ManaByte
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Roman vs.Seth vs Punk. They set that up tonight.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Ideally the championship matches should be the main eventers.
TheAtomicPile
Member
Can Jey vs Gunther really be a WM main event? Even on night one?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Seems like they're gonna do the Samy Zayn -> Gunther thing for the IC title but for the heavyweight belt now.
ManaByte
Member
It’s a way to put a belt on Jey while keeping the big one for Cody/Cena.
TheAtomicPile
Member
Yeah maybe. I feel like they might need to pull the old "double main event" trick and have that go together on night one with Roman, Seth and Punk.
SnazzyDude
Neo Member
Agreed, but it's Roman and Punk so who knows how they'll swing it.
Gunther's too good to not main event and Phillip being denied another buy one get one free extravaganza would crack me up.
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Terrible show with Terrible results.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Yeaaaaaaaaah .... that was a terrible match.
Let's see if they continue Jey vs Gunther or somehow try to turn it into a three-way with a third wrestler introduced between now and then. Maybe Elimination Chamber winner can be a part of it, while Cena can get a guaranteed match with Cody at WM? Just wishful thinking.
edit: I see that cena has already added himself to the Elimination Chamber. Ah well.
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DForce
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After thinking about it for a few hours..... Jey Uso winning the Royal Rumble was the right choice.
Jey is super over and it's best to capitalize on this while the iron is hot. This is something Vince failed to do with Daniel Bryan............ until the crowd pushed back and that eventually turned into the "Yes" movement."
People wanted Cena to win, but there's always the Elimination Chamber match.
Jey is super over and it's best to capitalize on this while the iron is hot. This is something Vince failed to do with Daniel Bryan............ until the crowd pushed back and that eventually turned into the "Yes" movement."
People wanted Cena to win, but there's always the Elimination Chamber match.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Pretty wild. He got a huge pop.
They did it, they fuckin' did it.
edit: and of course Roman gets the extra special Pyro for his Rumble entrance, unlike any other guy.
I will always say that if Punk hadn't left in 2014 Vince would have put him in the main event of Wrestlemania that year. (Since he would have fit into the whole "people pushing back against the main event they didn't want" roll. It being an FU to the fan for Danielson would have been a plus on top of it.)
I guess but at this point I'm kind of sick of him. (Then again I mean I've been watching him do this since Ring of Garbage so maybe it'll just take another year.)
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
As a guy who's been a TNA fan for over 15 years at this point. (Very casual for quite a few years though) its just nice to see TNA make some strides. It was looking bleak there for quite a while. I do hope the wwe/tna partnership remains just that this isn't some prelude to a buyout.
ManaByte
Member
This 100%.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
And he got to square off against Roman! That's huge.
And to think he used to do videos for Whatculture a few years ago.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I hope they can continue as well since I've been watching them way too long as well. I just hope they can avoid their tendency to hotshot angles. (Which they have done WAY too much.)
Soodanim
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I hope they fed Dave false info. So many leaks all the time. What does Dave (any anyone else) getting the truth do for the industry aside from spoil things? A surprise like this does far more for a business than Dave and Tony having each other on speed dial.
Social media should be the extension of kayfabe (Drew does it the right way) and the newsletters/dirtsheets should be used to a promotion's advantage.
TheAtomicPile
Member
People pay for this.
Dthomp
Member
Man, I hate the "he's over" argument. HIS ENTRANCE IS OVER. Most of his matches then are silent. I don't usually think a guys package could be handed to another and would work...but it does. His theme is a remix of their Uso theme, they could repurpose the theme itself and they'd be the most of tag team again, they could swap him and Jimmy and it would work exactly the same...except Jimmy has shown the ability to cut promos, something Jey still can't do cause IMO saying something just to wait for the "yeet" is as potentially damaging as Austins Whats were.
I am negative excited for Jey/Gunther 4, especially after losing to him again a week ago. If you wanted to slingshot somebody with Gunther history, you can't tell me people wouldn't have exploded for Sami or Gable getting the slingshot (Yes I know Jey sells merch, but he sells merch as a midcarder...it's not gonna sell more with a title). They have been begging you to believe he's a big deal calling him "main event". Did they need to say Main Event Edge on his rise? You're a main eventer because you can check all the boxes. Jey checks....selling merch. You know who else sells a ton of fucking merch and the fans love? Danhausen...FUcking Orange Cassidy, but I don't see them running around with the AEW world title. I must have missed something during main event Fandango was wrecking house, or the Road Dogg era, Santino might be my favorite world champ ever since all that matters is getting a pop from the crowd and selling some merch.
They will do what they do with that title, and honestly I wasn't really sure the best way to get it off Gunther (This isn't it), but I still think we may get Punk/Cody. I think the seeds are sown for Logan Paul/Cena potentially. Cena threw him out of the Rumble and I expect Paul to be the 6th man in the Chamber with Punk/Seth/Roman/Drew/Cena. Cena has plenty of time (and a MITB attempt) to get his title, maybe off of Jey leading to a heel/tweener Punk/Cena Summerslam/Survivor Series match. Seth/Roman go singles at Mania as I don't really think a triple threat does anything much more for the match then this Seth/Roman that has been building forever.
Really the only guy I don't see anything for is Drew. He got tossed by Priest who is now on SD, and I would hope that Sheamus/Bron IC title change is the mania plan, but Drew has been such an MVP this year for a ho hum rumble apperance and no real mania plans by the looks of it.
