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Agreed, but it's amazing how mad people got over stuff said on the hotline at times.

I was just thinking about this, do you think the hotline might be held against Gene in some way? There were some pretty scummy things said at times and while I doubt Gene came up with them he's the one associated with it.

It seems like 83 and 84 were pretty amazing years worldwide.

Was Mike Graham the agent mentioned in Eddie's book when he stated the reason the Radicals got a complete release from WCW was that someone backstage threatened to slit their throats if they jumped ship?

I seem to remember the opposite, him saying how stupid it was to replace one of the best ring announcers ever just because Vince felt he was too old.

Maybe they're trying to get in on a bankruptcy proceeding so they'd get a cut of the sale of the streaming rights? Didn't Vince give ECW loans he knew Paul couldn't pay back just to get first dibs of the assets when it got to the eventual bankruptcy proceedings? I seem to recall something like that being written in the Observer at the time. Maybe the Fight Network sees whatever money they gave TNA as a down payment on buying up the scraps later.

It will be funny in 15 years when he's running shows promoting himself as a former WWE Superstar and telling the boys he would have won the title but politics held him back.

Shawn's absolutely going to be there in some aspect, but not wrestling a match.

The Passion of the Shawn, live only on the WWE Network!

I'd imagine AJ wants a match with Shawn, which seems unlikely since Shawn is pretty adamant about staying retired.

I love the No Way Jose/Rich Swann tag team, and evil Andrade is already 100% improved. My issue with Sanity is how it seems that they're just play acting as bad guys. After the Nikki Cross match when they were all hitting their mean face poses it was like you could see it on their faces them thinking "now I will make a mean face for 30 seconds, then turn slightly and make another mean face".

TNA cultists will spin this as a new lease on life for the company when it seems like they just want Billy to go away.

I really don't get the "Joe is past his prime" talk. Maybe if you're basing it off the end of his TNA run when he was phoning it in at Kevin Nash levels, but his NXT run has been pretty awesome.

He wasn't that nuanced on Twitter, at least not until a million people jumped on him trying to play the "disrespect the military" card when he was famously AWOL from same said military.

Re Randy's tweets: basically All Lives Matter, and Kaep is a traitor. It's not anything any worse than you hear from the Uncle you don't want to get stuck sitting next to at Thanksgiving, but a public figure working for a publicly traded company should be smarter than that.

It's doubly stupid because a yearly PPV kills the special attraction aspect of the cell, and PG eliminates any of the violence that made it a memorable match in the first place. Not that I want to see Foley cage bumps or HBK blade jobs in every cell match, but with the current landscape it's just a regular match with the cage around it. Even if the feud was super heated there's nothing special about it anymore.

Speaking of wrestlers on Twitter, Randy Orton has gone on several tangents the last few weeks on things like Black Lives Matter and the Colin Kaepernick anthem protests. You can probably guess his views on those, the latter of which was especially ironic considering his history of going AWOL from the military (which people were quick to point out to him).

That Twitter gif was taken out of context from a video on WWC's Facebook page of Alberto and Paige celebrating. He grabbed her by the throat to bring her in for a kiss.

To be fair to the women, since they started running HIAC as a yearly show has there been any matches that really warranted being in a cell? I can't think of any off the top of my head.

I love what I've seen wrestling wise of Stampede, but the TV is hard to watch with matches always being JIP and Ed Whalen being the worst commentator ever.

I don't think they can help it. Half of it is Vince wanting to make Steph seem like a trailblazer and half seems to be them trying to prove to sponsors they don't treat women as shitty as they did in the Attitude era.

It's going to be so weird to watch the internet continue to act like the audience doesn't remember Goldberg as this feud goes on. It's like people want to dislike this so bad and won't even consider the possibility that there's a a really good chance they'll have a fun brawl full of plunder at the PPV.

The latest Legends episode is up with Bruno, and it's still kind of surreal seeing him on WWE TV in 2016. It's not really too different than the times he would go on with Dave and Bryan, but it's nice to see it reaching a bigger audience.

They did a really good job with the video packages all throughout the show to tell people even if you never saw WCW this Goldberg guy is a big deal. He cut probably the best promo of his career, and it helped that he seemed caught off guard at how big a reaction he got.

Yeah it's been lost in all of the drama Paige created for herself, but Alberto's a piece of shit in all this too. Remember he was sneaking around on his wife until the photos of him and Paige holding hands became public.