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I mean if we're going to start kayfabe explanations of this tournament, the much bigger question is why would Preston Vance be in it? For that matter, why is Dustin in it? Yeah he has awesome matches but he's hardly been positioned as a legit world title contender.

It's going to be an amazing moment when Hangman wins the title. That promo was money.

I love that the story is Arn is trying to beat the bitch out of Cody

Watching on DVR since I just got off work, and goddamn did Lambert crack me up with the "holy shit do you put your shirts on feet first" line on Jake Hager and his big ass head.

It's a weird spot, the crowd clearly wants to cheer him but he's much better as a heel and storyline wise you kind of had to put him with the Elite to start off.

FTR: Defenders of Old School Tag Team Wrestling becoming the champions of AAA is goddamn hilarious to me.

This is also true.

Rush had major knee surgery and is out until next year so it was never going to be him regardless.

It was always "Andrade's masked tag team" and then when everyone on Twitter went wild suggesting luchadors it became "who will be under the masks" as if not someone who normally wears a mask. So they never actually teased anyone but that didn't stop everyone's imaginations from going off.

Well Brock washed out of the NFL in training camp, so clearly Roman is the superior athlete (/all the sarcasm I can muster)

This is so spot on. Roman's comments come off so bad for WWE's booking since he seems bemused/confused, or as you said even a little salty that other team can get its fans to cheer for their babyfaces and he's over here like that scene from Fresh Prince when Will's deadbeat dad came back only to ghost him again. Roman's all "WHY DON'T THEY LOVE ME MAN"

Yeah but going on about your REAL SPORTZ bonafides in the context of pro wrestling makes him kind of look like a mark. The Rock didn't become the biggest star in the business because he was on the Miami Hurricanes football team.

Right wing grift might be his best career opportunity at this point. At least he won't lose those gigs over sexual harassment charges.

Interesting to see people not liking happy Punk. I get how it's a difference in how we're used to seeing him, but knowing how much of his crabby demeanor previously was based on his real life dissatisfaction with his life at that point makes me happy to see him so jovial on TV now. Fun Uncle Punk may not be the best gimmick for him but it's undeniably better for him as a person.

I love how WWE had a plan to front load the first segment of Smackdown to mess with the West Coast feed of Rampage and their plan to do that was a long ass segment of Edge EMOTING. I do like the idea of Sonya and Shayna killing people so that was good

If you've spent your whole life training to hit people as hard as you can, I'd imagine it's probably difficult to flip the switch and do worked punches.

Those boots made me think JDS was wearing flip flops for a moment there

To me the WOAH was the suggestion Vivian abused her, which was a shocker to me since all I've ever heard was how she was the reason Luna wanted to be a wrestler. I just happened to do a ECW binge in the ol' Cock when they finally updated, and it really did stand out how much she was enjoying herself. The crowd loved her and it was the one place at the time where she could do her thing and get recognized for it.

You give the fans what they want. I know WWE does its best to try to train people that it's a Bad Thing to do that, but it's what wrestling is all about.

Goddamn this is great.

Yeah if there's anyone who I would 100% believe would be down for some sadomasochistic performance art, it world be Suzuki.

MURDER GRANDPA

Tony Schiavone marking out for Bryan Danielson is all that is good and wholesome in the world.

Love seeing a hometown guy like Lee Moriarity get his shot in the big leagues.

It's just a telling look at how WWE's thinking is, that he's better than Punk because he's physically bigger and has a football background, as if either of those means jack shit in the world of wrestling. It's 100% what Vince wants of course, but it's not what most fans want. There was another story out how inside WWE the talk is "Tony Khan is losing money just to run against us" and "we beat Ted Turner and Ted is smarter than Tony" as if he's just another dumb money mark. Also Ted didn't have anything to do with running the actual company and just cut the checks (which was kind of the problem with WCW in the first place) and his extent of wrestling knowledge was "this show helped build my network so I have a soft spot in my heart for them".