The Dart

6 hours ago, BomberPat said:

And was Brock originally booked to get eliminated by Dominik Mysterio?

You seem completely unwilling to accept that they might have changed who Brock was going to be eliminated by when they replaced him with Bron (reported a good day before the Rumble by the sheets).   So by your logic you think Brock was going to come in, piss his pants at the sight of Bron & Omos and throw himself out, because it’s entirely impossible they changed anything…just replaced Brock with Pat.

Whoever wins, it’s going to be because they’re bizarre.

I am going to the Rumble this year.  Very excited.

I would have thought 3000 was a bit high, but that is what their website says.

I bloody love Bobby Lashley's entrance music.

Safe to assume the deal for the highlight shows on 5 and NXT were seperate to the deals for Raw & Smackdown and they've expired.

4 hours ago, air_raid said:

 

And thus is a mystery potentially solved. Because, again, Roman(s) Reign(s) is only as impressive and as long as they say if you consider it running from the moment he won the Universal belt, not THE belt. I'd love to say perfectly in keeping with ignoring their own history to the point where they say the Womens title only goes back to when the "Divas" belt started in 2008, and when the history of the "unified" tag team title (circa 2010 onwards) only lists champions back to the start of the SmackDown "WWE tag team title" in 2002.... but I don't even think title histories exist on WWE.com anymore, do they?

They do

https://www.wwe.com/titlehistory/wwe-championship

Not easy to find though.

3 minutes ago, Loki said:

You can have 3 hours of wrestling programming without it being a 3 hour show.

 You could have a 1 hr show followed by a 2 hour Raw or vica versa depending on what the rating say is the most watched hour.

 How about an exclusive women’s show, or another Cruisers show?  Or a recap show with a panel of guests?  

Personally I’d love an hour of main roster guys working squash matches against PC guys.

That's not what the USA Network wants or is paying for.   They want a 3 hour live event show.

That's only for us, because of BT Sport.

Everywhere else they are put on the day after it's on TV.   Then we have to wait another week.

1 hour ago, Briefcase said:

When does NXT go onto the WWE Network as trying to watch last nights show but isn't on there yet?

Is this because its shown on BT Sports first? 

Not tuned in for a while so know the Raw & Smackdown were delayed by a few weeks but always thought NXT was on there straight away?

Next Wednesday.

1 hour ago, Infinity Land said:

No idea why Cena's there, I have seen Paul Heyman's promo explaining his appearance. Which for me is one of the worst offenders for breaking the realities of wrestling. On a live (totally not scripted in anyway) show John Cena's surprise appearance is announced. The Tribal Chief clearly must be a big NXT fan as he was watching at home and got straight on the phone to Paul Heyman.

"John Cena's been getting involved in Bloodline business, it's time we can get in his for a change. Be in Bron Breakker's corner next week."

Paul Heyman was convienently in the parking lot of the PC with an NXT camera crew so he can join the show and make the announcement

 

Stuff that makes no sense like that has been part of wrestling for so long you just have to accept it.   Edge's AEW debut makes no sense either.   He was at the venue, he'd signed a contract, he'd gone to the trouble of shooting that video of him in a car and delivered it to the director, the pyro guys had set up his pyro, but he only came out because Sting was in trouble.  If the attack on Sting wasn't happening would he have just not come out?   Or would he have come out after everyone in the main event had just gone to the back and just said hello to the crowd?

6 hours ago, Supremo said:

What’s Tony Chimel up to these days? May as well bring him in if you’re allowed to say, “Rated R SUUUUUUuuuuuUUUUper staaaar.”

 

He works backstage at AEW.

1 hour ago, The King of Old School said:

Imagine they just did the "You think you know me" without any of the nonsense beforehand, would have been a pop to rival LA Knight.

That's crazy that they didn't do that.

The first one got about 1,000 I think, but IF I remember correctly the 2nd one got canceled due to poor ticket sales.  Or it might have been a second Blackpool one that got canceled due to poor ticket sales even after the first Blackpool one did poorly.

All In was brilliant, obviously and I've only read the results from this show - but it sounds so much better than All In.

I'm glad Fanny Pack was backstage at Wembley to let us all know what did or did not happen with such certainty.

Loved it.   Definitely going next year!

Just on my way, be there in 15-20 mins.  Exciting.

I think that Stadium Stampede match is such a waste of so many people in it who could/should be in a regular match.

Beyond that though, I don't see much wrong with the lineup.   I don't follow AEW too closely, but there does seem to be some wrestlers missing from the lineup I would have expected to see.

Log out.

20 minutes ago, cobystag said:

Two nights at Broxbourne Civic Hall. 

 

Reasonably sure it was York Hall.

The UK regulations bit is interesting.   I assume there's some weird law saying they can't let people take chairs home with them from arenas or something.

Did they do it at CATC?

Unless the UK regulations relates to they said they would supply the chairs so they have to even though they forgot to make them or something.   In the USA they'd probably get away with some smallprint legal crap saying they can change their minds about the chairs without notice.

Watched a bit of it back last night.   The crowd sounds loud on TV, but they were way louder in the arena.   It doesn't come across how loud the crowd was.

I think it was more that it sounded you bought 540 tickets, not that you paid £540.

Great use of a blimey.

8 minutes ago, Kfogg1991 said:

 

The final segment was so short and ended up finishing the episode completely 10/15 minutes early but it really did the job and I can't imagine this match will be anywhere but the main event.

It was scheduled to finish at 9.45.