Vince Doesn't See Money in the Wrestling Thread

[TheNextNolan22]

Maybe Madison Rayne and Joey Ryan. Everyone else is OVW's gain.

 

[JabarR]

I'll be honest, I find Kaitlyn boring.

I'm with you. She does nothing for me on any level.

I've always found her boring & overrated. She's not that hot to me, I find her average in the ring even for a diva/She's the definition of horrible mic skills and has a bland character!!

That's what I've been trying to tell you people, she needs to go heel! 2 years ago, she almost did it, but scraped it at the last minute. Here's the proof:

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She needs to turn heel soon, hopefully after Money In The Bank!

 

[Hunter Rider]

.....He has been for years....

It's false advertising.

It's good to see London and Kendrick are still teaming together. It seemed like WWE was pushing them to the moon, and then... nothing. Split them up, gave Kendrick a bit of a singles push, and then they both disappeared. Was it all because London laughed during the exploding limo scene?

I loved the Londrick vs MNM feud, that was some Rock & Roll Express vs Midnight Express for the modern generation stuff. As for why they didn't make it, that laughing incident has become somewhat of an urban legend but in truth I think it was merely down to the fact they both lacked the maturity required.

Devitt/Okada is going to be insane!

I'd love to see this Okada fella wrestle someone that matters, he intrigues me.

I'll have to add this to my worringly large pile of WWE DVD's a need to buy.

TNA is doing their own "Spring Cleaning" by releasing the following:

Sam Shaw, Christian York, Taylor Hendrix, Madison Rayne, Joey Ryan and Crimson.

I wonder why they wheeled Crimson back out for one last job. I'm surprised at the Knockout releases as the division is pretty empty right now. WWE should pick Madison up as long as she isn't starving herself again for those comps, even if they didn't use her in the ring she'd be a great valet for someone.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Elimination Chamber Match:

(NWA) Ric Flair VS Sting VS Ricky Steamboat VS (WWF) Hulk Hogan VS Randy Savage VS. Mr. Perfect

Great idea.

branching off that idea, how about War Games?

JCP vs Rock 'n' Wrestling Era:

The 4 Horseman (Flair, Arn, Tully & Windham) vs The Mega Powers, The Ultimate Warrior & Jake Roberts

Monday Night Wars Era:

Austin, The Undertaker, The Rock & Mankind vs The NWO (Hogan, Macho & The Outsiders)

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Prince Devitt is one of their best workers and top heels. Yeah, he doesn't matter.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

Awesome cover. . . . except for the guy that is clearly out of place. . . .

Yea, Hogan has no place on that cover. I mean, he's not even with WWE anymore!

 

[Hunter Rider]

Prince Devitt is one of their best workers and top heels. Yeah, he doesn't matter.

He doesn't, tell me when Okada wrestles someone known outside of Japan and the smarkiest corners of the IWC.

 

[sweetre15]

So they have gotten rid of Hendrix, Rayne, Ryan, Crimson and York but not Garrett Bischoff, Wes Briscoe, Jesse and the Robbies? WTF

 

[TheFuture]

Prince Devitt is one of their best workers and top heels. Yeah, he doesn't matter.

He doesn't, tell me when Okada wrestles someone known outside of Japan and the smarkiest corners of the IWC.

Maybe he doesn't matter much to most fans, but I'd say Devitt is making more money in Japan than most of the guys on the TNA and WWE roster.

Fans always ask why Devitt hasn't tried for an American promotion; the answer is simply that he doesn't have to. That's in spite of him being easily head and shoulders above all of the European guys on both rosters.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Great idea.

branching off that idea, how about War Games?

JCP vs Rock 'n' Wrestling Era:

The 4 Horseman (Flair, Arn, Tully & Windham) vs The Mega Powers, The Ultimate Warrior & Jake Roberts

Monday Night Wars Era:

Austin, The Undertaker, The Rock & Mankind vs The NWO (Hogan, Macho & The Outsiders)

man, both of those would be awesome

 

[Mister J]

I wonder why they wheeled Crimson back out for one last job. I'm surprised at the Knockout releases as the division is pretty empty right now. WWE should pick Madison up as long as she isn't starving herself again for those comps, even if they didn't use her in the ring she'd be a great valet for someone.

