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As part of the whole working agreement, Moose should come out and confront Big Swole for jacking the cadence of his theme song for hers.

Rap Battle Kaz is not a thing I was expecting to ever see on my TV. 2020 contains multitudes.

Rosa/Britt = money

Griff Garrison looks so much like Chris Jericho circa 1993 I half expect to find out he's secretly his son.

Well hey, congrats to Cody and Brandi.

Wardlow is off the show due to family issues, so the mega tag match is now a 12 man instead of a 14 man (Brandon Cutler was taken off the other team).

Pretty sure he stated (or at least made it clear by how he mentioned it) that being asked to make a cancer joke about Roman was the precise moment his mind flipped the switch to "fuck this place".

Yeah Roman can Mitch McConnell shit for the next 3 years and it would be justified IMO.

IIRC the backstory Heyman gave as part of the angle of him being close to the family was legit, so it was probably a combination of that and Roman knowing that WWE usually lets Paul book angles he's involved in with minimal interference. Normally I'm not a fan of political maneuvering in wrestling, but if Roman did get Bray sent to Raw I don't mind it. This version of Roman having to deal with Firefly Funhouse nonsense would be a criminal offense.

I wonder if the Good Brothers will show up with Kenny tonight.

It has created quite the interesting situation where ROH/CMLL/New Japan work together, Impact works with AEW and AAA, and if Impact can be the one to bring both sides together it would be like some modern-day 70s NWA shit. If New Japan is over it's bad feelings with Impact, hopefully they can start to work with AEW more than just having Mox and Jericho on one or two shows.

It's just so ridiculous that we had to go through all this Lana stuff for weeks, and once they had an obvious payoff in sight, then they pull her out of the match the week of the show.

Yeah I'd expect Charlotte to be savvy to not waste her big return as a last minute replacement on a B level PPV.

Yeah that was a solid angle to close the show and set up a hell of a kickoff for 2021. Interesting that they would mention the Bullet Club by name knowing how New Japan feels about Impact. I wonder if that was okayed ahead of time or if Kenny figured he'd worry about smoothing any ruffled feathers later.

When the Good Brothers did their "I can't believe we re signed with WWE instead of leaving" tour, they talked with the Bucks where they laid out what the plan would have been had they showed up on Dynamite. It was heavily implied that AJ was going to be with them when it happened.

Which is funny because AJ is solidly in the "guy getting the large payday for stuff he did years ago" phase of his career since by all accounts he was supposed to do the Lex Luger spot on the debut episode of Dynamite but WWE gave him a stupidly large offer to stay.

I mean, I can honestly see picking Mauro over most of the people they nominated.....but Tony? Maybe it's my particular brand of nostalgia goggles since he was one of my childhood wrestling voices, but voting against Tony in 2020 is like kicking puppies.

I love how Randy has tried to murder Bray multiple times now in WWE canon.

I suppose at least it's a payoff to the "everyone always interrupts Elias" gimmick.

Boo, Elias's racist flunky gets to be on Raw now.

It could be just my recollection of the time, but it seems like the early/mid 80s had jobbers/midcarders who had been around forever by that point. Of course they weren't being featured either.

It really shouldn't be understated how much better Impact became when Don and Scott realized the best thing to do is stay in their lane and embrace their place as the company people may not stay at forever, but are free to do whatever wacky shit they want while they're here. If AEW is "WCW if they never sold to Turner and remained run by the Crocketts", Impact is the modern heir to Memphis and their mix of serious stuff and wacky bullshit. Like other places try to do it, but Impact is the place where they make it work better than anywhere else.

I thought Josh and Callis were a good team in the before COVID times. I don't think he's the best announcer or anything but Josh is way better when he was trying to be the discount Heel Michael Cole he was doing before. Him and Madison have that Gorilla and Bobby vibe where they bicker but you know deep down they like each other (obviously in Josh and Madison's case).

I would disagree that the Mauro we saw in WWE was heavily produced though. I'm sure he was initially because that's what WWE does, but they treated him with such a hands off approach once his mental issues started cropping up. I'd wager what we saw in NXT especially was 100% pure uncut Mauro. I doubt he was being produced to take over the show to the point anyone else announcing with him would have to fight each other just to get a word in. Beth Phoenix is seemingly stuck in "I LOVE LAMP" mode permanently now from having to yell over Mauro to be heard on commentary.

I thought it was interesting that the Marvel gimmicks were played by Lio Rush, Brian Cage, Daga, and Taurus. AAA is the one promotion in the world that needs crowds the most, but I thought the show was as good as it could be given the circumstances. The women's match was a mess, but considering the Copa Triplemania is usually a full out Royal Rumble style match with men/women/minis/exoticos I get the feeling that this was a "plans changed" deal and they just said fuck it and did whatever the could. Also we can add "saving Monster Clown's life" to LA Park's list of accomplishments by doing what he could to get under him on that ill advised dive.