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Post by chazraps on Jan 11, 2023 1:12:45 GMT -5
Gang, I made it to the bottom of 144 and this is just too much to rapidfire experience in real time. f***, that got super dire really quick.
So, can someone please Craig David me ("fill me in") on where we currently stand and what today's biggest updates were?
I hate to do this, I'm usually big on reading full threads for the catch-up, but this is really a *lot*.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 11, 2023 1:13:09 GMT -5
I'm still thinking about how f***ing shitty it was to tell everyone "Don't worry, nothing is changing" and then literally EVERYTHING changed in less than 48 hours I'm sure that's what Vince was telling them to say, but it's still low, and I'm glad basically no one believed it. Reminds me of the time when Vince, Khan, and top executives went to NXT just visiting. The. They started cutting shot a week or two later That shit was terrible too just for the fact they apparently held like... a Talent Show for him, just for him to gut the place lmfao
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 11, 2023 1:15:36 GMT -5
Gang, I made it to the bottom of 144 and this is just too much to rapidfire experience in real time. f***, that got super dire really quick. So, can someone please Craig David me ("fill me in") on where we currently stand and what today's biggest updates were? I hate to do this, I'm usually big on reading full threads for the catch-up, but this is really a *lot*. The most concrete news today is that Stephanie resigned and Vince was reappointed to being Chairman. There's a lot of chatter about the Saudi government buying the company but that is not actually confirmed yet.
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Post by mc74 on Jan 11, 2023 1:15:56 GMT -5
Gang, I made it to the bottom of 144 and this is just too much to rapidfire experience in real time. f***, that got super dire really quick. So, can someone please Craig David me ("fill me in") on where we currently stand and what today's biggest updates were? I hate to do this, I'm usually big on reading full threads for the catch-up, but this is really a *lot*. TLDR version:
-Steph stepped down from her position -Vince was unanimously voted in as Chairman -WWE possibly being sold to the Sauds
Those are the biggest updates, add in the fact that the overall morale within the company has dropped sub-zero.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jan 11, 2023 1:16:10 GMT -5
Gang, I made it to the bottom of 144 and this is just too much to rapidfire experience in real time. f***, that got super dire really quick. So, can someone please Craig David me ("fill me in") on where we currently stand and what today's biggest updates were? I hate to do this, I'm usually big on reading full threads for the catch-up, but this is really a *lot*. Stephanie quit. Vince was unanimously voted in as Chairman of the Board. Rumours suggest a deal is in place with the Public Investment Fund to take the company private. Lots of speculation.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 11, 2023 1:16:30 GMT -5
Gang, I made it to the bottom of 144 and this is just too much to rapidfire experience in real time. f***, that got super dire really quick. So, can someone please Craig David me ("fill me in") on where we currently stand and what today's biggest updates were? I hate to do this, I'm usually big on reading full threads for the catch-up, but this is really a *lot*. The jist of it all is Vince tried to force his way back into power, was first denied, and then basically forced his way back in anyway Vince is back in power, back at the Board of Directors, and as Chairman of the WWE, a conference call was made where no questions were taken but that this would be "A good thing", and that "Nothing will change" Stephanie McMahon has since resigned her post, several board members were also fired, she is done with the company as of right now. Many believe HHH will leave soon too. The current rumor, not confirmed, but a ton of news sources are claiming, is that The Saudi Government (Same company that has backed LIV Golf) will purchase WWE, and Vince may still remain in power as the figurehead after the fact, this would also take the company private The reports backstage is that morale has effectively tanked within the company, and that the future of the company if owned by Saudi, especially TV deals and talent staying or going, would be greatly effected Essentially, the future of all of wrestling has not felt this serious and anxious since WCW folded.
