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One of my co workers is part of PWX here in Pittsburgh so I'm planning to catch one of their shows soon to watch her in action.

To be fair, something else happened the week after that put the brakes on that story.

I would argue it wasn't so much because of Kane but because the Team Hell No skits allowed Bryan to show his personality more than the lame "vegan nerdy guy" material he was working with before.

Honestly. the change is a net positive for me. It's not as bad for a multi man elimination match

Rock N Rolls vs Rude/Fernandez were having a good series of matches over the tag titles before Rude got hurt/signed with the WWF and we got the RnRs just showing up with the belts after a phantom change.

If Raw would have been any more mailed in, it would have been delivered by UPS.

They also added a part 2 in the Austin vs McMahon collection.

If this ends up having any legs, I can see it being a boon to indy groups that may not be as equipped to do the heavy lifting to stream themselves.

I'm not someone who trains, either professionally or recreationally, but it seems the whole "tainted supplement" defense would lead to questions on why pro fighters would continue to risk taking supplements if they're that susceptible to tainting. Either you look like a jackass for taking the stuff and/or you look like a jackass for being the miillionth person to use the same excuse for popping.

The way the USADA statement was worded it could mean anything from him not checking in at the proper time or him sitting in a Scarface style mountain of coke. By all means throw the book at the guy if he actually took something, but it's kind of shitty for a governing body to release a statement more vague than a bitchy teenage girl throwing shade at her former BFF on Facebook.

It's sad my first thought was "how can they do champion vs champion when both are on the same brand" before remembering Roman is US champ.

I thought Rusev/Reigns was the best, mainly because it was the only one that felt like it had the hatred built in to justify a cell rather than the other two being built on "Daddy Hunter likes me best" or "We're making history".

I hope when it's all said and done and TNA is gone, like for-real for-real gone, the narrative doesn't become that it was always shit. There were many times, even recently, where the in ring stuff was decent to good, sometimes even great.

Gran Metallik will eventually be finishing up with CMLL soon, and Tozawa and Gallagher should be coming in as well. Hopefully you're right and they need an extra show to keep everyone busy. Still, it's going to be odd if the Raw Exclusive Division has it's show taped at Smackdown every week.

To me this comes off as WWE not knowing what to do with them on Raw and figuring having their own show worked before.

The fans really want a Shield reunion, it gets a pop every time they tease it. Since they want both guys to be more popular than they currently are, it's not the worst idea in the world. Plus I could see them being cute and have Roman/Seth and Dean do the DX/nWo deal and not-so-secretly acknowledge each other on "opposing" shows.

...and their Sony Six deal requires them to tour India (and they haven't, and don't look like they can/will anytime soon) so right now Anthem just won control of a company that has a grand total of one income source that could get axed at any moment.

Dave's value of crowd investment is probably why he's such a big fan of Tokyo Dome matches. Not that they're always the best technically, but Dome matches tend to be the blow off to big feuds and that's right up his alley as a fan.

Challenge in the UK just announced they're parting ways with them in January 2017. So they just lost half of the only two sources of income they had left.

The thing to me about the finish is that it was a combination of WWE's bizarre hard on for beating people in their hometown and WCW's habit of ruining good matches with shit finishes to make sure the crowd goes home deflated. I mean, it wasn't even that the crowd was upset that Sasha lost, it was more confusion and "what the fuck was that", which I can't believe was the desired reaction. It's hard to not get all armchair psychologist on why this company seems to enjoy never giving the fans what they want. I get that you can't do it every time, but you can't *not* do it every time either or you end up with what they have now where heels are the top babyfaces since the actual babyfaces are losers who never win when it counts (except Roman, but everyone hates him).

The pre shows are the most pointless programming I've ever seen. It's just an hour or more of Renee and crew trying to stretch 15 minutes of actual content as much as humanly possible. The only things of any value are the videos recapping the feuds and those get shown during the event itself.

I don't think it's right to look at someone not going in the HOF as "punishment". Lots of guys didn't have the careers they should have for reasons outside their control. They aren't HOFers because the HOF is based on the career they had, not the circumstances that prevented the career they could have had from happening. I'm looking at disqualifying someone from consideration for something completely out of their control as the punishment. Just like it seems like non Vince promoters have it held against them that in the end they went out of business. If ring announcers are such a non essential part of the business, why even have them on the list? Limit it to in ring performers and territory owners/bookers if that's the line we're going to draw. Dave opened the door by putting them on the ballot in the first place, it seems disingenuous to now try to say they're not important enough to warrant inclusion.

But they're obsessed with social media numbers too, which you aren't going to get if you train everyone to watch it later because it's too goddamn long to watch live.

The preshows on the 4 hour shows have been 2 hours, so it's more like a 5.5 or 6 hour show from first match to last match. I don't get why they feel turning PPVs into a death march for the audience is anything good. Like, I get three hours of Raw, I don't like it but at least they get paid for it. I also get making Wrestlemania an all day event since it's your Super Bowl and that has a million hours of pregame stuff. Why make a random B show last 4 hours plus the preshow? That's like you're punishing the fans at that point. All you're doing is tiring your crowd and potentially killing your main event, since the crowd is out of gas by then.

Match order will be interesting. I know there's a big push to have the women go on last, and with it being in Sasha's hometown it wouldn't be the worst idea to do it here. You can argue that the world title match should always go on last, but I have a bad feeling they're going to do something silly that's going to kill the heat for the show early on.