*Official* Pro-Wrestling Thread II

[kyear2]

Laurinaitis saying that Vince made him do it or something like that

That is a pathetic excuse, but these are pathetic men.

But it serves the purpose of confirming the allegations.

 

[Spikey]

That said, if criminal charges end up being brought against anyone, then the possibility of a settlement kind of becomes moot (i.e., because court will be unavoidable).

I was gonna say last night that we know that the feds started an investigated on him last year and got a warrant but we don't know anything else about it, but then the WSJ just confirmed it was (at least partly) for the ***ual assault and *** trafficking allegations, so

 

[Athlai]

CodyOwned

 

[honestbharani]

what happened?

 

[Athlai]

Rock vs Roman at mania

 

[honestbharani]

We all knew this though. I guess they wanted something to get them away from the bad press around McMahon. Wondering if Punk was not injured, they would have found a way to do Punk Vs Austin too.

 

[Spikey]

**** the rock joining the board and then saying that doesn't work for me brother is maybe the best wwe thing in 25 years

 

[Spikey]

he's right too and HHH ****ed everything up by trying to somehow have The Rock/Roman not happen at WM. what the **** kind of thinking is that

not a good few days for HHH

 

[sledger]

I understand why they've done it, but from a narrative point of view this makes Cody look like a total dweeb. Bloke spends the last two years slogging his guts out to "finish his story", and then with the finishing line in sight he just happily gives his spot to The Rock. What a ****ing loser lol

 

[Spikey]

the only way this can get funnier is if they want to pivot to having Roman drop it to Cody in Australia at 5am american time and then Roman says no he will not flying be over to australia

 

[Athlai]

Looking forward to WWE somehow getting the crowd to hijack Reigns vs Rock

 

[Spikey]

it's just a shame that people will be talking about this stuff instead of the CMLL guys on Rampage

 

[Athlai]

Yeah invasion seems interesting but WWE news so juicy

 

[Heboric]

Nah it will be Cody vs Hogan at Mania and Cody must do the
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[Athlai]

I was genuinely very nervous Hulk Hogan would appear in the Rumble

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

I understand why they've done it, but from a narrative point of view this makes Cody look like a total dweeb. Bloke spends the last two years slogging his guts out to "finish his story", and then with the finishing line in sight he just happily gives his spot to The Rock. What a ****ing loser lol

Cody is and has always been a dweeb and a loser

 

[honestbharani]

Did they actually change the direction in the backroom coz Rock took over on the Board? Or is it just kayfabe?

 

[Athlai]

Did they actually change the direction in the backroom coz Rock took over on the Board? Or is it just kayfabe?

They changed direction cos WWE's name is getting owned in the news cos of Vince, CM Punk got injured. This was clearly not the plan a week ago.

I think the Rock board position is probably more likely to be part of the deal they've thrown his way to make this happen than it is him swinging his booking weight around.

 

[honestbharani]

They changed direction cos WWE's name is getting owned in the news cos of Vince, CM Punk got injured. This was clearly not the plan a week ago.

I think the Rock board position is probably more likely to be part of the deal they've thrown his way to make this happen than it is him swinging his booking weight around.

Makes sense. But at least there is a fun kayfabe story to be told there and in case they want Reigns to turn face, that can be the direction they go.

 

[sledger]

I mean the E is totally throwing their last two years of storytelling down the shitter for the sake of a quick buck here. Rock is a huge name obviously, but even with Punk and Brock out they were still going to make money hand over fist whatever was put on the WM card. This was actually probably the first year in ages they had enough genuinely over/ top stars to not need to rely on names from the past.