WWE Off-Topic

[Majingir]

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To some extent they were just listening to the audience too. We definitely weren't expecting great (or even good) women's wrestling at that time. Sucks for the women who put the effort in and could wrestle if given the chance, but that's how it was.

It's a bit of both. You had lots of 13-30 year olds watching who wanted that stuff from the women, but at the same time, people were also accepting of the wrestling too. Obviously Trish and Lita were the perfect combination of both crowds, but they were more useful and popular for a reason over the Divas Search women or HLA or any of that.

Apparently they took Odyssey Jones off the active roster for whatever reason.

Took him so long to make it to the main roster, he has actually been decent so far, then he's done just like that? Something had to have happened.

Since I'll need a Netflix account to watch the Ravens play the Texans then RAW next year, I need some advice. What plan does everyone have, is the premium plan at $22.99 worth it? I'm assuming the premium plan will be the only way go watch NFL games and RAW.

I'm just taking a guess, but unless not having 4K is a dealbreaker for you I'd think the $6.99 plan with ads would be fine. I don't see any benefit to paying for no ads if you're only using it for live events like Raw and the NFL

I fully believe WWE will go 4K for Netflix. They'd be stupid not to be the first weekly "sporting event" to be broadcast fully in 4K. Netflix would push hard for that too since they can now pitch to any sports league that they already have a live event broadcast in 4K.

As for ads, I think Raw will be like PLEs. If you're watching the ad version, you'll get ads during some entrances, during matches, between breaks and all that. If you have the premium, you'll get to watch the full show. Or maybe like AEW where certain services just show the full match while others go picture in picture.

In terms of subscribing, I'm hoping once WWE goes there they have some sort of "welcome promo" where new signups could get discounts. If they have a deal for Netflix like the crazy deals they had for Peacock, I'd jump all over that.

But I wonder how the ad vs premium versions will work when watching back Raw vs watching live. Will they just have breaks at the same time as the live viewing or will watching a replay have more (or less) breaks.

[UFCMPunk]

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This Oddesy Jones situation is odd.. just gone like that? Usually when something happens we hear about it right away from TMZ or Fightful be it an arrest or something.

I don't want to speculate but something must have seriously happened that WWE found out about and fired him before news came out.

[ggsimmonds]

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This Oddesy Jones situation is odd.. just gone like that? Usually when something happens we hear about it right away from TMZ or Fightful be it an arrest or something.

I don't want to speculate but something must have seriously happened that WWE found out about and fired him before news came out.

There's an article on pwinsider saying there was a mandatory talent meeting before raw where the topic was talent conduct. Safe bet is that the two are related, but the article is locked behind a paywall
Edit: Also says there were two major departures

Second edit: Looks like Pwinsider may be doing a little subscribe bait, other sources are saying the talent meeting was just a reminder to not curse on live TV until the move

[Dead2009]

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So I saw on Threads (thats IG's version of Twitter) that there's a rumor going around Odyssey Jones and Omos got into an altercation backstage that led to Odyssey getting fired.

Of course we have the other rumor that it's a storyline where Xavier wanted him gone because the implication was that he was replacing Big E. and it was grounds for the Woods turn.

[Dead2009]

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There's an article on pwinsider saying there was a mandatory talent meeting before raw where the topic was talent conduct. Safe bet is that the two are related, but the article is locked behind a paywall
Edit: Also says there were two major departures

Second edit: Looks like Pwinsider may be doing a little subscribe bait, other sources are saying the talent meeting was just a reminder to not curse on live TV until the move

They wouldnt fire someone for cursing on television though, that's a fineable offense if anything else.

[Majingir]

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There's an article on pwinsider saying there was a mandatory talent meeting before raw where the topic was talent conduct. Safe bet is that the two are related, but the article is locked behind a paywall
Edit: Also says there were two major departures

Second edit: Looks like Pwinsider may be doing a little subscribe bait, other sources are saying the talent meeting was just a reminder to not curse on live TV until the move

They wouldnt fire someone for cursing on television though, that's a fineable offense if anything else.

