Summer Wrestling Thread - Stomping Grounds was fine. You don't need to watch it

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He’s also done one heck of a podcast

Jimmy Traina (JimmyTraina)

On Mox:

Ambrose can do what he wants, he’s a big boy. He’s got his big boy pants on. He can go out there and say whatever he wants. But the bottom line is - Not everyone is equipped to handle the rigors of the WWE and the schedule and how it affects you mentally and emotionally. Ambrose gave everything he had for the company, he put his heart and soul into the travel and the schedule and the injuries, into y’know… the work in the ring. All that stuff. But at the end of the day he took his ball and went home or went elsewhere at least. And I think it’s a little presumptuous of him to get on a podcast and talk down about the company that gave him such opportunities…I just don’t think, again, there’s any reason to hop on a soapbox and complain after the fact. You need to take the first step and that’s looking in a mirror and asking yourself, “Did you do every single thing you possibly could to make yourself and your situation what you want it to be?”

On fans:

You can only sit back and read people bashing something you love for so long, and sit there and try to take the high road so to speak. I’m real proud of what I do every single week, and not just Mondays, but every single [day of the week]. I’m real proud of what I do and what our crew does and the effort they put forward. And I’m not talking just about the wrestlers, the guys and girls out in the ring, I’m talking about everybody, creative all the way up to Vince McMahon. We put a ton of effort into making a product that’s pretty darn good considering the amount of content we put out there. And the fact that people want to sit on their little soap boxes – on their little stupid social media machines – and talk down about it really speaks volume about kind of a generation and where they’re at. I figured if somebody’s gonna fight back it might as well be me since I am champ and consider myself the top guy in the company.

On Creative:

Host: "Are you satisfied with the amount of input you have into your storylines and character? Do you wish you had a little more? Are you fine with the way it is?

Seth: "Absolutely, I’m satisfied with it because I make a point to be satisfied with it. I make a point to contribute my ideas and my thoughts and if I feel strongly about something, the way it should be or the way it should be portrayed I will make my voice heard and look - Not everyone gets that leeway and also not everybody should get that leeway, OK? That’s just not how it works. You have to build equity with your audience, with your boss, with your co-workers. You have to build equity over time and then you can get the leeway to have that kind of say in your stories, if that’s your complaint. Or you can just stand up for yourself and do it instead of going on somewhere else and bitching about it, y’know what I’m saying?

Host: “Yeah, yeah”.

Seth “So I’m very satisfied with the amount of input I have”.

[Yesiamaduck]

Just heard how they handeled the ad breaks on Raw. What a fucking disaster.

A match got reset just before an AD, meaning they broke that match into 2 seperate ones.

A singles womens match became a tag match half way through

Sami Zayn took on Kofi, lost, and then they had Kevin Owens vs Kofi straight after,

So basically their solution so far is to break 1 match up into 2 matches… okay? What a trainwreck

[colinzealuk]

Apparently they did a load of 2/3 falls matches last week for this reason.

[spiritofjazz]

The writers can’t write a cohesive, logical show as it is and now they’ve got this added, unnecessary bullshit to worry about and factor into their run sheets all because Vince has suddenly decided he wants to produce a more sports-like product to satisfy Fox.

I haven’t watched Raw or SD live in years. How often do the ad breaks actually run? Can they not shoehorn solid 8-10 minute matches into the time that they have?

[colinzealuk]

If Fox has anything to do with it, why would that affect Raw? Would surely be a way to differentiate the shows, especially since the same people are on both now - Smackdown gives you fast paced explosive action, Raw gives you fewer longer well paced matches.

Feels to me like Vince has just picked another arbitrary reason for the ratings not being to his liking.

[spiritofjazz]

Trying to embed this as standard practice ahead of the Fox run starting maybe? Idk. Production values and formats don’t tend to differ much between the two brands and never really have.

I don’t disagree with you but this is the reason being reported (by Meltzer or Alvarez iirc)

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Need that time for segment recaps and shilling their charity work innit

[Severed799]

welcome to the summer thread lads, @colinzealuk if you could do the honours of shutting the spring thread DOWN

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