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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Sept 21, 2023 10:53:26 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? That is my recollection as well.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Sept 21, 2023 10:53:59 GMT -5
Face the facts. Elias getting cut is announce but no news on Ezekiel. I say that should put an end to the Elias is Ezekiel nonsens everyone goes on about.
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Post by ayumidah on Sept 21, 2023 10:54:09 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? The Way as a whole disappeared when Gargano got injured, Candice and Indi have appeared a few times but I can't remember the last time we've seen Lumis
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Post by Denny Zen is Cooking™ on Sept 21, 2023 10:54:15 GMT -5
Will they release Gabel Steveson...for um many reasons? This is a game I try and avoid playing when these mass releases happen, but it is definitely frustrating that he and especially Riddle seem to have survived the cuts so far when so many likable, seemingly decent human beings have been axed.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 21, 2023 10:54:55 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. Hadn't thought about that but yeah, I can 100% see Ali in BCC.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Sept 21, 2023 10:55:26 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. Yes. Angels just cut about 10 people after they made trades to get below the luxury tax line including putting someone on basically the waivers because they were out on personal leave dealing with family. It only saved them 10k and didn’t even get them below the tax line
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Post by canceled4truth on Sept 21, 2023 10:55:48 GMT -5
It would be hilarious in a f***ed up way if they fired Top Dolla but not Ashante or B-Fab
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Post by Mecca on Sept 21, 2023 10:56:03 GMT -5
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. Yes. Angels just cut about 10 people after they made trades to get below the luxury tax line including putting someone on basically the waivers because they were out on personal leave dealing with family. It only saved them 10k and didn’t even get them below the tax line At least in baseball those teams still have to honor the contracts.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2023 10:57:25 GMT -5
No one remembers Xia Li exsists so she will be fine.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Sept 21, 2023 10:57:28 GMT -5
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Post by Zombie Mod on Sept 21, 2023 10:57:36 GMT -5
“Marty Jannety may have been hired and been fired during this day.” - rajah.com "Again? *sigh* see you tomorrow for the job interview vince." - Marty Jannettey.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Sept 21, 2023 10:57:38 GMT -5
Will they release Gabel Steveson...for um many reasons? Vince isn't firing anyone for being a bad person. Everybody that we think is a bad person, Vince thinks is a good person.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Weather Machine on Sept 21, 2023 10:58:04 GMT -5
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Sept 21, 2023 10:58:17 GMT -5
Yes. Angels just cut about 10 people after they made trades to get below the luxury tax line including putting someone on basically the waivers because they were out on personal leave dealing with family. It only saved them 10k and didn’t even get them below the tax line At least in baseball those teams still have to honor the contracts. Yea, they still absorb the contracts and whoever signs them next pays the minimum MLB luckily has guaranteed contacts
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Post by floundertime on Sept 21, 2023 10:58:32 GMT -5
F WWE. They let Ezikiel go while he still in the hospital. POS company! I'm never watching them again!
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Sept 21, 2023 10:58:51 GMT -5
No one remembers Xia Li exsists so she will be fine. Boa's down there in NXT just hiding Dragon witch lady just taking a nap somewhere
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Post by markymark on Sept 21, 2023 10:59:12 GMT -5
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Post by Denny Zen is Cooking™ on Sept 21, 2023 10:59:34 GMT -5
At least in baseball those teams still have to honor the contracts. Yea, they still absorb the contracts and whoever signs them next pays the minimum MLB luckily has guaranteed contacts Yeah, it's just not really comparable at all because the major American sports leagues all have collective bargaining agreements, while wrestlers get treated as some combination of all the worst aspects of being an employee and an independent contractor.
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Post by Mecca on Sept 21, 2023 10:59:52 GMT -5
We make record profit......we have to let you guys go because of budgetary concerns. This is corporate America 101, its like companies doing billions of dollars of stock buybacks then saying they aren't making money.
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Post by anakin on Sept 21, 2023 11:00:36 GMT -5
I did say this would be happening back in April, but I was told by everyone it was just office workers and then my thread was closed...
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