Postmania XVII: YES! YES! YES!

[Alex]

I just want to point out that he was bragging about it being sold out when tickets are free to students.
And this is the first show and they only invited students to it.

[Alex]

Im wondering how many talent scouts WWE has. I know JR and Gerald Brisco are talent scouts and Xpac as well while also working the indies. Funaki still does talent scouting for them but who else?

I wouldn't imagine that many actually, i know they in Mexico they don't have official agents, they just rely on connections they have working down there to tell them about guys.

[Vibranium]

I just want to point out that he was bragging about it being sold out when tickets are free to students.
And this is the first show and they only invited students to it.

that's probably one of the deals about doing the show on a college campus....you have to give X amount of tickets to the students

which Im fine with

[Alex]

that's probably one of the deals about doing the show on a college campus....you have to give X amount of tickets to the students

which Im fine with

I beleive i read the way they are doing it is, students get a set time to get tickets, after whatever the amount of time is, they start selling them to the public.
The thing is though, the place only seats 500, and they are using stars on the show, so it shouldn't be a stretch to get 500 seats every week.
I dunno how big that school is, but i imagine it has 500 wrestling fans who will take an hour a week to go to a free show.
And you are never making a ton of money on a 500 seat show, the college may have paid them to film there actually.

[Alex]

Oh, btw, this is only vaguely wrestling related, but it was funny.
If anyone missed it, after Melzter broke down the UFC ratings a few Observers ago, Dana White read it and got pissed, so he put up a video burying Meltzer.
The funny part is, he called Melzter before and told him everything he was going to say. So Dana is a nice guy before he buries someone.

[Gryphon]

I wouldn't imagine that many actually, i know they in Mexico they don't have official agents, they just rely on connections they have working down there to tell them about guys.

I was surprised to find out Funaki is a talent scout for them. I only found that out from his twitter.

[Alex]

I was surprised to find out Funaki is a talent scout for them. I only found that out from his twitter.

Is he working in japan or does he do it here?

[Gryphon]

Is he working in japan or does he do it here?

Im not sure. I know he has a school in the US and he does shows in Japan so maybe both?

[Alex]

Im not sure. I know he has a school in the US and he does shows in Japan so maybe both?

They have been signing more indy guys latetly, we don't hear as much about random guy or fitness model getting signed.

[Gryphon]

They have been signing more indy guys latetly, we don't hear as much about random guy or fitness model getting signed.

Thats because trips has more control now. For example, he hired the kings based on Xpac's suggestion.

[Legato]

I was surprised to find out Funaki is a talent scout for them. I only found that out from his twitter.

Surprised to find out that he got rehired by the WWE

[Gryphon]

Surprised to find out that he got rehired by the WWE

According to his twitter he is a talent scout but I havent seen that anywhere else, but again I have no reason to doubt it.

[Gryphon]

http://twitter.com/#!/shofufu824

In the description

Sho Funaki

@shofufu824

This is Funaki ! WWE's #1 Talent Scout Consultant.

San Antonio, TX · http://www.facebook.com/shofufu

[Gryphon]

http://www.lordsofpain.net/news/wwe/..._Starting.html

John Cena just tweeted the following message regarding a major change to WWE's flagship Monday night show:

"STARTING Monday Night July 23 @USA_NETWORK WILL BE ADDING A 3RD HOUR TO @WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW - PERMANENTLY. #3hourRaw"


The July 23rd show will be RAW's 1,000th episode.

The announcement of RAW moving to 3-hours every week is now on WWE.com as well.

It was recently reported that WWE's weekly RAW tapings would be starting close to an hour earlier - and this news explains why. No word yet on whether the extra hour will be the rumored RAW pre-show.

[Alex]

http://www.lordsofpain.net/news/wwe/..._Starting.html

John Cena just tweeted the following message regarding a major change to WWE's flagship Monday night show:

"STARTING Monday Night July 23 @USA_NETWORK WILL BE ADDING A 3RD HOUR TO @WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW - PERMANENTLY. #3hourRaw"


The July 23rd show will be RAW's 1,000th episode.

The announcement of RAW moving to 3-hours every week is now on WWE.com as well.

It was recently reported that WWE's weekly RAW tapings would be starting close to an hour earlier - and this news explains why. No word yet on whether the extra hour will be the rumored RAW pre-show.

I hope it's a free show, can you imagine 3 hours of that shit on monday?
Also, the rating will now be permanetly lower.