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Out of context, in that case. The topic was the most historically important matches ever and the match that basically created pro wrestling in Japan and spurred adoption of TV there is historically higher on the list than the blowoff to Hulkamania,

Cody has been adamant he will not ever challenge for the world title because he saw how being office and challenging for the title was used as a criticism of Dusty, It's why he's been so gung-ho in getting the TNT title over.

Apparently it was Don Callis.

I didn't think there was a way NXT could get me to care about Chiampa again, but I suppose having him beat up a nonce is the way to do it.

I think McAfee's crew just murdered Killian Dain, and once again I love the continuity that the parking lot is the most dangerous place in NXT.

Pat McAfee as the mouthy manager to a stable of ass kickers is my favorite WWE related thing right now.

WWE apparently dropped their claim to the Cody Rhodes name, I thought for sure we'd see him using it here.

"Slowly driven insane by months of pandemic isolation" is the perfect 2020 gimmick for Pac.

Man, Mox-Kingston.....like....all of it so far, should be shown to everyone who wants to get into wrestling to show them how you do it.

Man, it's weird how everyone knows Taz is a good promo yet it's still surprising when he comes out and cuts one like that.

I'm not sure if it's based on fact or not, but Vince was certainly under the impression Dusty didn't care for black folks which is why Virgil was named Virgil and why Dusty was paired up with and older black woman.

That just means he's more polite about it, lol.

Jericho tries to present his show as a more educated Joe Rogan Podcast where he's just presenting different viewpoints that he doesn't necessarily endorse, but he's clearly right leaning at best and closet MAGA brained at worse. I can buy Rogan's just a curious dope who doesn't challenge the people he interviews, Jericho is purposefully pretending to be that to have plausible deniability when he has someone particularly odious on his show.

I mean, yeah, but that's been a Vince trademark forever. Look at how Terry Taylor went from an up and coming young babyface pushed as a draw for young female fans to being turned into an all time career ending gimmick. He turned One Man Gang into an embarrassingly racist gimmick just to make fun of the competition's booker, then ended up signing the guy they were making fun of to try to humiliate him too.

To the vast majority of folks Vince is just the wacky rasslin man who tried to run a football league and is BFFs with Trump. Plus while I expect it to be covered because it would be too obvious a whitewash to ignore completely, I fully expect anything involving the sex/steroid scandals to be boiled down to "the government had it out for poor small businessman Vince and his family company".

Well there's an image more horrifying than anything election day can bring.

WWE producing = they control the narrative = not worth watching IMO.

Knowing Vince, I would pretty much guarantee he felt Smothers and Anthony were too "southern rasslin'' but at the same time realized they were the type of guys the competition at the time could use to program potential new stars with. I suppose Vince might have felt some kind of threat from Smoky Mountain being bankrolled by a famous record producer, as he tends to when he thinks there's someone who might be able to compete with him financially.

Not only that, but he was also presumably with the Bachelorette girl (or at least he was pursuing her) after proposing as well. I know his gimmick is that he's a lothario, but they do it so heavy handed (like everything in WWE) it comes off as comedy.

Good lord, putting her in a match with Nia? They really are trying to kill Lana.

Lord, we're going to do the endless "MITB guy attempts to cash in but is thwarted" deal again.

Aussie Rules was always my go to 2am TV appointment viewing. Also apparently the real Tony Modra is none to happy over these developments.

As someone who's wife battles with anxiety on a regular basis, I can sympathize with how much it sucks for someone like her who is really good at a thing that also seems to be a trigger for her. I wouldn't be surprised if she popped up on an indie show here and there occasionally, wresters never fully retire until they die after all, but it's clear at this point that working for a major promotion just isn't in the cards for her. At least it's been nice to see people in the business supporting her on social media, if nothing else as a reminder that sometimes pro wrestling as an industry isn't always complete shit.

I for one am kind of looking forward to the familiar predictability of RAW continually stepping on their own dicks before the hellscape that gets unleashed tomorrow. I kind of feel like a condemned man at peace with his fate and in full "fuck it, lets see what happens" mode.

I'll never get why Billy Travis got pushed as much as he did. Jeff is understandable for obvious reasons and he at least eventually grew into his push, but Billy was Just A Guy his entire career but always seemed to have a role higher on the card than his talent would seem to warrant.