WWE Off-Topic

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by UFCMPunk

If you look here, this is what ticketmaster shows as the setup with 41K... https://www.ticketmaster.com/wwe-sum...005AC304736074

Looks like the Rumble setup.

I'm guessing the camera will be behind section 1.

And from that map, it does look like a good chunk is sectioned off, but all the seats that we'll see on TV will be packed.

[Majingir]

Conrad Thompson is Ric Flairs son in law!? How'd I never know that?

The Flair Most Wanted Treasures episode was so intense. Biggest episode of the series obviously.

Just when I thought that Sunny Onno guy was horrible, that person with the Flair robe was the most ridiculous one, and you can see why they refused to appear publicly.

The whole story was just crazy.

Spoiler

Nobody can find the Flair black robe, not even the biggest of all major WWE collectors

It randomly reappears on Ebay and gets sold for 10k?! It was such a quick sale it sounds like. Did someone actually steal it and just got rid of it asap? No way that ends up on Ebay for such a short time AND nobody knows about it.

They contact the person who bought it, offers 50k, they say no.

The seller counter with a different robe + boots in exchange for the robe

Deal made, they go and get that other robe from "lil nature boy", and get the boots

They let that guy know they have what he wants, he says no, and asks for 25k extra. They begrudgingly accept.

Now they show up at the official exchange....except that guy wants 60k ontop of everything. They get the deal done, but what a scumbag. I get wanting the most for what you have, but at the same time, you agreed to a deal, and renegotiated TWICE after the fact.

Surprised WWE didn't make that guy sign a contract or something agreeing to those initial terms saying that the offer he made is what he will accept for the robe should they be able to gather it for him. So if he backed out the same way and demanded money out of it, they could sue him for breach of agreement.

[UFCMPunk]

So... did anything come of the talks between WWE & NJPW? Last I heard nothing was established and talks broke down or they are still ongoing.

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by UFCMPunk

So... did anything come of the talks between WWE & NJPW? Last I heard nothing was established and talks broke down or they are still ongoing.

I heard talks broke down.

[UFCMPunk]

Well this should explain the current product or at least WWE RAW, and set off the marks and Jim Cornettes of the world. Even though that second paragraph where she calls Bobby Lashley Bobby Ashley and a giant black guy... wow. How do you not know the talent of the brand you're assigned to write for.

Like shouldn't there be a requirement that you watch wrestling, have a understanding of what wrestling is, etc? I guess the Smackdown writing team is filled of people with wrestling knowledge then.

Quote:

“Yes, I have just been hired by WWE. Given the things that you know about me and my entire life and what I’m into, yes [that’s surprising]. Yes, also a surprise for me. They did not require me to know anything about wrestling but I do have a background in film production and comedy writing and they’re like, ‘Perfect. Come on in.’ “So I am on the Monday Night Raw team. So there’s Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown and the people I know that are on it are Bobby — his name is either Bobby Ashley or Bobby Lashley and I really should know that. He’s like this giant Black guy and he and the people who are part of his crew, I know that they call — or at least as of last year, they called themselves The Hurt Business. The Hurt Business. They wear suits and they’re like, ‘We’re cool.’”

https://cultaholic.com/posts/new-wwe...bout-wrestling

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by UFCMPunk

Well this should explain the current product or at least WWE RAW, and set off the marks and Jim Cornettes of the world. Even though that second paragraph where she calls Bobby Lashley Bobby Ashley and a giant black guy... wow. How do you not know the talent of the brand you're assigned to write for. Like shouldn't there be a requirement that you watch wrestling, have a understanding of what wrestling is, etc? I guess the Smackdown writing team is filled of people with wrestling knowledge then. https://cultaholic.com/posts/new-wwe...bout-wrestling

Sad part, I'm not even surprised one bit at this. Watching or liking wrestling isn't even a requirement to hold many of these higher up positions in the company.

[SmashMan]

Unpopular opinion (?): …so what? You don’t need to know wrestling to write characters, especially when none of these writers are deciding the story arcs.

If they were deciding how/where the storylines go or putting together matches, that would be a different thing; but just writing the dialogue to get from Vince’s Point A to Vince’s Point B? Meh, you don’t need to “know wrestling” for that.

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by SmashMan

Unpopular opinion (?): …so what? You don’t need to know wrestling to write characters, especially when none of these writers are deciding the story arcs. If they were deciding how/where the storylines go or putting together matches, that would be a different thing; but just writing the dialogue to get from Vince’s Point A to Vince’s Point B? Meh, you don’t need to “know wrestling” for that.

But these writers are coming up with stuff to be read/performed by people who aren't actors, while writing for an audience they don't even understand.