I know this wasn't the worst Rumble of all time, but it feels like it's up there. I too was hoping for Becky in the Rumble, but she'd have to be there at the end, and Charlotte tossing her would have gotten even more groans then her already winning. Also the reason I hated the mass elimination by Nia as a way to protect Charlotte from eliminating your actual favorites. I'm sure her and Tiffy will put on a banger, but you likely could have gotten there without the rumble win
I am negative excited for Jey/Gunther 4, especially after losing to him again a week ago. If you wanted to slingshot somebody with Gunther history, you can't tell me people wouldn't have exploded for Sami or Gable getting the slingshot (Yes I know Jey sells merch, but he sells merch as a midcarder...it's not gonna sell more with a title). They have been begging you to believe he's a big deal calling him "main event". Did they need to say Main Event Edge on his rise? You're a main eventer because you can check all the boxes. Jey checks....selling merch. You know who else sells a ton of fucking merch and the fans love? Danhausen...FUcking Orange Cassidy, but I don't see them running around with the AEW world title. I must have missed something during main event Fandango was wrecking house, or the Road Dogg era, Santino might be my favorite world champ ever since all that matters is getting a pop from the crowd and selling some merch.
They will do what they do with that title, and honestly I wasn't really sure the best way to get it off Gunther (This isn't it), but I still think we may get Punk/Cody. I think the seeds are sown for Logan Paul/Cena potentially. Cena threw him out of the Rumble and I expect Paul to be the 6th man in the Chamber with Punk/Seth/Roman/Drew/Cena. Cena has plenty of time (and a MITB attempt) to get his title, maybe off of Jey leading to a heel/tweener Punk/Cena Summerslam/Survivor Series match. Seth/Roman go singles at Mania as I don't really think a triple threat does anything much more for the match then this Seth/Roman that has been building forever.
Really the only guy I don't see anything for is Drew. He got tossed by Priest who is now on SD, and I would hope that Sheamus/Bron IC title change is the mania plan, but Drew has been such an MVP this year for a ho hum rumble apperance and no real mania plans by the looks of it.
I know this wasn't the worst Rumble of all time, but it feels like it's up there. I too was hoping for Becky in the Rumble, but she'd have to be there at the end, and Charlotte tossing her would have gotten even more groans then her already winning. Also the reason I hated the mass elimination by Nia as a way to protect Charlotte from eliminating your actual favorites. I'm sure her and Tiffy will put on a banger, but you likely could have gotten there without the rumble win
oh come on we got bliss.No Becky at the women's rumble, but a returning Nicky Bella.
i hope they give bliss mic time.
ManaByte
Member
And Meltzer got cooked in the process
ManaByte
Member
Woman’s Rumble was meh, only highlight was Bliss’s pop.
Tag Team was a bore.
Cody and KO was awesome.
Men’s Rumble was fine and Triple H recognizing the fan reaction to Jey shows he’s not Vince.
DKehoe
Member
So of the four matches a whole one crossed the threshold of good? Guess that’s why there’s all these glowing comments about the show in this thread.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
SnazzyDude
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"That's right, Universe! Only trust us, the WWE! Dirtsheets bad! Dont bother checking the news at all actually...especially if they mention a lawsuit, who reads those?!
I REPEAT. DO NOT WATCH THE NEWS. IT'S ALL DIRTSHEETS."
SnazzyDude
Neo Member
Keywords: This thread
lmao
this wtf
DKehoe
Member
Rob “lol ill pretend u said 18” Feinstein, a pedophile. He has a company called RF Video that was the distributor for ECW tapes and was one of the founders of ROH, which was set up to fill the hole in the market after ECW collapsed. Then he turned up on a To Catch A Predator style show after he made plans to meet who he thought was a 14 year old boy. He got booted from ROH but has still hung around the wrestling industry.
If you’ve ever seen clips from a shoot interview where the backdrop is black with purple text like this then that’s one of his company’s videos, very good chance he was the interviewer too.
When you look at what Meltzer actually wrote it was just that they were still apart when it came to money but a deal could be made.
But wrestling companies always want to try and stop fans from getting their information from anyone but themselves. And those Twitter accounts are just engagement farming using what the aggregators post rather than bothering to be accurate. There's so much people can criticise Meltzer for without being that lazy. But I guess those accounts can fool people, or maybe just give them what they were already looking for, without them needing to put in much effort.
ManaByte
Member
Meltzer charged people $15 to tell them Bliss wasn't coming back. When she did, he gave a word salad post saying he didn't really trust the source he used for the $15 post in the first place.
DKehoe
Member
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Ehhhhhh
Just reads like covering his ass.
I can say "Becky Lynch will is expected not to be at the Rumble, but will be present if an appropriate deal can be made in time".
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DKehoe
Member
Sure, people can say it's vague if they want. But claiming that he said Alexa wouldn't be there and presenting it as a gotcha moment based on someone else's interpretation of his words is misleading.Ehhhhhh
Just reads like covering his ass.
I can say "Becky Lynch will is expected not to be at the Rumble, but will be present if an appropriate deal can be made in time".
It's always the problem with aggregator accounts, and not just in wrestling. They present a simplified version of what someone said and then people take that as if it's the person's own words. That then leads to this game of telephone where people are getting annoyed at others for things they didn't really say.
It's also worth looking at the accounts posting that stuff. Are AEWNeckbeard and EliteRockerz really posting in good faith? No. I don't think we need to be scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to wrestling discussion and it's worth pushing back on that.
Again, there's so many other things people can criticise Meltzer for than that weak shit.
mansoor1980
Member
influencers/youtubers participating in the royal rumble?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
influencers/youtubers participating in the royal rumble?
That spear tho.
So fuckin' good.