The Wrestling Thread: WWE WrestleMania 31 [NSFW]

[A J Styles]

:wub:

Shame at Download when I seen them they didn't play that

I think they played it in 2009.

They didn't this year

[Corazon de Leon]

We got an hour of their greatest hits.

[Cosmo]

I imagine it doesn't sound as good live.

Maf only likes it because he's the lead singer.

[Corazon de Leon]

It sounds awesome live. Just like the rest of them.

EDIT: But I wouldn't know for sure, because according to setlist FM they didn't play it when I saw them. I defer everything to Setlist FM.

[Mafro]

I imagine it doesn't sound as good live.

Maf only likes it because he's the lead singer.

strawberry floating hell

[KK]

Good for Vince!

I don’t blame him for wanting to use his platform to activate WWE fans and speak out against some of the mainstream media b.s. that has been flung at Linda McMahon and the WWE.

Linda’s opponent and his surrogate campaign staffers over at MSNBC, have used their “news” format to trash a woman who has raised a family, overcome financial challenges, and helped build a billion dollar industry that is weathering the financial bon-fire that her challengers predecessor, Chris Dodd provided the lighter fluid for with his role in the disastrous bail-out debacle.

Why is it that the mainstream media are so afraid of Linda McMahon? Perhaps the same reason that they are afraid of Meg Whitman in California?

Maybe the fact that an intelligent, compassionate, and probably most frightening: successful, businesswoman who is not part of the tax and spend liberal machine is just too much for them to bear.

Can you just imagine the angst among the media elite if republicans elected not one, but two Fortune 500 type women to high political positions and they actually accomplished something their predecessors could not? It would mean republicans are actually more progressive (in the truest definition of the word) than the democrats who have adopted “Progressive” in lieu of “Liberal” this election cycle as most people now connect Liberal with Taxes.

Richard Blumenthal is a documented fraud. The fact that he lied about his service to his country makes him nothing less. If Blumenthal had a strand of integrity in his DNA, he would have resigned when he was exposed as a liar and a fraud. One would think that a States Attorney General would be held to a standard at least as high as Tiger Woods right?

While clearly I cannot vote for Linda McMahon, I wish her the best in the weeks to come. The State of Connecticut and the Country desperately needs more people who understand business and less lawyers.

I guess he wants them to plug his book on Raw...

[Jam-Master Jay]

Could listen to it all day

Perfect fit for Punk.

Shame the song came from such an awful band.

[Mafro]

Shame the song came from such an awful band.

I've used this as my CAW's entrance theme in the SvR games:

[Jam-Master Jay]

I wish I understood why every modern American metal band has to randomly drop a pinch harmonic every few seconds.

[ITSMILNER]

they played it live at Download 2007

[KK]

MVP is currently ranting on Twitter about his direction, & the company in general...

It's a shame that some people don't understand just how good @WWEDanielBryan really is. Or Kaval for that matter

Ur not happy in the WWE? Not my finest hours but life is all about peaks & valleys! Tomorrow is a new day!

I LOVE wrestling! Not crazy about the “business”

@The305MVP u said if u face @wwedanielbryan for the US title u both would wrestle..so can u explain to me what ur doing b4 this? lol SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT

"@NorhaneSamy: @The305MVP Set the record straight for us ladies. Are you single or taken?" Michelle told me to say "taken"!

This sort of stuff really is becoming a common occurrence, now.

[Cosmo]

Watchign the 'highlights' from RAW on WWE.com and any commentary for Orton is just becoming even more tiresome.

Cole: He's going to that place where he hears voices...in his HEAD!

[Baron Zemo]

So Bragging Rights in coming up soon. can we please have a GRMAF question please. The rules are him posting every 10/20 minutes to make sure he's awake. If he doesnt post, He's asleep. 2 points for guessing the correct time he falls asleep

[Balloon Sod]

http://vids.wwe.com/index.php/video/Employees-Stand-Up-for-WWE/641731241001/

[KK]

Ed Patru, spokesman for Linda McMahon's U.S. Senate campaign, stated to Brian Lockhart that they have nothing to do with the "Stand Up for WWE" campaign promoted by Vince McMahon yesterday.

