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Absolutely, but it scares me sometimes how much he wants to prove he's the same person after the neck injury. I'm not saying he needs to become completely mat based but the whole "taking spots on the neck just to show he can" needs to go.

Jay White tweeted a pic from an airplane not too long ago so I assume he went back to Japan and will be returning as soon as the quarantine time is over. Hopefully he spent the down time at home since New Zealand did a pretty good job managing things.

Normally yes, but because the season was so delayed and Americans are so starved for sports I would expect baseball to get a longer bump than usual. Plus baseball is the only game in town for a few weeks since NBA and NHL playoffs don't start for another week or so and football doesn't start until September. So sports deprived folks here are going to be mainlining all the baseball they can get.

Corbin has potential as a midcard dick heel that terrorizes the jobbers but ends up losing to the top guys.

Dude had the one good match Bray Wyatt ever had, so while I agree it's an uphill battle the dude is no stranger to attempting the impossible. There were some signs of long term planning being set up, which would have been an improvement, but yes there was a lot of wishful thinking being placed on those first few weeks.

My personal favorite is when people refuse to admit Vince has final say on Smackdown when they do something they like. When SD is good, it's because it's the stepchild Vince ignores and when it's bad it's because Vince is paying too much attention.

This would seem to be a good place to remember the old quote of keeping an open mind about what things work. If something you don't think will work ends up working you just learned something else that does in fact work. This is why I (and I would imagine others too) give AEW more of a pass on things. They aren't afraid to try things and see what works. Not sure I would have thought having a wacky backstage brawl complete with guys tossing meat at each other was the best idea, but it turns out it worked so it's on me to realize that.

So the end of the Bucks vs Butcher/Blade garnered over a million viewers. Wasn't expecting that to be such a hit, but here we are.

This seems like pretty good news. I'd wager Bryan has been helping out with SD for a while and this just makes it official. He's one of the best I've ever seen at getting people over and that's something WWE sorely needs. Edge has always been a pretty creative guy, so this gives him an outlet for that which doesn't involve him risking his own body. I get the vibe from him that he's the type of guy who doesn't think others can understand his art (see how butthurt he got over the Mania match), so I expect Twitter rants in the future if whatever his pitches doesn't get lavish praise.

Vince wanting folks to finish their dates with other promoters is a relatively new concept, mainly because they wanted to avoid the bad PR of "mean WWE trying to shut down the indies". Far cry from the territory days when he'd give folks who were on their way a little extra to no show their last few dates with the old company on their way out.

Looks like Eddie = Ratings. Sign the man, Tony.

He'd end up R-Truth's wacky pal E-King, and that's assuming he'd even make it to the main roster. Also the shot of the front row recoiling in horror at the sight of tacks being poured in the ring did more to put that spot over than anything WWE has done in decades.

That Adam Cole thing is weird. If it's a work, what is it building? No one wants to see Pat McAfee actually have a match. If it's real it makes Cole look like a thinned skinned bitch who was extremely gotten to by Pat fucking McAfee.

Seeing shirtless Killian Dain on NXT made me wonder if George Steele knew he had family in the UK.

Diamante came across as better in every way in that match.

Yeah that's the standard test for someone you are concerned might be a problem: have them do a job and see if they flip out.

I just saw it as them beating WWE to the punch in running another Mae Young Classic.

That's how you kick off a show, god damn,

Having angry NOD Farooq style Ron Simmons with MVP's crew would be workable* (not that I'd trust WWE to do it right), but not the guy who's spent the last decade plus showing up just to say DAMN at random backstage foolishness. *So far MVP's group has been characterized as the Grown Ass Men seeking to put the youngin's in their place. There could be a way to make Ron Simmons work for that in the hands of someone not in a constant state of horniness for the late 90s.

The truly funny part is they moved Orton/Show off of Extreme Rules to Raw just to pop a rating.

Big E not even getting the token (no pun intended) "tag team guy gets a shot at the title" match seems criminal to me. How do you have a guy that full of charisma and not strap all the rockets on him?

The funny thing I thought the same, then when I saw they had a similar looking belt I thought she returned it. Then I noticed it was gold and not silver like the other Impact belts and I had suspicions.

Hilarity would ensue for sure, like the last time she was there during one of the Mae Young Classics where she managed to Tessa herself out of getting signed then.

So apparently the plan for Summerslam is to do Drew vs Orton and I'm afraid I might fall asleep before finishing this sentence.

Sounds like when Americans try to understand someone Scottish. In theory they're speaking English but in reality they sound like someone falling down a flight of stairs.