WWE

[Andre91]

I thought The Shield match was brilliant. Very pleased with BNB winning the title This feud with Cena has not done Bray Wyatt any favours imo, it's getting too cheesey now, that kid with the mic last night was ridiculous. I also thought the Bryan Kane match was below-par, I wasn't interested in it at all. I'm also not interested in this feud continuing. There's reports of a Buried Alive match at Payback. But I just wish they would turn Sheamus already.

[luckysalt]

Aparently Sheamus will turn after the European tour, he needs to badly.

I agree with everything you wrote Andre.

[Chiefski]

This may have broke me, Heartbreaking stuff

[Andre91]

I did not expect Sheamus to get the US Title. I'm guessing his heel turn won't take him into the main event and a programme with Bryan now. With Batista rejecting the opportunity to feud with Bryan, and Cena and Wyatt's feud continuing, I really can't see who will be the next title challenger after Kane. The Triple H match happened at Mania, and Orton/Bryan has been done to death.

CM Punk to return at Payback in Chicago

[metallimuse]

I would love to see Brat Wyatt in the ring cutting a promo,the lights go out,come up and there is Sting in the ring with a baseball bat!!!

[Andre91]

It has to be Sting vs. Undertaker for me. Or no Sting at all.

[lharris92]

I thought The Shield match was brilliant. Very pleased with BNB winning the title This feud with Cena has not done Bray Wyatt any favours imo, it's getting too cheesey now, that kid with the mic last night was ridiculous. I also thought the Bryan Kane match was below-par, I wasn't interested in it at all. I'm also not interested in this feud continuing. There's reports of a Buried Alive match at Payback. But I just wish they would turn Sheamus already.

it will be a last man standing match i reckon, and its easy to guess that it will be.

reason? kane just won't stay down so this will put that rivalry to bed.

thoughts on why it will be LMS: for the house shows on the UK tour thats the main event advertised...

[luckysalt]

So Kurt Angle's contract with TNA runs out in September, he's just had his third Surgery in past 6 months which brings him up to.... September.

Worst part is he openly says this is to fix something he's been wrestling with for 5 years so isn't URGENT.

So really the last year of his TNA contract, he is spending most of it getting himself fixed up as best as he can so when his contract is up he can head over to WWE in the best condition in years, and got paid by TNA for it.

He's really ripping the piss out of them, I wonder how they feel about this.

HHH and Vince must be pissing themselves.

[luckysalt]

Just saw that people are celebrating today as JTG day, as its SEVEN years today thats he's been employed by WWE.

Wow.

[Andre91]

I'd like to know the severity of Bryan's neck injury and whether he will be forced to relinquish the title or not. I've been a huge Bryan fan over last couple of years, but I've got to agree with a lot of opinions I've seen online; that he is better as a title chaser than he is as the champion. I know it's very premature to judge, and it's still early days, but his reign so far has been disappointing. This feud with Kane has been terrible, and ever since WrestleMania, the crowds don't seem as hot on him at all.

Edited May 13, 2014 by Andre91

[luckysalt]

Quiet in here, I had heard earlier that Bryan was injured, but only when I saw people talking about the title being vacated I looked into it and saw it seems he has a broken neck and will be out months.

Damn.

Who to put the title on....

[Andre91]

I'm not really sure who I think should get the title. The only thing I'm certain on is that it should NOT be Kane.

I would go with Batista personally. After Payback of course.

Or a certain someone returning in Chicago *

* I am joking.

[The Nal]

Bryan as champ is nonsense. There was barely a pop for him on Raw. The "yes" chants have died down considerably. The WWE champion as a mid carder.

[zahidf]

TBF on Bryan, he has been in a crap feud and had been off a lot because of his honeymoon and dad dying.

I heard he was out for 4-6 weeks, and if he is back by July, they will keep the title on him. They will know by this weekend in terms of his recovery, as the operation is on Thursday

[luckysalt]

How you can keep the title on someone with a broken neck I don't know.

Austin vacated the IC title in the same vein and he had only won it during the match it happened.

Austin v Owen was a fued that deserved longer, was awesome, Owen should have been pushed to main event level with him. They missed their chance end of 97 when he returned and bit HBK's ear in the main event of the DX PPV.

Vince could have took advantage of the Bret screwjob with Owen but instead he buried him out of spite.

I think if whoever wins the title is gunna drop it back to Bryan once hes fit, Id put it on HHH.

Make the Shield v Evolution at the PPV, whoever gets the pinfall of the match is the new WWE Champ.

