@roryrune People want hope not fear. When almost all of your platform is saying to fear something rather than to hope for something you are always going to lose.
@IamZei@WWEGareth There will be more to take their place - a cog in the machine. TKO won't budge, not even a little. Was Francis leaving a blow? Yes. However, they have about 10 guys on the roster who put up numbers in PPVs. Francis wasn't in the top 10 when he left.
@IamZei@WWEGareth They set a precedent. The UFC sees fighters as cogs in the machine like the WWE do. You can switch one out and keep on rolling. If they bent over backwards to keep Francis then any champion could negotiate the same. To the UFC his demands were crazy, to you they aren't.
@IamZei@WWEGareth Francis was pissed at the way he was treated because he would not renew his contract. The one fight per year for three years basically made him walk. He made a list of demands which was never going to be accepted used the UFC as leverage and won in the open market.
@archiearcanine @WWEGareth I love both of them but Will is the best in-ring performer out there. Ricochet is a fantastic performer but Will has been untouchable as a performer. AEW just offered him a better deal not only in terms of money but the perks involved.
@IamZei@WWEGareth Francis left because of the way he was treated by the UFC. The UFC only stopped when Francis was using them as leverage to get as much money out of the market as possible. Becky and Seth get results - they might just want time off before resigning.
@upthehammah@Cory_Hays407@WrestleOps WWE would require him to sign a full time exclusive contract and relocate to the States. Will is getting more money, less dates, stay in the UK and working in NJPW. He was never going to the WWE.
@_Infinityspot_ @BigDivaFann Errr... He booked Asuka in NXT - I believe she had a 510 day run as champion which turned into a 914 day undefeated streak but you go ahead - tell us how Asuka was always booked to lose.
@thedombarry@WrestlePurists The website does FOI requests - all of them are legit. Brent Civic Centre is where the Brent Council is located. The man who answered it is listed working for the Brent Council in a senior management position.
@plainalexx @MLBONFOX@NFLonFOX@Reds@MiamiDolphins 34ft per second - around 10.4m per second was his WR run. If Elly runs at full tilt at 31ft per second over 100m he still runs it in a plus ten second time. Hill has broke under the 10 second mark in competition.
@paulsample65@TheRugbyPaper@ben_jaycock It would give rugby a healthy system - but you would have to merge the English Prem and the British and Irish pro 14 clubs to make it a success. Introduce a robust university system. It would cost quite a bit to get up and running but it would self sustain quickly.
@paulsample65@TheRugbyPaper@ben_jaycock Nope it doesn't. The biggest selling point of the franchise system is the split in the money and a salary cap. The draft etc could work but you'd have to spend money to make money in that regards with introducing a collage system and a minor league system like baseball.
@paulsample65@TheRugbyPaper@ben_jaycock This isn't just the NFL model - Basketball, Baseball, Ice Hockey and even the Major League Soccer all do it. The salary caps etc would allow the game to exist in a model that is feasable for the clubs so we don't have what has happened this season again.
@blerp1000000 @TenaciousPz@davemeltzerWON nah Okada vs Omega was so good because of the story of Omega trying to vanquish his opponent. I honestly wouldn't be opposed to a call back of the Omega vs Okada match two where it ended in a draw.
@kermit2802@sweetanita Dude this is just lies upon lies. About 1% of reported rape cases in the UK go to trial. Out of them about 70% of them that are taken to trial end up being a conviction. As someone who works within the system. Those cases are slam dunks and often the person pleads guilty.
@MrTonyMaurizio@HervasWalter@MrsBurris12@RealKingRegal@YouTube From what Tony said it was a three year deal with a company opt out every year (I suspect that is a thing with AEW contracts). Tony just never renewed the contract and let him go to spend time with his son and go back to coaching. It was a good deal for both sides.
@Boynebloke @NaidCDunn @JamesGo89388625 @Hazbojangles @Crypto_Sauce9 @DerekBrosnan@NoContextBrits Also just to finish this - no one said sovereign. There is a reason people say sovereign country and not just country. The United Kingdom is made up of four countries to create the Kingdom. The same way Canada, Australia etc were still countries despite being in the Empire.
@Boynebloke @NaidCDunn @JamesGo89388625 @Hazbojangles @Crypto_Sauce9 @DerekBrosnan@NoContextBrits It is a union of countries. You share the same laws, open borders, currency and have a parliament set up within the Union despite having your own parliament. I mean you have certain devolved powers but you can't go against what the EU says. It seems familiar.