Paid Members Nick James Posted April 5, 2022 Paid Members Posted April 5, 2022 On 3/15/2022 at 7:36 AM, Nick James said: Anyone tuning in to Raw in 2022 and being surprised or disappointed that it's exactly the same as it has been for the last few years need to give up the hope. Quote
Paid Members air_raid Posted April 5, 2022 Paid Members Posted April 5, 2022 8 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said: Why have Bron lose Saturday and then win Monday on a non NXT Show? They needed something interesting for “the Raw after Mania”. Because fuck all else happened. Quote
Perry Posted April 5, 2022 Posted April 5, 2022 1 hour ago, Gay as FOOK said: He's got to win the big one now, doesn't he? He'll be an absolute chump for the rest of his career if he doesn't. Vince probably plans to make an arse out of him further down the line. He's a Runnels Quote
Paid Members air_raid Posted April 5, 2022 Paid Members Posted April 5, 2022 29 minutes ago, Perry said: Vince probably plans to make an arse out of him further down the line. He's a Runnels I’d like to believe the return on investment required to make signing Cody worth it means they’re more likely to try pushing him properly rather than sell another bunch of Stardust figures. Quote
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted April 5, 2022 Paid Members Posted April 5, 2022 44 minutes ago, air_raid said: I’d like to believe the return on investment required to make signing Cody worth it means they’re more likely to try pushing him properly rather than sell another bunch of Stardust figures. My worry is that they promised Cody the world and really it is just a chance to upset Tony Khan. I hope to be proved wrong because whilst his AEW run was pretty poor bar a couple of matches, he's obviously capable and i think WWE fits him much better. Quote
Paid Members air_raid Posted April 5, 2022 Paid Members Posted April 5, 2022 Just now, Hannibal Scorch said: My worry is that they promised Cody the world and really it is just a chance to upset Tony Khan. Is that worth spending the money? It’s hardly a “write Curt Hennig a Rumble cheque to screw the XWF” kind of outlay. Quote
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted April 5, 2022 Paid Members Posted April 5, 2022 5 minutes ago, air_raid said: Is that worth spending the money? It’s hardly a “write Curt Hennig a Rumble cheque to screw the XWF” kind of outlay. $30m. I read reports they have paid Cody $3.5 a year for his contract. Nicking one of the EVP's of your biggest rival, after him saying publicly he wanted to remain at AEW and as an EVP for the rest of his career, is priceless surely. Quote
Paid Members air_raid Posted April 5, 2022 Paid Members Posted April 5, 2022 I’d want something more than a pissed-off money mark for $3.5m a year, maybe I’m old fashioned. Quote
Guest Posted April 5, 2022 Posted April 5, 2022 This weekend Tony Khan signed Samoa Joe, having recently signed CM Punk and Bryan Danielson. I think he'll be able to hold back the dark thoughts that Average Cody Rhodes has left. Good promo though. Quote
TildeGuy~! Posted April 5, 2022 Posted April 5, 2022 “I am Elias’ younger brother, Ezekiel” Jesus Christ. Quote
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted April 5, 2022 Paid Members Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) I wonder whether Cody will get something of a push to try and entice some of the other younger AEW guys to jump ship. If they can get MJF or Wardlow to jump as well, and give them something resembling a decent push it could be a nice way of undermining little tone, or even if they can try and get him to start paying some bigger money for people to get them to stay. Cody has already said that if anybody from AEW reaches out to him about jumping ship. He'll give them "honest advice" about it. That's got to be worth something to Vince as well. The problem is that it's Cody Rhodes, and eventually the smoke and mirrors (pun intended) will fall away and people will get bored of his stuff, like they did in AEW, and likely turn on him. Mind you, Vince can hide that on TV with bucket loads of crowd sweetening, so I guess the real proof of the pudding will be when his merch sales start dropping off. Edited April 5, 2022 by jazzygeofferz Quote
69MeDon Posted April 5, 2022 Posted April 5, 2022 15 hours ago, Gay as FOOK said: Especially considering a few months prior he was in promos for that years 2K game with an awesome orchestral reworking of his Crow theme! You just reminded me that theme and I went back and listened to it. It was fucking amazing. Whatever possessed them to not use that and instead make up some new theme? Quote
Paid Members air_raid Posted April 5, 2022 Paid Members Posted April 5, 2022 2 minutes ago, 69MeDon said: Whatever possessed them to not use that and instead make up some new theme? Not even new. A shit old theme of Taker and Big Show from 1999. Quote
Angle_fan Posted April 5, 2022 Posted April 5, 2022 After beating Gonzales at Mania and as the last champion before Lesnar. Surely Bobby Lashley should be number one contender? Who else is there? Quote
69MeDon Posted April 5, 2022 Posted April 5, 2022 29 minutes ago, Angle_fan said: After beating Gonzales at Mania and as the last champion before Lesnar. Surely Bobby Lashley should be number one contender? Who else is there? Wrestling has more than one royal family. Quote
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