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I would go out on a limb and assume WWE was the lesser of the two gigs money wise so for her it was probably a no brainer.

I wonder if the real issue was with the company not getting a piece of the action.

It is, but at the same time it is something advertisers would be wary of if it became A Thing that bad faith concern trolls went after. Still bullshit for sure, I'm just saying I'm not surprised WWE made the move.

I mean it's bullshit but also WWE is trying to sell themselves to advertisers so I get they were in a bad spot.

I wonder if this means she can be billed as Mandy Rose elsewhere since it's her real name (Rose is her middle name).

Mandy Rose was released due to her side hustle Onlyfans-like page.

Retiring was the ultimate admission of defeat and you know that's something that is going to stick in Vince's craw until his last breath.

Booker tends to annoy me on commentary, but him being a proud dad watching his student Roxanne win the belt was a good moment.

Yes, and Aussie/FTR had a banger match earlier this year so I wouldn't mind seeing them run it back at the Dome.

IIRC he stepped down from all positions of power (HHH took over creative, Nick/Steph running the business side) and Vince is just the primary shareholder. He gets the money but the only say he has is if the company is up for sale he has veto power. Plus SRS reported no one in the company is clamoring for him to be back either, as him leaving was such a morale boost it changed the trajectory of the battle with AEW.

It would be horrible from a stock price point of view to hand the company back to someone who has pending lawsuits.

Vince with the big Donald energy thinking he can just walk back in like nothing happened. TK's gotta be praying it happens since a big part of the reason AEW exists was because people were tired of Vince's ideas.

Vince is telling people he wants to come back now, that he got bad advice and that the story would have blown over.

Rollins' song so over the crowd sings it even though he's about to be murdered by Big Bob.

I mean the story pretty much is that Rhea fucked him into submlssion.

Just to be the dicks who bad influence'd the nerd with the famous dad. Or maybe they just hang out with him because he has a really exclusive Lego set that Finn is horny over.

Also I can't wait for the Sasha stans run into TV Asashi copywriting the shit out of any GIFs they post of her appearance at Wrestle Kingdom.

So it's looking like Sasha has verbally agreed to do some dates with New Japan, and not just whatever she's going to do at the Tokyo Dome. Dave pointed out that if WWE balked at the money she was asking, there's no way NJPW could afford it unless AEW was somehow financing it. That ends up creating a situation where everyone is going to expect her to be Saraya's mystery partner and cause a massive letdown if it's anyone else. He also pointed out they seem to be doing the same thing they did when Punk came in where they go "well we're NOT not saying it's him" and you totally are supposed to know it is.

BLUE mist? Dom might be dead.

Young Rhea is like the female version of those Young Beefy Ric Flair "how the fuck is that the same person" pics.

She carries herself as someone who damn well knows you'd enjoy being stomped out by her and I'm here for it.

Rhea is made of like 95% swag at this point, my goodness.

Asuka keeps teasing going back to her old heel KANA persona on Twitter, and now she's showing up without the green face paint deal.....I think it would be cool for them to pull the trigger but I don't know if the WWE UNIVERSE would go for it.

It seems pointless to keep doing Tribute to the Troops when you don't actually go to the troops anymore and just run it as another show, albeit one that is non-canon.

Not to mention him being the Enforcer in a family known to be chock full of bad asses makes him the coolest mofo in the building.