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http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/2013-12-09/five-point-preview-26168561
AJ Styles Leaving TNA?
AJ's contract expires on 12/16 and he is already begun to accept independent bookings. AJ apparently finished up with the company during the last TV taping. AJ and TNA were very far apart in terms of money, which had been the issue the entire time. AJ also has his autobiography, which is scheduled to be released in the first quarter of 2014.
Credit Mike Johnson, PWInsider.com
WrestleMania 31 Will be in Santa Clara, CA
The event will be held at Levi Stadium, the future home of the San Francisco 49ers.
http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemania/levis-stadium-to-host-wrestlemania-31-26168855
Tag Team to Turn Heel Soon?
There is word that the team of Brodus Clay and Tensai will be turning heel and possibly pushed as a top heel team. The WWE wanted to turn them and the Funkadactyls heel a while ago but the production company begged them not to, as they wanted the girls to be faces on TV due to "Total Divas."
Credit Bryan Alvarez, Figure Four Weekly Newsletter
Solomon Crowe Makes his NXT Debut
Crowe, the former Sami Callahan, made his debut when he attacked Kalisto, the former Samuray Del Sol. Crowe's gimmick is that of an evil hacker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5m4p8_0I8k
http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/2013-12-09/five-point-preview-26168561
AJ Styles Leaving TNA?
AJ's contract expires on 12/16 and he is already begun to accept independent bookings. AJ apparently finished up with the company during the last TV taping. AJ and TNA were very far apart in terms of money, which had been the issue the entire time. AJ also has his autobiography, which is scheduled to be released in the first quarter of 2014.
Credit Mike Johnson, PWInsider.com
WrestleMania 31 Will be in Santa Clara, CA
The event will be held at Levi Stadium, the future home of the San Francisco 49ers.
http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemania/levis-stadium-to-host-wrestlemania-31-26168855
Tag Team to Turn Heel Soon?
There is word that the team of Brodus Clay and Tensai will be turning heel and possibly pushed as a top heel team. The WWE wanted to turn them and the Funkadactyls heel a while ago but the production company begged them not to, as they wanted the girls to be faces on TV due to "Total Divas."
Credit Bryan Alvarez, Figure Four Weekly Newsletter
Solomon Crowe Makes his NXT Debut
Crowe, the former Sami Callahan, made his debut when he attacked Kalisto, the former Samuray Del Sol. Crowe's gimmick is that of an evil hacker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5m4p8_0I8k
The hacker gimmick has potential. There's a video of him debuting and it looks good.
ReplyDeleteRaw - Ok Slammy's and go home PPV show rolled into one, prolly be boring
ReplyDeleteAJ - This keeps getting more interesting, could definetly bring a lot of intrest to Indies in 2014
WM - Ok will be weird to see WM mostly in a daytime setting again
Tons of Funk - Didn't this already happen with the Woods/Truth stuff?
Crowe - Hope they make there tv debut at the next tapings
SF will be cool. Anyone know any specs on that stadium? Open air? Retractable dome?
ReplyDeleteI forgot Clay and Tensai even existed but turning them into an old school dominant heel team could be cool.
ReplyDeleteopen air, 68,500 capacity for football, http://levisstadium.com/about#/design
ReplyDeletegive them the Gordy/Dr. Death moveset and ill give a shit about them.
ReplyDeleteIf this was ten years ago and they would have to do is attack the girls, doubt that would be PG tho
How does an evil hacker translate into a wrestling storyline exactly? Is he going to hack Sami Zayn's Wells Fargo account, only to find that there's only 30 bucks in there?
ReplyDeleteIt will be an open air football stadium. Its not completely built yet, but it looks cool in the designs
ReplyDeleteI provided the video in the post. I thought it came off really well.
ReplyDeleteHopefully Sami drops that awful singlet
ReplyDeleteClick on the video I provided. He actually pulled it off well
ReplyDelete...but not on TV
ReplyDeletehe fucks with everything in there life, draining bank accounts, giving away credit card numbers, exposing secret photos, and controlling the arenas av & cameras, it could work well.
