Hanging above this Wrestling Thread is my absolution!

[Van Petrol]

I'm not really bothered whether Punk returns, or not, these days. I'm more than content with watching the new blood develop and take centre stage now.

 

[The Sage]

If the WWE wasn't so happy to job out every midcard guy that works for them they might have credible options to push into a mainevent slot when some of their top talent get injured.

The short sightedness of the WWE is ridiculous sometimes.

I'm with you, man. They could've been father along with a lot of guys at this point.

I'm not really bothered whether Punk returns, or not, these days. I'm more than content with watching the new blood develop and take centre stage now.

I am too, but Punk was always the guy that was good no matter what the company gave him. Not too many of the new blood can rise above the cruddy creative. So I definitely miss Punk in that regard.

 

[The Sage]

It was rumored as far back as launch time that a WWE Network price increase could happen and it was recently confirmed by WWE executives. Word now is that WWE officials have indeed had several talks about increasing prices in early 2015.

Nothing is set in stone this far out but several different price points have been discussed. One idea would see the monthly price jump to $11.99-$12.99 with a 6 month commitment that would happen before Royal Rumble.

While that may sound like bad news, there was also talk of allowing subscribers to keep their $9.99 monthly cost if they make a 12-month commitment.

WWE reportedly wants to raise the price before WrestleMania 31 but they don’t want it to happen right before the pay-per-view for obvious reasons.

It’s been noted before how there has been some minor issues between Triple H and Vince McMahon when it comes to certain directions and some ideas that have been brought up. It’s said that people are noticing that the relationship between Vince and Triple H has grown noticeably more contentious.

One recent example is when El Torito had his tail ripped off on RAW. Vince “loved it” while Triple H was “100% reportedly against” doing the segment.

Another example is the formatting of RAW. Vince reportedly wants to continue to do the top angles at 8, 9, 10 and 11, while Triple H reportedly feels that this method is dated and fans have figured it out, causing long breaks. Triple H wants to focus more on creating and building talents so they have enough stars to spread around the show, in hopes that the show isn’t so predictable.

While Vince has slowly handed over a lot of the business aspects to Triple H, he’s still maintaining his power in terms of creative, especially on RAW. Triple H wants a more serious and wrestling-focused product and the more resistant Vince has been to handing over the creative reigns, the more focus Triple H has put into making NXT a successful brand with the hope that Vince sees some of those ideas work and applies them to WWE’s main shows.

- We noted before that WWE is working on a new Randy Savage DVD with documentary. Word now is that Savage’s brother Lanny Poffo is participating.

- Sting is reportedly planned as this year’s pre-order bonus for WWE 2K15. Apparently a lot of the game’s bonus promotional material will be centered around Sting.

- The latest likely list for the 2015 WWE Hall of Fame class is The Rock, Randy Savage, Kevin Nash, Rikishi and Victoria or Mickie James.

No word yet on any possible celebrities but being in California, there’s a number of names that they could induct to get the big local publicity.

Source: F4Wonline.com

http://dailywrestlingnews.com/bad-good-news-wwe-network-subscribers-price-increases/
http://dailywrestlingnews.com/situations-vince-triple-h-direction-hhh-wants-take/
http://dailywrestlingnews.com/big-wwe-updates-randy-savage-sting-projects/
http://dailywrestlingnews.com/2015-wwe-hall-fame-latest-6-huge-possible-names/

 

[Van Petrol]

I am too, but Punk was always the guy that was good no matter what the company gave him. Not too many of the new blood can rise above the cruddy creative. So I definitely miss Punk in that regard.

Quite true.

 

[PyroChamber]

- The latest likely list for the 2015 WWE Hall of Fame class is The Rock, Randy Savage, Kevin Nash, Rikishi and Victoria or Mickie James.

No word yet on any possible celebrities but being in California, there’s a number of names that they could induct to get the big local publicity.

Source: F4Wonline.com

Is there a rule saying they can only put one Diva into the HOF a year?

 

[Dr. Evil]

- The latest likely list for the 2015 WWE Hall of Fame class is The Rock, Randy Savage, Kevin Nash, Rikishi and Victoria or Mickie James.

No word yet on any possible celebrities but being in California, there’s a number of names that they could induct to get the big local publicity.


Source: F4Wonline.com

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[Lunar_Wolf]

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[sweetre15]

The news about the clash between HHH and Vince provesy point. Vince is too damn stubborn and needs to retire. He'll purposefully ruin something promising so he can have his way. I think he likes a stagnant product so he can justify doing the same old sh!!!!t

 

[cabel]

Andy Kaufman for the hall of fame.

 

[Dr. Evil]

It should either be Andy Kaufman (although I'm not 100% sure Vince knows who that is) or Cindy Lauper.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Also, The Rock is an absolute no brainer for the WWE Hall of Fame.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I picked Ms. Lauper because I don't think Vince knows who Andy Kaufman is.

