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I wonder how much of Nattie's rep comes from being a Hart and training in the Dungeon. In WWE canon anyone who's ever been there is automatically an all time great.

So it looks like Bryan's WWE contact expired on Friday and Smackdown was legit his last match with them pending a new deal. Guess now we'll see how much he really wants to do that world tour.

Keith Lee told a story of being roofied by a woman who's advances he had turned down and woke up naked in a hotel room. He shared it as a way of saying that being assaulted could happen to anyone. He told his story in June, so it shouldn't be hard to do the math to see when he disappeared from WWE TV.

I think part of it is clearly there was a large audience for JCP/Dusty/WCW things that went away after 2001, and they are trying to win that audience back without just flat out saying is what they are doing (probably also out of legal concerns since WWE owns all those JCP/Dusty/WCW things now).

I mean, yeah that's not something you want to be saying but at the same time they're clearly doing a War Games match and don't want to deal with WWE's legal team.

Doing a racism to get views is such a sad yet accurate state of affairs for how the world is nowadays.

As far as the David Marquez stuff, I know that that the NWA and his Championship Wrestling from Hollywood were sharing talent for those UWN weekly PPVs, and when those shows ended it seems whatever partnership that was there went sour.

To be fair, WWE has become so radicalized that just being a garden variety MAGA idiot doesn't even crack the top ten in the company anymore. She can still fuck off, don't get me wrong, but I can see how her past can be forgotten with all the rampant nuttery being allowed to run wild.

Kinda digging Randy in this "I don't get this kid, or even like him, but it seems to be working so fuck it" gimmick.

It's not the worst example of WWESpeak, but insisting on saying "opportunity" instead of "chance" is really starting to grate on my nerves.

She actually was pretty decent in NXT, but for sure her gimmick was "terrible WWE main roster chick here to take the spot of the NXT women you like".

She was passable in the Divas era, she was in NXT when all the women there were fucking outstanding and the heat she got was 100% because the NXT crowd was afraid the company was going to put their hand picked Barbie doll on top at a time when there were great women's matches on every Takeover. She was basically female babyface Roman except they leaned in to her being a heel.

Also "we serve God not man" sounds like Drake is one more FB post away from moving to a heavily armed compound in Montana and getting into a shootout with the ATF.

WWE has a lot more diverse voices than it used to and it seems it's helped overall to keep the crazy to a minimum. You're not going to completely Q pill a locker room that has the New Day, Ali, Bryan, et all. Even guys who are normally pretty Republican like JBL seem to have not got on board the crazy train. It's important for everyone to remember that in both wrestling and IRL, the antivax/Q/super Trumper crowd is actually relatively small but LOUD AF. Their voices tend to drown out every other one because they scream the most.

Bret seemed to have a knack for being able to get away with blading during that time period. I don't know if he was just really good at it or Vince thought he'd be dumb enough to confess to it,.

Interesting. I never thought i'd see Vince let anyone else have that kind of power within the company. It's always been his MO to only give folks the minimum amount needed to do their jobs, and in some cases not even that much.

Fabi Apache won the match (was a multi woman match for the title that was vacated when Taya went to NXT) and Deonna challenged her to a title vs title match at Triplemania.

OK, apparently it's someone else besides La Heidra in the gimmick but still lololololol for Dolce.

AAA just debuted the former La Heidra as the new Sexy Star, Dolce just getting the 100% recommended daily allowance of L's this weekend.

Deonna Purazzo came out to do commentary for the Reina de Renias (women's title) match at the AAA show tonight, so it looks like that partnership is still going on. Also if that means some AAA luchadoras are going to Impact it would make their women's division that match better.

I was thinking while watching Smackdown, how much credit should Paul Heyman be given for this Roman Revitalization? Obviously Roman's put in the work, but this run has been remarkable for not having any typical WWE nonsense like things coming off as forced. Paul has that magic power of somehow getting Vince to allow people he's associated with book their own shit, and it made me wonder how much he's been acting like a buffer to keep the usual meddling hands away.

She was known for having a pretty severe case of "notgonnadoajob-itis" in wrestling and generally seemed to be pretty full of herself before the Triplemania deal happened, so there's going to be a lot of schadenfreude when she takes an L.

I don't want to speak for the good bubba, but I think the match is going to depend on what WWE think Bryan's plans are. If they think he's leaving to finally have his Five Star World Tour we might see a quick, decisive (if not a squash) type match. If they think he's staying we may get an actual good, long match.

As a certified Old Internet Man, it's been fascinating to me to see how cycles repeat themselves w/r/t message boards on the internet. Like it doesn't even matter what the subject is, there's almost always going to be a certain group who seemingly only exist to be pains in everyone else's asses. Makes places like this a real breath of fresh air, and the fact that a lot of the founders of this board are also veterans of ancient message board wars is probably no accident.

That's been pretty much par for the course with any site Scott's been involved with (ones he had a say in how they operate at least).