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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Sept 21, 2023 10:47:33 GMT -5
If I were IMPACT Wrestling, I would be looking hard at guys like Ali, Elias and Riddick. They've either got potential or just know how to play a character which is what seems to work for IMPACT these days.
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Post by gritizen on Sept 21, 2023 10:48:10 GMT -5
I don't want to see anybody else lose their job, but I really hope Indi Hartwell doesn't lose her job. She bought a house maybe 2 or 3 weeks ago and when I saw it, I was super worried about today because you knew it was coming.
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Post by MrElijah on Sept 21, 2023 10:48:13 GMT -5
The one release people are actually gonna approve. Top Dolla is gone. He's not the greatest ever but I really feel for those guys and anyone that gets released that was part of that wave that got rehired. That has to be a roller coaster of emotions. Sheesh. I'll maintain with a little work, Adonis & TD could have been a good team.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 21, 2023 10:48:47 GMT -5
Moss kind of strikes me as someone who's going to turn up in Impact and end up being like shockingly good.
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Sept 21, 2023 10:49:24 GMT -5
Moss kind of strikes me as someone who's going to turn up in Impact and end up being like shockingly good. Yeah, I could see him having a Maclin-like trajectory.
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Post by Error on Sept 21, 2023 10:49:43 GMT -5
Maybe scooter boy gets their long over due release. Sad thing: I made this thinking about the one in NXT after thinking about Oddesey Jones and just now realized it can mean Matthew Riddle as well.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2023 10:49:48 GMT -5
If I were IMPACT Wrestling, I would be looking hard at guys like Ali, Elias and Riddick. They've either got potential or just know how to play a character which is what seems to work for IMPACT these days. Impact is likely to pick up the disgarded women and the lower tier guys with potential...instead of someone like Ali who they probably know AEW is gonna go immediately for. Boogz seems an almost guarantee to show up in Impact.
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Post by sdoyle7798 on Sept 21, 2023 10:50:05 GMT -5
I don't want to see anybody else lose their job, but I really hope Indi Hartwell doesn't lose her job. She bought a house maybe 2 or 3 weeks ago and when I saw it, I was super worried about today because you knew it was coming. And that just made me wonder about Lumis... I haven't been paying attention, but I haven't heard his name in a while. Where's he been?
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Post by ayumidah on Sept 21, 2023 10:50:25 GMT -5
Messed up day for wrestling news, fell asleep after posting the Elimination Chamber news, got a wrong number at 7:45 and woke up in time for the Smackdown leaving Fox news, woke up just now to THIS. yeesh
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Post by floundertime on Sept 21, 2023 10:50:51 GMT -5
If I'm Ashantee and B-Fab I'm not picking up the phone today or for a few weeks. It worked for me in the past, hope it works for them I've collected 5 x Ashante WM 39 cards at WWE SuperCard. Now I'm fearing I lose 'em before I get to even combine 'em. You won't lose them you just won't get anymore. Plus it's WM39 cards we are way past that. If you have old cards and don't use them in training of other cards you can keep them. I still have an Ambrose and Rusev card stored away. I can't use them in a deck cause they're so old, but I still have them!
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Post by Fade on Sept 21, 2023 10:51:04 GMT -5
ZIGGLER?! I’m shocked. He’s 100% showing up in AEW if he wants it.
dang they ain’t playing with these roster cuts
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Post by Mecca on Sept 21, 2023 10:51:10 GMT -5
Anyone H rehired should probably not answer the phone.
Also yea it seems basically a given with how much Tony Khan respects Danielson and how much Danielson likes Ali that he's AEW bound.
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Sept 21, 2023 10:51:28 GMT -5
Maybe scooter boy gets their long over due release. Sad thing: I made this thinking about the one in NXT after thinking about Oddesey Jones and just now realized it can mean Matthew Riddle as well. Are you thinking of Quincy? I don't think Oddysey Jones is scooter boy.
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Post by Legion on Sept 21, 2023 10:51:29 GMT -5
Am I right in thinking that when NXT talent cuts happen, WWE doesnt announce it, we just hear via social media and the news sites?
They usually dont do them on the same day, I think last time it was a week apart?
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Post by tagteammatchplaya on Sept 21, 2023 10:51:48 GMT -5
SHOW THE WORLD, SHOW THEM THE AWESOMENESS OF MADCAP MOSS!!!
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Post by Mecca on Sept 21, 2023 10:52:15 GMT -5
Will they release Gabel Steveson...for um many reasons?
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Sept 21, 2023 10:52:37 GMT -5
If an NFL team never cut people, what do you think would happen? Or NBA? Or really any other sporting based business? Or entertainment based - TV shows get cut every year and the whole cast and crew goes. You have to cut people to make room for others - even more so now WWE has NXT and formal training pathways. Sports teams cut people, but do they ever typically cut like twenty people as an arbitrary "time to make more money" thing? If a team cuts someone who's not working out, yeah, that directly makes room for someone new. TV shows will be canceled or not get renewed--which is not being cut--to make room for new shows on a new season, usually by consideration of the show's ratings. WWE isn't inherently making those cuts to make room for new people or for new opportunities, but because the people running the company are ghouls looking to tighten up the purse strings. I don't think the parallels to how sports or TV does it are really comparable here because we know the patterns of these mass releases, we know how they hold people who want to leave and then throw them out on a whim, we've seen divisions not have new names added in to them and fester because there's not enough people on the show to build out a credible division. This doesn't have the parallels you say it does.
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Post by Mecca on Sept 21, 2023 10:53:00 GMT -5
SHOW THE WORLD, SHOW THEM THE AWESOMENESS OF MADCAP MOSS!!! He can become MadFap Moss although that gimmick might only work in the attitude era.
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Post by theironyuppie on Sept 21, 2023 10:53:02 GMT -5
Anyone H rehired should probably not answer the phone. Also yea it seems basically a given with how much Tony Khan respects Danielson and how much Danielson likes Ali that he's AEW bound. You'd imagine that some are safe (Michin's got the OC, Kota's back on TV each week, Chelsea's been a standout return and has a belt), but it's still going to be a nervy day no matter what.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Sept 21, 2023 10:53:23 GMT -5
Per Fightful Select
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