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I hope that "training in the woods" deal leads to the reveal that Von Wagner is actually a sasquatch who decided to get into pro wrestling .

Holy crap, Aichner catching the bigger Creed bro and hercing him up was impressive as fuck.

The Jersey Triad stuff was prime "the bosses aren't paying attention to anything other than the nWo so lets have fun" WCW awesomeness.

I mean the only way I could see someone wanting to jump from AEW to WWE is if Vince breaks the bank, which he might do just to attempt to fuck with them. Problem is Tony can match him dollar for dollar if he wants so even that would potentially be another thing that blows up in their faces. Besides, considering how pretty much everyone who signed "don't go to AEW" money deals ended up getting thrown in the cost cutting thresher, who would even want to accept that offer anyway? The only one I can see making the jump is Brian Cage since he's pretty much Vince's wet dream come to life and apparently isn't happy with how he's been used if his wife's twitter is any indication. I don't see any of the top level players in AEW even considering making the jump especially considering most of them either have worked there before or had negotiations with them prior to AEW forming. (also not counting Chris Jericho in this since I assume he'll probably get a WWE Old Timer Run before it's all said and done)

Yeah all signs point to him being a legit solid dude and seems like he's the next "no one has a bad word to say about him" guy.

This is like when the Hulkamania boom kicked off and suddenly everyone who was around before looked like a relic of the past. Everyone from OG NXT just seems like JTTS Pedro Morales in this new era.

The funniest thing is TK is so obviously channeling Vince from Memphis when he does that and all the supposed experts fall for it every time.

IMO it might because they've been an afterthought since winning the belts and even more so in the TWO POINT OH era. Plus their gimmick doesn't seem to work in this company either. They try to come off as cool and egdy but instead (to me at least) look like whiny tryhards. Like, yeah, they rock in the ring but literally every other part of their act has go-away heat.

Yeah it was like watching two rams colliding with each other to establish dominance. People dismissing it as "trading strikes" kinda miss the point.

I mean, I'm a Pittsburgh Pirates fan so even the last 20 years of WWE malaise is a drop in the bucket by comparison. To be fair to the good bubba, Roman's segments are usually top notch. It's just when he starts shootin' on the marks online where he gets into cringe territory. Also I know Roman is being a good soldier when he does that, but there's nothing sadder than seeing someone you're sure knows better towing such a demonstrably bullshit company line.

What's funny is Vic Joseph had that weird statement on NXT last week which seemed to be addressing the audience complaints (using pointedly non WWE lingo like audience instead of "WWE Universe") and pledging to do better, they literally just kept doing the same old bullshit. WWE seems to honestly think if they acknowledge fan complaints but never actually do anything about them then it will solve the complaints. Dave went on a "I'm not mad, I'm disappointed" style rant on WOR last night/this morning about how someone needs to have the balls to tell Vince this shit isn't working but no one will because they fear losing their jobs. This seems to hammer home how vital Pat Patterson was to the company. He seems to have been the only person who was able to give honest criticism that Vince would A: listen to and B: not fire him over it. No one exists like that in today's WWE so nothing will ever change.

Considering how Vince reacts when people who talk shit have it blow up in their face (hi Paul!), I wonder if this will end up having negative effects on the Big Dawg.

That's interesting, I always thought UWF was a breakaway from New Japan. I wonder why Vince would make a deal like that when presumably his main focus was national expansion.

You could make a strong case that Rock was even more of a dickhead after turning face, he'd even go out of his way to humiliate whatever backstage geek was interviewing him, Also this. So much this. Even when WWE does something cool, they almost always make me feel like an asshole for even caring about it in the end.

Yeah but I thought "UWF" wasn't a thing at that time and Shinma was president due to New Japan and WWF working together. I never heard of there being a UWF until Maeda and pals broke off from New Japan. In fact Hisa's site has the belt on this show as the same lineage as the second one you linked.

Don't forget they were also trying to make her a heel when Nia broke her face, until the image of her all bloody made her a complete badass babyface to the fans. This all just smacks of Vince making sure he gets what he wants in the end no matter if the fans want it or not.

God, they're gonna do the lame ass "champs switch belts because they switched brands" deal again aren't they?

So they just dropped some 1984 MSG shows, and the 3/25 show they have Akira Maeda (!!) winning the final of what I'm sure is a fictitious tournament for the WWF International Heavyweight Championship, the thing is the belt clearly has UWF in the center which surprised me since I was under the impression that wasn't a thing that existed until later.

You know, the blood money show actually has a pretty solid card. Too bad about....well...you know.

Oh would you look at that, Mace still exists!

She was basically female Stone Cold in that she was a heel to other heels and was arguably the #1 most popular person on the roster.

Remember when everyone lost their minds at WWE turning Becky heel and got immediately admonished because "Becky wanted to be a heel"? She mentioned in an interview she did with Ryan Satin that they called her and told her she would be returning as a heel. So yeah, making the fans believe their stupid ideas are actually coming from the talent is definitely A Thing now.

Gotta love Omos learned a cool move and the production team went out of their way to not show it.

Hey if he gets his usual check for going to those shows, it's not a bad gig.

Roman talking all that good shit and his segment got beat by Ruby.