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Based on today you have to wonder if things will change in that relationship. WWE does business around the world, and being attached to him could bite back.

Do they still do big business in Montreal?

He was also on a SNL sketch spoofing Trump.

I've always suspected it would happen.

One of the poll topics for next week's show is about Trump in the WWE/F

And back in the HOF he goes

No doubt he'll "headline" the event then.

They don't have any umlauts in their name, which could make a straight comparison a little murkier.

I guarantee if someone speaks out against Trump who was ever or is still in WWE's employ, will never be heard of from them again.

Okay, if we can get back to actually talking about wrestlers, which tag team do you think gets in this year?

I can see the case for Motörhead (rather then just Lemmy) getting in, and Trips using it as a platform to say they should be in the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame (which they should). If the story is true that Vince, Sr. rejected doing something with Kaufman before Memphis did, he'll definitely never get in. I doubt Ali will get in either, as his family might object.

Hope Vader is inducted this year, especially after the news of his poor health.

What started to alienate me was the amount of programming that began to accumulate for both WWF and WCW in the late 90's. 1997 was the peak year of the Monday Night Wars as far as I'm concerned, but it was also the first year both companies had major PPV's every month of the year. Through the sheer luck of having PPV scramble, I was able to watch/hear in on stuff, but more importantly there was Monday nights. And that was fine. The eventual additions of Thunder and Smackdown! threw me a little bit (especially as my county didn't have UPN, we had to hear about Smackdown! results), and a malaise started to sit in that I think can happen with a lot of teenage fans. I think if I'd been 5 or 10 years older, I probably would have moved on from it completely by then. Of all the things I hated about the attitude era, I think the empowerment of the audience was the worst thing to come out of it. First it started with annoying memes ("What!", "You suck" to the tune of Kurt Angle's music), then later on when the "let's go Cena/Cena sucks" thing happened, I hated that too. But that's obviously more critical to what we're talking about here because it affected the perception of him by everyone over a certain age, who longed for the kind of vulgar everyman Steve Austin was. Not someone who I think is probably the purest babyface character I've ever seen. Both of those things combined with the slavish attention people draw to social media (for what it's worth I post sometimes on SquaredCircle and in my experience it's not all as bad as it seems), has definitely been the major factors in alienating me from the current product. Equal to that for me would be not having a viable and palatable alternative like WCW was in the 90's. And as heavily critical as I can be of him, these are things that aren't inherently Vince's fault. He saw the need for more television because his company was getting hot again, and he of course can't control the fans, hard as he seems to try.

The Dibiase episode had it's moments, but it missed a few critical points about his run, especially the Jake Roberts feud. Conrad bemoans that he worked Brutus Beefcake in the third match at WrestleMania V but failed to mention his interference in the Jake/Andre match that lead to a feud that ran for a year long.

Show is done with according to the official Twitter

I really wish they would come back to the Midwest. I was frankly surprised that they didn't come to Indianapolis, especially after it hosted one Super Bowl.

I heard something about studios not being impressed enough with her acting ability enough for these projects to have gone forward.

People are bringing up Tyson in comparison, but she didn't chew anybody's ear off which is all anybody could talk about regarding Tyson in 1998. Those same people are forgetting that Tyson was originally going to ref the Hogan-Savage match on NBC before Buster Douglas ate his lunch in Japan.

I'd say it's somewhere in-between. He's never badmouthed Vince or Pat, and does toe the line a bit on issues. But the value he brings is that he puts you in the mindset of McMahon, and delves a little deep into the relationships with talent, both in the ring and out.

Couldn't agree more. Racism and sexism were arguably much worse in the territory days than it is now. I thought it was quite moving and appropriate this year when WWE re-named the Women's title. I don't know how well the women are portrayed in regard to that move since then, but I at least liked that through that they recognized that the "diva" moniker wasn't altogether cool with people.

And I think he voted for Trump.

^ That is awesome. Hope you killed it that night Speaking of Albano, was he any good in Wise Guys? I only bring it up because I saw a clip of it in the De Palma documentary.

I'm more interested if a company can truly compete with WWE on the level that WCW did in the 90's, and what would be necessary to do so in order to avoid the traps TNA and others have fell into.