IronSheik
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7 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:
Amazon paid $250 million for the rights to Lord of the Rings to make the TV Series. Each season has a budget of $100-150 million and they 5 put in a 5 season commitment.
Disney+ Have a 130m subscribers. Netflix 222m. WWE Network had 1.5m. Paying an average of $10 per month. Peacock just paid $1b for a 5 year deal to bring that to them in the US alone.
TNT originally paid $50m a year for AEW Dynamite. ROH with 20 years of content plus all their IP, equipment and facilities for $30m in todays market is an absolute steal for what it gives them.
Can you expand on how AEW would get a return on $30m if indeed that is the real figure? Seems ridiculously inflated.
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I hope he doesn't botch the invasion angle with all these mega stars 🤣
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"I preferred the business when the marks were out front in the seats"
Dutch Mantell
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14 hours ago, Louch said:
You can @ me I’m a big boy, don’t have to call me a mutant.
This is where the Big Boys play huh? Look at the adjective "play", we ain't here to play.
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Shame there isn't any hot heels for Austin to beat.
Reigns is great but already in a programme obviously.
Seeing Austin in the ring will be amazing in of its self, but imagine how elevated it would be if there was actually a proper hatable adversary.
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Why on earth would there only be 1 HOF inductee this year? Is that just some inexplicable speculation that's been pulled out of thin air?
Wonder if Godfather or Vince will induct him?
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4 hours ago, AndyUK said:
Wow. Shocked at this but it definitely suits everyone. Gets rid of a problem that AEW have while enhancing WWE's star power.
'Star' is obviously a subjective term, but I've always thought Cody couldn't draw flies with a mouthful of shit on a mainstream level.
Good colourful mid-card guy, but I can't see him anywhere near the main event level with WWE.
And that fucking tattoo...
Good luck to him though, hope he proves me wrong.
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I couldn't find any examples on YouTube but for me the stupidest, most cartoon spot in wrestling is when a heel is on the apron with both hands on the top rope and the babyface yanks the rope from inside the ring and the heel does a forward flip over the rope whilst holding onto the top rope then releasing and landing flat as a pancake on their back 🤣🤦♂️
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55 minutes ago, air_raid said:
I still can’t wrap my head around this. Why anyone would think incest = entertainment is beyond me, never mind involving their own family as the principal players. Absolute proof, if ever it was required, that WWE ultimately is written for an audience of one.
Russo gets shat on by many, but he never booked necrophilia or incest bless him.
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On 2/2/2022 at 8:50 PM, DavidB6937 said:
He's only being released so they can bring him back as a surprise again in next year's Rumble.
🤣😂😂😂👍
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That fucking tattoo. 🤦♂️
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Incredible action between The Rock n' Roll Express Vs Tommy Rich & Doug Gilbert....
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Not on the same level as some of the gold that's been uncovered in this thread, more a daft anecdote of breaking kayfabe: a couple of days before the Plane Ride from Hell I was at a house show in Glasgow where the Undertaker did that goofy Flair spot where you walk forward dazed, then cartoonishly belly flop forward. Not sure if he was doing that at all the house shows or just randomly that night? It was funny. It was a multi-man main event in which Flair was also involved.
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The Canadian destroyer is a petty annoyance of mine as it's confusing and phony looking.
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11 minutes ago, air_raid said:
Fixed.
Haha, very true.
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She's been in the wrestling business and the porn business, two of the most mentally destructive industries going and not ideal for someone with substance, alcohol and mental health issues.
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- Bret finally confesses Montreal was a work
- Jannetty dies
- Iron Shiek doesn't die for another year
- Goldberg retires
- Cornette shows up on AEW
- Vince McMahon sits down for a shoot interview with RF and has the cheap shiny RF poster squinty positioned behind him. Feinstein will say "yeah we'll come to that later" and refuse to ask follow up questions and miss out on key insights.
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5 hours ago, bAzTNM#1 said:
I bet the Warrior loved doing the honours there.
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On 1/4/2022 at 5:46 PM, Tommy! said:
How tight are those pants and how big are his cock and balls there.
"I've great idea for the next cover, can you draw me Hogan with a flag"
"Yeah sure, anything else?"
"Yeah, he's got to have incredibly well defined muscle structure, a yellow Speedo two sizes too small and a buldge bigger that a ticket touts wad".
😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂
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Yeah it is a dark shark tank business.
I may be wrong, but I get the impression the business was a bit less cut-throat and more of a brotherhood back stage before the territories were bought out. Then The Hulkamania era sparked an unapologetic capitalist, insane road schedule, drug fuelled, pain pill, dog-eat-dog culture and more savage travelling circus culture of back stage depravity and only now in the computer game mark wrestler era is humanity returning.
Kevin Nash joked that in his last in-ring run with WWE he shook a bottle of pills and no one in the locker room looked up - and he knew the business was fucked 😂
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1 hour ago, King Coconut said:
Yep. This thread should really be called 'Apart from Benoit'.
Yeah, apart from Benoit and Grizzly Smith.
A double murderer and an incestuous pedophile rapist are not going to be trumped.
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2 hours ago, Factotum said:
Yeah I mean Paul E is a liar and a bit of a dirtbag but he basically made some of the worst wrestlers ever into guys people still talk about today.
Yeah it's kind of incredible a guy like Tommy Dreamer went on to have long careers travelling the globe with the biggest company in the industry and has action figures and other merch. He's so indy and has zero star power on paper, but Paul E did somehow manage to conjure mass-hypnosis.
But as much as Paul E was a compulsive liar, I don't think he was proper bad bastard. I think he always wanted to do right by his talent but due to his business failings couldn't and didn't have the balls to be straight with them.
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2 hours ago, chokeout said:
The original billboard / bus advert artwork in NYC and LA for Wrestlemania VII. Wrestling officially peaked.
Kevin Nash has said numerous times - and I totally buy it - that this is Vince McMahon's ultimate vision of what a top babyface should be. Flag waving all american hero. Nothing wrong with that, but obviously Vince eventually had to adjust it to fit society and pop culture with Austin being the prime example of the anti-hero.
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3 hours ago, Supremo said:
Always good to look back at Triple H’s, “funny story,” about Benoit making some poor bastard do a thousand squats one day, then the next day when he couldn’t bend his legs, he made him do five hundred more. Top bants. Imagine if this was the best, funniest story someone could come up with as a tribute after you died!
🤦♂️Yeah Benoit sounds like wrong 'ne, even before the horrific things he did at the end.
Wonder if it had anything to do with the fact he idolized another sociopath and mean spirited little prick - Dynamite Kid?
Billington like Benoit was a world class performer who demanded respect (in this fascinating, crazy business of oiled men pretending to hurt each other in their underwear) but was quite a dark brooding character who seemed to get off on intimidating people backstage.
Tony Khan Buys ROH
in UK Fan Forum
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Fair points, but The WCW/Crocket library is surely on a different stratosphere of value by comparison to ROH? WCW a globally recognised brand and was one of the top rated shows in the US even in its dying days jam packed with top level superstars.
I just cannot imagine anyone paying anywhere near $30m for ROH, it would take centuries to make that back on a bottom line from what it will give you in terms of new revenue. $30,000,000 is still a lot of dough in this day and age. Fair enough if someone has managed to get that type of money.