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WWE kind of has to do something. It's too big a story for them to ignore it, especially since they just had another top guy pop less than a month ago. Their publicly stated policy says they have to do something, and they can't pretend they don't know about it. I mean, yeah they could do nothing, but WWE in 2016 is to phobic of bad PR to do that. It's more likely they wait for the hearing to see what exactly it was he popped for, and if it's a PED and not something WWE wouldn't test for like cold medicine they'll issue a 30 day suspension retroactive to the failure date so he can be back for SummerSlam.

I don't often pine for the old school mentality, but stuff like that makes me wish someone like Asuka would deal out some Bill Watts justice to people like that.

They can do what they did for Roman and have the 30 days start from the time of the test (June 28) so the 30 days would be up by SummerSlam.

Brock got popped by USADA, so now we see if WWE counts it as a Wellness Failure which they technically should.

The exchange between Shane and Steph where Triple H was mentioned leads me to believe she will pick Bryan as her GM as a suck up to the crowd, Shane will counter by picking Hunter, then Vince will pull the "swerve" and switch them. There was also something with the app publishing then quickly deleting a story about the Yes Movement being welcomed to Smackdown which makes me think he's the plan there.

I'm not saying you guys are wrong but it still seems incredibly nitpicky.

It's bad enough they have all these writers and end up copying ideas from other companies, but to do it within days of the original ideas comes off as bush league. Especially when their versions of both were far inferior.

They had Biff Busick work under his real name on TV for a few weeks then repackaged him as Oney Baloney or whatever his new wacky name is.

This might be proof of Time Traveling Simon Gotch.

I think it really gets undersold how much Alexia Bliss has improved as a heel. I remember when she first debuted with her fairy gimmick and blue hair I couldn't see how she could be taken seriously. Now she's great mean mugging fans and having tantrums at the referees, My only issue with her now is sometimes she's too cartoonish with her Angry Video Game Nerd scowl,

To be fair (and I can't believe I'm saying that in regards to Russo) is that the eventual pitfall of all bookers is falling in the trap of "this worked really well once, so let's never deviate from it". It's just that most bookers have a longer period of good stuff to counterbalance and/or negate the bad.

During the fireworks battle all I could think was "I bet this is how Jeff sees the world all the time".

That's what made his Twitter spat with Loss even more hilarious. His first response was all BRO BRO I NEVER BLAMED OTHERS BRO I DREW RATINGS (BRO), and Loss just responded with tons of examples of him throwing other people under the bus when his ideas failed to get over. Like you could tell from how quick the replies came it was off the top of his head and it didn't take him any time to think of them. It was really quite something seeing him get pantsed in public like that. TTK mentioned before about Russo's rep as a backstabber, wasn't that the whole point of why Hogan sued him that Russo went into business for himself in their angle and pretty much took advantage of the opportunity knowing Hogan couldn't really defend himself on TV? I mean when you think of it, the only ones who have ever been able to put Hogan in a sympathetic light were him and Gawker Media.

It's like the Hardys' whole careers built up to this moment. It's almost a shame TNA still is going forward since that will never be topped and would have been the perfect way to go out.

Pretty sure the first one was on 24/7, so it's ready to go.

Even with the gap for new shows, there's still several years of Raw and Smackdown missing from the archives. Also I considered ECW on TNN to be a continuation of the Hardcore TV show that is missing the first year or so.

Stuka Jr also seems like the kind of guy CMLL could do something with if the people running the place gave any semblance of a fuck. Nothing spectacular, but it wouldn't surprise me if he benefited from spending some time in a new location.

The rest of the Nitro episodes, up to the very end, are up now. There may be a stray one or two missing, but who'd have thought the first complete TV series up on the network would be a WCW show.

Same as how they really felt he would be a face against Rollins valiantly coming back from injury to regain the title he never lost. It's like Vince is Will Smith in that episode of The Fresh Prince when he dad comes back only to leave him again. I can just picture Vince all teary-eyed asking Hunter "why don't they want him?"

It's just sleazy from all sides. It pretty much just confirms what everyone suspected that Snuka was just working the judge, and it makes the Wrestlecon people look like they're enabling someone who may have gotten away with murder.

It feels weird saying it was a great podcast considering the subject matter, but it was two people who knew him the most in and out of the business having a frank talk about the man they knew before everything happened.

In the middle of listening to this now, and it's just crushing to hear how both Nancy and Chris were just devastated at the string of wrestler deaths that happened in the months leading up to their tragedy. Jericho relating the story of Chris bawling like a baby who doesn't want to be separated from his mother at Eddie's funeral was just gut wrenching. Both share tales of the guy they knew before things got all crazy, and Sandra talks about how winning the title at WM caused Chris to put more pressure on himself and made it harder for the family to be able to go out in public as easily as they could before. We'll never know the full story of course, but so far she's the closest thing we'll probably get to knowing what led to everything happening.

Especially how WWE books women, even after the "Divas Revolution", where they still have the Vince Russo style where they're all bitches who hate each other.

Enzo is tailor made for current WWE, with his ability to be entertaining with the usual crap writing he's given to work with, yet still you get the impression Vince still just sees him as the guy paired up with the tall guy he really wants to push.

Dave's point is that all characters in entertainment have a shelf life, and people are losing their shit because this particular instance is a woman. I thought he made a good point that it's no different than a Ricky Morton type trying to still be a teenage heartthrob years past the expiration date of the gimmick. Yes, the Bayley gimmick has evolved from the early days where people were wondering if she was supposed to be doing some kind of Aspberger's gimmick with how socially awkward she was. Dave's point was she's more like the big sister little girls want to be like and you can't play that role forever either.