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Cesaro and Sheamus have been doing house shows, so it might also be a little of Creative Has Nothing For You as well, which...yeah. Also Daniel Bryan is the only person besides the Rock with the consistent ability to make the normally stupid WWE comedy skits work nearly all the time.

There's also the aspect that Lashley and Roman are feuding over who gets to be Vince's favorite (being "the guy") instead of a shot at the championship.

Dave made mention of how odd it was they went out of their way not to mention Brock last night despite him getting mainstream attention for his UFC antics (and how said antics played perfectly into the "Brock doesn't care about wrestling" story they've been building up). It would be pure undistilled WWE if after all the years of keeping Brock strong to elevate whoever ends up beating him, it all ends up for naught because Vince had a hissy over something.

The weird thing about that is most WWE injuries of late have been shoulder injuries from the silly weightlifting regimen they want everyone to do. I think Daniel Bryan was the last serious in ring WWE injury and it wouldn't be fair to blame that on the company. The only other ones I can think of are "shit happens" type moments like Big Cass's knee blowing out.

Man, the Cheeseburger/Bully Ray stuff on this week's ROH TV was so goddamn good. Say what you will about Bully, but he is so good at being an old school make-them-hate-your-guts heel. It helps that Cheeseburger is the easiest guy in the business to get sympathy for, but holy shit the crowd was losing its god damn mind when Cabana came out to save him.

Their show on July 19th looks solid: 40 Man Battle Riot Match for a future World Title Shot Basically this is LU's Aztec Warfare match (Royal Rumble with pinfalls/submissions counting as eliminations). Everyone on the roster seems to be entered plus they are bringing in legends and suprprises, they already have PCO listed as entered. MLW World Title Match Shane Strickland vs Sami Callihan MLW World Tag Title Match Pentagon Jr/Rey Fenix vs Drago/Aerostar MLW World Middleweight Title Match MJF vs Joey Ryan to crown first champion John Hennigan vs Low Ki Hart Foundation (Teddy Hart and Davey Boy Smith Jr managed by Brian Pillman II) vs Rich Swann/ACH

I don't think Brock cares about passing drug tests as long as the check clears.

It's already out on PC, here's the requirements from the Steam page: (hope this pastes correctly without the formatting screwing up) MINIMUM: OS: Windows 7 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 Memory: 4 GB RAM GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 9.0c compatible video card with minimum 512MB of VRAM DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 4 GB available space

Cody and Nick Aldis are official, the storyline is that Nick won't put up the NWA title unless Cody is ROH champ by then.

Yeah the people in charge in Impact now are doing a really good job (that feels so weird to type), it's a shame the brand is so damaged from years of shit.

Maybe, but this seems to be a new era where anyone not signed to WWE can appear anywhere. When even CMLL is open to letting anyone not on AAA TV appear, we're in a whole new world. Even after the Bullet Club runs its course, there will always be guys ROH can bring in if needed. If anything, I'd like to see ROH use their non New Japan partners better. It's sad seeing no one from CMLL get much reaction other than Ultimo Dragon and Dragon Lee. They have some of the best young lucha guys around and it would be nice to see them get more US exposure.

It certainly has a "so bad it's good" appeal if you're in to that sort of thing.

I saw someone on Twitter state that Rusev and English are what would happen if Wario and Waluigi were hot, and now it's all I can see when I look at them.

To be fair, I get the impression no one plays online on Steam because everyone who has the game ends up spending all their time making edits

My hope is when Smackdown moves to Fridays for the Fox deal, it allows WWE the chance to move around their taping schedule. My guess is they'll be to stuck on the "Live" portion of the name and insist it stay where it is though.

Well we don't even know really what gets watched on the Network. WWE announces the most watched shows (which is usually the PPV of the month + NXT) , but there's no numbers released on viewership on each show.

There's a pretty large community on Steam that has created not only wrestler edits, but ring and arena mods. I saw one that even recreated Arena Mexico with all the edecanes along the rampway.

I never figured out how "soy" became the slur-du-jour for the alt right. What if someone is a super alpha male but just has food allergies? At least it gives me a good way to know who's opinons to ignore.

They added a Women's Evolution collection, which actually has several 80s era matches (including the Moolah-Richter screwjob) and actually does a pretty good job of showcasing all the eras women's wrestling in WWF/E. There's also a Jeff Jarrett collection that has some USWA stuff leading up to his WWF run. Not bad but it really makes you wish someone could finally work something out with the Memphis rights.

"You shouldn't be concerned that sex offenders are in wrestling now because there's always been sex offenders in wrestling" has always been an.....interesting.... argument to make. I mean, maybe it's a pipe dream to dream of a world where there's no sexual predators in wrestling, but maybe it's not the worst thing to strive towards? Also, Kenny needs to realize he's the public face of a major company trying to make inroads to the North American market. Fair or not, it's going to reflect on him and/or New Japan when it comes out their champion was on a show with a sex offender. Part of being the TOP GUY involves doing due diligence for shit like this.

I mean, lying about not knowing a convicted pedo seems like a fairly big deal. Wrestling Twitter does get hung up on some dumb shit sometimes but this doesn't seem like one of those times.

It seems that's pretty much what happened here. Not sure why Kenny felt the need to get super defensive about a guy he said he only met once back in 2004, but that was the hill he originally chose for battle.

They're trying to make people think Brock will leave without dropping the belt so that Roman will get cheered for beating him for it. It's working to an extent since people are getting Legit Mad at Brock possibly (not really) leaving, but they tried that for WM and it got Brock booed and Roman....also booed.

I was in that funk for a while, and what did the trick for me was finding something different like MLW along with the WWE Network doing the Mid South dump they did.

He won the Republican nomination and is widely expected to win the primary election, so techinically he's not the mayor yet but it's more or less a formality.