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Lana out here with the female equivalent to the Canadian Tuxedo.

I love how the official name for Orton/Edge is "Some Are Calling it The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever".

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That's what *should* happen, but at this point I'll believe it when I see it.

Not to mention Bianca has been officially moved to Raw and has done exactly nothing since being called up other than show up when the Street Profits won the tag titles.

I think Rhea is dead after that moonsault.

Todd Pettingill looks like a post-chemo Garry Shandling.

I turned a corner on him. I thought it was too corny when he debuted, but I'm 100% on board now.

State flag of Florida.

Looks like a set.

It's cinematic, brother.

LOL'd at Velveteen Negan.

This match reminds me of something from like UFC 1 or some shit with the difference in size.

Mexico's not letting people travel yet, and Tessa's been in Tijuana since it all went down.

Ol' Scooter has always been that way, saying things wrong authoritatively so they sound correct. I'm not even saying he does it on purpose, I think he just assumes a lot of things and never bothers to make sure he's right. It's one of the (many) reasons people tended to make fun of him back in the day. There's still some things stated as fact to this day on the pro wrestling interwebs that everyone just assumes were true that started off as Keith-isms.

Doesn't seem fair to rate them based on their WWE main roster work when we've seen what they can do in a different environment. It would be like grading the Rock solely on his Blue Chipper Rocky days (not to say they are at the level of the Rock but you know what I mean).

Thats the thing with labeling people like Lio and ACH as immature, if they were trying to do things the right way and ran into endless roadblocks, who can blame them for getting so frustrated that they lash out?

Dave was mentioning on Twitter that it's going over like a lead balloon with a lot of the people in WWE. Like everyone knows you support Trump, but you aren't part of his admin anymore and don't need to blatantly lick boots in public to appease him anymore. Especially this week. Learn to read the room and STFU.

Lio has his issues, but if someone doesn't feel comfortable being a lackey for the boys (especially someone who's black) then the company should respect that. If Aleister is ok with it then fine, but the expectation shouldn't be that anyone *has* to do it. Not to mention that race aside, the whole "dues paying" idea is some carny bullshit that should have stopped generations ago but it's one of those things that live on because people feel if they were treated shitty then the next group in should be made to as well.

I was just thinking, I hope Bryan gets a cut of Gulak's new WWE contract. He made that dude so much money.

Wow.....Chris Hyatte is someone I used to be a fan of if for no other reason he took it a lot less serious than a lot of the other IWC "names" of the day. Comparisons to Howard Stern were apt, yeah he could be crass and sometimes cross lines, dude was really damn good at what he did. I always saw him as a Hunter S. Thompson type myself, his columns where always an adventure where you never were quite sure which way they'd go next. I always wondered whatever became of him, I figured he'd be someone we'd never hear of again since his style was very much one of the time it lived in. He was always very much aware of that, I recall his last columns reflecting that both he and times have changed, and that his style really no longer had a place anymore. Finding out what happened hits me hard. Not only does my family have a history of diabetes, my mom spent the last years of her life on dialysis and trust and believe that *sucks* to have to live with basically forever. Choosing to take matters into your own hands and ending it on your own terms is such a difficult thing to do, but when I thought about it....it was really the most Hyatte way it could have ended.

I would kind of agree that it's hard to make a surprising debut nowadays since more people (and certainly a lot of AEW's base) are far more aware of who's coming and going than back in the day. Impactful is another story. I would say both Jericho and Moxley's debuts were impactful and helped both their own careers and their company's prospects.

I was too until he started doing the same "I'M BACK AND I'M TIRED OF BEING DISRESPECTED" shtick that Sheamus *just* did like a month ago when he came back. It was like either the Random Storyline Generator pooped out the same idea twice in a row or they can't be bothered to come up with anything else for an ex champion coming back from a long layoff.

The outrage is for the obvious "releasing people during a pandemic is fucked up" reasons and also because it was completely unnecessary since WWE was set to have the most financially successful year ever even after Covid shut things down. Also someone (Bix maybe?) did the math and the money they are saving running TV from the PC more than offset the cost of paying everyone they let got. There are some companies that had to let people go to survive, which sucks but at least is defensible. WWE fired a bunch of people for basically no reason seemingly to get rid of people who had the nerve to either want to leave or ask for more money at some point. So yeah, TL;DR WWE's pandemic firings were worse than most since they were completely unnecessary.

Yes, the heel has to make sure that he's better than you, and you should know it.