FlammableD
Banned
stop watching wwe expecting things to change people
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February Wrasslin' |OT| WrassleGAF. In 2016.
- Thread starter FallingEdge
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I'd probably go with:
HHH vs Ambrose (whether he's IC champion or not)
Undertaker vs Roman Reigns
Brock Lesnar vs Kevin Owens
Kallisto (or even Del Rio since he probably gets the title at Fastlane) vs AJ Styles
Charlotte vs Sasha vs Becky
New Day vs Enzo & Cass
Andre The Giant Battle Royale
Easily a solid 7 card show. Toss in a few 10-15 minute segments with Austin/Rock/HBK/whoever and you're gold.
HHH vs Ambrose (whether he's IC champion or not)
Undertaker vs Roman Reigns
Brock Lesnar vs Kevin Owens
Kallisto (or even Del Rio since he probably gets the title at Fastlane) vs AJ Styles
Charlotte vs Sasha vs Becky
New Day vs Enzo & Cass
Andre The Giant Battle Royale
Easily a solid 7 card show. Toss in a few 10-15 minute segments with Austin/Rock/HBK/whoever and you're gold.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I think its a pretty big leap to say "it only happened because he is black"
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Um, no. Titus was suspended because he didn't do what he was supposed to do in a scripted moment. It was as simple as that. Compare it more to if one of Undertaker's druids did the same thing to Undertaker as he walked by. That was just the wrong place and wrong time to do that. Wait till you're completely in the back and approach Vince. Don't try to grab him as he's walked by you.
Paul London got fired for corpsing during a segment where Vince was walking by.
UrbanDandy
Member
Does anyone know if Titan Tower got a makeover?
Considering WWE's history , I don't really feel its a stretch. They just don't treat their black wrestlers well. Right now the New Day is super over , lets see what management does with them.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Remember that time they had a roster of actually healthy people to job to (healthy) Seth
And then instead they had Big E take a curbstomp on MLK Day
Happy Black History Month, everybody
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Um, no. Titus was suspended because he didn't do what he was supposed to do in a scripted moment. It was as simple as that. Compare it more to if one of Undertaker's druids did the same thing to Undertaker as he walked by. That was just the wrong place and wrong time to do that. Wait till you're completely in the back and approach Vince. Don't try to grab him as he's walked by you.
Paul London got fired for corpsing during a segment where Vince was walking by.
Nothing was scripted during that moment though. All the heels and faces broke character to honor DB.
Jeff Albertson
Member
Gutted for Titus; it was stupid but we've all had moments when for some odd reason we totally misjudge and do something daft.
The internal humiliation he will be feeling was punishment enough!
The internal humiliation he will be feeling was punishment enough!
In a show where everything is scripted, having them all out there was scripted just as how they would walk to the back was. If it wasn't, you wouldn't have seen everyone part ways as the McMahons left first.
Ninja Scooter
Member
A worked shoot is still a work.
UrbanDandy
Member
The thing is with New Day, they are their own character; Kofi, Xavier and Big E invented their personalities. Creative could only dream of writing characters like that. As far as management is concerned, they will stay away from New Day.
UberTag
Member
Main Event for the WWE Championship - Triple H (c) vs. Roman Reigns vs. Dean Ambrose (Triple Threat Elimination Match)
Let's have some fun with this. Since today's booking is criticized, how would you book Wrestlemania? The current storylines don't matter. Just the champions do at the time of this posting.
WWE Champion - Triple H
Intercontinental Champion - Dean Ambrose
US Champion - Kalisto
Tag Team Champions - New Day
Diva's Champion - Charlotte
Looking at the current roster of ACTIVE wrestlers (no Orton, no Cena, no Rollins, etc) - how would you book Wrestlemania? Let's say there are 7 matches on the card.
