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Post by The Captain on Apr 2, 2023 16:51:01 GMT -5
Depending on how true this news ends up, this could make Wrestlemania 39 a fitting swan song to WWE as we knew it.
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Post by bob loves the Hurt Syndicate on Apr 2, 2023 16:51:57 GMT -5
This is incredibly depressing Vince was outed as a sexual predator and had nothing of any consequence happen to him besides having his name through the mud months ago in various newspapers & publications |
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Post by Chiral on Apr 2, 2023 16:52:01 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2023 16:52:02 GMT -5
The only creative decision Vince should be making in WWE is having Butch go back to wearing his old outfit.
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Post by XIII on Apr 2, 2023 16:54:05 GMT -5
Are we going to get MMA Vince McMahon next? Shit, depending how you look at it Vince had a big hand in creating MMA in the first place. Ali vs. Inoki is probably the most well known(likely because it was Muhammad Ali who was easily the biggest athlete in the world at the time) but MMA style fights had been going on the world over since the early 1900s. They were on TV in Brazil in like the 40s if not earlier. So, yes, Vince helped promote that fight but if it wasn't Muhammad Ali and Inoki who was huge in Japan it would have just been a weird footnote in history. To this day I would bet that most fans of combat sports don't even know much about it. |
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Post by XIII on Apr 2, 2023 16:55:42 GMT -5
This is incredibly depressing Vince was outed as a sexual predator and had nothing of any consequence happen to him besides having his name through the mud months ago in various newspapers & publications this dude was outed as sex pest and came out of it with even more power. I've got to get out of this country. LMAO. |
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Post by MrElijah on Apr 2, 2023 16:56:57 GMT -5
Shit, depending how you look at it Vince had a big hand in creating MMA in the first place. Something absolutely insane that I learned recently is that the two dudes sent over to help oversee Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki were Satan's ultimate tag team VINCE MCMAHON AND BOB ARUM It's so f***ing wild that Boxing and Wrestling basically created It's biggest competition and players involved hav routinely taken from each other for decades. Combat Sports & Entertainment: Shoot or Work, someone's getting Kayfabed. |
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Post by john84 on Apr 2, 2023 16:57:33 GMT -5
Holy f***ing shit I genuinely can't find the words to sum up how surreal the idea of WWE and UFC merging in to one public company is. If you had told me before today that a UFC company would ACTUALLY merge with the WWE I would've been VERY sceptical about the idea. |
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Post by Gawk Rivers on Apr 2, 2023 16:59:20 GMT -5
Something absolutely insane that I learned recently is that the two dudes sent over to help oversee Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki were Satan's ultimate tag team VINCE MCMAHON AND BOB ARUM It's so f***ing wild that Boxing and Wrestling basically created It's biggest competition and players involved hav routinely taken from each other for decades. Combat Sports & Entertainment: Shoot or Work, someone's getting Kayfabed. Combat sports is a mutant freak circle going in a million different directions that all still connect if you look close enough lmao |
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Post by MrElijah on Apr 2, 2023 16:59:24 GMT -5
Shit, depending how you look at it Vince had a big hand in creating MMA in the first place. Ali vs. Inoki is probably the most well known(likely because it was Muhammad Ali who was easily the biggest athlete in the world at the time) but MMA style fights had been going on the world over since the early 1900s. They were on TV in Brazil in like the 40s if not earlier. So, yes, Vince helped promote that fight but if it wasn't Muhammad Ali and Inoki who was huge in Japan it would have just been a weird footnote in history. To this day I would bet that most fans of combat sports don't even know much about it. One crazy story is Teddy Roosevelt hosting a Boxing vs. Judo contest. |
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Post by Legion on Apr 2, 2023 16:59:36 GMT -5
If they move back to a chargeable PPV model, then I suspect we'll see the return of the PPVs based on match types that HHHunter just got rid of.
Vince, as Executive Chairman would also have say over who gets to be the face of the company and who is pushed, at the main event level at least.
I dont think he'll have the time, if overseeing UFC as well, to be fully involved with creative week to week.
But he's definitely going to be taking back the general steering of things.
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Post by john84 on Apr 2, 2023 17:00:50 GMT -5
A merger almost always means a lot of people are about to be out of jobs which would suck. Would there by mass releases again? Hopefully not but I guess it could happen. |
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Apr 2, 2023 17:00:51 GMT -5
Depending on how true this news ends up, this could make Wrestlemania 39 a fitting swan song to WWE as we knew it. When Cody said "finish the story" - we didn't fully understand the scope of what he was referring to. |
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Post by XIII on Apr 2, 2023 17:01:03 GMT -5
What if Conor got on the GAS because he's coming to take all of the WWE titles. LMAO.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Apr 2, 2023 17:02:08 GMT -5
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Post by mc74 on Apr 2, 2023 17:02:24 GMT -5
So Vince got what he wanted and made out like a f***ing bandit. Can't say I never saw it coming.
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Post by john84 on Apr 2, 2023 17:03:38 GMT -5
UFC Invasion angle incoming. UFC Vs WWE Let’s gooooooo If done well I think that could be cool actually lol. |
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Post by Legion on Apr 2, 2023 17:04:11 GMT -5
I wonder what the new company will be called. Titan Sports to make a come back?
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Post by Gawk Rivers on Apr 2, 2023 17:04:55 GMT -5
WWE Publishing's re-release of Matt Hughes' Made In America book with all the felonies edited out is gonna be a fire 10 page story.
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Post by XIII on Apr 2, 2023 17:05:01 GMT -5
If they move back to a chargeable PPV model, then I suspect we'll see the return of the PPVs based on match types that HHHunter just got rid of. Vince, as Executive Chairman would also have say over who gets to be the face of the company and who is pushed, at the main event level at least. I dont think he'll have the time, if overseeing UFC as well, to be fully involved with creative week to week. But he's definitely going to be taking back the general steering of things. I'd imagine that his title where's technically in charge of UFC will be little more than him attending meetings talking about buyrates and business stuff. Dana White and his crew of flunkies will still have oversight of the actual day to day, shows and such. If I had to guess it's something that Vince asked for to complete the deal and he will wield no real power there. |
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