lazorbeak Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 I think you took what Lazor wrote way too personal. It was a joking comment. I think the major news outlets not reporting on Austin's issues has more to do with wrestling fans not being the "target audience" for the likes of CNN, Fox News, and CNBC. If they thought it would bring in major ratings then they would've reported on it whether or not WWE paid them off. Yes, it wasn't reported because it wasn't a story. Not because the WWE was writing checks to a bunch of media outlets post-XFL failure. What I said was pretty clearly a joke about how absurd the idea of a pro wrestling company paying off "the media" to not report a story. That's not how the news worked, then or now. The news makes stories out of the most basic storylines imaginable. Stone Cold hit Debra because steroids made him. Source: Sean Hannity, hard-hitting journalist(?) WWE forgot to bribe a few years down the road, when "the media" wanted to tell a story about steroid use: HANNITY: Was your husband violent? And do you attribute it to the use of steroids? MARSHALL: I tell you what. I know it was — contributed to the use of steroids, because I have seen the steroid rages. I have seen him being paranoid. I have seen his panic attacks. I mean, for three times, I'd seen him attack me — I mean, and at work people would know it, and they would cover the bruises on my face. Whoops, I guess their check bounced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayW Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Who is Ray Rice? Edit: Never mind I googled it and watched the knockout blow on the TMZ website. But honestly he doesn't have star power so of course he got thrown to the wolves. Millions of people know who John Cena is and WWE would be willing to protect their cash cow. Randy Orton is no where near as popular and his demons were protected. Wow, if that's how the American media works, count me lucky not to be there. Here in the UK the more famous you are, the harder you fall. Not even the Royal Family can "buy" the media to stop them from printing a story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Nection Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 HANNITY: Was your husband violent? And do you attribute it to the use of steroids? MARSHALL: I tell you what. I know it was — contributed to the use of steroids, because I have seen the steroid rages. I have seen him being paranoid. I have seen his panic attacks. I mean, for three times, I'd seen him attack me — I mean, and at work people would know it, and they would cover the bruises on my face. Whoops, I guess their check bounced. Another reason the story did not spread like wild fire is because it came from Fox News. Fox News is the most biased news reporting station and are the tabloids of television. This was the same news station trying to convince us that George Bush was a good president for 8 years. If you were a Republican you are cast as a martyr if your a democrat you're hung out to dry and if they could not find anything on you they would run a speculation piece that makes it sound like you done something wrong. You and me are not going to agree on this subject so I say we are done talking. We agree to disagree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crownsy Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Who is Ray Rice? Edit: Never mind I googled it and watched the knockout blow on the TMZ website. But honestly he doesn't have star power so of course he got thrown to the wolves. Millions of people know who John Cena is and WWE would be willing to protect their cash cow. Randy Orton is no where near as popular and his demons were protected. Ray Rice was a SB winning RB and was one of the biggest stars of the Ravens. Sure, he's not Manning, Brady, Rogers, ect, but I'd say he was a pretty flipping big star at the time. OF course he's disgraced now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Nection Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 So Hulk Hogan was dropped out of the 2k16 video game and replaced with Terminator...that's interesting. http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2015/07/26/hulk-hogan-dropped-from-wwe-2k16/ Love the preview video! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teh_Showtime Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 I'm sure he was already going to be in considering the amount of cross promotion they have been doing this year, it only makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Nection Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 I'm sure he was already going to be in considering the amount of cross promotion they have been doing this year, it only makes sense. Curious because they are having a ton of old timers like Brutus The Barber Beefcake and Andre The Giant...They were even going to have a DLC package featuring Hulk Hogan...10 bucks says they just insert Terminator in the spot and call the story a "What If" angle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rd_dbacks01 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 TMZ is reporting that Rowdy Roddy Piper has died at the age of 61. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Unfortunately, that is confirmed... http://nodq.com/wwe/440386961.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Roguey Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Wow. Just wow. No words. Been a pretty sucky time to be a relatively long term fan of wrestling. Dusty and Piper in the same space of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Swanton825 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Wow. Just wow. No words. Been a pretty sucky time to be a relatively long term fan of wrestling. Dusty and Piper in the same space of time. Not to mention Buddy Landel and Verne Gagne. RIP Hot Rod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 I want to throw something off of my window and cry. This is really unbelievable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukess11 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 RIP Hot Rod. He ran out of bubblegum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Nection Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Wow another child hood favorite gone...This has been the worst year for me in a long time for this sort of thing R.I.P. Roddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russelrules44 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 R.I.P Roddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Final Countdown Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Damn. Quite possibly the two best talkers in wrestling history have both passed within two months of each other. We'll never see their like again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stennick Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Damn. Quite possibly the two best talkers in wrestling history have both passed within two months of each other. We'll never see their like again. You're right we will never see two guys that can talk like they can. For my money Piper was a lot better than Dusty as far as talking. Piper seemed to be able to cut a promo face or heel to where as Dusty's heel stuff doesn't compare with his American Dream stuff. But damn was Dusty the perfect face for Flair or what. Its kind of a shame that Dusty didn't get a big title run during the Horsemen era especially weird since he was their main and natural foil being the Common Man for their lavish, outlandish, arrogant characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackman Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Wow, a lot of good seems to have happened in a month. Sasha + Charlotte = win for the divas (at least on paper, I should check the actual matches). WWE should watch out about the sick kids treatment. Having them meet Cena is awesome, but send more jobbers like Stardust at them and they might actually feel like a loser. (No, I kid, it's still a very positive action). And RIP Roddy. One of the best talkers ever. Always so full of energy. Great that Rousey gave him some credit after her match. The thing I remember most (bit too young for him) is a segment from TNA where he did a shoot speech. Good stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milamber Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 The wrestlers wearing Hot Rod shirts was a nice touch. Heyman and the Divas tag match were good but Rollins & Neville stole the show. http://33.media.tumblr.com/b4ad8309799155183dab69daf5a2741d/tumblr_nsj97mTaAH1rnjfjfo1_r1_400.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKOwnage Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 As a non-Cody Rhodes fan, . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milamber Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 As a non-Cody Rhodes fan, . Great video. I hope the fans get behind the Cody/Neville/Arrow feud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russelrules44 Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 As a non-Cody Rhodes fan, . I love their feud. I absolutely love this feud, and i'm not even a comic books guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rone Rivendale Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Stardust IS amazing. When WWE had a sale recently for buy one get one half off t-shirts, I got me a Stardust shirt (and got my Mom a Reigns shirt). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Nection Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 As a non-Cody Rhodes fan, . They need to give this man the mic waaaayyy more often then they do! That was awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_CoC Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Damn Stardust is killing it! Also they need to tighten up the Divas storyline, even though so far it is awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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