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Brock's no dummy, he knows UFC's new owners badly need a big money fight since this year has kind of sucked so far in terms of big draw fights. I doubt he really wants to go back to fighting but realizes this is the best time to maximize his earning potential. The only flaw in his plan is the soonest he could fight after his suspension would be in January, and that would probably fuck up WWE's plans since that would take him out of the Rumble. They still have first dibs on him at least until after Mania, and Dave mentioned that his deal has 2 more option years that only end if one side decides to walk away.

Doesn't make sense that he would turn down the money WWE pays him for the small amount of work they ask in return. Now if WWE already put it out there to him they weren't looking to offer him another fat contract, then him wanting to go back to UFC makes sense.

Probably, but to throw someone who's supposed to be the love of your life under the bus to that degree is quite the extra level of fucked up. Possible silver lining to all this, I'm not sure of her naturalization status so maybe she'll end up deported and at least have some distance between them?

To be honest, I was expecting the reveal to be something even worse so it didn't seem that bad to me. It does seem silly that they try to do things like this in 2017 that will only lead to Jason becoming Lance Von Angle, but at least they didn't say he was having an affair with Dixie.

There's so many levels of slimy too. Lying to both your women's champ and her fiancé who also happens to be your world champion. Making up bullshit excuses and doubling down when called out. Making an announcement to the live crowd to bury the talent you lied to. The kicker of course is doing all that to bend over backwards for someone who already quit on your promotion just last year.

No but Rey Sr is Rey Jr's uncle.

I can think of two off the top of my head: Porky and Maximo both have won the CMLL heavyweight title. Fritz Von Erich won the AWA title briefly and Kerry had the NWA title.

Cris Cyborg and Becky Lynch seem to be working their own angle on Twitter, or at least I hope they are since Becky is liable to catch an ass whooping otherwise.

Road Dog was definitely the better worker but let's not rose tint glasses ourselves into thinking his promos weren't just him intro'ing the team and making weed references.

It seems like both Talking Smack and 205 live were getting low viewer numbers, but getting rid of 205 would be admitting the cruiserweight division is a flop so if one has to go it's going to be the post game show even if it's the one that gets more positive buzz. It seems like they are in another cost cutting mode (see also: no more pyro) so Talking Smack ended up having to take one for the team.

Corey Graves' name when he was a wee lad toiling on the Pittsburgh indy scene was Sterling James Keenan, so I'm always holding out hope.

I don't get the mind set that every tag team needs to be broken up at some point. For every Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart you have tons of guys better suited for tag teams and get lost in the shuffle as singles. There's nothing wrong with being a career tag team guy if it's the best shot at success.

Per Dave it was low ratings.

The more they try the more Roman's going to end up the Lex Luger of this generation in fans' eyes.

He was teaming with Davey Boy Smith Jr in New Japan until he got hurt.

Interesting stuff in the new Observer stating Enzo has major heat for some unmentioned faux pas on tour that led to Roman throwing him off the bus and getting the Miz treatment not being allowed to dress in the locker room. Also Cass is not popular among the boys for being a big time Trump supporter, which at the same time probably (my opinion not Dave's) explains why the company is so big on him.

Seems like the bottom line was he didn't want to be there anymore and they thought he was an asshole so in the end everyone wins.

Well I'm sure Mick's checks always cleared, plus he got to work 1/10th the schedule so I guess it was pretty great that Dixie got into the business from his perspective.

It was definitely post TNA, as there were times he was certainly in the HBK style "no condition to perform" state on Impact. It made Dixie's comments come off as either her being the dumbest person ever or the most naive since she's the one that would have okayed him going out there like that.

Sony is currently in "Arrogant Sony" mode, which they always seem to fall into when they are winning a console generation. Recently Minecraft went cross platform for Xbox, PC, and Switch leaving out PS4 users. When asked why, Sony gave a laughable excuse of wanting to protect Playstation users from possible inappropriate content. When Nintendo (the most famously family friendly company in gaming) is on board you know that got laughed out of the room. It wouldn't surprise me if they pull something similar here. It won't matter though, Fire Pro users find a way. If we could swap data on Japanese only Super Famicom versions back in the day, transferring data to a PS4 won't be tough.

For a company that beats "we put smiles on faces" to death as a slogan, they sure do like to bum everyone out by making the good guys looks like geeks. It's even more baffling when you consider the most money they ever made was when the evil boss and his minions were made to look like fools by the heroic everyman babyface on a regular basis. For as much as they continue to lionize that era (and they should, considering it was their most successful time) they sure don't seem to remember just why it was so great.

I don't know if he's going to pan out to be what the company expects him to be, but he does have a bad ass aura a lot of the roster lacks. So many heels come off as someone playing bad guy, Corbin comes off as a legit bad guy who gives no fucks (probably because his real personality is not too far from that).

The WWE 24 on Kurt Angle was great, as that series tends to be, but man did it leave you not wanting to ever see him wrestle again. The whole theme was when he wrestles he won't stop until he breaks his neck, and even then he will rush to come back as soon as possible. He seems to be in a great place in life and I hope his rumored comeback won't mess up his sobriety.

I always wondered what happened to him. It seemed like he was at worst looking like what Bray Wyatt is today (gimmick guy who can be plugged into the main event scene if needed) and then he seemingly fell off the face of the Earth. I figured he didn't shake the right hand or some other WWE code violation.

Maybe not, the last Fire Pro game (FP Returns) was a $19.99 budget title on PS2 so they might go the same route here. FPW is great. For those of us who had to deal with downloading CAWs to old gen systems, the Steam marketplace is mind blowing.