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37 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Yeah but Roman was in the main event of Wrestlemania (or certainly a world title fight). He wasn’t having a random match on the card

Shit, that’s true. If Roman’s not on screen and all the other characters aren’t asking “where’s Roman?” it can only mean that he’s definitely been Benoit’d.

5 hours ago, tiger_rick said:

What about the kids and others who just don't know where he's gone?

Well if they’re not watching TMZ and all the wrestlers’ Instagram videos, they’re not real fans. You can’t expect everything to be spoonfed on the show itself. Fuck casuals. But even without that kind of Elitism, the oddest absence on the show isn’t Roman Reigns, it’s the audience and any kind of atmosphere.

Wrestlers vanishing without explanation isn’t a new thing. Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton often disappear for months at a time without any reason given. The Usos and Naomi dropped off the face of the earth for about six months. Daniel Bryan was gone after WrestleMania last year for ages, Sasha Banks was gone longer. John Cena in the last couple of years of still being pretty active.

As a creative decision, explaining away a wrestler’s Coronavirus absence is up for debate. But that was a conversation for the week or two before WrestleMania. There’s no value in plopping it into the show weeks later, if there’s nothing to say about it. But it turning into a Vince Hates Roman Now conspiracy this week seems like a WWE leak designed to use the peak Vince Bad heat to turn Roman babyface to the moron audience.

Roman Reigns informed us earlier that he will not compete tonight even though he had nothing better to do then he had to go back to his home planet.

28 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Agreed, but they have reversed Poochied him. If you need to write someone off, especially your top guy, acknowledge it

If, on the night before WrestleMania, they’d gone “Roman Reigns got injured in training” it would’ve been met with a sea of “REEEEEEEEE no he didn’t” - as happened when they pretended The Miz was injured. 

They’re never going to say he’s staying home because of Coronavirus fear, and dey’re never going to accept a storyline reason for his absence. 

1 hour ago, Shy Dad said:

The rumours online etc seem to be that Vince has stated nobody is to mention him on commentary or in promos. Seems like not an erasing of sorts, just a let's not mention him and just talk about those that are there. 

Well yeah, because there’d be no purpose to commentators talking about Roman until he’s on the way back. What context are dey expecting him to be mentioned in?

8 minutes ago, The Cutting Edge said:

AEW are doing right by doing the stupid zoom chats and shit like that, keep things light and kinda take the piss because in grand scheme of things these shows mean fuck all in real life and long term plans.

Hager needs a new haircut to look menacing, still looks to much like jack swagger to be a fresh threat.

A skinhead might suit him for wrestling, but his current hairstyle definitely works better at Republican rallies and whatnot.

2 hours ago, Supremo said:

Has anyone mentioned Roman Reigns on television? Or have they fully Chris Benoit’d him, erasing him from existence?

I don’t know if the commentators have talked about him because fuck listening, but he’s still the main man in the intro video and he’s in the merch ads etc - and the Usos entrance graphic still mentions him. So no, definitely no erasing.

So the Money in the Bank matches this year are taking place at WWE HQ, and the wrestlers have to race from the ground floor to the roof to get the case. 

1 hour ago, wandshogun09 said:

That video someone made that was a compilation of Lex adjusting his ‘package’ in various matches is something I haven’t been able to shake off ever since someone posted it on here a while back. Maybe that’s linked to these noises in some way. The man was clearly in considerable pain. 

He was doing it in that NWA backstage camcorder footage that was posted here the other day. Hawk talking pure shit in the dressing room and introducing everyone, and Lex is sitting there with his hand down his pants having a fiddle.

6 minutes ago, David said:

Anyone who gets over makes the company money, so why they would want to deliberately scupper a potential money-maker is beyond me.

Because Knowing Vince, he hates the fans (dunno why, they’ve never had a bad word to say about him, he’s probably just petty) and doesn’t want anyone the fans like to get over. He doesn’t care about money, he will leave money on the table just to bury someone the fans like. Please don’t point out the fact that this Vince Bad contradicts the “only cares about money” Vince Bad.

31 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

It’s almost like there is a correlation between being the most ruthless, money oriented business and being the worlds biggest business in your industry. Amazon, Apple, Walmart, WWE, it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. 

It’s not a surprise, but it’s still solid fuel for me to win the Most Faux-Outraged competition DISGUSTENG (well it was fuckin one a yas).

