09.15 WOR: Cruiserweight Classic finals, Smackdown, more

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>meltzer

Most interesting tidbits from the radio and the newsletter:

>T.J. Perkins was really the only choice to win, Kota Ibushi and Sabre Jr are the two people that showed up on the final episode that didn't sign, so they couldn't give them the championship and Gran Metalik has signed but will still have dates in Mexico for the foreseeable future

>Ibushi continues being the absolute madman that he is and is not minimally interested in signing with WWE anytime soon

>Dave thinks Austin Aries should be the champion of the division because he makes a great heel

>Bryan Alvarez is, as usual, a moron and thinks that TJ Perkins was the MVP of the tournament

>Dave thinks Dean Ambrose did excellently in getting heat and was tremendous on his segments

>> Backlash only drew 7,000 fans, and that was with a lot of papering around town in the days before the show. There were reports of tickets being given away at night clubs as well as outside a Comic book convention the day before the show. In addition, for the first time in recent history, a WWE PPV show didn’t crack the No. 20 searches for that day.

>WWE is changing the names of some of the belts. The main belts will be called the Universal title on Raw and the world title on Smackdown. The word heavyweight is gone, at least from the Smackdown belt, but Vince has come and gone with the word heavyweight when it comes to the singles title for years. Not sure about this week and whether the Universal belt is a heavyweight belt but it may be with the impending cruiserweight belt coming to that brand. The IC and U.S. belts will remain the same. The former WWE tag team championship and WWE women’s championship are now the Raw tag team championship and the Raw women’s championship, with the idea that if they were WWE belts it would make the Smackdown belts in theory seem less important since they only had a brand name

>>1763495
>It’s notable that the recent WWE Network commercials have more and more Hulk Hogan on them, including two voice clips in the latest commercial. In the past, they’ve not pushed Hogan on network commercials. We’ve all known that WWE was looking at bringing back Hogan when they thought the time was right and when they wouldn’t get a backlash for doing so. I sense this is some testing of the waters. Most wrestling fans don’t care, and Hogan will always have a nostalgia thing going for him no matter what he does, but the racist comments are a tough one to come back from, and the company can’t plead ignorance if a sponsor gets mad over it. Still, while this is not a perfect analogy at all, but seeing Ryan Lochte doing “Dancing With The Stars” so soon after he basically became the poster boy for the ugly entitled American abroad with no sponsor backlash says a lot

>With all three Shield members as faces, there is talk of setting up another Shield reunion type spot at one of the joint branded PPVs, whether it be in the Rumble or something at Survivor Series

>le meltz
Take this shit to /wew/ faggot. No one buys this balding cucks shit

I only listen to WOR because one of the guys sounds like David Cross

>>1763513
Of course not, underage babbies like you can't afford it

>7000
>with major papers
>first time it didn't crack top 20

Holy fuck the state of no draw deanetty
Another record low to his name

>>1763495
Kinda bummed that Ibushi didn't sign but he is 34 and in jap wrestling thats relatively young. Maybe he'll finally settle the score with Omega before returning to the states.

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>>1763518
>Unironically and seriously giving money to Meltz

>>1764118
>this image

Oy.

>>1763495
>Ibushi continues being the absolute madman that he is and is not minimally interested in signing with WWE anytime soon
WWE BTFO