Board 8 > All-Purpose Wrestling Topic Part 499 - 2020 is EVIL

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TheRock1525 posted...

Gallows said that the WWE Locker room had improved immensely from his first run with the company, and he puts a lot of that on Roman Reigns being the new locker room leader.

Its too bad they never get his character right because like no one ever has a bad word to say about him.

I wonder if this is a Mr. Sandman situation where people would like him just fine if they let him be himself on camera.

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Apparently Taynara Conti already taped a match for AEW for the tag tournament. She said she really did ask for her release three months before the pandemic and they refused.

Also relevant, the word crazy is a banned word in WWE for some reason, because she said her character was supposed to be crazy but they wouldn't let it be said.

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Who is Taynara Conti?

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An NXT lady who almost never got used on TV.

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The few times she was on, her character never came off as crazy, unless it was supposed to be in the AJ Lee She tilted her head! Thats how you know shes crazy! way, so Im not sure the issue with it was that they didnt use the word crazy.

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She teamed with Undisputed Era once!


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I think the crazy thing was when she was trying stuff on the NXT local Florida loop and/or pitching ideas. I dunno. I haven't listened to the podcast for more context, but I'm willing to buy that WWE arbitrarily says the word crazy can't be used.

Anyway, I just watch Talk N' Shopamania. It was an absolute pile of shit. Happy to have watched it. I don't recommend it. Pretty great though.

Boneryard Match is the best cinematic match now change my mind.

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Oh, Conti context.

She used to I guess try to make a catchphrase in her matches where she would yell at her opponents "Are you crazy!?" And then they told her they can't use crazy on TV so she just settled to trying to get "Latinas Do It Better" over.

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Did people in PWG just like saying the n-word or something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeIHXKKB71Y

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PWG bookers liked to make their talent say the n-word, from what it looks like.

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Bella Twins have both given birth to their new babies, Nikki on Friday and Brie on Saturday
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Jakyl25 posted...

Bella Twins have both given birth to their new babies, Nikki on Friday and Brie on Saturday

that was almost very weird

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Ahahahaha.

Taylor Hendrix talked about wrestling Tessa Blanchard and didn't have too many negative things to say about her, but that she knew that a lot of people had problems with her. But she did say that when she beat her for the Queens of Combat title, Tessa kept kicking out of all of her finishers and Taylor said to her "Please don't kick out. I'm out of moves."

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Unless an unexpected, spontaneous return occurs, this will be the first Summerslam Brock Lesnar doesn't headline since 2013 and the first he hasn't been part of since 2011.

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Wins against
Triple H
CM Punk (the one non-main event)
John Cena
Randy Orton
Reigns/Strowman/Joe

Losses against
Undertaker
Roman Reigns
Seth Rollins
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Also in the same light, Orton's Summerslam resume is pretty impressive itself

Wins
Chris Benoit
Undertaker
John Cena
Sheamus
Christian
Daniel Bryan
Rusev

Losses
Triple H (along with Goldberg, Jericho, Nash, and HBK)
Hulk Hogan
John Cena
Roman Reigns
Sheamus
Brock Lesnar

Draw
Kofi Kingston

8 world title matches (soon 9) going 5-2-1, and 5 main events. He only missed 2008, 2012, and 2018.

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Gary Cassidy of Sportskeeda says that the tapings for this week's Raw and next week are apparently a disaster. He states that while he's heard of things being changed on the fly and that there's tons of last minute re-writes for consecutive weeks before that, he states that it's especially more chaotic today.

https://twitter.com/WrestlingGary/status/1290326781485109248?s=19

One thing I will never, ever understand is how WWE always allows for the show to end up a last minute thing like this. You have an entire week to plan the show. How does everything change the day of and up until an hour before filming?

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Because the guy calling the shots is 90 and senile?

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RaidenGarai posted...

Because the guy calling the shots is 90 and senile?

