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I'm all in for Omos to become the 2021 Big Bubba Rogers in terms of being awesome just standing behind his dudes then (hopefully) becoming better in the ring than anyone expected.

I think Omos is wearing a whole ass cow for that leather jacket.

If they just want to beat up Riddle every week, I'm OK with that.

I suppose he's made the US title mean something for the first time in a while so there's that I guess.

Lashley is one scary strong mf.

Y'know, maybe this wasn't the best week to have Jaxson Ryker's RAW debut.

Ric putting a woman he wants to fuck ahead of his daughter seems like a "too real" type of thing, but maybe that's just me.

Gotta admit it's cracking me up that they're doing an angle where Ric Flair is the one being sexually harrassed for a change.

Drew also did a backstage promo segment with the Hulkster too, BROTHER. Anyone testing positive when they had all the elderly legends on stage together the week before is a scary situation.

It's interesting that she hates professional wrestling, yet she married a guy who's so involved in it. Like I know Conrad's main gig is his mortgage business, but he's put quite a lot into his wrestling podcast career and by all accounts he's done well financially with it. It's funny how so many folks with ties to the business, even negative ones like hers or the third generation Von Erich kids, still end up getting involved even if it's a secondary involvment.

So I pretty much agree with TTK's theory that Eric realized pretty quickly that he wasn't going to be a good fit for WWE's weird ass "free time is for pussies" corporate culture, and his description of the first several weeks being nothing but meetings is pretty much my definition of hell. I also pretty much agree with Conrad that bringing in Eric and Paul as heads of each brand was largely done to make it look like Vince was delegating so he wouldn't get sued by shareholders over running WWE and the XFL at the same time. There's no proof that would stand up in court of course, but it sure seemed like once it looked like Vince wasn't going to get sued by shareholders the idea that Eric and Paul would have any meaningful roles went way. However it cracked me up where he went from stating he hated how his 16 hour days involved lots of downtime, to stating Dave was lying when he said Eric was sitting around doing nothing (which he didn't even do in the way Eric said he did). It honestly comes off as Trumplike projecting at times, accusing others of things he himself did. Or maybe Rick James from the Chappelle show skit, I can just see Eric denying he ever dug his boots on Dave's couch before admitting that, yes he did in fact dig his boots in the couch. The rasslin' business is a hell of a drug.

It's interesting to me that WWE announced this, seeing as though prior they would be very upset at anyone announcing their status.

So if Drew has the rona, that means Keith Lee and Goldberg should be quarantining too, right?

WWE has been staying away from mentioning Trump this whole time, can't imagine they would have him do a Mania appearance now that he's incited an insurrection.

I mean if we're going to be fair a lot the issues with Kane came from him being booked in garbage like Katie Vick and electrocuting Shane's balls with jumper cables. As an actual wrestler he was a decent big man worker, and I was always impressed at how well he was able to convey emotion when he had the mask on. That's not a skill just anyone has.

Val made a turn from pothead libertarian to pothead MAGA transphobe so gradually most people didn't notice until the Nyla Rose stuff. Also most of Glenn's popularity with the boys seems to come from being a guy who was a "night off" when you worked with him.

Reminder that Glenn apparently got that rep because he read books and talked about Libertarian politics. That's pretty much the same level as someone in a first year Poly Sci college class.

Of course the obvious flaw in all these alternative ideas is believing WCW would have been able to carry out any of them without stepping on their own dicks, which they were doing at an alarming and hilarious rate at that point in time.

I'm not saying turning Goldberg heel would have been the best idea, but if you're going to make a big deal about ending the streak it works better from a psychology standpoint to have it be a babyface chasing the cocky, undefeatable heel. Otherwise you're painting yourself into a corner where you have to do some bullshit to try to "protect" the previously undefeated babyface.

IMO the best way to do it would be to have Goldberg turn heel and have a babyface chasing it like a title. Having him stay babyface made it weird since you're making it so a heel gets the "rub" unless you do some kind of wacky bullshit finish that helps no one (aka what ended up happening). Then you can do something like having DDP win on a Diamond Cutter Outta Nowhere and it works for his scrappy babyface character. The moment WCW started inflating the streak past the point of believability (they've have him getting something like 20 wins between Nitros) should have been the start of the heel turn, have someone casually mention "hey Bill, that win total seems kinda suspect", he takes offense in that "heel obviously trying to get away with something" way, and off you go. Instead you had a situation where heels in both kayfabe and IRL were racing to be the first one to beat him and the psychology was just all wrong no matter what they would have ended up doing.

The idea at the time was they were being broken up to give Peyton a singles push so it's what was *supposed* to happen. What actually happened was we found out who was the Shawn and who was the Marty.

Also how the fuck did Vince look at the IIconics and decide Peyton was the one with potential? Billie Kay does everything WWE likes about a 100 times better.

SI also does puff pieces for WWE, and while Sasha has been great this year, this is as about as legit as the heels always winning the coin toss for War Games in JCP.

I love slimy Paul getting Adam Pearce put in the gauntlet match.

Can't fault a guy for securing the bag, but man it would be sad to see him wasting prime years in the covid pit when we've seen him progress so much in NJPW. At this stage, I can't see why someone who is an established top guy that surely is getting offers from anyone would want to go to WWE unless they give him an absolutely stupid Brock level deal.