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The perpetrators need to be arrested and put to book.

pu7pl3:
Omo, be like say Vince na the only authority wey him dey recognise.
Na wa o...na make Vince beg am

and yes he came back. Someone probably spoke to him. But from what I heard he said something under the lines of "if he's gone, I'm gone". Let's see how the product gets without Vince.

Debroslink:
Shey Shane McMahon no get stake for WWE franchise ni?

he probably has shares, but I've heard that he says he isn't interested in the business.

Brock Lesnar don vex comot from SmackDown. Who get im number make we gather beg am.

Vince McMahon's statement on his retirement from WWE:

"As I approach 77 years old, I feel it’s time for me to retire as Chairman and CEO of WWE. Throughout the years, it’s been a privilege to help WWE bring you joy, inspire you, thrill you, surprise you, and always entertain you. I would like to thank my family for mightily contributing to our success, and I would also like to thank all of our past and present Superstars and employees for their dedication and passion for our brand. Most importantly, I would like to thank our fans for allowing us into your homes every week and being your choice of entertainment. I hold the deepest appreciation and admiration for our generations of fans all over the world who have liked, currently like, and sometimes even love our form of Sports Entertainment.

Our global audience can take comfort in knowing WWE will continue to entertain you with the same fervor, dedication, and passion as always. I am extremely confident in the continued success of WWE, and I leave our company in the capable hands of an extraordinary group of Superstars, employees, and executives – in particular, both Chairwoman and Co-CEO Stephanie McMahon and Co-CEO Nick Khan. As the majority shareholder, I will continue to support WWE in any way I can. My personal thanks to our community and business partners, shareholders, and Board of Directors for their guidance and support through the years. Then. Now. Forever. Together."

I posted it first dammit!

The great Iroko.
The ezugeregere.
He's still alive, but I'm glad to say he's retired. Baba can now REST.

Upon the fame, money, beauty and shape, she couldnt have a stable marriage. I hope we learn from this.

If you're bored with anything wrestling, I recommend you check out Christian's promos of recent on AEW TV.

So WWE is adjusting their RAW product to a TV-14 rating as from next week Monday. This should inadvertently make their product interesting...not. it's no difference to me. Make it sports-based and the difference will be clear. But for a little positivity, we get to quit seeing the goofy and childish stuffs all in the name of 'entertainment'.

pu7pl3:
This guy just basically said I'm a fool and that I choose to remain so.
Issorite

I never did. You're misinterpreting the message. The point is enlightenment and education.

pu7pl3:
Can't believe I'm saying this but the reviews I have for SMACKDOWN today is that it was lame AF.
I don't know if it's cos of all the things Valeelove has been feeding me here but I just couldn't get into it even with Roman returning

Grade: F

I laughed a bit while reading this. My intention over the last months was not to make anybody feel bad, but to educate and enlighten wrestling fans and customers. And no, I am not some wrestling expert. I'm not a sport or entertainment guru, I'm even yet to own a business of my own. But in this dispensation those are irrelevant because the things I speak of ONLY require a brain to know and understand. They are commonsensical matters. People say prowrestling is entertainment hence the shinanegans are excused, I say prowrestling is sports and entertainment so the 2 elements shouldn't be neglected. But today there is little to less sport in it, the guys are mainly actors and choreographers; but when we surprisingly see sport(reality/shoot), our attention is gotten in a way that it hasn't over the long times of our viewing. And for many of us, we watch for the shoot angles only. People like Reigns' character because they feel he's real. It might be for a show, but maybe he's somewhat that backstage. It's the same reason CM Punk's pipe bomb blew up in popularity.

What Should WWE Look Like?

