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I mean....if us randos on the interwebs knew what would happen if you come at Reby, surely her own sister-in-law had to know. Plus, yeah Reby's gonna Reby but she's 100% right here. It looks like Jeff's wife is at best in denial at how bad his problems are and at worst she's straight up enabling him. If I had to guess (based on growing up in a family full of folks with alcohol issues) is that she doesn't want to rock the boat and lashes out at anyone who points at the elephant in the room.

Liger's retiring and Suzuki's a freelancer who's rumored to be leaving at some point. They might just say "fuck it" and go all Dustin Rhodes-Blacktop Bully.

I just want to know why there's a guy sporting what looks like Paul Stanley's KISS paint in the USA war room.

Honestly I think it might be out of habit at this point. Most folks 50+ watching probably have been fans for decades, and it's almost a sunk cost fallacy type of deal for them.

Speaking of that, one thing AEW got criticized about on the first show was the Moxley run in with the ref looking not being a DQ. They made a point to make sure the refs were put in a position to not look like chumps in week two, showing they learned more in a week than WWE shows in months if not years.

The best part about that Brazzers tweet is that it's a callback. After the Hell in a Cell mess they tweeted at WWE asking if they needed assistance with writing storylines.

I would say at least partly, yes. It's a chance to get in on the ground floor on a new set of characters that most people haven't seen before. Plus as stated the finishes and booking have all mattered and none of it makes you feel like an idiot for investing your time.

The worst part of the SD rating is the 50+ stayed the same as last week but the 18-49 demo dropped. So the same old folks who've been watching stayed but the young folks who checked out last week didn't. Pretty much confirms that WWE is the brand equivalent to the "How do you do, fellow kids" meme at this point.

Unless they start getting like Impact numbers they aren't being moved to FS1 anytime soon.

Also lets not forget that Charlotte had another short title run. At this rate she'll end up with 30 reigns with little over 2 months of total time as champ.

Basically half the roster was in the pool to pick from today and the other half tomorrow. There's no real reason other than otherwise Raw would just be three hours of drafting guys like the B Team.

Dark Phoenix Bayley is going to be quite a thing.

Bayley not looking like an 8 year old anymore is a good thing.

The whole deal with everyone on the roster having to show endless corporate fealty and gratitude for the McMahons for taking the time to employ them is like reason #1797808298 WWE is super un-cool and lame with the youth demo they crave so badly. What kids are going to get behind folks who are such ham-handed company drones? It's like the entire roster are those unrealistically happy people in McDonalds' help wanted signs only more sports-entertainery.

Joe broke his thumb. His nose is just that boxer thing where it's squishy and tends to bleed a lot.

I mean.....she has to be trolling at this point, right? I know she has a history for being clueless, but at some point it seems like she's just fucking with everyone doing this.

Dave mentioned that the NXT folks got their pay bumped once the move to USA was announced.

The funny part is they advertised it as a typical WCW houseshow type event so fans bought tickets expecting like Sting and Lex Luger and got a lucha show instead.

Scarlett's all but announced that she signed with WWE at this point though. Like it's a done deal but they're in that "WWE doesn't want anyone to know yet" period. I would love to see some luchadoras from AAA show up and make AEW's women division the female version of the first hour of Nitro.

The Crash is quickly coming to a point where if they want to step up and become a big promotion or just be the place guys go in between US indy gigs. CMLL seems intent on shooting itself in the dick as a promotional mindset, and AAA is gonna AAA, so this could be their chance.

It seems like they are trying to work Ronda back in by having her on Total Divas, and she's done videos on her YouTube where it seems she's getting the itch to come back again, but they've not come out and said she's 100% coming back yet. I wonder if her time away counted against her deal or not (it absolutely would have been frozen for anyone else other than Brock).

He still was a main part of them getting the biggest crowds they've had in 20 years, so continuously painting him as just the guy who worked with a 9 year old is disingenuous. As such, Cornette is much better suited in roles like this that play to his strengths, rather than throwing out hot takes on a podcast in an attempt to try to work programs with the guys he trashes.

If nothing else, I'm glad AEW exists to give Tony a second chance to be remembered as one of the better wrestling announcers instead of the guy fresh out of fucks to give in 2001 WCW.

Yeah baseball would have put a dent in both shows.

TNT was reportedly going to be happy if AEW brought in 600-750k, so they have to be pretty stoked for the numbers so far. Plus the deal they brokered for TV meant the more viewers the more money AEW got from ad revenue so everyone's a winner here.