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Yeah, it's weird how the discussions go when it involves the women. A male heel booked like Alexa would get crucifed, but when it happens in the women's division it's WWE's fault for ruining the babyfaces. I like Alexa but she's basically been Stephanie'ing the whole roster so far.

He has been gone for a while so there would be a need to reestablish him, but destroying most of the upper midcard to do it seems like overkill.

I think the issue is more "why the fuck is Kane the one getting the shot at Braun" rather than not understanding a challenger needs built up.

Kane and Taker have always been very good at making it look like they kill dudes with their Tombstones, but when you go back and rewatch it they don’t come anywhere close to making contact.

I admit I laughed at Bo getting the “hey he’s still alive” pop when he showed up with Miz.

Huh? The same Emma who sandbagged the "sexy" Emmalina gimmick is suddenly going to become a model?! What's weird is that all the stuff they were doing to built up Emmalina she was already doing on her Instagram so it was strange to me she had issues pulling it off as a gimmick. Also weird is all the people in WWE reacting as if she died as opposed to just getting released. All the "we'll always remember you" stuff seemed a bit melodramatic. Hope Lio enjoys being the new Heath Slater, there's no way he's going to escape their doghouse at this point.

I think Dean's a prime example of someone who's far better utilized as part of a team/unit than a singles star.

I don't mind the Bullet Club stuff in NJPW since they tend to have more balance on their shows, but ROH is in danger of falling in the WCW trap of letting the popular stable run wild leading to no one outside it being able to get over.

Also PWG by nature tends to arrange it's events as a showcase of the best indy talent it can get, so it's going to have higher quality than random B level WWE PPV #7978908 where all the matches have been done a million times. and/or get kneecapped by questionable booking choices.

It's just that every time I opened Twitter yesterday the newest Tweet on my timeline was Dave lecturing someone on how much better PWG is than WWE! He's lost his mind a bit! I mean, for the most part isn't it? They've become a destination for wrestlers and fans, their shows always seem to get rave reviews form people who aren't Dave.

Probably relevant too this thread that the guy who was the face of WhatCulture's wrestling shows admitted he was sliding into women's DM's/asking for nudes/being generally creepy all while lying about being in an open relationship.

HBK became one of the biggest stars in history in part due to knowing wins and losses matter and always being adverse to doing jobs. I would probably say Nia might have overplayed her hand somewhat, being so early in her career and all, but Id never fault someone for doing what they think is best for themselves. Plus this might work in her favor, as Vince tends to weirdly respect people who tell him no despite putting everyone who works for him in fear of losing their job.

Because Dave can (apparently) make money at it and Russo can't?

People pretending the Young Bucks aren't major merch sellers are worse trolls than anything Dave tweets.

I mean, other than the garbage truck spot what was really all that bad in the main event? I know that's an "other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?" situation, but I felt that the match up to that point was as good as could be hoped given the situation.

The first couple years of the Kane gimmick were great, but a lot of that was due to being in angles with Taker/Foley/Bearer. Once he was wacky tag partners with X Pac, that was pretty much the end anything good. If they insist on keeping him around, having him in a non wrestling role might not be a bad thing. Director of Operations Kane was fun for a a while.

Apparently Jeff had another issue of showing up to a gig in no condition to perform at a Canadian indy show. I guess that either means everyone was wrong to assume his leave of absence was code for rehab, or he already gave up on it.

I loved the idea of this angle but it really hammered home how much of the SD roster has been wasted. Nothing says scary invading group less than Ty Dillinger and Dolph Ziggler trying to be badass.

Anthem, it appears. I guess they need to shell out for new belts again since the new ones had Global Force all over them and the old ones were TNA branded.

Impact officially announced that they have cut ties with Jeff Jarrett and GFW.

I can't remember but did the ft worth shows exist in its own world like it did in later years? For example ft worth had a world class tv title. For all intents and purposes did not exist at the Sportarium. Pretty sure that the match Jimmy Garvin lost that kicked off the Sunshine/Precious split was for the TV title, which made it weird when it looked like he was getting super mad for no reason since the main show never mentioned the title that I can recall.

I'm assuming they just went with a guy they figured could work a good match with Finn on short notice. Plus they clearly see Matt as the lesser half of a nostalgia act and not someone that can be plugged into a promoted PPV match.

I would have saved his in ring return for a Wrestlemania or Summerslam PPV not a C PPV show like TLC. Ideally that would be the best plan, but shit happens and I can see how WWE would feel one big deal (Angle's return) would make up for not being able to deliver the other big deal they built up for months (first Shield match).

I wonder if Nias leave of absence and Tom Phillips being off Smackdown allegedly on assignment are connected to this.

Can you imagine the discussion that must have taken place today? "So the shit hit the fan today, let's put the guy we fired so he wouldn't die on our watch into the main event TLC match in two days". Even if you're confident he has his substance issues under control, which is well...y'know, there's still the concern that his neck is so bad his arms have atrophied to such a state I'd be concerned if I was his opponent that he might lose me during a move. So even if he's going to be protected to not take any crazy bumps, having him be the one to initiate them could be just as scary.