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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!!

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.