Since everyone in that company wants entertainment over sport, I propose 70% of entertainment and 30% of sport. Have a show that tells a movie-like story and ends up as a match in an arena. The story is not restricted to backstage areas alone and the camera is not acknowledged, like a movie. Not the perfect example, but see Adam Page's rise to prominence as an example. The only issue was the stories were told on a YouTube show and not on TV. The Attitude Era did a bit of this, it's no wonder why people liked it. Do this and you'll have your entertainment over sport and it will be ENJOYABLE, unlike the current product. The only downside is that your workers will be referred to as actors or mostly actors since it's more of entertainment.
If you want a real pro-wrestling product of equal emphasis on sport and entertainment without one going over the other, then what you need is a sports-based product(a slang though). What it means is that the story is between a good character and a bad character that is developed in a sports based form i.e like a real sport. There are no movie-like storylines here. No scripts. No choreography. Only predetermination which is based on who draws more money or who is a better performer. That way there is real sport competition going on there and the better performer not only goes over, but makes more money. Imagine how guys will work with this setting.
Yes I know, it wasn't like this in the past, but the truth is:
1. Pro-wrestling was built on the deceit that it was 100% real. So when you viewed trash, you didn't know it was so cos you had been coarsed to think it was a 100% real. That's why it grew and grows less popular as people are discovering the truth. It was also the reason why the movie-like story telling sold, cos if you thought it was 100% real and you saw a bad guy attack a good guy from behind or cheat to win or the Dusty finish or a brawl or anyother movie-like storyline we have grown to accept as normal which back then was a big deal, you were bound to give huge attention to it and their profit would skyrocket. These were the reason for the strict laws of kayfabe, cos if people knew the truth, people's source of livelyhood was threatened. You get it now? Let's give them a fake product, hotshot it, make tons of money quickly, keep our mouths shut and we'll keep on making money; if only they knew the internet was coming. So what happened after the hotshotting, the same thing that happens to anything hotshotted, people get bored of it and eventually see through it. But the funniest part and the irony is that the hotshotting which was used as a scam in the early days of Pro-wrestling is what we've grown to normalize today. It's what you Purpl3 refer to as "shenanigans". It's real shenanigans, it's also trash. That's like saying "we know you deceived us in the past when we didn't know the truth, now we know the truth and we oblidge to being continuously deceived because we never want to stop living in the illusion you created for us and we want to keep on having the same feeling we did back then" and that feeling will NEVER come no matter how many times you watch. Also that example is likened to drug addiction.
It's the reason why my proposal to the wrestling world seems boring. They've been used to hotshotted stuffs so much so that when they eventually hear of simple, true, real and effective methods they are quick to rebuke it and see such as boring. Back then when I used to watch the Ruthless Aggression era and I would watch matches with blood, hardcore and gimmick. And when it was time to watch a regular wrestling match, it felt boring and downright unwatchable. That's a serious problem. You claim to be a wrestling fan and yet can't do without gimmicks, can't do without the movie-like stories, can't do without gimmick matches even though you are well aware that you'll see good wrestling. It shows nothing else, but indoctrination into a wrong mindset about wrestling and only a re-learning and reorientation will enable people to know the truth.
2. Like every other part of life, we simply have to move on.
I'm not saying all about the old-timers was bad. They knew how to work, they knew how to talk, they could act. They were just a bit greedy and maybe confused. "Confused" is the word to describe modern wrestling. Confusion is not just relative to fans alone, even to the promoters. In where you work Purpl3, what does it take to get to the top? I'm sure you're not confused about that or about any other course of venture in life. Professional wrestling is the only venture where it isn't known what makes wrestlers successful, what 'gets them over'. In WWE they even had to make a word for it to show their cluelessness; they call it the "It" factor. What a load of trash. They are as confused as the fans, either that or they are scammers themselves. And that's why I strongly believe the business will go down or be sold in the long run and the signs are showing.
At the end of the day I can't tell you what to watch, but I hope I've if nothing else, demonstrated common sense.

Wow. They are all non-Nigerian.

I thought Igbos didn't want to be part of Nigeria. Well, this is a good development.

meobizy:
Your replies don’t look like such.

bye.

meobizy:
I can type rubbish too.

then go ahead. I'm going to type meaningful things.

meobizy:
Pointless comment.

yet you replied. Imagine.

meobizy:
Wear a three-piece suit and walk outside by 1 p.m. today.

or how about going out totally unclad?

Purpl3:
That person is capping, she is already over, almost Becky Lynch levels even.

let me put it this way, she lacks *in Vince McMahon's voice* ruthless aggression. She doesn't have that killer instinct. She's too nice, too relaxed. She doesn't feel strong enough. She has shocked me in the past with her in-ring skill. But if she focuses less on modelling and more on in-ring ability, maybe something will change.

Purpl3:
Don't mind Seun and his archaic facilities.
You can read directly from here tho.

someone said Liv Morgan can't get over, because she's too girly, and as a fan I have to agree. She's talented, but that statement still holds water. I hope it all turns out well for her though.

