Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Isn't the conventional wisdom that smart money is basically meaningless until a few hours before showtime?
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Its to early for smart money. That doesn't come in until the day of the show. Plus I wonder if Sasha's tweet got some people nervous.
She got popped didn't she
serenewarfare
Banned
It's not meaningless, but it does mean way more if it happens the day of given how often plans change. A shift as big as this match had is something to pay attention to though. No line moves that much unless someone knows something.
Bluekaveli
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serenewarfare
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Smart money can come in at any time. As soon as a plan is made, someone who knows can go bet. Odds just aren't as reliable until the day of the show because Vince changes things constantly. I don't think a shift that big happens unless someone is mighty confident in that result.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Yeah. It's too early for the surest bets, but the fact that a sure bet as high as that one lead completely shifted over to the other side is in no way coincidental.
Bluekaveli
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With the WWE the smart money always comes in around 3-6pm on the day of show. Plus those odds for Sasha was too high this early. It just evened out to the levels of the rest of the matches as of now. The only surprise is who is the slight favorite.
You just have to wait till Sunday because things change. Bryan was once the favorite to win the rumble when Batista returned.
People who lost their shit over Zayn/Nakamura, are you over it now that some time has passed?
Because I try to go with the guise that everyone likes what they like and not everyone likes the same thing and that's fine. But that match is the one exception where I saw so many people flip out about it and I only had questions. As shitty as it sounds, is that your first time watching Nakamura? Because it was pretty much the most base level Nakamura match. Zayn was just there. And barely at that. Nakamura just did his spots and his gestures and that's it. Like I don't remember anything about that match other than what felt like a huge overreaction to it.
Because I try to go with the guise that everyone likes what they like and not everyone likes the same thing and that's fine. But that match is the one exception where I saw so many people flip out about it and I only had questions. As shitty as it sounds, is that your first time watching Nakamura? Because it was pretty much the most base level Nakamura match. Zayn was just there. And barely at that. Nakamura just did his spots and his gestures and that's it. Like I don't remember anything about that match other than what felt like a huge overreaction to it.
serenewarfare
Banned
Yeah, but a lot of money has to come in for an outlet to shift the lines that much. Which basically in this case means all the money had to come in for one person.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
I read replies to her tweets because of this post, suck up/creep level is off the charts.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
It definitely benefited in people's minds from being his first match in the company
The same people saying it's match of the decade probably don't see any flaws in House Show Nakamura either
Well someone did that with Bryan for the Rumble because he became the favorite for a period of time before it went back to Batista on the day of the show.
Well the tweet was a reply to a picture of a fan thanking her for taking a picture with her at the airport. She doesn't seem to like that so she replied calling the fan out for stalking celebrities at the airport.
She deleted it. Plus for any female celebrity is basically filled with those type of people.
serenewarfare
Banned
I think a lot of overreaction came from the spectacle of it. It was essentially Nakamura in a WWE ring, something a lot of people figured they'd never see and was against the biggest fan favorite in NXT and on the biggest NXT show from a hype perspective. That alone made the match feel more special than anything else NXT had done from the start. It'd be like if Cena signed with NJPW and had his first match at the Dome with Okada. People would be freaking out about the smallest stuff.
BewareTheBatsie
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Roman Reigns and Eva Marie taking PEDs to stay hyper focused and energized for entertaining the fans on a nightly basis and they get hated by the internet for the efforts anyway smh.
Jimmy King
Member
It was a helluva moment with Zayn getting a send off and Nak making his debut, but I knew the match wouldn't hold up because, for me, they're just fighting. I need more than that.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Well, yeah.
Jimmy King
Member
WCW reunion
serenewarfare
Banned
Cole and Lethal just had a really great match. Awesome stuff. Also, new champ.
Looks like they are going Cole vs. O'Reilly next.
Looks like they are going Cole vs. O'Reilly next.
Jimmy King
Member
How was Cody at Evolve?
Bluekaveli
Member
Just remember
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I'm starting to think you like posting that for some reason, friend.
Just remember
Bluekaveli
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That shit is disrespectful to me and I feel like everyone needs to see that shit. I want to know who in the fuck came up with this design because they can go get fucked.
styl3s
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This seems unintentionally terrible and maybe probably possibly but i don't know racist?
Just remember
Wait.. Is Kane running for mayor in my city?Nocturnowl would appreciate this. This is going on my mantle of Kane items.
Bluekaveli
Member
Hold the line, you stay in Knoxville? You should come over and watch SummerSlam with me Sunday, live only on the WWE network!
And yes that's pretty what it is, that's why I'm scratching my head over it. Of course I don't have a twitter so I can't bitch about it and have my voice heard.
UrbanDandy
Member
What's he up to these days?
I'll do it for you if you allow me to name our tag team "The Excited Brothers"
sf2fanatic
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Don't trust Blue, he'll hit you in the back with a chair. Look at what he did to uncle Eddie.
Bluekaveli
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Bluekaveli
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Quite frankly, you did it to yourself!
Better than the blue meanies 😀
sf2fanatic
Member
Don't mess with Uncle Eddie, I'll have to smack you around
Sweeney Tom
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Blue do you want a Jeff Jarrett laser engraved guitar
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Bluekaveli
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sf2fanatic
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Screw you jobber. I'll powerslam your ass Hercules style.
Brian_FETO
Banned
Yo no disrespect but Jack Evans is a pretty cool guy
Some dude yelled "do a moonsault!", he replies "moonsaults are for pussies" and does a 450 to the outside
Also I hate wrestling fans. Group of idiots near us were convinced they were the show and yelled ignorant shit about a female wrestler's nose being big for most of her match and thought it was hilarious to make racist comments during Chris Hero vs. Shigehiro Irie. Hell yeah brother woooo
Some dude yelled "do a moonsault!", he replies "moonsaults are for pussies" and does a 450 to the outside
Also I hate wrestling fans. Group of idiots near us were convinced they were the show and yelled ignorant shit about a female wrestler's nose being big for most of her match and thought it was hilarious to make racist comments during Chris Hero vs. Shigehiro Irie. Hell yeah brother woooo
Master Thespian
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He did a helluva job. They need to let the kid go off script.
I didn't even know who you were talking about until I googled it, so no.
Keyser Soze
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Looks like there are still about 2000 Takeover tickets available on Stubhub. That seems a bit excessive to have 10% of an arena possibly empty feels big less than 12 hours before the event. 139 ground level tickets up right now too.
And compare it to last year when it was the hottest ticket. At least scalpers are going to be taking a bath on this. Crap how much that market is taking over ticket sales in general.
Heh, they didn't sell out stupidly quick last year, it was a slow burn to a sell out but once it reached fever pitch, people were desperate. Scalpers decided to buy all the tickets quick and put them on Stubhub thinking it will happen again. Dumbasses.
I can see why though, I'm more intrigued about the card than excited outside of Joe/Nakanura. Like AA and Roode, but with their opponents, I'm just interested to see it. Not that interested about Bailey facing Asuka again. I'm sure it'll be fun, but they need to find someone on the same level of Asukas aggression.
Tag match should be great though. Most looking forward to that outside the main event now.
I can see why though, I'm more intrigued about the card than excited outside of Joe/Nakanura. Like AA and Roode, but with their opponents, I'm just interested to see it. Not that interested about Bailey facing Asuka again. I'm sure it'll be fun, but they need to find someone on the same level of Asukas aggression.
Tag match should be great though. Most looking forward to that outside the main event now.