“So they taped — I shouldn’t say taped — they did Tribute To The Troops Friday at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. It was not taped for television. There is no Tribute To The Troops television show this year.”
“Nothing else, they sent people you know and did their thing. For whatever reason the USA Network didn’t want the show. I don’t have an answer. I mean it’s been on television for god knows how many years — it feels like forever. So I was really surprised when I heard that.”
Source: Wrestling Observer Radio
No mention of it being on WWE Network so it looks like we won’t be seeing the show at all
Why doesn't the E ever listen to their fans?
This is a thought that crosses my mind each year. Aside from Hulk Hogan at the HOF, Mean Gene, for instance, wasn’t mentioned at all. This would be a fitting way to honor legends who paved the way for many before them with the rightful exposure they deserve.
Put it in the microwave until its bill withers.
A very interesting WOR, and an even more scary situation involving Saudi/WWE, here are some notes:
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Dave says WWE had not been paid for the previous Saudi show, as of September 30th. WWE then reported hours being Crown Jewel that they got an unspecified 60 million dollar payment.
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Dave calls it a really bad situation and doesn't know what WWE is going to do going forward. He had talent tell him they were never going back to Saudi Arabia, and others saying they couldn't wait TO LEAVE THE COMPANY.
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Dave continually reiterates the two major points: WWE wasn't paid for the previous Saudi show as of September 30th & they got a mysterious 60 million dollar payment a couple hours before Crown Jewel
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Dave confirms that Crown Jewel was supposed to air live in Saudi Arabia but instead it ending up airing there on a 40 minute delay. Basically sounds like Vince pulled the plug until he and the Saudis came to an agreement, which they did mid-show
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None of the talent was harmed but there was talent there that felt like they were hostages, even though they were allowed to leave
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Dave just keeps saying over and over that it's a really bad, really tense situation. He says the talent needs to unionize, but then points out that Smackdown is a great example of a WWE response if that were to happen: they'd just call up NXT and have a hot show
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Bryan tries to suggest Vince left before he knew all the problems talent would face. Dave says we don't know that. He'd like to believe that, but he just knows a lot of people were mad. One person there told Dave they felt like they were pawns in a dick waving contest
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Dave says Lesnar and Heyman were not originally scheduled to be on last Friday's Smackdown but they added them because of the rest of the talent being delayed. Says Brock/Heyman jumping to Raw was going to happen next Tuesday as a big kickoff for the new FS1 news show
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Listen to an audio clip posted to the Wrestling Observer YouTube channel (link fixed) here you can listen to Dave and Bryan discussing the above
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... keep reading on reddit ➡> Matt Hardy is expected to leave WWE in March. He produced new Broken videos and offered an idea for a “Free the Delete” series to lead to his return with the old character. But they weren’t interested. Hardy is the leading speculated name for the leader of the Dark Order since they just started teasing a leader and Hardy just started putting out the videos.
And it's still annoying. There were a lot of unnecessary crowd shots last night. One time they cut to some dude on his phone.
