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Well the Nicholas thing was clearly a one shot deal (I guess techincally two since he showed up on Raw to give up the belt), and Judy Bagwell was a thing that went on for weeks. People need to pump the brakes on the "This is WCW level" nonsense.

The Crown Prince is giving out stupidly large sums to anyone taking part in his Vision 2030 plan, which is more or less a PR campaign to get Saudi Arabia seen as more than a super conservative theocracy run by oil money.

Jesus, dude. But to be honest, Charlotte being bigger actually added to the visuals of the Iconic Duo dragging her dead weight to the ring. Kind of like slaying a giant. On that matter, I'd say the beatdown started on the mic. They KILLED Charlotte's face promos to the point where if she does that again, she'll be proving the heels right. I mean, it was more about the ridiculous robe they had her wearing just to cut a promo when she's already nearly a foot taller than the rest of the women.

That's how I took it. Hogan was basically thinking "I'm pretty sure he's going to play ball but if he decides not to I'm kind of fucked, so I better make sure of it without pissing him off". Dave mentioned how the Maeda deal happened not long before this and how it ruined Andre's rep as someone to fear if he decides to shoot, but it's not like Hulk was a trained shooter. Plus it seemed silly to think a guy like Andre would decided to fuck up the largest show in wrestling history.

He tweeted "bury me softly, brother" when the match was first announced. The rumor mill keeps stating he asked for his release at some point, but it's clear he's in don't-give-any-fucks mode right now. What's really puzzling to me is with the Daniel Bryan thing you understood he wasn't the kind of guy Vince normally would get behind. With Rusev, he basically is a walking Vince wet dream with his look and size. Plus he actually got himself (and Aiden English) over, it boggles the mind that he still gets jobbed out.

WIth her being so much taller than everyone, it looked like the Iconic Duo was beating up Big Bird.

Yeah, Renee's pretty much the best person they've had in the backstage interviewer role in a long time. She was great on Talking Smack, so it's an odd take to have to think she's terrible.

Man, I want Bryan/Miz so bad now that it can actually happen.

He's from Baltimore, we gave the world Corey Graves and Elias. Really? Could have sworn that was a Yinzer accent. Yup. It's close though. Scott Van Pelt used to do a Baltimore accent to crack up Tim Kirkjan on his radio show and it was almost exactly like a Yinzer.

He's from Baltimore, we gave the world Corey Graves and Elias.

Coach has been awful in every way imaginable since coming back. He was never anything great to begin with, but yeah. Makes me miss King Bookah at the booth something fierce. Safe to say Coach is stealing money at this point. With Booker I at least believed he gave a shit about what was going on, Coach not so much.

All that is true but WWE is run by a guy who has hang-ups on age and feels people stop being marketable at a preset point.

They might be at that point now, but to suggest Roman was never supposed to be the Guy is revisionist history.

Well it seems clear that Roman was set to win, Vince changed plans in the last week, and the only person outside of the two of them who knew was Roman (and the ref, during the match). From there it's hazy. Everyone agrees there was a spat between Vince and Brock, but no one's sure if that was a work or not. Shane acting like he was going to step to Brock makes it seem like it was a work. They did get a boatload of money from the Saudis for their show, everyone who's part of the Vision 2030 plan the Prince is doing is getting piles of cash as PR to rehab the image of SA. Did they ask Vince to push the title change to their show? Did Vince just volunteer to do it because of the money he got? Like the number of licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop, the world may never know. What we do know is that Roman got made to look like a chump in front of 70k people, and that's going to be hard to overcome.

Yeah there's been zero evidence he's ever refused to job to someone, he just makes them look like shit if he doesn't think they're at his level.

The only plus side is if Shane ever decides to defend his dad's honor to Brock, he might finally learn how to throw a punch.

The only thing that makes sense is if Brock did have a deal in place to leave for UFC, but Vince changed his mind about pulling the trigger at WM again meaning Brock had to stay longer. Why else would he have a fit backstage that was said to involve him throwing the belt at Vince? *edited for clarity* What I mean by that is it seems Brock had a plan to fleece UFC for another fat deal and Vince kind of fucked it up by being Vince.

So why is the expectation that Roman is going to get a better response at the Rumble when the part of the fanbase that would cheer him (women) won't be allowed to attend?

So I wonder if we're going to see any more callups on Smackdown, or if last night was it and they'll just get shuffled around in the don't-call-it-a-draft next week.

I think a lot of people dislike Adam Cole because he was the face of ROH during a period that isn't looked fondly on. There really isn't anything else I can think of that justifies the negative reaction he causes.

I mean, it makes sense considering the amount of money they probably got paid for that show.

I think it was Loss who I saw mention it on Twitter, that Roman is basically Lex Luger now. He's the guy who can't win the big one. I said it before my issue with the Great Roman Adventure was the booking rather than anything he himself was doing (or not doing), and it was on display again last night. I actually feel bad for the guy, he's improved so much since the days of the Shield breakup yet he keeps getting his "coronation" pushed back until it's almost a cruel joke.

Im sure hell totally be the ace after like 3 more Maina main events.

LOL suck it, Roman capes.

Congrats to Bryan Alvarez on winning the tag team title.