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Also it sucks that WWE gave us a great feelgood moment but all I could think of was Kofi and Bianca and how their moments ended up.

One thing about Big E is how he can believably switch from the funny pancake guy talking about BIG MEATY MEN to a scary mofo who looks like he's about to tear someone apart. It's actually the perfect trait for a WWE main eventer since he can pull off the dumb comedy they make people do and also be a serious mean guy if the storyline calls for it.

Not to mention ROH is apparently still going to be doing no-crowd TV tapings and PCO's gimmick doesn't really work with no fans.

I think it shows the difference between WWE and AEW audiences. If AEW hypes something on social media it seems to create a buzz that makes a notable difference, but when WWE tries it it doesn't seem to have the same effect.

1.67 million for Raw.

The decision to do it this week was only made on Friday, the day after the ratings came out. It's clear that they saw AEW beating Raw in the demo the week before football comes back to eat 20% of their lunch and went balls out to pop a rating this week to prevent getting beat by a larger margin this week. Which is fine. It's just historically there's not a lot of evidence that WWE can/will follow up correctly on something they did as a hotshot move. I hope I'm wrong, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it.

Where else can PCO go I wonder? I suppose maybe Impact would be the best place since they have a lighter schedule and would be more open to do the type of matches that are suited to him.

I mean, Tony *was* bad at the end of WCW, it would have been impossible not to be with the crap he had to call and half the time Bobby was completely shitfaced next to him. He had the enjoyment of what he did beaten out of him and was just mailing it in. I still think it's the best anyone could have done in the spot he was in though. Happy Tony is my #1 favorite thing about 2021 wrestling, the sheer joy in his voice calling matches is infectious. He's perfect because old heads like us remember the JCP days with him, and to the young fans he's the excited dad who's not entirely sure what's going on but he's having the time of his life watching it.

Ali just tweeted "Brodie would be so happy" and the room just got a lot more dusty for some reason.

At any rate I love that a guy like E who seems to be solidly in the Bobby Eaton-Ricky Steamboat "dudes everyone loves and no one has a bad thing to say about them" category gets his due. The love coming from everyone on Twitter from all across wrestling is legit heartwarming to see.

As cool as it is seeing someone like E finally win the big one, doing it this way just made it feel like the forced panic based idea it was. They were doing a great slow burn on SD with him taunting Heyman with the briefcase, and this just seemed so shoehorned in to the stories being built on Raw with Lashley.

That was great, but WWE has trained me to expect E to be beaten in 30 seconds by a returning legend. I suppose I could just be a cynical hater tho.

Time to see if WWE can follow through on something they hyped the hell out of, even if it was a panic move.

Anyone else notice WWE seems to be trying to turn Kross into Alastair Black? Those promos he's been doing remind me of those "knock on my door" promos Black used to do.

I still say Eva Marie peaked as a character in NXT where she could be the avatar for the DIvas Era to the fans pushing for women's wrestling to be taken seriously.

I love that Omos has that Sid aura where he doesn't do much but doesn't need to either. Enter, wreck people, leave.

OK, AJ eating a millon boots while Ali looks progressively more annoyed at not being tagged in made me chuckle.

Man, I'm not usually a fan of the Sony made Marvel movies, but they're getting me with this Venom 2 trailer with Carnage. My inner 90s kid is marking out for that.

Of course WWE stans are coming out of the woodwork to insist that all this hotshotting and panic booking is solely due to football starting and anyone saying otherwise is lying. Changes that only were made after the ratings for Dynamite came out on Thursday. Sure, Jan.

On one hand I'm annoyed at this since E stalking Heyman has been one of my favorite parts of Smackdown, but I'm all for BIG MEATY MEN SLAPPING MEAT on Raw tonight.

Mine too. I think this just fits in too conveniently for the NXT reboot. Like I'm sure Joe is banged up like every wrestler in the world is, but this just seems to be their way of dealing with Joe holding the belt when they're about to go to under-30.

Well they seemed to be setting up some angles with Bandito so there was *something*. I just hope they find some way to get their TV taped in front of fans because it's brutal for them to be the only wrestling show still not in front of a crowd.

lol EC3 got Eddie'd.

Bandido out here seeing AEW folks doing all the crazy highspots like "hold my beer".

Another solid match, Rok-C seems to have *it*. Bandido/Flamita/Brody King/EC3 in a "one of these things is not like the other* main event.