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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2023 0:35:24 GMT -5
Top Dolla: *breathing and grunting at me as the mic trembles in my palm* Me: DEAD DUDE IN FRONT OF ME BUT HE CAN'T GET NEAR ME HIS FAMILY CALLS AND YOU GOTTA SEND HIROOKI SUMI you can fight my ass after you take down butch and ridge vince sold to the saudis, wwe off an actual bridge dumbass you can’t do shit, can’t do a flip to the outside honestly I need some ice cream I’m gonna cry
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Post by mattperiolat on Jan 11, 2023 0:35:59 GMT -5
“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. Yeah, to me, this is like the anti-scrum thread. While that was a thread where we were able to get some good material out of that and for the most part were having a laugh at how ridiculous that all was, there is no laughter here. There are no good times. This is a bunch of wrestling fans, many of us who have watched since at least the Attitude Era, struggling to understand the fact that the company that we grew up on and loved is, for all intents and purposes, in the hands of greedy, evil individuals with zero regards for those they might hurt, and just trying to be there for each other as best as we can. And stuff like this makes me want to give out hugs like candy. Wrestling… means something to us, regardless of where we came from on the map. Be it real old schoolers who remember World Class, AWA, Mid-South, Crockett and WWF just as it was getting into Hulkamania to those who came in with a New Generation north and bit old, bit new in the south or when to the extreme in Philly to Attitude and being nWo 4 Life to TNA and getting the ‘F’ out to PG, Punk and Impact to whatever the current generation is… we’re all still here because of that indescribable ‘it’ that we love… and pains us to see it count for so very very little. I meant it when I said I love you all. You’ll never know how often either this business or a reaction to this business to everything in between helped in bad times. And why, in spite of it all, I’m grateful. For the memories, the laughs, the tears and ultimately… to not be alone tonight.
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Post by Fade on Jan 11, 2023 0:36:06 GMT -5
So, if you're a shareholder, what does the company going private mean for you? Do you have to sell now or risk holding something that's worthless in terms of trading? What happens now? Someone explained it earlier but they get paid? I think?
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Post by Demented on Jan 11, 2023 0:36:18 GMT -5
I'm sorry. Do you need anything? A hug? Donuts? Hard drugs? A bottle of vodka and the chance to punch Vinnie Mac in the face.
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Post by XIII on Jan 11, 2023 0:36:23 GMT -5
I think that the NWA would be a strong candidate for a HHH but if he decides to go that route. It’s pretty cheap, has a legacy(even if not since the 70s), HHH loves the NWA, and Billy Pumpkins doesn’t know what he’s doing. I think that HHH could probably work some sort of deal to bring that to a streaming service and run it as a smaller promotion a La NXT.
That’s honestly the worst part for HHH. HHH essentially built up NXT/PC with a solid plan and old man McMahon has been doing his best to f*** with it for ages.
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Post by lionheart21 on Jan 11, 2023 0:36:25 GMT -5
also I really hope Stephanie left of her own volition and… not because of her gender with the new people in charge f*** I didn’t even think about that In any other case, I would be shocked and disgusted if this was the case. Seeing how its Vince, though, the idea of him choosing Saudi money over his daughter and grandchildren only disgusts me. I'm not shocked in the slightest that he would stab family in the back for money, regardless of how much blood is on it.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 11, 2023 0:36:31 GMT -5
I'd say about a 90/10 split between him dropping the gimmick, or him coming out at the PPV in a Burberry keffiyeh. yknow, you’re a real homie always but especially thank you for this the idea of him doing this is such an awful and hilarious image that it is cheering me up lmao MJF gonna do the Saudi equivalent of this:
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Jan 11, 2023 0:36:44 GMT -5
So, if you're a shareholder, what does the company going private mean for you? Do you have to sell now or risk holding something that's worthless in terms of trading? What happens now? When a company is bought, the shareholders are paid X dollars for their shares. Due to Vince being the majority shareholder, nobody else gets a vote: it happens, you aren't selling your shares on the open market or anything, but instead, the new owners are going to pay you for each share you have. That's what the sale price of the company is; it's worth X dollars, and that gets divided by the number of shares there are and distributed to the holders as needed. There's no risk involved but there's no way for anyone to object to it.
