STRICTLY RUMORZ: Nakamura, AJ and The Bullet Club leaving NJPW this month???

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I hope this means the brand split is coming back. :jbhmm:

Smackdown is on USA now. They want to get those ratings up. Just let Paul Heyman go back to writing for Smackdown and he'll have plenty to work with. :ehh:

They should turn Smackdown into the "wrestling" brand and Raw the "entertainment" brand. Get all the workhorses on SD and all the characters on Raw
 
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I don't think any of the super big talents are going there right now. Just too much bad business in recent years.

It'd be nice to see them grab a talent from that next tier and a tag team, though.

You heard about Mike Bennett and Maria joining TNA right? Only a matter of time til Taven joins him too...
 

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Well, see y'all in 5 hours at New Year Dash (Start time 4:30 EST) :salute:

Just kidding, I can't do this again
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Jesus, the collective tears around the internet gives me life. This however has to be my favorite meltdown, from WF

Bleh, I feel like vomiting right now. Shinsuke and AJ are like...top 5 in the world wrestlers right now. Machine Gun is awesome and even Gallows is pretty good. And they're going to WWE aka the land where wrestling dreams die. Don't worry, come Wrestle Kingdom 11, Nakamura will be wearing a rice hat and throwing salt while coming out to his Asian flute music theme, AJ will be the next Neville, Anderson and Gallows will be Brodus Clay and Sweet T vol. 2. And most importantly, all of them will be jobbing to Cena and Roman Reigns, when Nakamura and AJ have more talent in their pinkies than those two combined. They're going to quickly figure out that "oh hey, WWE isn't wrestling, they HATE wrestling." And these guys are actual wrestlers, but they're going to be thrown into the basement right away because they don't know how to work shytty WWE style with every 2 minute match needing finisher kick outs and no heat. We're going to get matches that require 10 Styles Clashes to get a 3 count, except we won't get that because some over the hill celebrity like Bronson Pinchot will interfere randomly. Nakamura is going to be doing insert commercials peddling for PF Chang's or something. Anderson and Gallows will eventually split up after jobbing to the Ascension, and then will feud over Amber. And most importantly, any potentially quality matches will get hardly any time, interrupted by stupid commercial breaks where we come back with the heel getting the heat that we never see. The worst part? Ultimately, winners and losers will still mean nothing. And this is what is going to happen to 2 of the 5 best wrestlers on the planet right now. Another Yoshi Tatsu and future Zack Ryder. All because WWE wants to have all the toys and tell us, the fans, what we should want to see instead of letting us have an alternative. WWE is a god awful diarrhea of a product, but hey, at least I could go see some amazing stuff elsewhere. They could continue being diarrhea and I could ignore it. Now instead, they aren't wanting to make me tune in with this news, they're making me NOT WANT TO WATCH AJ STYLES AND SHINSUKE NAKAMURA. That's impressive, I never thought those words would enter my mind, but there they are. They will fukk them up beyond belief because they're an entertainment company that doesn't know how to entertain. They have no clue what they're doing, they're shows are unwatchable, and they are led by some of the most out of touch people in existence. And now, they're stealing my ability to watch quality wrestling, just so they can use this as bait to try and get me to watch schmucks like Orton, Sheamus and the bonehead brigade (aka the guys they really care about). No dice. I am legitimately sad right now. At least Okada has the sense to stay in New Japan and be "the guy", where he's booked by Gedo and Jado and gets to work with the cream of the talent crop and actually wrestle instead of...there's really no other way to say it: selling out his dignity. I mean, AJ and Nakamura aren't dumb. They've SEEN what happens to a) Asians and b) home grown talent in other companies when they come to WWE. And the results are universally negative. Can you really not look at this as a sell out? Have a hall of fame caliber career you can look back at, be proud of and be regarded as one of the best in history, or end it on a sour note by accepting more money and tarnishing your legacy. I can't make that choice, but I value my dignity more than money and I'd have told WWE to fukk themselves. I honest to god don't understand how anyone can be happy right now. Legit BOSS is so happy AJ is in NXT, and some people are trying to look at the bright side. There isn't one. This is a tragedy. Gone are the awesome pro wrestlers these guys were. Now what are they? WWE entertainers. They are now literally being placed on the same level as losers like Orton, Cena, Reigns, Sheamus and all of those guys. This is a demotion. No more King of Strong Style, that's gone. You think with how PC WWE is they'll let him do the Boma Ye to people's heads? Headshots are banned, he'll be getting a crappy Downward Spiral now. They won't let these guys tell stories either, now its all gonna be just "movez". 50 fukking kickouts per match. Oh and let's not forget they'll be getting 5 moves for their arsenal and that's it. I'm supposed to be thrilled that these guys hacked it out in the "Indies" for years and now they're finally making it big? If this were 2000, hell yeah. This is 2015. Wrestling in North America isn't cool, WWE is lame and run by incompetent boobs known as McMahons. I loved it when these guys go out there and do what they were born to do. Except, as I said, Vince has to have ALL the toys. We can't love our wrestling, he has to take that too and make it shytty sports entertainment by signing all the quality guys and then not using them so he can push the schmucks that have a fraction of the talent because his 70 year old brain is deluded enough to think fans want to see that. Thanks, WWE. Ruining wrestling in your own damn company wasn't enough, you have to try and ruin it for the other companies, too. The only upside I see to this for New Japan is that without the IC title on Nakamura, maybe now they can give it to Ibushi and let him flourish in classics against guys like Shibata, Ishii, Honma, Goto, Naito and such. We've already seen him against Okada and Tanahashi, but I'll take that match again any day of the week. I'll save the trolls some trouble. You're damn right I'm salty as fukk. I'm tired of WWE ruining something I love because they've decided on what I should want to see. And now they're ruining it everywhere else, too. I am embarrassed that I now have to say the words "Stephanie McMahon is the boss of Shinsuke fukking Nakamura and AJ fukking Styles." Remember how awesome the Invasion was when Team ECW turned around and beat up the WWF guys? Remember how an hour later they instantly made it super UNcool when they made Stephanie the owner of ECW? Yeah, well...here we are again. WWE making things not cool again. Yeah, I'm doing cartwheels over this.
 

