Re: WWE Off-Topic

[Fiddy]

Is that the 100 section at least? I'm currently waiting for ticket prices to go down for Smackdown in Charlotte on Feb 6th. One week after the Rumble so it should be a good show. I went to RAW last February in Charlotte, waited until the day of and still paid over $100 for my seat.

Yeah in the 100's. Still zero reason they that much.

[SmashMan]

Cheapest single ticket on Ticketmaster for Elimination Chamber right now is in the upper level (section 323), behind the set, and in the 16th row of a section that has 17 rows. $156.85 before fees and taxes

Insane

[UFCMPunk]

Officially 90 days before Night 1 of WrestleMania on April 18th, 2026. It seems the Mania plans are changing every week as we saw with Drew defeating Cody for the WWE Championship, Cody going into the Rumble, Punk says he's done with the Vision. What can we expect over these next 3 months?

[Majingir]

The fact that there's no rumors with "definitive" plans is a good thing. Wrestling in general is at its best when people don't know what to expect. Though I wouldn't be surprised if Drew winning also had a part to do with the WWE Unreal series (combined with the fact that they realized SNME is in Montreal and Rumble is in Saudi, so Sami being part of both vs a heel champ makes more sense than Cody being forced to be in that "good guy with a smile on his face while he's getting booed" role). My fantasy/I watch the show and am making an educated guess on the WM card might be something like: -Cody vs Orton for the WWE title at WM (the twist here is that Orton is the champ after the chamber and Cody turns heel) -Punk vs Rollins for the WHC -Raquel vs Liv for the women's world title -Jade vs Bianca for the women's title -Becky vs AJ Lee for the women's ic title -Giulia vs Blake vs Chelsea vs Tiffany for the women's us title (my one fantasy booked match here, not that I need Giulia in this one) -Dom vs Finn for the IC title -Carmelo vs Trick for the US title -Lesnar vs Oba -Reigns vs Bron -Kabukis vs Rhiyo vs Bliss/Flair vs Nia/Lash vs Bayley/Lyra for the women's tag titles -McIntyre vs Fatu -Usos vs New Day (dont think this feud has happened at Wrestlemania?!) And the crazy thing is this card doesn't even include AJ, Gunther, LA, Zayn, Chelsea and other names who could be on it too. Maybe Gunther vs AJ just to continue with the "Gunther ending careers" story (not that AJs career ends here).

[UFCMPunk]

When you see it..................

[Majingir]

Who knew that AI could lead to problems. To me that's worse than the Coca Cola Christmas ads where people were examining frame by frame and realizing some trucks had a weird number of wheels or the wheels were misaligned and so on. Sure, the majority of people won't even notice or care which is why they (companies using AI) do it/get away with it, but then moments like this make the use of AI look worse. It would be like if in that Coke commercial there was suddenly a Pepsi logo on one bottle.

[UFCMPunk]

Saudi Arabia is offering The Rock an "unprecedented" amount of money to appear at Wrestlemania 43. Well if Sports Illustrated says it, it must be true.

https://www.si.com/fannation/wrestling/wwe/the-rock-reportedly-set-to-receive-unprecedented-wwe-wrestlemania-43-offer

[Majingir]

I don't see him turning it down either. The thing is, would that be money for appearing or competing?

[SmashMan]

Pretty safe to assume Saudi Arabia is willing to throw money at any WWE legend who wants to show up for their Mania. Rock, Austin, Cena, Undertaker, HBK...they'll probably all get pitched an idea.

[Majingir]

I wonder which legend they'll be able to get out of retirement for one more match? My moneys on Undertaker since he never had an official final match.

[UFCMPunk]

Austin vs Punk, Rock vs Roman, Rock vs Cody, AJ styles comes out of retirement a year later to have his dream match against HBK. Saudi Mania just going to be the most non storyline driven Mania ever lol.

[Majingir]

Sounds like Blake Monroe will have company. WWE trademarked Royce Keys. On one hand it sounds random name generated, on the other hand, it's because of (spoiler on who it is)

Spoiler

Will Hobbs sons name is Royce so he took that as part of his new WWE name It'll still be weird calling him something different. Like I said with Blake Monroe, it's harder getting used to a new name when the first and last names are different. Ricky Saints has been the easier to get used to since he's still Ricky S

If we at least get "Powerhouse Royce", that'll be fine.

[UFCMPunk]

Triple H confirmed on ESPN that both Elimination Chamber matches will determine who faces the other champions that the Rumble winners don't choose.

So... CM Punk vs Finn Balor rematch? Or Triple Threat with AJ for the World Heavyweight Championship?

