Might be looking to lose another one
Jimmy Snuka has stomach cancer
ETA: And now this: Maybe Adam Rose and Brad Maddoxwon’t be released after all. Hoooooly Crap.
Well, at least they’re not dying in their 30s this year…
Year’s not over yet.
ETA: nm, forgot about Perro
I dunno, sets up the Leo Krueger turn.
He and Brad teaming against, I dunno, The Ascension and losing. The Ascension leaves them laying in the ring and walks out. Bray and Luke Harper come out to the ring. Bray gets on the mic and taunts ‘Leo’ for being a loser. For trying to be the happy go lucky party animal and failing. For winning Rosa, and where is she now? To teaming with the bottom of the barrel and losing to nobody of importance. “But Leo, I know who you are. I know what you’re capable of. You’re better than this. You’re better than him. Pick yourself up Leo. Stop playing at adapting to the world. Come with me and be who you really are.”
Adam Rose starts to come to him.
“Oh but first, show yourself, show everyone, who you are, Leo”.
Leo utterly destroys Brad Maddox in a very brutal manner.
And walks off with Bray and Harper.
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Last night’s montage of Roddy Piper really got to me. Look at him smiling in all those shots, he was having so much fun the whole time. And there he was as a kid developing his character too. What a performer!
Right now, that Big Game Hunter character could draw massive heat.
For that to happen it would take the team debuting on RAW, having a rivalry with someone in order to establish the team/characters, then have them slowly lose and get fed up with each other and then have the turn.
No one would give them the time, so for that to happen you might as well just have Bray say “we got a new one” and show him.
I can’t see Adam Rose being in the family unless they completely change him and drop his accent. There’s no way the campy british accent will work menacingly, and even his Kruger accent would be silly.
The only down-and-out person I can see being added to the family is Bo.
On an unrelated note, here’s the current card for Triplemania this Sunday;
- Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Myzteziz (i.e. Sin Cara I)
- Hair-vs-hair match: Alberto El Patron vs. Cage
- Los Psycho Circus vs. Los Villanos
- Blue Demon Jr. & La Parka vs. El Mesias (i.e. Mil Muertes) & Electroshock
- Triple threat trios championship match; Cibernetico, Chessman, & Charlie Manson © vs. Jack Evans, Angelico, & Fenix vs. El Hijo del Fantasma (i.e. King Cuerno), Pentagon Jr., & Texano
- Australian rules eight-man tag match; Drago, Goya Kong, Dinasta & Pimpinela Escarlata vs. Daga, Sexy Star, Mini Psycho Clown & Mamba
It’s going to be available on PPV for $29.95 with pretty much every US cable/satellite provider, with full English commentary by Matt Striker and Hugo Savinovich (formerly part of WWE’s Spanish commentary team, and married to Wendi Richter of all people). It looks like it’s set to be a pretty entertaining show, especially the trios title match, so odds are I’ll be checking it out.
Speaking of non WWE wrestling…
Whats this I hear about Lucha Underground being cancelled? I thought they were doing gangbusters in the wrestling world.
Is it just because they’re on a shitty channel?
I haven’t heard anything about LU being cancelled. Everyone is saying season 2 is going to happen - however, they haven’t done any tapings yet, and the Temple set was scrapped a few months ago after they taped Ultima Lucha. (I assume they’ll be remodeling the set for the next season.)
LU is pretty much owned by the El Rey Network and Ricardo Rodriguez, so it’s unlikely he’d can his own baby unless they absolutely couldn’t sell ad time.
If they haven’t even started taping LU season 2 yet, we’re probably due for a few months of reruns. DA has dropped the RoH repeats (for now), and TNA will eventually fade off into the night, so Wednesday night is looking less crowded.
Jack Evans, Angelico and Fenix in a Trios team? That sounds all sorts of insane. $30 though? That’s a quarter of my food budget for a week. How dare you suggest that I starve my family? (Channeling broomstick) 
Hugo Savinovich is Vampiro’s co-host for the Spanish version of LU. He’s like the wrestling equivalent of the soccer announcer who screams GOOOOOOOOOAAAAALLLL!!!
I don’t think Adam Rose will ever become Leo Kruger at this point. The Wyatts are fine with Rowan eventually returning. I think that rumor started with Cageside Seats. The CS blogger checks the accuracy of his rumors 6 months after the fact, and his average is roughly 52%.
Haven’t watched the rest of RAW yet, but the opening match between Rollins and Neville kicked ass all over that arena. So many WOW moments. I think it inspired the guys in the following 8-man match to step it up.
hehehe I just now got that.
Critical acclaim and financial success are not the same thing 
From what I’ve read, El Ray has sent them an offer to renew, but what they’re offering is not enough to cover projected production costs.
This report says that, as of last December, El Ray was selling 30-second commercial spots for $300.
If it’s still at a point where I could literally buy airtime just to advertise this thread on pretty much a whim, that’s not a good thing, no matter how much we like it.
haha. Anyone good with video software? We could all record ourselves on Skype and edit it together…
“Hi I’m dzeiger”
“I’m Knowed out”
“I’m Smapti”
“And I’m Sir T-Cups, we’re here to talk to you about the Straight Dope Message Board where you can talk to all of us about wrestling…”
Then you’ll get a flood of new members posting to the thread.
OK, maybe 5. 6 if there’s nothing else on.
Well, if somebody else starts it, I’ll make one. Shouldn’t be too hard to piece them together.
The WWE Network is a success, financially for them at least. Not sure how it turns out for fans.
I would bet that there is some…ahem…creative ways of reporting those numbers, but if it’s economical for fans? Very much so. Ms Cups and I enjoy watching NXT, PPVs and the shows very much and it’s well worth the 10 bucks a month for us
I think the economics of joining the network are just too good. Now maybe it includes all those free subscriptions they’ve been handing out so the numbers could be rigged. However, this may lock them permanently into the PG mode. Good for the competition if they can understand the value of at least an R rating.
Except there was some BS a week or two about them separating the PPVs from the network and charging an extra couple of bucks for each one.
That would be an extraordinarily STUPID idea. I bought the network FOR the PPVs.