ReplyDeleteCan't watch the video right now because I am clearly hard at work... but as the IT guy in me will love it I just don't see hacker translating to wrestling gimmick very well... hell Hollywood has never even been able to get it right.
ReplyDeleteHe has the cool oddball look, I just have zero faith in him being used right
ReplyDeleteHe will likely just hack their twitter and stuff "@CMPUNK IS SUX0R deLUX0R LOL PWN#D noob!" - CM Punk
ReplyDeleteNor should you. Again I haven't seen it but it just seems like an indy gimmick at best.
ReplyDeleteHeck the hacker gimmick could be easy to insert into the Authority storyline (since rumors are WWE want to bring Crowe up already) although he'd be face then if he "hacked" WWE and screwed with the Authority.
ReplyDelete"You didn't auto-praise something so therefore you deserve downvote"
ReplyDeleteSorry. DANIEL BRYAN AND CM PUNK SHOULD HEADLINE MANIA IN A 90 MINUTE IRON MAN MATCH!
Better?
You don't really know a lot about hacking do you...
ReplyDeleteSo.. how long before this Crowe guy is "taking over" the WWE webpage and app? Is he going to start feuds by hacking WWE Superstar's twitter pages and then they'll have to settle it in the ring?
ReplyDeleteThis is tv hacking, its like Annonymous hacking, find secret documents the WWE has that have been holding wrestlers back, or illegal things that have been going on and reveal them, itd fit WWE
ReplyDeleteThat AJ Styles autobiography must be the second most anticipated book in history. Every other book is tied for first.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe they give him a stable with a midget sidekick named "Worm" , a bodyguard named "Firewall", and a Diva named "Backdoor"..
ReplyDeleteI'll put that right behind the Pat Patterson's Pop-Up book on my Christmas book list.
ReplyDeleteI saw his shoot interview and that was horrendous.
ReplyDeleteI live about an hour away from Santa Clara, so I'm pumped about wrestlemania 31. Haven't been to a mania since 21 was in LA, looking forward to taking in all the wrestlemania week activities. I know roh always pits on a show for mania weekend. I'm hoping pwg will promote up north that weekend also to capitalize on all the fans in the area.
ReplyDeleteIsn't the first step to turning them heel getting rid of the dancing girls? Heck, let them keep being face funkadactyls, there's no way to take a dancing dinosaur from planet funk seriously as a heel anyhow. the dactyl's cost them a win, brodus and tensai snap on them and start wearing business suits and shit. I dunno.
ReplyDeleteSo I'm assuming this TNA thing is like the Punk contract thing where they obviously have a handshake deal in place?
ReplyDeleteLove it, Backdoor!!! Awesome, that may be the best name for a diva since "Brown Eyed Girl" in TNA.
ReplyDelete80's cyber punk gimmick wtf
ReplyDeleteNot quite sure, I'm guessing he'll make a one-off to drop the title, but they had given him the short extension and hoped giving him the title along with it would of got him to lower his price tag, which apparently didn't work.
ReplyDeleteThis is a repost so I'll repost my answers:
ReplyDelete1.) This is pitiful. AJ IS TNA.
2.) Why is this so hard? Put the Clay/Tensai with the red-headed Diva no one likes and book them like Doom with Nancy Ben*BEEEEP*. Put the Funkadactyls with Woods/Truth. This way it you get a new monster heel team and it doesn't fuck up Total Divas.
3.) Meh.
That boggles my mind that they'd let him walk with the title without some behind the scenes guarantee that he'd resign. I know theure a distant 2nd and it's not the Monday Night Wars era where there's a huge threat of him showing it elsewhere but you'd still think they'd protect the belt a little more
ReplyDeleteThis is why we need a spoiler thread about the next six weeks or so of TNA that have already been taped....
ReplyDeleteOMG BAY AREA!
ReplyDelete*immediately begins to save for WM and the next night's RAW*
LOL, I went to 21 too and since I live near SC, I'll hopefully be at 31 as well.
