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Maybe, but it's not like he's selling merch or using it on TV (or anything really to indicate it's something he's actively making money off of). How would she know if that was the case? I get trying to be fair to Tazz, but even the best possible read makes him look like an insecure little b.

This is the most accurate take on this imo. There were multiple levels causing this: 1. Turner had a conga line of bean counters running the company pretty much from the moment they bought it from Crockett. 2. Eric weaseled his way in charge through a combination of his expert level schmoozing skills and from being in the business and actually knowing how wrestling works. 3. His master plan was just to throw large amounts of cash at anyone who was well known in the WWF (and after awhile at some low level dudes just to be petty). 4. This plan actually works for a while because holy shit, the biggest babyface star of all time turned heel I gotta see this! 5. Eric seemingly has no ideas after that so he keeps the one thing that works going way past the expiration point and everyone gets bored by it, and the folks involved in that one thing do their damnedest to make sure no one ever gets in a position to challenge them. 6. When the young talent gets sick of this and goes to the boss, the boss sides with the old dudes which causes most of their young talent to quit and/or go to the WWF. 7. As such their product goes to shit, Turner execs get tired of flushing money down the toilet, and cancels their TV. I suppose that wouldn't make a very entertaining TV show though.

I have no idea why Hunter brought him back. It's painful watching him try to run around and do the freight train spot now, and Bron is right there doing it a thousand times better anyway.

Wasn't Kellner's deal that he just wasn't a fan of wrestling and didn't want it on his networks anymore? At the time they wanted to make TBS the comedy channel and TNT the drama one, and WCW programming didn't fit in that vision.

Remember at Canadian Stampede when the Hart Foundation got bigger and bigger reactions during their entrance until it looked like there was an earthquake when Bret came out? Roman coming back is going to be at that level I feel. Also it's not news that Paul Heyman is great, but this has been a performance worthy of another HOF induction on its own. Recency bias is at thing for sure, but I can't remember a better performance from a non-wrestler on a consistent basis than this.

Don't remind me. At this rate I'm going to need to get shitfaced on election day no matter who wins

I have zero interest in that show, not because of anything they do wrong, but it gets so frustrating seeing people who should know better pretend there's not the obvious answer of "Eric gave Hogan too much control and Turner execs were clueless". Eric wanted to be one of the boys so badly he either didn't seem to notice or didn't care Hulk was that-doesn't-work-for-me-brother'ing the company into the ground.

You would think the obvious booking would be for the New Japan guy to win the IWGP title back at the PPV, but Naito is so old and busted anymore I don't know if that's the best call here. Unless there's some plan where he wins here and then there's some sort of angle in Japan, but New Japan doesn't really have anyone who's screaming "top guy" that isn't being held together by duct tape.

Elite vs Acclaimed and Tanahashi is going to be a fun match, and it's the perfect use of Tana since he should be in his "Giant Baba working six mans" era.

Saw it pointed out that in this storyline Liv is playing Vince and Dom is Janel Grant, and now I feel gross.

Snoop had a concert in Calgary and the Hitman decided to attend

Poor Ultimo Guerrero having to battle both Okada and a cheap ass mask because AEW put up a graphic of him wearing one to promote the match. I guess TK the diehard lucha fan forgot UG has been wrestling maskless for literally a decade.

Zilla Fatu has been hitting the indies, saw him team with Jacob in MLW and he's clearly a "green but you have something here" guy.

They are setting up Roman to come back as a HUGE babyface and it's going to be glorious.

No hate to my favorite CMLL wizard, but that's not who I was expecting MJF's first PPV match back to be with.

NXT BELIEVES IN JOE HENDRY

Anyone else think it was weird storyline wise Samantha couldn't be at Raw because Ricochet got murdered by Bron, but was fine enough to fly to Scotland for a PLE?

It is, and it actually wouldn't be a bad choice to partner up with. It's basically the TNA of Mexico where guys go between AAA/CMLL runs.

It was indeed Tatum Paxley showing up tonight, which I would assume is what to expect in terms of the level of NXT involvment in TNA.

Did anyone really believe it would be anything more than some TNA people showing up on NXT? Even at that, does anyone really believe this is going to amount to anything more than WWE evaluating which TNA folks they want to poach?

lol what in the actual fuck

big willie and fenix making some goddamn art out here.

Jericho won me over on this gimmick by dropping a "that doesn't work for me brother"

So it seems like they are signaling TNA folks being invoved in the battle royal next week.

God damn, Jade has one of those "unrealistic looking action figure" physiques.