Ninja Scooter
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Nothing is certain when you are talking about two guys in their 50s. I'm sure they'd love to go but their bodies might disagree.
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Nothing is certain when you are talking about two guys in their 50s. I'm sure they'd love to go but their bodies might disagree.
Wild hogs 2 confirmed.
Tickets are apparently free.
Here's the thing: you don't actually know anything. That's the problem. You believe you do because you read rumor websites and listen to podcasts. You believe you are far more informed than you are.
That's entirely possible. But I honestly thought Taker and Sting both looked respectable out there given their ages. I'd be surprised if Taker vs Sting doesn't happen next year
serenewarfare
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The only tickets that matter are house show tickets, don't you know?
slightconfuse
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The reason why Seth won was because they didn't want there champ A. Be booed out of every building or b. not being there at all. It wasnt cause it was some long work. If roman won Seth would just cash in tomorrow so reigns could have someone to feud with.
MegaKungFuRadio
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And he shouldn't have won either of those two matches, either.
I would be okay with that
Roland_Gunner
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You're wearing me out, I can't keep up
I'm the Dean Malenko of message board posters - technically proficient but don't engage the crowd. Never going to rise above the midcard like that.
BananasWithGuns
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I liked the ending but I'm still salty as hell about Bray losing.
Just makes no sense to have him out there every week building it up for 6+ weeks and then just feed him to someone that doesn't really need the win.
With all the build up Bray really needed that win. Now his character just looks weak and all talk. I hate it. I don't even know what they do with him from here.
Just makes no sense to have him out there every week building it up for 6+ weeks and then just feed him to someone that doesn't really need the win.
With all the build up Bray really needed that win. Now his character just looks weak and all talk. I hate it. I don't even know what they do with him from here.
MegaKungFuRadio
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It's not about inside information or rumors, it's about common fucking sense and observation.
blackaroni
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"I hate everything about this, but I WILL be at the next WrestleMania."
Vince stays winning.
Vince stays winning.
Bray losing and Taker winning I feel elevates Brocks win last year even more.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Sting/HHH was a fucking blast. The ending was odd, but people wishing for less fuckery are asking for the very essence of that match to be stripped away. It's like watching an old James Bond movie and wishing for there to be "not so much goofy shit, more like the Daniel Craig ones".
FallingEdge
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Not yet.
NihonTiger90
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Still in transit from Santa Clara. Usual traffic issues after a big event.
MaulerX
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I doubt it considering HHH did a promo and bragged about beating Sting (fans booed at that). I can see them bringing up the dirty win. There's no way he's going out like that. Probably a set up for some other unknown angle.
GOODNIGHT HULKAMANIACS
Sounds good to me. Why else do you bring in Sting besides nostalgia anyway?
BronsonLee
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The second the NWO came out I was hearing Bobby Heenan screaming in my head that Sting should get Hogan
HE FINALLY HAD HIS CHANCE
Serpens007
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I think it's both things.
They plan things a year in advance, but they book things with no more than 3 months, seeing how their plans fits, or not.
Maybe last year they planned to have Reigns beign the guy, but they realise it's not the moment yet. So they booked Rollins to make the cash in unpredictable.
Ninja Scooter
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The build up for it was too serious if they were going to play it out like that. There was no indication that Sting held any allegiance towards WCW the way Hunter tried to frame it and then all of a sudden NWO comes out to help him? It was a cheap pop in the way having Bob Backlund as a Royal Rumble participant would be but when you think about it it was pretty dumb. DX and NWO are all buddies and havne't been shy about hiding it. Hell XPac is a member of both groups. NWO got their break by being anti-WCW and has been in WWE so they're not exactly #TeamWCW either. To top it all off the three NWO guys looked old as shit. It just felt cheap once the short pop wore off. If they were going to have interference, I think just having Shawn come out for Hunter and then Flair come out after that for Sting would have been a lot more meaningful. Leave DX and NWO out of it.
If anything I think the 4 Horsemen should have saved Sting
Exactly my feelings. Guy keeps losing big matchups and eventually can't come off as a credible threat.
Even if you wanted to give Taker a win, they could've done something to elevate Bray while doing it, not just make him look like a scared puppy, pin him and be done. Yeah I'm a bit salty but we'll see where he ends up I guess.
When he finally lowered himself down we were saying: there he goes throwing it! But then we realized he was just having a seat to compose himself.
