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April Wrasslin' |OT| Return Of The Bad Boy
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Given WWE's tendency to commodify criticism, I'm honestly surprised they haven't repackaged a wrestler to embody the criticism around how they're still doing business with Saudi Arabia (or, God forbid, repackaging Daivari, Ali, or in the ultimate kick to the balls, Sami Zayn, into a KSA sympathizer). That way, they can put in on screen and have John Cena or somebody "bodyslam the KSA" and try to quash the chatter about the blood money shows that they're still planning to hold without doing anything actually meaningful.
Lets see:
- Brookes - independent (WWE wanted him, said no, bless his heart).
- Ilja - WWE / NXT UK.
- Trevor Lee - WWE / NXT.
- Aerostar - AAA.
- Travis - WWE / NXT UK.
- DJZ - WWE bound.
- Artemis - independent.
- Starr - independent, working for a problematic co-opted by the WWE promotion, canceled q:
- Kyle . WWE / NXT.
- Ridgeway - independent (who knows for how long).
- Allin - AEW, probably his farewell from Progress.
- Robinson - independent for life.
- Kid - independent (probably getting a contract very soon).
- Devlin - WWE / NXT UK.
- Fletcher - independent (not for long).
- Daga - independent.
Honestly, it is a meh lineup, tells a lot about the current independent scene and the limitations of being co-opted by the fed.
I honestly hope that the takeaway internally from those low sub numbers isn't that women aren't a draw.
We're entering the time of year when promotions like holding tournaments, and you once could have guessed who was in the next (NXT?) wave of independent stars by which tournaments they worked and how they fared.
We talked last year about the state of PWG and BOLA with how many wrestlers WWE has signed and kept on the shelf, and it's interesting to think about who would be in BOLA 2019.
We talked last year about the state of PWG and BOLA with how many wrestlers WWE has signed and kept on the shelf, and it's interesting to think about who would be in BOLA 2019.
Not sure why there's a problem with Progress using NXT UK people. The UK talent is barely on the fringe of WWE. Not like they've stopped taking independent bookings.
But British Strong Style told me to ignore the rumors and that the indie scene was as healthy as ever.
My issue is that the base is basically WWE talent and that Progress decided to not use some of their talent, like Mambo, who had an amazing participation last year. Heck, they even have Robinson who is only good for taking bumps.
if anything he's off to new japan, nxt uk would have had them in by now if they wanted
just looking at SSS16, I've been thinking Daga is a lock for BOLA and it's possible they'd use Aussie Open as singles guys for it. depending on if they break out I could also see them using Kid, Spencer, and Ridgeway. Maybe they could try booking Brookes again.
I imagine if anything it'll be loaded with AEW guys
There is, really all the calls of the talent pool drying up gives more people opporunities.
Oh, I was not implying that all the freelancers were going to WWE. Aussie Open makes more sense for NJPW, specially Kyle, who NJPW wants. Kid and Ridgeway are the ones harder to predict: Ridgeway could end up in NJPW or WWE, Kid could end up in AEW or WWE. Brookes could end up in AEW or stay forever at the indies.
Surely WWE can't be this stupid. I don't understand their fixation on Corbin. He's a decent heel but they are pushing him as a main event star.
There is, but is not that good, the USA scene is specially looking bad. Look at this past WM Weekend. There was some decent matches but no MoTYC on the indies compared to last year. Wrestlers like Riddle, Hero, ZSJ and Ospreay, to some extent, being absent did not help. Even the match between Ospreay and Bandido felt like an exhibition one because NJPW probably told him to take it slow.
See that single coin that drops at the beginning?
That is the only money they are going to make thanks for their bad decisions regarding the USA expansion q:
PWG needs to bring in Zeus for BOLA.
But yeah, I think they will probably use AEW guys as the special attraction. Also the upcoming Mystery Vortex show will probably be used to debut new guys. The following tweet from Anthony Henry makes me think he and Drake will be at Mystery Vortex
PROGRESS fucked up by not booking the savior of independent wrestling.
I would say he is gonna win BOLA but Super Dragon would never book him because of how bad he would make the AEW scrubs look in comparison.
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PROGRESS fucked up by not booking the savior of independent wrestling.
I think he lost the qualifier against DJZ.
The state of Gabe golden boy, not even good enough for SS16.
I'm working myself into a shoot over Austin Theory. He owns.
Yeah the Flip Gordon bit goes back a long time now
Also, i really want to see the work horsemen live, but Mystery Vortex is the same day as both my gf's bday and Detective Pikachu
For what it's worth I might have Henry's tweet wrong (although I would bet on it being mystery vortex related).
Edit: It looks like there is an evolve show the same day as mystery vortex so I'm probably wrong.
I've never seen a Zeus match I don't think but he looks really cool so I'm 100% in favor of it
Book him vs Omega to truly settle the chad/virgin debate
Damn, hopefully they start coming out here.
I wonder who they'll get for it since it's also in the middle of ROH's War of the world's tour. More Jake Atlas please
I think I want them to book Tessa for BOLA
Oh jeez yeah. They have to fly out Cobb and probably Brody, luckily there's no show on the day of. Gresham and Bandido are also currently not booked for the 9th, and I don't see anything booked for the 11th
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