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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.

Liv out here looking like Beetlejuice. Also wow they must really be mad at Miro going to AEW, Lana gets tabled again.

Yes, the company who hides multiple folks in NXT for inappropriate contact with teens is gonna run an angle where Seth's lackey hooks up with a 19 year old.

Dolph fighting in an underground club while wearing what appears to be purple or pink colored Chucks is so on brand for him.

Truly one of the great mysteries. Like how their production packages are by far the best wrestling has ever seen when they put effort into it, but their actual shows are endless vertigo simulators.

Silliness aside, Dijak and Dio could be a pretty cool monster tag team.

Alistair out here doing the Austin Idol-Jerry Lawler ball crushing spot right in front of the King!

IMO it's worse how they use fans taking up for her on social media as a talking point for heels in promos. Like how dare she spark something in folks that make them want to see her succeed.

btw why would WWE reward the group terrorizing them for weeks with a contract?

BANEJAKOVIC

Konnan enjoying a night out with his two young nephews.

Right, but now more than ever WWE is built specifically to make sure no one particular person is a large enough draw they can't be replaced. I feel like modern WWE wrestlers get graded on standards that no longer exist. How can we determine if, say Drew or Keith Lee, are draws anymore?

Right, but I hear a lot of people stating "he's just working to get heat" as a defense of his nonsense but even if he is he attracts fans who are decidedly not. So at that point, even if he doesn't believe his own bullshit he's surrounded by people who do.

I can see WWE not wanting to sign her considering they shy away from anyone who has any history of medical issues like that.

One thing I've seen mentioned that I tend to agree with: if we're going to hold folks to the same standards of drawing ability, then no one from the post PPV WWE era can ever be elected to the WON HOF ever again. We're lucky if we know the non Mania PPV numbers anymore, so who's to know if anyone is ever a draw anymore? I suppose you can look at week to week TV bumps, but it's not like you can look at buyrates anymore and clearly show that wrestler X added this many buys to the show. In a company where the directive is the BRAND is the draw rather than any one person, how can anyone be considered a Hall of Famer by the standards set by the Observer?

Is she even still active? I thought she retired due to health issues a while ago.

Jimmy Jacobs did an interview describing the weirdness of being on the writing team and how he once got heat for wearing a pink tie to a writing team meeting during breast cancer awareness month. He summed it up by saying he enjoyed working for WWE but hated working for Vince. I just don't get the appeal of working for this company unless you can be like Brock and get paid millions and be able to tell Vince to fuck off.

So I suppose Corny did a segment doing a contest to name the Joey Janela/Sonny Kiss team, and no surprise pretty much all the replies are homophobic and transphobic bullshit. If he's just working a gimmick, it's one that is quickly attracting a lot of the types he normally would rant against when he gets political.

I don't think it's the stiffness as much as the no selling to the point she made Orange Cassidy look like 1998 HBK. When someone with her rep does stuff like that, they aren't going to get any benefit of the doubt whatsoever, fair or not.

The wrestlers there are a *lot* closer to actual independent contractors though. They usually allow their talent to take other bookings and don't try to control folks to the ridiculous degree Vince does. But yes, it would effect all companies if wrestlers were to ever get properly categorized.