The Official UKFF RAW thread (part 2)...

[Chris B]

6 minutes ago, Snitsky's back acne said:

Mainstream media will mention it in passing but it will never be 'Breaking news' on any mainstream news channels like it would be were it football or Hollywood etc.

Why is that the bar, and what use is there in pretending that's the bar? 

[MachoLibre]

19 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

Why does anyone even want him back? Ignoring all the awful, awful stuff - he's been doing the same shit for years. Isn't everyone bored of it yet? What's left for him to do?

Yeah, I don't particularly get it either. From a purely product standpoint, I don't really see where he fits in WWE currently. If this was it for him, he finished up in a pretty perfect way. His last acts on TV fully establishing the next two top guys. And prior to returning in 2020, wasn't he content being done then anyway? WWE are printing money without him, already have Rock and Cena on the cards for 2025. I see no reason or particular significant benefit to bringing him back at this point, with that and the other factors considered, the risk surely outweighs any potential reward.

[Snitsky's back acne]

31 minutes ago, Chris B said:

Why is that the bar, and what use is there in pretending that's the bar? 

I'm not saying it's the bar, rather that wrestling has always been kept away from the mainstream news barring a few very notable examples.

In doing so, it has allowed wrestling to create and promote the culture it has for decades where the industry regulates itself away for high level scrutiny. 

Even the much lauded (at the time) APPG group did, ultimately, fuck all for the industry and was never going to gain any real traction considering the myriad of other issues deemed massively more important by politicians which would always take precedent.

Wrestling is an outlier. Always has been, always will be. Occasionally something will happen that gains it more attention than normal but, ultimately, it is the same screwy, carny business that it has always been. 

 

 

[Chris B]

You are aware that media attention was a factor in Vince McMahon resigning, right?

[Snitsky's back acne]

1 hour ago, Chris B said:

You are aware that media attention was a factor in Vince McMahon resigning, right?

You are aware that I said 'barring a few very notable examples', right?

[Hannibal Scorch]

It’s not often imagine what posters look like on here, but reading a SBA post I always think of this guy 

[Chris B]

So the mainstream media doesn't pay attention except when it does. And everything in wrestling carries on regardless, except when it doesn't.

[Joe Blog]

8 minutes ago, Chris B said:

So the mainstream media doesn't pay attention except when it does. And everything in wrestling carries on regardless, except when it doesn't.

You have worked yourself into a shoot brother.

[Chris B]

Just now, Joe Blog said:

You have worked yourself into a shoot brother.

This is a fair point. I either need to be more or less drunk before coming on here sometimes, and I'll figure out which.

[Snitsky's back acne]

2 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

It’s not often imagine what posters look like on here, but reading a SBA post I always think of this guy 

Frighteningly accurate. 

[Supremo]

Let’s focus on what matters, guys. An image so beautiful, I’m going to replace all the family photographs in my house.

I’m so excited. It’s like all those Shield reunions, but on steroids.

Remember when Dominic Mysterio managed to do a heel turn when he was already a heel? I reckon the day Roman says, “Yeet,” it’ll create a boom within a boom.

[DavidB6937]

Tonga got that 'ah shit I've been caught' look on him. Yeah, we see you over there stealing a living.

[Supremo]

Tonga Loa in a War Games match. The comedic possibilities are endless. 

[tiger_rick]

Have the 4 at the top been booked strongly enough to make this an exciting match? Or is this gonna excite purely on the strength of the OG Bloodline being back together and the other 4 blokes could be anyone?

[d-d-d-dAz]

Just now, tiger_rick said:

Have the 4 at the top been booked strongly enough to make this an exciting match? Or is this gonna excite purely on the strength of the OG Bloodline being back together and the other 4 blokes could be anyone?

I actually think they've done an underrated job on Bloodline Wolfpac. They get good reactions, and they've done their best by Solo. The only hiccup, which many predicted, is that Jacob Fatu has completely outshone Solo.

They've leant into it now too, and Fatu has had the rocket strapped to him.

Any faults with the Bloodline WP isn't booking based, it's either talent based (the Tonga Two) or that Fatu has taken a bit of shine off the lead guy by being so great.