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Mark Henry seems miscast as an announcer, he's great as the guy in the middle during those side by side promos egging both guys on.

That was a really good show, Friday continues to be the night of the A shows.

lol Happy Corbin just jacked Cameron Grimes' gimmick.

I suppose having Bianca battle through three others made her look heroic or whatever, but it's just such tired WWE logic that the former champ has to beat jabronies who've done nothing but lose (and Liv) to get a rematch. Paul and the Usos' interactions are golden.

Time to watch Smackdown, if it popped bubba KawadaSmile this much it has to be good.

Oh shit a Miro/Eddie program!

So Bucks/Lucha Bros is gonna be balls out, Punk/Darby will be great just for the atmosphere alone, and Kenny/Christian will be a great match (even if it wasn't the one we wanted for this show). All Out looks to be pretty solid no matter what else happens.

Fenix is so next level great it's scary. A Bucks/Lucha Bros cage match is gonna be BANANA.

Man I want to believe they won't, but with their track record....woof

Hunter really got a pass for his Nazi-adjacent imagery mainly due to "oh he's just a Motorhead fan", which is ironic because Lemmy would frequently get side eyes over it (at least in that case, Lemmy would just insist he is a WWII memorabilia enthusiast)

It sure doesn't look like the old Nu Metal logo, that's for sure.

Also it sure seems this rift in the Dark Order with guys not happy with Evil Uno as the defacto leader sure seems like they are building up to have Bray fill that role.

Vince will throw Smackdown a bone occasionally, but it just seems implanted in his brain at this point that Raw is always going to be the A show. Even if the quality says otherwise.

Also Mistico II recorded a goodbye video sitting in the stands at Arena Mexico before he let CMLL know he was leaving, which is hilarious.

The only reason Rush and Dragon Lee didn't shit on CMLL after they were let go is they didn't want to make things harder on their brother who was still there. Wonder if that will change now.

Yeah, I'm saying he would have known the due date (maybe not the exact date but close enough) when they started heating him back up. Once you know how far along a pregnancy is you can do the math and figure it out. I knew about halfway through when to expect the birth of my kid, and while it's not always spot on, it's close enough to give your boss a heads up to not start booking a major PPV around you.

Yeah it's not a "WWE is fucked" situation, they just are trying to please both masters at the same time which is made harder by being run by an old man with the attention span of a 5 year old with ADHD. Any other company in the world would love to have the problem of juggling multiple billion dollar TV deals, it's just that you know WWE is going to find some way to bungle that's what they do now.

What I don't get is clearly the plans were to do Kenny/Hangman, but then Page went out on paternity leave. Did he just not tell Tony until two months prior that he had a baby due? That's not something that sneaks up on you.

Also its one of the things we learned in the Attitude Era: Raw frequently had shitty shows topped with excellent main events with Austin/Rock and everyone remembers it fondly as if the show was stellar from top to bottom (it wasn't). Nitro usually had excellent matches topped off with shitty nWo centric main events and everyone remembers it as the whole show being terrible (it wasn't). Having a flat main event sours people's impressions on the whole show.

I don't get the hate for QT. I mean I *get* it in the sense that he's shit, but he's just out there to be player coach for the trainees and eventually get knocked out by Tall Paul. It's not like he's being shoved into main events. He's just there to get the caveman looking dude and Bayley's ex some ring time.

WWE kind of painted themselves in a corner with their TV partners. They were so thirsty to be back on network TV that they were annoying their long time cable partners, and when they try to appease them they upset Fox because they didn't spend a billion dollars to have the B show. A sane person probably could have figured out a way to make both sides relatively happy, but Vince lives in a world where he can only pay attention to one show at a time.

I mean, not every Nitro that beat Raw for 83 weeks in a row was stellar. There were more than a fair share of clunkers, but they built up so much momentum it took months after they were objectively sucking ass for the ratings to reflect that. I think AEW has enough goodwill that the occasional so-so episode won't derail things too much.

So SRS reported Brock's new deal is for "about a year and a half", so considering WWE usually insists on 3 year deals and Brock usually insists on 1 year deals it looks like they just met in the middle.

I saw that and my first thought was "wow, WWE helped AEW yet again" lol.

Yeah AEW's women's division seems to be booked like WWE's main roster ones where there's one dominant presence and everyone else is either geeks or disappeared into the ether, Keeping Britt heel despite of how over she is seems like a "WWE trying to make Becky a heel" move as well. Plus doing that kills the momentum for someone like Statlander, who's supposed to still be cheered but no one is going to cheer her against Britt, and people don't really want to boo her either so it creates a weird heat vortex since the crowd doesn't have a third option to react.