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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Jan 11, 2023 0:16:11 GMT -5
Midnight in the Eastern USA. Feels like we’re all just waiting for the Ring to melt in Mount Doom. Love you, FAN. It's more like we're on the lifeboats watching the Titanic from a distance, bow under water, knowing we have loved ones still on board and clinging to the stern railing, the hull creaking from below. FAN members, it's been an honor posting with all of you.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Jan 11, 2023 0:17:05 GMT -5
One thing I lost sight of in all this stuff is the JP Morgan rumors just started. Would be hyper fast to go to acquisition. Vince hasn't had anything to do for 6 months except sit at home and be on the phone. I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that he's had this planned out for a while. It really feels like this has been in the works and he came in knowing exactly what he was doing and waht he had in mind. If this sale news is real then it's somehting he's had lined up for a while with a handshake agreement that just needed him back in power to pull the trigger on. No corporate sale moves this fast.
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Post by Dub H on Jan 11, 2023 0:17:12 GMT -5
Guess they gonna need to speed run the Sami reigns storyline
Meanwhile Cena rubbing his head ready to make another propaganda promo
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Post by Error on Jan 11, 2023 0:17:22 GMT -5
This would be wild if Johnny fookin’ Ace was right in the middle of two company splits and one goin out of business. This dude is the Tiki curse of wrestling. He is Wrestling's Ted McGinley?
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Post by Rolent Tex on Jan 11, 2023 0:17:32 GMT -5
All I can think of now is when a bunch of us went to Extreme Rules to watch Christian get strapped up and Vince sent John Cena down to break the news that we got Osama bin Laden and we all left the arena to huge cheers of “USA! USA! USA!”
Now look at the bullshit this clown shoe son of a bitch is pulling because his little grapenuts can’t deal with repercussions from his shady ass behaviors that he’s willing to sell the whole f***ing company to a country that couldn’t give two shits about human rights just to keep his power and duck responsibility. f*** Vince.
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Post by mattperiolat on Jan 11, 2023 0:19:22 GMT -5
Midnight in the Eastern USA. Feels like we’re all just waiting for the Ring to melt in Mount Doom. Love you, FAN. It's more like we're on the lifeboats watching the Titanic from a distance, bow under water, knowing we have loved ones still on board and clinging to the stern railing, the hull creaking from below. “It’ll all be over soon… it’ll all be over soon…” Yeah. This ends… badly. And I think the worst is I’m struggling to be flip, funny, clever to lift someone else up, but also because it keeps me from being depressed. I know life will go on and there are other things in this world, but doesn’t stop it from hurting anymore that it does for anyone else.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 11, 2023 0:19:35 GMT -5
I'd much rather see Trips & Steph kickstart their own promotion than go to AEW. Love AEW, but at the same time, I don't want a monopoly to happen in the event WWE collapses. The more promotions, the better. Ok but here's another scenario HHH and Stephanie appear on AEW as a shock, and then they announce their own new promotion, and work with AEW/New Japan/etc as part of the Forbidden Door? That would at least be a cool idea to me Really Hunter could just buy the NWA and repurpose it, meaning "Tyrus gets shot out of a cannon"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2023 0:20:11 GMT -5
Well.
I think we can safely say MJF’s whole gimmick of changing companies is probably done now, no?
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 11, 2023 0:20:26 GMT -5
Might have to put up a topic if this gets official of what a theoretical roster would look like if HHH and Stephanie were to start their own company. Sad thing is, we're all assuming Vince would be understanding enough to let them out of their deals. Depends, some talent might have clauses, some might just be outright cut, some I think are gonna walk out of sheer protest if they aren't fired like Sami or Ali and wait out the rest of their time, even take it to court
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Post by Error on Jan 11, 2023 0:20:52 GMT -5
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Post by Mike Strike on Jan 11, 2023 0:21:01 GMT -5
I'd much rather see Trips & Steph kickstart their own promotion than go to AEW. Love AEW, but at the same time, I don't want a monopoly to happen in the event WWE collapses. The more promotions, the better. I've wondered before the last time they were fired/demoted how viable that is. Get the big pay day from the Saud's, sell their stocks for millions and millions, they could probably match AEW's initial $100 million upstart. But what would be their options for TV or online streaming?
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Post by mc74 on Jan 11, 2023 0:21:02 GMT -5
One thing I lost sight of in all this stuff is the JP Morgan rumors just started. Would be hyper fast to go to acquisition. Vince hasn't had anything to do for 6 months except sit at home and be on the phone. I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that he's had this planned out for a while. Vince wasn't going down without a fight, but he wasn't going to do it publicly either because of the backlash it would bring, so he bided his time to get a deal in place so that when he was ready to make his move, he could get it done swiftly and ensure there wasn't much pushback preventing him from succeeding.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 11, 2023 0:21:12 GMT -5
Well. I think we can safely say MJF’s whole gimmick of changing companies is probably done now, no? I'd say that's pretty certain, as is "What US promotion is Jay White gonna sign with?"
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Post by tekkenguy on Jan 11, 2023 0:22:09 GMT -5
Vince will be running the company till he dies, he's sold to the only people who will let him still run the show and do whatever he wants. This is a terrible day for wrestling. I imagine Vince is the only one who wanted to sell the company to the Saudis. Everyone else was planning on selling to Comcast.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Jan 11, 2023 0:22:30 GMT -5
Well. I think we can safely say MJF’s whole gimmick of changing companies is probably done now, no? I'd say about a 90/10 split between him dropping the gimmick, or him coming out at the PPV in a Burberry keffiyeh.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 11, 2023 0:23:03 GMT -5
Might have to put up a topic if this gets official of what a theoretical roster would look like if HHH and Stephanie were to start their own company. Wherever HHH goes, Karrion Kross and Scarlett (Who is from Romania) will follow.
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Jan 11, 2023 0:23:06 GMT -5
Legit question:
Let’s say this is true, is the number big enough that the cut HHH and Stephanie would get from their stock would be enough to fund a new promotion?
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Post by Demented on Jan 11, 2023 0:23:12 GMT -5
Well. I think we can safely say MJF’s whole gimmick of changing companies is probably done now, no?
He's going to make a new threat about going to a REAL powerhouse company...
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Post by mc74 on Jan 11, 2023 0:23:14 GMT -5
I'd much rather see Trips & Steph kickstart their own promotion than go to AEW. Love AEW, but at the same time, I don't want a monopoly to happen in the event WWE collapses. The more promotions, the better. I've wondered before the last time they were fired/demoted how viable that is. Get the big pay day from the Saud's, sell their stocks for millions and millions, they could probably match AEW's initial $100 million upstart. But what would be their options for TV or online streaming? All depends, but I reckon they've already have contacts who are more than willing to help them out thanks to already having done business with them.
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Post by XIII on Jan 11, 2023 0:23:14 GMT -5
Vince hasn't had anything to do for 6 months except sit at home and be on the phone. I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that he's had this planned out for a while. Vince wasn't going down without a fight, but he wasn't going to do it publicly either because of the backlash it would bring, so he bided his time to get a deal in place so that when he was ready to make his move, he could get it done swiftly and ensure there wasn't much pushback preventing him from succeeding. Pretty much. If I had to guess this deal was probably agreed upon right before Christmas when he first tried to come back and they told him to f*** off. So he had to find some cronies to put ont he board to get back officially.
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