Mad Dog

He won the Andre the Giant Battle Royal. I think people have just given up on protesting Charlotte/Becky. I think being handcuffed to Charlotte has killed Becky's heat and momentum but I think the average person has been beaten to the point of apathy over it now.

They just aren't going to give up on Corbin are they?

That was the worst part about the DDP stalker angle.

With US divorce laws he would be expected to provide alimony due to his earnings. Those could have easily been 10 million+ depending on what he was making at the time or had in the bank. If he made 50 million for his whole career he might have lost 30 of it to those settlements.

Divorce probably drained him of 50-75% of his earnings.

His obvious mobility issues probably aren't cheap to get treated for quality of life either.

I went to a house show right after Christmas and they didn't even sell out the lower bowl.

It's something I've never seen discussed much here. It was long gone by the time I became a fan and I'm a little sad I never got to experience it. But did anyone here ever get to go or were you even a regular? What are your memories and what was it like?

They became obsessed with crowd reaction shots after they caught that guy reacting to Taker losing at Mania.

https://soundcloud.com/pit-podcast-134632092 It's me and two other guys talking wrestling. We're kind of in the midst of changing formats to focus on some older stuff because the WWE has been so terrible this year. We're going to be getting into some more long form content starting in a few weeks. We are going to do a couple of episodes on the Mega Powers angle and go through that and we also have plans to do the Dynamite Kid/Tiger Mask series of matches. If you are looking for episode recommendations I would say episodes 49-52 are a good place to start and the Dark Matches. A few other things, if you are interested in being a guest for a Dark Match let me know. That is kind of a side project that is going to focus on fans and their journey as a wrestling fan. And, if you have any thoughts comments on the Mega Powers angle or Dynamite Kid/Tiger Mask, you can reply here or PM them to me. We would like to read other people's thoughts on the air. I particularly want to know if you side with Savage or Hogan for the Mega Powers.

I bet that writer eventually gets promoted though. That seems like the kind of power play that Vince respects.

I see it as a dick move. I work at a pretty laid back company and if someone did what she did everyone around the table would be looking at them with a "WTF" expression on their face.

The Cody and Dustin promos for Double or Nothing really hit some things home for me. There was a realism in those that hit you emotionally in certain ways. I can't think of the last time a WWE feud had a promo that stirred anything in me emotionally.

Also, go to any comic book or anime convention with a Bullet Club shirt and you'll have guys in their 20s/30s wanting to 2 Sweet you all night.

Yeah, I think the most you can expect from casuals is 3 hours a week at most. You can have 6 hours of programming a week but some of that needs to be non-essential B shows that are on the weekends.

I don't know what they expect from Becky when they practically had her in an iron lung leading up to Mania and she can't get away from Charlotte. Also the Raw women's roster is a fucking joke.

I will beat that drum to death. They need to kill the three man booth. It fucks up the roles because the third announcer needs to be an expert like Mike Tenay. Not a redundant play by play clone like Byron or Renee.

When I have gone to shows, it feels like the people that had a Rollins shirt only bought it because they were sold out of the shirt they really wanted.

That's over the course of a couple of months. Someone went through it and looked. NXT in the same time frame announced 45 things and they all happened.

Alvarez mentioned that on his show on Monday. Out of 240ish things they have announced for Raw or Smackdown on social media, only 90 have actually happened.

Only guy that used his leverage for creative freedom.

I think they are at the point where they need to completely burn the TV shows down and start over. New music, new graphics, new announcers, new lighting, new format and completely rethink the way they shoot the show. Then no more rewrites. Hire someone who has final say who isn't a McMahon or on screen talent. This person would also be telling writers to change segments if it's out of character or doesn't make sense with previous continuity. Also let's start killing off some belts to simplify. There should be one World, one Tag and one Women's belt. If you want two Women's belt then introduce a secondary title but the division is two thin to have two equal brand belts. Their product is completely rotten. There are no quick fixes in my opinion. They need to start over from scratch.

Them willing to pay Rhino to just sit at home shows how fucked they are as a company. They don't want him, they just don't want anyone else to even get a slight benefit from using him.

They had a brief moment with Reigns when he came back. Getting it right would have required them to admit they were wrong.

I don't know how they thought Roman was going to fix anything. He's been gone for like 2 weeks and ratings were already freefalling with him. The two constants of this massive decline are Seth Rollins and Baron Corbin. Seth Rollins already has a proven track record as a ratings killer as champion and you can see the ratings just die the more time Corbin gets on TV. Get rid of Corbin and put the belt on AJ Styles and see if maybe things stabilize a bit.