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

[Return_of_the_STAR]

I wonder what the chance is of MJF being the surprise entrant in the men's MITB match. I know he should still be under contract at AEW but he could have bought himself out or something.

[gaminglegend]

I wonder what the chance is of MJF being the surprise entrant in the men's MITB match. I know he should still be under contract at AEW but he could have bought himself out or something.

Can’t see it at all, if anything I think there was some truth in the whole thing but expect a lot of it was a worked shoot that Khan is in on.

He’d need rebuilding in the WWE with the audience and I don’t think he’d be seen anywhere near a top star over who they have now

[Johnny Ryall]

Since when are WWE running PPVs on a Saturday? This going to be for all of them from now on? I mean it would suit us in the uk as you’d get more willing to stay up late on a Saturday than a Sunday but I just had no idea…

[KK]

They’ve been doing it on and off for the last few years depending on the show. I think AEW kicked off the trend by having their first PPV All Out on a Saturday back in 2019, but have ironically now started reverting back to the more conventional Sunday’s.

With WWE it appears that if it’s a stadium show (Royal Rumble, Elimination Chamber, WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Clash at the Castle) it’s on a Saturday, but if it’s in an arena it’s a Sunday (Backlash, Hell in a Cell). Saying that, I don’t think any WWE ‘premium live event’ for the rest of the year is now scheduled for a Sunday.

Money in the Bank was scheduled to be a stadium show but was moved to the MGM Grand (a building WWE doesn’t run) due to low ticket sales. I think they also wanted to piggyback off a UFC PPV within the Las Vegas area that was happening the same night.

[Reavus]

Vince is making headlines again.

twitter.com/WSJ/status/1545413338263437314

[KK]

Anticipating another announcement from WWE within the next few hours saying Vince McMahon will appear on TV again to say absolutely strawberry float all about anything.

[Johnny Ryall]

If he departs WWE will he stay in the business I wonder? I can’t see him retiring. I also can’t see him joining an AEW or an impact but stranger things have happened.

Maybe he’ll start another sports league.

More likely nothing will happen and he’ll stay on as this is the world we live in. Just interesting imagining a world where Vince leaves WWE

[Cumberdanes]

Big Show has recently said he plans to wrestle as Captain Insano his character from the movie The Waterboy at some point.

[KK]

Commencing the July 18th RAW, WWE is ending the PG era. Show will be rated TV-14 again like it was from 1997-2008. I think NXT has been testing the waters with this for the past few months, pushing the PG rating as far as it can go.

Whether it will actually make any difference to the quality of RAW or not only time will tell.

[ITSMILNER]

Commencing the July 18th RAW, WWE is ending the PG era. Show will be rated TV-14 again like it was from 1997-2008. I think NXT has been testing the waters with this for the past few months, pushing the PG rating as far as it can go.

Whether it will actually make any difference to the quality of RAW or not only time will tell.

This is interesting, I wonder how much it will effect the product, keen to see.

[KK]

Now no longer happening on July 18th…

The PG era of WWE Raw may be coming to an end.

Andrew Zarian of the Mat Men podcast initially reported on Thursday that Raw will be moving from a TV-PG rating to TV-14 beginning with next Monday's episode. Zarian updated his report later with new information.

"There was a memo within USA Network that went out this morning regarding WWE Raw changing to TV-14 on July 18th. Apparently that was sent out prematurely and the day was not finalized," Zarian tweeted.

"This is a wild situation. There’s a lot happening behind the scenes WWE Raw won’t be going to TV-14 on July 18th but still in consideration for a later date," Zarian wrote.

PLANS CHANGED.

[Johnny Ryall]

Doesn’t magically make the writing better anyway

[kerr9000]

Makes it a bit more realistic when wrestlers apparently mad at each other can swear at each other instead of coming out with stuff about suffering suckatash though.

[KK]

They actually referenced the upcoming change to TV-14 on SmackDown last night, after Pat McAfee called ‘bum-ass Corbin’ a “douchebag”, he responded to somebody in the crowd “this ain’t TV-14, yet”.

On NXT, the change to more adult themes has basically just meant more swearing (though “strawberry float” is always bleeped) and the cameraman zooming in on tits n arse. Which makes the show marginally more watchable obviously, but the action in the ring and overall look of the show is ultimately still pants.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

I'm hoping they embrace tv-14 whenever it actually makes the switch and it improves the product.

[KK]

This rather cynically kicked off RAW…



Nothing to do with all the allegations towards Vince McMahon and WWE (now the subject of an upcoming HBO documentary), I’m sure.

[Johnny Ryall]

Imagine the pitch backstage

[Prototype]

no politics or religion in wwe

anyway, smackdown your vote and up next... Vince McMahon vs GOD!

[KK]

Going back further, they also did repeat skits with ‘Bill Clinton’, including an episode of RAW IS WAR in 1998 that had Jerry Lawler interviewing him on the phone (if I recall correctly it was the night of the Monica Lewinsky trial or something like that).

[KK]

Just finished watching Dynamite. The barbed wire main event was a shambles. Botches, blatant blade jobs on camera from Jericho (one within the first 10 seconds of the match), run-ins galore, a heel turn, a shark cage door that wouldn’t unlock, so they just said strawberry float it and slipped through the bars…

2000s TNA would have been proud. No idea why Jericho is all of a sudden putting himself through all this.