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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.

I mean, you're not wrong, but if losing the music is the price to pay to have a place I can watch it without worrying about some rando's YouTube account getting nuked then I can live with that. I mean, the WCCW stuff isn't any less awesome for not being able to hear Tom Sawyer or Stranglehold.

To be fair, that's what every promoter used to do, I doubt Vince paid to use "Sirius" for Ricky Steamboat back in the day, or that Crockett paid ZZ Top for "Sharp Dressed Man".

Rights issues. WCW likely paid a lot to the Jimi Hendrix estate for the rights for that and it's not worth it to WWE to pay for what to them is archival content.

Considering Dave's dad went from being a relatively healthy old man to on death's door in a few weeks time, I think it's possible that both WWE changed some ideas and maybe Dave wasn't on his A game. I'm not sure why it's apparently becoming hard to believe that Vince changes direction, since that's been his MO on practically everything not Roman Reigns for the last 10-15 years.

I got the impression Edge is on a legends deal and Christian was riding out his last regular contract.

A group of fans using PETA-like tactics to protest would be amazing, REIGNS IS MURDER!

I mean, considering most people in WWE (especially those that came up through their system and never worked anywhere else) are in constant fear of losing their jobs I could see Braun being legit scared of being told on. Part of the training in the PC seems to drill it into everyone's heads that they're nothing without WWE.

I've met Karen at a rinky dink TNA houseshow back when she was with Kurt, she's definitely a no-fucks-given take no shit personality. You can choose to believe the groveling part or not, but it seems 100% accurate from her side.

Christian also posted pics of his wrestling boots on Twitter wondering if they still fit, so he might be contemplating a comeback.

It's really mind blowing to see HBK going on the road with NXT as an agent after watching 97 era Raws when he was in peak douchebag mode.

Anyone else having problems with the 1980 MSG show? It keeps randomly shutting off and sending me back to the previous menu on my PS4. It's the only thing I've really had an issue with.

Apologies if this is too much of the Observer to post at once, but this story deserves to be told in all its glory rather than paraphrased:

Mike Graham was something else on the old Roundtable shows from WWE 24/7. Literally everything that happened in wrestling was directly due to him to hear him tell it. It was funny to see all the other oldtimers looking at him like "you fucking believe this guy?".

There's something to be said for keeping the top titles special and doing the hot shot angles with the secondary titles. We hardly ever saw Hogan defend the title on TV, and when he did it made it seem like a big deal no matter what loaf he was put in there with. I feel the same way with Brock, yeah him being gone for months isn't great but when he is around you know shit's going down. They're even doing it with Jinder too. No matter how you feel about his push, it's going to be a big deal when he gets beat. Hotshotting all the titles is what made them all worthless in the 90s (hi Vinny Ru!), but doing it with one while keeping the others stable is okay in my book.

All the internal grumbling from the administration reminds me of a heel stable coming apart and lashing at the babyface announcer for asking what's wrong with the team.

I'm not sure there's anything out there that could be used to start a library. Memphis rights are a mess (and even if they weren't WWE would get first dibs via Lawler), the only Portland stuff I've seen was from the stash Buddy kept in his garage and not the greatest VQ. Those are the only two I can think of that would be worth purchasing.