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It looked that way.

Keith Lee vs Big BOB, some real meat slapping potential here!

I love how this is all supposed to be some galaxy brain plan to make Lana a babyface, but they still portray her as completely incapable of winning unless someone is there to save her.

Pretty sure Dragon Lee wants to stay since it allows him to work New Japan when that becomes something that is possible to do again.

My bad, I started a thread at the same time....was afraid maybe you had to move into a bunker. Also WWE turning Riddle kicking off his flip flops into a slo-mo spot is just *chefs kiss*

The Hurt Business are some suave dressing motherfuckers.

I mean, even if somehow AEW crashes and burns I would think Kenny would deserve entry based on taking New Japan to the next level. Folks were fearing a return to the dark ages when AJ and Nak left, but Kenny not only stepped in admirably but took the business higher. (also I don't expect AEW to go anywhere unless the Khan family somehow manage to get Enron'ed out of their nearly 8 billion dollar worth)

So Dave mentioned on the Survivor Series recap show that he wants to create a new award for the Observer Award called the Shad Gaspard Award that is basically his version of WWE's Warrior Award only not named after a shithead. Essentially wants to honor someone in wrestling for doing good things outside of the ring.

I feel like this is what we got. The show was overall pretty good I thought, but there's not much they could build off of other than the Uso/Roman stuff. The Lana deal seemed like a rib after they just premiered a doc about her being bullied, but at least they made Bianca look like a badass for taking it to the submission monster who's killed everyone she's gone against. I'm glad WWE is over the "Sasha loses her singles titles quickly" kick they were on, and had a great match in the process. Perhaps she can carry Carmella to something worthwhile after all. It was also funny seeing them trying to put over Drew's mega sword over as a family heirloom when he already did an interview saying Vince gave it to him. Or maybe that was meant to be an inside joke when they said his grandfather gave it to him. Speaking of Vince, I was shocked to see everyone's reaction to him, he's looked this bad/old for a while now and it didn't seem like it was any worse. Perhaps people just forget how he looks now since he does keep himself off TV pretty much all the time now. I'm sure he was only out there because the Taker character is clearly important to him and one of his all time favorites.

I'm pretty sure she asked to go back to NXT. Her injury was so bad it was thought to be career ending for a while, and I seem to recall her wanting to go back to NXT to make sure she didn't go back to WWE Main Rosterland all rusty and out of timing in ring wise.

He did say WWF.

That was a nice little tag match, I dig the "power guy/flying guy" teams like the Street Profits.

Montez is like the greatest hype man who ever lived.

New Day in their Gears of War DLC outfits is hype

It did put over Lee as a beast, and it might lead to something with Uso/Roman/Heyman. But yea, it was mostly establishing Raw as the superior brand.

Holy shit, Otis powering over Keith Lee for the belly-to-belly is one of the most impressive looking things I've seen in a while.

Vince probably thinks he's a pussy because he didn't want to work in an environment that would give him COVID.

AJ in this match is reminding me of when my son got off the bus at the wrong school on his second day of kindergarden and ended up with the big kids.

I can get behind Otis and Keith Lee having a BIG MEN SLAPPIN MEAT encounter.

OK, Braun knocking over the whole SD team like bowling pins made me chuckle.

It doesn't help that they gave him a bodyguard who's a legit 7'3, anyone not Shaq is gonna look like Marko next to the big man. Also adding each brand's TV network to the back of the shirts answers the question "how can they possibly make this feel less organic and more corporate trying to 'make fetch happen' ".

I have no idea what Billie Kay is supposed to be doing with this headshot/resume deal, but she seems to be a student of the Ron Killings "making dumb shit work" school.

I don't know about anyone else, but that Lana doc they did rubs me the wrong way. Yes people were/are mean to her online but this company has been fucking with her and her husband for YEARS (to the point where he left the company) which seems like it would be the much larger source of emotional distress.

Mike Bennett made his return this week, running in at the end to save Matt Taven from a beatdown. Interesting that ROH is stating all the titles will be defended at Final Battle, considering the World title (Rush) the TV title (Dragon Lee) and the six man titles (Bandido, Flamita, and Rey Horus) are all held by folks that might have some issue making it in the country. Especially if the expected post Thanksgiving covid boom happens.

So the most charitable explanation is most likely along the lines of this guy was one of DDP's projects and he was doing some kind of tough love deal to help him shape up. Agree that in any case it should be fully investigated, but honestly this guy shows all the signs of the typical shithead who pulls the "it was just a prank bro" when called out on it. That doesn't mean the guy should be bullied or gaslit of course, but after his true character apparently got revealed I'm hesitant to go on his word alone.