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I know racism can't be justified and people are entitled to their own political views but at least Hogan didn't pull a Chris Benoit.
Hogan still deserves respect as a wrestler on what he brought to the table and people should acknowledge that and separate it from his personal life and views.
The same is said for Benoit, people acknowledge what he has done and what he brought to wrestling but at the same time acknowledge what he had done outside of that was completely wrong.

You're 100% correct, imagine what's going to happen when Vince eventually dies. His contributions to the wrestling industry should definitely be acknowledged. But he's still a huge POS for how he abused his power
 
I feel like we’ve barely scratched the surface on ole VKMs misdemeanours, when he dies it’ll really all come out.

Gonna be even trickier than Hulk to navigate for WWE.
 
Just done a quick Look at the Royal Rumble 1990 and 14 out of the 30 in the Rumble match are dead now so nearly half!

Think I saw a fact somewhere that with Hulks passing that of the Wrestlers (so excluding Mr T etc) there is only Sgt Slaughter and Bret Hart still alive from the first 11 Wrestlemania main events!
Yeah, i was sorting some stuff last night while doing a couple of installs and i stuck one of my favourite arcade games on WWF Wrestlefest. I also realised that a significant amount of them were dead.
 
What a lot of people seem to forget about someone like Hogan is whilst he himself was super successful and made a lot of money in doing so he also made a lot of other wrestlers who work on the lower card a lot of money as well. After all it was him who was selling out Maddison Square Garden, The Silverdome and all these massive arenas all those gate receipts and PPV buys trickled down into peoples pay packets. If it hadn't been for Hogan guys like Roddy Piper wouldn't have got into Hollywood and all those mid carders would have earning peanuts working in bingo halls.
 
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Well it seems like Smackdown going from 3 hours to 2 hours has done significant damage to help build the mid-card and tag team division.
The Women united states title isn't really getting featured, there is way too many tag team in Smackdown that they don't know what to do with them.
The men United states title is getting featured because its on a "Bloodline" member but the moment it goes to someone else it will probably be forgotten too.
I feel like 2.5 hours that is being used for Raw will probably help Smackdown with some of the creative decision.
 
Last weeks Smackdown was a very hard watch.....and I only caught the highlights! It seems SD has been on a downward trajectory for a while. The draft may shake things up. I am dipping in and out as both shows are lacking serious direction for a lot of storylines.
 
They also need to stop reserving title matches for PLEs or not allowing champions apart from tag team titles being featured as a match outside of PLEs as well.
Also a lot of their younger talents are getting over shadowed by the experienced and part timers too.
It is bizarre they gave Cody the belt when he is busy for filming Street fighter, the same with Roman Reigns as well but he isn't in title picture so it kind of works.
Perhaps doing brand PLE exclusives again as well perhaps similar to how NXT has their own PLEs.
 
Anyone else going to Forbidden Door at the O2 this weekend?

I decided to take my eldest (15 year old lad) fairly last minute, last weekend, when I saw fairly decent tickets were only about £50. Section 101.

We went to All In 2023, which was great but our ~£140 tickets were a long way back so not a great view of the ring.
 
no, wanted too until TM did their idiot rip-off pricing again, anything remotely close to the ring was just eye-gouging.
Yeah I think I might have looked at prices just out of interest when they first went on sale and figured it was just too steep. I'm simply not that into watching wrestling at the moment to pay £300 for a pair of tickets.

The section I'm in was basically entirely available to purchase last weekend, so I think it must have been added late, and was well past TM's surge pricing.

I did see they added a bunch of seats around the hard cam yesterday, but didn't check prices
 
i was near the entrance [right where Perry had the limo fight etc] for the first All In and the next year the same tickets were literally double the price, this TM monopoly is just killing live events for me.
 
Anyone else going to Forbidden Door at the O2 this weekend?

I decided to take my eldest (15 year old lad) fairly last minute, last weekend, when I saw fairly decent tickets were only about £50. Section 101.

We went to All In 2023, which was great but our ~£140 tickets were a long way back so not a great view of the ring.

I went. Wasn't going to because I wanted to see the card first, then once it was looking decent I got tickets the weekend before. £55 through the 02 site through axs (I think, brother booked both, I think 02 is axs). Not sure I will do a stadium show again, did Wembley in 23 because didn't know if it would be a one time deal, did it in 24 again because it was fun, but the view in 02 was so much better for basically a quarter of the price, so not sure I will bother with a stadium show again.

Only have a cheaper phone (a34 5g), but this was my view https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/7lxcp5kzpe7.jpg (not embedding because big picture), camera makes it look much further (focal distance? I think, not a camera person), 02 seats are not as comfy as Wembley.
 
Only have a cheaper phone (a34 5g), but this was my view https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/7lxcp5kzpe7.jpg (not embedding because big picture), camera makes it look much further (focal distance? I think, not a camera person), 02 seats are not as comfy as Wembley.
I can see me in your photo :D

Agree that O2 was so much better than Wembley. At Wembley I was on the middle tier, albeit toward the corner, and the ring was just too small to see the action.

My view:

 
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I can see me in your photo :D

Agree that O2 was so much better than Wembley. At Wembley I was on the middle tier, albeit toward the corner, and the ring was just too small to see the action.

My view:


:D.

That's a great view. I've seen a lot of people online saying the O2 doesn't really have any bad views for wrestling events other than maybe the far back floor seats depending on layout.
 
People are angry with WWE that WrestlePalooza was put behind a paywall even though they were already subscribed to Peacock. Well they didn't miss much, this was meant to a PLE on the level Wrestlemaina and Summerslam but only featured 5 matches (one of which was just 9 minutes long) and the broadcast was padded out with ad breaks (even though this was a PPV).

Triple H promised surprises but the only surprise was how much of a let it was , Iyo Sky and Stephanie Vaquer was the only real highlight (Iyo Sky again proving why she is the best female worker on the roster).
 
Yeah, it wasnt great.. The Cena being destroyed by Lesnar was a bit of a shock, thought it would go longer and Cena get more offence in but it was a hefty beatdown showing how much of an utter beast Lesnar is.

Think i am in love with Stephanie Vaquer tho.. God damned she is an utterly stunning woman..

Rest was meh.. Punk+AJ vs Rollins+Lynch was ok.. Nice to see AJ and she looked great and she has hardly aged in 10 years. Few botches tho..
 
Iyo vs Stephanie was definitely the only saving grace of that PLE, the chemistry is just there. It just seems 90% of the featured womens roster on Raw all have chemistry like the womens in NXT.
Smackdown is just a big fat joke in comparison, going down to 2 hours has definitely hurt the show. They need to do 2.5 hours or something like Raw for the most part.

I honestly think Cody should have lost the title so he can bugger off and focus on filming Street fighter like Roman has now.
 
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