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He's got talent and potential, but he's one of those guys where things just haven't clicked yet for him.

Wato wasn't setting the world on fire when he was in CMLL either. Excursions can only help so much, if there's not much to work with it won't matter if they spend their time on the moon.

Yeah but pretty much all the really good wrestlers they produced was before the modern NXT/PC era. I'm struggling to come up with anyone who went through their current training system and came out really good.

One of the guys who did their excursion in CMLL (I want to say it was Naito but I could be wrong) said being in an environment vastly different both wrestling wise and culturally was a big part of his growth as a wrestler.

Also watching Smackdown, and Roman was fucking fantastic in that segment where he told Jey he didn't want him to go back to being the guy people ask "which one are you?". Who would have thought after everything he went through as a babyface that his career refining character arc would be "Samoan Tony Soprano"?

Welp. On commercial breaks the FITE.TV feed stays on the announcers, and apparently the Spanish announcers were making fun of Shida with the usual "japanese people speaking english poorly with no L's and R's" racist bit and it blew up on Twitter.

Yeah he's basically the guy who got them the Fox deal and the Peacock deal. Each one legit worth a billion. He's leaps and bounds the best business guy WWE's had in ages, and it seems like it didn't take long for Vince to give him the keys. Which I don't blame him for doing, all he seems to do is make money. I'd let him do whatever he wants if I was Vince too.

Almost makes you feel bad for poor Hunter. He put all that work in to replace Shane as Vince's #1 son, got his own vanity promotion, placed himself to just slide into the big chair when the time comes.....then Big Daddy Nick comes in and makes more things happen in a year than he's done in 20.

Holy shit, that was how you do closing angle on a go-home show.

I'm glad they realized the best use of Miro is having him beat up little dudes.

I love it.... "Maybe Mox can be an EVP!" "I don't want it...no"

Loving Paul Wight's homage to Red Shoes.

lol Cody in front of a crowd with this gimmick is gonna be interesting.

Darby first guy out in front of a real crowd is a smart move.

Touche, but to be fair that was because Vince Jr quit the NWA which New Japan was a part of.

I mean, WWF and New Japan did work together back in the day, and while it was a million years ago the same guy's still in charge (I know VKM wasn't technically in charge yet but I believe he was functionally running things toward the end of Vince Sr's life).

Have to give Jim credit when it's due, he pretty much nailed it on the Dark Side episode re: Warrior. He couldn't work or talk but he had a body that looked like a million bucks and had the greatest promoter ever pushing him and that was pretty much all there was to it.

It actually does seem the talks started in part to give Bryan the opportunity to work in New Japan without leaving WWE.

I can imagine the Young Lions seeing how training is done at the PC and enraging WWE by laughing at it. Or even better WWE trying to pull a power play and demand NJPW use the PC for trainees only to have Shibata show up and slap the shit out of everyone in the building.

Drew having some fun with this by posting a tweet seemingly about his match with Kofi but with OKADA as an acrostic. Also even if this relationship ever would happen (I assume it was just Big Daddy Nick kicking tires), it wouldn't last long since Vince is eventually gonna Vince and a Japanese company isn't going to let a foreign company call the shots for too long, business culture over there doesn't work that way.

Yeah they own all the buildings they run in, so they have practically zero costs. Plus they have deals where hotels run tourist groups for their Friday night Arena Mexico shows so they will get decent crowds no matter how shit the cards are.

So yeah, having watched the episode it's clear Dana was trying to preemptively smear the show by saying it was "smut and filth" because they showed the clip of Warrior saying she was the one who influenced his conservative beliefs. It was a pretty fair look at the good and the bad, and made it clear that he had some abhorrent beliefs but didn't try to make him a cartoon villain.

His daughter was trying to modernize the company and not be such grudge holding assholes, but the rest of the family got pissed and ran her off so they could put people in charge even more stuck in their ways and petty than Paco was. Vince at least would be willing to put personal beef aside if it would do business, Paco would blacklist guys who would do business forever and never give it a second thought.

The mask design is probably owned by CMLL who are light years beyond Vince on the vindictive and petty scale.

Yeah they can't keep him from using his actual name, but for him to be able to leave without a 90 day non compete tells me he had something on the company he could have fucked them over with and they let him go on his terms.