Last thread has well over 10,000 replies. Its body is breaking down like The Undertaker's. Seeing as we might have crossed the threshold into a new era in the business, here's a fresh new thread.
Originally Posted by smithandrew051:
We get to see Jericho vs Juventud this week, right? Excited to see them wrestle again. They were both awesome in ‘97. I’ve heard Juvi can still bring it.
Originally Posted by Mecca:
It got over though...I wasn't the biggest fan but to a lot of people it was over, he sold the most merch at 1 point. Then they fucked it up.
He was doing it in an era where WWE somehow managed to fuck literally everything up.
Bray Wyatt was a lot more over as a basic swamp creature until they fed his entire crew to Cena over and over. [Reply]
Bray Wyatt was released by WWE in what he was told was a "budget cut" on July 31.
Fightful was told that Johnny Ace made the call, and also sent a notification out to shocked WWE talent moments before the news broke online that Wyatt had been released.
The notion of a budget cut immediately surprised those within WWE, as Wyatt is known as being a great merch seller whenever he's actually active. One source indicated that Wyatt was a money maker for the company when that's the case.
In the hour following the release, we're told that Wyatt's name was actually brought up during another recent round of cuts. There have been multiple wrestlers that were discussed, but ended up being held on to. We've seen Observer's report that Wyatt was slated for a return in August, and we can confirm tentative creative plans were in place for him.
Fightful has been told that the creative team had been relayed that Wyatt was getting protective of his character after what were seen as poor creative decisions and ideas thrown his way, though many members of the team didn't speak to Wyatt directly and weren't sure if it was hearsay. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BryanBusby:
He was doing it in an era where WWE somehow managed to **** literally everything up.
Bray Wyatt was a lot more over as a basic swamp creature until they fed his entire crew to Cena over and over.
Yep. WWE really dropped the ball with the Wyatt Family. There was potential there for a dominant heel faction, but it they were never booked to win...and they never gained any traction because of it. [Reply]
CM Punk says he's been talking to Tony Khan for about a year and a half about coming to AEW
CM Punk says a lot of time in talks with AEW, they said the same things at the same times. Said wrestling doesn't need to be as hard as people pretend it needs to be. You don't need 16 cooks in the kitchen
CM Punk says AEW lets people learn from their mistakes, and a generation of wrestlers had been told prior that if they messed up, they were fired
CM Punk said that the roster, and people around AEW not saying anything about Brodie Lee's illness before his passing made a big impression on him
CM Punk: "If (Tony Khan) tells me he wants me to go do the G1, we'll talk about it." Says he wants to swim in the AEW pool for a while [Reply]
