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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Jan 10, 2023 22:39:30 GMT -5
I feel like we're all living in a simulation. This can't be real. PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS NOT REAL.
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Post by No Longer a Produceman on Jan 10, 2023 22:39:33 GMT -5
Mercedes looks like a freaking genius at this point. TK might have a golden opportunity as well. We aren’t allowed to talk about AEW here. how insensitive You're not talking about AEW, you're shitting on them. As others have said, not the time or place. Read the room.
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Jan 10, 2023 22:39:49 GMT -5
"I'm old and I'm hurt, and I work with f***ing murderers." Not Phil, Paul.
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Post by HMARK Center on Jan 10, 2023 22:39:51 GMT -5
Is this really the time or place to be shitting on AEW, or any other company, for that matter? I’m sorry is it time to pretend the bloated underused roster in AEW needs more people? Just shut the f*** up, both of you.
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Post by DMO- on Jan 10, 2023 22:39:52 GMT -5
Saudis couldn’t handle Sami USO being the most over person in the company so they had to put a damn stop to it!
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Post by kingoftheindies on Jan 10, 2023 22:39:52 GMT -5
I think whoever said this will be like the NOAH exodus from All Japan that's what I'm guessing. Also betting this will be more as them being the money backers and leaving Vince to his own devices while eventually putting their own people in charge (similar to what they've done with Newcastle)
Still a very crappy way how this was handled
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2023 22:39:55 GMT -5
I'm not even gonna try to dunk on that guy who called me ridiculous for guaranteeing it was being sold to the saudis earlier, it's too sad. we all lose in this and its such a f***ing dark day for wrestling
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 10, 2023 22:39:58 GMT -5
This feels like people watching a Hurricane slowly coming towards them and there's literally nothing you can do but put your head down...
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 10, 2023 22:40:43 GMT -5
I'm beginning to think Johnny Gargano wasn't actually injured this week, that dude got into his bunker early lol
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Post by Gus Richlen: Ruffian on Jan 10, 2023 22:40:51 GMT -5
Welp, I'm gonna throw up now.
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Post by Chuck Conry on Jan 10, 2023 22:40:53 GMT -5
Realistically if Saudi buys it what are we looking at happening here?
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Post by Fade on Jan 10, 2023 22:40:55 GMT -5
Holy shit do the Acclaimed have a rap tomorrow? Max: YO LIS- no for real, shit’s f***ed y’all.
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Post by Red Mage Riot on Jan 10, 2023 22:41:00 GMT -5
So....crazy day, huh?
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Post by "The Natural" Bustin Loads on Jan 10, 2023 22:41:20 GMT -5
I'm following what happens until Mania and then I'm out. This is awful.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Jan 10, 2023 22:41:24 GMT -5
If there's a time for this....
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Post by khali on Jan 10, 2023 22:41:32 GMT -5
I feel like there’s a serious chance this would massively hurt a TV deal now.
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Post by Kalmia on Jan 10, 2023 22:41:33 GMT -5
I haven't watched WWE regularly since the Bloodline shit started in earnest, but if the Saudis do buy out WWE and put Vince back in charge, it will be a dark day for North American wrestling. The same way it was a dark day when WWE bought out WCW or ECW closed its doors.
I'm sure that the average WWE fan that was bowing to Vince when this all started is not going to know or care about any of this, but I do wonder how it will affect the TV/sponsorship deals going forward and how the wrestlers feel about it. The cynic in me thinks it won't affect the money deals at all because as long as WWE gets the ratings, the networks aren't going to care at all about who owns it. I don't know if that's the case though.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 10, 2023 22:41:54 GMT -5
I’m sorry is it time to pretend the bloated underused roster in AEW needs more people? Just shut the f*** up, both of you.We might be witnessing a cataclysmic shift in all of wrestling itself, why do people think now is the time to argue about brands? It's not, like if there were ever a time to not argue about brands, it's now, like now is literally THE MOST of that time... We gotta come together as wrestling fans right now. If there were ever a time.
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Jan 10, 2023 22:42:17 GMT -5
I feel like we're all living a simulation. This can't be real. PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS NOT REAL.
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Post by mistery on Jan 10, 2023 22:42:21 GMT -5
Realistically if Saudi buys it what are we looking at happening here? Likely Vince back in power, with absolutely no limitations on how awful he can be. LGBTQ+ and Women are all likely gone within the next few years as well.
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