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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2023 22:52:39 GMT -5
somehow, someway, motherf***ing max landis is to blame for this. nah but really, boy am i glad i'm going to the forum to see aew tomorrow. if i didn't get to go to a wrestling show in the next few weeks, i bet you could kiss that lifelong love goodbye. you could've sold WWE to almost anyone else and i would've been one of the "we'll see you on monday" people. f*** you vince. There's a nonzero chance you run into Max himself there lol if i get arrested, y'all better bail my ass out. i call backseat lmao
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Post by DMO- on Jan 10, 2023 22:52:45 GMT -5
It’s so disgusting how much Vince clearly hates his own family who has been by his side since forever.
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Post by The Ichi on Jan 10, 2023 22:53:05 GMT -5
It's pretty mad that we've had the biggest social media network and now the biggest wrestling company go to shit in the last two months.
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Post by raymondo316 on Jan 10, 2023 22:53:37 GMT -5
You can say goodbye to The Rock, Cena & Batista appearing again, no way will they risk their Hollywood careers for this.
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Post by Fade on Jan 10, 2023 22:53:42 GMT -5
The Triple H story is so weird. He’s the heir apparent to book forever and gets to run NXT. Then it’s all, including most of his guys, stripped away from him. Vince leaves and he finally hets the head booker position he was always supposed to have. And now it’s going to be taken away. It’s crazy and also a shame that we may never fully see what he would have done with WWE. Up and down up and down up and down - the Paul levesque story.
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Jan 10, 2023 22:54:14 GMT -5
Yeah, welcome back into the Roman Reigns holding pattern. If the endgame was Reigns vs Rock, that's donezo.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jan 10, 2023 22:54:25 GMT -5
at least we got to see a glimpse of what a HHH WWE would look like even if for only a brief moment. I suspect that's why there was so little announced for Raw last night and why it was so lackluster. I hope it was enough for someone with some money to go "Get yourself out of this, and I'll help bankroll a start-up fed for you and Stephanie to manage". Like, with all due respect to The Elite, if they could get Tony Khan on board with a proof of concept of like a handful of shows from scratch, Triple H and Stephanie should be able to get someone on board with them real quick with all their experience.
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Post by Celexa Bliss on Jan 10, 2023 22:54:38 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.Didn't realize I was doing anything wrong. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cause a problem.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2023 22:54:42 GMT -5
Welp guys this is it for me then...Years and years...wow...Please FAN make sure to not punish people that are already hurting by this news with silly "we won" talk...No only Vince McMahon won here and f*** him There should be no "We won" anything, this is a shitty event and there's gonna be a lot of fallout from this as a whole... WWE succeeding with actual good people in charge was beneficial for all of wrestling... this? Who the f*** knows what the future is now Idk if "this is it for me" means you're done with wrestling entirely and or FAN but... I really hope for positive things anywhere we can find em I truly do appreciate the sentiments by moth, you, and others that I have squabbled with because obviously, we see at the end of the day none of it mattered. I am 38 years old and have spent the last 30 years of my life obsessed with the fantasy and violence of the WWF/WWE. I have a wwf logo tattoo that I got in the army while other people were getting band tattoos...i chose that symbol. I have 3 children who have rooms full of wwe memorabilia and never have all of this stuff I have loved and obsessed over felt so dirty. Hell my love of WWE is what furthered my IT career as I learned how to do 3D modeling and worked with Adam Ryland on the creation of TEW and Wrestling Spirit. It's dramatic but it's that same feeling you get when a loved one dies unexpectedly. It's going to make me bitter towards the product and the last thing I want to do is take it out on a community that has allowed me to drive them insane for 20 years now. Time to take a step back for a while and watch as the world burns Thank you all seriously for making this place the Haven it is
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Post by spagett on Jan 10, 2023 22:54:49 GMT -5
It's one of the darkest days in the history of professional wrestling, it really is. Sure, I've had my moments of ripping apart WWE for it's shitty booking under Vince, but in no way, shape, form, or fashion did I want this to be the outcome. I just wanted WWE after so many years of miserable booking & questionable creative decisions to turn the corner and become fun to watch again. And we had that for a few months until Vince sabotaged everything because his Goddamn ego wouldn't allow WWE to move on & flourish without him. I've seen some petty shit happen in the wrestling business, but this takes the f***ing cake. Vince did some pretty despicable shit, and yet we are the ones paying the ultimate price for it. If that isn't depressing, I don't know what is. I've been real critical of WWE for years now because I thought the show had become dogshit, and it was literally always from a place of wanting it to be better. KNowing it could be better, but seeing a lot of things and Mostly Vince Decisions as this horrible obstacle in the way of it getting better. I'd heard it was getting better. I caught I think Survivor Series a few months ago and it was on the whole a pretty good show I enjoyed and it was lacking a lot of the issues I'd had with the Vince stuff. NXT was always fun so I had hopes it was going in a different direction. I wanted to enjoy WWE again and I wanted it to be something I could be a fan of again, because my last WWE shirt is a KO-Mania one and I just have not been in it for a very long time. If the Saudis buy it out, that's an apocalyptic scenario and there's no coming back from that for me. I didn't want this any more than I wanted WWE to go away; I just wanted it to be better. And I don't think most people who have been critical or completely fallen off of WWE wanted this. Not any who are even remotely healthy about wresting, at least. This isn't the good times. This isn't funny. This doesn't make anything better. It's the Saudis teaming up with a rapist to ruin WWE forever for a lot of people. This is it. There's no un-crossing this line. There's no fixing this. It's an end nobody wanted. Yep I was very very critical of WWE for years because I thought it was just an awful product and since AEW started and there was a genuine alternative I stopped watching. But I never wanted WWE to implode or close down or anything like that, WWE being strong is great for the wrestling business because they're the industry leader.Also WWE fans seemed to enjoy the new era with HHH booking and there was more optimism about the place. This is a dark dark day, not just for WWE but for all of wrestling.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Jan 10, 2023 22:55:15 GMT -5
And here I was hoping Vince would kill his creation with a lethal dose of the bWo. He killed it with a Bonesaw this time. Wait, is that NOT what the b in bWo stands for!?
