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I'm not sure how being in WWE and bragging about your Wrestling Observer Newsletter award WOULDN'T make you seem like a mark.

So we're just going to ignore that Mauro putting over the Observer awards directly shits on his broadcast partners who were voted #1 and #5 on the worst announcers list? I guess that wouldn't be a valid thing for JBL or Otunga to get hot about though.

Are you sure you weren't listening to one of Grimmas' shows? I felt like that was a pretty accurate take on Conrad's gimmick for this show tbh

You're reading a WHOLE LOT into the words "evidently" and "must have"

God damn that bullying asshole JBL for doing what every heel color commentator does and razzing the babyface announcer he's working with. If you're gonna go on this crusade please cite specific examples with exact quotes of what you think JBL said that crossed the line.

When do heel color commentators and babyface announcers not bicker? It's not like Corey Graves & Byron Saxton are buddy buddy on Raw. None of the stuff that JBL has said about Mauro on Smackdown has seemed out of line from what those kinds of normal interactions would be.

I don't think Taker really has enough left in the tank to have some kind of "epic" match, it's why I'm not even slightly upset they aren't doing Cena vs. Taker. I don't think that match can possibly live up to the hype. So if it were up to me I would also have Roman just run right over Taker. People are going to bitch and moan even if he wins a close match so just go all the way with way it.

Pre-debut internet hype, basically. Before he came out as a fat dancing dinosaur. Sheer ignorance. I was hoping for a John Tenta worker and instead got Junkyard Dog. Some amazing irony going on in a post where someone talks about ignorance and then compares Brodus Clay to Junkyard Dog.

The best matches that immediately come to mind: vs. Daniel Bryan - Fastlane 2015 vs. Brock Lesnar - WrestleMania 31 vs. Big Show - Extreme Rules 2015 vs. Sheamus TLC 2015 vs. AJ Styles - Payback 2016 vs. AJ Styles - Extreme Rules 2016 From this year, these two are also worth checking out : vs. Kevin Owens - Royal Rumble vs. Braun Strowman - Fastlane

Of course USA Network isn't going to want a deal where Raw & Smackdown get put on the Network the day after they air live & WWE would be stupid to act like that's some kind of deal breaker. Even if it's just a difference between people watching it via their cable DVR or via The Network, USA is going to want the DVR #s.

I kind of get why they don't have all their Youtube stuff on the Network. They get ad revenue from youtube so putting that stuff on the Network as an exclusive wouldn't make sense because it's not like any of that stuff is going to drive subs & double posting it just takes away YT views and cuts into the ad revenue.

Does anyone remember that they had a match on I want to say the Japan show, which Lorcan (wtf kind of name tho) won clean with a half nelson superplex and then it was never mentioned on TV again, nothing ever came from it, and Lorcan went back to doing house shows while Almas was on the next Takeovers? I remember it because after that match the only thing I could think about was how I can't see any way that Oney Lorcan fits on the main roster.

Yea the Mansfield/Casey feud went on for quite a while in Southwest. I've always liked Eddie Mansfield in all the stuff I've seen him in. Especially the mixed midget tag with he & Tiny Tim (or Tom?) against Scott Casey & Cowboy Lang.

Well if they are public domain there is nothing stopping WWE from putting them on the Network it just means Lawler isn't going to get any money from WWE unless they do it out of kindness.

As Chris Harrington aka mookieghana pointed out on twitter, when WWE bought WCW they didn't just assume all the old WCW contracts, they made everyone sign new ones. They bought PARTS of WCW but not all of it so they wouldn't have to assume all the contracts or any of WCW's old liabilities. I would imagine they would do pretty much the same thing with ROH where they buy the library and some of the intellectual property but not the whole thing and they make anyone they want to keep sign new contracts.

