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d21lewis on 18 February 2014

Just got finished watching RAW. I don't know about anybody else but I have absolutely no excitement heading into the Elimination Chamber PPV (along with the Royal Rumble, Summer Slam, and Wrestlemania, it's one of the highlights of the year for me). I expect this feeling of "meh" to carry into Wrestlemania XXX as there is simply nothing that has my attention.

Thirty years. Damn shame.



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darkknightkryta on 18 February 2014
d21lewis said:
Just got finished watching RAW. I don't know about anybody else but I have absolutely no excitement heading into the Elimination Chamber PPV (along with the Royal Rumble, Summer Slam, and Wrestlemania, it's one of the highlights of the year for me). I expect this feeling of "meh" to carry into Wrestlemania XXX as there is simply nothing that has my attention.

Thirty years. Damn shame.

Yeah, Wrestlemanias have been disasterous these past many years.  I think the last good one I watched was when Donald Trump was in it.



pokoko on 18 February 2014
d21lewis said:
Just got finished watching RAW. I don't know about anybody else but I have absolutely no excitement heading into the Elimination Chamber PPV (along with the Royal Rumble, Summer Slam, and Wrestlemania, it's one of the highlights of the year for me). I expect this feeling of "meh" to carry into Wrestlemania XXX as there is simply nothing that has my attention.

Thirty years. Damn shame.

It's funny, but the last two weeks the most exciting moments of RAW were the Wyatt/Shield confrontations.  The fans were really buzzing for those segments.  It felt like the Attitude Era.  Almost everything else, the fans seemed to be going through the motions.

Very few people really seem to care about seeing Orton, Cena, Batista, ADR, or Sheamus, or even most of the rest of the roster.  It's a serious lull.

The biggest exceptions are when Daniel Bryan stole the show against Orton and Cesaro stole the show against Cena.

The future is there for the WWE.  They have some guys that the fans really want to see.  Some might say that they're bringing those guys along slowly, and that's a valid point, but the guys they have in the Main Event picture right now are either boring or over-exposed.



gooch_destroyer on 18 February 2014
Joey Ryan Reveals His E-mail Reply To WWE Talent Executive & What Bill DeMott Said At Tryouts

It was reported last fall that indie veteran Joey Ryan participated in a WWE tryout camp at the Performance Center, just a few months after he was released from TNA. Ryan was not offered a contract and later said in an interview that WWE felt like he was too old and experienced to be in developmental.

A few weeks back in January, Ryan tweeted the following comments and made references to NXT trainer Bill DeMott and John Laurinaitis:

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At WWE camp, Bill DeMott said nobody on indies is as good as NXT guys. I'd LOVE to debate Bill DeMott on what he thinks "good wrestling" is.
7:16 PM - 15 Jan 2014

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Another thing Bill DeMott said at the WWE camp is that "WWE retrained Daniel Bryan or he wouldn't be as good as he is today."
8:25 PM - 15 Jan 2014

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Trying to get WWE job in 2010, John Laurinaitis told me "I have enough 5'9" guys. I can't make money with Daniel Bryan, how can I with you?"
5:07 PM - 20 Jan 2014

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Candice Michelle went to PWG in 2008 & raved about me to John Laurinaitis. When I saw him, he said "What does a Diva know about wrestling?"
9:02 PM - 20 Jan 2014

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"Don't wrestle the way John Cena does. Wrestle the way that I teach you." - Bill DeMott at WWE camp.
6:05 PM - 22 Jan 2014

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Ryan also posted a screenshot of his e-mail reply to WWE’s Senior Director of Talent Development, presumably former beach volleyball player Canyon Ceman, who told him he was too experienced to hire. Here’s what Ryan wrote in the e-mail:

“I respect your opinion but I could not disagree more with it. My talents and abilities allow me to travel the world and make a full-time living in professional wrestling, which is not something that most WWE Superstars could do on their own.

You have coaches in place that have never drawn a dime in their careers trying to determine who and who cannot draw money which is the true flaw in your system. I have had far more successful names in wrestling, some within WWE itself, rave about my creativeness, character acting and ability to engage an audience and your evaluators missed it. Perhaps it’s time for you to reevaluate your evaluators.

Good luck in finding your next big superstar.”

Joey Ryan ✔@JoeyRyanOnline

"Don't wrestle the way John Cena does. Wrestle the way that I teach you." - Bill DeMott at WWE camp.

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Screenshot of my email reply to Sr Director of Talent Development at WWE when he said I was too experienced to hire. pic.twitter.com/4OQn9h74C0
5:48 PM - 27 Jan 2014


darkknightkryta on 18 February 2014

He's got a point. Hugh Morrus didn't draw anything anywhere and he's talking?



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pokoko on 18 February 2014

The funny thing is, some of the hottest WWE performers right now come from the indies. Daniel Bryan, Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose, Cesaro, they all learned how to wrestle somewhere else. Even in NXT, the most exciting guys come from the indies.

Although I can't fault anyone from saying "don't wrestle like John Cena".



darkknightkryta on 18 February 2014

That's the thing though, only reason why WWE's wrestling has gone up is because they've gone after indie talent.



gooch_destroyer on 18 February 2014

Did Viscera really die? It seems like one of those hoax going around on twitter.



Runa216 on 19 February 2014
gooch_destroyer said:
Did Viscera really die? It seems like one of those hoax going around on twitter.

Seems to be the case from what little I read just now. 



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darkknightkryta on 19 February 2014

I think I was watching Memphis Wrestling on The Fight Network and Viscera was doing a promo with someone, it reminded me of old wrestling the way he was talking. Made me think how the WWE just completely misused him.