re: WWE Monday Night RAW Thread: Elimination Chamber Go Home Edition

Well this is insane.

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"The Universe" is just another silly name for "marks".

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We are all fricking marks. Vince has been the puppet master controlling wrestling fans for damn near the last 30 years outside of maybe a few years when WCW got in on it.

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hey're not reaching a mainstream audience.

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So I'm not sure what you consider "mainstream" but WWE is reaching their target market. Now I'll be the first to admit that creative right now sucks but the Lynch angle isn't part of that. The creative that sucks is that that can't figure out a way to make Nakamura, Balor, Zayn, Owens, etc huge stars.

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you could walk up to 10 random people in public and not one of them would know who the hell "The Man" Becky Lynch is. yet of those same 10 people, several of them would know who Austin, Hogan, Cena, etc. are

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Damn....Austin, Hogan, and Cena are all considered 3 of the top 5 wrestling superstars of all time. No one...no one active in the world right now will touch that level.

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now that certainly isn't the talent's fault. It likely has more to do with the McMahon's not wanting anyone getting too popular and having power over them like in the past. WWE likes to own every aspect of their independent contractors. they use them up and spit them out.

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I think some of that is true. However, to think that there is something that Vince could do to turn Rusev into Hogan, EC3 into Cena, or Becky into Stone Cold is ridiculous.