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Dunno, but it's pretty TNA-tastic for ROH to put such a push behind her when she only had a 6 month deal that expired before she ever had a match.

Well Liger is an NXT alumni after all.....

The ROH appearances are due to Rush more than anything else. NJPW guys have flat out said they don't want to go to ROH anymore since they've gone downhill, and ROH wants to make Rush as happy as possible to save whatever sliver of a chance that exists where he would re-sign with them when his deal is up next year.

Dragon Lee got replaced by Volador Jr in the tag league, but he is announced to be on several ROH shows in the next month or so.

I remember watching Ken Anderson in OVW back in the day and thinking he was going to be the next star to come out of there. I don't get the hate he seems to get from a lot of folks, he's not the greatest ever or anything but he's not as terrible as everyone makes him out to be.

The Fantasica Mania shows are still a good draw for NJPW, their fans seem to enjoy seeing the CMLL guys come in for a tour. The sourness between AEW and NJPW seems pretty much centered on the Bucks. Omega has stated he would like to go back and his AEW contract states he can work there if he gets booked. The Bucks seemed particularly stung by not getting an offer from NJPW that (to them) didn't match the value they felt that they brought to the company. They were pretty vocal about feeling they got lowballed when the offer was made to them to stay. Also I wouldn't be surprised if there's a little bit of partner loyalty in play as well. Intentionally or not, the Elite guys ended up using ROH to get the idea that became AEW off the ground and New Japan is not going to be inclined to work with a group that used one of their business partners.

I think he's being scapegoated for things like being promised Ronda and not delivering. As much as I think Eric's an asshole, he was set up to fail big time here. He was brought in with no clear job description, no direct control on what he was supposedly in charge of, and no way to fix it when things didn't go as promised. Vince just wanted to have big names to tell investors about in a conference that was mostly bad news. Paul had the advantage of being around the product and being able to hit the ground running, Eric hadn't been around for decades and had no chance of ever being able to deliver. Plus now Vince has one of his top yes-men in the spot, which guarantees SmackDown will be written to exact Vince-pleasing expectations for the foreseeable future.

I hope there was a "plans change" moment, because if Booker talking on Raw about "rumors regarding a major trade" on RAW were about Alexa/Nikki being traded for Jobbers to be Named Later, then we've moved from 1998 WCW to 1999 WCW.

If faced with a Japanese option and a foreign option for a product, the public will pick the Japanese option like 95% of the time. It's a weird product of being such a homogeneous culture, there is a feeling anything Japanese is automatically superior to anything non-Japanese.

Rick Starks gave off some serious Dusty vibes in his promo, that was amazing. No one is learning those skills in NXT, that's for sure.

Microsoft can't convince the Japanese to buy video game consoles, I doubt WWE can convince them to support NXT Japan. I suppose the smallest of the small indies might get hurt, but I can't imagine any Japanese promotion of significance.

This will fail hard if they attempt it, culturally it will be very difficult to get acceptance as a foreign company in Japan, especially one that would be run against established Japanese companies.

New company mandate after they got heat a while back for splitting up IRL couples with the draft. It's why Andrade is on RAW (both for him and Charlotte and Zelina/Alistar Black).

So the most low-key entertaining act in WWE, Truth and Carmella, got broken up because the 24/7 title is a USA invention and Carmella is on SD because Corey is over there.

I did. The rap on Satin was that he was angling to get a WWE gig, and I never really saw that until after he did the PR tour of the Performance Center. Ever since he's been 100% shilling everything related to WWE to the point I thought he was doing a bit. Before the Bix thing he was raving about the WWE2K20 game, and was fighting with people who were pointing out it's been a buggy piece of trash that looks like a budget PS2 game for years. Arguing that the thing AEW needs is more TV writers who don't know about wrestling is a pretty galactic brain take though.

Two hours is fine if it's the only show the promotion has for the week. A two hour show a few days after a three hour show (and a few days before a 3-4 hour ppvs once a month) is way too much of a time investment for anyone who hasn't already spent years following the company.

It's just hilarious that they hyped up the draft and at the end of the day barely anyone actually switched shows, and most of the ones who did are midcarders who are interchangeable.

Poor Bray, every time he has a home someone burns it. Also LOL @ the heroic babyface getting the holy shit booed out of him there.

Raw

Red Rooster Gable gets drafted to SD!

Don't sell them short brother, I have faith they have another fuck finish in them.

So they released images of the arenas in (the terrible looking) WWE2K20, and they have the Mae Young Classic, multiple Takeovers, that Australian Super Show they did, literally every TV and PPV arena except You Know What. So the show they are pushing as Just As Big As Wrestlemania can't be recreated in their own game.* *It'll get made by fans, but let's see if it gets deleted like Chris Benoit CAWs do.

He might end up being good, might end up not being much of anything, but Mansoor deserves better than to be the token Saudi on the Crown Jewel shows.

That's a pretty accurate comparison actually.

WWF/SWS SuperWrestle show from 12/12/91, as seen on Japanese TV. Some highlights: Young Minoru Suzuki beating ass in the montage of clips. The Rockers in mid breakup angle in their match. Kerry Von Erich looking tentatively at the staircase that everyone had to walk down on the entrance way with a look of "really, you're going to make the guy with one foot do this?" The LOD being introduced as the Road Warriors complete with Iron Man as their theme. Earthquake being billed as Earthquake John Tenta due to him being known from sumo, then the crowd popping for him and Animal doing a mid match sumo face off. Hogan being in full Japan Hulkster mode, having a pretty solid technical match with Tenryu. The crowd and the announcers not really reacting to the Big Boot/Legdrop of Doom combo but coming unglued for the AXE BOMMMMBA!!