JMA
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Post by JMA on Jan 21, 2007 19:49:24 GMT -5
Honestly, what does Vince see in Matt Striker? All these other wrestlers have been fired and he still keeps his job? I just don't get it.
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Post by Nuke is Good on Jan 21, 2007 19:50:42 GMT -5
Honestly, what does Vince see in Matt Striker? All these other wrestlers have been fired and he still keeps his job? I just don't get it. He's paid a low salary so he can keep his jobber status. |
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Post by Tyfo on Jan 21, 2007 20:47:39 GMT -5
Ive been informed that Thomas Farra is in fact, DSW's Tommy Suede.
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Post by samachine on Jan 21, 2007 21:58:35 GMT -5
Honestly, what does Vince see in Matt Striker? All these other wrestlers have been fired and he still keeps his job? I just don't get it. Miz? |
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Post by Andrew is Good on Jan 21, 2007 22:26:45 GMT -5
This definitely does suck, but I'm glad the dust has settled, and I guess now is time to look at what happened, in the Great Roster Cut of 2007. It skipped a year, from the Great Roster Cuts of 2004 and 2005, but it came in with full force.
As a fan of DSW, I'm really disappointed with a lot of the list. One thing DSW is known for is its tag teams. The Tag Team Division in DSW is the best currently in professional wrestling I feel, or was anyway. The tag team titles were put on the same level as the Deep South Championship, which is a rarity in wrestling, and the Gymini were the guys. Hell, they're currently the DSW tag team champs, and just took on High Impact.
Bill Demott is also in a big angle with the Gymini, probably their biggest now. I also feel they've hotshotted the belts recently too, which sucks. It also sucks that they let go David Heath, who I was really hoping would get called up. I was always a huge mark for Gangrel, and I was really excited when I read he came back.
On the main roster, it seems ECW took the biggest hit, losing Jazz, Terkay, CW Anderson, Al Snow and Tony Mamaluke. The only two tag teams were broken up, which shows that the Tag Team belts won't be on that show soon. Also hope for the BWO to come in has slowly slipped away because of the lack of tag teams.
Tatanka going on Smackdown for me was the biggest piss off. Usually there's one, and this one was the one for me. Tatanka since he came back has been busting his ass to show he's not some washed up wrestling that the WWE brought back to get guys over. Tatanka showed week in and week out he could have good matches, and he had some great ones recently with Jimmy Yang. That feud I feel had a lot of potential.
And I as well hope Mike Knox gets to stay anyway. Knox has talent dripping out of him, and there was a reason why Heyman wanted him called up. It was rumoured that Punk was protected by Heyman, and Heyman wouldn't have had Punk lose to Hardcore Holly clean. So I think that if Heyman was still around, Mike Knox would get lots of Tv time because he was one of the guys he called up.
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Post by Lenny: Smooth like Keith Stone on Jan 21, 2007 22:30:29 GMT -5
You know as of right now, ECW.com still has bios up for everyone who was released. Maybe it's all just our imagination and no one was fired........
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Jan 21, 2007 22:36:22 GMT -5
Ive been informed that Thomas Farra is in fact, DSW's Tommy Suede. I figured as much. |
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Post by nisi on Jan 21, 2007 23:17:11 GMT -5
Honestly, what does Vince see in Matt Striker? All these other wrestlers have been fired and he still keeps his job? I just don't get it. I'm a big Striker fan myself, although I am afraid he is suffering from an advanced case of gimmick drift and needs an interesting storyline or feud stat. Also sorry to see Seth Skyfire go, but I think he'll do well in the indies. |
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Post by Rorschach on Jan 22, 2007 2:04:48 GMT -5
You know as of right now, ECW.com still has bios up for everyone who was released. Maybe it's all just our imagination and no one was fired........ Just shows how much they really care about WWECW. |
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Post by Mitch 4:20 on Jan 22, 2007 2:32:40 GMT -5
I have a feeling that some cruiserweights aren't too far behind... Jamie Noble/James Gibson, Shanon Moore, Funaki(his time has been coming for a while now), Simon Dean, Ballz, Boogeyan(again)
Here's a question... any chance that anyone listed to appear in the Rumble could get released...? (not sure who has been named as entries yet...)
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Post by The Blue Blazer on Jan 22, 2007 3:04:12 GMT -5
I'm still trying to figure out why they had Tatanka go out and become an honorary member of some tribe. Uhhh...HE WAS ALREADY AN INDIAN!!!
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JMA
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Post by JMA on Jan 22, 2007 3:45:17 GMT -5
You know as of right now, ECW.com still has bios up for everyone who was released. Maybe it's all just our imagination and no one was fired........ Just shows how much they really care about WWECW. WWE.com has ALWAYS been extremely (no pun intended) lazy with the ECW page. |
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Post by Ace Diamond on Jan 22, 2007 8:22:57 GMT -5
I'm still trying to figure out why they had Tatanka go out and become an honorary member of some tribe. Uhhh...HE WAS ALREADY AN INDIAN!!! I'm not an expert on this in the least, but I'd figure you can become the honorary member of another tribe. Now my question is why the hell they spent months doing this and then went nowhere with it. Cause it was clear Tatanka was working his ass off in the ring to justify why he was brought back, and it's really the most aggravating firing I find right now, like other people have found. |
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jan 22, 2007 12:03:45 GMT -5
I still wonder if any of these guys will be brought back under cheaper contracts.
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Post by Chainsaw on Jan 22, 2007 12:24:40 GMT -5
They released Ryan Reeves? How is that possible? He's a talentless hoss? Madness!
So long, Grape Ape. We hardly cared about ya.
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Post by JoshWoodrumGreaterThanHBK on Jan 22, 2007 12:27:48 GMT -5
what the f*** is up with firing Turkay? I thought WWE had big plans with him and Burke as the "Tap Out Knock Out Connection"?
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Post by mysterydriver on Jan 22, 2007 12:30:42 GMT -5
Am I the only one saddened that the Tatanka/Jimmy Wang Yang feud was cut short?
I would have loved to see Tatanka argue with Jimmy with how the "White man took our land away." and Jimmy challenge him to a match in order to "defend America."
Tatanka gets confused and, when he wins, believes he has won back America. This leads to skits where Tatanka is demanding money from people for "Being on my land."
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Post by Michael Coello on Jan 22, 2007 12:31:08 GMT -5
what the wax is up with firing Turkay? I thought WWE had big plans with him and Burke as the "Tap Out Knock Out Connection"? Well, on ECW last week, Turkey got knocked out by Sandman, but he got beat by Reverend Elijah. So, It was thought a whle ago. Maybe cause they think he was bad in his gimmick? Still, shocked about it as you are. |
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jan 22, 2007 14:11:42 GMT -5
what the wax is up with firing Turkay? I thought WWE had big plans with him and Burke as the "Tap Out Knock Out Connection"? Well, on ECW last week, Turkey got knocked out by Sandman, but he got beat by Reverend Elijah. So, It was thought a whle ago. Maybe cause they think he was bad in his gimmick? Still, shocked about it as you are. I'm still figuring that they might bring him back under a smaller contract to be Burke's silent enforcer. I think Burke plays off of him too well to give up on them, but Turkay probably got much too big a contract to play second fiddle, even if he is playing second fiddle to someone that is better than he is. |
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Post by Garcia Vega on Jan 22, 2007 17:39:37 GMT -5
MORE MORE!!
Sorry, the cuts are the most exciting thing to happen in WWE the last couple years.
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helped $lim jinx NXT. Woops
