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To be fair, it looked like Charlotte was legit stuck in the tree of woe and Bayley appeared to not want to have her blow out a knee by doing a move on her. She definitely has her sloppy moments but that one in particular I think is just a "shit happens" moment.

That was a different time and place though. Wrestling was way more popular and Baba basically had the Hand of God to make things go away. I'm not sure New Japan in 2017 would have the same stroke.

Very possible. He did help with business and booking in ECW. He did run some kind of training business, didn't he? I think I heard he helped with TNA creative as well, but not sure about that. Him and D-Von ran (are still running?) a wrestling school, and I'm pretty sure he was doing a lot of the creative during his TNA run everyone loved. If ROH's office is as much of a mess as it seems, he could be a good asset to fix things as long as he can avoid having a Twitter meltdown.

Could it be that Bubba was brought in to help with some of the backstage stuff Kevin Kelly used to do? Like others said, I don't really see him being used as a top level guy, but as an office guy/part timer/maybe mouthpiece for some of the youngsters might not be the worst use of him.

Comparing Vince/Dana isn't the same thing as comparing wrestlers and fighters. Now that I look at it, I think I misread what you meant by stopping the comparisons at Vince/Dana. Dana is the ultimate scumbag promoter, though. Vince wishes he was as much as a real life heel as Dana. I'm almost 100% positive I read that Dana has said Vince was pretty much the road map he followed for UFC. Not to mention even without going down the "internet geek psychoanalyzes Vince" rabbit hole, the stuff on the record puts Vince far ahead in the real life heel category.

Jerry Brisco is pretty much the only wrestler that retired at the perfect time.

I have no idea how Roman turning can be called an "nWo level changing the business type angle" especially since people WANT Roman to turn heel almost solely so they can start cheering him. WCW diehards hated Hogan and wanted him to get beat and go away. People just want Roman to turn because for some reason they're too insecure to cheer a babyface that Vince is behind and that women & kids like. It wouldn't be, which is why I feel it's wasting what might be the last big Taker WM match on Roman. At least with Cena it would be a real dream match type build, no one but Vince would buy the same build with Reigns.

Nope, only PS4 and Steam so far.

Roman will get booed out of the building at WM no matter who he's matched with though. I don't see people getting hyped for Taker-Roman the same way as previous Taker matches because no one is going to want to see Roman go over in the end unless they are clearly going to go full heel with him. ETA: My basic point here is unless they have some nWo level changing the business type angle in store, it seems like a waste of a Taker match to put him in with a guy who would get the same reaction no matter what.

There's also the weirdness of him being matched up with Roman in the sense that the company's been ramming him down people's throats as THE GUY for over 3 years. So either this is going to be the jumping off point for the long rumored (and much needed) heel turn for him, or they are going to build for another torch-passing "coronation" Wrestlemania moment that will get booed out of the building. So even if Taker was coming in ripped and jacked to the gills, unless they decide to go an avenue they've resisted for years this will not get the reaction previous Taker matches have received.

Why do you say that "everyone else hearing him say this" see The Undertaker as just some broken down old guy when that's pretty much just what the smarkiest of smarks would think? He's the fucking Undertaker & he's been the most coveted WrestleMania opponent for years. I don't think anyone that saw him at the Rumble would think he's still a coveted opponent at this stage of the game.

I don't have a problem with that on paper, but history (of both sides) tells it's just a matter of time before that blows up in their faces. Also would anyone here get upset about TNA spoilers?

I was afraid to get excited for this and have it come out to be a trash mobile game, but this is beyond what I could have hoped for. The mods for the Steam version are going to be bananas.

Well it's also part of the bigger problem of why they have such a problem creating new stars. It's hard do to that when your current top star makes it clear no one else is at his level then wins every feud to confirm it. Like, his throwaway line about the Undertaker was a wink to the inside fans who knew about the early WM plans, but to everyone else they're hearing him say this broken down old guy is more of a worthy opponent than you are. It's devaluing talent for no reason.

What kills me about Cena's reply promos is that it's the old rule of if you say your opponent is a nobody then who cares if you beat them? Yes, Cena's delivery was very good, but at the end of the day he's calling the Miz a jobber and when he inevitably goes over it just confirms it. Just like he always does, he'll do a promo the next night how he respects the guy he beat but that doesn't erase weeks of build where you constantly tell the fans this guy isn't on my level.

Also I think the Rude match probably doesn't get the credit it should for making Warrior look like a top guy and not just the roidbag of the month.

Agreed. I think it will take a lot for Eddie to get topped in this category for me.

I hope he decides to keep working elsewhere and isn't another addition to the list of guys WWE has beaten the passion out of.

TNA is basically that cool part time job that suddenly decides to start asking their employees to treat it like a full time job, and get surprised when everyone leaves. I wonder what the plan is to fill all the gaps, maybe this is why they made a deal with NOAH and Jeff is trying to start a bromance with Konnan at Crash shows.

Nikki calling Maryse a bitch is much more risky in terms of what people who care about PG are concerned about than the Orton-Bray stuff,

You can't expect talent to sign over booking control when they already fucked guys over doing that previously (different regime I know, but still), and it's not like they are running a WWE like schedule where working indy dates would be a bonus and not where most of their income comes from.

Not sure why TNA is insisting control over everyone's independent bookings when A. They only run like one show a month when they do tapings and B. it's been the dealbreaker in 3 of their top acts leaving in a row.

Intentional or not, the writing staff sure isn't doing Seth any favors. Nor does it seem they're even trying to accentuate his strengths/hide his weaknesses.

Funny how his opponent was given a mealy mouth, wishy washy promo to deliver before Hunter H. Christ came out to save the day.