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Yeah I don't think I'd ever be interested in going on one of those Saudi trips if I was in WWE on a good day, I certainly wouldn't be now.

On one hand it seems like he really hasn't been progressing much and has been spinning his wheels for a while, but they *just* started that angle with Duke (and boy does that poor guy seem to have terrible luck) so this is a head scratcher.

"Last Woman Standing" kind of hits different in Saudi Arabia

Even in kayfabe this Corbin stuff makes no sense, why would JBL want to associate with this geek?

Speaking of NXT, Von Wagner was part of the Brock/Bob pull apart brawl.

WWE dodged a bullet as the World Series game today was postponed to tomorrow due to weather.

Seems pretty clear that their role was to be the last straw to push MJF over the edge to babyface status.

If we're being honest I think we all kind of knew this is how Punk and AEW would end, the only surprising part is how he speedran it in the course of about a year.

Punk became the grumpy old man saying things were better in his day that his younger self would have told to fuck off. On a macro level he's not wrong, there's certainly things you can take from "simpler" approaches. Problem is young folks aren't going to want to hear that noise and ESPECIALLY not from a guy like Punk. I don't blame him for trying but he should have been adult enough to realize not everyone is going to treat it like manna from heaven. It seems like Page from how he says it tried every way he could to let Punk down easy that he wasn't interested in his advice.

At this point AEW and New Japan should just do like soccer teams and loan out guys they aren't using and/or getting stale to each other. Plus I think Juice isn't without any upside, he was perfectly acceptable as a mid to upper card tag team guy before the attempt to make him into Generic Bullet Club Heel #532 for some unknown reason. Also while watching Sunday Night Football, they showed an ad for the Premier League (NBC has the TV rights here in MURICA). Made me think that would be a great opportunity for someone who owned a team in each league that maybe has another business they run that could benefit from being advertised on NFL and EPL games.

Just when you thought Brazil was down for the count they hulked up and dropped the big leg.

Clearly everyone wants to take part in the last run of a legit legend, even Sting is going to do a match, so I don't blame Nak wanting to take part too.

Honestly at this point it seems clear Karl just took the big check for the Saudi show and said F New Japan.

When Regal said the line about only using his brass knucks because he wanted to, not to cheat.... that seemed like a foreshadowing moment to me. Right there made me predict a finish where MJF either ends up using his Ring (or even better, Regal's knucks) to win "because he wanted to".

So in case you were wondering, Val Venis's new career is being a First Amendment Auditor on Youtube, which means he goes around harassing cops and going to court over minor traffic citations because he doesn't feel traffic laws apply to him.

To be fair, Waffle House can squash any beef.

The crowd seems to really want MJF to be a babyface, so them fighting too hard against that could run the risk of creating a pre Tribal Chief Roman situation. The Rock comparison is pretty apt if for no other reason than Rock showed you can be a super mega over babyface and still be kind of an asshole.

His reaction to the "I don't give a DAMN what the Tribal Chief says" line was gold. Every kid who ever fucked up in front of their parents has seen that look.

Shayna just casually committing murder backstage, as one does.

Jimmy trying so hard not to laugh his ass off is the best part of this.

lol the crowd with the "OHHH SHIIIIT" reaction to Jey

Roman as the parent about to whup someone's ass for misbehaving is awesome.

Heads up to all the fellow 'MURICAN's here that Smackdown is on FS1 tonight due to the World Series on FOX.

I wonder if this movie is going to be from Kevin's POV, which would make sense from a storytelling and logistical standpoint since you can at least have some semblance of a happy ending with him. There's just so many questions about this movie though. How will it handle David's death? Or parading Mike around after his illness looking like he had passed away but wasn't aware of it? Or Kerry doing what he did because he was probably facing jail time? If the family has any involvement at all, how much would they allow out there? For that matter, what will the studio execs say about a movie about an All American Christian Family with three suicides and a possible (alleged) OD?

To be fair, SRS also said no one he talked to mentioned anything about the dog before now so it's not just Dave calling bullshit on this.