Legion
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Post by Legion on Sept 21, 2023 11:20:34 GMT -5
So, how do you ever progress someone from NXT to the main roster and pay the bump that comes with that financially? You move some out to pay for new ones to come up. Your over all talent budget remains the same. That is my understanding of how the budget works there? I understand how math works, but the overall talent budget does not remain the same. Budget cuts have been cited for all of the mass releases we've seen the past few years and there is very likely to be a Nick Khan statement to that effect once the hell is over and the remaining talent get an email. They are not going to be taking the dollars 1:1 freed up here and giving them to NXT talent in the coming months. The goal is to drive down the amount being spent on talent and I'm honestly stunned anyone could expect anything to the contrary. Except they just brought back Nia, have allegedly paid out for Cargill, and had a bunch of tryouts yesterday. Plus they've hired numerous others in from tryouts before now, and promoted people from NXT to the main roster, without having had a large scale cut for a couple of years. We have no information at this time to suggest the talent budget has shrunk, and only evidence to suggest there may have been a built up overspend as they held off on cuts during the merger process - and froze hiring too. When it costs more to have someone be a main roster talent, but you didnt make room for that person, you may have overspent your budget. This may be correcting that overspend and making room, especially given the amount of people in NXT who need to go up. Or sure, it could be the talent budget being cut, but we haven't heard that as yet or seen a financial announcement to that effect - maybe we will at the next financial breakdown meeting.
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ayumidah
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Post by ayumidah on Sept 21, 2023 11:21:19 GMT -5
Cardona becoming the champion (...) of indy wrestling is so great lol.
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Renslayer
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Post by Renslayer on Sept 21, 2023 11:21:43 GMT -5
Mercedes just came at him for that tweet… False alarm, it's someone posing as her (and who paid for the checkmark)
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Sept 21, 2023 11:21:44 GMT -5
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Post by Killah Ray on Sept 21, 2023 11:22:04 GMT -5
Ziggler always seemed like he’d be a WWE guy for life. Also the kind of wrestler you’d appreciate more looking back years later for producing a great body of work. He’ll be great in whatever company takes him. The more Ryan has been openly mentioning him in the last year or so I had the feeling that Dolph really wanted to join him in whatever way he could…. I also feel like the surly vet character he started running with in nXt would work perfect in AEW…
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Allie Kitsune
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Always Feelin' Foxy.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Sept 21, 2023 11:22:14 GMT -5
Vince isn't firing anyone for being a bad person. Everybody that we think is a bad person, Vince thinks is a good person. Okay, so he wanted to hire OJ Simpson and the the guy whose son OJ (allegedly) killed and have them wrestling at Mania 12. BIG WHOOP Vince probably unironically thinks that OJ is a "Real Man" because he's taken the lives of other human beings.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Sept 21, 2023 11:22:16 GMT -5
Dolph being gone is genuinely surprising. He was there forever and was the ultimate utility player. I could see AEW picking him up to team with his brother. And yet WWE brought freaking Nia back. I feel folks on how disrespectful it was to fire Emma right after she announced how much she was looking forward to Elimination Chamber in Australia, but honestly firing any woman after rehiring My Hole should be considered unacceptable.
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Post by darbus alan on Sept 21, 2023 11:22:48 GMT -5
Mercedes just came at him for that tweet… I don't understand Mercedes' "read the room" response at all. Seems like Cardona is trying to help the litany of people who just lost their jobs stay positive about their post-WWE employment prospects. That's not Mercedes. Just some 8 buck chuck.
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Post by lildude8218 on Sept 21, 2023 11:23:19 GMT -5
Mercedes just came at him for that tweet… I don't understand Mercedes' "read the room" response at all. Seems like Cardona is trying to help the litany of people who just lost their jobs stay positive about their post-WWE employment prospects. That's not really her.
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J is Justice
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Post by J is Justice on Sept 21, 2023 11:23:41 GMT -5
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Post by Killah Ray on Sept 21, 2023 11:23:48 GMT -5
Mercedes just came at him for that tweet… I don't understand Mercedes' "read the room" response at all. Seems like Cardona is trying to help the litany of people who just lost their jobs stay positive about their post-WWE employment prospects. Seeing as she herself found her own footing outside of the E makes it even more head scratching…
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Post by mistery on Sept 21, 2023 11:24:08 GMT -5
I will say one thing about the cuts so far, everyone cut has not been used on TV recently, or used well (ie: anything more than enhancement talent). It still absolutely sucks though.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Sept 21, 2023 11:24:33 GMT -5
I don't think the real Mercedes has 2,500 followers and has to pay for a blue checkmark.
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ayumidah
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Post by ayumidah on Sept 21, 2023 11:24:33 GMT -5
Mercedes just came at him for that tweet… No one in wrestling is following that account so it's not actually Mone afaik
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Post by Denny Zen is Cooking™ on Sept 21, 2023 11:25:04 GMT -5
I don't understand Mercedes' "read the room" response at all. Seems like Cardona is trying to help the litany of people who just lost their jobs stay positive about their post-WWE employment prospects. That's not really her. Yeah, I see that now. Twitter/X is such a cesspool these days lol.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Weather Machine on Sept 21, 2023 11:25:27 GMT -5
Dude rly paid 8 dollars to trick me
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Post by polarbearpete on Sept 21, 2023 11:25:27 GMT -5
Mercedes just came at him for that tweet… I don't understand Mercedes' "read the room" response at all. Seems like Cardona is trying to help the litany of people who just lost their jobs stay positive about their post-WWE employment prospects. That’s not the real Mercedes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2023 11:26:22 GMT -5
Dolph should be a reminder to all of us: Loyalty to the workplace is overrated. They’ll cut you off no matter how much time, blood, sweat, and tears you pour into your job. The best advice for any job I ever heard IMO was someone telling someone else PLAY THE SYSTEM BEFORE IT PLAYS YOU as pertains to any job. Brock Lesnar might just be the smartest dude with a square head ever especially in wrestling.
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salz4life
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Post by salz4life on Sept 21, 2023 11:26:27 GMT -5
Cardona becoming the champion (...) of indy wrestling is so great lol. Yeah, I've kind of been waiting for him to show back up in WWE, but a) I don't think he should because he's doing AMAZING work on the indies and b) I kind of get the feeling he doesn't want to.
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XIII
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Post by XIII on Sept 21, 2023 11:26:35 GMT -5
Dude rly paid 8 dollars to trick me the Million Eight Dollar Man HAS TO BE STOPPED
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