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The funniest (by which I mean not funny at all) part of all this is that wrestlers have never had more power and have never been more afraid to use it.

ProWrestlingSheet is announcing Renee Young will be making the trip to Crown Jewel as part of the broadcast team. It would be funny if they did a callback to the Prime Time Wrestling episode where Gorilla and Bobby pretended they were broadcasting on site when the show was taped in Paris. Bobby kept threatening to leave the booth to help his men and Gorilla claimed he had security keeping Bobby from leaving.

The Saudis probably requested him to be there, and WWE probably never thought Company Man John would say no to it. As far as Bryan, taping the match at the PC was something kicked around but not the final decision.

Pretty sure he was going to get at least the "monster built up for Hogan to conquer" push, but IIRC he found out he had cancer almost immediately after he debuted.

Pretty sure Cena said no, he's trying to break into Hollywood and there's no way doing the show would fly.

I was wondering how American Olympic Hero is going to go over at the show, then I remembered they can just show a video reminding everyone he beat an Iranian to win gold and he'll be in good shape.

Dave mentioned that as far as he knows Bryan is still not going either, but they may wait until the day of the show to do an angle to explain it. Which made me think, is it still false adverising when MBS is the only one paying for the show?

I would wager it would be difficult to have any kind of in ring career while maintaining all her duties at the PC. She's pretty much the #2 behind Matt Bloom and is in charge of all the women's training.

They signed Hero back because he was starting to get some buzz again on the indies and they wanted to squash it.

It's amazing how much better a show can be when it's not forced to be a 4+hour slog.

The way they were lingering I was expecting a "you think the show is over, but here comes an angle" twist a la NXT.

Somewhere Braun is looking to charge Charlotte with gimmick infringement.

"Ladder matches have ruined the careers of WWE Superstars" said Renee while sitting next to Edge's wife.

Looks like a Triple H/NXT style production.

It's on the whole Last Battle in Atlanta show under Hidden Gems.

So was the Yoko-Duggan match that offended everyone the one where Yoko squashed him and draped the flag over him?

Watching the show now, and holy crap is the quality great for something that was apparently sitting unmarked at the bottom of the Turner vault somewhere. If the proposed higher network tier leads to more stuff like this getting unearthed, sign me up.

In his promo he framed it as being after his football career and before he started in WWE whn he was first diagnosed. Dave was just mentioning, more or less in passing, that the 11 years timeframe was a bit off, he wasn't making it a big deal at all. edit: here's the actual quote to show how overblown any concern is: That's all he said, one sentence in a several page story on the issue. edit 2: there was another mention: Still, nothing to suggest he's questioning anyone's honesty. Just Dave trying to be as accurate as possible on the timeline.

All he was saying is that Roman's statement of "11 years ago" was a little off because he started in WWE in 2010. Wasn't questioning anyone's honesty at all. Just someone concern trolling.

You can set the bar anywhere though. Vince covering up a murder for Snuka, allegedly raping Rita Chatterton, just barely avoiding a federal steroid conviction (and comparing it to 9/11 later), having dead wrestlers stacking up like firewood and not doing anything until someone died on their watch, honoring a raging homophobe by naming an award after him.....

It's Psychology 101. People feel personally attacked when their "team" or "side" does something wrong and gets called out on it. That makes them lash out at the people doing the calling out instead of having to focus on/deal with the bad behavior. Politics is the most obvious place you see it, but it happens anytime someone has a vested interest in something. I see it all the time in the video game world, a company does something like release pay to win DLC or some other anti consumer BS, and there's always people rushing to the defense of the company with some kind of "well if you've never complained before you're a hypocrite if you do now" rationale.

OK, JYD's officially my favorite wrestler of all time now.

JR still speaks highly of him as a mentor and has had him on his podcast. If it caused any damage it's been smoothed over.

I won't watch the show, largely because it's going to be a bloated 4+hour show that probably won't have any long term implications over filling a vacant title. The geopolitics suck, but it's hard to take a moral stand when I've watched for decades despite all the murders/racism/misogyny/general shithead behavior that has pretty much defined the business since day one. Perhaps it's a nilhlist point of view, but it's pretty much where I'm at right now. Plus like Charles said, once you start down that path it's impossible to have a totally clean moral slate.