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I find myself wondering what's the creepiest old man announcer behavior on Twitter: Tony Shiavone hawking discount boner pills or JR retweeting accounts like WwEDiVaPoRn all the time. I supposed at least Tony's making money (I think the pills are a sponsor for his podcast) but I find myself learning more than I wanted to know about his dick because of it.

So it looks like good news and Becky is officially cleared for contact (she was cleared for the concussion but not from the broken nose) based on her getting involved last night. I wonder what the plan will be, have Askua win the belt and pair off with Charlotte while Becky goes after Ronda at RR/WM? Seems that would be the best case for all involved.

While I was sure he had the chops, I didn't know if the fans would go all in on hating him. Good work all around helps greatly I suppose.

At the risk of getting clubbed to death from an angry mob looking forward to what surely will be a great match, it makes no sense for the WWE Champion to have a match against what most fans just see as a rando 205 Live guy. I know it's non title, but still.

I think it's not so much she lost momentum, more that everyone else gained it. People want to see Becky/Nia for the revenge factor, Becky/Askua/Charlotte because it will be fucking awesome, but there's zero reason to be interested in anything Ronda does unless it's against Becky because the fans got blueballed out of seeing it before. Even Nattie's feud with Ruby, cornball as it is, gets some interest since it touches on real life events,

Yeah, people seem to think that Dream will automatically find success on the main roster and not realize Vince will probably look at him and think he's found the next R-Truth.

If they did, they kept it professional since Curt and Greg were always portrayed as the next generation of the AWA when they were around.

I believe his point is that there might be something to what I said because Vince is presumably going to be devoting significant energy toward the XFL.

FWIW, WWE is notorious for making lowball offers for tape libraries. I would assume largely due to them mainly dealing with families who just want to make what cash they can with the stuff that was filling up a storage container somewhere. Bruce knew what he had and what it would be worth to WWE, and they just kept dealing with him like he was some old time promoter's mark-ass grandson or whatnot. There shouldn't have been a scenario where fucking Billy Corgan should have been able to bid more than WWE for anyone's library, but here we are.

I almost want to say this is all part of their plan to make people pine for Vince/Steph/HHH to return, but even that would require them to plan for the future.

I'm not sure I was expecting "potential eco terrorist" to be the angle they'd go with Bryan's heel character but I dig it.

I don't know if it's intentional, but I love how Paige has ended up the only authority figure in wrestling history to prevent a contract signing from getting turned into a brawl/attack.

Raw seems like a sports team that had one franchise player and no backup plan if that player gets hurt and is out for an extended time. Only difference is a sports team that loses a star player can tank for a season and get a shot at a top draft pick the next year to potentially replace that person. WWE could do that too but they seem more determined to kneecap their "draft picks" from NXT.

Didn't look like Nattie got much of that table on the way down, a rare case of a replay making a bump look more brutal.

It's not quite a full on LOLTNA level moment, but EVOLVE just released a statement saying they won't be booking anyone contracted to Impact after the kerfluffle with LAX. Apparently they let LAX book themselves outside of the company, and didn't realize they would be working a show with WWE contracted talent until after it was announced. Seems like a thing a company should pay attention to if they are going to allow their tag champs to take outside bookings, but what do I know.

Was him being a bodyguard for the Shah part of his gimmick or legit? Either way he was an assistant coach for the US Olympic wrestling team in 1972 (I think) so he's easily one of the more legit guys WWF/E had.

He said he would be out the rest of the year, so January would be in the realm of possibility. Depends on how bad the injury is.

Smackdown was up this week, proving Becky = Ratings.

Another reason this Ambrose/Rollins feud sucks is every time Dean does something wacky now, the other announcers turn on Renee all "GURL GET YO MANS" . Besides the sexist connotations (why should she have to explain for his actions?) as far as I know they never acknowledged they were married on TV before now. For someone who doesn't follow the behind the scenes news, it comes off like they are just being weirdly aggressive toward her.

This might be the maddest I've ever seen a Canadian get about anything, ever. (ps: I know TTK knows there's no ill will, right? I wasn't trying to be all WELL ACTUALLY to him in particular)

Problem is Impact is at the end of their deal, and based on the fact they got punted to 10 PM it looks like Pop is not interested in renewing them. The Observer pretty much stated they are in the same spot they were at the end of the Destination America deal where Pop will let them stay until they land a new deal as to not kneecap them, but it's pretty much the end of the road with them. Not to mention even if it was still a prime slot, they aren't making any money off the deal so it would be a sunk cost right off the bat. What I don't understand is seeing as how it seems like everyone wants to throw money at any and all B level MMA or boxing group they can find, why can't any non WWE wrestling groups get a sniff from anyone? Surely a promotion that has had some history of being able to run a show like Impact/ROH/MLW/whoever would be a better potential return on investment than some of these bumfights-ass MMA groups people are pouring money into.

I get the impression Anthem would sell to anyone making any halfway decent offer.

Entertainment has always been about politics and people's opinions thereon. The original Star Trek series barely tried to hide the fact that several of their most well known episodes were commentary on then-current events, hell the "City on the Edge of Forever" episode would be timely today. Stan Lee's passing was an oppportunity to remember comics were also very tuned in to politics. Captain America was literally created both in storyline and in real life to punch Nazis. The X-Men's fight for mutant rights was a parallel to the Civil Rights battles of the 1960s down to Professor X and Magneto in the roles of MLK and Malcom X, fighting for the same goal through different means. Wrestling does it too, the evil Nazi-like German heels and the salt tossing sneaky Japanese heels were long time staples. Every promotion in the 80s had an evil Russian, playing off the politics of the era. Not sure where anyone ever got the notion that any form of entertainment they enjoy was ever devoid of politics.

Yay Becky is back, but I probably shouldn't have read an in depth story/interview with TJ Wilson before finding out her return will be in a TLC match.

WWE is truly the Monkey Paw Wrestling Federation.