Wrestling Thread 4: The Ruethless Aggression Era • Page 352

Nahway

 

I never bragged about how I beat @Mick at Mario party did I?

 

Ed and I are different people, Dan.

I'm in Eatontown, soon to be Ocean.

 

Oh my mom lives there. Over by the Sonic.

 

The plot thickens.......

 

like a salted caramel milk shake

 

LAX was pulled from the 12/15 and 12/16 Evolve shows. The basic gist is that IMPACT didn’t want its tag team champions working on a streaming show, that could end up on the WWE Network, losing to guys who are developmental talents (The Street Profits) that WWE isn’t using as one of its top tag teams. Also, IMPACT sees Evolve in its current form as a part of WWE.

 

So the relationship between WWE and Impact is good, but not that good

 

So they are calling Street Profits a joke pretty much

 

Dave wrote a lot in the Observer this week about the NXT UK contract situation, so I tried to cut to the important bits.

Firstly, Dave says the tapings last weekend did not draw poorly as was initially reported to be the impetus behind the decision.

Wrestle Talk magazine first reported this change as a result of WWE drawing weak crowds for its two nights of tapings in Liverpool, although they had 1,600 the first night and 1,350 the second night, pretty much packed the first night and not far from it the second night.

He then goes onto break down the three different types of deals being given out now.

Right now it appears there are three different types of talent. Some of the lower-level talent have been told nothing and have had no change. Since talent was told individually, not collectively, some were not even aware of changes. They are getting low salaries and can still work elsewhere.

Others had contract rollovers for another year without a raise, and can still work in other places, but no longer against any talent from what WWE deems as competitive promotions.

The top group of stars have been given raises if they were to sign extensions, and have exclusivity to the brand, really not at all unlike the different contract tiers in ROH.

He then later names the key players on the brand, all of which have received the top tier contracts with the most restrictions and the accompanying raises. He does not specify if they are the only ones under the new deals, but they are definitely all at least a part of that list.

The key talent this would apply to are Pete Dunne, Tyler Bate, Trent Seven, Toni Storm, Rhea Ripley, Eddie Dennis, Dave Mastiff, Jordan Devlin, Zack Gibson, James Drake, El Ligero, Mark Andrews, Joseph Conners, Mark & Joe Coffey, Wolfgang, Travis Banks and Flash Morgan Webster.

He also later says that WWE is fine with talent working against Impact talent as they don't see them as a direct competitor.

lol

 

Oh I used to live in Long Branch. P cool. Do you like Cluck-U?

 

Not surprisingly, Dirty Dan opted not to play me a second time, even though he barely beat me and it was my first time playing the game

 

Jim Caldwell wtf

 

Since Dan seems so bad at video games we should do a thread version of UUDD's Battle of the Brands. Watch Dan lose to Henry every week or something.

 

I'm good af. Just wait til smash comes out.

 

He'll make up an excuse about how he "isn't used to playing with this controller"

 

no

 

Is Johnny Takeover a jab at Johnny Impact?

 

Put respec on prison city, son!

Bruh, when were you gonna tell me?

 

Looks like Alexa trained with Quack, bet she's gonna start using the Chikara Special as her finisher now

 

Didn't seem super relevant.

 

Training with someone as obsessed with storytelling and ring psychology as Quack is could do wonders for Alexa.

 

I bet you told Dan when you texted him good morning

 

Is Quack just doing a guest spot?