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Next match in this series: Canadian I Quit Match where the loser say's he's sorry.

If I'm booking, the mystery guy who killed Black takes out Johnny to give him a non-Ciampa related program until Mania time.

Shayna is so great as the asshole bully heel.

I just got really sad realizing Henry vs Keith Lee probably will never happen.

Fun note, co worker who is an old school wrestling fan but doesn't watch current stuff saw the show on my iPad and asked me I was watch "that old NWA stuff".

I thought the show started at 8pm EST instead of 7, missed most of the opening tag.

Jesus Christ, Mauro nearly missed the finish of the match trying to shoehorn another reference in at the end.

EC3 out here looking like KFC's Extra Crispy Colonel.

Popped big for the Notorious DREAM

Yeah I thought they would have Riccochet win the NA title and have Adam Cole weasel his way into the title match, or something along those lines.

I realize shit happens in wrestling, but I was a little surprised they didn't use this as an opportunity to stick someone else in the match.

I get that people are burning out on the Ciampa/Gargano feud and all, but this looks on paper to be one of the better Takeovers if everyone performs as expected.

Hogan absolutely made a weak ass apology and expected the boys to have his back. Both things can be true. The most telling thing is he's way more shocked at the idea of another wrestler not supporting him than he was for the things he said in the first place.

That *was* how the brotherhood worked back in his day. Not that it makes him saying it in 2018 acceptable, but still...

Binging on Mid Atlantic now, and for as good as he was in the ring, Jack Brisco is human xanax on the mic. It's an even more stark contrast when Jimmy Valiant and Roddy Piper are running around like they combined to snort the whole GNP of Columbia.

I'm thinking based on the build (and rumored/assumed Mania plans) that Charlotte wins by either straight up heel turn or by morally ambigious "well it was legal in a 3 way match" style that builds to an eventual heel turn. It does seem like this Joe/Styles feud is a make-good for Joe, which sucks, but at the same time having bad ass killer Joe as champ for a run wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I'm at the point with Roman where I just hope he beats him Goldberg style ASAP to just get off the pot already and go all in on ROMAN DA CHAMP finally. The whole saga of him having multiple coronations has got so tiring, it's like a movie you got bored of but invested so much of your time in you at least want to see how it ends.

Dave was trying to do that thing he always does where he tries to say something by not saying it but alluding to it, in this case that WWE tends to want their women to get implants for reasons largely for the benefit of certain people in charge, but as his wont it was phrased badly. To his credit he fully owned it and hoped his mistake was a learning experience for others. As far as Peyton, she absolutely has the right to do whatever she wants with her body and anyone who says otherwise can fuck right off. I'm just afraid based on history that her and others are doing things not because they wanted to, but because it's something that was impressed upon them by the company as a quid pro quo for career advancement. Same as when guys like Eddy juiced to the gills to get the look WWE wanted and it ends up negatively impacting their health.

I'm kind of digging Teddy Hart leaning in to his rep of being a weirdo d-bag by having that be his gimmick here.

They put a nice collection up on the Network for Anvil, pretty good stuff.

Who's going to fire Dave? One of the MMA sites he freelances for? I doubt they are in any rush to white knight someone in defense of women when, well *gestures at MMA fandom*

I'm wondering if she had the same outrage when she had her WWE mandated boob job, is all. IMO that's worse than anything Dave said because they expect their women to undergo body modifying surgery to advance. I'm sure no one in the company has ever directly said it, but it's clearly the women's equivalent of encouraging the guys to get on the gas.

Women's wrestling twitter is probably the most scariest place on the internet.

It is such a pro wrestling thing that Dave trying to diplomatically mention her company mandatded boob job (in the most Dave way possible) got turned into wrestlers claiming he wants all women to get an eating disorder and starve. I mean, it's not like WWE has ever given anyone not in their wheelhouse of beauty a gimmick of being called fat and dumpy .....*puts finger to earpiece*....oh, I see....

Like, I know being an Internet Armchair Doctor is bad, but there does seem to be a LOT of evidence that indicates Dave doesn't seem to have much ability to understand how his comments are going to be interpreted by others. This is the number one thing the trolls jump on, and he just keeps doing it over and over. At some point you have to assume he either is on the spectrum and doesn't realize it or he just doesn't give a shit. For some reason mentioning the possiblity seems to trigger (in the non alt-right sense) a lot of people, like it would somehow be a bad thing if Dave was somehow neuroatypical. I have family that are on the spectrum, and honestly there's a lot of similarities. Being obsessive with numbers, having to correct people, not being aware of social cues and awkward conversation....it's not a stretch. I know discussions like this can go sideways, but it seems like just the very mention of the possibity seems to upset people rather than the discussion can.

You're not wrong, but most of the reason things would disappear/not be a big deal is *because* no one found out about most (if not all) of it. I'm a proponent of the idea that the internet was both mankind's best and worst idea, but if as a result scumbags can no longer get away with scumbaggy behavior, nary a tear would be shed.