Lexi Gordon signs WWE NIL Deal | Page 2 | The Boneyard

Lexi Gordon signs WWE NIL Deal

boontonbomber said:
and John Cena, who played football at my alma mater, little old Springfield College.
Expand ...

Its a shame there’s no photographic evidence of his existence
 
I remember the "Million Dollar Man", Ted DiBiase, when he was the cleanest wrestler I ever saw, back in the day.
 
nwhoopfan said:
His tag line is "You can't see me." People have been pretending like he is invisible for years.
Expand ...

It’s an amazing joke. I’m so glad that hasn’t died
 
.-.
nwhoopfan said:
His tag line is "You can't see me." People have been pretending like he is invisible for years.,
Expand ...
Oh, ok, not a WWE fan, but when he was inducted into my college's Hall of Fame I looked to see who he was.
 
Well... I saw Bruno Sammartino wrestle Gorilla Monsoon 2/3 for the
World Wide Wrestling Federation Heavywright Championship Belt.
Live- was there
Cowboy Bill Watts on the undercard.
 
Can't give the WWE props without recognizing the WWF (World Wildlife Fund can relax, this is just a historical reference).

The evolution from the days of Hogan, the Hart Family/Foundation, Superfly, Steamboat, etc. to the WWE Attitude era was something to behold. Some were able to adjust and make themselves into bigger household names because of it.

This should be an interesting partnership, especially on the women's side of things. The WWE's investment in women has been inconsistent in my opinion, but this seems to be changing lately (fingers crossed).
 
Anyone following AEW? A lot of familiar faces that used to be in the WWE. From what I gather it's an organization of wrestlers, for wrestlers. No raging egomaniac McMahon family involved.
 
It might be an interesting partnership but unfortunately the WWWF/WWF/WCW/WWE is also known for treating their contractor employees quite poorly. If Vince decides to make you a star, then it may work out otherwise they let you go and with it a hefty non-compete clause.
Hopefully these athletes are going to be able to get some good money from Vince and family.
 
cancontent said:
Can't give the WWE props without recognizing the WWF (World Wildlife Fund can relax, this is just a historical reference).

The evolution from the days of Hogan, the Hart Family/Foundation, Superfly, Steamboat, etc. to the WWE Attitude era was something to behold. Some were able to adjust and make themselves into bigger household names because of it.

This should be an interesting partnership, especially on the women's side of things. The WWE's investment in women has been inconsistent in my opinion, but this seems to be changing lately (fingers crossed).
Expand ...

For a reason.

When your top stars are someone like Lynch or belaire, you lack serious talent

They’re awful

Charlotte flair is the goddess of womens wrestling. Absolutely incredible

Rhea ripley and Raquel Gonzalez are the future
 
.-.
nwhoopfan said:
Anyone following AEW? A lot of familiar faces that used to be in the WWE. From what I gather it's an organization of wrestlers, for wrestlers. No raging egomaniac McMahon family involved.
Expand ...

I do.

This hangman story is the single best long term story wrestling has seen since sting and hogan in 96/97.

They’re pushing the overrated ones like Bryan Danielson and Adam Cole. Which is disappointing

I’m still hoping they get bray Wyatt.
 
the Q said:
For a reason.

When your top stars are someone like Lynch or belaire, you lack serious talent

They’re awful

Charlotte flair is the goddess of womens wrestling. Absolutely incredible

Rhea ripley and Raquel Gonzalez are the future
Expand ...
I was thinking more of the era when Stratus and Lita were around. Love Flair 100% from what I've seen. Haven't been watching WWE as much as I used to though. Thanks for the tip on Rpley and Gonzalez.
 
cancontent said:
I was thinking more of the era when Stratus and Lita were around. Love Flair 100% from what I've seen. Haven't been watching WWE as much as I used to though. Thanks for the tip on Rpley and Gonzalez.
Expand ...

Charlotte flair vs asuka is arguably the greatest womens match in wwe history. It was excellent.

If it’s not that, it’s probsbly flair/ripley from this July’s ppv. That is fantastic if you want to see rhea. Rhea/flair at wm36 was also a pretty good match.

Ripley/Raquel at New Years evil 2021 was last woman standing and fantastically brutal.

That’s probably most of my favorite womens matches of all time right there.

Throw in flair/ripley/io shiri triple threat at nxt takeover in your house 2020 (the timing was fantastic in the match) and you have some fun stuff to work with.
 
cancontent said:
I was thinking more of the era when Stratus and Lita were around. Love Flair 100% from what I've seen. Haven't been watching WWE as much as I used to though. Thanks for the tip on Rpley and Gonzalez.
Expand ...

Let’s be real.

Being hot makes it easy to get over, wwe has to really screw up your booking for you to not have fans (and they did with Trish clone Mandy rose).

See Sasha banks army of simps who support her despite her being a botch machine.
 
cockhrnleghrn said:
The Fabulous Moolah was from here in Columbia.
Expand ...
Her old compound, where she housed and trained many female wrestlers, burned to the ground a few weeks ago. I think the building was being used as some sort of care facility when it happened.

Moolah was almost certainly not an angel, but she was definitely a towering figure in women's wrestling for ages.
 
.-.
the Q said:
Many of their top stars were ncaa athletes

The rock
Roman reigns
Kurt angle
Kevin Nash

Wwe is a worse product than back when some of those guys were out there, but there’s no question about the level of athleticism and how it has increased.
Expand ...

