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JR dropping a "Bucks of Youth" reference, which is Broken Matt's name for the Bucks.

They sure know to open a show, this match has the crowd heated already.

"Teddy Hart arrested on drug charges" coming in as a strong contender for Least Surprising Headline of 2020.

My guess is Roode is just there for cannon fodder so guys they have plans for don't have to take an L. Just like I assume Braun is there to do big man spots (maybe smash one of the pods), and Bryan's there to make everyone look good.

My guess is "Roman is obviously winning, so lets throw some people in there with him to at least make the match entertaining". The question is if I'm Roman and I get told my program is going from Corbin to Bray does he ask Vince "did I piss you off at some point bro?".

I tend to agree with DMJ, as interesting as the angle was it did come off as them having to shoehorn someone in the Ronda spot at the last minute to me as well. Also agree that they need to come up with better fake blood since once Becky was rolling all over the mat the "blood stains" looked extremely fake.

The whole Garza family is pretty fun to watch. For some reason we get Multimedios (a Monterrey TV station) on our cable package here and was able to watch Ulitmo Ninja (Humberto) and Hijo del Ninja (Angel Garza) almost from the start of their careers. Both were pretty good, but Angel was definitely the one with the star potential. He even was on a Bachelor-like reality show where he dropped his mask voluntarily since he was so good looking and had charisma.

That Orton segment was fantastic. Best non-Broken Universe Matt Hardy promo I can remember in a long time, if not ever. Works to both write off Matt from WWE since its apparent he's leaving, and furthers Randy's new sadistic murderer of careers gimmick.

Team Thicc Boys vs Seth and his Minions would be a great feud to logically build a Wargames type match towards, if they still bothered to do such things instead of shoehorning it into a themed PPV show.

I suppose that's a possibility but WWE has been angling to be the first non football event in the new LA stadium pretty much from the point the construction started.

Dave mentioned in the daily update that the location for next years Mania will be made tomorrow, and while he wasn't allowed to say where it was yet it's "where everyone expected it to be in 2021 or 2022" which I take to mean the new stadium in Los Angeles that the Rams and Chargers will be playing in.

I saw it pointed out elsewhere, but it's funny that the new XFL is the AEW of pro football. A billionare owner willing to put up with years of losses to be able to compete with an industry leader he feels has grown lame and stale.

It's obvious the key this time around Vince hired actual football people to run things instead of having WWE people try to do both. You can tell things were drawn up by folks familiar with what football fans would accept and make changes based on that instead of being all sports-entertainery.

MJF is the wrestling equivalent of an athlete in "real sports" who has all the tools and talent but lacks the seasoning needed to go to the next level. I have much more faith he can reach his potential in an environment like AEW as opposed to one where everything unique about him gets painstakingly scripted away until he's another indistinguishable cog in the machine. Will he step up and deliver the performance of a lifetime at the PPV? Nothing's certain of course, but considering the mindset of the people involved I wouldn't bet against it.

Not to mention Goldberg matches are best when they are kept as short as possible. No one wanted to see him go 10+ minutes in 1998 let alone 2020.

I would think there's something you could do with EC3 as a babyface. He has tons of charisma, and since the in-ring is the weakest part of his game he can do a program where some heel bumps all over the place for him.

Another UFC PPV, another day of people calling in to my workplace asking how they can order it. ESPN is kind of doing a shit job making it clear people have to sign up for a proprietary streaming service to watch these shows, and it becomes my job to educate these people who then get pissed at me because they can't order it directly on their TVs. Don't yell at me buddy, I may be a bald white guy but I'm not the one who made this deal.

*one apathetic thumbs up*

Also the point was made that Heyman has always been involved with Brock's creative and now he runs Raw, and Brock doesn't strike me as someone who even knows what Twitter is let alone giving a shit what someone is saying on it. Not saying Vince isn't annoyed at Riddle, since it seems like a guy like Riddle would annoy a guy like Vince, but it is interesting how both explanations would fit.

Wardlow nearly cutting Cody in half with the belt was a really underrated part of that segment as well. Established him as more of a threat before the cage match.

He certainly has the ability the Rock had to take material that would be stupid for anyone else and make it work.

It really should have been obvious who those videos were for in retrospect, but it was a nice surprise.

Riho bouncing off the table instead of going through it made that look way more brutal than a table spot normally looks.

That sure seemed to be the plan at one point, but that was before the Austin-lite gimmick got so over.

"Property Of" shirts are pretty common in the sports world, the idea being that fans are buying apparel only real members of the team would have access to. If anything, those shirts in the PC photos are WWE embarrassingly trying to glom on to something someone else made popular.