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  1. Loss
    How long ago did JBL write that? Like much of America, he's most likely changed his mind since then. A tweet from April 2015: I'd say that's more WWE's bad for giving him a column where he was allowed to espouse his views uncensored in a way that wouldn't draw the company a dime and only potentially turn paying customers off. Probably why stuff like that is no longer done. JBL was working a gimmick during that time. The articles were him commenting on current events in character.
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    Reminds me of the great flare-up a few months ago when Dana White pointed out a shocker --- that wrestling is fake.
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    JBL is more of a center-right, pro-Wall Street type than he is a social conservative. He voted for Bill Clinton. That said, I wish we still had the political articles he used to write on WWE.com trashing the Dixie Chicks and arguing against gay marriage.
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    I would like to know his reaction to criticism that he couldn't rate HHH objectively because of his relationship with Stephanie. Whatever entry that would be.
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    This seems like a fair assessment, although I find Cornette to be wildly overrated as a booker by his supporters. I've come to agree with this. More than anything, he was a guy with good tastes in what angles to copy from Mid South, Memphis and JCP. And hey, that will carry a guy pretty far. I think he's also really effective at diagnosing problems in wrestling, maybe more so than anyone. He's just not at all a guy with good solutions. I look at Bill Watts the same way in 1992 WCW -- correct about problems facing wrestling, but prescribing the wrong medicine to fix it.
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    I think Russo was fine as A Voice rather than The Voice. He and Cornette pulled between opposite extremes with Vince to referee, and that's how we got 1997, which had a lot of great highlights.
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    I don't really have any controversial opinions, which sort of comes with the territory when you are almost always right.
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    I think most pro wrestling thing about this season is how Bernie Sanders and Daniel Bryan are so similar. Bernie isn't quite the draw of his establishment counterparts, but is hugely over with live crowds and has threatened the top of the card even though he was never the establishment pick. He has gotten the ball rolling toward a different version of Democratic politics just like Daniel Bryan got the ball rolling toward a different version of WWE. There is still some resistance in both cases, but in both cases, we know where it's ultimately going. And Debbie Wasserman Schultz has turned out to be an even better heel authority figure than Stephanie McMahon, actually getting some measure of comeuppance.
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    Yes we are!
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    Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn both on Raw is odd. Are they ever going to give that feud a rest?
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    I think this is driven by TV rights revenue. That's the name of the game. Their goal is to present themselves as respectable, thinking that they can command more ad revenue with a cleaner image if people think they are wholesome. And thus, their value to TV networks will be greater, which in turn will help their rights fees.
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    Ever since Raw went to three hours they have had multiple 10+ minute matches in a single show. The 4 minute Raw match hasn't really been a thing in years. Its the exception now, not the rule. Cruiserweights actually got over initially doing four minute matches with bad commentary.
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    If they do it like they've done before, they won't draft the low-level guys on TV. They'll only pick the top 10 or so and the rest will be randomized in a lottery and announced online after the show.
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    I didn't say they were. It's possible for wrestlers in tag teams to have singles feuds.
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    I definitely think Aries should be on the main roster. He won't threaten the main event scene or anything, but he's the perfect guy to pair with new guys who are still learning to work on house shows. Aries should feud with Cass. He's a much better name to fill a working vet spot than some names I've seen tossed out.
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    The preoccupation with steroids, from what I've seen, seems to be less about the health risks and more about the message children receive.
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    It's nothing new, but I still hate wrestling's often two-tiered (in this case, three-tiered) justice system. It's life, it's business, "What do you expect?", blah blah blah, but I don't have to like it.
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    I meant "has" as an article of faith. Like, it has to happen at some point, right? Silly me, of course it doesn't.
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    Seems more likely they'd be adding him to commentary team, seeing as how Byron Saxton will have to be taken off of either Raw or Smackdown. They probably used the CWC tapings as a trial run, liked his chemistry with Mauro, and will need a more wrestling-oriented color guy to play off Lawler's shenanigans. In a perfect world they'd completely revamp both commentary teams, but well all know that's not gonna happen, Maggle! The story about Lawler a few months ago was interesting -- that they've been open to replacing him for a while but they are afraid of what he'd say in the media if they ever let him go.
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    At some point, WWE has to break with the 90s. Like, really break with the 90s.
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    Good isn't the right word. It was a lot of things far more important than good -- different, memorable, unique and entertaining.
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    We're not allowed to answer that question or Matt Hardy will delete us all!
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    They had a Thunder match once too, but yeah, no extended singles program. I think that in 1994, Arn-Dustin rolling over to Flair-Dustin with Dusty and Arn staying heavily involved would have been a great way to placate the WCW diehards who hated Hogan so much.
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    Perhaps WWE should consider putting other guys in shoots. What could go wrong? That's never hurt a wrestling company, has it?
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    Well, I mean they could bring up Samoa Joe as a worldbeater with an undefeated streak and pay known tough guys to do jobs for him all the way to Mania, but no way do they do it.
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