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Yeah, I figured there'd be no way the Smartest Man In Wrestling would appear on a Raw that's sure to get clobbered by an NFL game *and* a hotly anticipated debate.

I hate to bring this up since it's such an overused crutch on the internet but I really think Dave shows a lot of signs of someone on the autism spectrum. The way he gets fixated on things and often seems to miss social cues only seem to be exacerbated on a medium like Twitter.

Dave's pretty much made it clear it amuses him to engage in the trolls so it appears that the idea if him using Twitter for anything useful has sailed.

All he said is that guys in the wrestling business casually toss around racial slurs (which should not be breaking news after all the Alberto stuff last year), and somehow people are turning that into DAVE IS RACIST! Now I do think that he's giving old timey guys too much of a pass (who really believes anyone doesn't know the weight the n word carries?) but that's a different argument than saying Dave agrees with them.

But people are making it seem Dave himself was okay with using that word when he was clearly not. He was just trying to point out that people in the business used it casually.

I know it's a different culture and all, but man is it kind of creepy how they tote out Pena's urn for every major AAA show.

His point was guys used the term "mark" with the same vigor they used with the n-word in a misguided attempt to show the negative connotations that the word had in the business. His problem is that he's not used to dealing with people on the twitter machine who overreact to everything to a ridiculous degree.

Is Rey on bad terms with WWE, or is just a matter of him getting annoyed they kept him on ice for so long?

To me, the biggest stumbling block ROH has as a company is how Sinclair half ass commits to the wrestling business. They seemingly had to be dragged kicking and screaming into spending the cash to upgrade their production to not look so low rent on TV, and it can't help the booking that they can't count on someone not leaving them in mid angle if WWE (or even TNA) come calling. Not saying they have to go all WCW and make it rain for everyone on the roster, but they're never going to be anything but a stepping stone for guys on the way up or a crash pad for guys on the way down.

I thought for sure he was going to turn heel when they did the Handshake of Respect spot at the end. There's really no reason not to do so unless he's in the doghouse for Alberto spilling the beans on him (which was a kind of shit thing to do).

Considering Scott grew up in or around Edmonton, would there have been anything else available other than Stampede airing on TV at the time? I know the AWA did reach into Canada but I'm pretty sure it was only in Winnipeg.

In other news, the latest content drop is 2008 Raws, so this might be filling in the remaining gaps.

Just got a survey from WWE, and one of the questions asked was what services do you subscribe to. One of the answers was "Crunch Roll" (actually CrunchyRoll the streaming anime service) which I found amusing since their heavily pushed tag team champs are huge anime nerds that dressed like Dragon Ball Z characters at Wrestlemania.

Mero's run was actually getting pretty good when his knee blew out, and when he came back Marvelous Marc ended up overshadowed by Sable.

It fits with his gimmick sort of since he brings a pirate flag to the ring. I couldn't figure out why they didn't have TJP do commentary or at least come out to confront the winner after the match.

Wasn't the deal with Hall and Nash's contracts that they were guaranteed to be the highest paid people? I remember at the time Hall was trying to encourage guys to get the biggest contracts they could because he knew it would benefit him too.

Judging by the people @'ing Dave on Twitter, Bruce made the claim on his show that Dave's brief time consulting for the WWE was a quid pro quo for positive coverage in the Observer. Dave dismissed it as nonsense, but I wonder if that's what Vince was looking to get out of the deal since Vince would go pretty hard at them at the time (1987).

The main event was pretty bad, but this CMLL legends show reminds me that Negro Navarro is kind of underrated in the category of "old lucha dudes who can still go".

Also it seems that the WON HOF is fast becoming like the Football HOF where there's becoming an embarrassing backlog in some positions due to the limits of how many can enter at at time. Maybe it's time for some sort of Veteran's Committee to review candidates after a certain time rather than expecting voters to select guys who's careers get farther in the rear view mirror.

Yeah, I hate how every discussion of promoters seems to end with "well in the end he went out of business, so he isn't HOF worthy" when that was literally the fate of everyone who wasn't Vince. It seems to be nearly forgotten how huge that early period was for JCP.

I can just see the conspiracy theorists now seeing this as Dave putting another roadblock in the path of UK guys getting in the HOF.

It is a pretty amazing sociology experiment to see how many people believe nonsense about Dave even when he presents them direct evidence stating otherwise.

TNA was jerking TJP around, unmasking him as Manik then deciding he should go back to being masked when he just wanted to be himself again. He ended up getting his release, and when he announced it on his Twitter Josh had to do a run in all "JUST GO AWAY BRO" to come off like an internet tough guy. It was just a bad look for the company's lead PBP guy and unprofessional as hell.

I'm not super wild about the design for the belt, but it wasn't just another palette swap of the world title so I'm just glad for that. I really dig Metallik and I hope they don't neuter him like they do every other lucha guy, he could be a star if they don't handcuff him. Having said that, I like that TJP won. He deserved a better fate than being stuck as a generic character from a TNA video game. Plus he was treated so shitty on the way out of the company with that toad faced shit Josh Matthews having to get his shots in on Twitter, it was great to see him get his moment.

Shane pulling a power play and ganking the cruisers from Raw would be a great storyline. Also would ally my fears that they'd just be built up to be cannon fodder for Brock on Raw.