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Billy Mitchell is a better heel to be fair. (for those who don't know he was caught using emulation to get some of his arcade records, and when they were thrown out he sued Twin Galaxies arcade over it.)

Somewhere JJ has a tear of pride seeing Tully cheat to win.

You can probably infer by who appears on the show who's affected or at least adjacent to people that were.

He was also running Bar Wrestling, so *maybe* income from that plus what he was earning from his own bookings adds up to that.

Hopefully there will be some lawyers willing to do some pro bono work for them. You'd think "defending sexual assault victims from a lawsuit brought by the assaulter" would be something a lawyer would want to have on the resume. Especially since any lawyer worth their salt could easily turn it around on him and put him on the hook for court costs at the very least.

A huge difference in ages, especially when the man is older, is a red flag for grooming behavior. Also the whole deal with the company just recently having an issue with at least two known cases of talent reaching out to teenagers online and do this kind of angle right now is extra gross because it comes off as the company endorsing those folks' behavior.

Honestly I think at first she was just trying to help with the storyline since it's public knowledge she used to date Murphy and they seem to still be friends. Then she saw the reaction was less "boo this heel" and more "holy shit is WWE really pushing a storyline with a 19 year old and a 32 year old" and had to backtrack quickly. Plus it seems like "blame the fans" is a terminal condition for anyone who works for WWE.

Changes afoot per the NJPW english site, Harold Meij is out as CEO to be replaced by NJPW America CEO Takami Ohbari.

Reports at the time made it sound like it was 100% going to be a relationship angle, and all known info on Vince would suggest people's reaction to this is going to make him want to push it even more in that direction.

Considering WWE's real life issues it's an even worse look to position the 19 year old as the instigator.

Yeah they had NXT trainees and extras around the ring on Underground. They most likely all got quarantined at least.

I'm sure he'd gladly do it but WWE doesn't want anyone over a certain age taking bumps after Lawler almost died on live TV.

lol

Man this story is like Shane fighting Test to defend the honor of Steph's hoo-ha or something.

Not to mention if you want to avoid the creepy connotation of Murphy macking on a 19 year old, the last fucking person you want to put in this story is Jerry Lawler.

Didn't they have to replace all the CFO$ themes? I would assume his old one was one of those.

Randy saying he doesn't have to beg anyone and that he'll get another title match because he's Randy Orton was refreshing (if not unintentional) honesty in WWE booking at least.

Man, I didn't see any bad acting in that whole segment. Roman was legit scary at times, especially when he was yelling at Lil Naitch to back off because he's handling family business. Jimmy coming out on his busted knee because his brother wouldn't give up despite getting mauled is classic pro wrestling emotional engagement. I can grant you that perhaps they drew it out too long, after all WWE is gonna WWE and they have proven they can't help themselves when it comes to sledgehammering the plot points over people's heads. It was still some of the best business they've done in a long long time though.

I mean, the tribal chief stuff is part of their actual culture so calling it cringy comes off as not understanding it.

Dave's update was Nikki/Shayna/Nia was more of a situation where they may have been exposed to someone with covid and being held out to be safe rather than being sick themselves. Also confirmed that Garza is believed to have a torn quad.

Bryan mentioned on the post ppv Bryan and Vinny Show that the word backstage was Angel injured his quad.

They mighta just fucked around and made Jey a big star with him going out on his shield (no pun intended).

This is like current era version of Ric Flair vs Ricky Morton. Top star vs guy from one of the best tag teams.

HBK getting his revenge for Orton exposing his bald spot on national TV.

Think Garza blew out a knee there, he looked hurt tagging out. I guess the ref called an audible there.