I assume like most that the War Games main event at Survivor Series is going to be the new Bloodline vs Roman, Usos, and Sami.
My concern was how they would be able to create motivation for Sami and Jey to join Roman after everything he has done to them in storyline. Now that Sami and Jey have respectively earned title shots, my assumption is that The New Bloodline will cost them both their title matches with a story of Solo trying to “clean up the mess and take care of the business that Roman and Jimmy were not able to clean up and take out Jey and Sami”.
If they do this, Roman has obvious motivation to want to take on the The New Bloodline, Jimmy was taken out by them and has been out for months, hence his motivation. Sami’s entire identity and motivation right now is winning his first world title will have his motivation after being screwed, and Jey over the past 6 months or so is focused on winning his singles title will have his motivation just like Sami.
What does everyone think? I think this could lead to some really good segments backstage and in ring with this group getting back together.
I also do want to state, I am way behind on the podcasts right now, so if John and Wai or anyone else have already discussed this, my apologies.
I don’t know how it would happen, but Roman’s reconciliation with… pretty much anybody… had better be thoroughly explained. Just going by memory, these guys all lost a title match to Roman with some level of cheating/interference involved: Cody Rhodes, LA Knight, AJ Styles, Randy Orton, Sami Zayn, Jey Uso, Kevin Owens, Rey Mysterio (?), Drew McIntyre, and probably Seth Rollins at some point. And that’s only current roster.
Long way of saying that you can’t just do the “well, he’s a babyface now” thing and gloss over key points in what has been the main storyline in the company for five years.
Completely agree. I hope it’s done with the characters being very hesitant and having more of a “enemy of enemy is my friend” mentality opposed to “were besties again” mentality……similar to the vibe of the Drew/Jey storyline last year.
That’s insane. 300 level tickets are over $1,000 CAD and floor go as high as $5-6000 each. But THIS is how WWE keeps breaking the gate records. Dynamic pricing.
This is literally one month’s rent for a lot of people. I’ll never understand the justification of this kind of pricing of things in a post-covid economy.
I just looked at the presale for Collision in Providence. A floor seat is $273 (USD) before fees. I thought that was insane, but it actually makes sense seeing what a WWE “Big 4” PLE ticket costs.
How I miss the days of seeing washed up “legends” in car dealership parking lots… for free, plus I got Hercules Hernandez’s autograph!
I hear ya, and I hate it to…… but it’s supply and demand. If people didn’t pay it they would bring the prices down. I won’t be paying these kinds of prices. For a PLE, I wouldn’t pay more then $200 Can.
I splurged for Coachella tickets this year and it’s crazy to think about buying a ticket to a WWE show that’s rife with commercials for the same amount of money. The highest I ever paid for a single show was $300 for Paul McCartney, but that was Paul McCartney.
The odd time I buy tickets to a show via Ticketmaster these days sends pulses of guilt through my soul. I truly hate giving them money anymore.
Survivor Series prices are ridiculous! I saw $6,000 for a row one seat. I don’t think Vancouver has EVER had a higher priced ticket for anything at Rogers Arena.
It’s dynamic pricing. That’s how these things work nowadays. WWE (and many other acts) price high immediately because scalpers and third party sites buy up those tickets.
Then demand and pricing should normalize.
The problem for the consumer is if something is very hot (like Taylor Swift tickets or quite frankly WWE today) then all the seats are sold quickly when prices are high. Then the resellers have to keep the price inflated to make a profit.
And because TicketMaster earns money from the initial sale and the resale they are the true evil in all this.
Joking aside, I figure he’s either rich, works for the company (ie. it’s a comp), or knows someone in the company.
It’s not just him though, there is also Trinidad and Tobago flag guy, blond shaved head guy, a guy with black curly hair (he hugged Natalya on raw), and a few others.
Very possible he has a relative who works for WWE who can get tickets for cheap. I agree though, no chance hes buy off ticket master and getting that seat every time.
The fact is I haven’t watched part or a full WWE event in ages, but the green shirt guy was around long before that an he’s still around, he must have connections. Has to. I thought maybe he worked for the company (like a truck driver) or something.
I think i read that green shirt guy was a real estate agent, or a scientist lol I dunno, I could be making that up outta my ass, but im sure I read it somewhere.
There is presale access as well. Like not advertised presale, but a super presale.
Like for instance, for any event in the Scotiabank in Toronto, I have sale ahead of anyone else because that’s part of the deal when we got our Raptors and leaf season tickets. I’m sure other areas have similar things and maybe he’s part of that program
I read the real estate agent thing as well, but nothing that you could call “proof.”
The only thing that makes any sort of sense is that he’s super rich (for the travel) but also has a hookup in the company for tickets. Even somebody with unlimited funds (who also isn’t famous) isn’t getting “front row on the hard cam” tickets for every show for the last decade without help.
I can’t buy that he’s a plant… WWE wouldn’t need to “plant” a fan right in a primo hard cam seat for Wrestlemania, for example. And if they did, they might consider asking him to actually react to something .
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