- Triple H will cost Ambrose the IC title in a match on RAW vs. Styles in a way that sets up tension between Ambrose and Reigns; they'll double-pin Lesnar at Fastlane
Intercontinental Championship - AJ Styles (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura (w/ Chris Jericho as referee)
No Disqualification Grudge Match - Kevin Owens vs. Sami Zayn
Brock Lesnar (w/ Paul Heyman) & The Undertaker vs. The Wyatt Family
Tag Team Championship - The New Day (c) vs. Enzo Amore & Big Cass
Divas Championship Match - Charlotte (c) (w/ Ric Flair) vs. Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks
Money in the Bank Ladder Match featuring the following participants...
- Alberto Del Rio
- Dolph Ziggler
- Kalisto
- Neville
- Rusev
- The Ryback
- Sheamus
- Sin Cara
Pre-show features the 3rd annual Andre the Giant Battle Royal... have this won by Samoa Joe.
blackaroni
Member
Don't be like this.
It looks like they're just playing around? Vince looks to be laughing.
Lan Dong Mik
And why would I want them?
Damn I just heard about this Titus bullshit. That's fucked up to suspend him for that long imo
Even more reason to squash the New Day , if you're super over but creative didn't come up with your character you're going to eventually be buried just like Daniel Bryan was a few years ago. Creative could care less about who we like.
I'm just sick of good people being treated unfairly.
As for Enzo and Big Cass - they were at Monday's RAW (Cass is hard to miss when he walks out) - and it sounds like
It makes sense for New Day, I think they are going for New Day vs Amore/Cass (who Cena is high on, to boot) at WM. They have the perfect crowd to do the entrance at WM, and it would be thunderous. (Plus, if you have Usos vs Dudleys, sort of leaves New Day open again)
Also - the SC interview with Bryan may have given us the clue as to why Bryan's concussions were treated differently than everyone else's - if Bryan had a seizure while with WWE, and Maroon thought they were related to the concussions; that could be the big contention between the two camps until Bryan saw the specialist in NY.
they debut on Smackdown as well.
It makes sense for New Day, I think they are going for New Day vs Amore/Cass (who Cena is high on, to boot) at WM. They have the perfect crowd to do the entrance at WM, and it would be thunderous. (Plus, if you have Usos vs Dudleys, sort of leaves New Day open again)
Also - the SC interview with Bryan may have given us the clue as to why Bryan's concussions were treated differently than everyone else's - if Bryan had a seizure while with WWE, and Maroon thought they were related to the concussions; that could be the big contention between the two camps until Bryan saw the specialist in NY.
Thing is, we don't know what went down after with Vince or Titus.
Serpentine
Banned
I don't think London was fired because of the smiling thing, he wasn't let go until like a year and a half later in 2008
Which is exactly why if we're going to assume(and we should never) it's safer to say that he was only punished after it was found out that what he did was on the air.
I don't think anyone's debating that. The point of debate seems to be more around "does that warrant a harsher penalty than violating multiple wellness policies?"
You would think that working together long enough there would just be a "Sorry , won't happen again". A suspension is way too extreme.
Marvel
could never
I think 90 days is too harsh.
3 months is too much. Although really, Vince probably doesn't care if someone is on the juice or whatever the fuck, but it's gotta be done.
If they debut after Fastlane, I don't see them working with anyone but New Day.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
I'm glad Vince is ruining the company, and I'm glad HHH and Steph have already promised to continue to ruin the company
I'm even gladder people defend it all. Hey, remember the Booker T angle? "YOU PEOPLE DON'T GET TO BE CHAMPS"
Remember all that comeuppance that never happened? Wonder whose idea it was. Hmm, oh well, "NXT NXT NXT NXT"
I'm even gladder people defend it all. Hey, remember the Booker T angle? "YOU PEOPLE DON'T GET TO BE CHAMPS"
Remember all that comeuppance that never happened? Wonder whose idea it was. Hmm, oh well, "NXT NXT NXT NXT"
UrbanDandy
Member
I'm glad Vince is ruining the company, and I'm glad HHH and Steph have already promised to continue to ruin the company
I'm even gladder people defend it all. Hey, remember the Booker T angle? "YOU PEOPLE DON'T GET TO BE CHAMPS"
Remember all that comeuppance that never happened? Wonder whose idea it was. Hmm, oh well, "NXT NXT NXT NXT"
I'm still wondering if this was a work or if 3H really believed that Booker wasn't championship material?
