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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.

Seems like more folks still under the influence of WWE Brain thinking the only way to book a red hot babyface is to beat them and beat them and beat them until they are nothing special.

The numbers came out and Smackdown and Rampage both got a 0.24 in the demo so that's another WWE ploy to fuck with AEW that failed. I can't wait for Vince to *really* dig into his playbook and send Roman and the Usos to the site of an AEW taping in a tank.

Sounds like you have a lot of pent up TNA rage, which is probably a pretty common issue lol.

Funny thing about that is I thought WWE kept all the titles to avoid this sort of thing from happening.

Roman finally being seen as a top guy without backlash with the fans is all the elevation WWE was looking for, tbh.

That actually would be pretty cool if the capper to the "Arn beats the weakness out of Cody" angle ends up being him snapping and murdering someone beloved like Punk.

Also while I get why he did it (especially considering the major criticism leveled about his dad), but barring himself from ever challenging for the world title was probably AEW's biggest misstep since it took him out of the main event picture permanently.

It's a term people coined to describe how everything Cody does seems to be completely in its own universe disconnected from everything else going on in AEW.

Basically it's the US title as JCP booked it, either held by the #2 guy in your company or someone you want to strap the rocket to.

The obvious answer to "why isn't *X* in this tournament" of course is Tony doesn't want top level guys taking unnecessary Ls. He clearly has things mapped out and unlike certain other major US wrestling companies, doesn't want to beat folks he has other plans for.

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.