Board 8 > All-Purpose Wrestling Topic Part 504: Death of WWE

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What was the Daniels Kazarian segment?

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Basically, Daniels says he should retire because he can't hang anymore and Kazarian says he doesn't get to go out like that, and the next time they take a loss, they break up SCU.

It's on Britt Baker's normally really shitty segment, but she had next to nothing to do with it.

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Didn't you used to love Britt Baker after her heel turn?

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I did until she did a lot of cringe segments and had her awful never-ending feud with Big Swole. She has that Waiting Room segment on every Dark which is completely terrible until she gives the floor to anyone else.

I want to love Britt Baker more than most, she's a hometown girl. But she's really slipped a lot from her initial heel segments where it seemed more... controlled and clean than what we see now?

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Britt Baker still rules but The Waiting Room isnt great

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AEW: 775K
NXT: 698K

And this is after AEW aired later cause of an NBA game

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Sting says he signed with AEW because Khan wants him to do cinematic matches.

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Someone pointed out all the "murders" committed in WWE this year:

• AJ Styles was buried alive in a boneyard
• John Cena was erased from existence in a Firefly Fun House
• Rey Mysterio and Aleister Black were tossed off the roof of WWE headquarters
• Braun Strowman drowned in a swamp
• Akira Tozawa was eaten by a shark in the ocean
• The Fiend was burned to death in a Firefly Inferno Match.

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Smackdown did a 4.1 rating in its first hour and a 2.6 in its second.

I like how they had an amazing lead-in and then proceeded to still hemorrhage 1.5 million viewers.

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Speaking of bad things that happened to people in WWE this year, how long did Rey have to sell losing an eyeball?
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The weirdest example of long term WWE continuity.

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Also there were literal zombies on NXT right?
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They ate Cameron Grimes!

Then again there's also a literal zombie challenging for the AEW Women's Championship.

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Welp, this is what WWE is doing with former Twitch Streamers:

https://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2020/12/26/22200778/wwe-superstar-gaming-series-dec-29-2020-twitch-ban-ronda-rousey

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Lmao fuck this company. Wow.

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What I really don't get is why Ronda is doing this?

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To get paid, probably a lot of money, to help promote WWE's shitty attempt to cash in on video game streaming like the fucking vultures they are.

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Ryback: the world will be a better place when Vince McMahon is dead.

Also Ryback:
https://twitter.com/Ryback/status/1342665374983077889?s=19

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...I feel like you misread this tweet.

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What's to misread?

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Usually the "Also:" meme implies hypocrisy.

Ryback is saying he wishes Vince the best health so he can live long enough to see him win their legal battle, meaning he still thinks he should probably die.

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Ryback has a lawsuit against Vince?

Also I mean Ryback already walked back his comments once before.

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Yes, for legal rights of the name "Ryback" if I remember right, since he legally changed his name to Ryback and WWE is trying to keep him from using it still.

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Apparently he wants his entire career erased from WWE.

I mean, good luck with that.

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man wtf

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Fuck, that's awful. RIP

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Oh my god what? He was just on the AEW podcast talking about getting ready to get back in the ring. What in the world happened?

This is so sad, because he was such an incredible, kind guy. I am absolutely floored right now.

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https://twitter.com/THEhardest_pod/status/1343011740590727170

Statement from his wife. Non-Covid related lung issue :(

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oh jesus, wtf

that sucks so much
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Jesus Christ, that's completely out of left field.

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XIII_rocks posted...

oh jesus, wtf

that sucks so much

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RIP Luke Harper this one hits hard

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RIP to him, my condolences. This one sucks.

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RIP Brodie.

Only ever heard good things about him.

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I shan't be defending the latest Bruce Mitchell article
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goodness

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You know, I wanted to talk about the way Brodie was treated in WWE (not as in booking, but his contract issues), but it's just not the time to do so, and he was such an incredible guy who was beloved by quite literally every single person who he had any interaction with, and all of these people point out how much he loved his family, and we should take some time to just appreciate and respect that.

But this piece of shit just straight up makes a shitty clickbait article the day after he dies to ask questions about the circumstances of his death. Like this dude just needs to fuck right off. Shameful they allowed this to be published.

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I mean, I cant say I didnt have the exact same thought process.

But his wife has no reason to cover it up, was my conclusion. If it WAS COVID and the company asked her to lie, the subsequent lawsuits would probably be worth more than shell be getting as it stands

If she hadnt said anything, and the word that it was a non-COVID-related lung issue came from TK or the EVPs, I wouldnt trust that.
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also maybe have some actual evidence, or wait a couple days, or ideally both, before jumping in with the conspiracies

I'm not a huge fan of how any wrestling company has been handling things but that is a big scumball move

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I will say the part about Ive never heard of a healthy person dying so suddenly from any other lung issue is the most idiotic part and I did not have THAT thought process. Thats just ignorant.
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He did tie it to every other sport and the close call we had last week with that Florida basketballer. Everyone is to some extent playing roulette.

The question "was Brodies death covid related" is a valid one. Even in the context that he brings up where Brodie perhaps had covid, damaged his lungs, and then succumbed to complications related to that. That said Bruce...the column wouldve kept til Thursday.

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Yeah he doesnt seem to realize that there are simple, valid explanations for all of his questions and thinks there MUST be something else going on
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Remember when Chris Bosh suddenly went from being an NBA All-Star to having all sorts of blood-clotting issues within a couple weeks?

Healthy people do suddenly get very badly sick all the time.

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WWE has trademarked Hardy Bros for a potential Riddle/Jeff team

Credit where its due
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My dad had just seen the doctor before his heart attack. Everything looked good.

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Steiner posted...

I shan't be defending the latest Bruce Mitchell article

Yeah but you should at least share it

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I was running 5 minutes miles and was a competent long distance runner as a teenager. My collapsed lungs happened abruptly and without warning even though the cause was a gradual build up. I was 20 at the time and healthy and required 2 separate bouts of lung surgery and a 16 day stay in hospital

Lung issues can happen in healthy people suddenly. And in this case, it doesn't even sound like it was suddenly, we just didn't know about it.

I can't believe you had Covid as a teenager.

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Jakyl25 posted...

WWE has trademarked Hardy Bros for a potential Riddle/Jeff team

Credit where its due

I mean it's not a potential team. It's literally happening right now. I think they just lost to the Hurt Business or something.

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