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I don't know what was worse, Sister Brayagail with the Black Scorpion voice or Finn having to sell being afraid in his promo afterward. I would have had a "Santino laughing at the Boogeyman" moment if I was in his place.

While true, if TNA of all places could manage to put together the Broken Matt stuff in an effective way surely WWE could manage something. It's not like it would be diverting tons of resources away from developing young guys, just give Matt a camera guy to go fuck around with and have someone edit the footage when they're done.

Damn mobile...anyway Daves confirmed that Neville walked but WWE is not saying hes gone yet.

Yeah, the last few Shane matches my fear wasn't "he's going to die from falling of the cage" but more "he's going to die from a heart attack from moving more than a few minutes at a time". He gets so red even Brock would be all "damn, bro that doesn't look good". Combined with his Mike Rotunda-like sweating just doing a promo on most Smackdowns, it would almost be enough for one to suspect he might be hitting the Columbian slopes.

Looks like Enzo's a certified draw since the third hour of Raw held up pretty solid despite both football and a Yankees playoff game on last night. Probably helped that the football game was a shit fest, but I guess Enzo was able to do the impossible and get the cruiserweights over.

Fears about Sami are certainly warranted, but this is probably his best chance considering WWE is currently has completely forgotten how to properly book babyfaces, Whatever ends up happening to him as a heel it can't be worse than annoying neurotic babyface Sami.

Is there anywhere that has whole Poffo ICW shows? All I can find are single matches and short clips.

Rusev is literally everything Vince usually drools over, a big guy who can work and even can (usually) make the comedy stuff work as well. Yet he remains directionless and the best use they can come up with for him is generic foreign heel. Maybe theres still resentment that they couldnt break up him and Lana.

Another point is that it's easier to look past overbooking if it results in a finish people want. Nothing's worse than a bunch of bullshit that results in the wrong person winning.

Moderation for sure. Each "Dusty Finish" by itself was perfectly fine, but doing it as much as they did killed interest since you could see them coming a mile away.

I think "over booking" gets a bad rap because too often it's done by bookers trying to be smarter than the room and/or reinvent the wheel. There's a difference between booking a match with a bunch of run ins/cheating/plunder that can be fun and entertaining, and there's booking a match because someone just wants to do a bunch of wacky bullshit.

Theoretically there shouldn't be a reason that he can't get regional indies to run together under the NWA banner to benefit everyone, or at least build up a larger territory to be the next super indy, other than getting wrestling promoters to work together is harder than herding cats. At least Billy should have motivation to do something with his investment, and his creative input in TNA was starting to be pretty good until Dixie had to Dixie all over everything.

It's not that Vince hates it, he just doesn't like using ideas he didn't come up with and/or thinks is too "southern rasslin" which in his mind is anything that got popular with JCP or WCW.

Probably no need to spoiler the name since WWE just blasted it across their social media accounts. My only pause with this is having it a three way match was awkward when WCW did it, but WCW at that stage would fuck up a one man circle jerk.

It wouldn't be such a bad move to use if he didn't apply it so damn loosely. It looks like crap when guys give up to a glorified hold that looks as devastating as a guy on the apron holding your arm back so his partner can take a shot at you. So much this. I don't really mind the other stuff people don't like about him, but nothing's worse than a supposed devastating submission hold that looks mildly inconvenient at worst.

The ironic part is that it's probably Jimmy's best work in JCP/WCW since he was the fired up babyface defending his wife.

Is there anything better in wrestling than Lance's exasperated reaction to Memphis heels? He managed to sound like both a disappointed dad and a substitute teacher that's completely lost control of their class.

The Flair-Garvin feud was super creepy in retrospect since it was basically Flair saying he was going to have sex with Garvin's wife whether she wanted to or not (and she was clearly positioned as not wanting to). Plus every time she rejected his advances and/or slapped him he seemed turned on like it was a live action version of Pepe Le Pew chasing the cat.

They've largely given up on the last hour of Raw ratings wise, everything important is finished by 10:15 or so. There's been such a drop off in hour three for so long I think it's going to become their version of the first hour of Nitro when that was three hours long.

I'm watching World Class now that it's mostly complete for the first couple years, I just started 1984. It's sad not just for the obvious reasons, but also for what could have been. Mike debuted a few months ago and so far he's been a perfectly fine tag team wrestler. He could have been the Robert Gibson of the Von Erichs, but when David died he was expected to be part of the legendary dynasty when he was nowhere near the singles wrestler that his brothers were. Fritz had such a hard on that all his sons would be world champion (at that time meaning David, Kerry, and Kevin), that he didn't seem to notice or care that Mike was never going to be at that level.

Im still trying to figure out why Charly was dressed like Col. Sanders tonight.

Wait, who's saying that? Every story I saw on it seems to link back to the same PWInsider story where they say they spoke to people in the company who all pointed to the lawsuit as the reason why.

Looks like we're not getting Thunder (or Heat which was supposed to be coming soon too) due to the Buff Bagwell/Raven royalty lawsuits. On the plus side, we're getting more WCCW instead so yay for that.