"The company didn't consult the campaign; we didn't ask for anything. It acted independently. You should address questions about that to WWE."

In response, WWE Spokesperson Robert Zimmerman said: "It had absolutely nothing to do with the Linda McMahon campaign, It’s trying to correct inaccuracies that have been reported. ... The attention that’s been put on WWE by Linda’s opponents have focused media attention on the company."

Robert Zimmerman also stated that the upcoming "Fan Appreciation Day" event on October 30 in Hartford, CT was indeed a response to campaign rhetoric. "WWE wanted to thank our fans for the support and putting up with everything that's been said about the company and sticking by us and putting on a fan appreciation show."

The Connecticut Democratic State party spokeswoman Kate Hansen obviously then ripped on the campaign, commenting, “Linda McMahon’s $50 million attack machine now has corporate reinforcements, thanks to the ‘Stand up for WWE’ campaign launched by her husband Vince McMahon. No coincidence, it looks a lot like her political campaign... except this one is probably against the law,” reads a statement from the state party that refers to federal election law that prohibits corporations from coordinating with political campaigns.

Hansen added, "“Linda McMahon’s claim that her husband’s aggressive public relations campaign is independent of her own political campaign is unbelievable, particularly after Vince McMahon specifically cites the Senate race as the reason for the offensive."

Linda McMahon’s Senate campaign distancing themselves from the WWE. Vince is running this without even consulting his wife. And he's doing it with more LIES.

[Prototype]

Who is dissing out KsE?

Get out of this thread, now.

Oh, it's JMJ... as you were.

[KK]

They really are going all out now. For those that don't want to use WWE.com...



Just to be clear: VOLUNTARILY.





So...when the WWE heed the call...the WWE Universe answers:

[KK]

Maybe ‘Stand Up for WWE’ Campaign Isn’t About Linda McMahon’s Senate Race

Vince McMahon’s “Stand Up for WWE” campaign is all over the World Wrestling Entertainment website, and tonight McMahon will reinforce today’s press releases in his appearance on WWE’s flagship USA cable show, Raw.

But you might notice that this corporate PR initiative, basically announced as an adjunct of the Linda McMahon for Senate campaign, is nowhere to be found — certainly not prominently — at linda2010.com. So far as I know, campaign spokesman Ed Patru and today’s regular campaign statements and releases have not referenced it.

I therefore think one of two things is going on here. Or maybe both.

Authoritative sources tell me that about ten days ago Vince and Linda looked at the newest poll numbers, which were turning south, and knew they’d lost their $50 million Senate gamble. But worse than losing was the byproduct of losing: increased scrutiny of WWE’s business practices, including one new state investigation of company independent contractor classifications, plus renewed calls for investigations of wrestlers’ occupational health and safety, which had been abruptly dropped early in 2009.

That led to “Stand Up for WWE.” Either:

1. The professional Linda McMahon campaign staff has been elbowed aside by WWE corporate PR in a last-ditch effort to choke off Richard Blumenthal’s lead over Linda. (If so, the effort will fail. The lead is insurmountable and the campaign to rally the least intelligent population of wrestling fans will be a national laughingstock.)

Or

2. WWE is setting itself up to ward off post-election investigations. If Linda can’t win her Senate seat, at least Vince can make the whole environment seem so silly that legislators and others will again shy away from following through on their 2007 work and let pro wrestling go back underneath the radar.

Irv Muchnick

http://wrestlingbabylon.wordpress.com/2 ... nate-race/

BTW, WWE Raw last night did a 3.1. Up and down like Paris Hilton's knickers these past few weeks.

[Adam Pollard]

Well I've "liked" the STAND UP FOR WWE page on Facebook. Yeah, I'm gonna show them biased American strawberry floaters.

[Mafro]

I'll tell you who I miss in WWE.

Mr Kennedy.