[The Nal]

Austin didn't work to work with Owen after the botch piledriver. Can't blame him either. Owen never even apologised to him.

[luckysalt]

Who's this investment firm who have bought into WWE demanding changes at the top then?

[lharris92]

no idea what that's about, but i know their shares dropped a lot today (40+%) - almost 50% at last look.

Its due to them not getting enough subscribers on the network, only got around 600k of them currently if figures read are to be believed, they're hoping for 1m by the end of the year supposedly but that still will make a shortfall and make them lose around $50m if all this info is correct.

so basically they need around 1.5m subscribers to the network to make up for the losses from people just buying normal ppvs via places like sky.

realistically they need to release the network globally as technically its only available in the usa from what i gather, although you can get around that.

all of this is according to the article on cnn i read. http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/16/investing/wwe-cable-deal/

[luckysalt]

Here's the Investment company statement

Lemelson Capital Announces Stake In World Wrestling Entertainment And Calls On Board To Pursue New Management Or Ownership

Marlborough, MA, May 16, 2014 -- Lemelson Capital, LLC, a private investment management firm, today announced that they had taken a stake in shares of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and called on the Board of Directors to replace the executive management team of the company following a period of consistent losses, execution issues and material misstatements.

Despite the stock's roughly 63% correction since Lemelson Capital's original short call less than two months ago (from $30.37 on March 17 to $11.33 as of publication of this release), the firm today also reiterated that fair value of WWE's common stock is between $8.25 and $11.88.

Lemelson Capital's original short thesis can be found here:

"WWE has affirmed that even with one million subscribers for its WWE network, the company stands to lose between $45 million and $52 million in FY 2014, which validates the original short thesis," said Emmanuel Lemelson, Chief Investment Officer of Lemelson Capital Management. "This follows what we believe to be material misrepresentations by the company about both the performance and operating profit model of its WWE network, which the company has wrongly labeled 'a homerun'," said Lemelson.

Lemelson Capital today also called on WWE's Board of Directors to promptly replace the company's executive management team, or explore the sale of the business, and said that such changes are a necessary component of any successful strategy going forward. "For example, promoting the WWE direct network's value to shareholders without a fair and accurate discussion of the implications to a traditional network revenue circumvented management's fiduciary responsibility as stewards of investor's capital, and is part of what has emerged as a pattern over recent years. Further, there are no pending operational developments in the pipeline to offset these significant losses," Lemelson added.

Lemelson Capital and its clients are long shares of WWE.

About Lemelson Capital Management

Lemelson Capital Management, LLC is a private investment management firm focused on deep value and special situation investments. For more information, see: http://www.lemelsoncapital.com

Edited May 16, 2014 by luckysalt

[DomDom1984]

Is Daniel Bryan's neck actually broken? I think there was a few hints that the surgery wasn't major and he might be back soon and there was a few "lets see what happens" hints. Kurt Angle had surgery on his neck in WWE and wasn't out for long.

[Andre91]

"WITH A BROKEN FREAKIN' NECK!"

[Uncle Liam]

Played Mortal Kombat story mode last night.

Kintaro, who freaked the hell out of me (and beat the hell out of me repeatedly) in MK2 now looks... well,,, kind of cute in a Tigger kind of way.

Shao Khan still cheap as fuck though,

[lharris92]

Here's the Investment company statement

Fair enough, i suppose it makes sense if they have invested heavily in the company for them to want a different approach that makes them money.

all i can think of is "he's a millionaire who should be a billionaire"

anyway tna related: another person left, really wondering how they are going to replace all the people who have left/been told they aren't being given another contract... really seems that they are on the decline at the moment.

Is Daniel Bryan's neck actually broken? I think there was a few hints that the surgery wasn't major and he might be back soon and there was a few "lets see what happens" hints. Kurt Angle had surgery on his neck in WWE and wasn't out for long.

not 100% sure, but there may have been a small fracture or something. we'll find out monday when he's due back i think, as they are going to announce what to do with the championship - will give a time frame of when they expect him back possibly.

if he isn't back in the next month or so, then they'll probably make him drop it, but really who would pick up the title - batista? orton? kane? (god forbid) cena?

hopefully he'll be back soon but you never know

[When Jokers Attack]

Who's left TNA now?

[lharris92]

hernandez,

daniels had left recently, and potentially kazarian will be leaving soon as well.

know they still have a decent roster but all these guys leaving will either end up in RoH or maybe even GFW when that launches.

also another thing: Prince Devitt (from NJPW) has supposedly signed for the wwe,