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Bringing in Pat along with Adnan Virk made me wonder if they are going to have Vince yelling in the ears of professional broadcasters as if they were the usual WWE announcerbots, or will they let them do their jobs?

That's entirely possible and probably depressingly close to the truth, but since it's Billie there's a non zero chance that they legit don't know what to do with a woman who isn't blonde.

I wonder what blackmail material Velveteen Dream has to keep his job while at the same time not get used on TV because the company doesn't want to keep getting asked why they feature a kid groomer.

No lie, the moment I saw the Mauro announcement my first thought was "holy shit, is CS secretly Kenny Omega?"

To me and you that sounds good, but someone who busted their ass to be a pro wrestler isn't going to be satisfied sitting in catering for months instead of doing what they spent all that time/effort/money into becoming.

The company can't make it any more clear that they won't do shit with 85-90% of the people they sign other than waste their peak drawing years, yet somehow folks still are acting like signing a WWE deal is a worthy life goal. At this point the only people who should sign with WWE are guys at the end of their run looking to cash out for a big payday. The Nak Special if you will.

I just got my second Moderna shot on Monday and I'd still be wary of large crowds like that for a while. Also between the young people who feel invulnerable and the terminally stupid refusing, it will take a while even when shots are widely available.

Now you have to spam #CancelTheCock instead. .......wait...what?

Well a lot of sports are on different networks, it's always a little weird to see the NFL on say Fox promoting games that will be on CBS/NBC/ESPN but that's the nature of how sports works these days. If anything, AEW beating the NBA on ESPN is going to make the NBA look sideways at ESPN since they are supposed to be the end all and be all for sports programming.

There's so many people who have been in NXT/Developmental for YEARS with little to no signs of improvement that could be let go with little fear they'll show up on TV elsewhere but those are the ones that weirdly seem hoarded the most.

Did he beat JTG's record of staying employed without having anything to do? It's got to be close.

Are people doing that for real? I assumed a lot of it was being sarcastic since they just brought him back not too long ago and they immediately started letting people go.

Yup, Vince thought she was the breakout star, which to be fair might have been the case but they did jack shit with both of them afterwards. Seeing it mentioned on social media that Billie has a case for being the most screwed over by the pandemic as her act would have almost surely become one of those cult favorite things with the fans that would have forced the company to do something with her.

Dynamite pulled in 1.2 million viewers last night.

Not sure why it's baffling to you that people would make lists of expendable AEW folks, they clearly have too many people signed for the TV time they have. Tony's made it clear he doesn't want to cut people until things are back to something close to normal and he sees AEW as a lifeboat for wrestlers during the pandemic. So clearly they aren't going to actually cut anyone based on a list compiled by some rando on the internet. Besides, wrestling fans in the internet like to make lists of things, it's what they do.

He had some concussion issues so they had him on commentary. Everyone assumed he'd be back in the ring at some point, and then *poof* he gets cut. At least he was able to give us Rain Poncho Joe before leaving.

Yeah it seems odd Joe goes from calling WrestleMania, to being off the Raw team, then being cut entirely. Has all the earmarks of there being an interesting story behind it.

I think it is, he was tweeting support for Andrade when he left so it definitely gave the impression he was looking to move on from WWE. Also at this point Vince McMahon is the Bobby Kotick of wrestling. Bobby's the CEO of video game company Activision and he just got a $200 million bonus the same time they cut like 190 people from the company.

Honestly the only surprise to me is Samoa Joe, I wonder if he requested his release if it became clear they weren't going to allow him to go back in the ring, WWE clearly didn't see anything in any of the others. Plus the balls of this company to cite budget cuts when they literally just got a billion dollars from Peacock.

Someone should tell NXT people that "HEY GUYS I ACTUALLY PICKED THAT NAME EVERYONE THINKS IS STUPID" isn't the mic drop they think it is. Especially when it seems clear signees are told to make a post stating it was them and not the company responsible for the dumb name. Also when one of your co workers makes a reply that undermined the point you were making:

It's great that Team Taz is two dudes that will murder you while two other dudes talk shit on you the whole time (while Hook looks on menacingly).

I loved Ricky Starks being appalled that Team Taz had to wait more than an hour for Christian's answer, and Taz's response was "well, you're not wrong"

I'm thinking all the times we all thought the Bucks were tweeners it's just that they aren't good at being babyfaces. They're so natural at being heels, maybe they just can't pull off babyface.

Yeah, it's like Walter's chops. I can believe an Olympic level boxer can lay a dude out with a body punch.

I want John Silver's rehab segments to be the new Randy News Network.