The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania XL - 6/7 April 2024

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by Slimgrady » Tue May 09, 2017 11:03 am

Pretty sure WWE couldn't get any programming on terrestrial TV or any other channel that isn't Sky owned unfortunately, not even sure they'd want to these days either with all their focus seemingly to get eyes on the network.

Takeovers used to always take place on random Wednesdays before so plenty have happened outside the big 4 weekends I believe.

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by Return_of_the_STAR » Tue May 09, 2017 5:33 pm

I'm here at the O2 arena for SD Live . Anyone else here or am I the only idiot who bought tickets?

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by KK » Tue May 09, 2017 6:54 pm

I'm there in spirit...

I wonder if they're going to tape 205 Live before SD tonight instead of after?

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by Return_of_the_STAR » Tue May 09, 2017 8:41 pm

KK wrote:I'm there in spirit...

I wonder if they're going to tape 205 Live before SD tonight instead of after?


They've gone for SD first then 205 with the promise of Nakamura v Ziggler afterwards if u stick around.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread II
by Return_of_the_STAR » Tue May 09, 2017 8:54 pm

Wow people are actually leaving before 205.

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by Skippy » Tue May 09, 2017 9:10 pm

Saw on Twitter there were "Fire Bradshaw" chants, was that true? If so how loud was it?

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by Return_of_the_STAR » Tue May 09, 2017 9:15 pm

Skippy wrote:Saw on Twitter there were "Fire Bradshaw" chants, was that true? If so how loud was it?


Seemed very loud where I am. Most of them though weren't while they were recording. The biggest was when he came out before they started filming.

Overall I'm not sure how the chants will come across. Raw seemed dead last night on TV. The crowd seem loud tonight, probably the loudest I remember at a live event I've been too in certain parts. but the sound doesn't seem right on the big screen as it's very hard to understand what they are saying on the backstage skits so I wonder if they've not got things set up right.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread II
by KK » Tue May 09, 2017 10:48 pm

Beginning tonight, 205 Live has been cut to 30 minutes; Talking Smack moving to 3:30am.

May as well just scrap it and bring back Shotgun, Sunday Night Heat or any number of other legacy shows.

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by Return_of_the_STAR » Wed May 10, 2017 1:26 am

KK wrote:Beginning tonight, 205 Live has been cut to 30 minutes; Talking Smack moving to 3:30am.

May as well just scrap it and bring back Shotgun, Sunday Night Heat or any number of other legacy shows.


That's odd. They definitely shot more than 30 mins of footage for 205. Two matches, an in ring segment and backstage segment.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread II
by KK » Wed May 10, 2017 9:47 pm

Yeah, it aired for 47 minutes. I can only presume WWE are advertising a 10:30 start to artificially jack up the viewership for Talking Smack. On the listings on the WWE Network however, they've got 205 for 10:45pm.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread II
by Return_of_the_STAR » Wed May 10, 2017 10:11 pm

The odd thing I noticed about SD last night was that they didn't show the inring footage on the big screen. Every other time I've been to watch it live they've shown the action in the screen as well.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread II
by Mafro » Wed May 10, 2017 10:17 pm

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:The odd thing I noticed about SD last night was that they didn't show the inring footage on the big screen. Every other time I've been to watch it live they've shown the action in the screen as well.

They stopped that because apparently they didn't like it when they went to crowd shots for TV and everyone was looking at the screen rather than the ring. When I was at Raw in Glasgow they showed it on the big screen ever so often but not all the time, it was really annoying because when anyone was fighting outside the ring you couldn't see what was going on at all.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread II
by Return_of_the_STAR » Wed May 10, 2017 11:26 pm

Mafro wrote:
Return_of_the_STAR wrote:The odd thing I noticed about SD last night was that they didn't show the inring footage on the big screen. Every other time I've been to watch it live they've shown the action in the screen as well.

They stopped that because apparently they didn't like it when they went to crowd shots for TV and everyone was looking at the screen rather than the ring. When I was at Raw in Glasgow they showed it on the big screen ever so often but not all the time, it was really annoying because when anyone was fighting outside the ring you couldn't see what was going on at all.


Yeah I found this a big problem last night. I hadn't been to a taping for 6 years. The fact that you could switch from watching on the screen to the actual ring was great in the past.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread II
by Return_of_the_STAR » Thu May 11, 2017 12:54 am

Brie and Daniel Bryan have had their baby. They appear to have called it Birdie. Not clear if that's her name or a nickname.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread II
by Cumberdanes » Thu May 11, 2017 8:56 pm

They are kind of a non-entity these days but Billy Corgan is buying/has bought the NWA.

http://whatculture.com/wwe/billy-corgan-to-purchase-the-national-wrestling-alliance

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread II
by Return_of_the_STAR » Sat May 13, 2017 6:24 pm

WWE November tour

Nov 1 - Glasgow, Scotland (Raw)
Nov 2 - Brighton, England (Raw)
Nov 3 - London, England (Raw)
Nov 4 - Barcelona, Spain (SmackDown)
Nov 4 - Minehead, England (Raw)
Nov 5 - Madrid, Spain (SmackDown)
Nov 5 - Cardiff, Wales (Raw)
Nov 6 - Manchester, England (Raw taping)
Nov 7 - Manchester, England (SmackDown & 205 Live taping)
Nov 8 - Dortmund, Germany (Raw)
Nov 8 - Leeds, England (SmackDown)
Nov 9 - Leipzig, Germany (Raw)
Nov 10 - Hamburg, Germany (Raw)
Nov 10 - Milan, Italy (SmackDown)
Nov 11 - Mannheim, Germany (Raw)
Nov 11 - Padova, Italy (SmackDown)
Nov 12 - Florence, Italy (SmackDown)

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread II
by BAKA » Sun May 14, 2017 3:44 pm

Guess I'm not going in November after all as they're not coming here this year by the look of it...

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by Return_of_the_STAR » Sun May 14, 2017 4:28 pm

BAKA wrote:Guess I'm not going in November after all as they're not coming here this year by the look of it...


Yeah it seems pretty light on UK dates looking at it.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread II
by KK » Sun May 14, 2017 5:32 pm

What with us also getting our own UK-based show, maybe them don't want to risk burning out the audience.

Coupled with NXT, they are here a lot now throughout the year.

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by Return_of_the_STAR » Sun May 14, 2017 5:59 pm

KK wrote:What with us also getting our own UK-based show, maybe them don't want to risk burning out the audience.

Coupled with NXT, they are here a lot now throughout the year.


Yeah I was surprised to see nxt are over here in June with quite a few shows in large arenas, only a month after the may tour.

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