Wrestling Thread 7: FTR Baldhausen • Page 1593

There simply isn’t anyone else. It will be a year long redemption build and then he will really deserve it. Like I’ve said, he was fast tracked in a way that looking back now seems like it would have been too easy for him to get it now. I mean, he was even spot 30 at the RR.

I could see him winning the rumble again too and being the first entrant.

Agreed that it’s a lot of variables and there’s always the injury risk, but this to me seems like it has to be the plan. Or at least was the plan.

 

You don’t think Cody was told that he would become champ when he signed? I have to believe that was a big part of the move. Not to say they will follow through on it for sure.

I see Cody being tested all year and his ultimate redemption arc is the WM rematch.

 

I now believe that Cody will not win the title anytime soon

 

Talking about storylines making sense and following narrative logic is useless if Vince has final say on creative. We have nearly like half a century of his booking to go off

 

Really dire rumor roundup on CSS today lmao:


Rumors for the Day:

• In addition to the two stars who told Fightful Select they’d request their release if Vince McMahon resumed running creative full-time, “multiple wrestlers” told the site they were “already exploring what their options would be” if things revert to how they were before McMahon’s resignation.
• Another Fightful report on morale at Rawwith Vince in charge said a big issue was that the roster had repeatedly been told for months that McMahon would no longer be a part of creative, including Monday after the Endeavor announcement when they were told Triple H would still be the one producing shows from gorilla position.
• Monday’s show left “many staff and talent” feeling demoralized: “In all, this was the biggest hit to morale since Vince McMahon left his spot last year, and probably the lowest point of morale in totality since pre-WrestleMania in 2022 when it reached near all-time lows.”
• One of Raw After WrestleMania’s scrapped segments would have seen Bad Bunny joining the LWO, but WRKD Wrestlingsays it still might happen as WWE already has Puerto Rico LWO merch made.
• Another change, per Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp, was to do the Women’s Tag Title #1 contenders match instead of a pair of Triple Threats that would help determine Raw Women’s champ Bianca Belair’s next challenger. This caused “several of the women on the roster” to become frustrated on Monday night.
• The decision to have Brock Lesnar team with and turn on Cody Rhodes was made Monday morning, according to Fightful. The script on Sunday had him calling someone about being his mystery partner.
• Omos vs. Elias was also added late, said the site. Omos was in catering when he found out about the match, and had to scramble to find something to wrestle in. Not having his gear was said to violate “an old Vince McMahon rule... to always bring your gear, and always stay til the end of the show, largely because he was constantly changing things.”
• WRKD also tweeted that LA Knight was slated for a segment with Bobby Lashley on night two of WrestleMania 39. It’s not clear why that was nixed.
• “There was absolutely no discussion of former NJPW star Jay White within WWE at all over WrestleMania 39 weekend,” says PW Insider Elite. Conversations the site’s had with WWE officials and wrestlers indicated White won’t be signing with the company.
• A fan claims their “Give Dana Brooke a chance” sign was confiscated at Monday’s Raw. Brooke responded that it would be “addressed”.

 

who's excited for some good wrestling tonight!

 

there is no answer and there is no plan

 

an insane statement

fuck vickie guerrero

 

"There is no answer and there is no plan" sounds like a kick-ass post-hardcore record from 2008.

 

EXCUSE ME?!?

 

Full of whataboutisms. Fuck her.

 

She doesn't even refute what her kid said, just tried to put her down, awful human being.

 

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/aew/...ncement-is-something-ive-dreamed-of-for-years

Gonna be the UK show

 

Either that or a streaming deal. I feel like the UK show would only be the announcement if it was PPV? Seems weird to make that a big announcement on Dynamite otherwise, but we have also seen Tony overhype stuff before so who knows lol

 

Give me a video game release date instead of a UK show lol

 

Give me Miro ffs

 

Yeah need that fucking game already lol

 

I can't stop laughing at the photo they used for that.

 

I know Tony likes to do these announcements and make a big deal out of them to try to drum up ratings, but he has a habit of over-selling them to such a significant, comical degree that we're getting pretty close to boy who cried wolf territory.

Announcing a UK show, or a video game release date would absolutely fall into that category, too.

 

he did what now

 

Crazy how momentum works. WWE got good and got Cody and everyone was down on AEW. AEW hasn’t really done anything different since then and now they have all the momentum because of Vince.

 

Would there be MJF without JBL?

 

I've seen a lot of this on social media the last couple of days, and I'm a little surprised, only because, like you said, nothing at all has changed with AEW and a lot of these same people (myself included) have been of the belief that their TV has been pretty bad for a while now.

AEW pretty much knocks it out of the park on PPV, but I just find that their TV is a directionless chore way more often than it should be.