WWE Off-Topic

[voodoo_magic]

Quote: Originally Posted by jmillhimes

Really Surprised they advertised Fenix and didnt save him as a run in to help Penta at WM.

Yes, the only reason I can think of for doing it is the internet would have ruined the surprise of him anyways so they tried to have at least some surprise for the WWE universe.
Everyone would have been looking up the ramp for Fenix and it could have distracted from the focus on the match I suppose.

I thought they were going to do a whole thing with Gable, Penta and Fenix where Fenix is revealed to be the one training Gable. He is pissed at Penta for abandoning him.
Then of course down the road when Penta is getting beat up by American Made he finally rejoins Penta.

[Majingir]

They also mentioned Fenix is Pentas brother already too so maybe they just want to see how these guys do as singles competitors first and then do a tag team after? Almost like a reverse Usos/Hardys?

We all know they'll probably do ANOTHER WWE Draft I'd imagine in May or June for the latest, so by then we'll probably see these two on the same show.



https://twitter.com/WWE/status/19061...JQRgI7HcA&s=19

What a moment that must be for Gunther and for the fans too.

[UFCMPunk]

Quick, bring Jinder back and make him World Champion!

Nick Khan says they are looking at a major PLE type of show to bring to India over the next couple of years. Wouldn't mind the August show being a traveling show being held in different countries each year. Last year we got Bash in Berlin, this year Clash in Paris. Maybe an India themed PLE or something like that.

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/n...-2026-or-2027/

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by UFCMPunk

Quick, bring Jinder back and make him World Champion! Nick Khan says they are looking at a major PLE type of show to bring to India over the next couple of years. Wouldn't mind the August show being a traveling show being held in different countries each year. Last year we got Bash in Berlin, this year Clash in Paris. Maybe an India themed PLE or something like that. https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/n...-2026-or-2027/

I'm surprised WWE hasn't been able to find anyone from India yet who has stood out as a decent talent to add to NXT.

[UFCMPunk]

Quote: Originally Posted by Majingir

Sounds like Orlando could be the next city to get a multi event deal with WWE which would include WM, another PLE, a UFC event among other things. It'll of course be spread out over a few year span. This will definitely become the norm now. It's no longer about PLEs in a specific city. It's PLEs as part of a multi event combo deal with cities.

According to what is being said, they want to bring major WWE & UFC shows to the city from next year to 2031. Got to think, WWE is already in discussions with other major cities or even major cities in different countries to do have similar deals. Honestly, they should have aimed for Summerslam or Survivor Series, if they lose out on Survivor Series, getting Saturday Night's Main Event would feel like a loss.

2026: WWE Survivor Series in November or Saturday Night's Main Event in December.

2027: UFC PPV in August or September.

2028: WWE Royal Rumble at Camping World Stadium

2031: WWE WrestleMania 46 in Mid-April.

[Majingir]

I know he's doing partially in character, but Gunther coming in and ripping the LFG cast is funny.

Gunther: I know why you're all here, because you have an athletic background and whatever you were doing didn't work out so you thought you'd give pro wrestling a shot. It's pretend so it must be easy, right?

*Walks up to Tyra*

Gunther: What's your background?

Tyra: Olympic gold medalist.

Gunther: In what?

Tyra: Wrestling.

Gunther: But it didn't pay the bills did it?

[TheMatrix31]

Gunther is hilarious. If that guy had an in-character show or podcast or something where he just clowns on people it'd be the first one I listened to. Though I disagree that every character needs grit, stoic, etc.

Mickie James' commentary to Xena regarding her outfit and all that garbage about "what we fought for" was completely vapid and illogical. Really pissed me off. Made me lose a ton respect for her. Yikes.

I also don't get what Jasper or whatever his name is was doing and "being emotional." Also isn't showing emotion something they hammer all the time? They also criticized the other chick for being too protective but #1 job is to protect your opponent and we've heard that for decades, so that doesn't jive either.

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheMatrix31

Mickie James' commentary to Xena regarding her outfit and all that garbage about "what we fought for" was completely vapid and illogical. Really pissed me off. Made me lose a ton respect for her. Yikes.

She's taking heat for it online.

People definitely only responding to the quote, not realizing she also followed it up with "I should know, I had to do it (wear revealing outfits and do 14+ rated things) a lot".

The comment was out of nowhere though. I can get singling her out if she wore something really horrible/overly revealing, but what she had wasn't even so bad.

Current women in WWE wear things way more revealing than that, including Alexa Bliss who Mickie literally worked with in her last run.

There's nothing wrong with wearing tight/revealing outfits once that's not their entire gimmick. Maybe that was the point she was trying to make/failed at saying. If your entire thing is just "look at me, I can shake and show off my assets and that's all I'm here for." which was 80% of women in WWE prior to 2008, then that shouldn't exist, but there's not many women I can think of who are like that.

Even in AEW, someone like Mariah May obviously uses her looks and some stuff she does to her advantage, but that's part of the gimmick too where she hooks you in and then literally stabs you after.