Board 8 > All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 511 - They Put Cody's Busted Pec On An Action Figure

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I thank the stars every day Sasha's gone.

Don't watch wrestling anymore, looked at the men's rumble results out of curiosity. Don't know if the brands are correct but from what I saw:

There were 18 raw and 7 smackdown? And the last smackdown came out at 13? And besides jimmy uso no smackdown person lasted more than 7 minutes? RAW still the flagship show I see

GTM posted...

Don't watch wrestling anymore, looked at the men's rumble results out of curiosity. Don't know if the brands are correct but from what I saw:

There were 18 raw and 7 smackdown? And the last smackdown came out at 13? And besides jimmy uso no smackdown person lasted more than 7 minutes? RAW still the flagship show I see

pretty much all the major people on the smackdown side were in the two side matches

Not watching the weekly shows, maybe KO, LA Knight, AJ Styles, and Randy Orton (who were in non-Rumble matches) all feature on Smackdown?

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Also looks like they stayed in their lane eliminating each other. Besides Jimmy, the highest elimination was 7th, before the the first raw was eliminated 9th. That blows my mind how unbalanced that sounds.

EDIT: also good for carlito and lashley

I'm just glad a new number won for the men's rumble.

NoFInBadger posted...

I thank the stars every day Sasha's gone.

She can still outwrestle probably 90% of last night's Women's rumble.

According to some sources, Bron Breakker was a last minute addition, replacing Brock Lesnar in the Rumble and did everything Brock was supposed to do, both in terms of who he eliminated and how he got eliminated.

The thought of Brock getting eliminated by Dominik is hilarious.

Seanchan posted...

Not watching the weekly shows, maybe KO, LA Knight, AJ Styles, and Randy Orton (who were in non-Rumble matches) all feature on Smackdown?

correct actually.
basically almost all the upper card talents were in a match already. now that doesn't prevent them from joining the rumble too the way Brock or Angle have but it very much so was matches are Smackdown, rumble is Raw. realistically there is no story with Roman on any of the SD guys because it's not like any of them are taking the belt; it has to be Cody for that one. Raw meanwhile has a very active scene with the WHC (even if Rollins was just injured) so there's people to contend for that.

and i get that people are talking of a triple threat but i still think a "head of the table" match does not need the belt. that can easily be worked into a separate fight, a storyline tool to limit their interference at WM, or put at another location.

Wanglicious posted...

and i get that people are talking of a triple threat but i still think a "head of the table" match does not need the belt. that can easily be worked into a separate fight, a storyline tool to limit their interference at WM, or put at another location.

Agree it doesn't need a title for juice. Someone said it'd make more sense as a SummerSlam match, after losing to Cody at Mania.

lmao punk major injury

Prob the same arm from aew

Aw for fuck's sake

FFDragon posted...

lmao punk major injury

Prob the same arm from aew

its actually the other arm

Oh really?

That fragile body dig aging like wine.

https://twitter.com/nodqdotcom/status/1698116781875839231/

Never like to see someone injured but the man has a curse hanging over him.

both punk and bryan have had way too many injuries in the past 3 years that it's been rather painful to see just how all their younger damage has piled on. at least bryan's daughter wants him to retire soon and he's essentially working in AEW creative/management too.

this appears to be the rumored injury spot
https://twitter.com/AIRGold_/status/1751520125713281475/video/1

i... don't know how you get injured off that exactly considering it's a pretty safe move. but if punk is out i guess it's a good thing they set up Gunther as Plan B already and Drew is, well, Drew.

Triceps tears can sometimes be linked to steroids right

Punk did look a lot bigger when he came back

i can imagine him getting something like TRT to fast track getting ring ready after being gone for a long time and rationalizing it because it's something the body produces naturally

That F4W was a big waste.

Why does Dave insist on being on camera, or even on social media? He's either an unintelligible crackpot on camera or audio, or a complete asshat on Twitter.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epv757/co-defendant-in-vince-mcmahon-sex-trafficking-lawsuit-says-he-was-a-victim-too

a bold strategy cotton,

Lesnar removed from the SuperCard game, 2K actively is going to downplay his usage, and feds are now investigating Vince.

I wonder how close to the Benoit treatment some of these people are gonna get.

damn I can't believe roman reigns had this 1300 day reign as champ AND broke the undertaker's streak

Kinglicious posted...

I wonder how close to the Benoit treatment some of these people are gonna get.

I was debating this elsewhere. One way Vince is approaching the Benoit-treatment:

https://www.wwe.com/superstars/mr-mcmahon

"You are not authorized to access this page."