Definitely would be fines, but it also depends on what gets said. I don't think anyone has really gone off other than The Rock (and Orton by accident recently at the kickoff show). But perhaps FOX is just tightening up on SD since they're in the final week of the show and don't want and problems. Or USA similarly since they'll have Raw, SD and NXT all for a few weeks before NXT goes to CW then Raw to Netflix.

So I saw on Threads (thats IG's version of Twitter) that there's a rumor going around Odyssey Jones and Omos got into an altercation backstage that led to Odyssey getting fired.

Of course we have the other rumor that it's a storyline where Xavier wanted him gone because the implication was that he was replacing Big E. and it was grounds for the Woods turn.

I was gonna say who'd dare get into an altercation with Omos, then remembered how big Odyssey is.

If he's really gone, that's on him. Who knows where this might have ended up for him if he did join New Day, maybe get the torch passed from Big E, or maybe he was just gonna be used to bring E back in some way that didn't involve Odyssey doing anything outside of that story.

I wonder if they'll do it as part of the story with Woods "getting rid" of Jones somehow.

[SmashMan]

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Omos, who hasn't had a match since April, is still going to TV tapings to get into fights with Odyssey Jones? I doubt it.

[Dead2009]

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That's why im iffy on the source because it's Threads and the people on /r/squaredcircle dont even know why.

[ggsimmonds]

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They wouldnt fire someone for cursing on television though, that's a fineable offense if anything else.

I know, thats why I called it subscribe bait on my edit. It had nothing to do with the release

[UFCMPunk]

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So I saw on Threads (thats IG's version of Twitter) that there's a rumor going around Odyssey Jones and Omos got into an altercation backstage that led to Odyssey getting fired.

Of course we have the other rumor that it's a storyline where Xavier wanted him gone because the implication was that he was replacing Big E. and it was grounds for the Woods turn.

Apparently there domestic violence allegations came to light, even though there was no arrest or charges. Crazy..... the fact there were no charges or arrests is interesting because there has to be more to the story that WWE found out about.

[Majingir]

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Apparently there domestic violence allegations came to light, even though there was no arrest or charges. Crazy..... the fact there were no charges or arrests is interesting because there has to be more to the story that WWE found out about.

Given what we've seen with certain other people who were fired, WWE definitely knows enough to make a decision like that.

They're probably holding him off for now and he's "guilty until proven innocent" but more than likely its easier to release him than wait to see how it plays out, similar to Wentz/Carter in NXT.

[J_Posse]

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Given what we've seen with certain other people who were fired, WWE definitely knows enough to make a decision like that.

They're probably holding him off for now and he's "guilty until proven innocent" but more than likely its easier to release him than wait to see how it plays out, similar to Wentz/Carter in NXT.

And Enzo.

It would be nice if they'd let the legal system take it's course before acting. On the other hand the things that Enzo, Wentz (even if both ended up being false), and now Jones (if that's why he was cut loose) were accused of were/are pretty gross.

And whether we like it or not these corporations have a 'public image' (which has already been tarnished by (redacted) to uphold.

If they end up being false, then maybe he can make a return or go somewhere else to rebuild himself back up.



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[Majingir]

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And Enzo.

It would be nice if they'd let the legal system take it's course before acting. On the other hand the things that Enzo, Wentz (even if both ended up being false), and now Jones (if that's why he was cut loose) were accused of were/are pretty gross.

And whether we like it or not these corporations have a 'public image' (which has already been tarnished by (redacted) to uphold.

If they end up being false, then maybe he can make a return or go somewhere else to rebuild himself back up.



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And regardless, I'm sure Kofi and Woods would probably want any plans to be associated with him scrapped. New Day are for the most part the example of how guys should act off screen and are seemingly some of the leaders in the locker room. Don't think they'd want to be associated with/having their rep tarnished by having someone with those allegations in their group.

[Dead2009]

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https://cultaholic.com/posts/wwe-fires-odyssey-jones#google_vignette

He's officially been axed.

[Majingir]

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Speaking of controversial.....

Hogan was on Logan Paul's podcast (that alone should tell you how crazy it'll be) and one comment he said was him commenting on fans forgiving him for his past mistakes saying that if fans can forgive Benoit for what he did, they can forgive Hogan.

There's so many things to say about that.....