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Makes sense, since WWE is stuck in their own Groundhog Day.

Well Peacock ran smoother for me than the Network usually does, so as a test run the show was a success.

In ring I would say Low Ki probably is better, but Seth never had a shoot temper tantrum that led to him being carried out of the building like a toddler so I'd have to give him the edge here.

If nothing else it's extremely tone deaf to have Will of all people do a "I'm so serious I'll abuse my girlfriend to prove it" angle. All that was missing was David Crockett yelling SHE LIKES IT TONY!

Yeah but him hitting the cutter on Bea was certainly an interesting choice.

His run as Zodiac was underrated and awesome as well.

They settled with Jesse at some point and restored all the commentary. I want to say it happened around the time everything moved from WWE 24/7 to the Network.

WO site reporting that Barry Orton passed away at age 62. Probably best known for (other than being Cowboy Bob's brother) being one of the whistleblowers in the WWF sex scandals in the 90s.

Heyman was on fire on Talking Smack, saying Roman will beat DB so badly it will make Edge shit his pants. Then saying in the 90s there were three people who dominated pro wrestling: Eric, himself, and Vince... and he's the only one still relevant enough to be on TV every week with the biggest star. Also I may be the last person on Earth to notice, but the Talking Smack logo looks so much like the one from WCW Thunder and I can't unsee it now.

Watching Smackdown now, and I guess poor Reggie got the rona

Wow, that's a good call down to the career ending neck injuries.

I know it should be taken with a grain of salt coming from Honky, but stuff like that makes me wonder if Vince actually knows anything about wrestling. How could anyone see that character and not think "easily hateable heel" immediately?

I may be getting my masked 80s WWF jobbers mixed up, but wasn't Mr. X just Danny Davis in his pre heel ref days?

Not to mention if the bullying was egregious enough most courts would be loathe to punish anyone who struck back unless you were unlucky enough to draw a hardass judge.

Browsing it via my cable box, it doesn't seem that much different from the old Network interface, other than they have a section for TV shows/movies the Rock was in like episodes of SNL so that was neat in a corporate synergy way.

ROH probably has come up with the best way it could be done with how they brought back the Pure title and pretty much treat that as the "real sports" section of the show. Plus we've seen in UFC where sometimes they bypass the matchups based on rankings with ones that would be more entertaining and/or more marketable. Even real sports know you can't book strictly on records,

Also I can't wait for the usual suspects to start crying about "cancel culture" when the inevitable backlash occurs when you have an avowed racist host a major show.

Best reply I saw was someone saying that between large crowds and having a racist host, WWE has gone peak Florida. I mean, this really comes off as a troll job on their part. They laud Titus for all the great work he does and then pair him up with Mr. "fucking n-words" to host Wrestlemania.

I would guess it's probably a combination of building availability and the WWF's traditional territory of the Northeast US having a winter that could last until March in some places.

I guess what I don't understand is that the people who get the most bent out of shape over star ratings are largely two distinct groups: Purists who know what the deal is when it comes to what Dave rates highly and should know better by now, and the people who are largely Corny/Uncle Eric stans who have seemingly shaped their self worth on shitting on Dave.

Looks like he's fallen into the Phantom Zone of Really Talented People WWE Has No Idea What To Do With. At least he can hang out with Andrade while he's there.

True, but since the WWF was pushing closed circuit TV (PPV wasn't really a thing yet) it was competition for all the other shows. So every market would have been their local show trying to run against Wrestlemania.

Interesting to think there was a lot of hand wringing about having too many shows on Mania weekend. when 1986 you had the top four promotions in the US running major shows all within a month of each other.

In Vince's mind he's probably still the guy who couldn't do a southern accent.

It's been pointed out that the Raw archive goes back to 2008, aka the start of the PG Era. Not sure if that means the TV 14 rated stuff is going to get more scrutiny.