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Post by mc74 on Jan 11, 2023 0:37:25 GMT -5
I think the last part is now what is giving me pause. Not that it won’t happen, but that it ain’t happening tomorrow. Who knows. I’m not sure if Vince would be able to just give them the books if he wasn’t actually on the board. I'm sure there'll be some specifics he needs to hold onto, but he was running the company up to only a short while ago and would know exactly what's going on. Sales don't move fast and that'll definitely need time, but sales being accepted don't move this fast, either. They haven't even publicly put themselves out there for it, and Vince took power four days ago, two days of which were the weekend. If Vince has the Saudis locked in and isn't hearing anyone else's interest, that speaks to backroom deals. They don't. Chances are, the deal has been in place for some while now via handshake agreement. For all we know, the talks may have been even longer than that. Knowing Vince, he had this orchestrated as a contingency plan.
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Post by tekkenguy on Jan 11, 2023 0:37:34 GMT -5
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. Maybe the deal was in the works after his retirement, with the Saudis being exactly the kind of people who would back Vince in a power struggle.
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Post by john84 on Jan 11, 2023 0:37:48 GMT -5
i can't even imagine the chants i'm gonna hear tomorrow at aew. this might be something else lol OMG yeah, that'll be an interesting episode of Dynamite to watch.
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Post by DichEvans on Jan 11, 2023 0:37:52 GMT -5
Let's all be honest, Something to Wrestle is going to be SOOOOO good once Prichard leaves again
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Post by mattperiolat on Jan 11, 2023 0:38:17 GMT -5
I'm sorry. Do you need anything? A hug? Donuts? Hard drugs? A bottle of vodka and the chance to punch Vinnie Mac in the face. You’re aiming too high. And would Kentucky bourbon do in a pinch?
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Jan 11, 2023 0:38:46 GMT -5
Would sponsors and broadcast partners be able to pull the plug?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2023 0:39:21 GMT -5
I wonder how loud the f*** you Vince chants will be tomorrow
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 11, 2023 0:39:45 GMT -5
WWE frantically trying to buy out Jay Lethal's contract to get him to take up the Bonesaw McGraw gimmick.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 11, 2023 0:39:59 GMT -5
Would sponsors and broadcast partners be able to pull the plug? Absolutely they could And I imagine some of them would As has been mentioned, LIV Golf can't get a TV Deal and it's owned by the same company. WWE's TV Deals might take a major hit from this, but Vince just wants the money and the power, the final word.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 11, 2023 0:40:50 GMT -5
I wonder how loud the f*** you Vince chants will be tomorrow I'll be shocked if we don't get something like that or "F*** SAUDI ARABIA" tomorrow if this becomes official...
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Jan 11, 2023 0:41:49 GMT -5
I'm sure there'll be some specifics he needs to hold onto, but he was running the company up to only a short while ago and would know exactly what's going on. Sales don't move fast and that'll definitely need time, but sales being accepted don't move this fast, either. They haven't even publicly put themselves out there for it, and Vince took power four days ago, two days of which were the weekend. If Vince has the Saudis locked in and isn't hearing anyone else's interest, that speaks to backroom deals. They don't. Chances are, the deal has been in place for some while now via handshake agreement. For all we know, the talks may have been even longer than that. Knowing Vince, he had this orchestrated as a contingency plan. I don't know about contingency plan, and obviously we don't know what's in that contract they have, but if I had to guess, Vince made some phone calls, met someone for dinner, and floated that if they would let him stay on running the company, he had a way back in an that he could sell it to them. Then some back and forth happened, dinners and phone calls and probably never him actually sitting in front of the prince or leaving the northwest because he doesn't have to in this case, but he got the assurances and stuff in place.
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Post by mc74 on Jan 11, 2023 0:42:18 GMT -5
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. Maybe the deal was in the works after his retirement, with the Saudis being exactly the kind of people who would back Vince in a power struggle. Quite possibly, anything to ensure that the WWE continues, and ONLY continues under Vince's own vision of what wrestling is.
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