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With Dana Brooke and Emma now apparently full time on the main roster, they're going to have to start building up the women. All they have now is Askua, Eva, Nia, and a bunch of jobbers.

Anyone else watching the War Games collection? I find myself liking the early 90s ones way more than I remembered at the time. Road Warriors/Midnights/Dr. Death vs Freebirds (Gordy/Hayes/Garvin) and the Samoan Swat Team from 1989 is a great one as well.

I don't think anyone doubted Roman himself, just that the booking was doing him no favors for someone they wanted to be the guy. They finally figured it out, and lo and behold people responded. The key will be if they can keep it up or will AJ end up being Edge to Roman's Cena.

All I know is the clips I've see with adult Vince pining for kid John Cena come off creepy as fuck to me.

Hogan was originally part of it, the show was delayed due to having to edit it out.

Classic content in that case only meant the early Smackdowns they uploaded.

Steph gets more heel heat than anyone on the roster.

Sucks that he's the first thing I think of now when someone hits the ropes awkwardly.

Yeah it's funny for Arn to pull the "kids today are soft" card considering the other two guys at the table with him are a lifelong functioning alcoholic and the other was a cokehead until he found Jesus. I know it's a chicken and egg argument if the schedule caused the lifestyle, but how else were guys in the 80s supposed to handle the wear and tear?

They don't have a problem with Benoit stuff, if I'm remembering right Eddie badly dislocated his elbow doing a frog splash on that show.

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So I'm watching 1986 Memphis TV on YouTube, and around October they bring in Sputnik Monroe in to introduce his son Bubba to the territory. He's obviously not the greatest worker but he's not Erik Watts-ing it out there either. Within a couple weeks, he's losing in 25 seconds to Jerry Lawler. With wrestling being wrestling, I figure there has to be a story behind that one.

As a long time fighting game fan, I love that Cesaro's new gimmick is basically Urien from Street Fighter III:

It really struck me watching the show today that Chad Gable is smaller than Enzo.

I wouldn't go as far as to blame WWE for her death, but it really shouldn't be undersold how shitty it was for Hunter to be creeping around behind her back with the boss's daughter no matter what other emotional baggage she might have had. Plus it was almost like no one in the company could fathom why she might not take the news well and were surprised at her reaction.

It seems like her whole life even before wrestling was a slow motion train wreck. I believe she mentioned in her book there was some kind of abuse in her childhood and her going into bodybuilding and kind of implied that her getting so jacked up and muscular was more or less her overcompensating for that. Then after becoming a star in wrestling as a giant Amazon woman who beat up men, they end up putting her in goofy romance angles with Mark Henry and have her get her face reshaped to look more feminine. Of course the breakup with HHH and everything seemed to go downhill from there.

If he's going heel or even tweener, yes it's great. If he's staying babyface (and the stubbornness of the last two years suggest he probably is) then it's stupid since it's just actively pissing off the most vocal portion of your fanbase and working against the supposed goal of making him the #1 good guy.

I figured she was brought in because she's apparently dating Riccochet.

I would think someone Indian would at least have the opportunity to explain it, since Americans would probably be confused at seeing a brown-skinned person sporting a symbol most only know as emblematic of a hate group.

Well that's one positive of living in a social media driven world, the truly bigoted can't help but make their feelings known at some point.

Huge cheers.

Are the Harris brothers considered to be Neo-Nazis for legitimate actions that can be pointed to in their past or is it the gimmick tattoos? Giant SS arm tattoos are hardly a gimmick. Plus one of them got suspended in the early days of TNA for wearing an SS shirt. A lot of people seem to want to hand wave this away as a nutty rasslin' gimmick, but they're pretty committed to it if it is.

What's funny is that Cody Rhodes just tweeted out not to long ago that Rose had the best physique in the company.

It's different in LU. Partly because lucha has a rich history of wacky gimmicks that work and also because the backstage segments are produced by professional TV people who do it way better than the hokey stuff we see in TNA or WWE. Basically LU is what WWE wishes they were with the "we make movies" nonsense.

He isn't chastising them for caring, he's responding to people going nuts that he went over the results of a pre taped show as if that has never been done before.