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They are definately playing off her natural heelish personality (which is the one good thing about it, she's WAY better being a heel than the Smiling Babyface she was before), and she clearly has input on the direction. None of that means people are being worked by pointing out she's coming off as a loony 2000 WCW character. Paul E did worked shoot stuff, but I don't recall there being any angles in ECW where Taz was calling everything fake except what he was doing. There's a difference between pushing someone as more of a threat due to a real fight background, and literally telling your audience the rest of your show is some fake shit and this is the only real thing. Hell, WWF did it back in the late 90s when Ken Shamrock was around and they pushed him as the Worlds Most Dangerous Man due to his UFC background. Not once did he cut promos saying this was all fake but he was going to shoot on everyone. The worst part is that this feud doesn't need any of this nonsense, but WWE just stubbornly refuses to go along with storylines that fall in their laps.

I wouldn't say weak minded, just someone raised with a win at all costs mentality that was never properly equipped for losing. It just boggles my mind that by all accounts she's such a big wrestling fan yet her idea for a heel gimmick is to be a Vince Russo character. I don't agree that she's getting any kind of nuclear heat with hardcore fans, if anything she's getting go away heat from them. The prevailing opinion I've been seeing is "how can they make such a mess of such a sure thing", which I guess if that's the intended reaction, good on them. This is WWE not being satisfied with being handed a perfect angle by the fans (rejecting Becky's heel turn) and fate (Becky getting shoot bloodied and becoming Stone Cold), and just couldn't leave well enough alone. Nothing can be authentic or organic, it has to be something created in a lab by WWE.

Does it though? It just makes her seem like a loon from an alternate universe where WCW won the war and Russo was still in charge. Then again she also thought Sandy Hook was fake, so *shrug*....

The AWA was in bad shape by then. They officially closed in 1991 but I'm pretty sure they were dead in all but name only for at least 6 months to a year before that. Having to do a sold show where your wrestlers dress up like breakfast cereal mascots is right up there with finding your roommate passed out in the fish tank on the cry-for-help scale.

Let's not forget he's been at this level of greatness after having a brain tumor removed like 23+ years ago.

You're in luck, Meltz said that was the match it looks like they are planning for Cena.

After Monday's beating I was expecting WWE to have her go full YET-AAAYYY with her.

Normally I would agree but Ronda seems like the type of person who would try to do submission moves in a bar fight.

So Becky comes out the day after taking a beating from Ronda, including being locked in multiple arm bars, barely any worse for wear than normal. They even had Ronda put her in a legit looking arm bar and not that weird one she's been using, and she wasn't even sporting an ace bandage for the trouble.

Actually since they have Women's Tag Titles again I'm surprised they didn't track down the Jumping Bomb Angels and put them in.

Ironically she sounded a lot like Roddy Piper doing one of his famous.....uh....enhanced promos from the 80s.

The honest truth is they want a woman in every HOF class (standalone so Chyna in DX wouldn't count in this case) and Vince probably was reminded Torrie exists by her coming back for all the women first stuff. Plus her having a NY connection due to dating A-Rod. It will always boggle the mind that anyone gets BIG MAD about anything WWE HOF related.

Hunter's promo was really good. Could have gone without the reference to Reid's death, but the part where he got (probably legit) choked up over being afraid to answer his phone when Ric was deathly ill last year was compelling stuff. To be fair, Ronda's promo was really good too but she looked like she pounded 15 Red Bulls prior to going out there.

WWE thinks blurring the lines is the best way to enage the hardcore fans.

Philly was the perfect place for a Ronda heel turn.

Colin Jost getting Stossel'd by Braun made me chuckle.

Wow they are just flat out saying Dean is leaving, seems like an angle alert and/or Roman made good on his promise to try to change his mind.

I do like on a show where literal SHOOT NAMES HAVE BEEN UTTERED, we're still keeping kayfabe that real news outlets would actually break news on the latest WWE HOF entrant.

Oh Lord, WWE promoting Captain Marvel. The movie neckbeard MRAs are shitting their pants over because...somehow a female superhero means Marvel is courting SJWs? This should end well.

Honestly, Hunter's promo was some "everything else is fake but what you're watching right now is real" Russo type bullshit, only with someone with better chops doing it than the guys who would try to do it in WCW.

So Hunter just did Ronda's shooty shoot shoot Twitter rant as a promo on Raw.

I was wondering how they were going to work Michael Che on the show, considering his history of mysoginistic behavor. Having him do a segment with Brand Officer Steph with the women's belt promenently on display in the background almost seems like trolling.

As happy as I am that Roman is back, I didn't miss Cole sounding like he's climaxing when he says THA BIG DAWG.

What I don't get is the story implies she was obviously impared, doesn't anyone else besides Arn have any responsibility here? Even if he dropped the ball, someone else....hell her opponent...should have been like "yeah she's too fucked up to be out there".

Mainly just building up Demon and Wagner's stuff. They're doing a really good job but Demon has the same problem Santo has where the mask is so iconic you can't fathom any circumstance where he would lose it. The only thing that leaves any doubt is if the Demon family has another spat with him since he's apparently not actually related to Demon Sr.