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Thiletonomics said:
The trademark for The Wrestling Code video game has been abandoned:

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In response to this discovery, Virtual Basement said that the game "isn't dead", even though it's been at least 6 (?) years since the game was announced, and nothing has been shown of it yet:

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In regards to the wrestler that Virtual Basement pinged, I've seen him in the local indies a bunch of times along with appearances in major promotions. His name's Facade. Calls himself the neon ninja and carries spraypaint to the ring to use on fan signs. He's mostly been appearing at Juggalo Championship Wrestling shows as of recently, however he did announce he was going to retire this year. Probably at the end of the year but then again, there are wrestlers older than him who are retiring this year as well.
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Kermit the Frog said:
Giulia since being called up to the main roster has been completely nerfed, it's not even comparable to what she was doing in Japan or even in NXT where she was also nerfed quite a bit. I still think there's hope for Giulia if they can get her off of SmackDown and on Raw where she can work with the other Japanese women, but she doesn't seem to be a priority.
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Giulia was always a horrible fit for WWE. She was occasionally thought of as even being a bit stiff in Japan so WWE completely trying to soften her style so she wouldn't cripple their collection of "fitness models" was never going to work.

Some of the joshi/Japanese trained women adapt but some of them just spend their 3 to 5 years in the US nerfed to shit until they get back home again.

It's a big part of why joshi is it's own thing and has it's own following. They are trained very differently and the style is a million miles away from WWE stuff. Imagine taking pretty much any WWE trained woman and putting her in a main event program in Stardom or TJPW. She'd be laughed out of the building.
 
ShitBomber said:
In regards to the wrestler that Virtual Basement pinged, I've seen him in the local indies a bunch of times along with appearances in major promotions. His name's Facade. Calls himself the neon ninja and carries spraypaint to the ring to use on fan signs. He's mostly been appearing at Juggalo Championship Wrestling shows as of recently, however he did announce he was going to retire this year. Probably at the end of the year but then again, there are wrestlers older than him who are retiring this year as well.
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Seen this dude a lot over the years on the indies and he's not bad, he's just nothing extraordinary. He's taking the Fandango approach in that if "it" hasn't happened by now then it probably won't. It makes pro wrestling an unfortunate career choice - If you don't make it to the absolute top of the industry, you're more than likely not going to have a career in it. Think about all the mid and low card guys that are in the world working joe-jobs to support themselves. There's no real royalties, no union like Hollywood actors have, when you're done, you have no choice other than to go back to being a regular person.

Horrible example but look at Marco Stunt. He was on a major television network like five years ago, now he works at a car dealership. Probably blew what money he had on a house in the 'burbs and luxury cars instead of being smart and living within his means.
 
Lip Glossary said:
LA Knight calling Trump a rapist and a pedophile was probably the fucking dumbest career suicide I've ever seen somebody commit.
He knows for a fact that these people are closely connected to the administration. Shit, Linda is the secretary of education. He basically just did the equivalent of walking into work and trashing the boss's family in front of the boss.
Be on the lookout for Gunther ending his career, never holding one of the big titles in WWE and Eli Drake going over to AEW to job out to Ricochet, if WWE doesn't own that name too. :story:
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"Why isn't LA KNIGHT getting pushed when he's so over?"

I have a feeling he's a pain in the ass to deal with backstage. .
 
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Breakker is apparently hurt and might not make Mania (explains what happened at the rumble), though if he does he's definitely going up against Seth, main event actually seems like a pretty good choice, kind of feels like a culmination of Punks career and to a lesser extent Roman's given the direction they are taking it,and pic related will make it even better, and its probably gonna be Fatu vs Cody or Mcintyre for Night 1 which I'd like to see, Fatu is the best in-ring out of his family, for the women I kinda hope Liv goes after Jade so Rhea can win the Chamber and face Vaquer, but ive accepted its a long shot.
 
Dragged Into Sunlight said:
"Why isn't LA KNIGHT getting pushed when he's so over?"

I have a feeling he's a pain in the ass to deal with backstage. .
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LA Knight isn't the guy he was on the indies in my opinion. In TNA he carried himself like a star - he was confident and you could buy into it as an audience member. On the main roster, the Max Dupri stuff must've threw him off because nearly every promo he stutters something and sounds overly-scripted as opposed to being himself. I hope they never let the guy near someone like Punk who's a natural talker because he'll tear Knight to pieces verbally.

I like Knight, but he's not a main event guy and sometimes that's okay.
 
GloryHole Stalker said:
Given to the right guy, even the most inane gimmick can probably get over, but I always got the impression that no thought went into these gimmicks beyond the most surface level presentation. Ok, Bob Holly's a race car driver... then what?

EDIT: I always felt that if he had a better attitude about it, Shane Douglas could have made more, alot more, out of the Dean Douglas gimmick. All he really needed to do was wait Vince out on it, then start incorporating more of the Franchise character. It's what he did his first few months back in ECW after quitting the WWF, and I thought it worked.
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To be fair, waiting Vince out on a crappy gimmick does not always work. Most of the time the crappy gimmick irrevocably ruins a wrestler and it usually took an act of God to let a wrestler retook or abandon his crappy Vince gimmick.
 
Jeff Dunham said:
LA Knight isn't the guy he was on the indies in my opinion. In TNA he carried himself like a star - he was confident and you could buy into it as an audience member. On the main roster, the Max Dupri stuff must've threw him off because nearly every promo he stutters something and sounds overly-scripted as opposed to being himself. I hope they never let the guy near someone like Punk who's a natural talker because he'll tear Knight to pieces verbally.

I like Knight, but he's not a main event guy and sometimes that's okay.
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I disagree I think that Knight is absolutely main event material but he just keeps tripping over his own dick and getting in his own way.
The guy doesn't know how to play the game to get ahead and that makes him stupid and a liability.
 
Dragged Into Sunlight said:
"Why isn't LA KNIGHT getting pushed when he's so over?"

I have a feeling he's a pain in the ass to deal with backstage. .
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Starting to wonder if this could become a Ricochet situation. Years of people going "why did WWE waste this guy?" and then by week 2 of being a free agent everybody went "yeah that may have been the right move."
 
Jeff Dunham said:
but he's not a main event guy and sometimes that's okay.
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Sometimes I wonder if that gets lost in the shuffle and arguments. Even some of the lesser guys get things not could only dream of and stories that last a lifetime, like traveling the world.

Look at James Ellsworth:
Involved in angles involving a WWE Champion
Shared the ring with AJ Styles
Had his own merch
His own Titantron design

And that was after being brought on as a local jobber to get squashed.
 
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