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This really can't be undersold. I see a lot of newer fans who honestly believe current WWE is the WORST SHOW EVER and have no idea (luckily for them) what it was like watching the dying days of WCW. I might get mad at WWE's stubbornness, but Russo booked WCW shows usually left me feeling like I just gave myself brain damage by watching it.

Joan Lunden, she actually appeared on Raw during her battle with cancer.

The last two days have been another ECW TV mega dump. What I find weird is how there's like a four year gap from 2006-2010 where there's no episodes of Raw at all. I went to go re-watch the build to WM and the Ric Flair retirement show, and imagine my surprise when there is none available.

Well technically Taker submitted him, even if it was the pass-out variety.

The end was great too when Regal came out to announce the women's title match. Asuka had a grin looking like a great white shark with a bucket of fresh meat, and Bayley looking like she was just sentenced to death.

Have to give Jericho credit for still finding a way out of the match despite being pissed off. Trying to remember the last time I saw a match end in a shoot DQ.

Robinson didn't appear to know that A: Neville was legit hurt and B: Jericho was trying to call an audible to end things quickly. You could clearly hear Jericho say something like "I fucking told you he was hurt" and Robinson saying "don't fucking touch me".

There's still a significant portion of the US that doesn't have fast enough internet to subscribe to a streaming service like the network and their only outlet would be PPV no matter how much WWE calls them idiots for doing so. Also Dave confirmed on the WO show today that Neville broke his shin and ankle like RVD did on the same spot years ago, so that sucks.

The thing about JR is that a lot of his anti internet stuff is kind of a work considering he's been tight with Dave forever and was probably one of his inside sources.

Dave mentioned that Roman isn't healing from his nasal surgery as quickly as expected.

That's why I don't go to parties. No one wants to hear about failing babyfaces deflating crowds.

I really hate when the person who's obviously not winning dedicates the match to someone important.

Big Cass rockin' that main roster tan.

Jericho bringing back the "best in the world at what I do" is only going to encourage more CM Punk chants.

Holy shit, i thought Kofi broke his neck in that match.

I'd be willing to bet that Vince sees the success Brock had as proving his point though, since that's likely the only time he paid attention to UFC.

Jericho's a million times better as a heel, and while there's nothing inherently wrong with their program, I wonder how beating the guy who only comes back to lose to other people is going to build up AJ.

Shane and Ted arriving to the arena on a tank.

Joey Styles said everything they had was going up, so I would imagine they will just fill the gaps on the years already added.

To be fair, they tend to create advertising way in advance so there's been numerous times someone was advertised with a belt they haven't won yet/without a belt they haven't lost.

So Dave just casually mentioned on last night's shows that the last tapings were it for Ryan Ward and he's being promoted to the main roster creative team to work on Smackdown. A lot of people seemed to be giving him the lion's share of credit for being the one behind NXT's success, might be interesting to see how things develop with someone else.

Having the angle end with Shane getting control of the B show the company barely pays attention to is only a slightly better outcome than a complete return to status quo.

I'm someone who listens to most of the audio on the WO site and I can't imagine listening to a 6 hour show on one Starrcade, Jesus....

You know what's odd about this whole Vince/Shane angle is both sides are kind of arguing the same point. Shane's side is that Vince doesn't give the fans what they want and everything sucks now. Vince's side is basically he does what he wants like taunt the fans by having Taker's bell hit then coming out to revel in the fans getting mad they thought they were going to see something cool. If the reports saying Shane's only in until WM are true, then they're building this up on the story that Shane's the one who's going to make things better. If he loses, it's the biggest middlefinger/cockslap to the face to the fans they could possibly do. The Authority keeping control of Raw after WM would only give storyline purpose to bury the NXT callups that are supposed to be starting on the roster soon, since otherwise they'd just be doing what Shane said he would do if he won. I mean, how is this angle supposed to end in a way that won't be a disaster? Either Shane beats the goddamned Undertaker at WM (which would be bullshit even with shenanigans), or this is just another rehash of SS 2014 where the Authority's power is in danger only to go right back to the status quo (which would only prove Shane right that Raw is nothing but boring crap under their rule).

Wasn't it stated somewhere that Vince took Nash and Hall leaving on a more personal level than anyone else's departure? I agree with the above post that you can pretty much pinpoint the exact time Bret was mulling over the WCW offer based on the booking. Knowing what was going on behind the scenes, you can probably assume Shawn and Hunter were burying Bret 24/7 to Vince, how dare he even consider leaving for the other guys at a time like this! Of course you had Shawn openly begging to get fired so he can go play with his friends, but whatevs.