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It's also why it's frustrating to see online reactions to stupid WWE shit like "why didn't X just refuse to do it".....because if you do and aren't the select handful of people who have the stroke to get away with it, you'll be banished to the Phantom Zone for being difficult to work with,

Wade Keller is saying the word inside WWE was that Keith Lee had "attitude issues" because he questioned the jobs he was doing on the main roster, which I guess means the whole internet has them too.

There's probably a non-zero chance her mental health issues come down to the company keeping after her to be vaxxed, which of course opens up other discussions, but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt here even if it will likely make me look silly for doing so.

Japan is opening the borders again starting Monday so that should allow more folks to be able to work New Japan and more of their folks being able to travel here.

The NBA is dealing with this now, players who are unvaxxed won't be allowed in the building in cities with strict rules like NYC or San Francisco. While I would imagine Vince probably sympathizes with the antivax people, I'm sure they also don't want to deal with the hassle of "this person can't work this show because vax".

To be fair, regardless of her ability as a performer or her vax status it's shitty for her to ask for more time to deal with mental health issues only for the company to respond with "fuck you, you're fired". Even garbage people deserve the time and space to get their shit together.

It's hard to know for sure since the unvaccinated will say it's government overreach but if you press them they say they can't tell you if they are or not because if HIPPA (which besides the hilarity of it also being a government thing, it's not against it to ask someone's status).

They cut more long time corporate folks, it really seems like they just put everyone's name into the Firing Hat and just pulled random names.

I honestly think Tamina is in that Nattie class of "everyone loves her in the locker room to the point of it would be a huge morale hit to let them go".

Yes, the Nitro replay was a thing unless there was a west coast NBA game or some other major programming that day. Also I think it was more common for TV providers to have time shifted feeds available back then. I had access to west coast versions of a lot of channels back then, and people out west had east coast feeds.

Fightful reporting that Johnny Ace couldn't even be bothered to spell Oney Lorcan's gimmick name right ("Lorkan") in the email sent out to talent announcing the releases.

Also Fightful mention at least some of these releases were due to vaccination status. Considering Nia's been known to be q anon adjacent at times it does make one wonder.

lol its OK. They are counting everyone in real time who are watching live. Less people are watching live on the west coast 5-7 their time than were watching 8-10 their time. Odds are most if not all of those people are watching on DVR later but advertisers don't like that because then people fast forward through the ads.

West coast viewers were being counted before, the show was just airing on delay. There's less people watching live at that earlier time and that is putting a dent in the ratings.

It's airing from 5pm-8pm on the west coast, which usually means less live viewing and higher DVR numbers since people are getting home from work/eating dinner/dealing with the kids during that time instead of watching TV.

Between the releases and the entire Queens Crown tournament totaling like 18 minutes of ring time, and killing the women's tag team titles by splitting up all the teams, it kinda seems WWE doesn't really want to be bothered by women's wrestling anymore.

I get the impression from reading between the lines on his timeline that Lee isn't going to be too heartbroken over this. I think he realized pretty soon WWE was going to fumble things.

..and yet people still insist "plans change" is just an excuse from THA SHEETZ for being wrong.....

Keep in mind the company just did their Q3 investor conference where they announced they were adjusting their projected profits *upward* about an hour before "budget cuts",

As did Franky Monet.

Well cuts are coming, Scarlett just announced her release.

Looks like this "live on the west coast" deal is killing AEW's ratings.

I thought the Onlyfans comment was clever (IIRC she does have one, I might be wrong), but the implied gangbang line was a little "eeeeh" for me. It's just a weird thing for a babyface to say. Like MJF could have said it and no one would probably bat an eye because his whole gimmick is "crossing the line" in heel promos

Decades of having Vince yelling in your ears takes its toll I suppose.

I think context matters. Amanda would know Moxley's intentions and would realize a typo/misspelling/brainfart for what it is. This definitely feels like she (and Jericho) clearly thought there were ulterior motives going on based on how they reacted. Both Kalisto and Sasha were quote tweeting photos of each other all day so maybe they saw it as him rubbing the alleged reason he was in WWE so long in people's faces. (also didn't he publicly ask for his release from WWE at some point? Or am I confusing him with another Lucha House Party guy?)