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Now that Becky has the title, it's going to cause a weird situation where either she's going to have to lose to someone noticeably below her level or have a Solo Sikoa situation where they just take the title off her because reasons. Unless the plan is for Tiff to win it back, which itself is kind of odd since that would imply an imminent call up and it's still too soon for that.

Well of course the difference is Becky didn't make her look like shit like Hunter tended to do when giving someone the rub.

I wonder how many times Becky and Lyra had to shoot their little interaction given that two Irish people speaking to each other causes their accents to increase by 150%

I wonder, are they trying to make Corbin a babyface since he got cheered over Gable?

I suppose at least the odds are low she'll try to take liberties with Rhea

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/port-authority-pd-investigating-sexual-assault-claim-matt-riddle-made-against-officer The tl;dr of the story is Matt Riddle (allegedly) got loaded on the flight back from India and got into a fracas with the Port Authority police at JFK, which led to him claiming he was "sexually assaulted" by the cops. Not sure why WWE keeps him around at this point, tbh.

The entire point of pro wrestling is to entertain the crowd and make money. Hating on someone or something that does that because it doesn't jibe with what people did 30-40 years ago isn't taking some bold stand on the state of the art. It's just being an old man yelling at the kids to get off your lawn. Warrior was a trash human being, but he was very successful to the point he was the heir apparent to Hogan. It didn't matter he couldn't work a six star match if his life depended on it, he connected with the crowd in a way a lot of others couldn't. If he wasn't such a head case he might have been at that Hogan level. All that being said, if someone says they didn't like the guy I wouldn't blame them. But you can't deny the man was (briefly at least) a huge success. Also in terms of Corny in particular, he tends to get personal with his criticism in a way that gets uncomfortable. OK, he doesn't like Kenny Omega's style that's fine, but then he gets into the weirdly homophobic comments and its like show me on the doll where Kenny hurt you.

Yeah but in wrestling if something is getting over, then it's working regardless if a cranky ex manager likes it or not. I get not everyone is going to like everything done in wrestling, but if something is getting over and/or drawing money it makes you look like a contrarian dickhead to devote your platform to railing on it.

Most of his takes are either "I don't personally like this so it's shit even if it's over/drawing money" or some variation of "what *insert modern wrestler* does wouldn't work in my day". neither of which are very worthwhile other than Corny is a very quick witted and a good storyteller so he says them in entertaining ways.

He sure looked like one to Vince. Also at this point I don't know why anyone goes to Corny for opinions on modern wrestling. I could listen to him talk about working for Fritz and Watts all day but I'd rather have a root canal than listen to his Opinionz 4 U about AEW

Bryan promising to go balls out in his final year is something that sounds both amazing and terrifying at the same time.

Darby trying to sell that what Luchasaurus did to him backstage was even half as bad as what he routinely does to himself is unintentionally hilarious.

Collision is saved, Jade Cargill is back!

There really was no reason to keep him around, since he was only there as an obvious carrot for Punk to come back.

I can definitely see WWE switching to the AEW model of just letting peoples' deals run out instead of doing mass firings. I'm sure no one in the company gives a shit about the PR aspect of it, but surely they understand the morale boost of folks not having to constantly worry about the grim reaper.

This run as Faux TNT Champ is the first time I've ever seen Christian at the level good brother @C.S. always has.

Rene doing her best Mean Gene makes this even better.

I know Punk 100% would want to take Tony to court if he felt wrongly terminated, but I also think he's smart enough to know he couldn't outlast a billionaire in court no matter how stubborn he is.

Also doing Becky/Tiff now helps no one. You shouldn't be beating either one right now, and doing a fuck finish would just throw cold water on both of them.

I'm actually surprised that they had someone beat that, I always assumed that was one of those things WWE would keep around forever because they thought it was funny that a guy the smart fans disliked like Honky was the all time IC champ.

Not sure what the point of breaking off Zoey from Trish only to have her lose on Raw immediately.

I've been thinking for a while now that what Tony needs is a bad cop like Johnny Ace or JR was for Vince. Someone to give the bad news/lay down the law so he doesn't end up facing the wrath of the talent directly. Also this whole drama makes me want to know how it went down when the Jags fired Urban Meyer.

That's been a constant with AEW: No matter how lackluster a card looks, or what bullshit is overshadowing them, every one of their shows has been good to great. I don't recall watching a AEW PPV and feeling like I didn't get my money's worth.

Yes, yes he was. He was going on TV and being unprofessional towards his co workers. Regardless of "who started it" Punk kept it going by acting like an aggrieved teenager needing to get the last word. He got into backstage fights and caused booking plans to get upturned due to the fallout of them.

Well he was actively fucking with a promotion they enjoy watching, so I understand. Also we all know how calm and level headed wrestling fans can be