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Honestly Graves got a bad rap in his indy run by being dismissed as a discount CM Punk just because he had a similar look. I always felt he had the promo/charisma ability where had he been able to work with some better names and get the reps he could have become a big name. Not like GOAT worker level, but there was something to work with.

I mean, it was going against the largest college football game of the year but even with that it's still amazing they are in the ballpark most weeks.

"Aspire to be Bret Hart" is probably the best advice anyone could give to someone in life.

I remember that now, I believe she said she basically faceplanted on one of those toss-and-catch cheerleader moves.

IIRC she had to take time off to get surgery on her nose (as in to get something corrected, not cosmetic) and that's why she was gone.

If anything i'm surprised they did the angle where Lily got torn up since it's such a great seller,

Oh I didn't expect them to veer away from it, if it makes money that's the only concern.

You would hope WWE would look at that chart and think there is something amiss with it being dominated with folks from 20+ years ago. To me that screams failure that of the current names on that list, Alexa's numbers are powered by creepy weirdo stans and the Usos are probably powered by getting a cut of the Bloodline shirts. So the only stars they've managed to create are Roman and Alexa's weird little girl enthusiasts.

I thought she was going to lay out Aubrey when she came out to break things up, and I realized that would have made Deeb the #1 heel by a large margin had that happpen.

Wasn't what I was expecting but they have so much time between PPVs its fine to have a few guys for Page to defend against between major programs.

Man the crowd REALLY wanted Wardlow to splatter MJF there, that was an awesome tease.

lol at Cody getting triggered by the dude setting himself on fire on the Go Big Show

BAH GAWD BRITT BAKER HAS JOINED THE UNDISPUTED ERA

MJF gets Wardlow disqualified to play off MJF "losing" to Shawn Dean the same way thanks to Punk? I think somehow he's gonna mess it up for Wardlow and that's going to fuel the split.

WWE gets criticism because instead of having the soon to be champ lose to a few key people, they tend to job them to everyone so the new champ looks like a geek right out of the box. Then once they are champs, they beat them constantly in non title matches and then seem surprised when no one gives a shit about titles. (obviously this doesn't apply to made guys like Roman)

Corey was an indy wrestler of some repute around here in his pre NXT days, he never really got to show much once he got there though.

I'm fairly certain the next thing for Wardlow when he turns (after murdering Spears with a million powerbombs) is beating MJF. Just seems like the best way to cement Wardlow as an important guy and give MJF a challenger if/when he gets a run.

Something I realized is that one thing that hurts this version of NXT is because of how sudden the switchover came, everything seems so forced. I know you guys all love ol' Tony Baggadonuts but he has no business beating Pete Dunne. Just seemed like a fait accompli he was winning because Pete's a holdover from the old guard and didn't sell me on Tony being the better guy.

Rey would probably be shorter than the average height where I grew up, but he looks like a child on WWE TV.

TBH I think Trick will end up being the bigger star in WWE. He still needs more time in the oven for sure but he checks all the boxes WWE goes for (ie: he's taller) and is charismatic as hell. Carmelo seems like a guy who WWE will not see the upside in, and he ends up being the fucking STAR he can be somewhere else.

Reminds me of Su Yung/Susie in terms of "how can those two gimmicks be the same person"

I don't believe so, but that doesn't make what WWE (allegedly) did any less illegal because it didn't work. Plus it still creates the impression to Vice that continuing to work with MLW will be a headache-by proxy if that's what they have to put up with which is bullshit. It's just WWE clumsily trying to do old school carny ass nonsense and the only reason they haven't been bopped for it is most of the companies they do it to are to afraid/can't file a lawsuit.

Also its alleged that WWE pressured Fox to cancel the deal that was made for MLW to stream on Tubi (which is owned by Fox) the day before it was scheduled to be announced. You would think if MLW has any semblance of proof here they'd have WWE dead to rights, but we all know Jerry Mac works best when it seems his client's a goner.

From what's claimed in the lawsuit, a (now former) WWE Executive went to one of the higher ups at Vice and told them Vince McMahon would be pissed if they kept airing MLW programming, and the Vice exec's reply was "why should I care if Vince McMahon gets pissed and also that's pretty illegal what you just did". This is not the first time WWE/Vince has been accused of doing this, just the first time the company that was targeted by it actually did something about it. Makes me wonder how much of the uphill battle other companies have to get TV clearance comes down to "the bosses at the station don't want to field psycho calls from WWE if we carry some other wrestling TV program".

I guess wrestling twitter owes Court an apology, everyone dunked on him for promising stuff that never pans out and now it looks like at least on two major occasions it was because WWE actively fucked with it.