'm wondering is: there was absolutely no one in the WWE executive who was willing to even protest vote VKM's return?
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