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12-04-2012 , 12:54 AM

#54101

wesrwood

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Football season doesnt help

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12-04-2012 , 12:55 AM

#54102

I_AM_EVIL

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Wrestling takes a back seat to MNF for me during the football season.

I flip back and forth but mainly watch MNF.

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12-04-2012 , 01:04 AM

#54103

LKJ

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Yeah there is the football thing too.

End of football + beginning of road to WrestleMania should hopefully cause a spike. If it doesn't then that will be concerning.

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12-04-2012 , 01:10 AM

#54104

teejayC

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What should we do differently this time? I tend to like doing a peak draft, the value of guys change drastically when we don't have to worry about longevity.

You could do modern era only or US promotions only as a lot of the value in the last couple of drafts was from old timers and foreign based wrestlers. Making it peak would change things too, could maybe aim for a five year promotion.

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12-04-2012 , 01:21 AM

#54105

PJo336

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Originally Posted by LKJ

Yeah there is the football thing too.

End of football + beginning of road to WrestleMania should hopefully cause a spike. If it doesn't then that will be concerning.

I hope so, we had a pretty solid community here, it seems to be slowly dying though

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12-04-2012 , 01:25 AM

#54106

LKJ

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I hope so, we had a pretty solid community here, it seems to be slowly dying though

Yeah I haven't liked seeing that.

I blame TradeOC.

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12-04-2012 , 01:36 AM

#54107

Dylan

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Originally Posted by teejayC

Yeah I like that. We could do only guys who have wrestled in the US since 1980, and you get their best 5 years. If you take a Japanese guy who wrestled in the US he's only as successful as he was in America, not Japan.

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12-04-2012 , 01:37 AM

#54108

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There hasn't really been much to talk about recently, and yeah I expect that a few people aren't watching at the moment; I haven't watched much myself recently. Traffic should start picking up now we're starting to approach Wrestlemania as more people will be watching and there will be more to talk about.

Who's running the rumble pool this year?

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12-04-2012 , 01:40 AM

#54109

LKJ

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I've always thought that an all-time draft where you have to start your promotion right here and now, and they have to be able to get over in the year 2012, would be interesting. That would mix up value quite a bit and make for interesting discussion.

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12-04-2012 , 01:40 AM

#54110

Dylan

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Re traffic being down:

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Once the Rock/Punk fued starts everyone will be watching again.

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12-04-2012 , 02:37 AM

#54111

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I just looked at the forum to see if any segments were worth watching. It seems unlikely I would watch whole episodes again unless the entire style of the product changed (e.g. if it was way less scripted, or got vastly different writers).

Generally I love drafts so might be in depending on factors.

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12-04-2012 , 03:05 AM

#54112

anguyen92

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I haven't been watching because of school, product sucking for the most part, and trying to mend fences or burn bridges with old friends, depending on how our next conversation go, ala Bret/HBK interview documentary style.

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12-04-2012 , 03:07 AM

#54113

PJo336

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I would like some cliffs on that latter part.

Also, I have decided. Anyone slacking off in between RR and WM will be banned. Thatll learn you all. And as usual, total aids in the product will be no excuse, just more reason to post blueboy.

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12-04-2012 , 04:34 AM

#54114

moorobot

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Even the aids is stale.

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12-04-2012 , 12:21 PM

#54115

EMc

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The 3 hour raw started and meshed with the like month of downtime. Hasnt been the same since.

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12-04-2012 , 12:23 PM

#54116

Bigdaddydvo

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Confirmed posting fell off during 3 hour Raws. It's just too much of a grind and the time seems to really pass slowly. It reminds me of the great MST3K quip on Manos: The Hands of Fate. "What are we, like a half hour into this movie?" asks Crow. "More like a minute," responds Joel. It's how I feel every Monday.

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12-04-2012 , 01:45 PM

#54117

LordCC

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I don't remember the last time I watched Raw or Smackdown and probably watch 1 in 3 PPVs atm, I tend to lurk as I don't have an opinion to share. I will be in for the Rumble draft(s) again after shipping last year with Sheamus.

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12-04-2012 , 02:40 PM

#54118

Dylan

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Originally Posted by LKJ

I like this. We could do it where people don't have to have their promotion in the US. They can draft a bunch of Japanese guys and base the company out of Japan. We could do a 5 year peak for each wrestler.

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12-04-2012 , 06:00 PM

#54119

littlekeed

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Meh. This would still be the same old **** just with slight bumps in draft status for successful guys from 1996-Today, which for what it's worth was already happening in every draft of this nature ever.

What skill is needed to get over in 2012 that wasn't needed in 2002, 1992, or 1982?

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12-04-2012 , 06:05 PM

#54120

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the biggest example is Hogan who i doubt would get over in today's wrestling environment. the problem with this is that those wrestlers of yesteryear were catering to what the fans want just like mcmahon thinks he's catering to what people want right now.

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12-04-2012 , 06:07 PM

#54121

LKJ

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Originally Posted by littlekeed

Yeah fair enough, I guess all my idea really does for the most part is to cut a bunch of old pre-1980 legends off at the knees.

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12-04-2012 , 06:08 PM

#54122

LKJ

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Originally Posted by .isolated

But Cena's character IS Hogan. Just a worse version of it.

I think Hogan would be over huge today if you put him back in his prime.

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12-04-2012 , 07:33 PM

#54123

tpir

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Originally Posted by PJo336

Also, I have decided. Anyone slacking off in between RR and WM will be banned. Thatll learn you all. And as usual, total aids in the product will be no excuse, just more reason to post blueboy.

lol nice. i definitely plan on watching more regularly once the show goes back to two hours (lol) or once the Rocky program starts.

infinitely more excited for new japan's wrestlekingdom 7 though :-/