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What's odd is Dave has mentioned more than once that WWE highly encourages vaccination but isn't requiring it (and that while the vast majority of people have gotten it, a few haven't), so the idea they are requiring proof of vaccination to be allowed to work is suspicious. The idea that Vince (or Hunter for that matter) is part of some communist mob is hilarious though. Seems more likely they just got tired of his bullshit, and if he wants to go flip burgers for the Lord so be it. I wonder if he does he will claim BUT MUH FREEDUMBS if the fast food place makes him follow food safety guidelines. I can just see him screaming about Jesus protecting him from salmonella or whatnot.

Guess Vince liked what he saw in Bronson Reed, I would assume his dropping the title is for a callup.

Man, Mercedes Martinez got KTFO by Xia Li. I don't know if she was trying to kick out from instinct or of it was the Fencer's Motion knocked out people sometimes get but that was nasty.

LOL yeah I suppose it does. I was thinking UEFA must listen to Dave when he said AEW should book a surprise win no one sees coming. As for Raw, there really wasn't much to mention. It wasn't like anything was actively bad, in fact I thought the Kofi/MVP segment and the main event were outstanding, but it was just yet another show full of rematches as WWE continues to be stuck on Groundhog Day. Like, why is Xavier Woods getting a rematch against Lashley? Why is Drew winning a spot in MITB when he can't challenge for the title? Why is Rhea's gimmick seemingly "babyface who acts like an asshole"?

I read an interview by Shayna Bazler and her trying to square her training with Billy Robinson and Josh Barnett with the horseshit she's having to do now. She's clearly being a pro and gritting her teeth through it, and it really made me want to see her in literally any other promotion in the world.

Late start since I'm on vacation, but the France/Swiss match was booked better than anything that will take place on Raw tonight.

Hmm...I could have sworn WWF did them before that, but so much of the mid 90s is mashed together in my brain.

If my old man brain remembers correctly, WWF started doing them their way so as to not completely copy ECW. Of course WWF being WWF, they still did it in a way that made it completely transparent that they were copying them.

I have this image of Vince going to a comedy show and being like "Goddamn pal, where's all the poop jokes?"

WWF had A/B/C tours during that time. You would have Hogan headlining the A show in the big towns, the B shows would be in mid size towns headlined by either Savage or the tag champs, and then you'd have C shows running in high school gym type venues and headlined by midcarder/JTTS types Looking up the year by year listings on like Graham Cawthon's site had some real "who TF would have paid money to go see this show" entries.

I would think the 3 Way Dance was ECW's signature match since it really wasn't a thing before they did it and then everyone and their mom was doing them. It seems odd since WWF/WWE ran it so far into the ground it popped out the other side, but ECW was the pioneer there.

So I guess we can add Vince to the list after Ric Flair of the people who look like shit on WWE TV but not nearly as bad in person. I guess the WWE makeup team doesn't know how to properly prepare older folks for HD TV?

Kenny can be a dork at times, but dude always delivers in the ring. He basically had the match he does in AAA with Jungle Boy and made him look like a million bucks in spite of losing. The usual suspects will probably never give him credit, but he's proven to be able to give top level performances in three different countries while basically wrestling different styles in each. There's really not that many people in wrestling now (or really ever IMO) who could do that.

They would split up couples all the time in the draft until Charlotte said that didn't work for her, brother. Now they try to keep couples on the same brand (as long as they are both on the main roster at least). The one exception currently is Corey Graves and Carmella, but that was more due to their constant need to keep fucking around with the announce teams.

True, but it's not like WWE doesn't have a track record not liking people of different card levels mixing. Mostly romantic relationships to be sure, but it's clear as a company they expect the lower card guys to look upon everyone above them on the totem pole as career goals instead of people to associate with. Also it's weird to me anyone would see Tyler Breeze as anyone to stay away from. He seems like one of those dudes everyone likes or at least has nothing bad to say about. The company trusted him enough to be the guy who got to work with Liger when he did his bucket list WWE/NXT match.

Possibly, but the part about coaches makes it sound like it was mostly WWE bullshit. Like they were trying to discourage being friends with him because Breeze was a comedy jobber and Woods was a upper mid card/borderline main event guy as part of New Day.

Yeah he mentioned in his post-release interview that Drake was trying to order him around when he had no authority to do so and he just looked him in the eye and told him not to talk to him like that. Apparently after it happened he was afraid he just flushed his chance away but a lot of folks came to him to give him props for telling him to STFU.

So I was able to grab tickets for Rampage, if the Ticketmaster site was anything to go by it looks like they sold nearly all the floor seats and about half of the bowl already on day one, which would seem to be a decent sign.

Also I just wanted to give this some love, as this line popped me as the resident Mortal Kombat fanatic.

I hate to be "that guy" but it really seemed like most of the shitstorm was fueled by people mad that a woman was hired to write their rasslin' show, since pretty much every other WWE writer who has ever done a podcast or interview has said pretty much the same thing she did and none of them got that kind of shit for it.

I guess the "we don't care who they're married to" part meant Killian Dane (Mr. Nikki Cross), he just got axed.

He's trying to run WWE like an actual business and not a carny sideshow that keeps people employed for years and doesn't do dick with them. The problem is he's doing it the usual corporate soulless way and doesn't take into account that cutting someone like Tyler Breeze (who on paper is expendable) may cause people like Xavier Woods (who's part of one of their big merch sellers and does tons of publicity stuff that benefits the company) to tell them to fuck off in the future.

It's just the usual good cop/bad cop nonsense, just that Khan is more willing to accept the bad cop role than others.

Breeze was basically the #2 person on UUDD after Woods himself, Since he's stated WWE owns the UUDD franchise, I wouldn't be surprised to see him leave when his deal ends since he's arguably as known in the gaming world if not more than wrestling and already has a hosting gig lined up for the new G4.

Tyler Breeze is surprising since he seemed to be the guy they would have as a player-coach in NXT to be the veteran who gives reps to the newbies.