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So in the comments/quotes it says that is a Blue Light Discount for employees in essential services industries that Wembley Stadium apparently offers for every event





 

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Regardless, discounts aren't a negative. I get that we made fun of UofL for free football tickets with a gallon of milk (as we should have) but they did what they had to do when their teams stunk and no one cared. It's what I've said about WWE. The prices were far too high and they needed to lower them and offer discounts. They did. SS will be a good weekend crowd but lower than last year and All In may do 40k-45k which is great but it'll continue to be a lower number each time they run Wembley. Nothing wrong with it. No one outside of WWE can do that.
 

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Regardless, discounts aren't a negative. I get that we made fun of UofL for free football tickets with a gallon of milk (as we should have) but they did what they had to do when their teams stunk and no one cared. It's what I've said about WWE. The prices were far too high and they needed to lower them and offer discounts. They did. SS will be a good weekend crowd but lower than last year and All In may do 40k-45k which is great but it'll continue to be a lower number each time they run Wembley. Nothing wrong with it. No one outside of WWE can do that.
They gave away tickets with a gallon of milk? lol
 
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They gave away tickets with a gallon of milk? lol
It was something like that, yeah. Through Kroger like Laparka said. UK football was on tape delay so if they played at noon it'd be on after the local news at 11:00 and Louisville was going through the Ron Cooper years and you went to Kroger for free tickets. Both programs have come a hell of a long way since then (even though UofL is still overrated most years).
 

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Apparently that Blue Light Card discount for public sector employees for All In tickets was just a discount code and someone posted it on Reddit so AEW moved over a thousand tickets today because of that lol.

Seems like if it's supposed to be only for certain people then there would be a better way to sandbox it instead of just making it a discount code that anyone can use if it leaks out. Kinda diminishes the specialness of the benefit a bit.
 

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Never saw the appeal in her. She’s an ok performer but her strikes look sloppy and she has RBF.

Let her go to NXT, TK. Not worth the bother IMO. Take Sammy with you — that would be two new roster additions to the NXT women’s division 😂
She showed some decent potential before Sammy knocked her up, but she wasn't a particularly safe worker so probably best she leave. And the women's roster got way upgraded over those two years.
 

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So Ricochet is taking guitar shots from Double J like it's 1999 and Ciampa is in the Painmaker vortex about to wrestle a near 60 year old. Add Rusev getting matches but mostly losing and Saints not doing a heck of a lot so far and this is why I think sometimes we make a big deal out of these roster changes when we probably shouldn't. All four are probably where they should be right now.

With May, it's ridiculous how she's been handled so far but best guess is since they've got plans in place for SS, they're waiting until afterward to heat her up. They do similar around Mania. If you're not on their list of matches for a big show, you're in the background.
 
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So Ricochet is taking guitar shots from Double J like it's 1999 and Ciampa is in the Painmaker vortex about to wrestle a near 60 year old. Add Rusev getting matches but mostly losing and Saints not doing a heck of a lot so far and this is why I think sometimes we make a big deal out of these roster changes when we probably shouldn't. All four are probably where they should be right now.

With May, it's ridiculous how she's been handled so far but best guess is since they've got plans in place for SS, they're waiting until afterward to heat her up. They do similar around Mania. If you're not on their list of matches for a big show, you're in the background.
Ya I agree but Saints was getting some traction on collision with punk then when he left that’s when it went in the tank.

I think that’s why TK let Melo go when she asked we are basically trading bayley for Sammy/melo. They likely fit better and he knows he’s signing 7 or whatever that number is.
 

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Ya I agree but Saints was getting some traction on collision with punk then when he left that’s when it went in the tank.

I think that’s why TK let Melo go when she asked we are basically trading bayley for Sammy/melo. They likely fit better and he knows he’s signing 7 or whatever that number is.
I dunno. WWE has TKO breathing down their neck. If you look at the current NXT roster, I'm not seeing a lot of future stars there. Vince and Bruce did ruin NXT but changes were made because they saw dudes who looked like Adam Cole when they probably expected more Oba Femi's and Randy Orton's. NXT does need bodies I guess but if Sammy can't even get on Collision, why would anyone believe he'll be on SD one day?
 

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I dunno. WWE has TKO breathing down their neck. If you look at the current NXT roster, I'm not seeing a lot of future stars there. Vince and Bruce did ruin NXT but changes were made because they saw dudes who looked like Adam Cole when they probably expected more Oba Femi's and Randy Orton's. NXT does need bodies I guess but if Sammy can't even get on Collision, why would anyone believe he'll be on SD one day?
I think Sammy would probably be in AAA I don’t think he’s a main roster guy but would fit in a lower type role. I mean like you said he’s barely scratching roh or collision.

Losing bayley would likely be “clearing cap space” since she probably makes decent money.