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Vince is near the end of his life. Any wrong doing he's mostly done is going to go largely unpunished at this stage in his life.
Accusations and all before court of law so innocent until proven guilty but I truly believe he likely did what is alleged here. Most of the skeletons in his closet have eked out throughout the years, one of the biggest being the cover up for Snuka.
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LOLOLOL RIP Brock Lesnar's career. Sable gonna whoop his ass after hearing the news.
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"No chance, that's what he's got..." sorry, old music stuck in my head.
Trollhunter
Do you guys think they’ll still do the post Rumble presser? And if so, will any of the reporters be brave enough to ask about this?
It obviously wouldn’t be Satin…but any of the others.
I’m not sure. If I’m LBE Khan or Paul, nothing good would come of having the press conference but both are so egomaniacs soooo maybe they aren’t sweating it. Ari Emmanuel gave zero fucks when the video of Dana smacking his wife leaked.
Captain Rustleboots
Vince resigned. Good riddance.
Captain Rustleboots
Roman’s title reign went from top 5 in WWE history to bottom 5 in the last year. It’s so boring bro.
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I agree. It's time he finally loses the title. His matches aren't even fun to watch anymore because they rely SO heavily on Roman retaining via interference from Solo or Jimmy. The whole Bloodline angle in general has gone from being on the best ever to one of the most forgettable ever. Roman really should have dropped the belt last year at Mania while that story was at its peak. COMPLETELY squandered something wonderful.Originally Posted by tony.parente
Trollhunter
I dissent but regardless, Cody should’ve beaten him last year. Nothing would be different and Roman doesn’t need the title to face The Rock or do any of the dumb long drawn out Bloodline implosion stuff.
Also, I am once again making another “Fuck Paul” post because fuck him, that was weaker sauce than TK addressing Jericho which was pretty fucking weak as well. What a great week WWE had…he knew. It seems an awful lot like Stephanie knew too and had some courage and left. Not Paul, though.
I sincerely hope we hear more from all this. If it ends with Vince resigning, I don’t think that’s enough. You have to go full Man On Fire here—everyone that was involved, knew and/or profited needs to go.
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HHH repeatedly saying "WWE had a great week" as his answer to any Vince question was a really wild level of active gaslighting in real time. LOL No, Paul, the WWE did NOT have a good week.
Billy Howerdel fanboy
I was more surprised that he didn't just say "TKO and WWE attorneys have told me not to talk about the recent Vince news, so we will not be taking questions about it"
Kinda dumb not to. Felt really gross H saying they had a great week
Captain Rustleboots
I wanna know how a multi billion dollar company doesn't have a canned response for Hunter to mime. That was bonkers man.
House Always Wins
You expected a fictional fighting company to be asked a hard hitting question in a "Press Conference" scrum? I guarantee they never considered it because they doubt they would've went off script and asked it. That's why he had no answer.
Billy Howerdel fanboy
I get this but in fairness to that point Cody was asked about it 15 minutes before H, he had to know it was coming
Captain Rustleboots
They've been asked about Vince the last 3-4 scrums. They knew they were gonna get asked about it.
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Not only that, but Cody put HHH to shame with a more articulated answer...
This aged, well:
Captain Rustleboots
Looks like fragile phil got injured in his 20 minutes in the rumble. what a wet fart.
House Always Wins
CM Punk was injured in just his third WWE match back, his first televised, at this past Saturday’s Royal Rumble PLE, where he worked the Men’s Royal Rumble Match.
Punk made it to the final two, where he battled Cody Rhodes, the two top favorites, to win the match and go on to headline WrestleMania 40 for a title of their choosing. Rhodes went over where he is expected to challenge Roman Reigns for the Undisputed Universal Title, while Punk is expected to challenge Seth Rollins for the World Title.
Dave Meltzer reported today suffered a significant injury during the Royal Rumble match. Meltzer noted, “His exact injury was unconfirmed by those in WWE past confirming the injury.” The plan is for him to address the nature of the injury on tonight’s Raw. The speculation within WWE is that it's a torn triceps, but no one would confirm it.
