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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?)

Charisma=money in wrestling, and it's beyond me how someone could look at Miro (even if he's not your ideal height or whatever) and not hear cash registers going off.

Oh my, TK out here just trying to give everyone the largest boner possible with Bryan vs Miro.

I popped for the "get a table for four and a high chair for Sammy" line, that was Heenan level.

Dan Lambert is so great, he's like a 70s Memphis heel manager transported to 2021.

FTR coming out to a Legally Distinct version of the Midnight Express theme with Tully as their manager is messing with my JCP-raised brain.