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Wasn't this Marvez's first gig? In that sense it wasn't bad for being thrown in to the deep end of the pool. JR was clearly way more in his element here than he was in New Japan. Him and Excalibur have the potential to be a great team.

Renee will be fine, even if WWE gets shitty with her she'd have a TV job by the next business day most likely. Plus you'd need to be caught mid-murder for WWE to fire anyone now. I did get the impression WWE thought Mox was just burnt out in wrestling and was just going to go away for a while. I don't think they would have done all they did if they had any idea what his plans were.I don't think he would have got the Revival treatment or anything had they known (he's still friends with two of their top stars and they wouldn't want to piss them off), but I'm sure had they known what he was planning he would have disappeared off the face of the Earth until his deal ended. Also do we know if his contract was extended to cover the injury time from his arm injury? Or is that just a move they pull when they are feeling especially petty toward someone?

Man, talk about one of the more forgotten fuck ups in history. Dude was set to get the rocket push leading up to a Mania match with Taker, only to get in a bar fight that led to lawsuits and WWE completely dropping everything.

Remember back in the Monday Night Wars era when word that Nitro scripts were being written as the show was going on was seen as one of WCW's death knells? Pepperidge Farms remembers. It's not as so-bad-it-ends-up -perversely-entertaining like end stage WCW was, but damn if there similarities aren't starting to add up. Death slog 3 hour main shows, nonsensical booking, cratering TV audience, falling live attendance, growing sense of frustration from talent. It's all looking awfully familiar.

FOMO is real. People don't want to feel like they missed out on something that ends up being discussed at the water cooler the next day.

Pretty sure most people on the inside *do* see it, but the guy at the top is the one who decides what goes on. They have to be hoping the new XFL can get even a little bit of success so it can be something to distract Vince, like shaking keys at a baby,

I love how the consensus I'm hearing is that Moxley's story is basically CM Punk's from the Cabana podcast minus the part where the doctor tried to kill him. Honestly, I don't get why anyone who cares about creativity would even consider going to WWE at this point. Unless you can work them into giving you an absolutely stupid money deal, your best possible outcome is to become an NXT darling before you get called up to chase R-Truth for the 24/7 title.

One thing I've learned from working a decade plus for a cable company is that Dave is right when he says people may complain about price, but if they want to watch a show they'll watch it. It happened with every Mayweather PPV fight, people would bitch nonstop leading up how expensive the show was and it would still end up setting record buys. Raising PPV prices were what pulled the WWF out of financial problems in 1997, and while I agree $50 was quite the ask for an unproven entity in 2019 I would say the near unanimous praise the show got probably increased the odds the next one will be the same price.

1989 comeback Studd maybe, but 90% of the roster wishes they were as over as Studd was in the early 80s teaming with Bundy.

He was made an offer by WWE that would basically involve him transitioning into a player-coach role like Ohno on NXT before becoming a trainer. Dave pointed out he turned them down right before Robert Roode showed up on Raw with a Joey-eqsue porn stache.

In news that will make @The Thread Killer happy, SoCalUncensored (the website, not the tag team) reported Joey Ryan turned down an AEW deal.

It was absolutely planned, going off script like that would be a suspendable offence (they aren't firing anyone now). What's even sadder is Vinny Ru is now convinced WWE and AEW are working together (because commentary on DON mentioned El Generico, and Sami mentioned AEW) and we're all marks for not realizing it.

Technically yes, but nothing but the hour breakdowns ever seem to get out anymore.

So it looks like either WWE is trying to work the boys by cutting Sami's AEW mention off the YouTube clip (implying it was an off script remark), or someone in the company had a rare moment of clarity and realized how stupid it was to mention them in a way guaranteed to get a babyface pop.

It's not just an hour of no wrestling, it was after that the first match we had was with Shane. It was like they were saying "oh you liked all that wrestling you saw Saturday? well fuck you then".

Why do they insist on cutting to "crowd watching on the big screen" shots during the Fun House?

B-Boy Brock with the boombox briefcase makes him winning MITB worth it.

Have at it folks.

Has it been mentioned anywhere if Dustin is going to be a coach/producer/agent/whatever? He's a guy that needs to be around in some capacity when the day comes where he does finally retire.

All WCW footage (as well as all the libraries Crockett owned via the territories they purchased) were part of the WWE deal. In fact, it was pretty much all WWE wanted when they made the deal.

Turner would have anything that aired on CNN or Headline News, but actual WCW footage is all owned by WWE.

Surprised? No. I'm sure they knew what his plans were when he made it clear he was letting his deal run out. I'm just thinking they're so petty that they'll still take it out on her because that's the type of thing they tend to do.

Gonna be an interesting day at the office on Monday for poor Renee.

Yeah I saw pics of it on Twitter, looks pretty good. Generic WWE belt it is not, for sure.

Couldn't really get that good a look at it to be honest.