WWE 2022: Future Endeavors

can i just say i absolutely hate wwe lighting

i havent actually watched any of this because the idea of giving money to these ghouls

with that said, looks from Twitter vids as though the crowd was hot and everyone, fans and performers, was having lots of fun, so that's a huge step up from the last few years

otoh by doing the Stone Cold comeback and having him & Vince do the thing, they've burned the last and biggest nostalgia pop they had

next year for the Roman / Rock Hollywood showdown and then there's nowhere left to go

I'm excited for this, but I feel like this means that Ikemen Jiro is dead in the water.

Fightful has confirmed that Kushida has left WWE

We'll have details as we learn them on https://t.co/jy8u4a7WDa. pic.twitter.com/CYaMQxmT2u

— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) April 19, 2022

OH YESSSSSSSS

Spoiler, but

✨Unlocked new skills✨

“Nose Flick” pic.twitter.com/ttpsnmh1Eg

— ASUKA / 明日華 (@WWEAsuka) April 26, 2022

Lmao

as y'all know i spend literally none of my time paying attention to wwe but i had to share this nxt clip

dear lord pic.twitter.com/2NjC0oDKBf

— WWE Botches (@WWE_Fails) April 27, 2022

Yeah, I feel weird about how they actually televise those sorts of matches. You would think that they would tighten all of that up before letting them go in front of a live crowd.

Also, devastated by this latest batch of NXT releases, but I'm happy for those who didn't want to re-sign. These two hurt me the most, though. Love them so much.

Dakota Kai and Malcolm Bivens have been released by WWE, per @SeanRossSapp pic.twitter.com/ZityH1u4mB

— B/R Wrestling (@BRWrestling) April 29, 2022

gross, hope this company dies

Absolutely fucking disgusting, hope this company dies

Can we just bin this thread now

Ideally the subforum would be renamed but it hardly seems worth the effort

None of this is surprising of course. Vince McMahon and his various cronies have always been a gang of rapey creeps and it’s amazing that it’s taken this long for them to even brush up against metoo in a meaningful way

Sasha Banks released. cross one more off the list of the half dozen people on the WWE roster i still remotely care about or have any interest in

i wonder if she'll turn up in AEW or if she's gonna devote her attention to acting

never understood why they didn't bet the house on her, she's incredible. Bayley vs Banks summer 2015 was a big deal for me personally, that was the first women's match i remember seeing in the moment (as opposed to the odd 90s Joshi thing) where in the moment i was just totally blown away

should really proof my posts

only saw a headline or two before the reactions in here. after trying to read a bit about what's going on.... I'm mystified as to how this means anything at all to fans who've already stuck with this company so long.

just amazing restraint he didn't cut a promo on the woman on Smackdown

LMAO

Wonder what the next big story to come out is?

How long until his non-compete is up and he’s officially ALL ELITE?

Fitting thread title

Reports saying Dunn is next. Maybe WWE could become watchable again in a couple years!

Trips has taken over creative. They continue making decisions like this, I’m gonna have to eventually start watching again.

tempering expectations

1. vince might still be running things from the shadows
2. even when kevin dunn gets fired they probably aren't going to abandon the overall garish eye-vomit presentation of the main roster
3. last time trips tried to run a promotion for actual tv ratings it kind of sucked

Very interesting to see the sort of revitalization of this company under the Hunter (Hearst) Helm(sley). Not sure if it is so spectacular now or if it's been so disappointing for a while that even small changes feel like a big deal.

From what I hear, Sami’s rise as a lovable clown is going very well. The rest just seems like an ongoing roster shakeup, with a million people returning (the good brothers? Seriously? These guys are 2022s x Pac heat)

I still can’t take the place too seriously though. If Sami is being built like this, it’s a real damn shame to know they can’t do anything with him, as they have the rock pencilled in to defeat reigns/bloodline. So it just makes Zayn look like a geek, instead of getting the DBry/Kofi WM treatment.

I've always been a huge Sami Zayn mark, so I'm glad that he's getting more time to shine, but totally know that this won't go much further than what it already is. Man is just so good that he makes anything they give him work.

cannot recommend the latest Reigns/USO/Zayn boil-up. Sami’s facial reactions during the entire thing were killing me.

What a king.

UCEY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS pic.twitter.com/nmaesS3Oqn

— Sami Zayn (@SamiZayn) November 19, 2022