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Man this is bittersweet for real. Gallows and Anderson are one thing, great team and Anderson can cut a hell of a promo but AJ and Nakamura hurts man. Just cause you know they have an awful track record of signing guys and then treating them well on the main roster. A lot of great matchups can be made here though.

I guess we'll see. I'm not gonna believe it until I see the Pic of the four of them throwing up the too sweet with trips from the performance center

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If Nakamura shows up on Raw, I will formally conclude my WWE retirement.

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Wrestle Kingdom. It was down 10k from last year and the 3rd worst in January 4th show history



I thought so too but I saw a graph which showed the decline. Hopefully it's not going hand in hand

They went with the same main event from last year, Nakamura was in the exact same spot like what was the draw?

the fans at Full Sail gonna lose their minds for the return of Festus!

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They better not try that bullshyt, they need to stop being too stubborn to introduce people with their original gimmicks, in todays day its a joke to try to act like no one saw these dudes anywhere else, this aint the territories you cant hide that anymore..
Jesus, the collective tears around the internet gives me life. This however has to be my favorite meltdown, from WF

He sounds like everyone from here all rolled up into one person, he was a little too emotionally involved and he gives us a bad name but he was right for the most part.. I would hate to see them fukk this up, and all this make NXT another brand shyt is BS, they don't make enough money down there or do they have enough exposure, now if the nxt guys can do an angle where they invade smackdown when it debuts on usa then that makes sense. that way they have a place for the nxt talent to go and aren't forced to be on raw and stuck in midcard hell
 
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