A little bit of the billionaire whataboutery 😂

1 hour ago, wordsfromlee said:

Even if everyone cancelled their Network subscriptions

Everyone already did that in January 2015, and it still didn’t teach the old cunt his lesson.

Rusev‘s a weird one, isn’t he? He’s seemed halfway out the door for about five years, since the Ziggler storyline. Over the last three years, he’s just disappeared for months on end a few times. For some reason, he’s always re-signed and stuck around. Perhaps it was the Mrs, or perhaps he just couldn’t take the leap to quit Vince and now he’s free he’ll never go back.

That was nine years ago. He was a fad for about six months, but he stayed on the books for nearly a decade after that. And he still won titles at WrestleMania in 2016 and 2019.

I’m yet to see any real defence of the claim that he’s had more impact on WWE than Goldberg has.

4 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Agree to disagree. Zack is the master of social media. People have been talking of Z being such a hit on You Tube it led wrestlers thinking outside the box, and look at what happened to Being the Elite! If now him and Hawkins had the WF podcast and Figure it Out. They kept themselves relative even without proper TV time

You think Zack Ryder has made WWE more money/ drawn more viewers/ made more of an impact, in the last twelve months than Goldberg has? Or in their respective careers? 

I don’t know why I’m asking you to clarify, either one is absolutely bonkers.

One of them should fuck the no-compete off. At Double or Nothing, Harper eats a steak wrap (with ketchup) and counts stacks of cash while firing half the Voodoo Kin Mafia. One of them takes off the gimp mask and it’s Rusev! Matchka kick and then runs off celebrating like he’s won the World Cup. Harper, still on the ground, looks begrudgingly impressed and mutters “Good shit, pal.”

Nobody’s leaving the house for a while, and that means more time on our hands to rant at people on the Internet for likes. Choose your gang in the great culture wars of 2020. The UKFF is a relatively small battlefield, but revered by all who took part in the hundred-year pCc vs Paidos feud.

This isn’t a Mafia game. You don’t have to do anything different to what you’re already doing, but you can change your avatar if you want. Just not to Our Great Sport.

Be honest, fuckers.

4 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

 

😂

Sex Ferguson on every podcast and YouTube show there is, please.

14 minutes ago, Your Fight Site said:

It’s mind-boggling Drake’s been asked to see the tournament through after being told he's being let go from his dream job.

”Yeah, I’ll do the tournament. But my per-appearance fee is now £25,000.”

In his video, it didn’t sound like he’s been asked to do it. He said they’re letting him do it. 

Although, has it definitely definitely not already been taped?

9 minutes ago, RedRooster said:

Oh fuck off with that. If you can afford to keep someone employed during a time of crisis, general humanity should insist that you do. 

I don’t know whether you’re being deliberately contrarian or not but the circumstances we’re in mean it’s more important than ever to look out for others.

Fair play on shouting down the div kid, but I think you’re over-egging it a bit. These performers who were sacked were making as much money as a lot of CEOs do, and they may still be paid at that rate for the next three months.

It’s very sad from the perspective that they’ve been dreaming of being WWE superstars since they were kids, but let’s not forget that they’re rich and this isn’t going to put their lives at risk. They’re not really in the same boat as someone on the breadline losing their cleaning job and not being able to afford their next rent payment or to feed their kids. Erick Rowan and co aren’t going to be queuing up at the food bank the way that people laid off from normal, dead-end jobs (like the WWE office employees) might need to.

19 minutes ago, Winston said:

get the writers writing like they've never wrote before

The shows come across like that’s already the case.

22 minutes ago, sj5522 said:

A name established enough as Rusev should be alright, but you only need to see Drake Maverick's twitter video to get the strong feeling that people like him, No Way Jose and whoever could come from this NXT batch seem pretty fucked.

Assuming that it’s even still going to be possible making a living in wrestling outside WWE in future, Maverick should be fine in terms of prospects - in a wrestling landscape full of moveset bores, he’s incredibly charismatic and entertaining and always puts 100% effort in. His 24/7 run has cemented him as brilliant value for AEW, NWA or any wrestling promotion with a TV or streaming show. Manager, General Manager, wrestler, valet, any onscreen role he’s given he’d knock out of the park.

But it’s heartbreaking because you can see how much he’s loved being in the big leagues, being part of the wrestling company. And it’s shitty because the dedication he’s shown, how much he’s  gone above and beyond every step of the way. I’d be very surprised if he’s not back there within the next couple of years at the latest.