# Any Pro Wrestling Fans in the Audience? (Multiple promotions) (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** boxing-wrestling-mma\ **Created:** [May 13, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374 "2022-05-13T17:23:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/201 "2022-07-22T18:51:33Z")
Hunter has his old job as EVP of Talent back. > **[Huge Update On Triple H’s Backstage WWE Position](https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2022/07/triple-h-backstage-wwe-position/)** > > Paul Levesque recently returned to the WWE Performance Center with the words "I'm back," and a new update from WWE clarifies the situation. Time will tell whether this results in more competent booking going forward. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/202 "2022-07-22T21:02:42Z")
And Vince McMahon has announced his retirement as CEO of WWE. > **[Vince McMahon announces retirement from WWE amid misconduct investigation](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vince-mcmahon-announces-retirement-wwe-misconduct-investigation-rcna39647)** > > The resignation comes one month after the pro wrestling magnate agreed to take a break from his role as CEO of WWE as the company investigated misconduct claims. This leaves the company in the hands of co-CEOs Stephanie McMahon and Nick Khan. Holy shit. End of an era. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/203 "2022-07-22T21:44:44Z")
More important,it seems Vince is stepping away from creative. Dunn and Pritchard will sadly carry on the shitty booking and pacing, but maybe the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t an approaching train. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/204 "2022-07-22T23:39:33Z")
The plot thickens - Brock Lesnar has apparently pulled a CM Punk upon hearing the news and declared “If he’s gone, I’m gone.” > **[What Did Brock Lesnar Say Before Walking Out Of WWE SmackDown?](https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2022/07/what-did-brock-lesnar-say-before-walking-out-of-wwe-smackdown/)** > > Brock Lesnar apparently delivered something of an ultimatum when he left tonight's edition of "WWE SmackDown." ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/205 "2022-07-23T00:47:14Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Dunn and Pritchard will sadly carry on the shitty booking and pacing, but maybe the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t an approaching train. There are rumors that Dunn is on his way out too. [https://twitter.com/TheLouisDangoor/status/1550625850227408897](https://twitter.com/TheLouisDangoor/status/1550625850227408897) Meanwhile, Cultaholic is reporting that WWE’s Plan B for Reigns’s opponent at SummerSlam is… of course… Goldberg. > Fuck’s sake, why can’t we get someone to main-event SummerSlam who’s _here every week?_ ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/206 "2022-07-23T02:33:46Z")
Well, Brock Lesnar appeared at the end of SmackDown and beat the hell out of Theory, so now, I don’t know _what_ to believe. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/207 "2022-07-23T03:04:20Z")
Lesnar showed up. No way Goldberg can sub for him against Roman, one of the guys needs to know how to wrestle. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/208 "2022-07-23T03:08:33Z")
Someone finally convinced him Vince’s legal problems and subsequent retirement wasn’t part of a scripted routine this time. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/209 "2022-07-23T03:21:45Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Fuck’s sake, why can’t we get someone to main-event SummerSlam who’s _here every week?_ Because ~20 years ago, WWE (Vince) forgot how to build more than 1 credible contender at a time. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/210 "2022-07-23T03:24:12Z")
You dare blaspheme against your Tribal Chief? ACKNOWLEDGE HIM. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/211 "2022-07-23T03:29:57Z")
is there any place where i can hear podcasts on the PC other than youtube? cause I know jim C is gonna have at least one whole show on vince and HHH but YT’s usually 1-2 weeks behind , ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/212 "2022-07-23T06:01:31Z")
Cornette’s show is syndicated on Podcast Addict. > **[Jim Cornette Experience - via Podcast Addict](https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3225086)** > > Jim Cornette hits you with his blunt and uncensored take on professional wrestling, entertainment, politics and more! ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/213 "2022-07-23T08:51:22Z")
thanks ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/214 "2022-07-23T13:23:44Z")
I skipped SD because I thought it was just going to be the same old shit over and over again. Apparently I was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/215 "2022-07-24T01:59:24Z")
Claudio Castagnoli is now ROH World Champion. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/216 "2022-07-24T03:25:58Z")
Once the shock of Vince retiring wears off here’s what needs to happen : first off trips needs to take a week and put nxt back the way he had it … second he and Steph need to go to Louisville and talk/bribe a certain someone into a “book /work/advise from home” scenario and have him and paul Heyman fix the rest of the WWE… ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/217 "2022-07-24T04:27:18Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > second he and Steph need to go to Louisville and talk/bribe a certain someone into a “book /work/advise from home” scenario and have him and paul Heyman fix the rest of the WWE… Aside from the fact that there probably isn’t any amount of money that would convince Corny to work for any peomotiin at this point, let alone for a McMahon, his booking style is way too old-fashioned to work these days. The way to fix a company that’s stuck in the '90s isn’t to hire a guy who’s stuck in the '70s and wishes he were stuck in the '40s. Assuming that Dunn, Prichard, and Laurianaitis are all done, Hunter is probably capable of building a better WWE along the lines he did in NXT. Let people wrestle under their established names, acknowledge that wrestling exists outside WWE, keep the comedy and profession-as-wrestler gimmicks to a minimum, let the talent be themselves instead of reading scripts, and treat the production like it’s a wrestling show instead of a soap opera about a wrestling show. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/218 "2022-07-24T07:41:36Z")
Corny has a special episode out with his thoughts about Vince’s departure. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hbac6fPdg-I/maxresdefault.jpg "Jim Cornette on Vince McMahon Announcing His Retirement") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbac6fPdg-I) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/219 "2022-07-24T08:11:51Z")
wow the rumor mills are on fire tho I’ve never seen more WWE media discussions than in the past 24 hours ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374/220 "2022-07-24T11:48:35Z")
Whew, you were saying Corny wants to recreate the 40s? Go further back. “Charwoman” dates back to the 16th century and refers to the gal who cleans the offices after the menfolk go home. It’s hard to believe Vince won’t still have influence over the WWE product, but I’m hoping Corny’s prediction that HHH will steer the ship from now on holds true. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-pro-wrestling-fans-in-the-audience-multiple-promotions-part-2/964374.md?page=12)