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*Official* Pro-Wrestling Thread II

duffer

duffer

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
sledger said:
Yeah, it's on like Donkey Kong.
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Niall said:
Jinder was the babyface last night. Got attacked and still wanted to wrestle his match. :laugh:

That match will be massacred at MITB.

Nia v Ronda needs to be short as neither can be trusted in a long match for different reasons.
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Haha yep, waited till I could get some weed before I watched it. Amazing.

Watched Smackdown too. Decent show but bah gawd Big Cass sucks ass. I mean next level sucking ass.
 
sledger

sledger

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duffer said:
Haha yep, waited till I could get some weed before I watched it. Amazing.

Watched Smackdown too. Decent show but bah gawd Big Cass sucks ass. I mean next level sucking ass.
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I don't mind him generally speaking, but he came across as a total loser in this segment.

Big guy talking trash who then gets his ass absolutely handed to him by a guy who, despite being very popular, has never been cast as anything more than a sympathetic underdog. Great.

Really hope they go with Jinder vs Roman for the next few PPVs. Guaranteed to be a few of those "when the match itself turns heel" situations.
 
duffer

duffer

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sledger said:
I don't mind him generally speaking, but he came across as a total loser in this segment.

Big guy talking trash who then gets his ass absolutely handed to him by a guy who, despite being very popular, has never been cast as anything more than a sympathetic underdog. Great.

Really hope they go with Jinder vs Roman for the next few PPVs. Guaranteed to be a few of those "when the match itself turns heel" situations.
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As long as Cass keeps losing I can deal with it. He just does nothing for me.

Roman-Jinder is going to get **** on. Guaranteed. However it just feels must watch for me, if anything for the comedy value.
 
Niall

Niall

International Coach
Think they were punishing Cass for ignoring Vince's instructions regarding the midget beatdown the previous week. Pretty dumb of Cass to think he has enough power to ignore Vince.
 
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dontcloseyoureyes said:
Was about as obvious as obvious gets that Taiji was gonna beat Ospreay. I figure he's gonna get the exact same booking Marufuji did when he did G1.
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classic Gedo tournament booking. Puts the new guy over. Same as Sabin getting the pin over KUSHIDA just now and Scrull pinning Ospreay night 1 of the 2017 BOSJ. Funnily enough, Ospreay hasn't won his first match ever, as in 2016 he lost to one Chase Owens (Ospreay had already had a title match against Kushida so he didn't need new guy booking)
 
Mike5181

Mike5181

International Captain
A couple of those submissions looked a bit eh but Sabin's a really good wrestler as well.

I don't know what his deal is with ROH but I wouldn't mind seeing more of him in New Japan. **** load of talent there atm though. Not everyone can get the spotlight.
 
Athlai

Athlai

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So Raw is apparently looking at $400 million a year, and SD Live a little over $200 million. WWE just got $300-400 million in their pockets a year.

Crazy.
 
sledger

sledger

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Yeah, mad money. Not sure how shows like RAW can command that much these days, given all of the over the top services out there etc. But hey ho, maybe the massive influx of cash means we can get pyro and different sets for PPVs back.
 
Athlai

Athlai

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sledger said:
Yeah, mad money. Not sure how shows like RAW can command that much these days, given all of the over the top services out there etc. But hey ho, maybe the massive influx of cash means we can get pyro and different sets for PPVs back.
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Notably it's more than they've ever commanded before in history. It's pretty interesting really, TV is a funny position where it's no doubt dying but a lot of money is still being thrown in its direction. Advertising is still seen as most effective on traditional media so theres still a lot of money coming in. A lot of desperate, losing their audience, money.

The big winner of this will be sports and really any show that can retain a long term audience.

I also have no confirmation of this but I suspect wrestlings "audience profile" has risen a bit in terms of potential advertising revenue. Not necessarily due to any particular shifting of demographic of wrestling, but due to the exodus of cord cutters causing advertisers to shift their focus.
 
sledger

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
Also how much was Stephanie McMahon on this ****ing show. Seemed to be in literally every other segment. Just **** off ****.
 
sledger

sledger

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Thought RAW was really lame tbh. Feels like they have been churning out the exact same show for weeks. Bobby Roode as a face is awful.
 
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