The sad thing is we have well over a decade until he is ACTUALLY 90

And his mom is still alive so hes potentially got absurd longevity genes
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Also strange, the WWE stock isn't bouncing back after their announcement that they had four times the profit increase as last year's quarter. It peaked after the conference call and has started to go down again.

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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Also strange, the WWE stock isn't bouncing back after their announcement that they had four times the profit increase as last year's quarter. It peaked after the conference call and has started to go down again.

I assume because it isn't a long-term sustainable model.

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TheRock1525 posted...

I assume because it isn't a long-term sustainable model.

do we think it goes up if they announce no more house shows?

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https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1290341665862033408

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50+ just got ROCK HARD for that announcement.

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When in doubt...MORE MCMAHONS. Everything else failed....

To be fair, at least they gave us a year of solace.

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A year?

Owens ran Shane off in October
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i know it feels like march but it is august, I'll take 10 months

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Jakyl, 2020 has been going on for fifteen years now...

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Other dirtsheet writers are also reiterating that this Raw is the most chaotic it's been.

I feel like the pressure of record low ratings and the fact that ratings will plummet more due to sports is causing this.

But I mean I guess they have Shane???

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This is the time of year they always do this. I mean maybe a few weeks early but this is always when competition starts to kick in. The fall is going to be brutal
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Gary Cassidy of Sportskeeda says that the tapings for this week's Raw and next week are apparently a disaster. He states that while he's heard of things being changed on the fly and that there's tons of last minute re-writes for consecutive weeks before that, he states that it's especially more chaotic today.

https://twitter.com/WrestlingGary/status/1290326781485109248?s=19

One thing I will never, ever understand is how WWE always allows for the show to end up a last minute thing like this. You have an entire week to plan the show. How does everything change the day of and up until an hour before filming?

Ah yes, the "b8 special" on a grand scale

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The Rock part of a group that is buying the XFL for 15 million

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AEW getting bumped on some NBA dates.

https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1290364030847262722?s=19

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One hour of Saturday is head to head with Takeover
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AEW bastards counterprogramming again.

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Yeah got to admit, this is pretty low of AEW to try and move their time slot specifically to screw with the viewership of WWE's show.

The nerve.

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Ahahahaha

https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1290373427459751936?s=19

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Prediction: the new faction will MAKE A STATEMENT by taking out Shane

Then Shane will beat their leader at Summerslam
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Drew will rescue Shane before the faction can destroy him. With Shane weakened, Drew demands to face the unknown leader of the faction at Summerslam, and will put his title on the line.

In a shock that no one sees coming, Shane is the leader and decimates Drew at SS to take his place as WWE champion and best in the world.

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Shane McMahon over Adam Cole would confirm that Cole is out in August.

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Holy shit guys.

Bruce Prichard is doing Aces & Eights again.

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Dominik Dijakovic just deleted all of his tweets. so he's probably getting involved with rumored "JUSTUS" faction.

Meltzer also says a bad, predictable angle is going to be happening during these two weeks of tapings.

But at least Matt Cardona's merchandise were all topping AEW's merch sales this past week. Good for him. Guess that means he can at least draw merch sales.

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Famous Twitch Streamer Miro weighs in.

https://twitter.com/ToBeMiro/status/1290385907858542592?s=19

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I appreciate that all the responses are whataboutism.

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if Shane's coming around again (and probably power hungry), and there's talk of a "faction", it could be the Mean Street Posse...

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What if it's us, the WWE Universe, again?

We weren't very good as the Authority, maybe we'll get it right as the Faction!

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What are you talking about, I did a great job of booking Baron Corbin in literally everything.

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Could you imagine.

https://twitter.com/voiceswrestling/status/1290410556864770061?s=19

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I want to believe

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StealThisSheen posted...

What are you talking about, I did a great job of booking Baron Corbin in literally everything.

"When Baron Corbin is not on screen, everyone should be asking 'Where's Corbin?'"

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