# Any WWE fans in the audience? (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** boxing-wrestling-mma\ **Created:** [June 5, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124 "2014-06-05T15:34:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 406
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8105 "2019-03-05T19:32:22Z")
The former Enzo Amore did a tribute post to Bundy wherein he confused Bundy with George “The Animal” Steele. Good on ya ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8106 "2019-03-06T01:42:38Z")
I have very dim memories of “Big Daddy” Bundy (with hair) in WCCW turning heel by tossing someone (I presume a Von Erich) into an outside ringpost. Granted, the list of people I used to watch as a kid in WCCW who are now dead is a depressingly long one. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8107 "2019-03-06T08:33:00Z")
wow the 70s-80s are fading fast in wrestling and rock …… ---
**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:** [March 6, 2019, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8108 "2019-03-06T10:10:58Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Not to mention the Rhonda/Becky/Charlotte thing is SO MUCH OVERBOOKING. To quote something I posted on another board; > [@Smapti](#): > > Scenario: The winner of the Royal Rumble gets a world championship match at WrestleMania. > > Common sense logic: Give the winner of the Royal Rumble gets a world championship match at WrestleMania. > > WWE Logic: Give the winner of the Royal Rumble gets a world championship match at WrestleMania, but then have an authority figure suspend her, have her assault said authority figure, have the authority figure threaten to take away her match unless she apologizes, have her apologize, have a different authority figure give the match to another wrestler anyway, re-suspend her, have her appear at every single televised show despite said suspension, have her arrested after she criminally assaults several of the aforementioned people, have the champion vacate her title because she doesn’t want to fight the winner’s replacement, let the champ shoot on the winner on social media and openly declare the sport is fake and accuse the winner of being a transsexual, un-suspend the winner for no reason and put her in a match against her replacement for the vacated title, have the champ come back on the same night and un-vacate the title, and re-stipulate the previously announced match so that if the Royal Rumble winner wins she gets added to the match she already earned the right to be in in the first place. It all speaks to the mentality the bookers seem to have in this day and age where the soap opera nonsense is what’s most important and the actual wrestling is an _afterthought_, so you can’t just have a “popular babyface going for the title” feud without involving multiple authority figures and convolutions and secondary heels and meta-shoots and suspensions and actual shoots and elements that get introduced and abandoned haphazardly because the people writing the show keep changing it as they go along. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ronda winds up defending her title against Roman Reigns. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8109 "2019-03-06T10:17:16Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > To quote something I posted on another board; > A thousand times this. It all speaks to the mentality the bookers seem to have in this day and age where the soap opera nonsense is what’s most important and the actual wrestling is an _afterthought_,. hasn’t this been a complaint/said about the wwe since vince took it over 30-40 years ago? ---
**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:** [March 6, 2019, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8110 "2019-03-06T10:30:29Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > hasn’t this been a complaint/said about the wwe since vince took it over 30-40 years ago? Honestly, Vince would probably be a lot happier if he were running Saturday Night Live instead of being in the business he’s in. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8111 "2019-03-06T14:25:24Z")
I heard the reason Arn Anderson was let go was because he’s Alicia Fox’s agent, and she showed up drunk, but he let her go on anyway. Seems like there would be a lot more to it than that. Not being sober used to be a requirement. ---