Ninja Scooter
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Hunter/Sting is done, brah. Hell they already moved on to Hunter/Rock on the same damn show.
Freezasaurus
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Nah man. Stirs up memories of Benoit.
BronsonLee
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darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Even JBL was referencing that when they were coming down the ramp, saying who were they going to help.
I mean really it makes no sense for those guys to be the ones to help. They should have had Booker run in to save Sting instead and then HHH could have fired him again after he pinned Sting. Only for real this time.
See I was even thinking earlier this month how weird it was that Rollins was having most of the main event spots on Raw EVEN AFTER Reigns' return. This was never Reigns' story in the first place. So there was closure on this story, or at least this chapter, because the main character was standing tall at the end of the night.
Reigns was definitely a red herring. But I don't think he was intended to be getting booed. My guess is IF they made any adjustments, it was to have Seth cash in during the main event instead of after the main event.
serenewarfare
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Nah, should have been Samoa Joe.
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Deleted member 8095
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Oh man, they should have had Zybysko as a guest commentator during that match! He could have responded to the constant WCW shitting JBL and Cole were doing. That could have been amazing!
...we know that's a lie though. Cena / Rusev has been building for months on end. HHH / Sting went from November till the end of March. (And arguably longer, seeing as the Sting attacking the Authority parallels the Sting vs NWO / authority storyline from WCW). Orton / Rollins has been brewing for months as well; really since Summerslam.
That's the thing; we all talk about this "stuff we known" like it it gospel...except for gospel it sure seems to keep not happening a whole hell of a lot. You don't think the Brock / Rock rumor happening right after Lesnar re-signed was a little convenient considering what Rock actually did at WM (and appears to be setting up for next year's WM)? The entire Rollins build has shown that WWE can get their most ardent fans to completely be surprised by an obvious storyline buildup if the right "rumors" get out on the internet. We are at the point where we believe any rumor that fits our own pre-existing world views. Everyone was shocked at Rollins with the title; until you look backwards for the last year and realize that was...kind of predictable. They booked Reigns strong like everyone thinks they stereotypically would, and they book Rollins strong the way everyone thinks they should, and we fall hook line and sinker for Reigns and ignore Rollins.
So, because apparently math is difficult.
http://corporate.wwe.com/company/live-televised-entertainment
So, there are 52 RAWs and 12 PPVs a year. 64. Out of 320. So that is...exactly 20% of their events. Now, at least in Seattle; tickets to the live events are the same price (except for the floor seats, which number a few hundred) as they are for RAW. (Takes place in the same arena too).
Even if you say that a RAW / PPV is 50% more than a house show (which it isn't, but hey, what ever)...that turns into 30%. The other 70% is, in fact, more important than the 30%.
The match was no DQ so HHH won fair and square.
DanielMann
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Shhhhh, no mentioning TNA. Sting never worked for TNA remember, he went down with the WCW ship...Forget, fooorrrgett
Officerrob
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The tickets that are much cheaper...
I enjoyed the Sting/HHH match just for the fuckery of it all
but when you think about the fact that the match had a pretty serious build, and sting mentioned he wasn't fighting for wcw, and that HHH went over sting in his first match, and that HHH went for a handshake like they were all good after blatantly cheating to win, and those fucking entrances.... it was kinda shitty when you think about it.
But I'm not gonna think too hard about it. fun match ^_^
but when you think about the fact that the match had a pretty serious build, and sting mentioned he wasn't fighting for wcw, and that HHH went over sting in his first match, and that HHH went for a handshake like they were all good after blatantly cheating to win, and those fucking entrances.... it was kinda shitty when you think about it.
But I'm not gonna think too hard about it. fun match ^_^
serenewarfare
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Shhhhh, no mentioning TNA.
Flair did on the WM Today show Friday. I bet Vince was pissed.
Conrad Link
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Daniel Bryan is the real Mr. Wrestlemania not that f**khead HBK.
Walked in as champ already his first one, walked out as a champion the next 3.
GOAT.
Walked in as champ already his first one, walked out as a champion the next 3.
GOAT.
Pre-show shit don't count!
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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The buildup to WM was shit, in general. I'm just judging the event on its own terms, and the match was fun as fuck.
The match is goofy if you think about the kayfabe logically, but it was more of an over-the-top kabuki extravaganza of fuckery and FnP.
MaulerX
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What's up with the "brah" part? I never said they will continue the HHH/Sting feud. Which part of "set up for another unknown angle" did you not understand?
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