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As someone who's best friends in grade school where identical twins who HATED being asked "which one are you", I felt Jey's promo on another level.

Afa and Sika may both be in their mid 70s but they both look like bad dudes.

It's so awkward that everyone has to act like Sami just took the last six months off for shits and giggles. It either makes everyone seem stupid for not acknowledging the obvious, or it makes Sami wanting to avoid covid a heel move.

He also mentioned some main roster folks were affected as well, and that it all started from one of the coaches being lax with the safety procedures which is another ringing endorsement of the system they got running there. Taz was right after all, the seem to actually run a sloppy shop.

So apparently the whole "Fandango pitches a weird tournament format to Regal" deal on NXT came from someone (or some number of folks) being part of the covid outbreak and having to redo what was probably going to be a more normal tournament.

Ben Carter announced he got a positive covid test, which is pretty much on par for 2020.

It's a fun arcade-y type game, the only downside is that a lot of the roster is locked behind grindy 2K bullshit designed to make you want to pay extra to buy their fake currency to unlock faster.

Props to Thunder Rosa for the Animal homage face paint.

Our man @C.S. will be happy to know his main man Mauro does the commentary on the WWE Battlegrounds game.

Worldwide for sure. Any US teams would be far behind them. Might make an argument for some teams in Japan, but I don't think there's ever been a team that's been able to draw in both countries like the Roadies.

Well Big Lance's case seems to have come out of nowhere, probably from an asymptomatic family member.

So according to Dave, NXT had to be redone for tonight due to COVID-mania running wild at the PC.

100% this. Road Warriors matches, even squashes, were an event for sure. The look, the music, the promos, the Doomsday Device finish.....all of it was amazing to see.

A rule of thumb is if Heyman is involved he has creative control over the story. It's funny to think how much he and Vince butt heads, and even when Vince just threw him under the bus, he still lets Paul book his own angles. Yeah, but if WWE is finally going to book the guy the way people have been dying for YEARS to see it's going to get a positive response. It still floors me that a company that chases the ratings dragon like WWE does (they practically ruined NXT to pop a one week rating) blew up the Bayley/Sasha pairing that was drawing across three different shows.

I honestly believe Dio Madden has the charisma to make something like this work in theory, but I'm not sure any one person alone can make this work unless one of them has secret Rock levels of charisma that haven't been unlocked yet.

Hunter made a similar sale not too long ago, makes you wonder what they are planning on using that money for. In b4 Steph just cuts Brock a personal check to keep his salary off the books or the comapny, lol.

Reading Renee's goodbye letter was eye opening on how everyone in that company lives and dies on getting Vince's approval. Like rovert mentioned, Vince will see a gimmick failure as a fault of the performer and not of it being a stupid idea, so no one wants to be the one to fall into disfavor and get sentenced to a life of catering and/or endless Main Event duty. And those already cast in that lot will do whatever they can to escape it. So the cycle continues.

If they go full Telenovela with Rey/Seth, they need to bring in that lady who slaps the shit out of everyone to teach them how to work.

I suppose there's contracts in place with Full Sail that keep them taping there, but yes all that crew in a small enclosed location + questionable social distancing practices (in fucking Florida to boot) means this will keep happening. WWE looking to run in outdoor locations when the THUNDERDOME deal is up might be the best way to go (other than, y'know, actually not running).

Looks like NXT is dealing with another COVID outbreak (number 3 now!) that has been said to have an significant effect on creative. Guess that's why they haven't announced the rest of the people in the gauntlet match.

Tons of DQ finishes, faction run ins, show ending brawls.....did......did WWE hire back Russo at some point?

It must really suck to have to wear those masks while wrestling. Especially that hockey mask Shane Thorne is stuck with.

So far, yes Riddick Moss has been more interesting in the Underground. Tino got the boot due to to too many injuries for his age (37).

Also why is Liv sporting those bedazzled teardrops under her eyes? Did she murder someone in a Claire's?

Man, they're trying but I don't buy Zelina as a credible threat for a second. Asuka can, will, and should snap her in two with no effort.