I got the impression Madison's release was just a timing issue, as she's preggers, and that she'd re-up whenever she was ready to work a schedule again.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Maybe he doesn't matter much to most fans, but I'd say Devitt is making more money in Japan than most of the guys on the TNA and WWE roster.

Fans always ask why Devitt hasn't tried for an American promotion; the answer is simply that he doesn't have to. That's in spite of him being easily head and shoulders above all of the European guys on both rosters.

I doubt it, have you seen the contracts that even guys like Rhodes and Sandow are on for downside guarantees? and this is before all the bonuses and merch money.

Head & shoulders above Magnus, Barett and McIntyre? quite possibly, but I'd take Sheamus and Cesaro any day over him. The reason he isn't in WWE is simple, he doesn't have enough to make it outside of a promotion where all that matters is workrate.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I got the impression Madison's release was just a timing issue, as she's preggers, and that she'd re-up whenever she was ready to work a schedule again.

Ah, that explains her absence in general.

 

[chamber-music]

Joey Ryan I am surprised by. One of the few TNA characters I truly enjoyed.

I thought Joey Ryan was alright as well.

Madison Rayne seemed more interested in bodybuilding these days so its no great loss for her I imagine.

So much for TNA Gut-check LOL. I guess those ham 'n' eggers aren't ready for the big time like Garrett Bischoff and Wes Briscoe, brother!!

Bischoff and Briscoe are less entertaining than the mean street posse

 

[Wheels]

Swagger should go to Japan. They'd probably love him over there considering they're the only ones who cared about Johnny Ace.

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[JabarR]

Photoshop on the booty!

 

[Wheels]

What DVD that WWE hasn't released would you like to see most? I'd like to see a top busts/flash in the pan countdown. That would be controversial.

 

[Donnie Darko]

That would be interesting, but it would probably end up being like the stuff they do on wwe.com where they ignore their own stupid history and badmouth WCW gimmicks.

 

[sweetre15]

Since people are bringing up Prince Devitt, I decided to take a look at 3 of his matches so far and I'm pretty impressed. Some can dismiss him as a smark darling if they want but he's definitely far from the kind of "smark darling" that someone like Kevin Steen is and I'd rather him on the roster than Drew McIntyre, Jack Swagger, Fandango, Miz, Ryback or Alberto Del Rio but that's just me.

His matches with Alex Shelley, Adrian Neville(PAC), and Low Ki are definitely worth a look IMHO. I'd still recommend him going down to NXT to get accustomed to WWE first though.

Here's his match with Adrian Neville: www.dailymotion.com/video/xrjl56

Tell me what you guys think...

 

[Wheels]

That would be interesting, but it would probably end up being like the stuff they do on wwe.com where they ignore their own stupid history and badmouth WCW gimmicks.

I could see that happening but I'd like to hear what Vince has to say about Ahmed Johnson and what Dusty's and other WCW employees thoughts on Van Hammer are. As well as plenty of others.

 

[Mister J]

Wow, I haven't heard mention of Van Hammer in ages.

 

[vantheman77]

Sam Shaw is not released from his contract as it's error reporting.

Taeler Hendrix tweeted that it was her decision to leave TNA.

The rest of the releases are those who are not used on Impact on a regular basis. TNA dropped the ball on Crimson. They waited a year after last year's Slammiversary to bring him back to job to Joseph Park for the BFG series and afterwards, he wasn't seen or used again until now.

Notice the majority that are released are from Gutcheck, which I hope TNA drops because it's not executed properly and a waste of screentime. If TNA is to be serious about their future, they need to invest in the developmental area because WWE is far superior in that area.

In the midst of these releases, Taz tweeted that he re-signed with TNA. Basically this would probably mean that these releases are not cost-cutting measures, but rather politics likely.

Also, there are reports of TNA being behind on their payroll by a month and their relationship with OVW is in chaos.

 

[Kaleb]