Board 8 > All-Purpose No Wrestling Topic 496: What is Gronk

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ShatteredElysium
04/15/20 3:49:23 PM
#402:


No Way Jose too. Which seems like a dick move after he flew in for RAW Monday
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Jakyl25
04/15/20 4:05:33 PM
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Jakyl25
04/15/20 4:06:25 PM
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bryans7
04/15/20 4:23:39 PM
#405:


Rusev is gone.

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paulg235
04/15/20 4:25:04 PM
#406:


ShatteredElysium posted...
Zack Ryder gone
Really hope he's one of he ones that gets hired by AEW in the future. Dude got so screwed over during the past decade.

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PrivateBiscuit1
04/15/20 4:52:12 PM
#407:


So in WWE's statement today they're bragging about having $500 million in reserves, but they're also saying they are making $4 million in cuts today. So they can afford to pay everyone they're letting go 13 times over, assuming that they're making no money, which isn't the case at all.

Put smiles on people's faces, unless they work for you, and those people are your shareholders.

Keep in mind they ONLY have $500 million in reserves because of a senile old man's vanity project to recreate his failed minor league football company.

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Strife2
04/15/20 5:07:09 PM
#408:


"Stop supporting WWE."

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TheRock1525
04/15/20 5:13:58 PM
#409:


Wait Rowan was released?

Can we get a Bludgeon Brothers Reunion?

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ZeroSignal620
04/15/20 5:25:03 PM
#410:


Drew killed both Rowan AND his fake mechanical spider.

Impressive.

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Steiner
04/15/20 5:57:39 PM
#411:


Strife2 posted...
"Stop supporting WWE."

oh am i allowed to do this again

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Strife2
04/15/20 6:11:46 PM
#412:


Who said you weren't? I saw someone do it a few month ago (Biscuit? Eddv? Someone did, so I'm just bandwagoning).

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PrivateBiscuit1
04/15/20 6:21:52 PM
#413:


I don't care if you just claim to watch NXT, you only want to watch for Royal Rumble or Wrestlemania, or whatever wrestler you claim to want to support by watching, if you are still watching WWE, you are helping a despicable company that does not give a shit about a single person who works for them, and you are continuing to justify them doing horrible things.

Don't watch or support WWE in any way. This is deplorable.

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Tom Bombadil
04/15/20 6:24:22 PM
#414:


yarr harr fiddle de dee

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StealThisSheen
04/15/20 6:27:15 PM
#415:


If people are fine with everything else they do, why would this of all things stop them? WWE releases people every year. Hell, often times it's encouraged with people saying things like "They have too many people," or "So and so would be better off somewhere else."

I'm confused why this would be the breaking point for anybody where nothing else before was

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Eddv
04/15/20 6:32:50 PM
#416:


Steiner posted...
oh am i allowed to do this again

Oh am I allowed to do this again?

Or is Raw still "pretty good lately" and Drew McIntyre push "worth it"

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Strife2
04/15/20 7:03:49 PM
#417:


This wasn't my breaking point (1-2 elation into nutpunch of McIntyre winning RR, just for Fiend to job to FUCKING GOLDBERG was), but it's easy to see WWE has been a poisonous cesspool of a company for a long time. I've just always "followed" it by proxy, and still do, but with less and less care. It doesn't seem to matter what talent they have, what good matches and storylines they DO make (yes, they do). The overriding feeling of, "WWE hates the fans and what they want, thinks they are stupid, and treat their wrestlers the same way, if not worse." is just pervasive.

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PrivateBiscuit1
04/15/20 7:08:14 PM
#418:


StealThisSheen posted...
If people are fine with everything else they do, why would this of all things stop them? WWE releases people every year. Hell, often times it's encouraged with people saying things like "They have too many people," or "So and so would be better off somewhere else."

I'm confused why this would be the breaking point for anybody where nothing else before was
Because a lot of these people were looking to have job security, including those who aren't wrestlers, and they got released not because the company is hurting, when they have $500,000 in reserves and are letting people go from their jobs that amount to exactly 1/20,000 of that number so they can appease their stockholders.

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StealThisSheen
04/15/20 7:43:37 PM
#419:


I get that, and I don't disagree

But, uh, look around right now

Businesses suck, more at 11

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GTM
04/15/20 7:53:04 PM
#420:


Heard wwe releasing people to save money. So they finally released brock eh?

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Jakyl25
04/15/20 7:53:35 PM
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TheRock1525
04/15/20 7:58:30 PM
#422:


Rollins said something?

Last tweet I see is him talking about being Sephiroth.

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FFDragon
04/15/20 7:59:08 PM
#423:


He was on like Instagram live

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TheRock1525
04/15/20 7:59:28 PM
#424:


GTM posted...
Heard wwe releasing people to save money. So they finally released brock eh?

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They kinda are! They don't plan on paying for anymore appearances until they're back to live crowds.

Which we'll see if that holds.

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Jakyl25
04/15/20 8:01:32 PM
#425:


FFDragon posted...
He was on like Instagram live


Yeah he was saying you shouldnt be mad at WWE because it was hard for them too
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FFDragon
04/15/20 8:03:01 PM
#426:


Jakyl25 posted...
Yeah he was saying you shouldnt be mad at WWE because it was hard for them too

lmao

Vince probably lives for these days.

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Strife2
04/15/20 8:04:08 PM
#427:


Jakyl25 posted...
Yeah he was saying you shouldnt be mad at WWE because it was hard for them too

I remember a quote once that seems appropriate to this. "Do you feel anything when you burn your garbage?"

Because oof.

