Re: The Official WWE Thread - Part 18

[Tomwin Lannister]

HHH has impressed too in his short time near the top

Vince however is a lost cause who's apparantly going senile and making decisions like over plugging 9.99 and squashing talents to play it safe. Plus one minute he's backing people like Cesaro, helping them get recognition from the crowd then pulling the switch with no reason other than to change it up

He's lost it, HHH can and will improve when he gets more say in things.

[Onyx]

But anyway nothing's going to improve until there's competition again imo.

[Tomwin Lannister]

There may never be wrestling competition again

Best hope is a non-wrestling tv series somehow impacts WWE but not sure it's possible. Not sure a tv show would want to be in that time slot anyway.

[RealGunner]

This is what MT won't understand lol

There will never be a competition for WWe ever again unless some mad bastard buys TNA and pays millions to ROh,NJWP etc and get their best talents and get best writers etc. Which will never happen.

Or if some big ass tv show like GoT moves to monday night. Which again will never happen because people are afraid of RAW. no legit company will slot their show at the same time as RAW.

[Onyx]

I didn't say WWE would ever get competition, just said they need competition to improve.

[Tomwin Lannister]

Option 2 is WWE go in a slump and fans tune out/become disinterested but that can also lead to the product being shit long-term too with more cuts.

Atm the best we can hope for is new people making decisions. I.E Vince *bleep* off and HHH shaking it up a bit.

[Onyx]

Even when RAW was 2 hours, it was still mainly filler apart from the main storyline. 2 hours is more tolerable though.

[RealGunner]

Too much money in 3 hour for them to take it back to 2 hour.

If WWF/WWE have lasted for like 70 years? then I don't think it will go in a slump anytime soon.

New fans will always take over. WWe targets the product to make sure kids turn in to see little donkey dance with shiticos and get happy. And eventually it turns into a habit of watching it

[Tomwin Lannister]

Too many ad breaks in a 3 hour 10 minute window

It's sickening honestly, no idea how even a die hard fan can watch it live on their own

I mean nobody liked more than several wrestlers, nobody i've ever known or seen post on forums. So there's a 100% chance there's a 45 minute period on the show where you suffer through ads, shit comedy segments and jobber tv minute matches.

Intolerable

They'll never reduce ad time, so they should reduce it to 2 hours and have smackdown a place for lesser storylines to develop.

[Onyx]

Apparently the writers can choose where to have ad breaks. They should have them at the end of matches, instead of in the middle of them.

[Tomwin Lannister]

Thought it was up to the channel?

Either way less ads mean somebody is making less money so it's not happening

They generally have ad breaks at the end even if the middle is cut out anyway

[Onyx]

Most matches are too long nowadays imo. The sports style presentation with match after match after match needs to go.

[Onyx]

It’s been reported how there was some negativity among mid-carders in WWE over how a part-timer like Brock Lesnar was going to win the WWE World Heavyweight Title.

Apparently there’s a similar feeling among at least some of the writers and possibly a few members of upper management.

There’s also an issue with WWE not having any credible challengers for Lesnar as champion. Apparently this is of major concern to Vince McMahon, enough that he has at least given some thought to bringing Kurt Angle back as a wrestler for a feud with Lesnar.

Vince has been strongly against bringing Angle back in the past and we noted just this week that both Vince and Triple H reportedly “blew Angle off” when he inquired about a return recently.

[RealGunner]

lmao said it back then that WWe have dug a massive hole.

90% sure Cena is winning at NOC

[Onyx]

They can have Lesnar lose it in a triple threat or something without being pinned.

[RealGunner]

Not sure he is working Hell in a cell etc

he is off after NOC?

[Onyx]

Most likely.

[Onyx]

If he isn't going to appear, hopefully Cena beats him. The champion should be on every RAW.

[Onyx]

[RealGunner]

Unreal kid lmao

All you have to do is bolieve

Paul bearer impression

Although I won't be surprised if he is reading off the cards

[Onyx]

Good interview. Bray part of the imo--vement. 6:40 and 7:40.

[Onyx]

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[Casciavit]

There is no way the person who beat the streak is going to lose it after his 2nd defense.

100% sure its gonna happen in WM.

[Onyx]

We noted before that there was some talk of having Bayley win the WWE NXT Women’s Title from Charlotte at Takeover 2 on September 11th as a way to bring Charlotte to the main roster. The idea behind this is that it would give Ric Flair a regular role on TV.

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

[Onyx]

It appears “Shocked Undertaker Guy” Ellis Mbeh from WrestleMania XXX may be working online with WWE soon. WWE posted the following on Twitter yesterday with a cartoon of Mbeh:

“Something jaw-dropping is coming to http://WWE.com and @WWEonYouTube! What could it be? #ShockedUndertakerGuy”

[Onyx]

There’s no official word from WWE on how SmackDown moving back to Thursday nights will affect the international airings. The belief is Canada will also switch back to Thursdays. Some countries like Australia and the UK have been getting SmackDown almost a day early and that may no longer be possible due to timing.

It’s also expected that NXT and Superstars, as well as other first-run WWE Network shows such as a season 2 of Legends House, will also be moved to a new night. Speculation within WWE is that they would be moved to Wednesday.

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

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