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What's the deal with all these "winners get tons of money" matches

Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 00:43:24 No.18791200 View View Reply Original Report

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It is some kind of money laundering?
Genuine question

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 00:44:28 No.18791213 Report

Quoted By: >>18791339

>>18791200
a way to claim there's stakes to a meaningless match

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 00:50:27 No.18791272 Report

Quoted By: >>18791350 >>18791366 >>18793182

why did Moxley say
>$250,000 each
in that promo in the catering tent if it's $500,000 which would be $100,000 per person on the winning team?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 00:59:06 No.18791339 Report

Quoted By: >>18793187

>>18791213
>being so bad at booking you have to pretend the winner gets $500k because it's the only way you can introduce any stakes but everybody knows its fake and nobody's really winning $500k and this "cash prize" will lead to nothing and never be spoken of again so it's all pointless
grim

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 01:00:24 No.18791350 Report

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>>18791272
He's giving them all the money upon victory because he lives well within his means.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 01:01:16 No.18791366 Report

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>>18791272
Split it by faction. Bucks get half and Death Riders get half.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 01:27:20 No.18791587 Report

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>>18791350
>>18791366
ah okay missed that part, thanks
I'm a boomer but Kamala told a fun story of when he first broke into the business. He says they told him not to smarten his wife/family up so he didn't. His wife was at a show where he won a battle royal for whatever, like $10,000 or something.
After the show she thinks he's bullshitting her and hiding the money. Think she started hitting him and shit lol. It was then he said he had to smarten her up. The way he told it was better of course.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 08:16:02 No.18793174 Report

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>>18791200
Work or shoot?

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 08:18:46 No.18793182 Report

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>>18791272
he was giving them the full purse if they showed up ready to fight and did their part since they're going through their corbin arc right now

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 08:21:07 No.18793187 Report

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TK parodying TKO underpaying its workers

>>18791339
You thought grown men feuding over friendship bracelets was cinema

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 08:23:30 No.18793193 Report

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>>18791200
>trios champs? old news
>all star 8 mans? old news
>10 mans for cash prizes

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 08:25:12 No.18793196 Report

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>>18793187
Wow, this anon just can't help but to bring up WWE out of nowhere

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 08:31:04 No.18793214 Report

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>>18793187
>deflecting to WWE because you can't think of a way to defend this
Tony's prize money gimmick is stupid, pointless, and nobody likes it.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 08:59:55 No.18793302 Report

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>>18791200
what the fuck is Tony doing

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 09:30:57 No.18793348 Report

Quoted By: >>18793503

>>18791200
Someone told Tony that the territories used to do this gimmick for battle royals and stuff, so like everything rip off from the past by them and sometimes WWE, they just slap a cash prize onto random matches in 2025 and think it's gonna boost interest somehow. Problem is the amount doesn't mean or change anything, the money isn't attached to any ongoing storyline, doesn't lead at all to some sort of storyline or gimmick change, and he's done like a dozen of them just this year.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 09:39:11 No.18793366 Report

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>>18791200
Tony got tired of people asking what the story was

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 10:30:53 No.18793460 Report

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I don't remember who did it, but in JCP or WCW (don't remember which) someone ran a gimmick where if you could beat them within the time limit you'd win $7,000. I only remember the amount because what a strange amount. Why not say a more normal number like $5,000? If it's all fake anyway, why not say $10,000? $7,000 was just such a weird amount.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 10:46:56 No.18793503 Report

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>>18793348
this gimmick only means something when it’s a heel putting up the money that he can beat the face as a last ditch effort to get another shot, then generally the face threw money to the crowd to get over

tony has no idea how or why anything happens in wrestling, he has no idea what payoffs are except that one time he had hla carrying the feud

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 11:03:18 No.18793556 Report

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>>18791200
In Kayfabe Tony is paying the winners of these matches with the Bucks' money. That's why they're bum ass niggas now.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 11:12:36 No.18793578 Report

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>>18791200
It's to give the marks an illusion that the people are wrestling for a big price and have some motivation to do so other than showing up to work for the money that they already get paid to put over the guy they scripted to win the match.
This reminds me of that time Kevin Steen(Owens) shat on himself talking about Cornettes ROH booking cause he didn't figure out why he'd try to book a match with a 1000 dollar price money on it or country v country feuds.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 11:32:05 No.18793624 Report

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>>18791200
They are offering more money than viewers lmao

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 11:38:22 No.18793641 Report

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>>18793302
I didn't realize Hayter came back literally no one said anything about it

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 11:46:12 No.18793661 Report

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>>18793302
kek how big of a shitter are you to be female and not in this match

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 12:44:52 No.18793767 Report

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>>18791200
It's literally pointless. It only worked way back when people thought wrestling was real and you got shit like Vince paying for the million dollar man to take limos everywhere and have first class flights and accommodation.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 12:54:16 No.18793801 Report

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Window dressing.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 13:43:35 No.18793959 Report

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Unironically it's because Tony can't book a story line to save his life, so he uses this.

The ironic part is that Tony doesn't know how to run a company, so he throws more and more money at it hoping it'll become a successful company.

Excited to see how much he'll burn before he gets a clue and hires real help.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 13:47:00 No.18793972 Report

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>>18791200
>>18793302
He spammed the All-Star match gimmick to death over the past month or two so now he's shifting over to the money one

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 13:47:56 No.18793974 Report

Quoted By: >>18794102

>/pw/ is full of retards who think the winners of these matches actually receive the money

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 13:49:04 No.18793977 Report

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>>18791200
The first Edge & Christian vs Hardy Boyz ladder match was over a bag of money.

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 13:50:15 No.18793983 Report

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>>18791200
I assumed it's to play in to the Bucks story of them being dirt poor and eventually becoming rich again

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 13:50:40 No.18793985 Report

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>>18793977
I bet it had a build

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 13:51:55 No.18793990 Report

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>>18793977
It was over a manager, the money was a bonus

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 13:59:40 No.18794008 Report

Quoted By: >>18794010

>>18793302
Remember when Harley Cameron was the AEWtist flavor of the month that was going to be this big star?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 14:00:41 No.18794010 Report

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>>18794008
losing to sasha is going to skyrocket her career, trust me bro

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 14:01:45 No.18794012 Report

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>>18793977
so it happened one time and not twice a month?

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 14:06:54 No.18794021 Report

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I hope these guys have smartened up their wives or husbands. If they didnt there’s gonna be hell to pay when they come home without the money.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 14:14:14 No.18794043 Report

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are they presented with giant novelty checks afterward?

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Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 14:29:37 No.18794102 Report

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>>18793974

You might have gotten spiked on your head a few too many times

I don't think people genuinely think there's 500k on the line, what people are asking is why the fuck is this a match stipulation when it's clear the money doesn't exist, without a money stipulation it's a heatless match.

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