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"Every Smash promo ever" had me cracking up.

This calls for some music

I read something that Rachel Maddow talked about the McMahon connection on her show Friday night.

Why is it ridiculous? Hasn't it been proven that Hogan did sleep with the publicist?

Rare but not surprising given how much JBL's style owes to those two. I'm a little sad they're letting that show go by the wayside.

My guess would be that he genuinely believes it. I would at the very least believe it wasn't as massive a loss for them because NBC was an equal partner. Add to the fact that WWE was doing good business at the time, whatever pains they felt weren't as long-lasting as the massive failure of the XFL would have you believe. It's funny to me that Bruce says there was this "us vs. them" attitude between his crew and the NBC people. Having to explain to someone not familiar with their programming that it's okay that a crowd full of people is calling the owner's daughter a slut (and likely worse) in front of a live national audience, probably made some of the people on Ebersol's side scratch their heads as to why they're doing business with them in the first place.

Roberts still speaks well of Rude so I doubt it.

This XFL episode is hilarious if you saw the 30 For 30

I was under the impression that the LOD/Money, Inc. switch never happened because Hawk and Animal left.

I could see that happening as a family-approved type deal, presuming the two are close. WWE would be stupid to downplay the WCW run though. He did his best work, and the thing he is perhaps best known for is appearing on the two shows the same night (though I'm sure WWE would downplay that for obvious reasons). Speaking of, is DDP still a lock at this point? And Vader?

I'd think Heyman would be actually. When Madusa brought him up in her speech you could see both her and Paul getting a little emotional about it.

He'll probably be set to induct Angle though.

There's some rumblings that Jim Cornette may be the one to induct them. Probably nothing more, but I'd like to see it happen.

She already had her hearing. Cory Booker marked out a little in his questioning.

Do they shoot in 4K now?

What's the source on that Bruno/Steele match?

I had some misgivings at first, but I don't think mine or anybody's WWE Network subscription needs justification in light of this. I feel like anyone that protests WWE because of this is keeping their eye off the ball.

Did they have any plans for China?

He probably sees this as an avenue to set his story straight, while illuminating what went on while he was in wrestling. I'm almost an hour in and it's a really charming listen, he's obviously not as inside as Bruce Prichard was but he has an important perspective.

Conrad Thompson's new show debuted this week, first subject is Goldberg.

They even faked one going to WrestleMania. One funny thing I noticed was that in the Royal Rumble '95, Lawler makes a joke about Bill Clinton and Vince lets it slide. I can only imagine, because the federal gov't case against him intensified during the Clinton administration, the animus he has for them.

I heard something on Twitter about a writer on creative who was vocally anti-Trump being fired around the same time as the announcement of Linda being in the cabinet.

This article lays out some of what we're talking about much better than I can

I canceled it today, just for financial reasons. I just watch it for old stuff, and if they ever decide to completely lobotomize themselves and decide the world needs more seasons of Holy Foley! than classic wrestling, I'll still have it.