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They signed the biggest TV deal ever in no small part due to having Ronda. Now if all the money goes in to the XFL, it's not her fault and it's still stupid to get mad at her about it.

So it seems like Sasha is trying hard on social media that there's legit heat between her and Ronda and/or dropping hints she wants to go to AEW. On the first point, yeah I can buy that there were some ruffled feathers that Ronda came in and was put ahead of everyone who built the foundation, but it's Ronda FFS. One thing the old timers got right is no one ever bitched that an attraction like Andre got top billing over the regular crew since it meant everyone made more money. Complaining about a big star wanting to work for your company makes you look dumb no matter if it's part of the storyline or not. The second point? I guess maybe she sees how making waves to get people to believe you want to jump is a good career move, but really? It's one thing for Zack Ryder and the Revival to want out, but Sasha joining in just comes across as trying too hard.

Also FFS give her normal wrestling gear. I get they want to keep the MMA look, but she looks like a fidgety child constantly pulling on her gear.

I get the impression Ronda would be a much better promo as a heel.

Zack getting TV time! Clearly teaming him back up with Hawkins is the one thing that will get the Revival to rethink asking for their releases.

Building up a feud via bodybuilding posedown is the most Vince thing possible.

They have over a million subs, so it's at least at the point where they are making money off of it. Not as much as they would be if they kept at least the Big Four on PPV, but it's making money. Does it need to? Not once the Fox money rolls in.

Usually a program leading to a big mask match will have a lot of foul and/or mask ripping DQs as part of the build. Cuartero/Forastero/Sanson are the New Generation Dinamitas and should be the next top stars (I say should because CMLL could CMLL at any time). Also I watched the AAA show on Twitch the other night. Wagner dyed his hair and beard black, and he's gone from looking like The Most Interesting Man in the World to looking like Rocky Romero's dad.

There's something to be said for confidence too. Becky's obviously got it in abundance now, and even when she's in a segment that's kind of a clunker (like the opening of SD) , she can pull it off better than most.

It was nice to see during the Rush/TK O'Ryan match that the commentary mentioned Rush and Matt Taven were on opposite sides of the CMLL Anniversary main event. Built some heat for the match and set up the post match angle. Also putting over that LIJ was an offshoot of a group Rush created, potentialy setting up a cross promotional angle since Terrible and Rush have made appearances in New Japan teaming with various LIJ groups.

I thought it was because she talked shit about the Bellas.

Does she not know that rumors of wanting a release will only help your career in the current climate? Her response to all this seems odd.

Shortening the name was a bonus in Andrade's case, but it's just yet another weird Vince quirk.

I suppose that's a way to read it, but since WWE pays for rehab why not take advantage of it? It's not like he was in the middle of a career making push he couldn't afford to walk away from. I could maybe understand not wanting WWE to know he had a problem, but they announced he was clean so that cat was out of the bag. It just seems like a dangerous way to handle a possible life threatening issue. Don't forget the teary-eyed Steph interviews about those monsters in WCW trying to run her daddy out of business and put her family on the streets. When someone came along and kicked Vince's ass (which make no mistake, WCW was doing for years before the wheels fell off) they lost all sense of irony.

Not really, seeing as how he's literally always been like this. We just haven't seen it for a while since there hasn't been a competition for so long. His MO has always been scortched earth against anyone he views as a threat. She isn't exactly denying anything. Did anyone say WWE wasn't supportive? Seems like she's building a lot of strawmen to knock down. Also she seems to be arguing that they weren't off TV due to Mike being away in rehab but......just going to each town and doing nothing while he was doing some sort of outpatient rehab? Okay then. Not only does that sound like not the best way to do rehab, it also makes it seem like WWE was just making them work pointless house shows when Mike should have been focusing on getting clean.

I get the impression Dolph is kind of done with wrestling, I could see him doing something else when his deal is up. He just gives every impression of a guy who's mentally checked out every time he's on screen these days.

So they did the big reveal of Mortal Kombat 11 today, and one of the big news stories coming out of it was that Ronda Rousey will be voicing longtime MK character Sonya Blade. I was curious what the reaction would be in the gaming world, so I went to one of the sites I normally visit for game news. So far nearly all the comments on the announcement were some varation of "I'm less interested in the game now because this trash person is involved". So apparently the Ronda Rehab Experiment still has a ways to go.

I know people hate it when someone says a person was good in TNA, but Maria was good in TNA as the asshole boss of the knockouts who bullied around Allie until she snapped.

The story was it was after that match when they asked for their release. It does seem like WWE is in full "we better start doing stuff with these talented guys we're wasting because they'll have a place to go to soon" mode, as seen with the renewed push for Andrade Cien... uhh... ANDRADE.

He can't even get on TV in WWE unless it's as Random Geek #45 in a backstage skit. If he was on TV jobbing every week in AEW even that would be an improvment. Just saying there's ways to better utilize guys than WWE does without having to push them ahead of everyone else on the roster like Impact did. That's probably what I'm looking forward to the most with AEW. They've stated the goal is to let guys do their own thing and see if anything catches fire.

The problem with Impact especially was not so much accepting everyone from WWE, but by pushing nearly every former WWE guy as better than their own talent. They constantly made their homegrown/non WWE guys look like geeks. Zack Ryder doing Zack Ryder level things in AEW would be fine. If he comes in challenging for their title on day one that would be peak Impact.

Bix made a comment about the thumbnail like "Alexa's bare back = views", and it made me think that clip probably disappointed anyone Googling "Alexa Bliss + bare back" .

They've been working an angle with the Bucks on Twitter for while, and a few weeks ago one of the Bucks and one of the Revival (I forget which one from each team) tweeted to mark their words that they would face each other at some point. I hope they do go, WWE clearly doesn't fit with the old school territory style tag team work they excel at. I have a feeling they might end up being one of those "how did they let THOSE guys go to the competition' types.

Penta and Fenix were mainly working for AAA (LU sister promotion) and Impact (who they have a working agreement with). Not sure how MLW works into all that other than they were publically stating they were open to work with anyone. Most likely all their dates were signed off by Dorian since he's the one who decides who stays and goes. Also they probably want to do whatever they can to keep Penta/Fenix happy since they know they'll get snapped up by someone else the second they get a full release.

Best part was Xavier Woods' exper timing popping his jacket open to reveal his THE MAN shirt. Also Becky's happy go lucky steampunk theme doesn't fit with her new gimmick. It's like having Stone Cold come out to pop music.