**Author:** ![LibSuperstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@LibSuperstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LibSuperstar)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8112 "2019-03-06T20:20:51Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#): > > I heard the reason Arn Anderson was let go was because he’s Alicia Fox’s agent, and she showed up drunk, but he let her go on anyway. > > Seems like there would be a lot more to it than that. Not being sober used to be a requirement. Well according to what I just read on another forum Meltzer says there’s at least 5 versions of the story going around that suggest there was more to it. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8113 "2019-03-07T01:03:58Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I heard the reason Arn Anderson was let go was because he’s Alicia Fox’s agent, and she showed up drunk, but he let her go on anyway. > > Seems like there would be a lot more to it than that. Not being sober used to be a requirement. Not anymore, at least in WWE.\* And who can forget Sting vs Jeff Hardy in TNA? Supposedly, that was the last but not the only nail in AA’s coffin. And Alicia Foxx is currently MIA and allegedly has turned down a WWE rehab offer. \*With McMahon, especially if Anderson was already on the outs, I could see this going either way. “What, you sat her just cause she had a couple of drinks?! You’re fired!” or “What, you let her wrestle in that condition?! You’re fired!” McMahon strikes me as someone who you have to be careful around as you can tick him off no matter what you do. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8114 "2019-03-07T01:34:21Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Neither of those have any chance of happening. Certainly not while Linda sits in the US Cabinet. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8115 "2019-03-07T01:39:16Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I heard the reason Arn Anderson was let go was because he’s Alicia Fox’s agent, and she showed up drunk, but he let her go on anyway. > > Seems like there would be a lot more to it than that. Not being sober used to be a requirement. Jim Ross was fired for ‘allowing’ Ric Flair to get drunk during an event. Not really a job I would want in WWE. Especially when you hear so many people in in the business laughing on podcasts about having being drunk off their asses and you see their DUIs on the news. And people like Pat McAfee laughing about being blackout drunk on Wrestling podcasts and in association with WWE events. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8116 "2019-03-07T03:06:31Z")
Tommaso Ciampa is undergoing neck surgery and is expected to be out for anywhere from 6 to 14 months, so he’ll likely be vacating the NXT title very soon. I imagine Takeover: NY will have some sort of multi-man match or a one-night tournament to crown a new champ. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8117 "2019-03-07T03:26:13Z")
> [@](#): > > I imagine Takeover: NY will have some sort of multi-man match or a one-night tournament to crown a new champ. Dream On. _Dream vs. Gargano_ ---
**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:** [March 7, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8118 "2019-03-07T14:05:10Z")
Colby Corino was on 205 Live! I saw him in EVOLVE a few weeks ago. He did what he does best, got beat up! Oney Lorkin is looking scary good. He lit up Umberto like a California forest fire. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8119 "2019-03-07T20:41:49Z")
Next year’s Wrestlemania was officially announced to be in my sunny neighbor of Tampa! The logo looks all kinds of kick ass. Looks like Mrs. Cups and I have a road trip ahead of us! ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8120 "2019-03-08T00:45:09Z")
I thought jim ross left wwe years ago when he started doing the npjw stuff for axxs but I guess not but it seems he doesn’t wanna leave : [https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/beloved-pro-wrestling-announcer-jim-ross-is-leaving-wwe/ar-BBUvseW#page=2](https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/beloved-pro-wrestling-announcer-jim-ross-is-leaving-wwe/ar-BBUvseW#page=2) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8121 "2019-03-08T09:03:06Z")
Another timeline slip. Dammit. Why is it always the little details, like what insignificant celebrity is dead or things like this? ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8122 "2019-03-09T16:10:49Z")
And the winner of the 2019 “I’m on the Annual Report” push is… Hmmm…looks like there are a lot of winners this year. I’m not entirely sure I recognize everybody, but I think it’s: Seth Rollins Alexa Bliss Shelton Benjamin Ronda Rousey Roman Reigns Becky Lynch Braun Strowman Charlotte Naomi Rey Mysterio Asuka Somebody correct me if I’m wrong; [here is a picture of the cover](https://imgur.com/a/8DgJred) ---
**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:** [March 9, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8123 "2019-03-09T20:15:03Z")
Not Shelton Benjamin. That’s Bobby Lashley. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124/8124 "2019-03-09T20:46:55Z")
funny since rousey is supposedly at an "this has been fun but im over it " stage and leaving possibly after WM or summerslam [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124.md?page=405) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-wwe-fans-in-the-audience-part-1/690124.md?page=407)