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They feel they should push him somewhat since he got some buzz online when he made some folks think he was going into business for himself during interviews on Mania weekend.

He used to be over 500 pounds, and he said his current weight of 299 is the lightest he's been since middle school. Also your first impression wasn't that far off, he was involved with drugs and did prison time when he was younger, something that the heels brought up in the buildup.

All things considered that was a great performance by Jelly Roll. Dude gets it.

Both these ended up being accurate, still surprised Charlotte managed to win over the fans.

Holy shit Roman nearly overshot everyone on that dive.

Looking forward to the Slamming of the Summer. Apparently Gunther has some kind of issue with his news, I wonder if that means we're getting at least a brief title run for Punk. Roman/Jey vs the Brons also should be excellent, as should the women's tag title match since the Charlotte/Alexa pairing seems to have unexpectedly struck gold. Feel bad that Tiffy Time probably is going to get ended, but I suppose WWE is in full sunk cost fallacy mode with Jade at this point.

Also having an AAA tag team title match on WWE TV is wild and not something I ever expected to see.

Guilia should be thankful Zelina is a tiny, tiny person because she hit Guilia right in the face with her knees on that moonsault.

Holy hell, Dustin went above and beyond what I was expecting him to do putting over Kyle.

Another good Dynamite. I like the story of MJF thinking he can fuck with Hangman but he's proving he isn't the Anxious Millennial Cowboy anymore but the bad ass champion.

I lol'd at the Bucks getting the "local competitor" jobber entrance on Dynamite

Also glad Juice seems to have realized shaving was a mistake.

Dustin vs Fletcher is gonna bang, you just know he's going to bust his ass to put Kyle over.

I'm not disagreeing with anyone who is not a fan of Hogan, but to try to dismiss his role in the history of pro wrestling is just insane to me. Yes, Bruno sold out the Garden every month for like 15 years, but Hogan took it nationwide, worldwide even. The national expansion of the WWF doesn't get to the heights it did with anyone else at the helm, he was the absolute perfect guy to embody Vince's vision. I get it if you weren't a fan of that vision, but it absolutely changed the game. Wrestling went from a territorial business to a national one worth millions.

Kneepads over jeans is proper hardcore battle attire for any 80s wrestler.

It would be dishonest to leave out the good or the bad entirely, it wouldn't be a complete telling of his story. He was an industry changing icon who made a lot of money for a lot of people and brought millions of fans to pro wrestling, and inspired a ton of folks to get into the business. He was also a piece of shit who cheated on his wife, tanked the case the US government had against Vince in the steroid trial, and was caught on tape saying some of the vilest shit possible.....and that was all before hitching his wagon to the most destructive president in US history. All that is part of the story of Hulk Hogan, and omitting any of it would be doing a disservice.

TTK pretty much said it all. The start of my wrestling fandom was the build to WM 2 with Hulk vs King Kong Bundy on SNME. I was never a Hulkamaniac but he was a central part of how it all began for me. He was responsible for two of the biggest booms in the history of wrestling, Hulkamaina and the nWo. Very few people can lay claim to being the biggest attraction in their industry, and he managed to do it twice. He was a cultural icon in the 80s like Santo in lucha or Rikidozan in Japan. All of that made the final act of his life all the more sadder. The guy famous for the "work yourself into a shoot" line became an embarrassing parody of himself who seemed at times like he actually believed some of the hilariously obvious lies he would tell. It's actually sad that his legacy will largely be the racist old buffoon who often seemed out of touch with reality, but like TTK said you reap what you sow.

The set up was Taker's LFG guys were backstage in NXT and Trick started talking shit to them. Ironically in the context of the overall show it seems like the goal is to establish LFG since Ricky Saints also put over the winner (and fellow Team Taker guy) Jasper Troy. It's really odd since you would expect they would put the LFG people on Evolve first since they went through the effort of setting up a whole farm system.

Clearly he fell out of favor, probably because he was very openly a Cody Guy, but he hasn't been setting the world on fire in WWE either. If I didn't know better it almost feels like when Vince would sign someone from the competition and then job them to to prove that this guys were better.

I wonder if Ricky Stark-Saints is second guessing his choices now that he's jobbing to the LFG winner on NXT TV.

It is wild to me that NXT barely was able to sell out tiny ass Center Stage and TNA is having their biggest house in ten tears tonight. That's not how I expected this partnership to work.

Is my recency bias showing or was that one of the all time blowoffs in wrestling history? My kneejerk reaction to thinking that was to think I'm overrating it, but I can't think of too many occasions where a feud ender hit perfectly on practically every note.

Thinking on it, I'm realizing the reason the fans are warming up to Charlotte is they are flipping the script on the tired old WWE "tag team partners who don't get along" trope. Instead of a team you know is going to implode, you're waiting for them to admit they like each other.

So its looking like the Bash show was a flop so their big idea to counter program All In fell on its face. Yet they will still keep fucking that chicken and continue doing it.

I see that apparently Charlotte's Players Tribune article managed to finally get her a babyface reaction. Call me skeptical, and believe me I'm sure growing up with Ric Flair as your dad was no picnic, I find it very convenient that she decided to write that after all the rumors/grumbling of her big timing people.