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Post by The Rick Jericho on Jan 10, 2023 23:15:59 GMT -5
Wonder how FOX and USA will take this news.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Jan 10, 2023 23:16:08 GMT -5
Is this good or bad for AEW by the way? It's not good for anyone. This is the bleakest possible scenario. No matter how you spin it. This is bad for the entire scene. WWE rolls on under this management. They have all the money in the world to become a true monopoly and stomp out everything while being beholden to a government with backwards beliefs If WWE spirals down because of this and collapses, wrestling as a whole in America is effected massively. You can say what you want but WWE is the leader in presentation to media companies, if they see the biggest brand in wrestling die off, they aren’t going to take a bigger chance on anything else. Full stop
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 10, 2023 23:16:09 GMT -5
And even with that potential power, I can see a lot of talent walking when this is made official It'll all be about what they value more, but I don't think we're ever seeing John Cena or Rock again, and we might never see Sami Zayn again either. Cena had no issue sucking up the Chinese and Rock is close business-wise with MBS. This won't matter to them. Neither of them are the Saudi Government... don't be surprised if Hollywood intervenes there.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Jan 10, 2023 23:16:13 GMT -5
I had my qualms about some things, Smackdown's Women's Division, The Tag Team Division... Karrion Kross at all... but the product was BETTER, it was overwhelmingly easier to watch with HHH in charge, stuff was just produced better, GUNTHER is like the best booked champion they've had in ages to me Like there was a lot to be positive about... it's all gone, out the window, in four days. OMG GOD DAMNIT GUNTHER!!! THEYRE GONNA JOB THE POOR BASTARD OUT NOW DANCING GUNTHER IS IMMINENT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2023 23:16:15 GMT -5
Bad most likely. There's a multitude of reasons why but one possible reason it's bad is that money is now genuinely bottomless in WWE. It's all about sportwashing so there's zero pressure to balance books or please shareholders. They could just offer MJF $20M a year in 2024 and it would just be a drop in the ocean for them. How would AEW compete with that? What if they struggle to get on tv cause no one wants to deal with Saudi? I was wondering about that LIV GOLF and from what I have seen people say they have not gotten a TV deal and if that is true it seemingly does not bode well for WWE. And if WWE cannot land TV deals because of selling Saudi welp.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 10, 2023 23:16:32 GMT -5
i can't even imagine the chants i'm gonna hear tomorrow at aew. this might be something else lol Caster gonna be begging for Rap Time lmfao
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Post by Demented on Jan 10, 2023 23:16:33 GMT -5
I can't believe I'm rooting for f***ing COMCAST. I'm rooting for UHF.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Jan 10, 2023 23:16:53 GMT -5
i can't even imagine the chants i'm gonna hear tomorrow at aew. this might be something else lol I kind of hope we get USA chants
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Post by canceled4truth on Jan 10, 2023 23:17:16 GMT -5
Man, I was at that Raw where McIntyre cut that (in?)famous "WE'RE WRESTLERS! LET'S JUST FREAKING WRESTLE!" promo. I got home and everyone's minds were blown that they finally said the W word, how it was the start of a new era. It only lasted 4 months.
At least I got to see AJ Styles wrestle live once. That was dope.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 10, 2023 23:17:22 GMT -5
Money no longer has any meaning for WWE and it's entirely a propaganda outlet now so I could see them being willing to take drastically lower rates to stay on TV which Fox would probably happily go along with.
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Post by spagett on Jan 10, 2023 23:17:37 GMT -5
He's sold it to Saudi Arabia for a number of reasons
1) They've agreed to let him run things and be head of creative again 2) Taking it private means no more shareholders, means no more accountability, means he can be as gross and disgusting as he wants 3) To f*** over and spite his family.
Truly a vile human being.
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Post by XIII on Jan 10, 2023 23:18:12 GMT -5
i can't even imagine the chants i'm gonna hear tomorrow at aew. this might be something else lol I kind of hope we get USA chants Hacksaw Duggan run in confirmed lol
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 10, 2023 23:18:31 GMT -5
Imagine if this news broke and AEW didn't exist
Like just imagine if WWE was still the only real game in town, and this news came out
I think a lot of wrestling fans would just be done with US wrestling, if not wrestling as a whole, like forever...
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Jan 10, 2023 23:19:05 GMT -5
And even with that potential power, I can see a lot of talent walking when this is made official It'll all be about what they value more, but I don't think we're ever seeing John Cena or Rock again, and we might never see Sami Zayn again either. Cena had no issue sucking up to the Chinese and Rock is close business-wise with MBS. This won't matter to them. Hard to tell. Cena backed out of Crown Jewel and hasn’t been back to Saudi since.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2023 23:19:19 GMT -5
i can't even imagine the chants i'm gonna hear tomorrow at aew. this might be something else lol Caster gonna be begging for Rap Time lmfao at this point i can't wait to see what tony says before the show.. he always says something. this is going to be nuts lmao
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2023 23:19:20 GMT -5
I'm just feeling it differently where I stopped watching WWE nearly a decade ago now, but the only sadness I feel is that we let greed dictate so much of what we consider right, just, and normal in society as a whole.
I feel bad for talent that are under contract for monsters, but worrying about the entertainment value of it just seems... foreign, to me
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Jan 10, 2023 23:19:23 GMT -5
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Post by chrom on Jan 10, 2023 23:19:47 GMT -5
And even with that potential power, I can see a lot of talent walking when this is made official It'll all be about what they value more, but I don't think we're ever seeing John Cena or Rock again, and we might never see Sami Zayn again either. Cena had no issue sucking up to the Chinese and Rock is close business-wise with MBS. This won't matter to them. Yeah, Cena was all too eager to kiss their feet when they told him to.
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Post by The Blue Nova on Jan 10, 2023 23:19:56 GMT -5
Money no longer has any meaning for WWE and it's entirely a propaganda outlet now so I could see them being willing to take drastically lower rates to stay on TV which Fox would probably happily go along with. Lizuka!?!? say it aint so!
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Post by Killah Ray on Jan 10, 2023 23:20:06 GMT -5
I'd hold off on any victory parade because this is terrible for the wrestling world no matter what way this goes...
Potentially f***ing up the largest company in the field is not a good thing for an otherwise niche product like wrestling...
Even if nothing changes, with Saudi money at hand, they have access to f*** you type money and with rare exceptions I think you'll see money win out 90% of the time....
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