Re: The Official WWE Thread - Part 16

[Onyx]

While Brock Lesnar is expected to win the WWE World Heavyweight Title and there's been talk of Lesnar defending against Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 31, it's still unknown how much Lesnar will be working besides SummerSlam, Night of Champions and a possible appearance at Battleground to put "plan B" in motion against John Cena.

It's also expected that he would work Royal Rumble and WrestleMania 31 at least but there would be many dates he would have to work if he's going to hold the title for several months.

[Onyx]

If Reigns beats Lesnar and wins the title.

If Reigns looked like Rollins or Bryan, he'd be jobbing on superstars.

[RealGunner]

Yeh WWE sucks nowadays imo. No major storylines, no edgyness, no proper feuds etc. I just watch out of habit and watch for the odd interesting moment, with hope that the product will improve.

It's much better now that Cena is the champion imo. But it was terrible for the last 4 months or so

[RealGunner]

If Reigns beats Lesnar and wins the title.

If Reigns looked like Rollins or Bryan, he'd be jobbing on superstars.

Fully Agreed.

[Onyx]

WWE officials have been discussing more future plans that would see former The Shield members Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose working together.

We noted before that there has been talk of reuniting the group in a few years and doing reunions every few years after that, similar to what has been done with DX.

WWE officials have been considering a big spot for the 2015 Royal Rumble match with Reigns, Rollins and Ambrose as well. The idea is that the final three Superstars in the match could be them, leading to Reigns winning and going on to challenge for the WWE World Heavyweight Title at WrestleMania 31.

[Onyx]

[Onyx]

WWE booked Bo Dallas into Daniel Bryan's segment at Money In the Bank because there's a feeling that nobody is really booing Bo and they want to get him over as a heel. This is the same reason why they had him slam El Torito on this week's SmackDown.

[RealGunner]

lmfao he is such an entertaining heel. I would cheer for him rather than boo him

[Onyx]

Spoiler:

[Great Leader Sprucenuce]

If Reigns beats Lesnar and wins the title.

If Lesnar looked like Tom, he'd be jobbing in Subway.

Now do you realise how stupid that sounds lol? Reigns is in WWE because of his size, look and ability to basically take people out.

Deal with it, there's people in the hall of fame with shite mic skills.

[RealGunner]

Yea don't feel like watching RAW live. Will watch it tomorrow.

[Firenze]

Alright. That's good for me I guess. Gotta be up at 7 but was going to watch the first hour with you guys. I'll skip it too then.

[Onyx]

Reigns cut a dull and monotone promo at the start of the show. Then he raised Cena's hand at the end of the show.

Cesaro lost to Kofi again.

[RealGunner]

Are u complaining about Reigns sucking off Cena?

[Onyx]

Bo knocking over the bull during his celebration.

El Torito needs to Bull-ieve.

[Onyx]

RAW replay in HD posted on imoovement.

[AnJl]

Reigns cut a dull and monotone promo at the start of the show.

There was nothing wrong with with Reigns promo. Not saying it was amazing, but it didn't sound dull. He got the right reactions at the right time.

[Firenze]

so it's just MT hating on the future #1 of the company

Salty that Bryan won't get that spot

[Rebaño Sagrado]

reigns sucks

[Onyx]

Don't really mind if Bryan isn't the face. Just wanted him to win the title and establish himself as a main eventer and he did.

The face should be someone with a unique personality and mic skills. Reigns doesn't offer that.

Need to start pushing Bray/Ambrose/Sandow imo.

[M99]

Start of the show.

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End of the show.

[Onyx]

Austin would have stunned Cena imo. Reigns should have speared him.

[Onyx]

There has been a lot of speculation that with AJ Lee returning to WWE, her husband CM Punk could be the next to return. Speculation continued when WWE announced that they were featuring CM Punk on WrestleMania Rewind this week.

Word is that there are no plans for Punk to return just yet. With Punk’s current contract expiring on July 17th, WWE sources maintain that nothing has changed with his WWE status.

It’s also said that AJ’s return has “no bearing at all” on WWE’s relationship with Punk. One source believed WWE has had very little contact with Punk since he left.

[Onyx]

The WWE has taken a decidedly political turn after Vince McMahon took aim at President Barack Obama in a Monday Night Raw rant delivered by diva Lana.

McMahon has been vocal in the past with his criticism of Obama, using wrestling scripts to take digs at the president. That was the case again this week when the Ravishing Russian made fun of a video showing Obama working out in a Polish gym. The diva accused Obama of being weak, calling him a sissy and girly man.

Lana also said Obama would be no match for Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Wrestling insiders saw the script as a dig directly from Vince McMahon, who has not been shy in criticizing the president. The WWE boss has used other wrestlers to criticize Obama, including making fun of the president taking a “selfie” with European leaders last year.

Vince McMahon has been active in politics in the past, using the fortune he generated through the WWE to fund his wife Linda’s Senate run in Connecticut. Linda made two campaigns that cost the family a combined $100 million, but lost both races.

Some believe Vince still harbors bad feelings toward Obama for intervening in one of the races. The president did a political ad for Linda’s opponent, Chris Murphy, and helped push the race away from McMahon.

McMahon also has a general distaste for the federal government, which in 1994 brought him to trial for a conspiracy to distribute steroids to wrestlers. Later, the WWE was subject to a Congressional investigation following the murder-suicide of Chris Benoit.

But many wrestling fans found it tacky for McMahon to inject his own political views in the WWE. Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio noted:

“The Obama thing, I mean that’s Vince’s thing with Obama. I just don’t know. It kind of bugged me in a way, you know what I mean? Because it was not [subtle], like just the mentality behind it and everything, with Vince being so mad at Obama, it shouldn’t have been so transparent.”

The Obama criticism came after a string of bad WWE news for Vince McMahon. A shaky start to the WWE Network combined with a sinking stock price led McMahon to lose $842 million in net worth since Wrestlemania 30.

There have also been rumblings that WWE shareholders are growing tired of Vince McMahon and could be planning a coup to replace him as president. His strange obsession with using his wrestling platform to criticize President Obama won’t help at all, insiders say.

[Onyx]

The Miz saying a fan named Johnny Russo wrote him a letter about Chris Jericho on last night’s RAW was apparently a scripted rib at Vince Russo.

[Onyx]

Hopefully they were hinting that they're going to rehire Russo.

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