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Not to mention they had to pretty much be shamed into spending money to upgrade production for ROH. The first few months of Sinclair-owned ROH TV were embarrassingly low rent looking. Wasn't it a solid year or two before they upgraded the production? It was in stages. They upgraded to a professional lighting rig after a few months, and later on finally invested in a new video screen setup that didn't look like a bed sheet hung on the wall.

History is written by the victors. Not saying it's fair, but it's what it is. And it is fair to say that women being seen as more than a novelty act in the "WWE Universe" largely started from the presentation they got in NXT. Yes it's now being done largely to let Steph jill off over how great she is for allowing women to wrestle, but they are in positions and given opportunites they seldom had before.

The Rock n Wrestling Era was just Moolah's troupe, which...well we know about that. The moment one started to get popular (Wendi) Vince screwjobbed her and things petered out after that. The Madusa era was just her and 2-3 other women, one who was given a completely embarrassing gimmick because lol fat women, amirite?

One thing is clear, TriPaul is much better at presenting women's wrestling than Vince ever was. He never really had interest and was quick to kill the division on multiple occasions. Even if it was just a reaction to women's MMA taking off, NXT was the place where WWE women's style finally evolved past being one or two decent workers and the rest being pretty girls who couldn't do anything. He clearly has a more nuanced view of wrestling than Vince, but since most people's memories are from the ridiculousness that went on in the Attitude Era he comes off looking like Bernie Sanders by comparison.

Is it possible TSN had a deal to show AWA matches like ESPN did in the US? I would assume WWE would have had the rights to those like they did the ESPN shows, just that TSN/ESPN still had rights to show it on their station too.

Shane's pretty much been the heel this whole program. He's gone out of his way to fuck over KO and Sami at every opportunity.

Not to mention they had to pretty much be shamed into spending money to upgrade production for ROH. The first few months of Sinclair-owned ROH TV were embarrassingly low rent looking.

Also there's the thing to consider that this is probably all going to be angle advancement anyway.

I mean, I don't think Adam Page is bad mind you, I just don't think he's at the level that either NJPW or ROH seem to thing he is yet.

NJPW sees something in Page, he's headlining some shows against Omega for them. I'm more bummed Tanahashi is being wasted on a meaningless tag match when the heel Briscoes killing people has been one of the more fun non Bullet Club related ROH stories.

Still not sure if I actually like the main NXT title or that the old X belt was so stupid that anything was an improvement.

I like it, it looks like a cross between a boxing belt an modern version of a territory's top regional title.

Not really, WWE keeps their scumbaggery to their own little world and don't have hundreds of local news anchors reading off scripts of WWE talking points. Linda's in the administration but it's a position literally no one cared about or heard of before she was named for it. Sinclair has used their influence to try to affect the last several Presidential elections (and it can be argued they helped torpedo John Kerry with their endless hammering of the Swift Boat issue), which is a far bigger issue than having Vince's wife run the SBA.

It seems to me with the Cena-Taker build and the constant mentioning of WM being free for new subs either they are internally worried about the number the next time it gets announced, or they are really close to a milestone number and they wanted to do a big push to make sure they got it. I know we're in a new world where the old rules no longer apply, but it's weird seeing the best Mania card in years and the emphasis on how you can watch it for free.

I assume someone attacks Asuka on SD leading to Carmella trying a cash in only to get killed to death.

The Wargames Collection was one of three removed to make room for new collections today since they want to keep the number available to 50. That would be fine if they didn't have 3 spots taken for the Best of Raw collection.

Yeah Andy actually pitched the idea to the WWF first but Vince Sr famously turned him down.

It's not, but if word gets back to them Santo was on a show with guys from a company they work with they would probably be upset. Paco seemingly keeps track of shows Santo's on than he does the indy shows his guys work on.

Not worth the risk of pissing off CMLL I would imagine, Santo's still on their shit list.

I wonder if it would help if they could get a couple of CMLL guys for the show. Chicago's a big hispanic market and it could widen the base they can draw from a bit.

I can't see how Kevin mentioning star ratings a few times makes him worse than a whole show of JR clearly not knowing anything that's going on. I mean, Kevin and Don are doing English commentary on a Japan-based streaming service. It's not like they are misreading the room if they mention star ratings and inside terms. It's like if CMLL offered English commentary on their streams and the announcer mentioned thecubsfan. Someone seeking out a niche of a niche like that should probably expect it.

This. Even setting aside the allegations, it was baffling to me they would honor someone who did so much damage to women's wrestling. She stuck out like a sore thumb in the Richter angle (everyone including Cyndi Lauper ran circles around her), and her playing the HBK role in the orginal screwjob seems to pretty much been forgotten.

So it looks like WWC is back? They seem to be running shows again and they announced they are bringing back their TV title as well.

BTW it is highly possible, even likely, that the Silverdome was "working" it's football capacity.

It's always been a bucket list item for me to go to Wrestlemania, and since MetLife Stadium is in the rotation now it's actually a feasable trip for me to make, but now I don't know if I want to go sit in a cavernous-ass stadium for 6+hours. Especially an open air one where I could get rained on to boot.