ReplyDeleteThen he goes to jail.
ReplyDeleteOnly WWE brass would think the Funkadactyls are faces on Total Divas.
ReplyDeleteI think having Brodus and Albert as a monster heel team could be really good. That is a classic tag team formula that never gets old.
ReplyDeleteBenoit. The name is Benoit.
ReplyDeleteThis is wrestling. Only the faces go to jail.
ReplyDeleteOnly 90? They get the whole show, or I walk.
ReplyDeleteI bet they at least had a handshake agreement that he'd make a one-off to drop the title though.
ReplyDelete*Assuming this story is legit and they aren't likely to re-sign him* In a nutshell, here is what it seems they've done. They put the title on him with no guarantee that he would re-sign (and without them being close on terms), then paid to him him go to Mexico and Japan to basically audition for them once he leaves TNA? How awesome is that. Maybe, once he signs with the promotion in Japan, TNA will keep paying him too.
ReplyDeleteNot just a hacker, but an EVIL hacker. He will also use crude Photoshop skills to put his opponents heads on different bodies. He will hack their Geocities pages and put "I love boys I love boys I love boys." CM Punk wins and instead of hearing "Cult of Personality" MY GOD IT'S "GLAMOUR BOYS." WHAT IS THIS SORCERY?
ReplyDelete...over to my computer to complain about it online!
ReplyDeleteFinished that for you.
Gotcha.
ReplyDeleteComment Jack... you once recommended a HDTV antenna to me. I need to start an antenna section for a site I have been working on (http://getridofcable.net) how would you feel about writing up a small piece about the antenna you mentioned for me to add to it? If not can you at least remind me what antenna you told me about? I appreciate it.
He will find their geocities page by doing an alta vista search
ReplyDeleteJericho already did the photoshop trick to Benoit. If you recall he put Benoit on a boat, a goat, etc.
ReplyDeleteAlso having the Funkdactyls with with Truth/Other Guy keeps the black people together as per the wrestling Constitution
ReplyDeleteTo tie into a previous thread, perhaps the hacker could abruptly cut into Raw with pics of Randy Savage and Stephanie together.
ReplyDeleteI think he was talking about the fact that this is one of WWE's favorite gimmicks as they have done it tons of times to tons of different people.
ReplyDeleteAnd they all are dancers. How awesome is that? I'm so excited about the prospect of that happening that I want to sleep with someone's wife.
ReplyDeleteno shit
ReplyDeleteI have been in the market for an apprentice...
ReplyDeleteNo I am serious!
ReplyDeleteI think I may be ready for the challenge.
ReplyDeletePossibly, but would it surprise you in the slightest if TNA had this long-term angle built up, only to not have the guy signed long-term and have him walk out the door?
ReplyDeleteI don't know what you're referring to. WWE tells me that such a segment does not exist. For that matter, who's this Benoit guy you're speaking of?
ReplyDeleteYou have a padawan learner?
ReplyDelete"Fight each other or dance together" - Vince McMahon
ReplyDeleteSerious note... don't get busted until your divorce is done with.
ReplyDeleteThat said the key is to find one who has either A) Been married for a while and is bored and finds all the little shit that he does that she doesn't like all the more annoying. Start laying the groundwork there by "being easy to talk to" wait for them to have a fight and console her, as time goes on start working in "he doesn't appreciate you..." and "If I had a woman like you I'd..." and just generally be the opposite of him (9 times out of 10 just listening to her nonsense accomplishes this)
The other option is someone that has been married in the 1 - 2 year range... after the honeymoon period has worn off and the find that life with this guy is not always exciting and romantic... just use the above techniques but also try to be a little more "fun" than that guy... this usually works pretty well also, though I find the girls more annoying.
That's probably enough for lesson 1.
"That's right, Big Show! You're flat broke! AGAIN!"
ReplyDeleteNo... I figure I am on the dark side and would have an apprentice
ReplyDeleteWell, it's nice to see that they've successfully transferred the opening dancing tag team act to Truth and Woods. And it's a bonus for Vince, because they're BLACK!