Purpl3:
Soomuch for WWE being dead

don't take it personal bro. The key word there is "childhood". I don't think he follows the current product, and me, I'll advice him not to. Look at Brock, Ronda and Sheyna. Their stock has gone down since they left. Even bad guys like Ken Shamrock in the 90s.
You guys are pretty intelligent in this group, so I know one day you will understand all I've been saying all along.

What's with the weird names though?

doggedfighter:
Not a big deal.



Any child that calls you father is your child.


It makes no difference at all !


What's the crying for ?

would it also make no difference to you if your husband brings in a child from another woman and you're obliged to be a mother to the child? Or worse, would you be happy if the nurses at the hospital you delivered exchanged your baby and you had to answer 'mummy' to a child not yours? The hypocrisy is real for Nairaland female monikers.

I don't support adultery but this law feels somehow. Someone should help. Can we also make laws against fornication, gayism and lesbianism? Wouldn't that truncate freedom? If it's cool then I'm all for it. Countries like Saudi Arabia I think have laws like this and there's the law of Moses too that prohibits adultery set by His himself. So is it feasible?

BloomingDale:
Wives, time to start gathering evidence and reporting your husbands. Two years jail time for each woman they sleep with. Spread the good news.

what about wive adulterers. This law sha get as E be. I don't support adultery, but this one no too follow.

ValeeLove:
Israel Adesanya defeated Cannonier walking out to Undertaker's theme song, with the hat and urn with HHH, Stephanie and Vince McMahon at ringside.

the young Nigerian also indicated interest in working for WWE in the future as he was a childhood fan.

Israel Adesanya defeated Cannonier walking out to Undertaker's theme song, with the signature hat and urn with HHH, Stephanie and Vince McMahon at ringside.

pu7pl3:
Roman Reigns will be bigger than Cena by the time he celebrates his own 20years.

baba don reach him peak. When Cena was his age, he was setting the world on fire, he wasn't a part-timer and there were other mega stars on the roster. But now we're just managing Reigns, because there's no one else.

samistry:
The Maximum Male Models segment instantly bumps up this show to an A+.
I'm getting giddy in anticipation to ValeeLove reaction to this

I don't follow WWE so I haven't watched the segment. I'll try and check it online, but I'm sure to be dissapointed. Think about it this way, WWE just indirectly told LA that he isn't a good enough wrestler, just a talker. You guys shouldn't get your hopes high, it won't fly. Pu7pl3, look at Cena's segment when he walked to the ring with other wrestlers clapping, I feel really sad to say this, WWE doesn't have any stars anymore. Bianca isn't over as champ for how long now, Becky is in a sorry state, Seth is a clown, so many things don't feel right and I can't pretend. No one, simply no one active is Cena's calibre.

pu7pl3:
You know Valee is going to shut it down

you guys are talking behind my back abi?

How to know a professional prowrestler.

1. They sell.
2. They don't take the microphone from the interviewer, in other words, they know how to do an interview.
3. Their matches are slow-paced.
4. They sell.
5. They know how to actually promote a match on the mic and not just make unnecessary babble and trash talk.
6. They know how to sell.
7. They know to grapple.
8. They do less to no hardcore/garbage/gimmick matches.
9. They sell.
10. They are physically fit.
11. They can work a match without it being choreographed or scripted or both.
12. And this is the most important, they know how to SELL.

Purpl3:


There are very few people in all of wrestling who always appear genuine. Eddie Kingston is one of them, Jon Moxley is another. But that’s something Cena has in spades. No matter the era, no matter the situation, he always makes the audience believe. That’s the most important aspect in this thing of ours, so a bunch of people in WWE should take notes.

I hope you can be really honest about this. CENA IS NO GIMMICK and that's why you can believe him. He was in the past though, as the doctor, but he's learnt above all things to be natural and just himself. KO vs Ezekiel doesn't say that, Seth Rollins doesn't say that, Chad Gable doesn't say that, Happy Corbin doesn't say that, Cody Rhodes says that, Brock Lesnar says that, if you take away the catch phrase and Robotic attitude then Roman says that. GIMMICKS don't work, they never did, we just didn't know it was predetermined back then.

triggaSG:
Came here for WWE review and im seeing something else. If you no like am. Stick to UFC. Jesus Kristi. It's not called UFC discussion. Ffs.


Salutations

that's kind of hypocritical seeing it's a similar business pattern and prowrestling's biggest stars in the name of Brock and Ronda Rousey came from there. Anyway it was just for comparison, no one is shifting the focus from pro-wrestling, I'm just saying pro-wrestling can be so much better if it went full sports based.