WWE 2025: Welcome to the Streaming Era

[Valeyard]

Just run Penta/Fenix and let them kill it for 15 minutes, end with a hug and then into the tag division.

Rock doesn't like Cody, seems like. All his ideas for him are being his bitch. Last vestige of Hogan nostalgia.

Has Jade worked a singles yet? Last I saw, which admittedly was a while ago, she...not regressed, exactly, but absolutely had her growth stunted after coming in.

 

[Hawk 34]

Also Carmella did an interview saying wwe fired her/let her contract run out because she was pregnant and the Fed defense squad is very mad at her saying wwe didn't do that with Alexa or Brie when they got pregnant.

She’s since gone back and softened her stance once she found out how clueless she came off about this. She thought she could garner social media traction with this and immediately found it didn’t work.

Beyond the fact that as multiple other females have left to have kids and returned not only with jobs but substantial pushes disqualified that notion.

She lost the job because she got passed up by other women who provide more for the company either as personalities or workers, Tiffany alone invalidates her position with the company.

I suspect she was hoping this might edge along her husband’s clear hopes of getting a release.

 

[Valeyard]

They should never have split her and Truth.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Just run Penta/Fenix and let them kill it for 15 minutes, end with a hug and then into the tag division.

Rock doesn't like Cody, seems like. All his ideas for him are being his bitch. Last vestige of Hogan nostalgia.

Has Jade worked a singles yet? Last I saw, which admittedly was a while ago, she...not regressed, exactly, but absolutely had her growth stunted after coming in.

my understanding is penta/fenix very specifically wanted to be singles workers and that was one of the several issues they had with aew.

I also think it's interesting how many leaks are coming out of WWE lately after the last year or two of messaging about how great everything is backstage.

 

[Valeyard]

Alright good. Them together is great but them apart is always better, at least to me. You can build around those two as singles.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Putting the title on Iyo is certainly a decision after people had been clamoring for a Bianca/Rhea Mania program for years and they are running out of time to do that.

IIRC the last time a women's title changed hands this close to WrestleMania, we got a triple threat main event?

 

[Hawk 34]

After years of complaints from talent and fans, the WWE HOF event will remain on Friday after Smackdown but will take place at a nearby intimate theater instead of the arena.

 

[Tino Standard]

Limited options with everything else going that weekend and such, but starting at 1 a.m. ET is certainly a choice.

 

[909]

Limited options with everything else going that weekend and such, but starting at 1 a.m. ET is certainly a choice.

That's early evening in Vegas, but yeah not a lot of people gonna be too happy with that.

I might go back for WM if I win a lot of money this week (in other words I am not going back).

 

[909]

Nazi comedians being on the show and getting saved by wrestlers now. That's fuckin sick. Thank you Triple Hitler

 

[One Epic Winter (OEW)]

Man, you're just gonna snub Rory Culkin like that?

 

[One Epic Winter (OEW)]

Punk/Rollins/Reigns at Wrestlemania. What was the last triple threat that had absolutely no stakes? Just 3 men who hated each other?

 

[Valeyard]

So is that getting a Night One main event or is Punk going another year without closing the show?

 

[Brocklock]

So, is Main Event Jey Uso gonna win the title in the opener then? I predicted that when he won the Rumble and I was right.

 

[Tino Standard]

Nazi comedians being on the show and getting saved by wrestlers now. That's fuckin sick. Thank you Triple Hitler

I have never heard of that guy. Doesn’t sound like I’m missing much.

 

[Brocklock]

I have never heard of that guy. Doesn’t sound like I’m missing much.

That whole subgenre of Bro comedians from the Rogan sphere are just trash. Shane Gillis is supposed to be the funniest from that group, and he's bombed every appearance I've seen from him whether it's SNL or The Hot Ones. And, he's seemed just as awkward in the standup I've watched from him. I've never seen a comedian chuckle at his own jokes more than Gillis. Maybe that works as a regular guy along his bros, but it comes off super unprofessional in his standup. The other guys from that group like Kill Tony are brutally unfunny to me. Every comedian that does that style at this point is to me.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

FWIW, Gillis is better suited for sketch comedy. The show Tires he made on Netflix is pretty damn funny.

 

[Brocklock]

I'll take your word on it but I've seen him in sketches from Gilly and Keeves and it was the same awkward nervous smirking shit. His style probably works best on podcasts I'm not going to listen to.

Don't want to derail any further with my bitching about modern comedy.

 

[Valeyard]

Gotta bring in Big Van Kreischer now.

 

[Hawk 34]

Punk/Rollins/Reigns at Wrestlemania. What was the last triple threat that had absolutely no stakes? Just 3 men who hated each other?

They did reiterate just like last week about the favor Punk is owed. I don’t think that’s a coincidence and I’d imagine the favor comes into play here, possibly as a guaranteed title match/main event spot in some capacity.

 

[Brocklock]

Gotta bring in Big Van Kreischer now.

Well great now I have nightmares of him preforming shirtless while wearing the Vader mask.

 

[Hawk 34]

Well great now I have nightmares of him preforming shirtless while wearing the Vader mask.

Is this an anti hairy chest agenda? Cuz the dude has the look and size of a standard AEW wrestler.

 

[Brocklock]

nah it's just his body is fairly unremarkable so I don't know why he thinks it's funny to take the shirt off.

 

[Hawk 34]

nah it's just his body is fairly unremarkable so I don't know why he thinks it's funny to take the shirt off.

He used to be really fat and shirtless fat guys have been a comedy staple since the dawn of time regardless if we like it or not.

Now he’s just a 4 inch shorter version of Moxley, just a generic looking guy.

 

[Hawk 34]

Good news: Seth is no longer “Freakin” but sadly we have lost “Dirty” Dom and “Big” Bronson.

A real one foot forward, two steps back scenario here.

 

[Valeyard]

If Seth were a true carny, he'd change his legal name to Seth Freakin' Rollins and make noise next contract negotiation.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

If Seth were a true carny, he'd change his legal name to Seth Freakin' Rollins and make noise next contract negotiation.

This came up the other night in chat but if Seth was the one who came up with the name "Seth Rollins" than legally he should own the rights to it as an independent contractor. Any intellectual property developed by an IC while working for a company is theirs.

 

[Valeyard]

That whole era of guys created their own names, didn't they? Sami, Mox, Rollins, Owens, etc.

 

[snuffbox]

The writers of Mr Belvedere named Kevin Owens but the rest, yeah.

 

[Hawk 34]

It appears Jeff Cobb is headed to WWE according to SRS.