ReplyDeleteThey are probably well aware of how that title is viewed.
ReplyDeleteSorry I have the Titan TowerWrestling Censorship Security App running.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't the apprentice to a Sith Lord have to kill his teacher?
ReplyDeleteIf they go heel they can just pass the theme music to Xavier Woods. Don't be surprised his he wins it in a match or something.
ReplyDeleteI honestly don't know. I am only familiar with the movies and I don't recall that being mentioned.
ReplyDeleteTurn the "Titan Tower Sports Entertainment Censorship Security App" on your pc off.
ReplyDeleteThats why I cannot believe theres no handshake deal. They cant be THAT dumb, can they?!?!?! ::insert numerous dixie carter jokes here::
ReplyDeleteBut it is crucial you get the Funadactyls away from them. This is why you put the red-headed chick with them because EVERYBODY hates her and she'll get the blame for them turning.
ReplyDeleteHis entrance music would be the sound when AOL connects.
ReplyDeleteWould be one of the dumber things ive seen in wrestling in awhile, so actually no, I wouldnt be surprised
ReplyDeleteYou've got....a match!"
ReplyDeleteOooooh yeahhhhhj
ReplyDeleteIt's not a resthold, he's just buffering!
ReplyDeleteYou'll know Crowe's a heel when he starts quoting from the BOD during his promos. #BAKERBOMB
ReplyDeleteHe will turn WWE.com into questions about Daniel Bryan and Steve Austin's heel turn
ReplyDelete"Firewall" is actually kind of an awesome name for a bodyguard type, or an entire stable
ReplyDeleteThere are a hundred cool ways an "evil hacker" gimmick could work within the realm of pro wrestling. WWE will use exactly zero of them. Get ready for....
ReplyDelete1. Cole chuckling and saying "what a nerd!" at Crowe's antics
2. Crowe doing nothing more evil than trying to mess with the results of WWE App voting, leading him to be punched out by a lower-card face, Jerry Lawler, Hornswoggle and/or a celebrity guest host.
3. Crowe to be billed as hailing from 'the basement.'
I would find it really funny if they really billed him as hailing from the basement
ReplyDeleteThe Photoshopping heads onto different bodies will absolutely happen.
ReplyDeleteToo bad they don't have the "Raw GM" announcing matches from the laptop.
ReplyDelete1. will happen
ReplyDeleteIf he really wants to go over the top, he will somehow bring otters into his gimmick and relentlessly stick to them, regardless of how the "universe" hates the idea.
ReplyDeleteFuck me, winning theme music in a match sounds lame. Expect it to happen on next week's Raw. Maybe Smackdown.
ReplyDeleteSo...is she the new X-Pac?
ReplyDeleteI have not watched that show, nor do I intend to. However, from the snippet or two they've shown on Raw, one of them seems fucking batshit crazy.
ReplyDeleteGood idea.
ReplyDeleteDoes said app randomly change its own canon and security allowances, depending on....well, its own whims?
ReplyDeleteIt could, but somehow, I have very little faith in it being done well.
ReplyDeleteCould you remind people what area of the country you live in so we know if we're safe? Ya know, for tax purposes
ReplyDeleteHis name is Robert Paulson
ReplyDeleteHe can do the much anticipated "Where Are They Now" feature on Chris Walker
ReplyDeleteThat's brilliant.
ReplyDeleteI expect this has already been pitched.
ReplyDeleteBook it like this:
ReplyDelete1.) RAW: Tons of Funk are wrestling for the titles. Woods comes out just to dance to the theme music. His interference causes them to lose. Clay gets pissed. Funkadactlys and Tensai tell him to chill
2.) Smackdown: ToF lose another match due to Woods interference. Clay challenges him to a singles match on RAW. Winner gets the theme music.
3.) Clay wrestles Woods. Due to a mistake by one of the Funkadactyls. Clay loses the match and the music.