FlammableD
Banned
Watching S2E1 of Lucha Underground, good sign they have a couple of sponsorship segments this time round.
I'm glad Vince is ruining the company, and I'm glad HHH and Steph have already promised to continue to ruin the company
I'm even gladder people defend it all. Hey, remember the Booker T angle? "YOU PEOPLE DON'T GET TO BE CHAMPS"
Remember all that comeuppance that never happened? Wonder whose idea it was. Hmm, oh well, "NXT NXT NXT NXT"
They need Jim Herd.
Wrestling needs to be like a good pizza.
Yukes trying to get us back on side
are you sure that''s not just a yukes glitch
thing is, i'll never give the benefit of a doubt to Vince in these situations, because he, his idiotic daughter and doofus son-in-law have a well known history of being petty and vindictive. yes, Titus was wrong but suspending him for 90 days just so he'll miss the WM payday just reinforces this
Holy fuck
UrbanDandy
Member
You're not wrong
Sweeney Tom
Banned
It's a shame they won't both be out of the industry for at least 60 more years, because you think the stories you hear about Vince and HHH are bad now?
Those are from people who semi-recently stopped working for them. Worked for them for only months in a lot of cases. People who might one day want to go back
The horror stories you hear about them right now are from people being polite. Wait until they, and current employees, have nothing to fear, ooooooh wow
If the Titus incident wasn't caught on the Network, I'd bet things wouldn't be nearly as severe. They're making an example of him, not because he's black, but because it was streamed to thousands of people watching.That's not something you do in public in a professional environment.
Wrestlemania Booking:
Andre Battle Royale: Sandow beats The Big Show in revenge for last year.
Tag Team: The New Day vs The New Dow
Intercontinental Match: Dean Ambrose vs Kevin Dowens
U.S. Title Match: Kalisto vs Alberto Dow Rio
Women's Title: Charlotte vs Stephanie McMahondow
Special Match: The Undertaker vs The Undowtaker
WHC Title Match: Triple HHH vs Dowman Reigns
Andre Battle Royale: Sandow beats The Big Show in revenge for last year.
Tag Team: The New Day vs The New Dow
Intercontinental Match: Dean Ambrose vs Kevin Dowens
U.S. Title Match: Kalisto vs Alberto Dow Rio
Women's Title: Charlotte vs Stephanie McMahondow
Special Match: The Undertaker vs The Undowtaker
WHC Title Match: Triple HHH vs Dowman Reigns
HHH wanted to keep the belt and argued that he was gonna draw against Kevin Nash.
My favorite fact about this match is that it is the only one not included in the Mania 19 doc.
Plus all that needs to be said about HHH and his career is this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aik3HZjjjKk
Notice how bringing up HHH's name gets no reaction but Booker working does.
UrbanDandy
Member
Interesting.This is why you're the man, Fox.
inanutshell
Member
The smartest thing New Day did was to come up with their gimmick with Vince. Vince still thinks they're going out there as black preachers.
UrbanDandy
Member
After it was said and done, I respect Booker more for staying with the company, albeit relegated to hosting the pre-shows.
Bluekaveli
Member
One step back, but two steps forward in this case. Just keep eyes on the prize and be patient, and you'll be in good shape.
Thank you everyone. It didn't hit me until today that this is happening but it has to be done. I think my fiancée is more worried than I am but at least she'll be there with me the entire time, recovery as well. It's kinda sad because my dreams that I have might be hindered but fuck it. I've determined that I'll get through it and I'll get married in Oct, then maybe try my luck as homegrown wwe talent. I'll be here, I'll let you all know how it goes.
Thank you all once again.
Enough of the sad stuff, let's get back to business.