There's always been plenty of former athletes, with football and "amateur wrestling" being a particularly common source of talent. Steve Austin's football heritage being an obvious example.

Difference is, most of those guys found their own way to wrestling. Rock and Roman come from pro wrestling families, Nash gave it a shot after his ball career was finished. Kurt's an exception - he actually was recruited. He was also a freak who took to it amazingly well.

Basically these days, WWE views ex-athletes, fitness trainers, etc. with no prior pro wrestling interest as its primary talent pool. Whereas in the past the talent pool came out of other wrestling territories or pro wrestling schools. They want to have absolute control of their product, down to assembling their wrestlers from the beginning and optimizing them specifically for their style.
 
By the way, in case any of the WCBB fans in this thread want a chuckle, here's Anriel Howard ("Lash Legend") doing her first actual match. She's very green, but that's to be expected for anyone at that level of experience.

It amuses me how basketball players scale differently on a court compared to in the public at large. Howard was basically MSU's version of Gabby Williams back when her team played against UConn*, and as such looked small, as guards tend to do. Next to normal human beings, she looks huge:




*Yes, I'm aware I got the timeline wrong and she never played against UConn while at MSU - leaving the original text in just to own up to my mistake :p
 
Last edited:
iri10 said:
There's always been plenty of former athletes, with football and "amateur wrestling" being a particularly common source of talent. Steve Austin's football heritage being an obvious example.

Difference is, most of those guys found their own way to wrestling. Rock and Roman come from pro wrestling families, Nash gave it a shot after his ball career was finished. Kurt's an exception - he actually was recruited. He was also a freak who took to it amazingly well.

Basically these days, WWE views ex-athletes, fitness trainers, etc. with no prior pro wrestling interest as its primary talent pool. Whereas in the past the talent pool came out of other wrestling territories or pro wrestling schools. They want to have absolute control of their product, down to assembling their wrestlers from the beginning and optimizing them specifically for their style.
Expand ...
I get it.

It makes sense to me.

There’s some weird stuff on the indy scene they don’t want.

They do need to listen the reigns on promos though

Way too much is forced or just wildly delusional
 
Some of you clearly really know professional wrestling. Thoughts about Tessa Blanchard? Has she earned herself a permanent blacklisting? I was impressed w/ what I saw from her in WOW and Impact Wrestling (although they pushed the intergender matches too much).
 
Blakeon18 said:
Yikes! From Duke basketball to being the next Fabuous Moolah?

Uhh...has she learned how to flop without harm?
Expand ...
Fabulous Moolah, now there’s a name you don’t hear every day. Even on this board that has a few of us that are a bit long with tooth, that’s a name that may predate the vast majority.
 
iri10 said:
Her old compound, where she housed and trained many female wrestlers, burned to the ground a few weeks ago. I think the building was being used as some sort of care facility when it happened.

Moolah was almost certainly not an angel, but she was definitely a towering figure in women's wrestling for ages.
Expand ...
I hadn't heard that, but I've been working like a dog lately. I do carve out time for basketball, though.
 
.-.
nwhoopfan said:
Some of you clearly really know professional wrestling. Thoughts about Tessa Blanchard? Has she earned herself a permanent blacklisting? I was impressed w/ what I saw from her in WOW and Impact Wrestling (although they pushed the intergender matches too much).
Expand ...

Big companies would think long and hard before hiring her. She's got two kinds of red flags in her history.
1. Has had many issues with coworkers. Wouldn't have been a big deal in the past, but nowadays the locker rooms are more cordial.
2. Has been unprofessional. The end of her Impact contract was very messy because they couldn't come to a deal. She missed tapings due to being out of the country. Then she held the belt hostage for a while after being fired. I don't think all of the mess was her fault, but enough of it was.

Number 2 is probably a much bigger deal for the companies than Number 1. Bottom line: with her skills she'd be an asset to any big company's roster...but they don't need her.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Some of you clearly really know professional wrestling. Thoughts about Tessa Blanchard? Has she earned herself a permanent blacklisting? I was impressed w/ what I saw from her in WOW and Impact Wrestling (although they pushed the intergender matches too much).
Expand ...

There’s a lot of unconfirmed smoke in many places

I want her in aew

Their division improving but a joke With baker as champ
 
iri10 said:
Big companies would think long and hard before hiring her. She's got two kinds of red flags in her history.
1. Has had many issues with coworkers. Wouldn't have been a big deal in the past, but nowadays the locker rooms are more cordial.
2. Has been unprofessional. The end of her Impact contract was very messy because they couldn't come to a deal. She missed tapings due to being out of the country. Then she held the belt hostage for a while after being fired. I don't think all of the mess was her fault, but enough of it was.

Number 2 is probably a much bigger deal for the companies than Number 1. Bottom line: with her skills she'd be an asset to any big company's roster...but they don't need her.
Expand ...

Just give me her vs Charlotte flair in aew

I don’t trust wwe to not screw it up with the trash they’ve been giving me in that division for the last 2-3 years
 
nwhoopfan said:
Some of you clearly really know professional wrestling. Thoughts about Tessa Blanchard? Has she earned herself a permanent blacklisting? I was impressed w/ what I saw from her in WOW and Impact Wrestling (although they pushed the intergender matches too much).
Expand ...

The fiend brought me back to pro wrestling

So brilliantly original and the most over thing wwe has created since cena.

So naturally they buried his momentum and literally killed him off
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Forum statistics

Threads
168,285
Messages
4,561,325
Members
10,455
Latest member
UConnGabby


Top Bottom