salz4life
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Prichard is a guy who gets that his job is to service his boss.
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Post by salz4life on Sept 21, 2023 11:33:20 GMT -5
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. Yeah he teases it on twitter sometimes, but I think it's just as part of his gimmick, in interviews and stuff it sounds like he's having a blast with DeLander and isn't actually that eager to tie himself back down, especially after days like today. He said recently he wants to keep being a benefit to places like GCW and I doubt that changes any time soon Him and SDL are f'ing great!
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salz4life
Grimlock
Prichard is a guy who gets that his job is to service his boss.
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Post by salz4life on Sept 21, 2023 11:34:31 GMT -5
Yeah, if there’s anyone that understands how to make a career on the Indy circuit, it’s him. EDIT: Never mind, that’s not actually her. Yeah, my bad...I don't use Twitter ever and just saw the blue check and then came back here. Completely forgot that weirdos can pay $8 to pretend to be celebrities now. I wish someone would pay to pretend to be me.... although, they would probably do it better than me, so maybe not.
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Post by Von Wagner's Brownies on Sept 21, 2023 11:34:44 GMT -5
But WWE said talent wouldn't be affected and that the releases were solely office focused!!!!!!! WWE:
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Post by Beets by Schrute on Sept 21, 2023 11:34:55 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. Dolph was basically the "Maybe if I work hard" clown meme. He and Big Show
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Spider2024
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by Spider2024 on Sept 21, 2023 11:35:02 GMT -5
Cora Jade look out party starts now. If they cut her, that will be astonishing given how much hype they were giving her last year. As well as convincing her to get breast implants.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2023 11:35:16 GMT -5
SDL is someone who surprised the hell outta me as she was completely meaningless in WWE but she is also proof of how much someone can thrive without WWE and how much WWE missed out on.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 21, 2023 11:35:18 GMT -5
The discussion about NXT and making room is making me want to go on a quick tangent about HHH’s time as head of creative and developmental that I don’t think gets talked about enough.
Like, ok, so you’re HHH. You’ve lost a bunch of name talent because their contracts expired and can’t get them back for various reasons (even though you did try, looking at you Mr. Fish) and you have a chance to promote your system and make people watch it for the talent that you’ve helped train and produce and help through matches to help in the new era of NXT you were forced into.
And instead of doing that, you hire a bunch of people who didn’t do much when they were in the company (Emma, Kross, Nox) some people who you knew what worked in NXT (Gargano, LaRae) and a couple of people who were actual stars at points who arguably were wrongfully let go at the time. (Wyatt, Strowman) and then proceed to do not much with almost all of them (and not counting Bray for various obvious reasons).
And now for all we know, a lot of them could be gone by the end of today and it only makes me wonder what the point was, especially when more experienced talent like Cesaro and Strong were having their contracts expire and might have helped the newer talent coming up. It’s just so bizarre to me.
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Mecca
Wade Wilson
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Post by Mecca on Sept 21, 2023 11:35:25 GMT -5
People are forgetting that the UFC side of things has MASSIVE debts. UFC also massively underpays fighters.
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Post by Hypnosis on Sept 21, 2023 11:35:40 GMT -5
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 21, 2023 11:36:39 GMT -5
At the end of the day I do not give a single f*** about a company the size of TKO's "budgetary reasons". They could always, always cut their useless do nothing execs salaries to pay for the actual talent that keeps this business alive. Guys who are already under contract should at least get to at least live out the rest of their existing contract instead of cutting them mid contract. Even if they're getting paid to sit at home. No sympy for corpos, ever. There’s never an excuse for this. ROH made the decision to basically risk staying in business by paying everyone during the pandemic. They could make that sacrifice but big corporations just need to increase their bottom line more. And to add, Sinclair Broadcasting did that. Sinclair! The same one that John Oliver did a Main Story on Last Week Tonight about!
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ayumidah
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by ayumidah on Sept 21, 2023 11:37:22 GMT -5
Yeah he teases it on twitter sometimes, but I think it's just as part of his gimmick, in interviews and stuff it sounds like he's having a blast with DeLander and isn't actually that eager to tie himself back down, especially after days like today. He said recently he wants to keep being a benefit to places like GCW and I doubt that changes any time soon Him and SDL are f'ing great! They are, saw them live last month at Dreamwave and it was pretty hilarious. Dude near me had a sign that said something about Chelsea being better than Steph, Steph got ahold of it and tore it up lol.
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Mecca
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Post by Mecca on Sept 21, 2023 11:37:53 GMT -5
They will cut Tony D'Angelo who will show up on AEW as Joey Nips and then he'll run into stacks and be like...I thought you were dead?
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Post by Mid-Carder on Sept 21, 2023 11:38:10 GMT -5
Woah hold on. Elias was Ezekiel this whole time? Somebody needs to show this to Kevin Owens
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Post by Killah Ray on Sept 21, 2023 11:38:57 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 Yeah I fell for the fake profile…first time ever at that.
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ayumidah
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Post by ayumidah on Sept 21, 2023 11:39:01 GMT -5
Alvarez tweeted that NXT releases are expected around 5PM ET =/
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Post by tagteammatchplaya on Sept 21, 2023 11:39:59 GMT -5
They better not touch Brooks Jensen
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kidkamikaze10
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Post by kidkamikaze10 on Sept 21, 2023 11:40:47 GMT -5
Vince is cruel, but Endeavor is crueler. And UFC was broke.
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Post by Killah Ray on Sept 21, 2023 11:41:13 GMT -5
God I fear the NXT cuts. Those are gonna be the nasty ones. Those nXt cuts are gonna be a blood bath…
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Allie Kitsune
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Sept 21, 2023 11:42:15 GMT -5
Vince is cruel, but Endeavor is crueler. And UFC was broke. Then UFC should go out of business. Dana can exhaust his personal fortune keeping the contracted fighters afloat until he's broke and homeless, then UFC can cease to be.
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salz4life
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Prichard is a guy who gets that his job is to service his boss.
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Post by salz4life on Sept 21, 2023 11:43:00 GMT -5
They will cut Tony D'Angelo who will show up on AEW as Joey Nips and then he'll run into stacks and be like...I thought you were dead? Who is Stacks in AEW? I forgot....
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