All-Purpose News Thread Part II

[Scandale du Jour]

I dont get needing to get everyone on the card...it used to be special to be on a wrestlemania card...now everyone is on it...its lost being special

I think it is to give as many people as possible a big pay day. That's probably all it is really about.

 

[End of Line]

It was, I felt like I should have taken a vacation day the next day after watching that one

Hell, I went to bed around 2330 during it bc I couldn’t stay up any longer due to my alarm being set at 0430 at the time. And the show was no where near being over at that time either.

 

[Megahab]

Why I don't get the 2 night complaints. It is wat better then those 6 hour 17 match cards.

Those are the only 2 options though.

Even if it was I'd rather sit through 5-6 hours one night than, what, 8-9 hours over 2 nights?

For the other 200 PPV's the WWE has a year, totally.

This is Wrestlemania though. Once a year. Should be two nights, 6 hours.

The first 35 Wrestlemanias were one night. Have the last 3 Wrestlemanias added anything to how special Wrestlemania is?

 

[Megahab]

The idea of getting everyone on the card needs to be abolished.

I'll say it again, Wrestlemania needs to be the end of the best feuds and biggest matches in the company.

The other side of that thinking is that Wrestlemania should have a lot of special matches that haven't happened before. WWE is big on rematches. For a lot of feuds, Wrestlemania is the first match of the feud.

I think it is to give as many people as possible a big pay day. That's probably all it is really about.

Then why not just pay them without having to put them on the card?

 

[Sheppy]

Matches over the last 3 Mania's that we didn't need to see on the main card:

Happy Corbin vs Drew McIntyre - WM38
Bobby Lashley vs Omos - WM38
Sheamus/Ridge Holland vs The New Day - WM38
Naomi/Sasha vs Ripley/Liv vs Carmella/Vega vs Baszler/Natalya (This is 100% just a match trying to get as many people on the card) - 3/4 teams didn't even make sense.

Apollo Crews vs Big E (Nigeran Drum Fight) - WM37
Womens Tag Team Turmoil Match - WM37
Styles/Omos vs The New Day - WM37
Sheamus vs Riddle - WM37

Cesaro vs Gulak - WM36
Elias vs Corbin - WM36
Alexa Bliss/Nikki Kross vs Kabuki Warriors - WM36
Liv vs Natalya - WM36
Otis vs Ziggler - WM36
Street Profits vs Theory/Garza - WM36

That's a mess of matches that I don't deem worthy of WM.

 

[GKJ]

WM36 was the beginning of Covid, they “needed” to do that because people needed shit to watch.

 

[sabremike]

WM36 was the beginning of Covid, they “needed” to do that because people needed shit to watch.

WWE is literally a content provider for Peacock so more content = good.

 

[Unholy Diver]

WWE is literally a content provider for Peacock so more content = good.

And selling 100K - 150K tickets is twice as good as selling 50-75K, and as long as people buy the tickets it isn't gonna change

 

[Emperoreddy]

They would also eat a massive amount of shit online if they stopped trying to get everyone a Mania pay day.

 

[Sheppy]

And selling 100K - 150K tickets is twice as good as selling 50-75K, and as long as people buy the tickets it isn't gonna change

I get it from that stand point 100%. Totally understand it.

As a fan, I like the one night show. I like being glued to my chair instead of:

Quality match
Filler
Random non worthy mania match
Quality match
Random match no one cares about
Filler
Quality match

Repeat.

Just a personal preference. There’s a lot that they could book on a regular RAW and Smackdown that gets a spot on the mania card.

 

[Chimaera]

They would also eat a massive amount of shit online if they stopped trying to get everyone a Mania pay day.

This somewhat.

They have so many people, they can’t just do like 6 matches and call it a night. They have too many before they even use part timers or attraction / legend shit. This year they already have Logan Paul, whatever this women’s thing is, and now Cena. I also won’t be shocked to see the Rock when it all ends up.

 

[Megahab]

They would also eat a massive amount of shit online if they stopped trying to get everyone a Mania pay day.

Why can't they just pay those guys that aren't on the card? If I was the boss and I wanted Top Dolla to get a Wrestlemania pay day, I'd just pay him. I don't have to put him in a match for him to get a pay day.

 

[Emperoreddy]

 

[Emperoreddy]

 

[GKJ]

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

 

[Emperoreddy]

That PR crowd is going to be absolutely nuts.

They haven't had a major WWE show since the early 2000s

 

[GKJ]

Sarray has wrapped up (hadn’t been on tv since August 2, and is going back to Japan, with a show scheduled for May under her old name ‘Sareee’

 

[Jussi]

Sarray has wrapped up (hadn’t been on tv since August 2, and is going back to Japan, with a show scheduled for May under her old name ‘Sareee’

Not surprised, had injury issues and was really surpassed by the new young talent. And dare I say it, even by Meiko.

 

[Sheppy]

Not surprised, had injury issues and was really surpassed by the new young talent. And dare I say it, even by Meiko.

Her gimmick was also trash. They didn't put her in any sort of position to succeed.

 

[GKJ]

She got dealt a bad hand. She came in right when they made all those changes and when she had to become a cartoon character, and had a real hard time with it and wasn’t good. None of Io, Asuka, Kairi or Meiko have had to deal with that.

 

[Jussi]

She got dealt a bad hand. She came in right when they made all those changes and when she had to become a cartoon character, and had a real hard time with it and wasn’t good. None of Io, Asuka, Kairi or Meiko have had to deal with that.

She made her debut without a specific gimmick, got injured and then got the gimmick of innocent school girl outside the ring, family necklace gives her warrior strength or whatever in-ring with normal wrestling gear and then Nikkita Lyons, Zoey Stark and whoever had "arrived" and we're getting pushes and being more impressive than her in-ring. Tough luck.

 

[sabremike]

That PR crowd is going to be absolutely nuts.

They haven't had a major WWE show since the early 2000s

If they get Invader into the ring and have someone stab him and we get to watch him bleed out the way he murdered Brody it would be the greatest PPV of all time. As an aside there are people who claim that this was Onita's plan for the angle with Invader but I'm skeptical.

 

[DaaaaB's]

If they get Invader into the ring and have someone stab him and we get to watch him bleed out the way he murdered Brody it would be the greatest PPV of all time. As an aside there are people who claim that this was Onita's plan for the angle with Invader but I'm skeptical.

I thought the rumour was that Onita would have his Yakuza connections murder Gonzalez while he was in Japan as revenge for killing Brody.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Idk I thought the magical girl gimmick had potential, but they never did much with it.

But TBF that might just be me wanting more anime in my wrestling