[Majingir]

I also wonder what this means for the title match. Drew doesn't defend again until WM because Punk for sure will be competing at the chamber and defending his title. So the rumble winner has to be someone facing the wwe champ. If all this is just for Cody to win the rumble and give us Drew vs Cody again... Sami winning the title at the rumble would be nice, but it just seems way more set up and way more fitting if Drew beats Sami.

[SmashMan]

He also said there are "a lot of surprises in store".

I get he has to do generic hype in these promotional spots, but he has a Dixie Carter level of underdelivering when he mentions surprises or epic moments or anything like that.

[Majingir]

AEW is also like that too whenever they're like "Tony Khan has a major announcement" it's something like Tony saying AEW PPVs can now also be purchased through Prime video.

[UFCMPunk]

AJ Styles has filed to trademark 'The Phenomenal AJ Styles' and his P1 logo as well. The timing of this doesn't bode well for Saturday but keep in mind TNA has is doing dates in Atlanta and Nashville in February/March.

Looks like he's had these trademarks since December 2011? So just renewing them or is he finishing his career in TNA?

[Majingir]

Backlash no longer happening in Puerto Rico like originally rumored (but Becky says Sports Illustrated is a reliable source!) It'll be held at the Benchmark International Arena instead. This is also how I find out that Amalie Arena got renamed. So much for a long stretch of PLEs in special locations with Crown Jewel in Australia, Survivor Series at Petco, rumble in Saudi, Chamber in Chicago, WM in Vegas, just to have a PLE in a basic US town/arena. Maybe they were banking on Bad Bunny for that show but couldn't do it? The rumored Italy show I could see happening in June since the London Raw in June has already been announced. Maybe Puerto Rico gets a PLE in July or October?

[UFCMPunk]

Backlash no longer happening in Puerto Rico like originally rumored (but Becky says Sports Illustrated is a reliable source!) It'll be held at the Benchmark International Arena instead. This is also how I find out that Amalie Arena got renamed. So much for a long stretch of PLEs in special locations with Crown Jewel in Australia, Survivor Series at Petco, rumble in Saudi, Chamber in Chicago, WM in Vegas, just to have a PLE in a basic US town/arena. Maybe they were banking on Bad Bunny for that show but couldn't do it? The rumored Italy show I could see happening in June since the London Raw in June has already been announced. Maybe Puerto Rico gets a PLE in July or October?

I was hyped about the possibility of Backlash going back to Puerto Rico because of that crowd. I would have skipped Mania this year to go to Backlash in Puerto Rico instead. I miss Backlash being a international show, St. Louis last year made sense due to Cena vs Orton for the WWE Championship. Have to assume Saudi gets King of The Ring/Night of Champions in June. Puerto Rico PLE in July is a strong possibility with Money In The Bank being at the end of August this year.

[Majingir]

I could see Italy getting KOTR/Crown Jewel kind of show in June (would be fitting in a way if they play off the ancient Rome theme) I checked out Bad Bunnys tour dates and Backlash in May perfectly aligned with the break in tours, so something definitely had to have fallen through. He's busy in July too so that takes a July show out of the equation, although July also ends his current touring schedule so perhaps he could be available come October (his tour ends right before shmmerslam, so maybe he starts something at summeslam which leads to whatever show they have in October)?

[Majingir]

I just realized that Summerslam this year is in Minnesota......a perfect show for Brock Lesnar to retire.......Gunther is smiling somewhere.


It does make sense if that happens. Lesnar vs Oba already seems planned for WM, maybe he feuds with Bron in the spring, then finishes up with Gunther in the summer? Besides those 3, there's nobody else I can think of that'd be good for him to feud with.

[UFCMPunk]

I just realized that Summerslam this year is in Minnesota......a perfect show for Brock Lesnar to retire.......Gunther is smiling somewhere.


It does make sense if that happens. Lesnar vs Oba already seems planned for WM, maybe he feuds with Bron in the spring, then finishes up with Gunther in the summer? Besides those 3, there's nobody else I can think of that'd be good for him to feud with.

I think Breakker vs Lesnar would be a good final match for Brock. I know they want to do the whole legend killer thing with Gunther, but I just don't see a world where Heyman isn't involved in Brock's final match. I mean I guess he could manage Brock against Gunther but I think it would be fitting for Brock to put over Bron as the new Paul Heyman guy on the way out.

[Majingir]

Bron would be better, but at this point you almost have to do Gunther just to keep up with the career killer bit. Gunther vs Lesnar can literally happen just for that sole reason. Bron vs Lesnar having actual build at a lesser show would be better.

[TheMatrix31]

Bron would be better because I don't care about Bron or Lesnar so they can keep that together.

Gunther doesn't need to involve himself in any of that mess.