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So after announcing Asuka vs Becky for the Rumble on Main Event (which was an odd place to do it), WWE decided nah to that.

Was that not the excuse given as to why he never made it in before? It seems like every time it was mentioned the answer was a variation of "old timers won't vote for him because he probably stiffed them on pay at one point".

Park has no time to think about Halls of Fame when he's busy being awesome all over North America. Also I never thought Jerry Jarrett would get in since all the old timers are still bitter that he was a shitty payoff guy, then Dave mentioned there were far less older voters and far more newer voters and it all made sense.

HOF issue supposed to drop any time now. Dave mentioned on the Monday WON show he only had 4 HOF bios done at that point, so he's probably working like mad to make sure it gets out today since he has a thing about the WON coming out on Wednesdays.

Cubsfan with the line of the night on Twitter saying Bryan's cool with teaming with Almas because he's been on the compost heap for months.

Paige is either doing a tremendous job selling this on Twitter or she found out about the whole "get rid of the GMs" plan when everyone else did.

Looks like khawk got what he wanted for Christmas (for the WWE to remember the AWA existed).

It's kind of reassuring to see that wrestling fans have always been proudly telling people they are going to quit watching something.

The scraggly look goes with his environmental fanatic gimmick, but the music is jarring. It was fine the first couple times for him to tease doing the Yes motions then not doing them for heel heat, but now he needs something different.

Lol, less than 2 hours later the open is already an "iconic moment". Hope no one in WWE herniates a disc trying to suck their own dick.

Seeing Nikki reminded me, what happened to the rest of Sanity? They seem to have fell off the face of the Earth.

He may be slipping in every other area, but Vince's tie game is still as strong as ever.

Huh... finally ending the GM role? Arguably 20 years too late, but I'll take it.

LOL at Vince's face when Hunter went in for the hug, dude's still the best performer in wrestling.

Welp, there's your setup for the WM main event.

A heated feud leading to a match where both people go above and beyond trying to kill each other. Seth and Dean should take notes.

The Spanish announcers diving into the crowd to avoid the chaos will never not be funny.

Psycho Charlotte is legit scary.

They are trying to kill Charlotte here.

JESUS RIP Charlotte

Best possible use of Nia: let Ronda use her as a jungle gym.

Smackdown wasn't built almost exclusively around one person for several years is my point. Most of their down periods coincide with times where they do roster shakeups and invaribly SD gets boned until they build up the people they get to mean something. For years Raw was the Roman Reigns Show Starring Roman Reigns, to the point where guys were only being built to be fed to him. There's nothing wrong with that in theory, but they not only put all their eggs in one basket they stacked the chickens in the basket too.

It seems like everyone is ignoring the elephant in the room a bit. Smackdown is proving it's possible to have a good show that runs 52 weeks a year, but RAW spent the last 3+ years establishing that Roman is the only star on the show (other than Brock when he's around). Everyone else existed to put him over, so when he suddenly is out for the forseeable future, RAW's left with little more than a roster full of guys fimly established as second tier.

Stephanie hasn't had any involvment in creative for a while. It's basically 30 or so ex TV writers solely trying to please Vince. Dunn just does the TV production end of things.

That's kind of odd considering WWE usually considers tag teams a package deal unless one of them messes up IRL.