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Apparently a lot of folks are having travel issues getting to Montreal, might make things interesting.

Dave made a point of saying that wasn't true, Liz got hired by Zane Bresloff.

Historically strong? No, but it's made strong improvements from the 2000s death era. The thing about Japanese wrestling is that the only TV shows now are on late hours, so them able to grow as much as they have is quite an impressive feat.

Part of the issue is a lot of the creative types in wrestling don't want to work for a company owned by a right wing propaganda machine. Like, as obnoxious Vince can be at least he's not writing must-read op eds for local newscasts. I realize this might skirt the Pro Wrestling Only line, but as we've seen with David Starr it's an issue ROH has to deal with and so far they haven't dealt with it very well.

It would seem that if nothing else Sasha is rubbing a lot of folks the wrong way. I'm getting the impression she's probably getting the "mark for herself" rep like Bret had because they both gave a shit about giving the best performance and would get vocal if shit didn't make sense.

Yet if the rumored Turner deal comes to fruition, they would instantly be the #2 promotion in the US just based on that. Granted everything could end up worse than the most awful Russo TNA/2000 WCW mashup possible, but AEW is more or less getting handed the greatest opportunity any non WWE company has had since Billionare Ted decided he wanted to put a rasslin show on Monday nights.

He did point out no footage came out of Brock throwing the belt at Vince until the WWE 24 doc a year later.

Hogan was on Twitter being passive aggressive about how in his opinion the doc was just okay and relied too much on one person's version (he was clearly mad Linda was so much of the focus), only to have the official account for the series to reply mentioning they asked him to contribute and he said no. It was quite the self-owning.

I thought Satin was taking the piss as our UK friends might say, but he followed up that tweet with one saying he heard the same story from four different sources. So.....yeah.

Madison Rayne suggested bringing in the Beautiful People when ROH asked her for ideas, she left to go back to Impact, so they brought them in anyway.

Seth had dong pics leaked by his nazi ex girlfriend.

But when the guy who doesn't give a damn has final say, it kind of doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. I thought she was still with that MMA guy, but good for them. At least she knows exactly what she was getting thanks to social media.

Been a bad week for big folks' knees in WWE.

To be fair, I kind of dig the IIconics as the chickenshit heel tag team that kinda doesn't deserve the title but somehow keeps falling into victories to keep it.

It's almost as if Gail Kim was spot on when she called out the company for being a toxic cesspool and got dogpiled by WWE zealots on Twitter

Yeah, guys like Lashley and EC3 were actually better in TNA/Impact regardless if people who never saw them there want to accept it or not. Them failing in WWE is more on the company than the person.

Sasha always seemed to be her own worst enemy. Being driven is never a bad thing but she always seemed bent on trying things just slightly above her ability level which led to her getting hurt frequently. Vince has a history of souring on folks he feels are injury prone and I wouldn't be surprised if that happened here. Also I still get the impression Vince is only doing as much as he is with the women because the fans and the roster made a fuss about it and it's not something his heart is really into. That causes a situation where the women in the ring are way more invested than the boss, and that can only end in frustration for the talent.

Road Dogg certainly knew what he was getting into, but there's no way Pat McAfee would have any prior knowledge since his prior gigs were NFL punter and Bad Take Sports Talk Guy.

I've long suspected HHH is planning his own IRL "Scar throws Mufasa off the cliff" moment once he feels he's got enough people on his side.

YES! That whole story got a pop from me too. (condensed version for non WON readers: Pat McAfee was told no jorts to the HOF, he wore that suit-with-dress-shorts ensemble, he got told off by Cole. McAfee then stormed to his dressing room set on leaving telling people "Michael Cole can go fuck himself for yelling at me in front of everyone" and the whole situation was smoothed over by him showing Vince a picture of Lebron James wearing a similar outfit and Vince was convinced it was "hip", and Cole had to apologize)

Hunter's basically OVW era Jim Cornette trying to book his territory logically only to have Vince just drop a deuce all over it.

JR's not even waiting for the first paycheck to clear before shitting on his new job.

I would say Roman is probably at that level, but he strikes me as a "I'm happy to be here, this company's employed my family for a long time and I don't want to rock the boat" guy. Austin's really the last top guy I remember who flat out told Vince he wasn't going to go with his stupid ideas (like when they wanted Austin to do a job to Coach).

The only major thing I thought was missing from the Brody episode was how they didn't mention that anyone who's tried to investgate/ask questions to anyone in PR was basically threatened "drop it or else" over the years. It ended up underestimating how much pull the promotion had in their heyday.

Big E has a torn meniscus, proving we just can't have nice things.