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EVOLVE Discussion Thread

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Probably because ROH is getting their biggest stars to sign contracts. Like Adam Cole and Michael 'Mr. Baseball' Elgin.
 

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It's not the contracts that are the issue. It's that ROH has become too big to just be a feeder fed to the WWE. WWE was perfectly happy to play nice with ROH when it was "smal & harmless". But ROH isn't either anymore. ROH has had 1 crowd under 700 people in the past 2 years, even drawing good number when running opposite or in the vicinity of WWE events, they have national TV, is a tight partner with the second biggest company worldwide and can offer talent good pay.

WWE stopped playing nice because ROH became just too big to ignore.
 

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Damn. Never knew they were doing this good.

Guess I got to stop listening to people shitting on Delirious just to shit on him.
 

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Oh Delirious can take getting shit on. He's a good skeleton booker, he has the start and the stop of a story all figured out, but hte middle could use work.

But ROH as a business is doing very well for themselves
 

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I guess I need to start watching more than Final Battle and BITW.

Anyways, back to Evolve. Tomorrow is the night for Evolve 49. I'm pretty pumped, tbf.
 

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I really hope Conley gets the #1 Contender spot soon, and gets the title. Caleb has so much more potential than just being some tag team ace.
 

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Andrew Everett def Tony Nese, Matt Cage, Peter Kassa

Matt Riddle def Jonathan Gresham

Chris Dickinson def Tracey Williams with trailer hitch

Winner Gets An EVOLVE Title Shot At EVOLVE 50
Trevor Lee def Drew Gulak with Gods last gift package driver

Tony Nese and Caleb Konley def Milk Chocolate (Brandon Watts & Randy Summers)

Willie Mac def Earl Cooter

Roppongi Vice (Trent Baretta & Rocky Romero) def Timothy Thatcher and TJ Perkins

I Quit Match – If Gargano Loses, He Will Leave WWN
Johnny Gargano def Ethan Page when he used the ring ropes with his Gargano Escape
– It was Page who had takent he ropes down first
– Ethan page came out to Triple H theme. It was said to be incredible.
– Sami Zayn’s music hit at the end of the match.

Zayn said that it was insane being at EVOLVE. He then addressed Page and said he was no Kevin Owens. Zayn stated he missed the fans, indie wrestling, and thanked everyone who supported EVOLVE. He said there were some new things happening with EVOLVE and that things would be getting bigger and better. Zayn stated that he’s seen Gargano here and there (implying NXT) and that he deserves to be The EVOLVE Champion. Gargano and Zayn shook hands while streamers came down and thanked the crowd for coming.

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Should have brought him on 50. It has a better card all around.

But as usual Page being a bad ass mofo.
 

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Only on 50. Would've had much more hype and much more people excited for the 50th Evolve show.
 

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Once again showing why Page is the best.
 

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EVOLVE 49 was a decent show. The ME, Gargano vs Page was MOTN, whie Mack vs Cooter was hilariously bad and the worst thing on the show. What an underwhelming debut for The Mack. The rest of the card was a'ight, but didn't do much for me.
 
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