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Jesus, that sentence just kept getting worse the more I read it.

In discussing what happened yesterday, Dave noted that Fox had been lobbying to get Charlotte on SD for a while and kind of implied in the usual Dave way that would probably be a factor in her not facing any consequences for her actions. She really has Vince over a barrel it seems, which I'm normally all in favor of, but it's gonna be hilarious if she ends up going full 90s HBK.

Not to mention they don't hesitate to kick someone out if they suspect that person is there to report spoilers (no matter if the person in question was actually going to do that) but will let this go on for months.

The perfect capper to this would be if Charlotte pulls some shit with Sasha next and her crazy stan army goes on the attack.

Most of Nia's incidents have been accidents due to her being sloppy. I don't get the impression she goes out with the intention of hurting people, shit just happens. Not that it's good that it happens mind you, but intent matters. Charlotte seems to have purposely gone out there to sandbag her co workers in a major angle. I know there's different rules for the top level people, but even then there's got to be a line drawn before someone decides to take matters into their own hands (like Bret ended up doing with Shawn).

Just because the whole title swap thing is dumb doesn't make it right for her to be an unprofessional shithead. I just wonder how many of these incidents Vince is going to put up with. Clearly he doesn't want to give AEW another star, but this is starting to become a pattern.

To be fair, the whole belt swap thing *is* fucking dumb and makes the titles look worthless (not to mention it makes the company look stupid for booking themselves in a corner like that), but for her to make it about her looking bad is silly. Also looking back at the segment, Charlotte was being an unprofessional shit and it looked like Becky was using all the restraint she could muster to not beat her ass on live TV. Plus it looks like Andrade had a " fu wwe" tweet too, so yeah. I guess we were all wrong, Charlotte was never HHH, she was HBK the whole time. I expect her to suddenly lose her smile next.

Charlotte and Becky turning out to be the female HHH and Rock both in ring and out seems somehow appropriate.

I want Kofi to be my personal hype man.

Good lord, Brock F5'ed Pearce out of his goddamn slacks.

I feel that Rampaging Brock is the closest thing we have today to Brody and Hansen running through crowds in Japan terrifying people. Something extra scary about a dude who could probably legit beat the ass of everyone in the building losing his shit.

Andrade/Pac was a banger and a half, those guys can't have a bad match together. That whole ending segment was FIRE. Black gets a huge pop every time they do the lights out deal, Arn came out to bust some shots, and then FIRED UP Cody to wrap it up.

I wonder it Andrade and Naito get their tear away suits from the same place.

Angry, feisty Tay Conti gives me feelings. Also it always looked tiny, but now that the TBS title is the same size as the TNT title, the women's belt looks like a child's replica.

Britt is SO GOOD at knowing where the camera is at all times.

Watching on DVR now, FTR/Tully vs Lucha Bros/Alex is a match I want to see now.

Once things switched to NXT TWO POINT OOOOOOOHHHHHH their bars suddenly went from "pretty solid for someone who doesn't do this for a living" to "wack as fuck" so it seems like their lines are 100% written by nerds now.

IMO that only proves how awesome Hit Row is that they can debut them in the middle of a damn corn field and they got over. Also I kinda want to fly to Brazil and follow bubba around with one of those 80s big ass boom boxes playing HIIIIIIIIIIIIT ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

I could see him doing that for that exact reason. Bryan's whole decision making process beyond the obvious money matches seems to be "fuck it, why not?"

What could they say? Big Dog got humbled by the Bunny Dog

This was probably the first Saudi show that wasn't mostly cobbled around old guys blatantly just showing up for the paycheck, and the one old guy that *was* there for the paycheck (Goldberg) at least had his working boots on.

Also if someone is pale like Dragunov, it doesn't take much to make them redden up, which would make something like a chop look a million times more brutal. Source: I'm a pale dude and I've had play fights with my nine year old that made me look like I was in a war. My kid does work stiff though, so there's that.

So it looks like they are going to do a belt exchange on SD tonight with the women's titles because fuck ever doing anything different or creative I guess. It's amazing how WWE is always hammering home how many days someone has held a title or how many times they've held a belt, while also making it so meaningless they literally get traded like baseball cards.

I'm not saying Bryan doesn't care about getting fans to appreciate things, but it seems like he's way more the type who just sees cool shit in other matches and is like "I gotta try that next". Dude just loves wrestling in all forms and styles and while he hopes you do too, if you don't that isn't going to stop him from doing what he wants to do.

Having basically zero info on anything Japan pre like, 1993 or so, this is all fascinating to know. I wonder who initiated the deal, Vince seems like he always is more aware of Japan than he lets on and the Japanese wrestling scene has always seen working at MSG as a Holy Grail.