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I don't want to write the guy off this soon, but it sure seems like he peaked as Gargano's idiot son.

Seth better be giving 20% of his salary to whoever wrote his theme song, that shit got him over like crazy.

Yep. I get how they felt it was probably too corny for someone they want to be a top guy but it was literally his entire personality.

Roman and Sami never miss, greatest thing in the biz by a mile.

That WWE credit card ad just makes me miss Big E even more

Damian Priest should carry Finn to the ring on his shoulders Bad Luck Fale style.

Now that Muta is retiring it's time for Asuka to claim her throne as the keeper of the green mist

Misted Rhea out here looking like She Hulk

lol Alexa almost got clotheslined by the camera cables

Teagan has been high on Hunter's get-back list but IIRC she was tangled up in visa issues.

He's right tho, no one can deliver that with the same spice Regal does. Also I wonder if they made some kind of deal with New Japan to let Karl drop the Never title in exchange for being able to use Bullet Club history for the Finn/AJ feud.

Not to mention it might be the one thing that makes babyfaces having the advantage in War Games not be completely weird.

That WWE just now is finally having Ronda and Shanya teaming up going around murdering people is the biggest indictment that Vince totally lost the plot at the end.

The Brawling Brutes at the merch table was like most of my Irish family's get togethers

Again left wondering if anyone in WWE has actually listened to the lyrics of War Pigs.

The Man is a million billion times better than Big Time Becks. Seth does that gimmick better anyway.

lol, normies in a non wrestling Discord I'm part of found the Dom/Rhea/Rey video and are loving it

Smackdown here got pre-empted to the MyNetworkTV affiliate also owned by Sinclair (who owns the Fox station) here in PIttsburgh in order to show some special on the Michigan/Ohio State game.

Yeah it almost came off as if WWE is like "hey it'd be cool if you came back, but if not I totally get it" mode.

(actually Bale is my homie since he won the MLS Cup for my favorite team in the greatest final ever, but for he next couple weeks I have to go full MURICA on him)

US holding their own against England so far, it would be the most US mens team thing possible to pull off an upset like that after pissing away a tie to Grandpa Gareth.

My mind won't stop picturing 2022 Don Callis doing this gimmick and it's killing me every time

There's also that making the company a heel, you just train the audience that even when the babyface gets a win they'll just rug-pulled because management always has final say. Vince knew that at one point, since he put in the greatest heel performance ever getting Austin over.

There's also a fundamental change in how wrestling is presented that for some reason goes unmentioned. When I was growing up, Ric Flair would talk shit and then get embarrassed by the babyface challenger on TV. More often than not, he would win the match but since it was predominantly a house show business, most of us only saw the babyface show up the heel on TV. Unless you paid for a ticket or bought the show when the VHS dropped (which most people didn't since them bastards were expensive in the 80s) you'd almost never see Flair take an L. Even on TV, most of the time he was in a match that wasn't a squash we'd get the TONY WE'RE OUTTA TIME before the finish. Nowadays we see the heel talk his shit, and even if the babyface gets one over in the build, everyone sees him eat a loss at the end. Since the Monday Night Wars demanded PPV quality matches every week, it's been infinitely harder to create a babyface since you're going to see them losing on TV a ton. The only person in history who could lose frequently and not really lose popularity was the Rock, since it takes otherworldly levels of charisma to not get hurt by that.

I guess Maximum Male Models didn't titillate your juices? Funny how ol' man.soor went from token hometown guy for the Saudi shows to someone who probably wouldn't be allowed on them with this gimmick.