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This is Adam22 we’re talking about here. Don’t be surprised when it comes out that this was just a ploy to get more views. I won’t be shocked to see Lena and Adam doing separate interviews about this, airing out dirty laundry, then making amends in the end. Just watch
Mick Foley feels WWE has lost its magic due to corporate ownership, believes matches from the past will stand the test of time better than current WWE matches:
“What I feel from watching the two shows is that AEW has that little bit of magic and WWE has kind of lost it. I think when you’re part of a corporation and the bottom line is everything, you take away from your mid-card by making it clear that what you’re selling is more important than the product in the ring.
I have young fans who weren’t even born when I was wrestling, and they’ll come up to me and talk to me about matches. Now I can’t prove this, but I wonder if part of the reason younger audiences are drawn to matches from my era is because we called the matches. Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler were locked in on the matches. There weren’t so many things they had to go to that would take people out of that suspension of disbelief.
That’s just a theory on my part, but I think 10, 20 years down the line, the matches that JR called, whether it was with The King or whether it was with Jim Cornette in WCW, they’ll stand the test of time, I think, better than the current matches in WWE because it seems like the matches are a means to an end instead of something to be enjoyed for themselves.
So I just feel like at this point, AEW, the personal ownership shows, and a love and a feeling of magic that I don’t think the corporate ownership of WWE displays nearly as well.”
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Nick Khan claims The Rock was always planned for a tag team match at WrestleMania 40 and that WWE's plans never changed.
“The plan was always how it ended up in Philly two years ago. You want to throw the fans off, you want to let things bake, and then boom, it ends up the way that we wanted it to end up. It never changed. That was just online rumors and gossip that we were changing. It never changed.
We convinced Dwayne Johnson to come back. He’s on our board of directors. It was a Tag Team Match. He’s about the same age I am, so two years ago, let’s say he was 50. He was obviously in phenomenal shape. He did everything that we asked of him and then some. But that was always the result we were looking for.”
(@SBJ)
Nick Khan claims WWE will never respond to social media criticism:
“We will never respond to social media criticism. If ratings are down, if revenue is down, if relevancy is down, it's up to us.”
(via @SBJ)
Seth Rollins is reportedly the planned winner of this year's King of the Ring, with him set to face Roman Reigns.
"Today I was just talking to somebody about the King of the Ring thing. What they said to me was there’s a lot of moving parts, there’s a lot up in the air right now for SummerSlam for whatever reason and I’m not sure why. What they told me was right now the plan is for Seth Rollins is to win the tournament and face Roman Reigns. So, that’s what I was told."
(Source: @SelfMadePW)
The Panthers were certain the Lions would take a Tackle at No. 17
"but we did not know the order the Lions tackles were in."
So Carolina considered offering a 5th round pick to move up two spots in order to secure Monroe Freeling
In the end, both teams got the OT they wanted
Mick Foley recalls a phone call from someone high up in WWE after he announced he wouldn’t be associated with the company anymore:
“The first [call] was, ‘I respect your stance and I’ll tell the people in charge.’ And then I did receive a call from someone really high up, I don’t know if he wants me to mention his name. But he was saying, ‘Well, Paul [Levesque] is just on the physical fitness group they have. And Linda [McMahon] hasn’t worked in WWE in x amount of years.’
And I said, ‘Well, theoretically that’s the case, but I could’ve sworn I saw Paul behind the president’s shoulder when he was making policy.’ Whether Linda’s been working for the company or not, her last name is McMahon and she’s associated with the company. And then I said, ‘Come on. Five people in the Oval Office took the Stunner.’
And so he appreciated it. He did say he respected it. I didn’t close the door forever. I said in my announcement as long as this man is in office. I think more and more people are realizing that some of the things he’s doing are just cruelty for the sake of cruelty and enriching himself.”
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Nick Khan says WWE will never respond to social media criticism of the product, recalls a meeting with Shawn Michaels last year about accelerating the next generation of talent:
“We will never respond to social media criticism. If ratings are down, if revenue's down, if relevancy's down, it's up to us.
A year ago, we got together. Triple H, [Chris] Legentil, myself, a guy named Shawn Michaels who runs our developmental system, Hall of Fame wrestler. And we said, ‘Hey, look, we have John Cena on his retirement tour. Rock came back and now he's gonna be filming Jumanji and Smashing Machine at the time. Our other big stars, CM Punk's 46. We got a number of men who are 40 years or older and they're performing at the high level. We got to accelerate the next generation of talent. So what do we need to do to accelerate it?'
Shawn Michaels said we need to take them on the road so they get the crowd response of a live crowd. That's part of what makes wrestling unique. If you're getting cheered, great. If you're getting booed, great. If there's no response, terrible. So you need that live crowd to figure that out, so we made the investment in that.”
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