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Riddle101

Itssoeasy wrote: »

You know what the fact you aren't that far away from what will probably actually happen when this is over shows how much ****e WWE can talk. Hopefully Stephanie will have learned from her 9/11 promo where she compared it to how the federal government treated her family.

She hasn't learned at all I think. She was quoted a few years ago as saying "philanthropy is the future of marketing, it's the way brands are going to win". The McMahons are just living in a different world to the rest of us.

Monokne

Big Dave spoke to people in WWE who confirmed the tweets at Ronda were a work & the whole thing is an angle.

I don't think many people really took it seriously, mind you.

Monokne

Incidentally, I laughed so hard at this, Ronda is the best




If you don't get the reference, the best wrasslin' tweet ever:

sky88

Of course they’ve released this

https://twitter.com/wwecommunity/status/1249713258325520385?s=21

LineOfBeauty

They've got old aged heart attack victim Jerry Lawler flying out to do this thing tonight. In a week where a doc is gonna be released about McMahon covering up an employee commiting murder you'd have thought it'd take something extra special to knock that off the bad PR perch but this might be it.

Lithium93_

So the XFL filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.... Weren't WWE stockholders told there'd be no involvement from WWE in the XFL?

Seems there's trouble brewing for Vince....


https://twitter.com/iamjohnpollock/status/1249768948012367877

https://twitter.com/wrestlenomics/status/1249774425542721538

sky88

Lithium93_ wrote: »

So the XFL filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.... Weren't WWE stockholders told there'd be no involvement from WWE in the XFL?

Seems there's trouble brewing for Vince....


https://twitter.com/iamjohnpollock/status/1249768948012367877

https://twitter.com/wrestlenomics/status/1249774425542721538

That really could be the end of Vince if he just lied to shareholders and it’s enough to push him out

The White Wolf

sky88 wrote: »

Of course they’ve released this

https://twitter.com/wwecommunity/status/1249713258325520385?s=21

Sounds about right for a family of American conservatives; we're here to make money, it's YOUR FAULT if you don't take the precautions to protect yourself!

TimesArrow

They are brazenly shameless and act as though they are above what is happening.. the desperate nauseating statement they posted about carrying on through these hard times was laughable.. as for that video, they warn us to wash our hands but I guess a bunch of people wresting and sweating all over each other in close quarters is fine.. this company becomes more toxic, odious and loathesome by the day

sky88

Well Vince I think used his high connections

https://twitter.com/harryaaron/status/1249805427304521728?s=21

Itssoeasy

Between the firing of the two top executives and the wrestlemania mess, and now the live shows during a global pandemic and now this xfl stuff, it's not been the greatest decision making period of vince McMahons life.

leggo

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Between the firing of the two top executives and the wrestlemania mess, and now the live shows during a global pandemic and now this xfl stuff, it's not been the greatest decision making period of vince McMahons life.

The XFL was excellent, football fans found it a breath of fresh air (have a read of this if you like for how many felt about it: https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2020/4/10/21216992/xfl-suspend-operations-canceled-season).

It went out of business because it’s a massively expensive, uphill battle to compete with the NFL and couldn’t survive the blow of having to shut operations due to COVID. Which is what I was saying earlier about it being different for cultural institutions like the NBA, Premier League etc and other sporting/entertainment entities.

Itssoeasy

leggo wrote: »

The XFL was excellent, football fans found it a breath of fresh air (have a read of this if you like for how many felt about it: https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2020/4/10/21216992/xfl-suspend-operations-canceled-season).

It went out of business because it’s a massively expensive, uphill battle to compete with the NFL and couldn’t survive the blow of having to shut operations due to COVID. Which is what I was saying earlier about it being different for cultural institutions like the NBA, Premier League etc and other sporting/entertainment entities.

I agree the xfl was far better than the last time and obviously it couldn't withstand a pandemic. My point when I said "this xfl mess" I meant the bankruptcy and that previously WWE shareholders brought a case against WWE because of what they were told about the connections between the two organisations and what they believed to be the case. I wonder do the xfl filing for bankruptcy give them the answers to the questions they had asked and will vince have to answer awkward questions.

ricero

sky88 wrote: »

Well Vince I think used his high connections

https://twitter.com/harryaaron/status/1249805427304521728?s=21

Just goes to show ya why Vinnie Mac is the goat promoter when he can pull **** like this.

The show must go on never fitted a better person. Gotta respect that determination and drive.

sky88

So it looks like any sport in Florida can go ahead without a crowd not just wwe so I wondering when aew runs out of tv which I don’t think is till June will they get a facility and run a show

Itssoeasy

sky88 wrote: »

So it looks like any sport in Florida can go ahead without a crowd not just wwe so I wondering when aew runs out of tv which I don’t think is till June will they get a facility and run a show

You'd assume so but hopefully by June or July in the US and other places they will have slowed the spread of the virus to a pace that can allow thing like this to happen. I said hopefully but maybe not.

Monokne

ricero wrote: »

Just goes to show ya why Vinnie Mac is the goat promoter when he can pull **** like this.

The show must go on never fitted a better person. Gotta respect that determination and drive.

Do you?

In continuing to run he is requiring people to fly all around the country and risk spreading the virus during a f*cking pandemic. He has literally no regard for human life. His profit is what matters.

So no, you don't have to respect that. It's not determination or drive, it's arrogance and greed.

leggo

sky88 wrote: »

So it looks like any sport in Florida can go ahead without a crowd not just wwe so I wondering when aew runs out of tv which I don’t think is till June will they get a facility and run a show

Jacksonville is in Florida.

riffmongous

Getting some mainstream attention now anyway, I just saw it on the expanded BBC News front page

Lithium93_

Seems 'ol Jimmy Cornette threw a **** fit in defence of something Jerry Lawler said on RAW last night... Anyone care to provide the context?

https://twitter.com/TheJimCornette/status/1250038520795877377

So now people are mad at @JerryLawler for telling a joke. Now I understand why modern wrestling sucks, because most modern wrestling fans are such whiny little pussies they don't DESERVE good wrestling. How do these people go out in public without breaking out in tears? #WHINE

Angron

Lawler said something kinda racist, so the other guy known for occasionally spouting racist ****e defends him.

LineOfBeauty

Raw does a 1.913 million, no hour over 2 million. The live show rather than pretaped didn't move the ratings but they're getting a going in at the moment in the mainstream for it.

sky88

I think all the wrestling shows ratings are showing at the minute taped live or whatever people’s minds are else we’re

Monokne

I think the ratings are showing no-one has any interest in empty warehouse wrestling.

Given the climate & the fact they are insisting on running anyway, I hope the ratings continue to sink.

Cherry_Cola

I just find the silence so weird. Caught the clip of Rollins attacking Drew last night and the whole thing just sounds so off without ANYTHING in the background. Low level music like a Smackdown game or something would even make it more palatable.

Monokne

Just don't watch, simples.

J. Marston

This is the governor's reasoning for allowing WWE to film...

https://twitter.com/KRayWFTV/status/1250163655582367753?s=19

It has absolutely nothing to do with Linda McMahon's Super PAC giving $18.5 million to Florida on the day WWE were declared an essential business...

https://twitter.com/JonAlba/status/1250137102941147139

Lithium93_

Everybody's got a price, DeSantis included......

CastorTroy

I think that might be outside the Million Dollar Man's price range.

ThePott

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Everybody's got a price, DeSantis included......

*Laughs in Ted DiBiase