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Miz *tries* to do that but comes off as Guy Playing Pro Wrestler. MJF comes off like a legit douchebag with no redeeming qualities (except for people in Long Island). If anything, MJF is a better Miz than Miz could ever dream to be.

"MJF is just Miz with swearing" is quite an unusual take, as I don't think Miz would be able to get the level of heel heat MJF gets even if he was doing Bubba Ray Dudley in ECW level promos. MJF has tapped into the idea that a heel should be completely despicable and not a cool guy at a level not seen in decades. When most heels try to be Kevin Nash, he's Tully Blanchard.

Lost in all the hilarity of WWE being petty bitches, how are they going to have a tournament for the women's tag titles when they made sure every tag team was broken up?

Looks like they pulled all the Sasha and Naomi merch from the WWE shop too, really setting new records for pettiness here.

After Charlotte's antics and Toni Storm pulling a Jack Brisco and quitting not getting this level of response that Sasha and Naomi got...... I know people get funny when race is brought up but damn it's hard to ignore the obvious here.

LA Knight was an awful name, so I guess this is....better?

I think everyone, even Punk himself probably, knows that he's a natural heel and is 1000% better in that role. The issue is there is no way he could have come in as anything but a conquering hero to the AEW Galaxy (lol see what I did there) and have it make sense. I have no doubt we're going to get a big Punk heel run sooner than later so it's just smart business to ride the wave of him being the top babyface as far as they can take it.

I'm not disagreeing, but at the same time I'm excited for the brawl at the PPV more than anything else at this point. I don't really care how it happened, I just want to see some motherfuckers beat the piss out of each other.

You know, for as much shit Steph has got over the years (both deserved and not), she earned the right to go home with her kids and help her husband heal up without dealing with this company's nonsense.

Yeah that's probably a better explanation, Kyle wants to be a goofball who can flip the switch to a badass, and I just don't buy him as one,

Can't wait until Nick Kahn is the last one standing and when someone asks why, his answer is "I did it for the Rock"

Dude has some great technical skills, no doubt. My issue is that he carries himself as a dork at all times while Bryan looks like he's a moment away from kicking someone's head into the fifth row. I think that's where a lot of the annoyance comes from with me. It's not like he's Enzo where that's all he's got so he has to maximize it, dude can be a serious ass kicker yet we have......that.

Apparently something happened during the Rampage tapings where Bryan's leg got stuck between the ring and the rampway deal and it took 10 minutes to get him out. No word on if he's hurt or not but he was limping after they got him out.

Clearly no one was expecting it to be her, so there was a little bit of letdown and confusion, but she got the crowd back quickly because Maki Itoh is awesome, motherfuckers.

I legit lol'd at Sting bonking the chair off Kyle's head like the dork he is.

Deeb talking about what she had to do in order to satisfy perverts is a hell of a line when you consider she's in a relationship with Marty "lol I'll pretend u said 18" Scurll.

Fenix out here cementing his GOAT status by making me give a shit about a Kyle match.

Wardlow no selling everything until he got kicked in the balls was great, dude just gets more over every week.

I'm digging Lee and Swerve as a big man/high flyer tag team.

Joe's not someone I would want to mess with, is there some kind of heat between them?

That was quite a banger to kick things off

JOHNNY ELITE!

I mean, doing a Hitler impression does kind of trumps (no pun intended) any counter points tbh. At best it means he's an idiot who thinks imitating Hitler is funny. Again I don't think anyone seriously believes he's an anti Semite, but considering the guy was already in the middle of a messy battle with his ex wife it was enough for any employer to be like "fuck this guy".

Lawler is smart enough to work his matches in typical Old Timer style where he takes minimal to no bumps, and I would be far less concerned with him in the ring compared with anyone else in his age range. Plus while he did almost die in the ring, it was more of a shit happens thing (possibly genetic since his father died young from heart issues) rather than the result of decades abusing his body, Ric's probably done more damage to his body outside the ring than he did in 40 years of wrestling and a plane crash. If Mark Madden is to be believed (I know, I know), Ric's back to getting drunk on a regular basis, which makes this even more of a bad idea.

To be fair, WWE knew Sasha wasn't going to be available for SummerSlam due to Covid and false advertised her anyway. It was partly her fault for being an anti vaxx dummy, but I'd put most of that one on WWE.