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So basically Dave's argument against Finkel comes down to something he had no control over and had nothing to do with his actual job performance. It seems unfair to punish a guy because Vince has a weird phobia of people he perceives as "too old" on his TV. By that argument, Jim Ross isn't a Hall of Fame announcer because Vince did the same thing to him and pushed him out the door for Michael Cole. When they put Howard in the WWE HOF (I know, but bear with me here) they had interviews with a bunch of guys saying how when they were kids a title change wasn't official until they heard the "and NEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW". It comes off to me as the WON HOF version of the NFL HOF's reluctance to put punters and kickers in. It's not the most important position of course, but it seems like Dave doesn't think like any announcer is worthy except Jimmy Lennon Sr.

It's not like it's the #1 problem they're facing, but the PPV bloat hitting their major shows is not doing them any favors. It's one thing if they use all this extra time for matches, but you just know it's for more wacky skits and Steph browbeating segments.

It's really impossible for you to believe Vince would think Brock would be booed because Goldberg was so popular the week before? The whole angle has been set up to make Brock the heel so far, and Vince expects all crowds to respond the way he wants them to. Perhaps "blowing a gasket" was an exaggeration but I have zero problem believing he fully expected the crowd to react the way he wanted and got pissed when they didn't.

If I recall correctly he was doing that for a while before Flair acknowledged it, so I can see how at some point you're wondering if it's a rib of some sort, but yes to say nothing ever came of it is silly.

Well it seems like either this will end with Billy winning and getting the company, or Dixie winning but in the process revealing what a black hole of a money pit the company is which really should give the Fight Network people pause for concern.

Not to defend Sasha, but it seems odd her sloppiness gets called out and it seems Charlotte largely gets a pass. She's a much better promo normally, and her current Queen gimmick has been a standout in a division where they all seem like interchangeable parts, but her matches tend to be more clunky than not. Part of it is her being so much taller than everyone else it looks like her opponents are trying to wrestle a daddy long-legs.

Another great moment in TNA history, they thought it would be a good move to bury Billy in paperwork to get him to give up his lawsuit. Instead, he used it to find proof that TNA lied to their employees when they denied talking to WWE about selling.

Wow that HHH fig looks to be in desperate need of some extra fiber.

I may or may not have had a whole company booked with He-Man figures and AWA Remco figures. I don't know if it was on purpose that they were the same size, but it worked perfectly.

Billy's experience in the music business prepared him well for dealing with carny ass wrasslin promoters.

WWE has zero clue how to properly book a proper white meat babyface anymore, so people like Bayley and Sami Zayn were pretty much doomed from the start. The only saving grace is that Bayley has way more charisma than any of the women so she may just well succeed in spite of the company's best efforts.

I loved Miz still in mourning over losing the IC title with Maryse looking like a blonde version of Lorde.

So the details are coming out about the lawsuit. So far we can gather that TNA was just about out money until Aeroluxe bailed them out. They were about to default on payments to them and have Aeroluxe foreclose when Dixie went to Billy and got him to bail them out, The deal with Billy apparently had terms where if TNA defaulted on him, Dixie's shares of the company (ie: nearly the whole thing) would go to Billy. The LLC in charge (basically Dixie and Serg) stopped giving Billy access to the financial info around June, and which time they were running in to another money crunch. Billy's claim is that the company was insolvent and at that point the company would revert to his ownership per the terms of the loan agreement. Dixie seems to have thought she could just pretend that the agreement she signed didn't matter and got the Fight Network parent company to bail out their last PPV/TV tapings. That's why they were trying to pay Billy off to go away, it seems Dixie conned them into financing a company she doesn't legally own if what Billy states is correct. Unlike the other folks she's carnied in the past, it seems Billy has all his ducks in a row and Dixie seems to be a dead duck legally unless their lawyers can find some sort of technicality.

Finally able to create a topic, so here we go. Per Alvarez, Vince blew a gasket at the "Goldberg Sucks" chants and pulled the plug early on the Lesnar segment. Not sure why they expected Brock to be able to get heel heat in Minneapolis of all places. God bless Paul for working his ass off trying though.

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".