I wonder how much further they may go regarding removing clips, references, and all that. It's hard to imagine his complete removal, right, and we still see Harvey Weinstein's name featured in the early credits for movies like Pulp Fiction...but also, any keeping of Vince on camera is not going to look good for WWE.

I mean Vince is impossible to fully remove, you'd have to erase the attitude era. Brock is easier to downplay but it's still rough, ffd's joke is legit a route they can focus on - just praise Roman's win instead.

"The man that beat the Undertaker at Wrestlemania!"

Just omit that someone got to him first

I dont think you can scrub Brock either tbh, streak aside he has main evented like six Manias and has been established as Romans biggest rival

hell pretty important for Seth and Drew too

They already did a good job scrubbing him from Rumble history. From last weekend's ppv...

"Five superstars have won the Rumble from the #30 spot, including the American Nightmare last year!"

In that sentence, the video showed Taker, Cena, Trips, and Cody.

FFDragon posted...

damn I can't believe roman reigns had this 1300 day reign as champ AND broke the undertaker's streak

Crazy part is, Taker recently said if he could change anything, he'd have had Roman end the streak instead of Lesnar.

Every 10 Wrestlemanias, there's been a moment that's featured a scrubbed name (kinda)

10 - While WWE themselves wouldn't want to erase him, Martha Hart probably has lawyers ready if Owen's mentioned on TV
20 - Benoit wins main event
30 - Brock beats Taker
40 - ???????

Can't really highlight the 30 main event either with Danielson in aew.

While true, there's a difference between "Bryan not mentioned in WWE because he works for a rival promotion" and "Brock not mentioned in WWE because he's in hot water due to Vince shenanigans"

Wrestlemania 40 card updates
Cody vs Rollins for the WHC
Rock vs Reigns for the WWE title
Bayley vs Iyo for the WWE Women's title

Yup. Roman's passing Hogan

t-this is some long elaborate joke right

ZeroSignal posted...

Cody vs Rollins for the WHC

Wait...what?!? I don't watch Smackdown, so what's the reason they gave for not "finishing the story"?

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lol at his face

they made him introduce the man who took his fucking spot, lol

I guess he had to know his role and shut his mouth?

cody really was just the guy to introduce the actual guy who's going to finish the story all along

shakespearian

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incredible.

Rock just joined the board too didn't he? Wonder if he pushed hard for it to "right the ship" after all the Vince stuff too.

Drew's DDT butterfly effected the fuck out of things so hard 2024 Cody turned into 2014 Punk.

FFDragon posted...

cody really was just the guy to introduce the actual guy who's going to finish the story all along

shakespearian

But Rock is gonna lose too.

The only story getting finished is Roman passing Bruno.

FFDragon posted...

Rock just joined the board too didn't he? Wonder if he pushed hard for it to "right the ship" after all the Vince stuff too.

Drew's DDT butterfly effected the fuck out of things so hard 2024 Cody turned into 2014 Punk.

He absolutely did, as part of becoming essentially the new face of the company and going on all these future talk-show appearances. Which considering what's going on right now, WWE doesn't have much of a choice.

little domino - some guy chants colt cabana during a punk promo

big domino - the rock big times cody out of the wrestlemania 40 main event

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brother needs to fucking hang it up. he's just not in the right shape to go anymore.

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Seanchan posted...

Wait...what?!? I don't watch Smackdown, so what's the reason they gave for not "finishing the story"?

Cody basically said that he intends to finish the story... just not at Wrestlemania.

Cody then proceeded to introduce Roman to the council that he talked with in regards to his decision, and The Rock comes out.

This was almost 2 hours after Roman called Seth's championship the losers bracket. Cody literally settled for the losers bracket.

Seanchan posted...

I guess he had to know his role and shut his mouth?

pretty much. just literally had Cody come out, talk up the title, then say he's not going for it this wrestlemania and introduced the rock.

it's a terrible decision all around.

https://youtu.be/sY052e6ZaXs?si=tnBX8bEnwKzu6O-i&t=4m10s

I've worked myself into a shoot, brother. There's no way they say they're going to do this and then actually do this. Right?!

it's as prophetic a line as you get.
the only upside to this is that Drew is gonna have a field day talking about how Cody jobbed out his opportunity. legit the only person in that title scene worth watching after this and his contract may or may not be renewed.

the only way they could possibly get out of this is the crowd turning on it like WM30, but you know they won't.

WOW. So fucking terrible.

i mean there's another way they get out of this and it's called "a 51 year old gets injured before WM."

like the big 4D chess move would be they're baiting Rock vs Roman but then Rock is taken out/is injured or unable to compete, Cody still hasn't finalized his decision, picks Roman with Rock's blessing.

it's not the move happening unless there's a legit injury but is dumb to do all around. much like this build!