Meltzer added, “There was a spot in the Rumble where the referee checked on Punk, and he told the ref, "My triceps." It was said that it happened late in the match after taking a future shock DDT from Drew McIntyre.
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I got back into wrestling around 2013. I missed peak Punk (circa 2012), but was highly intrigued after listening to his AoW interview with Cabana around that time.
Now, having witnessed his return(s) and subsequent failure(s) to do anything but talk a good game, I'm really struggling to find the allure. Hell, even in the YouTube clip where he's "coaching" some NXT cats a few days ago, he sounded like he was going through the motions, passing off sage advice like 'do what others AREN'T doing', etc.
Just seems like the industry left him behind and he refuses to do the work to even be passable between the ropes.
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If he was injured by Drew, then that was before he and Cody virtually had a singles match as the final two in the Rumble. Couple that with taking hits from Drew last night on Raw and this tells me that he's bound and determined to make a comeback. Fragile Phil? More like older Phil, which sucks, but that comes with the territory of getting older in a very physical industry.
Back to Vince - the news made the big news of the Netflix deal and Rocky getting added to the BOD of TKO a wash. Paul has to be ready for those questions, though, his answers also screamed "this is what the lawyers told me I could say because even if he wasn't my father in law, I probably knew that this stuff was going on just like Steph did and I need to cover my ass now and let the legal process play out." Or something like that. Either way, he was about as convincing as when he dead-ass lied to Julie Hart after the Montreal Screwjob, and that shit has been on tape for decades now.
I think Paul has good ideas and seems to be wanting to turn the corner from Vince, but he's gonna have to understand that his hands are just as much dirty in this mess and there's going to be some atoning for it.
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Phil sucks, plain and simple. What injury is this in the last year and a half? Number three? If there ever was a sign that you're doneso and to just give it the fuck up, this is it. Seeing Phil get all teary eyed about not headlining Wrestlemania after ten years of him talking mad shit on WWE was both pathetic and hilarious at the same time. Best in the world.... LOLOLOL
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The promo he cut Monday was solid, and pretty self aware in acknowledging his setback is a first world problem variety.
If he does wrestle again, and I feel it's a legitimate if, he needs to get himself into significantly better shape. As much as people want to apologize on the dude's behalf about how ravaged his body is due to his indie days, look at Danielson. Look at Copeland. Both are vets who put their bodies through hell, had to retire due to injury, and then did the fucking work to ensure they could hang with their dance partners. Punk is no different.
Trollhunter
Laughing at/celebrating an injury is a new (but expected) low.
On a different note, I’m not sure what Meltzer/Alvarez/some fans are on about when it comes to House of Black and specifically Malakai. Mathews jobs regularly. Brody has lost a few times. Black lost to Cody, Sting/Darby, PAC, and lost the cage match on Saturday. I think there are other losses too I’m forgetting.
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Captain Rustleboots
Okada is out of NJPW and prowrestlingtees are removing all his stuff today. I want him in wwe so bad but my heart tells me he's going to AEW.
Trollhunter
He’s friends with The Bucks and Kenny.
More importantly, I think, is much like Ospreay, if you don’t want to move to the US, AEW is the place that’ll let you continue to live wherever.
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Cry me a river
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Cut it with this.
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@Leviathant might not be ingrained in pro wrestling, but I am, and this isn't going to turn into an IWC chat room. It's clear that some people here don't like Punk and some people do. What we're going to do is share our opinions respectfully. What we are NOT going to do is turn it into a chest-thumping competition because if this continues, we'll take Pro Wrestling away from the board. Plain and simple. So knock it off.
Trollhunter
Gypsy Rose Blanchard hanging out with Ricky Starks at Dynamite in NOLA was not on my radar but I love it.
https://x.com/starkmanjones/status/1...OOkEVTLzcVGEMQ
Captain Rustleboots
I think if he wants more exposure he'll go to WWE, Meltzer is saying AEW has the higher offer though so i guess we'll see. AEW needs him more than WWE does.
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