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That mentions that Smackdown would be the "Hispanic brand" which would be aired here because Smackdown has TV. If they send guys to the Europe or Asian brand odds are we wouldn't get to see them much unless you had 24/7.

I doubt anyone here would ever know about WWE Japan or Mexico, it's not like it would air on TV here unless you had WWE 24/7, atleast that's my guess.

complete bullshit If the "old" ECW fans didn't shit on everything from day 1 maybe they wouldn't have done this. If the new ECW didn't suck from day 1, maybe they wouldn't have done this. There's also 0 point in having a show where you know the fans will shit on everything that even has an inkling of WWE in it. You do more harm than good to your product when you have to book a show for the live crowd that isn't even big to begin with...... All I'm saying is when you wanna be renegade fans and shit on everything, don't bitch when they make a business decision to not run there anymore.

The WWE possibly looking at World Domination! 'The new CFO of WWE, Michael Selick, revealed in Financial Week that the company is exploring the possibility of establishing separate WWE promotions running full-time in separate international markets. If everything went ahead it would go so far as to include separate TV tapings and storylines for each region, turning WWE from an overseas novelty into a local promotion. Things are still in the preliminary stages but Vince McMahon has discussed it in detail with Stephanie, John Laurinaitis and others in the inner circle. The territories mentioned include a 'Pacific' region covering Japan, South Korea, China and Australia, a 'Hispanic' territory for Puerto Rico, Mexico and South America, and a European territory, with perhaps a Russian one at a later date. Meanwhile, in the USA, there would be two touring brands, most likely Raw and ECW, with Smackdown becoming the Hispanic brand as it is already well established in the market. Big pay increases would be given to senior agents and creative team members to move themselves and their families overseas, with potential performance bonuses depending on how well business goes. It would start off with a TV executive producer with experience of the region working closely with one agent and one writer who would be running the territory. There would also be a crew of wrestlers, who would also be expected to move their families overseas. Paul Heyman's name has actually been mentioned in connection to the Pacific region. Shane McMahon, along with Selick, is working on a business plan for the venture, which remains in its formative stages. Potential drawbacks include the cost of producing WWE calibre shows, around $500,000 per week, and how TV stations in areas like Mexico would respond to the price. There is also the danger of international markets already beginning to get overexposed. Recent Japanese tours have not performed particularly well, there were concerns over the number of Australian tours, while advances for the next batch of Mexican dates have been well below expectations. Also, though WWE can get away with charging high prices for their shows at the moment as it is a novelty, doing so repeatedly would not help when taking on promotions like CMLL or AAA. If it did come to pass then a lot of new wrestlers would of course be hired, as there would be a minimum of five brands. They are looking at promoting each market using both established WWE stars and top babyfaces based on ethnic backgrounds. Carlito, Mistico and Mysterio would be assigned to the Hispanic brand as top stars, they would look for a top Asian and Australian babyface, and guys like Regal, Finlay, Harry Smith and Paul Burchill could be assigned major roles in Europe. They would also likely raid the local markets in Japan and Mexico, whilst bringing back more of the '80s and '90s stars to make up the numbers. The only sure thing about the creative team members is that neither Stephanie McMahon nor Brian Gerwitz would work internationally. Gerwitz would likely become the chief writer of the USA brands, while Stephanie would hire more TV writers with Hollywood experience. Word is that the interntaionaly territories would be handled by Shane, with Vince concentrating on domestic business, though many have suggested that Vince's personality means he would want to be involved everywhere anyway. Credit: Wrestling Observer newsletter

Paul London cries seeing as that's his G/F.

Ashley isn't even attractive to top all this off. Does this mean the tltle is switching to Smackdown or Ashley is moving to Raw?

complete bullshit If the "old" ECW fans didn't shit on everything from day 1 maybe they wouldn't have done this.

Well he won't be on the show either one of those guys are on........

I just can't believe how Triple H has worked the entire company and tons of fans in general into believing he's an equal to guys like Rock and Austin when he's never been close to that. As for Boogeyman, he doesn't bother me at all because he's not a great worker so they gave him a goofy gimmick. I'm pefectly ok with that, it's not like they took an awesome ring guy and made him the Boogeyman.

That's an extremely disturbing visual.........thanks.

The fued would make since if the new guys won regular matches but then they turned around and booked "extreme" rules which all the originals would take but it appears they don't want to do that.

Don't worry it will be in the Mania hype video.........that's a big man to do a dive through spot so that makes it even cooler.

Ok.....that diving through the cage spot was cool as fuck.

I'm waiting for the post in this thread about how all the women in the WWE are ugly and look like trannies.........

I think it's funny that people bitch about something that lasts 2 minutes at most....man that is really the downfall of wrestling right there let me tell ya.

Richards does some office work for them.....so I'm under the assumption he's pretty safe.

Look a Richards appearance........shouldn't they put him in the originals stable?

Caning to the ass is always a nice spot...

Balls looks weird without a beard...

You really thought Sabu was going over? Back away from the wii. Sabu in a ladder match would be something, especially with 7 other people. With Jeff Hardy in it too there could be a record for botches if Sabu had made it in...

It looks like this thing is going down to the wire. Meltzer So here's the question for people who probably understand this a little better than me.........will he get an offer right now? And basically not go back to CMLL at all or........will he have to wait and go back to CMLL and work in a very awkward situation? Considering all they did to keep him from making it to WWE it looked to me as if they were treating this that if he made it to San Jose they'd never see him again.

Orton and Edge were having issues going into the Rumble.......so it's just a carry over of that.

That belt flip spot by HBK was pretty sweet.

Highly doubtful.......in the end neither will probably end up full blown heel.

Since Cena was first out to open the show.........he gets to be last out for the mainvent.