4.) Smackdown: Woods and Truth are wrestling 3MB. Woods comes down to the ring with his new theme music. Clay and Tensai are watching the match in the dressing room. After the match the Funkadactyls go to the ring and dance which pisses Clay off.
5.) Next week on RAW 8-man tag match. Woods and Truth try to make peace with Clay before the match but make things worse.: ToF come down with no theme music. Funkadactyls dance with Woods and Truth on the way to the ring. Before the match Eva appears at the top of the ramp. Clay and Tensai destroy everyone in the ring.
6.) PPV ToF (renamed and with a new look/theme music) wrestle Truth and Woods. The jump them before the bell and leave them laying. Backstage Eva cuts a promo on the Funkadactyls calling them whores, skanks, etc. and how she has her new team focused. (somewhere in this she brings up Total Divas to tie it to the angle)
7.) ToF run roughshod through the midcard and lose matches against the upper card by DQ (but leave their opponents laying in the process.)
The end.
Yeah. And when you go to the "FAQ" page to trouble shoot all it says is "Fuck you, that's why!!"
ReplyDelete"She was MINE...before she was YOURS!!! Oohooooh YEAH!!!"
ReplyDeleteYes. So when Clay/Tensai turn heel she'll take the heat. You can't turn the Funkadactyls heel because they are too popular now.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's less of a match for the music than the angle which would turn the team heel, but that's fine.
ReplyDeleteThe only problem I have is that prior to the 8 man tag, it feels more like Woods comes off like a heel to me...or at least an idiot.
He's already coming off like one. After the match on RAW he was screaming, "I GOT YA!!"
ReplyDeleteThe REAL problem is Clay/Tensai will get a face pop once they kick their asses.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not
ReplyDeleteHey, just do your job and you won't have anything to worry about... most likely.
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming it shows this image.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.memegeneokerlund.com/media/created/j8vd6n.jpg
Parallax = "Mr. Sensitivity"
ReplyDeleteI was just making an X-Pac heat reference, but moving her to them makes sense...as it does in the angle you outlined.
ReplyDeleteSo, do they eventually turn face, sort of like LOD and/or Demolition?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I knew what you were saying. She's just not well liked. But at least X-Pac could wrestle.
ReplyDeletethey will probably have to. If so they can blame Eva for misleading them, re-unite with the Funkadactyls and all is right with the world.
ReplyDeleteAs an addendum, I predict Tons of Funk gets renamed into the New Natural Disasters.
ReplyDeleteThis is the antenna: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009RPDP2Y/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1
ReplyDeleteAlthough i think an updated model has replaced it now.
Might be able to write something for ya next week but this week a bit busy with finals, a final paper, and moving on Saturday.
That reminds me of Hack Myers being billed from "The Last House on the Left".
ReplyDeletethey've done it multiple more times over the years since usually with corny Cena promos
ReplyDeleteYeah, that book will likely be the dullest read ever. About as exciting as a Lance Storm book...I take that back, at least Lance's e-books had some great Chris Jericho and ECW road stories.
ReplyDeleteWhy yes. Yes it does.
ReplyDeleteYeah, and I never had much of a problem with Waltman, at least not to the degree some have. As for Eva, or whatever the name of this girl is...yeah. I could live without her on my TV.
ReplyDelete< chuckle > So...does the music then come back around?
ReplyDeleteWell, at least it's consistent. In its own, WWE type consistency way.
ReplyDeleteMost likely, as I don't see Xavier Woods sticking around too long.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably the deepest I've ever gotten into "fantasy booking." So, if they get the music in question back, do they start dancing badly again? Bringing us around full circle? Where they lose any heat they built up? And then turn heel ag-
ReplyDelete***head explodes***
Pink fucking jeesus that was *so* retarded.
ReplyDeleteWhen a face turns heel (and I mean a full blown babyface, not a tweener like Austin or Punk) they have to totally recreate themselves. There should be a noticeable difference. So if Clay/Tensai go back to being babyface they can be the goofy dancing idiots but as heels them must be serious ass-kickers.
