WWE Thread.

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Money probably. Sponsors are more likely to affiliate themselves with the company if it's not too edgy and controversial. Kids also buy all sorts of shit.

After the Benoit incident they're big on welfare now as well, and I guess it's much safer to produce something PG than half the shit that went on during the attitude era.

I think they'd been planning it for a while, but the Benoit thing forced their hand (although even then it took 14 months).

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Money probably. Sponsors are more likely to affiliate themselves with the company if it's not too edgy and controversial. Kids also buy all sorts of shit.

After the Benoit incident they're big on welfare now as well, and I guess it's much safer to produce something PG than half the shit that went on during the attitude era.

Shame its dull as fuck though

[McNamara That Ghost...]

he did indeed. Bret/Piper managed to convince Vince the blood in their match was hardway(it wasn't).Flair came clean however, and was very nearly sacked for it. Vince - perhaps understandably - didn't think his WWE Champion wearing the crimson mask* would be a good image with the sex/Dr Zahorian scandals bubbling under the surface.

*Or in Flair's case, virtually dying his hair with the stuff ( )

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Sid Eudy has headlined two Wrestlemanias. Just think about that

I suppose in a feud where the heel says he has photos of Elizabeth from a centrefold, it's going to indicate the other guy wanting to bloody him up.

Sid's match with Undertaker was terrible. Still, at least he lost the belt then.

Can't think of Sid without thinking of:

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Shame its dull as fuck though

Maybe. It will probably change again when the kids they are marketing themselves on now become teenagers, the ones that have grown up with the product.

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Sid He was shooting there alright

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Smackdown was horrific.

What happend ?, not that SD has not been that way for a while now anyways lol.

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What happend ?, not that SD has not been that way for a while now anyways lol.

Not much. As this proves - http://www.rspwfaq.net/2012/04/smark...ant041012.html

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Back to 09/10 PPV Matches DVD. Pre-amble for Punk - Hardy at Summerslam '09 TLC now(not previously seen this one). Seems odd watching Punk promoting Straight Edge from the heel side these days!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And funnier still seeing him now say he never tried to stop anyone from doing what they want to do.

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Just finished the Orton - Cena 'I Quit' From Breaking Point '09. My criticisms of it on these pages at the time still very much stand. I.e for 17 of the match's 19 minutes Orton handed Cena's arse to him (including incredibly stiff Singapore Cane shots, and credit to Cena for taking those), Cena then grabs the key, uncuffs himself, hauls Orton back in, effectively no-sells an RKO, then wins via cuff-assisted STF whilst Orton tries to nab the key back.

Cena......