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JANUARY WRASSLIN' |OT| ALL EYES ON TOKYO / / LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE
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With Brookes heading off to Japan for a year I can understand Progress not wanting to do too much with him, but if there's one guy in recent years who I would say has been a definite draw for Progress, it's him. There's a subsection of the fandom who'll absolutely go to the shows if Brookes is on it.
I mean the VOW audience is extremely self selecting to be fair
Yeah, I think it's weird that they seemingly don't have a goodbye match or something for him like most promotions seem to.
Also said on the stream:
Someone asked how much they have to raise to bring Tim Thatcher to a SCHADENFREUDE & Friends show and they said money isn't a problem, he doesn't want to do it, lol.
Sanshiro Takagi saw Brookes and Lykos at the FCP show and wanted to bring them both over but since Lykos got injured/retired it was just Brookes.
Wow, I'm totally shocked that people who vote in a poll for Voices of Wrestling dislike WWE
People just disappear a lot at PROGRESS, look at a Rampage or a Mastiff. The one that really surprised me was Sexsmith never coming back for even a spot
They just brought Lykos in again to just cut a promo at Unboxing in December, so I don't think it's a "fuck Brookes" thing from their end.
Someone asked about Thatcher on the first stream and they said he didn't want to come here on a weekday, Brookes Thatcher impression killed me "I just can't do it sir!"
Io has made it pretty clear her end goal in WWE is to make money and get exposure worldwide. Something that Bushiroad cannot provide her with. At least compared to WWE. Plus she already had a ton of exposure in Japan anyways, appearing on various TV shows, and various publications. She also sorta put STARDOM creative on blast a couple of months ago in an interview with Pro Wrestle Magazine (JP publication), because she's had her current NXT character in mind for a very long time, but they wouldn't let her do it in STARDOM because she made them too much money as the "ace" of the company. And that was before Bushiroad forced out Kagetsu and Hazuki, the two people she personally handpicked to lead the locker room.
As for being engaged to EVIL, Dave is just speculating that she's unhappy, but she's also posted on her blog in both November and December emphasizing that she's pretty happy working for WWE right now, and has settled into life without any issues in Orlando.
Kairi is in a weird spot booking wise, but lots of adults still bring their kids to house shows and TV tapings. Those are the people she wants to appeal to. That younger demographic. She's not trying to appeal to the 18+ demo. But she's probably going to get a huge sack of cash to stick around in WWE considering Gallows and Anderson are getting a combined total of $1.5m. And with Kenny letting it slip that she is priority #1 for AEW's Women's Division, that will probably spook WWE a bit more as well.
As for her plugging the Japan tour, she sent out a tweet saying she will definitely be there to wrestle in front of her home country. So no, I don't think her contract is up soon like Dave seemed to speculate. Casey hinted at it like three/four months ago as well, saying people needed to stop wasting time speculating on the status of Kairi's contract and instead focus on contracts that are actually up soon.
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One neat thing I noticed about Edge's entrance in the Rumble was how he went from the emotions to his gameface in sync with his music going "Another chance to change a dream".
If this is what the Road to Wrestlemania brings us, then we've either completely bottomed out or things are gonna get interesting.
I know its obviously not him, but do kinda see why a lot of people think it's Vince who's singing this version. Voice is definitely wrong, but it definitely has his kinda delivery.
Random thought but I'm a little upset that I couldn't follow Gabe before he went private after the David Starr shenanigans. People are still trashing him on twitter (including one wrestler who said Gabe didn't pay him and also body shamed him) so I worry that I'm missing some fire responses from BookItGabe.
WOW, that's real bad. Post Rumble is like the first or second biggest Raw of the year (outside of anniversary type legend stuffed Raw's), plus Edge was promoted the entire night.
I was looking at the demos for that show, and RAW had the strongest demos across the board on all of cable TV that night. They placed in #1, #2, and #3 in the ratings. So it seems like TV in general was down last night.
For what it's worth I'd rather Sunny not get banned on my behalf. I didn't respond to that post for a reason and I shouldn't have responded in the first place given that convo always goes the same way.
When the second Trouble In Paradise counter happened it clicked with me that I was finally watching a Bryan Danielson style title match at Wrestlemania.
Gotta feed one more person to The Fiend before Roman exterminates him once and for all...
It would be WrassleEra if Sunny wasn't constantly being banned or requesting self bans.
Never change big man.
Never change big man.
Could it not be read that she was in the highest rated segment, people didn't like what they saw and didn't tune back in?
Eh, you engaged legitimately and his response was basically to laugh in your face. That wasn't cool.
Wooooow. Does Raw after mania crack 2.5m this year?
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that twitter is full of horny posts as well
this is why i hate on wrestling fans
Came here hoping for two pages of Austin Theory pic and Fiend Fan Art and instead find a BrassBodyDave ban and moar ratingz talk.
hey folks what's been happening i haven't posted in a whi-
alright i'm out.
alright i'm out.
Theory has a solid physique but I wouldn't put him on my current top 10. I'm not sure he would even be top 10 in the WWE!
Getting judgy about people with better physiques than me is something I can't do. BUT I will say lately it seems like everyone is fucking JACKED. DiY came to Worlds Collide looking ridiculous lol
gundertaker10 was already taken, but he really wanted to get his age in there.
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