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I mean, clearly some guys are but is that so much to impress Dave directly or with the knowledge that there's been times where impressing him has led to getting noticed by bigger companies?

If you're wrestling in a place like PWG you should tailor their matches to Dave and the hardcore fan since that's the exact audience you're working in front of. I kind of think the internet sometimes amplifies things out of proportion and makes it seem like stuff today's wrestlers do is a new concept. Was HBK trying to impress Dave and the Hardcores (great band name btw) by stealing the show in the 90s? Were Savage and Steamboat trying to impress Dave at WM3? It seems like trying to put on the best match is something top level guys have done since the dawn of time.

Speaking of Hidden Gems, I was watching the Joe Blanchard/Bob Ellis/Duke Keomuka vs Bob Geigel/Gary Hart/Waldo Von Erich match last night. It was surreal hearing Bill Mercer calling a match in 1966 taking place in a Sportatorium that didn't look like a dump.

Poor HoHo, maybe he should apply for Indian citizenship since his country is no longer Most Favored Nation status.

Mabel was a colorful babyface in an era full of cartoon characters. Jinder is a guy being pushed as an Indian Bret Hart but if WWF never ran in Canada in 1997.

Is there actually going to be a show from India at any point though? If not, then what the fuck is the point of all this?

He makes Earl Hebner look understated when it comes to putting the focus on him. Speaking of World Class refs, I was shocked to see Bronko Lubich take a ref bump (pushed by Kevin no less) on one of the 84 shows. I figured he was like a turtle and would never be able to get up again.

I would rather have a million more discussions on this story than have one more person arguing on Twitter over quarter stars.

This seems to be a theme. We saw it from the TNA diehards when Dave was reporting all their business woes and their reaction was basically yelling FAKE NEWS before that became a meme, and then when other people started reporting the same thing there was silence. On the other hand, you have people like Bruce Pritchard and Vinny Ru who are coming off like jilted teenagers with their constant Dave bashing. That leads to all the capes coming out from Dave supporters fighting against the people who parrot those two on Twitter and it all gets fucking old fast.

Would they do multiple cash ins on the same show? Seems like having Nattie win the #1 contender's match was a set up for Carmella to cash hers in afterwards.

Dolph at least normally has decent matches (even if no one cares how they came about), Bray has the same who-gives-a-shit approach to building a match and has bad matches to boot.

I doubt there were any fans around, I'd be certain a group of wrestlers would be in a private room situation away from the regular folk. I have no doubts the particulars were probably exaggerated to one degree or another, but no fan accounts wouldn't be particularly surprising.

Mike didn't really do much in their TNA run though. Maria was the star and she played Discount Steph until the final blowoff with the wedding angle that ended up being one of the best things the company ever did.

By the way, the next time someone says Pittsburgh is a bad town remember the horseshit ending to this show.

It just occurred to me Enzo would be the perfect PG 13 if they ever do a Nation of Domination remake.

Not sure if Ambrose and Rollins are going to team up or make out the way this is going.

Bray as the cult leader with no cult pretty much undermines everything he does, even if his promos make no sense.

Shoutout to Mark Madden finally making it on Raw in the crowd behind Braun.

At least Dolph usually had good matches so at least they'd be fun to watch even if you didn't care how they got there.

Can we have an hour of Raw just be BRAUN killing everyone?

Well that's a pretty obvious sign that we're getting Demon Fin at SS.

I get what they are trying to do, but Miz is running circles around poor Jason Jordan. I'm digging Bo Dallas's Arn glasses though,

Yeah that was quite the sussing I got that completely missed what I was saying. I totally understand the point of the gimmick, it just completely sucks.

I really want him to start a press briefing with "THE MOOCH SAYS KNOW YOUR DAMN ROLE", and from what we've seen from him so far there's a nonzero chance he might actually do it.

If ESPN can keep the NFL at arms length on their docs, they should be able to handle WWE.