 

[PyroChamber]

Sometimes I wonder when Vince finally does step down and Triple H is fully in charge; will a lot more wrestlers, particularly indie, want to come to the WWE giving how passionate H seems to be about displaying up and coming talent and wrestling itself?

 

[AndrewGilkison]

Vince can be out of touch sometimes, but I think he knows who Andy Kaufman is.

 

[cabel]

And I'm sure Lawler's suggested Kaufman on more than one occasion.

 

[cabel]

- tna attempted to drum up excitement for tonight's slammiversary on social media but came up short. The promotion posted the following to their twitter account a little before 6 pm et:

#slammiversary starts at 8/7c on ppv! Want to know the first match of the night? 500 rts and we'll tell you! Go!

The tweet has since been deleted. Per pwinsider, they stalled out at in the low two hundreds and at the time of the message's deletion they had 248 retweets.

Ha!

 

[AndrewGilkison]

How much longer can TNA stay in business?

 

[zeroapoc]

So I just came back into the country from vacation. It sucks about the releases during the week. But another bit of news caught my attention. That about Pat Patterson "coming out".

Ok so maybe I'm confused but hasn't Patterson been out for a really long time?

 

[Hunter Rider]

No question. In my opinion, there's been a void in the product since he's been gone, and it's even more glaring since Bryan has been out.

I've said it before, but at the very least, many of the fans want some kind of closure. He was here one day, gone the next. No loser-leaves-town match, no "I quit," "you're fired" or "we wish him well in his future endeavors." In Punk's mind, he's retired. In the minds of many of the fans' (and, seemingly, in Vince's), he's just kind of...out there. An unresolved issue.

I agree.

Yep, he's still in a league of his own IMO and to me all the things going on would be elevated by his involvement.

That's very true, usually when a guy reaches that level Punk has fans get to be part of their farewell,. to send them off the right way. With the way this has happened it's just left a huge hole for fans and that is why the crowds are reacting as they are IMO.

I'm not really bothered whether Punk returns, or not, these days. I'm more than content with watching the new blood develop and take centre stage now.

I guess it's twofold for me, I think he'd be a huge help in developing the new blood as working with him would improve them all, and from a personal perspective I have an investment in him that is only matched by 3 other wrestlers since I started watching 25 years ago.

It’s been noted before how there has been some minor issues between Triple H and Vince McMahon when it comes to certain directions and some ideas that have been brought up. It’s said that people are noticing that the relationship between Vince and Triple H has grown noticeably more contentious.

One recent example is when El Torito had his tail ripped off on RAW. Vince “loved it” while Triple H was “100% reportedly against” doing the segment.

Another example is the formatting of RAW. Vince reportedly wants to continue to do the top angles at 8, 9, 10 and 11, while Triple H reportedly feels that this method is dated and fans have figured it out, causing long breaks. Triple H wants to focus more on creating and building talents so they have enough stars to spread around the show, in hopes that the show isn’t so predictable.

While Vince has slowly handed over a lot of the business aspects to Triple H, he’s still maintaining his power in terms of creative, especially on RAW. Triple H wants a more serious and wrestling-focused product and the more resistant Vince has been to handing over the creative reigns, the more focus Triple H has put into making NXT a successful brand with the hope that Vince sees some of those ideas work and applies them to WWE’s main shows.

Oddly enough this was highlighted by something Russo recently said about how uneven Raw is tonally, and he mentioned the bull tail comedy crap and how you can't try to get the kids with that if you are going to put out the content between Cena and Bray and Evolution and The Shield on the same show.

 

[Van Petrol]

I guess it's twofold for me, I think he'd be a huge help in developing the new blood as working with him would improve them all, and from a personal perspective I have an investment in him that is only matched by 3 other wrestlers since I started watching 25 years ago.

Oh yeah, no doubt. Ha, yeah, I know how it is when it comes to you and Punk.

 

[cabel]

So I just came back into the country from vacation. It sucks about the releases during the week. But another bit of news caught my attention. That about Pat Patterson "coming out".

Ok so maybe I'm confused but hasn't Patterson been out for a really long time?

It's been common knowledge for a while, but to my understanding he has never publicly stated that he was gay.

 

[NDX]

Vince, just let Trips take over. His vision for the company is what I've been wanting for years now. Let go,man. Your legacy is secure.

Posting from my phone blows. This is gonna suck during RAW.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

The problem with WWE is that they have no competition like they had in the 90's with WCW and ECW. I wish we had WCW now that could be like the attitude era with more interesting storylines, jokes, characters, and matches. WWE could still be the PG wrestling for families and whatnot.

If WWe had a rival today like WCW Vince would be forced to give control over to HHH because Vince's old boring way of doing things wouldn't get them killed in the ratings.

 

[cabel]

Team 3D are the next TNA HoF inductees.

Sigh...

 

[JabarR]

Velvet Sky has a new shoulder tattoo. *sigh*