ReplyDeleteI really do hope there isn't a chapter about Virgil in the Patterson book!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I know; I get it. I'm just amused with projecting that they wind up coming back full circle to what they are now.
ReplyDeleteIf they want Brodus & Tensai as monster heels and the Funkadactyls as faces...how about having them become monster heels by TURNING ON the girls? They used to understand that sort of thing.
ReplyDeleteBut...that's not PG friendly...
ReplyDeleteThey don't have to beat them up. Just call them 'sluts' and throw water over them or something.
ReplyDeleteHow exactly do you propose they TURN ON the girls? I can't really see WWE Creative allowing Brodus and Tensai to fingerbang the Funkadactyls in the middle of the ring... oh now I see what you mean!
ReplyDeleteYeah, exactly. In the Attitude era, you could have them do their finishes on the girls and dance over their corpses before EMTs cart them out on stretchers. For now, they would have to just walk out on them during a beatdown by other girls, or call them "poopy" or something.
ReplyDeleteI see what you did there.
ReplyDeleteNice. I suppose that means a mostly daylight Wrestlemania, since it's west coast, but that could still be really cool
ReplyDeleteFuck yes! Tensai and Clay hitting some devastating tag team move on each girl and dancing over their broken carcasses would be the most heelish thing WWE has booked in a very long time, but it's not happening in the PG Era unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteWell AJ, I guess it's time for you to get ready to fly to another promotion.
ReplyDeleteOh not sarcastic at all. It makes perfect sense to, especially the younger couple theory.
ReplyDeleteBut don't they do that with most gimmicks? The most blatant one was Sgt. Slaughter> We're supposed to forget he was an Iraqi sympathizer and start chanting USA? (Same with Duggan and Team Canada.)
ReplyDeleteBig fat heel tag team. I can get behind this. I loved the natural disasters, akeem and bossman, even the two black dudes that randomly ran in on a mid 90's raw. This could be cool
ReplyDeleteThe top angles go on Raw, so that's where they'll do it!
ReplyDeleteIt would make more sense to have Cameron go heel and stay with Tons of Funk while Naomi stay a face and pair her up with her fiance Jimmy Uso and his brother. They pretty written all of the Total Diva relationships into the wrestling storylines except Naomi's anyway so they might as well do that. Besides while arguably Naomi comes off as the most likable of the Total Divas Cameron after Eva Marie arguably comes off as the least likable. Besides I get the sense that Cameron would make a good heel valet.
ReplyDeleteI agree with that when it comes to Cameron but Naomi is probably the most down to Earth one person in that entire cast.
ReplyDeleteKind of, sure. With Slaughter, I think most fans understood that the heel thing was more of an exception, and the turn back to face was so that he could retire that way. Plus, I don't think Slaughter's run was all that successful. We were really supposed to believe that Hogan wasn't going to win? There's a reason that WM moved from the Coliseum to the Sports Arena.
ReplyDeleteI don't really remember the Hacksaw thing, unless it was just for a SurSer?
To go back to Brodus, if he turns heel and has a good run as a "Monster" - to the point where he starts to be a face again - I think it would make more sense to slightly modify the character as it is then; not bring it back to what didn't work.
But, I know WWE creative, I know. Fuck me.
Yet again. Can't speak to that. Spoilers
ReplyDeleteThey sort of have the big fat heel team covered with the Wyatts though. Do we need two Monster Heel teams? Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I don't know that they need it.
ReplyDeleteHere's a question-jack. Could they do a traditional TLC Tag match with three tag teams at this point? Usos would be good to go. I think you could get the Shield in on the fun though it might be with Ambrose and Rollins as opposed to Mr. Reigns.
That works too. I can dig it
ReplyDeleteYou mean his mother's basement. Has to be his mother's basement.
ReplyDeleteI'm not even sure it would get booed. Not because it isn't heelish, but wrestling crowds are not known for their progressive views on women.
ReplyDeleteWelp, I might be going to my first WrestleMania...depending on where I get accepted college wise.
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