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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.

If they're framing it as accepting tough love from Don that they didn't want to hear, I can accept that as a defense to the ACT-ING we got last week.

If the internet has taught me anything, it's that if something exists there's someone that's into it. And I mean "into it" in all possible contexts.

Yeah Roddy is someone better off on NXT since there's little chance Vince sees anything in him. If he's lucky he might get the two week push all the new people get before he gets bored and forgets about them.

Well Hayes won a fan vote to be the second ref (worked vote I'm sure) so there was a storyline reason for him to be there. He tried to cheat to help Kerry so he could pay the Von Erichs back for helping them win earlier. So it made sense from Hayes' POV to do what he did and made sense from Kerry's POV to not want to have a world championship win sullied by such villainy.

The best part of that was how they set it up. David stepped in to replace Buddy Roberts to help the Freebirds win the six man titles, so Michael thought he was being a bro in return to help Kerry win the world title. The Von Erichs were too goody two shoes to allow that, and a legendary feud was born.

Mankind winning the WWF title from the Rock was just the typical clusterfuck match of its time until Austin came out to one of the biggest pops of all time. That plus the post-match celebration of "Mrs. Foley's baby boy" made it one of the Attitude Era's greatest moments.

Ivelisse is already tweeting about her release, saying it was because she had an issue with the coaches and her speaking about it was why she was let go.

They should team up with Tessa and Joey Ryan to start Unemployable Championship Wrestling.

Makes sense, Kitao was a grumpy asshole so I can see them deciding he'd be the perfect fall guy to solve all their problems.

CGI works when it's stuff like big silly unicorns and pancakes for the New Day because it fits their gimmick and you expect them to be suitably wacky. The big skeleton pirate reaching into the stadium was cool too, but it shouldn't be part of anyone's entrance who's supposed to be 100% serious.

Yeah the McMahon family (other than Shane I believe) make all their money off their ownership of WWE stock, and honestly since Nick Khan was the one who made the billion dollar Peacock deal happen he deserves all the money they paid him.