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Dax Harwood posted on his social media that Dennis Condrey passed away Friday night. I always felt he was underrated, since he was with an all time talker wit Cornette and an all time worker like Bobby Eaton.

Say what you will, but Jelly Roll cut a hell of a promo in that backstage segment with Orton.

So a week after violently (by WWE standards) murdering Cody, Orton is still getting massively cheered. They should roll with it and have Cody go full Homelander.

If this war keeps going, they may not have a choice in the matter. If nothing else it's going to be very hilarious if the WWE Hall of Famer In Chief ends up costing them what I would assume is their biggest payday ever.

MJF coming out with the Terry Funk gear is fucking great.

I thought the Dogs vs Darby/Orange/Roddy was going to die a death after everything this crowd has seen, but it still ended up really good. So far every match has delivered except the women's tag titles but that was by design since it was basically angle advancement.

Mistico is ALL ELITE! and also a new trios champ

Ospreay doing a corkscrew dive off the post to the floor in his return is peak Ospreay

I have a feeling she's doing this to promote the Gina fight, probably do a match with Toni and have them hype the fight.

Well holy shit, Ronda just showed up.

Had a feeling once FTR won that meant Cope and Cage were coming back, that's going to be a great feud.

Fun PPV so far, Jack Perry won the battle royal for the National title and FTR and the Bucks having another classic to open the show.

Yeah there's already reports out that they want to make Trick a babyface just because of how over he's gotten, which I think is a pretty smart decision.

So with WWE panic booking Mania this year, their big idea was to do a big heat angle where Randy murders Cody? Interesting. Even more so was Randy being cheered while doing it. One of two things seems to be going on here: 1. They know Cody's babyface act is starting to show its age a bit so this is their way to try to make sure he gets cheered at Mania. If so, they missed the mark based on tonight's reaction. 2. This is some kind of 4D chess big brain move to do a double turn, which I only suggest is a possibility due to them continuing to do Cody/Sami segments that all end with Cody being a dick to him. If they weren't being done to plant seeds of him turning, then they're just making their babyface champion look like an asshole.

For someone who's been so influential to the point she's widely considered a locker room leader, it's amazing Bayley has never had a finisher that wasn't shit.

They seem to really want to get Sol up there ASAP, so I wouldn't be surprised if the three way ends up a "loser leaves for the main roster" match.

Another thing I noticed in NXT: Thea Hail got over (and accidentally shoot won the NA title), and they couldn't wait to beat her. Tatum Paxley got over, they couldn't wait to beat her. Jaida Parker got over, and....well you know. Did HBK sneak in Vince's office after the left and steal his booking guide?

Watching Vengance and I can't help but notice we started with Blake/Jada in a street fight, Tony D/Dion in a parking lot brawl turned into something not officially a street fight but pretty much one, and we still have an Underground match to come. Kind of kills the specialness of each match if they are all basically the same thing. Also Tony D with his hair down in this new gimmick looks like an Italian Andrade.

I don't think Windsor is that bad, now that team name of theirs is the absolute shits, but they seem to have good chemistry as a team. I still can't believe how Hayter seemed to have a complete personality removal while she was out injured. Everything that helped her get over seemed to be gone when she came back.

So after David Finlay debuted on Dynamite after everyone presumed he was WWE bound, it came out they only offered him a low level NXT deal. I guess they really think everyone's a mark who will work for peanuts to get a WWE deal. Really like the idea of Finlay/Kidd/Connors wrecking shop in AEW.

I'm sure there's that, probably with a dose of resentment that she's being pushed above her ability level due to her (admittedly amazing) look.

So Dave is saying it's a weird thing where it's a work but what the people involved are saying about Jade are pretty much most folks' actual opinions of her. I suppose it's something different, but that's the kind of thing that tends to piss people off for real if you push too hard.

So Rhea and Jade were doing the usual "social media argument to build a match" deal on Twitter, and after Jade made several comments about Rhea spending time talking to the creative team (implying she is burying other folks) , Rhea seemed to drop kayfabe and start shooting. Chelsea and Piper Niven also chimed in as well, and while I suppose this could be some 4D chess "look at us working the marks like on Unreal" nonsense it sure seem like the rumored dislike of Jade back stage has boiled over.

They could have redone the eliminations with Logan in there instead of Bronson (as stated it didn't make sense for him to have a run like that), and still have Seth come out to fuck him as he did. You'd think with all the producers they have that one of them would have been able to come up with something.

I think part of that is some kind of communal PTSD from years of Vince changing his mind at the last minute.