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Considering he's from a country that has done a much better job handling things, I'm not surprised he's getting fed up.

It's been one of their long standing mindfucks to keep telling the talent that there's an open door and to pitch ideas, yet they will never go with any ideas they didn't come up with. Worse,. they will often take ideas talent pitch to them and give them to someone else as if it was their idea.

WWE having another outbreak makes me think of the (unfortunately) evergreen Onion headline every time there's another mass shooting in the US: "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" '

They are in the running but haven't officially signed her. Probably didn't want to step on Billy's toes while he was letting them use her on their show.

Serena Deeb just won the NWA women's title tonight, Dave mentioned WWE is interested in Thunder Rosa. Can't wait for her to tear it up in NXT then become the token woman in a stable on the main roster they'll lose interest in and job out in weeks.

With that, Impact officially is the best promotion in history.

Say what you will about why this title exists, there's no doubt this is one sweet ass belt.

I think it's a case of jumping to the conclusion it was supposed to be some kind of seizure since the truth was way more stupid.

Apparently internally WWE sees the Fiend as a babyface.

No one's trying to cancel you bro, teaching sex as only between husband and wife doesn't stop predator behavior, it only abuses the woman further because then they are slut shamed for having sex outside marriage. Source: every society where that has been been attempted.

Seems like not being a sexual predator to the point you make it your wrestling gimmick would be a good way to avoid "twitter social justice warriors" , but that's just me. Also the Twitter mobs have a better track record of dealing with sexual predators than the justice system at this point. Which is fucked up on its own, but doesn't mean Joseph here is innocent.

To be fair to Cody, the context was being asked about the similarity between Kylie's character and Bayley's hugger gimmick and the point he was trying to make is that AEW would do better than WWE did.

WWE doesn't seem to care about Riddle's issues. Hell, they even had it mentioned as a throwaway line in a promo. Personally, I'd put him on ice until the lawsuit is settled, but if he's going to put people over I'd rather it not be a 15 year veteran with spinal stenosis.

Also as much as I don't particularly want to see it, at least Orton vs Bray makes sense kayfabe wise. He did burn the man's house down.

Sheamus over Riddle, gotta make them new stars pal!

I actually wouldn't be surprised if he did, WWE thinks highly of him and so does the USA Network since he has two shows there. Now I don't *expect* him to successfully cash in, but it wouldn't be the shock of all shocks if he does.

Laying out the Miz when he just won the MITB briefcase is certainly a WWE thing to do.

Randy Orton is solidly in that group of people I can admit are very good at professional wrestling yet I can't manage to make myself give a shit about anything they do. The match last night was good, arguably great even, but god damn is the prospect of Orton as champ again seem like a wrestling version of the movie Groundhog Day.

Also Asuka nerding out over her new VR setup is the wholesome content we need in 2020.

OGs know who's the best fit to run the business they started. Real recognize real.

I believe she had an anxiety attack prior to the first show, my personal opinion was because Cody was making comments comparing her to Bayley and inadvertently sent the crazy WWE women/Bayley specific stans after her on social media. She seems to be someone who enjoys wrestling as a balm for her mental health issues, but putting her in important positions seems to be a trigger for her (AEW was clearly going to position her as a key figure in their women's division plans and her leaving left them in a lurch). It's a difficult situation, what can a company do? She should of course be allowed to pursue her career any way she wants, but her mental health doesn't seem to be in a place that will let her be put in any featured positions. It's not fair to her to say we can't push you because of your mental health, but it's not fair to the company to not be sure they can deliver one of their featured matches on PPV either.

She apparently legit wasn't at the building, the Observer site said it was an injury not believed to be serious, but she did work indy dates this weekend. So either she hurt herself getting out of bed in the morning or Impact is trying to work some weird worked shoot deal.

True, but WWE is so ridiculously petty I half expect Vince to have his announcers take shots at him now.

The Rock inducting Ken Shamrock to the Impact HOF is certainly a 2020 thing to happen. I know he said he would do it, but I figured there'd be all sorts of politics getting in the way of it actually happening.

Yeah, I think the Bucks work better as obnoxious heels and it feels like they are doing the FTR feud because both sides teased it forever on Twitter. I've been enjoying them superkicking randos backstage and tossing wads of cash at Tony to pay the fines, and it diminishes their act since Tully is such a great old school heel and FTR are good at new school heel tactics. If we had crowds, all you had to do is have FTR basically parrot Jim Cornette promos (the anti AEW ones, not the uh.... "other" ones) and have their fanbase foaming at the mouth angry.