The Wrestling Thread 2017: Thanks for the great year! New Thread Open!

I’m kinda disappointed that Mauro is gone from WWE so soon, but he was never going to move past the Smackdown desk because of political reasons. Curious if JBL is actually going to be fired for doing what he thought he was supposed to be doing (I’m not saying what he did is okay, but it’s ingrained as part of the culture at this point), and if so, would WWE settle for a Tom Phillips/David Otunga team? (assuming Tom himself stays out of further trouble)

JBL is safe for now, Vince loves him.

Interesting that Johnathan Coachman said he will no longer be involved in anymore WWE related content on ESPN…

Mauro was going to replace cole

And honestly mauro with his bipolar disorder should have avoided wwe

UFC will probably scoop him up along with njpw and itv

Tom is a good pbp

But now they got nobody to replace cole who wants to retire

So, JBL thought it was John O’Clock, again, and ran Mauro out of WWE, forcing Coke to stay on and put more pressure on Phillips. It’s times like this that make me miss Todd Grisham on pbp. Too bad he’s with the UFC and Ranallo will probably follow suit…

I bet Vince misses Coachman right now…

any reason why?

Mauro was always going to be too good for that company.
JBL has always been an ass and Vince encourages it.

If he is gone, I’m sure he’ll land on his feet in no time and maybe he can return after they clean up that company a little.

Rather talk about Golf…

I’m gonna guess what happened to Mauro really bothered Coach. Wasn’t JBL’s asshattery a contributing factor to him leaving WWE as well?

I do wonder how WWE will deal with all this negative press.

Well it’s not like they’re any strangers to THAT in the past ten years.

He left WWE because he managed to land a job at ESPN. No one drove him off.

Wasn’t Mauro on WrestleMania? What did JBL do? A Blue Meanie thing?

Why not have Vince replace Cole once more. Loved the Jerry/Vince, Jerry/JR, and the Jerry/JR/Vince show.

The Hulu version of Raw was heavily edited, a lot of the boos and chants were edited out for Roman but you know they totally don’t want him as a face.

The Hulu versions of Raw tend to be more watchable since they cut the show down to 90 minutes. Eliminates all the filler.

Vince likely doesn’t travel that much anymore and instead spends more time in their corporate HQ.

Honestly wouldn’t be suprised to hear he still travels with the company a lot, the dude is an absolute madman in the best/worst ways and that includes how much he works.
Even when he doesn’t travel with the company you bet your ass he’s going to attend every meeting via call and be the one to give every decision the all clear to go.

Vince is at raw, but video conferences into smackdown while road dogg and triple h run the whole show

Road Dogg is lead booker for sd and runs takeovers

I watch all of sd and ff through raw

WHAT THE FUCK THAT JR HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH?!?

Spoiler

1 MINUTE 56 SECONDS

You know what? Fuck matches longer than 10 minutes

The best match at wm was goldberg/lesnar because it was short

If reigns/taker was 7 minutes we would have got the point

I want the next ppv to end fast because of quick finishes

Like a good ufc is full of shorter fights with a decisive finish

Hell new japan been experimenting with 10 & 13 minute main events during the njc and the shows feel better due to how much shorter they are.

This is awesome chants are bullshit.

Let finishers be finishers.