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I'm just surprised that someone who lives in Florida is able to maintain that Sheamus level paleness. You'd get at least a light tan going out to get the mail down there. Also did I miss a shredded Adam Cole phase? His build doesn't look that much different.

I don't even know if you can fairly call that a promo since it was pretty much the verbal equivalent of Mox walking to the ring bare ass naked and not giving a fuck, but that might have been the greatest moment of wrestling TV I have ever seen. Maybe it's just hitting me at the right time after a recent mental health episode, but there was something about hearing a wrestler saying the most honest things ever said was on another level.

I believe the plan is to get them all on deals or at least "we have first dibs" arrangements. This seems to be the next Big Angle the company is centered around so I would expect them to want to make sure they have access to everyone. This reminds me of how a weird position Impact is in right now. If you have a run there and it's good there's just enough people watching where you can kind of build yourself a nice little following that can lead you to a WWE deal like MSK. Yet somehow if you have a run there and it flops people will be like "eh, it was in Impact so it doesn't really count" and everyone just kind of agrees with it.

My favorite was always the "Fuck Sabu" chants after he was double booked and chose the one with the lower possibility of the check bouncing. For a guy who's certainly made his share of bad choices in life, that one wasn't one of them.

Man, you know WWE has fucked up when even Ryan Satin had to backpedal his bootlicking defense of the GUNTHER situation.

I would argue Okada jumped business to as much of a peak you could reasonably expect considering their TV situation is less than idea. They were on quite the roll before COVID kneecapped them, and you can't blame that on him either.

I wonder if this will be a WWE style intergender match where it's basically a women's match and a men's match happening at the same time and the two never interact, or AAA style.

The Best Friends thing was 100% designed as a spoof/homage to the Okada spot ("look at these lovable goofs doing one of the GOAT's spots!"), but I never got the impression Okada's version was in any way WWE inspired. Not saying that it is or isn't, just that it's not a connection my brain ever made when I saw it.

I love how Trish became the Poochie of WWE women's legends, and any other woman from the past must namedrop her at least once a promo.

WWE wouldn't have to give him anything since his actual name is Walter. WWE obviously wanted a name they can copyright and they have a not caring how stupid a name sounds as long as they are the ones making money off it.

I get why they didn't, but it would have been cool to have Ivy out there throwing down with the dudes. It's not like it wouldn't look believable.

My man GUNTER out here giving Roddy the best match he'll ever be involved in.

I'm starting to really dig Baby Uso, even if they are doing the "we'll never mention who his family is, but we'll also keep coyly referring to it" deal with him too.

My lord, Indi in that post match brawl looked like she legit forgot how to fight. Good thing she's really good at getting WWE comedy over since that's the far better skill to have in her position. OK I'll admit it, this Sarray as Anime Hero gimmick could be really funny/good but unfortunately being done by the one goddamn company you can count on to fuck it up.

Watching NXT, and while I really like that they are having some of the non-native English speakers to cut promos in their native languages I can't help that's just repeating the mistakes of Original Flavor NXT since that won't help anyone on the main roster either. Also Kay Lee Ray needs to be on the main roster ASAP. She's too good to be spending her time babysitting here.

Yeah it's also a stupid name for a wrestler in 2022. They don't seem to realize (or care) a big reason they can't get new fans is because they give all the new and new-to-WWE people stupid fucking names that make them sound like jokes from the start. Also it looks like Sarray is getting a Sailor Moon style schoolgirl gimmick. Can't imagine how that could possibly end badly.

I think it was Kevin Nash, it was a former WCW guy at least, who once said Vince would rather make a million dollars with his own idea than make ten million with someone else's.

Yeah the issue wasn't that the other Stark was any kind of prominent member, but more of "holy shit how does no one in WWE not know how to even do a Google search on a name" kind of deal.

I can just imagine the discussion: Bruce: uh Vince, that name we just trademarked? Turns out it's the name of a Nazi commander. Vince: Oh wow, really? *pause* THATS GOOD SHIT, PAL! TELL THAT BLOOM KID HE'S GETTING A NEW GIMMICK

When you search it on the English Wikipedia, there's no direct page but the fourth result is for the type of U boat he commanded and mentions his name. Either way, it's more of less standard protocol for any major company to run even a perfunctory search to see if the name/term they want to copyright has any negative connotations.

I don't think he's leaving, but it seems pretty clear him and the other EVPs are on different pages in terms of vision and that's why the Codyverse seems so detached from everything else going on. Like, I don't think they hate each other or get into fistfights behind the scenes, but it seems clear they have different visions.

On top of that, WWE has a weird phobia of having two people with the same name at the same time and they have Zoey Stark in NXT.

Lashley/Rollins was fun but it was yet another case of WWE booking a match between two people who can't lose so they telegraph the fuck finish a mile away.

Boy they really are trying to avoid the hard cam since it shows so many empty seats.

Yeah so far this much hyped expanded playoff format so far produced 3 blowouts and one game (Bengals/Raiders) that wasn't technically a blowout but was never really in doubt.