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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.

I don't see how WWE has any claim, NC State was doing the Wolfpack gesture years before WCW was, and WWE wasn't even concerned enough to file a trademark on it until 2015 which was after the Young Bucks started using it. This is pretty much just WWE doing what Vince said he does in the promo with Owens, threatening people who have less money than them with a long drawn out court case. See also them claiming that complying with subpoenas would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in the CM Punk case and the one with Bray's ex wife.

They're still the highest rated show on USA so worst case they'd probably get the same money they do now. What would really fuck them is if another show hits big on USA and Raw isn't the top draw anymore.

Wrestlemania will always sell enough to look full on TV, it's a destination event for people around the world now.

I *think* he was a babyface in WCW during that period where they were trying to find a gimmick that wouldn't get them sued (The Guardian Angel, The Boss, etc).

The New Day got over because they took a shit gimmick and used their charisma and personalities to make it work. It was like a modern day Dusty and the polka dots. To think that it was some plan to out smart the smart fans again seems to be giving the creative team way more credit than all available evidence would suggest they deserve. The Occam's Razor option here seems to be that they really think this is the way to build a babyface, based on the way they've completely kneecapped every other babyface by booking them as the same dorky loser.

Miz has improved, but I think all the talk about him being great in the ring seems excessive. He's absolutely top tier in promos (which is what's more important in WWE anyway), but his wrestling to me has gone from awful to either decent or "perfectly acceptable professional wrestling" depending on who he's matched with. Seems like a guy is either the shits or the GOAT with no room in between these days.

I don't even get what the end game could be. Are they going to reveal it was part of Jason's evil plan to trick everyone? No one is buying it. Are they going to keep up the pretense that he's his son? That's dying a death currently. So their only options are to keep fucking that chicken or make him a heel with the worst "dastardly plan" ever.

Meanwhile, they've quietly been filling in the gaps for 1986 WCCW and one from 1987 just popped up.