Lots of people on twitter whining about WWE trying to take over everything in wrestling and create a monopoly. But the fans themselves gave them the motivation to go out and start co-opting and buying out indies because they treated WWE's own fake indie NXT like it was an actual "alternative" to main roster WWE. You can't lose your shit over Sami Zayn & Finn Balor in NXT and build that into a viable 3rd touring group and then get mad when WWE sees the money there and starts trying to expand into that smaller hardcore market with stuff like the UK Tournament and buying out ROH. It's why I've always laughed at people who say they don't watch WWE but have a Network sub just so they can watch NXT. That's like the peak of being a mark in modern day wrestling.

See this is the problem with what they are doing with Braun within the Reigns/Taker storyline. People said Braun exited the ring last week out of respect for Taker and nodding his head in acknowledgement. Someone said that Braun is all cool with Taker destroying their shared enemy. So if that's the case, why have Braun try to attack Taker? When the lights turned on it was obvious he was focused on Reigns by standing in his way and facing him directly. Why the change of heart for Braun in just one week? No I think it proves that Braun slinked out of the ring out of fear last week and tried to take advantage of the inattention to attack him like a coward. You're right Braun is ruined forever. Should probably ask for his release before he's forced to dress up like Nikki Bella.

Yea I had a good laugh about some people on twitter going on about "he's gone from wrestling Jushin Liger to getting beat up by Nikki Bella!!! Buried!!!" when the whole reason Tyler Breeze got the Liger match was because they didn't care if he lost to someone who would never be coming back.

The problem with American Alpha is that as characters they are just bland. There's no real reason to like them outside of "these guys are good in the ring" which is not going to get you that far in WWE. Even on Talking Smack they just come off as boring. They also aren't on TV enough to ever really gain any traction as the tag division on SD only exists like once every 3 weeks. Smackdown has done a great job of keeping everyone in their women's division involved, usually running 2 if not 3 women's feuds at a time but that's come at the expense of time for the tag division. Personally I'd just scrap the weekly Dolph Ziggler segment by having Mojo Rawley fucking destroy him 2 or 3 squash matches in a row and then shave his head and then put him in a dumpster and then set it on fire and then shoot that flaming dumpster off into the sun but for some stupid fucking reason they keep putting Dolph on TV every week.

If they haven't announced a Ladder match by now I don't think they are going to have one this year.

He showed up to confront Roman Reigns. Braun tried to fuck with him so he had to deal with him & that caused him to turn his back on Reigns. Leaving the ring would have made him look far worse than registering that "aw shit I fucked up" before turning around.

Sami Zayn gets pushed like a "top of the bottom/bottom of the top" type guy but for people who think he should be the Universal Champ and in the WM main event of course he's being BURIED~!

That's an exceptionally bad reading of the situation.

Braun is fine. They aren't going to add him to the Taker/Reigns match but he & Big Show will probably toss out everyone else in the Andre battle royal and then face off and Braun will win. He's going to be in the main event picture following Mania. I mean ya'll do realize the monster heel can't stay undefeated forever right? There was no one better for Braun to drop his first loss against than Roman since he's the top guy on Raw. A loss to Sami Zayn or Finn Balor would have been way worse for his "credibility" regardless of whatever you want to say about how it should have been used to create the next top babyface. They aren't GOING to try & go crazy to push another top babyface because they've finally gotten comfortable with Reigns getting the Cena split crowd reactions. Say whatever you want about Roman but rarely do you have a crowd as hot at the end of a 3 hour Raw as they were for the match with Braun last night. I loved the very end with Taker realizing he'd fucked up by turning his back on Roman and knowing he was gonna get hit with that Spear.

They never had to "wait for a reason" to fire Paige. They could have done it a long time ago. They could have used excuses like her being backstage at a bunch of different wrestling shows, including an Impact taping while following around Del Rio. They could have cited her failing drugs tests and lying about why she failed. The reason she is still there is because they DON'T want to get rid of her. Even with all the shit that happened with her drugs tests & Alberto they STILL decided to make a fucking movie about her. Are we all forgetting a few months ago how the story was that Paige was trying to get out of her contract and they wouldn't let her?