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 10, 2023 22:55:17 GMT -5
The Triple H story is so weird. He’s the heir apparent to book forever and gets to run NXT. Then it’s all, including most of his guys, stripped away from him. Vince leaves and he finally hets the head booker position he was always supposed to have. And now it’s going to be taken away. It’s crazy and also a shame that we may never fully see what he would have done with WWE. Truly wonder if this will be what makes him start his own promotion If this don't, nothing will imo
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Post by Error on Jan 10, 2023 22:55:37 GMT -5
It's pretty mad that we've had the biggest social media network and now the biggest wrestling company go to shit in the last two months. And both involved an egomaniacal jackass and the Saudis.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Jan 10, 2023 22:55:50 GMT -5
There should be no "We won" anything, this is a shitty event and there's gonna be a lot of fallout from this as a whole... WWE succeeding with actual good people in charge was beneficial for all of wrestling... this? Who the f*** knows what the future is now Idk if "this is it for me" means you're done with wrestling entirely and or FAN but... I really hope for positive things anywhere we can find em I truly do appreciate the sentiments by moth, you, and others that I have squabbled with because obviously, we see at the end of the day none of it mattered. I am 38 years old and have spent the last 30 years of my life obsessed with the fantasy and violence of the WWF/WWE. I have a wwf logo tattoo that I got in the army while other people were getting band tattoos...i chose that symbol. I have 3 children who have rooms full of wwe memorabilia and never have all of this stuff I have loved and obsessed over felt so dirty. Hell my love of WWE is what furthered my IT career as I learned how to do 3D modeling and worked with Adam Ryland on the creation of TEW and Wrestling Spirit. It's dramatic but it's that same feeling you get when a loved one dies unexpectedly. It's going to make me bitter towards the product and the last thing I want to do is take it out on a community that has allowed me to drive them insane for 20 years now. Time to take a step back for a while and watch as the world burns Thank you all seriously for making this place the Haven it is If this is it for a bit, we are gonna miss you man. You take care of yourself.
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Post by Fade on Jan 10, 2023 22:56:26 GMT -5
There should be no "We won" anything, this is a shitty event and there's gonna be a lot of fallout from this as a whole... WWE succeeding with actual good people in charge was beneficial for all of wrestling... this? Who the f*** knows what the future is now Idk if "this is it for me" means you're done with wrestling entirely and or FAN but... I really hope for positive things anywhere we can find em I truly do appreciate the sentiments by moth, you, and others that I have squabbled with because obviously, we see at the end of the day none of it mattered. I am 38 years old and have spent the last 30 years of my life obsessed with the fantasy and violence of the WWF/WWE. I have a wwf logo tattoo that I got in the army while other people were getting band tattoos...i chose that symbol. I have 3 children who have rooms full of wwe memorabilia and never have all of this stuff I have loved and obsessed over felt so dirty. Hell my love of WWE is what furthered my IT career as I learned how to do 3D modeling and worked with Adam Ryland on the creation of TEW and Wrestling Spirit. It's dramatic but it's that same feeling you get when a loved one dies unexpectedly. It's going to make me bitter towards the product and the last thing I want to do is take it out on a community that has allowed me to drive them insane for 20 years now. Time to take a step back for a while and watch as the world burns Thank you all seriously for making this place the Haven it is My sentiments Rick. Think you’re probably not alone on feeling that tonight, bud.
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Jan 10, 2023 22:56:30 GMT -5
It’s so disgusting how much Vince clearly hates his own family who has been by his side since forever. There's just no limit to a person like Vince's greed. There should be a special place in Hell for people who'll stab their own children in the back like this.
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Post by jm on Jan 10, 2023 22:57:22 GMT -5
So I decide to take a nap for an hour and a half, and I miss *waves arms all around body and in circles* all of this.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jan 10, 2023 22:57:38 GMT -5
FAN paddling out to mourn the loss of a longtime fandom like:
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Jan 10, 2023 22:57:43 GMT -5
We’ve definitely seen John Cena’s last match.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Jan 10, 2023 22:57:48 GMT -5
Big L and I ain’t talking bout Cool J
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