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Post by XIII on Jan 11, 2023 1:16:56 GMT -5
Reminds me of the time when Vince, Khan, and top executives went to NXT just visiting. The. They started cutting shot a week or two later That shit was terrible too just for the fact they apparently held like... a Talent Show for him, just for him to gut the place lmfao Yo, Vince isn’t even subtle with his f***ery. I forgot about the talent show
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Post by DichEvans on Jan 11, 2023 1:17:14 GMT -5
If this ruins Hit Row's push, imma lose it
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 11, 2023 1:19:02 GMT -5
If this ruins Hit Row's push, imma lose it "It was either foreskin, or foreclosure"
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Post by Rudy Gobert Fadeaway on Jan 11, 2023 1:20:12 GMT -5
I hope Karl Fredericks was asked for comment and he said idk man I'm Karl Fredericks
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Post by chazraps on Jan 11, 2023 1:20:30 GMT -5
Thanks everyone for the recaps.
Also - what the f***?
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Jan 11, 2023 1:21:14 GMT -5
Gang, I made it to the bottom of 144 and this is just too much to rapidfire experience in real time. f***, that got super dire really quick. So, can someone please Craig David me ("fill me in") on where we currently stand and what today's biggest updates were? I hate to do this, I'm usually big on reading full threads for the catch-up, but this is really a *lot*. If you would allow me to put it into song for you
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Jan 11, 2023 1:22:12 GMT -5
Theoretically, the deal would be so lucrative that it could weather the storm of any initial sponsor backlash that could come. Exactly. The only thing that can truly hurt WWE is its TV audience abandoning it. I've no doubt some will, but I suspect it wouldn't be anything but blind optimism to expect the overwhelming majority of the fanbase that have stuck with the company through thick and thin and still worship Vince to suddenly grow a conscience. WWE keeps shedding 200,000-400,000 viewers per year year-over-year. Yes, Raw, the flagship show, is often still top cable show of the night or the top show in its demo, but we just saw late last year the basement number of 1,000,000 viewers for a clip show. WWE's lowest number is AEW's highest number, for sake of comparison. While on a good day, Raw may hit 1.5 million viewers. Give or take a few years of consistent audience atrophy on top of any boycotting viewers would put WWE under 1,000,000 viewers for Raw. This would (will?) likely happen in the down spring/early summer months or the fall/early winter months when Raw seems to be down more than it is up. Nothing is too big to fail, and no perch is too high from which to fall. We'll have to wait and see. As a lapsed fan, it's hard not to think that whoever/whatever bought the company overpaid. But wrestling carnies can always convince the money marks.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Jan 11, 2023 1:22:40 GMT -5
If this is true, I am done forever and this will probably be my last post in the WWE thread.
See you elsewhere.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 11, 2023 1:22:59 GMT -5
I hope Karl Fredericks was asked for comment and he said idk man I'm Karl Fredericks "Idk man, I'm-"
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Jan 11, 2023 1:23:27 GMT -5
Can't believe all that discourse about "why is this so much bigger than the Vince quitting thread" and the reasonable points about 'this is more fun to talk about because we can joke instead of talking about rape' and 'we even had two different Vince threads this is all just happening now' f***ing ate shit and now we're trapped in endless nightmare hell trying to cope with this shit. This thread is blazing forward and it's the deep of the morning already, imagine how much of a hotter shitshow it's going to be if actual confirmation drops we're in hell.
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Post by Chiral on Jan 11, 2023 1:23:34 GMT -5
the mood rn
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2023 1:23:37 GMT -5
I got 10W-30 on my shit just stokin’ rn Proud of my legacy ngl (Stunna Boy never existed shut up) just sellin my shit rn
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Post by Rudy Gobert Fadeaway on Jan 11, 2023 1:23:53 GMT -5
I hope Karl Fredericks was asked for comment and he said idk man I'm Karl Fredericks "Idk man, I'm-" LADOJO DEL FREAKALEEK
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 11, 2023 1:23:56 GMT -5
Thanks everyone for the recaps. Also - what the f***? Me reading The old TNA Deathwatch Spoilers when they were happening.
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