AONO.

I suppose they changed it because they want to brand it and secure it, the things is, he has pretty good legacy already... how do you even explain this? a name change out of the blue... then agan it's WWE lol but seriuosly no ideas less goofy than GUNTHER?

Hit Row is/was corny from the start. I was waiting for a gimmick like that or something, it's needed, but the implementation is... eh. A lot of times it just comes off as awkward. But then again, musician gimmick are always weird. I mean, Swerve just suddenly became a rapper or Adonis a producer, or... whatever. But they are not really musicians, they are wrestlers? Why are they fighting? Are they actually making any music?

I get that they wanted to take a different direction, fresh look and whatnot but this reset is just random. Definetely regressed in terms of presentation. Why not hold on to CWC name? Why the look of a small studio show with the bright lights showing everything and tearing down the evolution of NXT? I mean get it, but it's shitty. Of all the things that needed a hard reset NXT wasn't it lol. Tweaking, sure, but idk. It was fun to watch NXT as it grew and constantly evolve, but this is just another thing that makes sense for the factory but little for consumer. It's not fun. It would be interesting to see HHHs perspective on all this. He is a company man, sure, and he pribably sees things in this as good too, but this feels like they wanted to put him in his place and tell him that he went too far with his vision.

no need to have it closer to Mania. but the problem is it came out of the blue, especially when he was never even on RAW untill now lol and Randy "politicking" his way to have the shot earlier made no sense either. it's sad they have to scramble like this, but they have done it for the gazillionth time already anyway

Creed brothers looking good. Fan of them starting like this with the simplest of presentations.

Jinder Mahal though

Coles promo is at the top in the whole company right now. You can feel the intensity and how he believes what he is saying.

repackaging, lmao yeah Cole is out and AEW bound for sure. such a freaking shame.

realeasing Bronson Reed is beyond puzzling. what the hell are you trying to achieve with that?

budget cuts on a character they were looking to make merch on every thing possible lol and it sold. end to end the gimmick on the note that it did, embarassing.

no idea where was it on this forum or somewhere but I think I read that dude from Rancid is gonna do her theme song.

the clause is complete bullshit when you are released out of nowhere, budget cuts or whatever kind of circuimstance you had no part with. I can understand if a wrestler quits or something like that. but to get fired like that and then have a rule you can't work? lmao. yeah, *Censored* off. that should be ilegal, end off.

that's a pretty convincing statement... but then I was in the camp of doubting the allegatiions. though the frst part is a bit weird... like, you wanted to stay true to your character and edginess of it as in risking alledging yourself as a sexual predator? I mean, get what he was saying, but it's a bit weird. and it may sound stupid and weird (maybe the wrong words), but what he was writting kinda also follows my logic about what possibly was going on, especially around Josh Fuller. he shared a lot of specific information and details too. IF all this is true... that it's majorly *censored*ed up. even though it may not be directly the reason for his release, I can see it influencing his attitude towards everything and his rumored unprofessional behaviour. in wrestling terms, he was and is still very young. and if all this is true, they all pretty much *censored*ed up due to not wanting to deal with a touchy subject like this due to "bad PR" and everything. in terms of, yes, Patrick Clark was being naive or however you want to call it, but a good employer especially if you see him as someone who would bring you money down the line... you stick by him and try to clear up the mess and not tippy toe around it. why? because wrestling fans are idiots and it would create just more controversy which you don't want to deal with it? Yes HHH was trying to be clear, but it was still brushing away with it and hoping it will go away for some reason, which was impossible. and they were obviously convinced he hasn't done anything wrong in that case. people wanted Dream to be fired due to allegations which weren't proven, and obviously couldn't have been. WWE did not have grounds to fire him due to that reason, would probably even risk a lawsuit down the line.

shithousery around the Super League talk. as a Liverpool fan whose club would be one of the front runners of the whole ordeal, it's *censored*ing disgusting.

not sure why are you saying "budget cuts" is a BS reason and saying "we have no use for you" somehow makes it better. they are not mutually exclusive. paying up bonuses while making budget cuts is just in line with their policy. and most big companies/corporations. it's shitty, don't get me wrong, but hardly a surprise. if they have no plan on using Bllie Kay and Peyton Royce for example, it makes they would axe them. Or any person on that list. However, it's BS that they can't see that Samoa Joe is a talent worth keeping for example. Unless he wanted to go too.

My conclusion is that most people actually have no clue on how and why things are happening with China. An alt-right narrative is that USA is doing nothing about Chinas Uyghur situation, but Trump actually did? lol. Yeah he didn't. He did start a trade war though. Tbh, USAs foreign policy is much more complicated to look at than just by the factor of which administration is in power. There are levels to it that go beyond presidency.

well due to how much he has been stagnating since coming from NXT... wouldn't surprise me.

lmao, out of all the people...

I mean, I get how it looks bad when somebody is doing it very visibly, but to bann it all together is just so... dumb. Just retire already old man ffs

I try te refrain myself from using that term, but... that whole list is just super cringe.

the issue with that's true lol, but it is a tricky one. while it has to do with the US fearing of losing it's military presence in that region... China actually can't just claim the waters as their own. various countries lay claim to it's parts, some more than others. China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Phillipines... China obviously has the the largest military in the region so also letting them just claim it as their own, would be dangerous in the military sense, but it would also disrupt free trade with other countries, which have enormous value. That said, the geostrategic importance of that is pretty big. Now, it's also worth noting that there are Sea Conventions Laws by the UN that were established by which the teritorial boundaries are set 12 miles offshore, exclusive economic zones up to 200 miles offshore. And that's why China is literally creating islands so they would expand those borders. So yeah... it's not an easy one lol

yeah, they can just *Censored* off with that "it's soft now" bs. their definition of "tough men" is *censored*ed up.

Thing is though, GOP didn't just suddenly realise "how bad Trump is". He was always a useful idiot. It was always going to pan out like this. And the worst thing is actually that, even if his fanbase "turns on him", a more serious politician with right wing authoritarian ideology will swoop in. Because the sentiment is there, the populist rhetoric will again work, and you have another antagonistic figure in Trump. Or you can paint him as a "failure" at the very least. Racists were emboldened, that won't suddenly go away.

WHAT.THE.*Censored*

the thing is nobody will take him. Putin was never his "friend", they were always just using him. Yet he thought he was so smart. Hillary was literally talking about a war with Russia duing her campaign, why not support and try to get into power a guy that finds your views and way of doing things good? Hell, even guys like McConnell, Graham, Barr, Pompeo... they alled jumped ship as soon as they saw there is no legal way out. And on the world stage, Trump doesn't have a supporter left. Because who would risk even a penny for a guy like him? That's the thing, he never was a part of any of it really. He was never part of the New York elite circle, nor the UA, nor the world. Sure his money got him into places, but he was never one of them. Hence one if his many fixations. All in all, the ideas behind all of it, like you have said in other posts is his legacy, and that's the scary and most difficult thing to contain. It was always evident he was used to bring those populist, nationalist and white supremacy shit to light.