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It's really funny how the (US based) MMA hardcore fans hate any sullying of their precious sport with dirty pro wrestling, but it was largely pro wrestlers who started the shoot style groups that kicked off the popularity of MMA in Japan and led to everything today.

That wouldn't necessarily be the worst thing, It's not like we need two hour plus battle royals on one show.

He's probably taking things that aren't being detected by their tests. It's always been a cat and mouse game with new things being formulated that escape detection and tests being adjusted to (try) to catch them. It's long been stated that to fail a drug test you either have to be very unlucky, stupid about your cycles, or just don't give a shit about getting caught. I'm wondering if now that the India Experiment seems to be over, what will happen now.

Because just like it's WWE Canon that Vince save pro wrestling from smoke filled arenas, so shall it be that Steph single handedly saved women from the dredges of bra & panties matches and butterfly belts.

Im guessing Asuka wins the title soon and Ronda makes a surprise debut and wins the Rumble to start the rumored Mania program.

(Why do apostrophes and quote marks disappear when I post on mobile?)

Lol Stephs if theres ever time for a Yes chant its now coming off like Jebs please clap moment.

I can hear Loss popping from here at Dana doing the Alexandria York gimmick.

His man boobs caused by ster....er his vigorous new training regimen.

Man, if Jinders gyno gets any worse WWE wont be PG anymore.

To be fair. anyone who complains about flippy flop stuff in a match with the Young Bucks, Flip Gordon, and Dragon Lee/Titan probably needs to be shot from a cannon into the sun anyway.

The thing about that is particpation rates in youth football is slowly declining, and more and more folks are uneasy with watching what essentially is concussionball on TV at the levels they used to, but somehow a Certain Segment has decided it's all the fault of black guys kneeling. Plus there's also still the reason the XFL folded in the first place: for all the bells and whistles they came up with the play on the field largely sucked. There's probably some quality players out there not on NFL teams, but it's not likely a new league will be able to afford any of them.

Vince seeing the NFL taking PR black eyes due to mishandling everything from DV arrests to players kneeling for the anthem and thinking what America needs is the XFL.

I always liked how Undertaker had multiple finishers that could believeably end a match given the circumstances. He had the triangle, the Last Ride, and of course the Tombstone. You could even argue that his chokeslam was a "jobber finish" that could end guys low on the totem pole.

High level business excecuitves seem to have a language all their own, which is almost as bad as the verbiage of a typical WWE promo that reads like an alien trying to approximate human speech.

This is pretty much testing the waters for both sides to see if WWE programming on social media platforms is going to be something worth pursuing. Worst case scenario WWE makes a few bucks off it and gets some extra oddball content to stash on the network.

Outrage, no, but Dave really should be more aware of the changing landscape and not put himself in a situation where he comes off like he's defending scumbags and/or victim bashing. As far as the second part, the most famous example that comes to mind is Ric Flair. He's had a gigantic blind spot for him and his drunken antics for years and it took his body shutting down from years of abuse for Dave to finally come to terms with it.

....and even if they could, why waste that kind of money on something that everyone knows will be 99.9999% bullshit anyway?

Bryan's all but said if he doesn't get cleared by the time his contract ends, he's leaving to go somewhere that will let him return to the ring (barring him getting a negative test result). WWE has to know he's got one foot out the door, it's odd they are doing an angle that seems to have him as the central focus. Do they think he'll stay if they make him the manager of the top heel group?

He came off like the person reporting the abuse was the bad person rather than the one (Elgin) who sat on the knowledge of said info for months and bad mouthed the person making the claims. Not a good look. Like generally yes, it's not normally a good trait to spill private conversations but if it's in context of exposing someone covering up abuse/talking shit on the victim then fuck that person in particular.

Its funny how they had Nia looking like Samoan Bertha Faye for the segment with Enzo but still had her come out with the other women to fight off Absolution.

(I know, it's the Sun, but the story hits all the important points) https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/5080248/wwe-legend-jerry-lawler-sexual-assault-comments/

It's been funny seeing the reaction to Jerry Lawler making less than respectable comments about women recently. Like, yeah, it's gross but did anyone expect anything else from the guy who's fondness for young girls was so well known it was made a running gag on WWE commentary?

Hunter did put Roman over at one of those events so he's a team player!

Its funny listening to Dave wonder if New Japan is popular enough to warrant a video game (in response to a reader question) when they had a pretty big tie in with Tekken 7 this year. The question wouldnt come down to New Japans popularity as much as the issue of much of the gaming market in Japan being more focused on mobile games than consoles. (to be fair I wouldnt expect Dave to be an expert on the Japanese gaming market, but it was an example of a wasted question in a segment usually limited to a handful)