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October Wrasslin' |OT| I'm seein' double here...

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serenewarfare

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Here's the issue with "every wrestler is realizing there's money outside WWE". There's not infinite money. Guys like Cody, Omega, and The Young Bucks have set a precedent, sure, but not only is it hard to follow, it's unsustainable if everyone tries to leave and chase it. The more guys that leave with the idea of "I can make money elsewhere", the less money there is to make. There are only so many spots on hot indie cards after all.

And I'm sure the wrestlers realize this, which is why you haven't really seen people leaving with any sort of regularity.

Angry Grimace said:
I can't wait for the Bucks to put out a shirt with a horribly rendered black and white reproduction of the Jimmy Jacobs photograph and then underneath that the legend "Jimmy Jacobs got fired from WWE."

The internet wrestling community will collectively bust a nut and will bust a further nut when they release the "PAC quit WWE because he didn't like the booking" shirt.
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Jimmy Jacobs already did that himself twelve hours ago.

http://www.prowrestlingtees.com/unprofessional.html
 
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Mahonay

Banned
excelsiorlef said:
Lol the dark match after Smackdown wats Jinder vs Ziggles vs Roode
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TarpitCarnivore

Member
serenewarfare said:
Here's the issue with "every wrestler is realizing there's money outside WWE". There's not infinite money. Guys like Cody, Omega, and The Young Bucks have set a precedent, sure, but not only is it hard to follow, it's unsustainable if everyone tries to leave and chase it. The more guys that leave with the idea of "I can make money elsewhere", the less money there is to make. There are only so many spots on hot indie cards after all.
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I think Cody is an outlier here because of his family's history and his career in WWE. He also immediately got in with Bullet Club. If Lars Sullivan drops out of NXT he aint going to see the same level of interest, not even close.

A guy like Neville can command the payday and treatment, no doubt he's proven he deserves it. But if AJ, Sami, Gallagher, Rusev all left at the same time after Neville there is't going to be infinite money to court them in.
 
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Deleted member 47027

Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, Ryback's wallet isn't really lighting up the charts compared to the Yang Backs.
 
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Mahonay

Banned
serenewarfare said:
Here's the issue with "every wrestler is realizing there's money outside WWE". There's not infinite money. Guys like Cody, Omega, and The Young Bucks have set a precedent, sure, but not only is it hard to follow, it's unsustainable if everyone tries to leave and chase it. The more guys that leave with the idea of "I can make money elsewhere", the less money there is to make. There are only so many spots on hot indie cards after all.

And I'm sure the wrestlers realize this, which is why you haven't really seen people leaving with any sort of regularity.
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I agree. But if you're a proven top worker and fan favorite like Neville, you're definitely more able to do it and it's not as big of a risk.
Sunnybuns said:
Yeah, Ryback's wallet isn't really lighting up the charts compared to the Yang Backs.
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Because it's Ryback.
 
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BewareTheBatsie

Member
Ryback was also charging like 4000 bucks an appearance with only a discount if you were a well known independent place IIRC so no wonder nobody is forking out cash for him.
 
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British Monsoon

Member
There's money to be made, but there's a limit for sure - but I think the biggest thing that puts off those who are dissatisfied is that it's hard fuckin work. People shit on the Bucks as performers, but they put in a ton of graft inside and outside of the ring to make the business work for them. A guy like Drew made such big splash because he was willing to work for less than you'd expect of a former WWE superstar, he was willing to keep an insane international schedule to get his name out there and he was willing to adapt his style to suit most, if not all of the indie environments he found himself in. Not everyone's going to put the work in, and guys like Curt Hawkins found out that it's a lot harder than just showing up in PWG.
 
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Sweeney Tom

Banned
PWInsider said:
One source claimed a souring point was being left off of the Wrestlemania 33 DVD, which meant no royalties from what is traditionally the biggest selling WWE DVD of the year.
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In case anyone still thinks a "billion" "dollar" "company" can't be cheap

#TeamNeville
#FuckDubyaDubyaE
#WorkersRightsAlways
 
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Deleted member 47027

Unconfirmed Member
Mahonay said:
Because it's Ryback.
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Yeah, that's my whole point. Plenty of folks walk away and ain't shit. Ryback at least has his body going for him, but...yeah.

British Monsoon said:
There's money to be made, but there's a limit for sure - but I think the biggest thing that puts off those who are dissatisfied is that it's hard fuckin work. People shit on the Bucks as performers, but they put in a ton of graft inside and outside of the ring to make the business work for them. A guy like Drew made such big splash because he was willing to work for less than you'd expect of a former WWE superstar, he was willing to keep an insane international schedule to get his name out there and he was willing to adapt his style to suit most, if not all of the indie environments he found himself in. Not everyone's going to put the work in, and guys like Curt Hawkins found out that it's a lot harder than just showing up in PWG.
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Yes. Cody is working far more than he was in WWE, not just matches, but he's taking a crazy amount of bookings and busting his ass to make money. Way more ass bustin' than WWE.
 
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Pikma

Banned
British Monsoon said:
There's money to be made, but there's a limit for sure - but I think the biggest thing that puts off those who are dissatisfied is that it's hard fuckin work. People shit on the Bucks as performers, but they put in a ton of graft inside and outside of the ring to make the business work for them. A guy like Drew made such big splash because he was willing to work for less than you'd expect of a former WWE superstar, he was willing to keep an insane international schedule to get his name out there and he was willing to adapt his style to suit most, if not all of the indie environments he found himself in. Not everyone's going to put the work in, and guys like Curt Hawkins found out that it's a lot harder than just showing up in PWG.
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Wait, Curt Hawkins worked PWG?
 
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Zach

Member
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Pikma

Banned
Neville has been on nothing but preshows preshows preshows preshows for the last 6 months

But but but he was booked great! How can someone booked so great walk out?
 
Tom Nook

Tom Nook

Member
Tonight is the Night.

Thursday Night Fuckball vs GWF 9.

PHI vs CAR
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Sephzilla said:
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GWF 9: The Mega Huggers Explode!
Date: Thursday, October 12th, 2017
Time: 7:00PM Eastern/6:00PM Central/12:00AM London
Where: Live from the Z-Pak Zone on www.twitch.tv/sephzilla - Replay will be available on YouTube

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Pre-Show Match
giancarlo123x vs sf2fanatic


Fatal Four Way
NeoGAF Vince McMahon Sunnybuns vs BronsonLee vs imBask vs klonere



Triple Threat Match
OwensIsNow vs Mahonay vs Excelsiorlef


Singles Match
Recall vs Heroman


Singles Match
Ithil vs SomewhatGroovy



Hardcore Match
Biggest-Geek-Ever vs Zach

GWF World Championship Singles Match
BewareTheBatsie vs Professor Beef [C]

BONUS NOTE: The winner of BewareTheBatsie vs Professor Beef will defend the GWF Championship against sf2fanatic at GWF 10
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BewareTheBatsie

Member
:(

you guys wait until it's been twelve years and it's time for my gimmick to adopt cena's shooting then you'll all be sorry!

but for now i'll salute as my new movie the markine drops and my new album you better give up drops and makes seph more money or whatever else cena did in the mid 2000's
 
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