The Dart

1 hour ago, seph said:

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but would this be the first month with no "big" WWE show since March 1995? the monthlies started in May that year if I have it right...

You're wrong.   There wasn't one in March 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 or 2014.

21 minutes ago, Nick James said:

Breakker is head and shoulders above anyone on the show and its quite noticeable when he isn't around.

Whenever Bron Breaker is not on screen, all the other wrestlers should be asking "where's Bron Breaker?"

10 hours ago, BomberPat said:

it's also one of the things Joey Janela really made his name on, with the first Spring Break show featuring him vs. Marty Jannetty, another against Ricky Morton, PCO starting his career resurgence there, and all sorts of random old-timers showing up for his "Clusterfuck" Rumble matches - off the top of my head, they've had Virgil, Mikey Whipwreck, Dan Severn, Dink, Mantaur and nWo Sting show up. 

And Crowbar.

3 hours ago, Supremo said:

 

The most note worthy thing was how obviously empty the building was. They used to be really good at hiding empty seats but their obsession with these massive, AR hologram graphics, all of which require a wide shot, means you can easily tell how few people are there. What’s the score with this? Do they have deals with these big arenas meaning they have to do TV there? Surely four thousand people packing out a much smaller building is preferable to more than three quarters of these huge buildings being tarped off, with empty seats everywhere?

Smaller arenas don’t have enough space backstage for all the equipment they need to put on the show.

Is there a reason, beyond a creative decision, they're calling it Queen's Crown rather than Queen of the Ring?

If it happened and it's a big if, I can't see them getting more than about 50,000 people.   But you never know.

With the promos Drew did on the tour last week, I think this is very possibly going to be happening, even though the rumour comes up pretty much every year.

I assume they're still going to be doing Takeovers, but they're just going to be from the "NXT Arena" still?   I do wonder if they'll ever be going back to doing NXT house shows.   Surely that's an essential part of development.

"It is interesting that Heidi Doyle, later in life, was arrested in a jewelry theft incident"

Interesting maybe.   Relevant - no.   Idiot.

5 hours ago, SaitoRyo said:

Yeah, a lot of the WWE digital staff got canned during the course of the pandemic and there was a reshuffle, I think. They also shelved/postponed Cena on the Broken Skull Sessions. 

I think I read today that there will be eight episodes of classic Superstars added, and that they might be the first eight episodes from the mid-80's (though it could just be a mistake in the listing). 

It was 8 more episodes from 1994.   I think The Undertaker was used on the promotional material for the content upload.

1 hour ago, Tommy! said:

Didn’t flights have to land early or detour on more than one occasion due to drugged wrestlers being very unpleasant or having overdosed, there was one with Regal and one with Hawk if I remember right. Wasn't Gordy on a flight when he first fell into a coma too? 

 

I think the reason Lance Cade was fired was because he passed out on a plane and had to be carried off while unconscious by police.

On 9/17/2021 at 3:22 PM, Sonny Mustang said:

Craziest thing to read was that Vince AND Linda were onboard and they just let it happen. 

According to Meltzer, the reason the plane ride was as crazy as it was is because Vince McMahon wasn't there.

I don't know how true that would be, as there must be plenty of international flights the full roster have been on where he wasn't there to make they behave, but it's believable that he wasn't on it.

Good grief that New York show, Dynamite & Rampage, is going to be so good.

11 hours ago, andrew "the ref" coyne said:

the exclusion of those who were called out during standing up

Seems a bit unreasonable.

The Young Bucks are better than Gallows & Anderson at least.

That match is the only match from the PPV I haven't got round the watching yet and I love Pentagon & Fenix and lots of people are saying it was the best match of the show.

If I ordered on Fite, is there a time limit to when I can watch it, or does the show just stay in my account forever?

They have a PPV on Saturday January 1st (Day 1).   Obviously it's that day because it's New Year's Day, but it'll still be good to have another Saturday PPV.

Don’t think it is.

A couple of matches from it are on the World Tour 1990 show, I think.

2 hours ago, Yakashi said:

Not sure having your top babyface star go heel when you have no other stars in the company is smart. There’s a theory that she could make someone else a star. But there is 100% certainty these guys aren’t capable of that. So now they’ve went from one star to no stars again. Just when you think they couldn’t go any lower…

I'd guess they're planning on having Bayley as a good guy when she returns.

25 minutes ago, The British Bushwacker said:

Bootcut Brock storming out like it was Boxing Day and the Next sale had just started 

Never thought I'd see Brock Lesnar slapping fans hands (after SS went off the air).

On 8/16/2021 at 9:20 AM, WyattSheepMask said:

According to Fightful Select (?), after Takeover NXT is going back to taping episodes rather than airing live, with taping staking place on Mondays and Tuesdays

Another nothing story.  They're upgrading/refurbing the CWC so are recording episodes in advance because it won't be accessible for a few weeks, then it's going back to being live.

25 minutes ago, Cocky_Pete said:

I need help with a couple of things...

Recently I have found that every video starts with closed caption automatically displaying.  How do I stop this from happening?

Also, I'm not sure if the search function is working properly - for example, when I search for "Mankind", only 14 matches appear.  There should be more than that.  Have the settings changed in some way?

What device?  I just searched for Mankind and it showed 99+ results.   The search function improved when they resigned it, but it’s still very hit and miss with accurate results.

As for your other question, I think this is fairly new and I’d love to know the answer.

I think one of the things that always made NXT so great was that every 6 months it would have a completely different roster, it was always so fresh, and everytime they lost their main eventers you'd wonder how the show would continue to be so good, but then it would be better.   But then they started deciding that NXT wasn't a move towards Raw/Smackdown and they'd keep certain people there forever and the show stopped feeling fresh.   At least the likes of Ciampa and Gargano haven't been main eventing shows too much lately, but they're still there.   And when the alternative is Karrion Kross, then that's also another problem.

I'd rather keep paying £10 a month and keep what we have, than get it slightly cheaper and get the toss that Peacock sounds like.   Maybe it'll get better in time though.

All fair points and no I don't judge her for taking the money at all.

But if she believed in what she said that much then she wouldn't have gone back.

9 minutes ago, theringmaster said:

What was the point in bringing her back? She has to be having second thoughts now? She looks already settled into Enhancement talent role, she is going to spend the rest of the year jobbing to Liv Morgan and Natalya whilst her husband and the man she used to manage rip it up in aew.

 

I get why WWE resigned her, but i will never understand why she put pen to paper once more.

Her values, beliefs and principles didn't matter as much to her once she started earning less money.

People in the crowd have said it was the loudest pop they’ve ever heard.