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July Wrasslin |OT| The Game, The Kane, The Pain, and The Insane (AJ)

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Keyser Soze

Member
I still cannot get over the amount of sponsorship in UFC.

The show is sponsored
Matches are sponsored
The ring sides are covered.
The ring floor is covered
The fighters are covered.
The announcer says stuff at the start
The commentators say stuff between ever round
Celeb "Plants" to plug TV shows
Replays are sponsored
Outside the ring is sponsored
When they win, they choke them with more clothes with more stuff

JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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G-Fex

Member
They're just a bunch of sellouts Keyser. They got nothing better to do then be a bunch of money whores. Dana White is the root of the problem.

Now this dominos delivery tracker is amazing, they're making my pizza at this very moment!
 
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G-Fex

Member
TRIPLE H IS NOT THE FUCKING KING OF GAMES DONT YOU EVER FUCKING SAY THAT EVER AGAIN. GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY THREAD
 
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Data West

coaches in the WNBA
Keyser Soze said:
I still cannot get over the amount of sponsorship in UFC.

The show is sponsored
Matches are sponsored
The ring sides are covered.
The ring floor is covered
The fighters are covered.
The announcer says stuff at the start
The commentators say stuff between ever round
Celeb "Plants" to plug TV shows
Replays are sponsored
Outside the ring is sponsored
When they win, they choke them with more clothes with more stuff

JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What do you expect? It's the modern day NASCAR.
 
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RBH

Member
First and foremost to all of my friends, Family and everyone riding with me on this one thank you. The love and support has been unreal. It doesn't matter if your'e a new Kenny King fan or you've been with your boy since tough enough. My passion for this sport reflects yours, and I will continue to bust my ass to give back the love you have shown me.

Second I would like to thank @ringofhonor for the opportunity To master my craft against some of the best wrestlers in the world. The last 4 years have been invaluable to my career. I have nothing but love and respect for the company that allowed me to find myself and grow as a wrestler.

Next, since the content of my character has been called into question, just ask about me. My integrity and HONOR has always been above reproach. But since they wanna talk bad about your boy, consider this...

(spoiler alert)

I was offered a contract extension, I had reservations about the parameters of the extension and effective my "free agent" option would be.

I gave a handshake agreement that I wouldn't do anything "screwy" with the belts. A la medusa.

I gave ROH information about every move that I made regarding working for @impactwrestling. Realistically they could have just found out when they saw my black ass walking down to the ring.

I was given a physical contact extension by ROH, which I respectfully declined to sign due to the reasons I stated above.

If I declined to sign an actual contract extension, how could anyone think there was a verbal agreement?

I took the biggest gamble of my career this weekend. So going into destination X tomorrow night I am prepared to put it all on the line. I am especially grateful to @tnadixie and @impactwrestling for giving me the opportunity to showcase my skills on a bigger stage. I was given an amazing opening and I took it. Ask Eminem how many chances you get to blow up. The world will watch tomorrow, and I got a bag full of fireworks. Tomorrow is coronation day.

Thank you.
Kenny King
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For those of you wondering about how the ROH roster feels about Kenny King bolting to TNA, it's pretty much a negative outlook because he had a handshake deal to remain with the company. There are a lot of people in the industry (including some top WWE names I heard from yesterday) that felt that King breaching the handshake was worse than ditching his contract offer. The biggest complaint I heard was that by leaving in the manner he did, King hurt Rhett Titus the most. There were a few wrestlers who were also upset that King, despite knowing he was leaving, openly pushed for a finish at Best in the World where he and Titus would win the ROH Tag Titles strongly, as opposed to the planned finish (which took place) where King and Titus had a big come from behind miracle win.

Mike Mondo of the ROH roster was pretty outspoken about what King did, although he didn't mention him by name on his Twitter account.

From speaking to people close to King, the side of the story there is that the company wasn't offering him a raise and that he felt that the extension he would sign would prevent him from negotiating elsewhere. Sources close to King also denied that he had agreed to sign anything. ROH sources noted that would not have been the case. A number of other ROH talent signed extensions at the Best in the World iPPV a few weeks back, with King being the only one who verbally agreed and asked to have his attorneys look at the paperwork. The feeling within ROH is that King knew he was leaving and purposely avoided signing anything. The belief is that Dave Lagana helped King get into TNA, although King had worked there in the past prior to his ROH run.

The reality is that while the departure made ROH look bad in terms of having their pants down, it's not like he was one half of a tag team that was drawing big time money for the company. King being there or not will have no effect on the company's gates or business. ROH right now is basically there to be TV product for Sinclair and if the house shows and iPPVs do great, that's awesome because it helps that arm of Sinclair become self-sustaining but at the end of the day, it's priority is to be a TV product for Sinclair affiliates.

I keep forgetting to write this, but in regard to the canceled shows in the Carolinas, part of the problem after they were moved the first time is that Shelton Benjamin had a Japan tour and several others had been locked into indy dates and couldn't make the shows. The lineups were changing by the week. Ticket sales were obviously also an issue because you aren't going to cancel shows that were in the black. The ROH talents who were booked for the dates are being paid a cancellation fee and have four weeks to book themself on other shows if they wish. The plan is to return to the Carolinas before the end of the year. One person in the company scoffed at the negative reaction to the shows being canceled, joking that WWE has canceled more shows in the last two years than ROH did this year "and no one is scared they are done."

The ROH Tag Team title situation will be resolved at the 8/4 TV Tapings in Baltimore.

The Young Bucks and TJ Perkins, who haven't been used of late, are back at the next TV Tapings.
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http://www.pwinsider.com/article/69...ituation-the-king-departure-and-more.html?p=1
 
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SoulPlaya

more money than God
vferrel said:
How much more money is Kenny King making in the TNA compared to ROH?
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$40 versus $15.

EDIT: This is really nice.

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bangai-o

Banned
actually Taker should change his outfit to white. like he entered the next realm of the underworld. dark and cold with the newfound powers of the chilling touch.
 
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Kaladin

Member
They should replace Undertaker with a younger talent, continuing the Undertaker character in a Doctor Who fashion. The Undertaker isn't human afterall, it stands to reason that he could change to a younger form when needed.
 
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bangai-o

Banned
but Kane is never going to enter the next level and he is always just a mid boss. anybody can defeat him once you learn the pattern.
 
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SoulPlaya

more money than God
bangai-o said:
wwe might just drop the wwe network and do a Kane anime.
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Seriously, I've always said that the WWE does a terrible job of capitalizing on the characters that they create. WWE Studios should be making movies based on the characters that they create, not just having WWE wrestlers in them. The fact that they missed out on a Kane vs. Undertaker movie is baffling to me. The WWE fans would have ate it up.
 
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SoulPlaya

more money than God
djsandman said:
The levels of Kane fandom on the internets can be scary sometimes......and SoulPlaya is only the beginning of it.
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What always amazes me is how dedicated they are. They do paintings, create outfits, make their own fucking Kane masks (good ones too). It's honestly scary.
 
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