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The statement they released kind of makes it look like JR won't be a regular part of their commentary, maybe just special events or just Double or Nothing?

My theory was always something like this: after he puts in his notice that he's going to WCW, Vince being Vince (and it sometimes gets forgotten how crazy vindictive even by his standards Vince was around this time) decides to put him in a high profile match at Mania for him to to the job, Hall balks for whatever reasons, and Vince just happens to schedule a drug test. It just kind of fits all the personalities involved.

They were running the angle for a while with Razor and Goldust, and I'm pretty sure the story was Scott Hall didn't like the homoerotic undertones of it and managed to get himself conveniently suspended.

They just announced both battle royals and the cruiserweight title match will be in the preshow. I'm guessing the Andre will be during the 6-7 hour being aired on USA, but what was the point of having the guys from SNL involved if they aren't even on the main show.

JR was probably the best Talent Relations guy WWE had, at least until HHH ended up remaking the position when he took over. Announcing, eeeh. I can see him being more invested in this this than he was in New Japan so that should help. Also Excalibur is really good so maybe he can do more of the heavy lifting, but will JR be able to set aside his ego to allow that? (not exactly a diss on JR, anyone seen at the top of their profession at one point would normally have issues in a role where they weren't the lead guy). Also as far as I know Marvez has no experience announcing, so that could go either way as well.

I wouldn't be able to buy kick-ass babyface Miz against anyone else but Shane, so it works for what they are doing.

Shoutout to the person in the front row during the Bryan/Kofi segment holding the US Virgin Islands flag. Probably one of the most random things I've seen at a show.

Watching now, I loved KO exiting stage left as soon as Randy called AJ a bitch. His look of "welp, it's on, so I'm out" was priceless. Also I can't unsee Billie Kay looking like a muppet version of Flo the Progressive Lady.

Now when I rewatch that, all I can hear is Lance's voice all "Ladies, come on, we don't need any of this nonsense"

The way I recall it, he thought it was Linda's fault that Liz grew to realize there was a life outside basically being kept prisoner by Randy's paranoid side.

So apparently the Raw tag title match is the Revival vs.....Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins? Yup, they uploaded a video to WWE.com showing the challenge being made, and it looks like the story will be having Hawkins's losing streak end at Mania and give Zack another "local boy makes good" Wrestlemania Moment.

Also it's pretty amazing after the last 4-5 years, Roman's Mania match is probably #5 on the card if not lower?

Any time there's an angle involving a car window getting broken, I always low key fear someone's going to Goldberg themselves.

He's been wearing that style of mask since he came back, it's only when he decided to wear Philadelphia Flyers colors that it looked like Sheamus.

Well that managed go to from awesome, to overdone, to silly, to stupid, then all the way back to awesome again by the end.

Jesus Christ that knee to Ronda....

Good thing Naomi wasn't in this match or this could have become tragic. /s

I'm still expecting a show ending angle with Brock somehow.

Corbin is so great at being a heel, it's a shame he sucks so bad at literally every other aspect of wrestling.

All these years and the Andre statue on the trophy still looks like it's made out of butter.

If BIG DAVE doesn't do the guns in his Mania intro I fucking riot.

Peyton's look of abject fear was outstanding.

I love that they spent the time to build Nia and Tamina as the monsters of the women's division, only to have Beth toss them around since her return.

I have a feeling that this show is going to end with Brock laying out Seth just to add doubt.

It's always a funny thing to see wrestling fans (who normally complain that mainstream media ignores the real issues in wrestling like the independent contractor BS) turn around and attack any mainstream media outlet that dares to bring up the real issues in wrestling.