Monthly News Thread (February 2019)

[Kimi]

I think Money in the Bank is a bit too wacky for NXT. Part of what make NXT so good is that their main championship is always strong, subjecting it to a cash in every year would weaken it. Especially when you have such a low number of title matches in a year with so few Takeovers and 1 hour weekly shows.


Ignoring that, I like the idea of an NXT match on some of the PPVs. I just can't see it happening. They already have shows that are far too long, with far too many titles and massive rosters, so instead of replacing a match with an NXT one I'd just remove the match all together.

But if they did a Clash of Champions or Night of Champions PPV, I think you could involve NXT somehow. I'd only do it if the match up made sense. Like I wouldn't feed Cole to Lesnar or Strowman, it would have to be against someone like Bryan. Nor would I wouldn't to have NXT's booking dictated by the main roster.

 

[Disclose]

i dont know. just maybe do the 6-men NA title again.... not a fan of yearly gimmick stuff and i dont want them doing the main roster thing. its the reason nxt is fun.

 

[ColePens]

Not news but I was thinking, how cool would it be if they made an NXT MITB and had the match at MITB? The build would be on NXT, and it would be like a spotlight match each year

ohhh and what if the MITB case wasn't for a title shot, but for a call up.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

ohhh and what if the MITB case wasn't for a title shot, but for a call up.

I think the winner of that match is actually the loser in that case.

 

[Maffew]

More and more "news" is all a work now. I don't believe too much I read from WWE-related sources anymore.

 

[Cor]

Rey Fenix and Pentagon have agreed to sign with AEW.

WWE were also interested.

 

[GKJ]

Rey Fenix and Pentagon have agreed to sign with AEW.

WWE were also interested.

That one is a kick in the nuts to WWE.

 

[M.C.G. 31]

WWE management are reportedly quite disappointed in audience reactions for Elias that aren’t translating to popularity beyond WWE events.

Apparently, there’s concern he doesn’t have the charisma that was hoped for and he may end up like another Cesaro.

This is coming from a dude who works with PWTorch.

 

[Fro]

Unreal

 

[Disclose]

Guy has killer lines but same crap over and over.
Didn’t like him in nxt and never liked him in the main roster.... wrestling or promo wise, I think he sucks.

(I enjoyed the fake documentary and the NOLA show at some bar.. if we’re talking beyond the ring)

 

[M.C.G. 31]

As for Dean Ambrose, the media and/or shareholders asked the company about it, and the WWE felt they had a fiduciary duty to put out a statement and get ahead of the narrative in the process, according to Keller.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Well turning him face sure wasn’t going to help.

 

[ColePens]

WWE management are reportedly quite disappointed in audience reactions for Elias that aren’t translating to popularity beyond WWE events.

Apparently, there’s concern he doesn’t have the charisma that was hoped for and he may end up like another Cesaro.

This is coming from a dude who works with PWTorch.

I am not sure I understand this one? He gets reactions every single time and he's a decent wrestler, nothing crazy. He has not been given one single storyline that I can recall with any type of depth to it. He doesn't have to be the guitar player every single night. He can just be Elias and be cool.

Give him a story with some substance. Let's see what happens. I do not understand WWE at all on this one.

 

[Cor]

AJ Styles says on Twitter he hasn’t signed a new deal with WWE yet.

It expires after Wrestlemania of this Year.

There’s still no word on Nakamura’s contract, which expires the same time, of the Good Bro’s whose contracts have been said to expire anytime between after Mania to September 2019

 

[M.C.G. 31]

Styles is so going to get the Shawn Michaels deal with a 7-figure downside guarantee to prevent him from jumping to AEW. No doubt.

Imagine he did leave and AEW got Ambrose AND Styles? f***.

 

[Cor]

Styles is so going to get the Shawn Michaels deal with a 7-figure downside guarantee to prevent him from jumping to AEW. No doubt.

Imagine he did leave and AEW got Ambrose AND Styles? ****.

I think with Styles it’s more the schedule than money.

Issue is, WWE now essentially needs to give Styles both money AND the type of schedule he wants, because AEW is willing to, and you’re now losing Ambrose and it appears he’ll end up in AEW at some point.

Itd be interesting to see what happens if Styles leaves. Imagine WWE losing the face of SmackDown and one of the key guys in RAW at the same time?

It would force WWE to elevate some people or bring up top guys from NXT and actually push them. So it’d be interesting to see how that would play out

 

[Cor]

Apparently WWE had two plans for Lars Sullivan

- A Rumble spot with Cena, which would lead to a Mania match
- Becoming apart of Bryan’s new stable.

When suspicion that Lars anxiety was a rouse started, Bryan apparently requested Rowan be put into the spot as his muscle instead, and WWE obviously agreed.

There seems to be some doubt about Sullivan’s status now

 

[GKJ]

There was some weird rumor that it’s a cover for his tweets in the past, though I think that was a reddit thing and not something confirmed.

Becky was not at the house show in Vancouver which seems to have people upset for obvious reasons as she was advertised.

 

[Scott Stevens]

There was some weird rumor that it’s a cover for his tweets in the past, though I think that was a reddit thing and not something confirmed.

Becky was not at the house show in Vancouver which seems to have people upset for obvious reasons as she was advertised.

I didn’t bother going to the show tonight, and I’m very much at peace with that after hearing the main attraction wasn’t present.

 

[GKJ]

I didn’t bother going to the show tonight, and I’m very much at peace with that after hearing the main attraction wasn’t present.

No AJ Styles on that show either.

And Seth didn't work the Raw show, but he is there.

 

[SeidoN]

going to Smackdown and not getting Becky or AJ is refund worthy

 

[Fro]

I am not sure I understand this one? He gets reactions every single time and he's a decent wrestler, nothing crazy. He has not been given one single storyline that I can recall with any type of depth to it. He doesn't have to be the guitar player every single night. He can just be Elias and be cool.

Give him a story with some substance. Let's see what happens. I do not understand WWE at all on this one.

I generally agree here...they never gave him anything to make the fans give a reaction...they just have him

Has a great look, has a personality, and can somewhat go....should be enough for IC/US midcard

 

[Unholy Diver]

I am not sure I understand this one? He gets reactions every single time and he's a decent wrestler, nothing crazy. He has not been given one single storyline that I can recall with any type of depth to it. He doesn't have to be the guitar player every single night. He can just be Elias and be cool.

Give him a story with some substance. Let's see what happens. I do not understand WWE at all on this one.

Maybe he is getting the vocal reactions but is not selling any merch? Maybe people just like shouting "Walk with Elias"?

 

[Kimi]

No. He shouldn't be good enough for a title. They need to avoid dragging the title down to Elias's level. They should be pushing it up the card and putting it on main event guys instead of lower tier guys who have zero potential at the main event level.

 

[Serac]

Elias is dreadfully boring in the ring (has elevated himself from being unsafe, to being safe but boring).

He only got reactions by using cheap heel heat with his songs, bashing wherever he was.

He's fine as a short term mid-card title placeholder, but nothing more. Still think he'd be better off as a heel manager who sometimes gets a shot at a midcard belt.

Shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as Cesaro though. Talk about criminally underused.