General WWE Discussion: Roman Weeps, Taker Retires, MNK/SAM/RDM LFP

[Lucavi]

Wow, that sneer on Heyman's face at the end of that Suplex City vid. 100% perfect. Heyman is the ultimate ringmaster.

[Tyrath]

Really disappointing podcast with Jericho. Seemed like it had corporate vetting written all over it.

[Vagrant]

Which is probably the exact reason why they brought him in to do it. He can deny it all he wants but Jericho has made a habit of being a company guy for Vince for years now. Austin would have and did go in on Cena when he had him on his podcast a while back. Jericho was all just have a good time and laugh a lot and not ask any serious questions.

[Tyrath]

I won't deny that it was a fun little podcast with some random stories. Just don't expect to hear anything controversial.

I wonder when Austin is speaking about the rumors on his podcast.

[Vagrant]

That Austin podcast should be up now. Some sites had the transcript of that portion up already but Austin basically just denied all the rumors saying none of them were true except for him not hosting Tough Enough again which was only due to scheduling conflict with Broken Skull Challenge.

[Tyrath]

So basically a bunch of hyped up podcast flops this week.

[Xno Kappa]

What were the rumors?

[Vagrant]

What were the rumors?

Supposedly Austin was supposed to be at WM 31 and arrive with the Undertaker but never showed up. It was supposedly due to heat between him and Vince over questions that were asked on the two podcasts he did for the network and his refusal to host Tough Enough again. Austin said he was never supposed to be at Mania and that there were no issues between him and Vince over the questions and that they had originally planned to do a third one with Austin but the plans simply fell through.

[Krandor]

Honestly what I think would be a cool situation if WWE could pull it off is letting Austin do interviews with higher ups or legends, and letting Jericho chum it up with the current roster. Compared to the Austin interviews Jericho/Cena wasn't exactly compelling, but it's still entertaining to see interviews with these guys out of kayfabe.

[Krandor]

I have nowhere better to post this, so here goes.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/d...-cod-per-year/

[Anoat]

The Jericho/Cena podcast was pretty boring, but I did get a kick out of the Alaska drinking story and the fact that Cena's first riding partners were Funaki, Tajiri, and Ultimo Dragon of all people.

[arus2001]

So the answer of just what the Rock is cooking is known... cod. Lots of it.

[Anoat]

So it would appear that Smackdown! is leaving Syfy and moving to USA Network in 1st quarter 2016.

[arus2001]

Gotta air something between Law and Order, NCIS, and CSI reruns.

[Tyrath]

We have been reporting over the past couple weeks that members of the Anoa’i family were very upset that Roman Reigns did not win the WWE Title at WrestleMania, and get his “WrestleMania moment” as they thought he would.

New reports suggest Reigns’ father Sika was furious, while Reigns’ uncle Afa was not happy, but nowhere near as upset as Sika. There were reportedly some members of Reigns’ family who wanted to see Reigns quit WWE after he didn’t win the title, but it’s being said Reigns himself took the loss quite well.

Sound like some crazy hotheads in that family. Good for Reigns for not doing something that stupid. If anything, he will only get bonus points by the management for taking the loss in stride and doing whats best for business.

[Kalmado]

Man, as much as I still really dislike him as a wrestler I have to give him respect if that's indeed true. Good for him.

[Krandor]

Reigns has come off as a bit of a prick in some out of character interviews, but he generally seems like an ok person along with most of the WWE locker room these days.

His family is fucking insane though, especially trying to convince him to quit the company. No indie fed or Japan would touch him since its not like he can actually wrestle, so at best he'd be slumming it in TNA likely making a fraction of what he did before.

[tyven]

I feel like Reigns works really stiff, i wonder if any of the other jamokes actually like him

[Krandor]

He's only worked super stiff against Bryan and Lesnar these last two PPVs, and they for sure would welcome it.

[tyven]

Well I guess that's what I get for only watching wrestling since February and thinking I know something!