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Jakyl25
04/15/20 8:14:55 PM
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StealThisSheen
04/15/20 8:17:29 PM
#429:


Just to be clear, I'm not defending WWE at all, they suck.

I'm just saying this instance probably isn't going to convince people of that if they weren't already convinced because it's not really a uniquely WWE shitty thing to do. It's happening all over.

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ffmasterjose
04/15/20 9:08:21 PM
#430:


Mojo survived the slaughter. LOL.
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ZeroSignal620
04/15/20 9:34:47 PM
#431:


ffmasterjose posted...
Mojo survived the slaughter. LOL.

It pays to link up with Gronk

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TheRock1525
04/15/20 10:24:28 PM
#432:


So to top of this shitty day, someone thought it was a good idea to have Moxley and Hager wrestle for 35 minutes.

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PrivateBiscuit1
04/15/20 10:36:01 PM
#433:


That is the most definitive TheRock post I've ever seen.

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StealThisSheen
04/15/20 10:45:07 PM
#434:


To be fair, he's right. It was just not a good match at all.

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TheRock1525
04/15/20 10:49:24 PM
#435:


StealThisSheen posted...
To be fair, he's right. It was just not a good match at all.
And I'm a huge Moxley fan, too!

But it was basically Edge/Orton all over again.

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TheRock1525
04/15/20 10:54:50 PM
#436:


Actually I stand corrected.

The worst part about today is Killer Kross' WWE name.

https://twitter.com/FightfulWrestle/status/1250610747308154880?s=19

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scarletspeed7
04/15/20 10:58:45 PM
#437:


TheRock1525 posted...
The worst part about today is Killer Kross' WWE name.
Actually the worst part about today is that many people have lost their jobs. Could be wrong.

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PrivateBiscuit1
04/15/20 11:09:09 PM
#438:


"WWE is doing some truly heinous shit and a lot of lives were just entirely fucked over that didn't need to be, but whoo boy that AEW match though."

Like I haven't watched the match, and I don't care if anyone thinks it sucks or not, but Christ.

Edit: To clarify because I'm sure it will get twisted. Criticize the match all you want, but don't conflate it with people losing their jobs and a company doing scummy shit.

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Tom Bombadil
04/15/20 11:26:46 PM
#439:


I don't think anybody said a match was worse than all the firings, if you look at his wording

he did say that about some dude's new name but I am about 99% sure that was a joke

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TheRock1525
04/16/20 12:52:58 AM
#440:


PrivateBiscuit1 posted...
"WWE is doing some truly heinous shit and a lot of lives were just entirely fucked over that didn't need to be, but whoo boy that AEW match though."

Like I haven't watched the match, and I don't care if anyone thinks it sucks or not, but Christ.

Edit: To clarify because I'm sure it will get twisted. Criticize the match all you want, but don't conflate it with people losing their jobs and a company doing scummy shit.
Someone who defends Vic Mignogna's sexual harassment doesn't get to claim the moral high ground on a clear joke.

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PrivateBiscuit1
04/16/20 12:55:36 AM
#441:


TheRock1525 posted...
Someone who defends Vic Mignogna's sexual harassment doesn't get to claim the moral high ground on a clear joke.
Bruh. lol

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TheRock1525
04/16/20 1:02:00 AM
#442:


Like it sucks for Rusev, but it also sucks for the 16 million other people who are also filing for unemployment right now, too. And the vast majority of them probably didn't have paychecks near what he got. For better or worse he's probably better equipped to handle it than most, not to mention his wife is still employed and collecting checks.

It sucks and it was a shitty thing for WWE to do, but the level of indignation for this seems faker than the business itself.

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PrivateBiscuit1
04/16/20 1:05:25 AM
#443:


TheRock1525 posted...
Like it sucks for Rusev, but it also sucks for the 16 million other people who are also filing for unemployment right now, too. And the vast majority of them probably didn't have paychecks near what he got. For better or worse he's probably better equipped to handle it than most, not to mention his wife is still employed and collecting checks.

It sucks and it was a shitty thing for WWE to do, but the level of indignation for this seems faker than the business itself.
Bruh. lol

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TheRock1525
04/16/20 1:08:01 AM
#444:


Apparently most of the releases were mutually agreed upon with massive payoffs, according to Voices of Wrestling. And that NXT releases are given 30 days pay.

But sure type "bruh. lol" again like a massive chud.

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PrivateBiscuit1
04/16/20 1:09:35 AM
#445:


You don't deserve much more than that though.

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TheRock1525
04/16/20 1:13:42 AM
#446:


Also for independent contractors, they qualify for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance which qualifies for 39 weeks.

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Steiner
04/16/20 3:49:51 AM
#447:


I am extremely happy for Rusev, a guy who has been trying to get his release for the better part of a year and managed to not only get his release, but also a big payoff.

I am, however, devastated for Drake Maverick, Curt Hawkins, Heath Slater, Eric Young, EC3, Lio Rush, Aiden English, Sarah Logan, No Way Jose, Zack Ryder, and Deonna Purazzo

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Whiskey_Nick
04/16/20 10:19:27 AM
#448:


https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1250790077854334981

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Strife2
04/16/20 10:21:03 AM
#449:


Fuck. Best announcer ever.

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Pikazard1
04/16/20 10:48:05 AM
#450:


this is quite sad and unfortunate, he will be sorely missed

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bryans7
04/16/20 12:30:09 PM
#451:


I'm old so Finkel was the guy for me.

Fink on the mic, Mean Gene in the back, Gorilla and Heenan behind the desk. That's wrestling.

RIP

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