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The Hebners had a stake in a t-shirt store in St. Louis and it was alleged they were skimming shirts from house shows to sell at their store. You'd think that's an accusation that would have led to a lawsuit if there wasn't something to it, so odds are they were up to something.

That was one of the main things I mentioned when filling out the survey they posted for members. Nothing makes the site look more bush league when they get emails from random people then publish them as columns on the front page.

Dana Brooke isn't bad for someone at her level of experience. She's amazingly good at being a heel already at this point, it's just the "hit a move, do your pose" stuff just kills whatever flow her matches have.

What gets me with entrances isn't so much the music as much as the poses everyone has to do. It's worse with the women, Dana Brooke has to do that weird arm waving routine in her entrance and at least 2-3 times a match. It just looks silly to see these people who are supposedly on the way to engage in combat have to do an interpretive dance routine first.

I'm wondering what non WWE companies are going to be able to draw revenue from in the future. DVD sales are pretty much going extinct, VOD is just now starting to prove someone viable after the initial debacles in that realm, and no one is getting any TV money worth a damn other than WWE. I know some groups have YouTube channels, but I've always been under the impression you don't make much money from that unless you have six digit subscriber levels.

Dave said it last night on WOR when Bryan was previewing Raw. After the women's match was named, Dave interjected that he's heard that John Cena was pushing for that match to go a certain way, but didn't go into detail. The implication was clear that he had say in what was going to happen on Raw.

I've given up on caring about the women's matches, but it's frustrating that after all the horrible/lame garbage he's had given to him that Cena decides to use his influence to make sure Nikki keeps the title. Like seriously, he was OK with being told he'd be spray painting "poopy" on JBL's limo but goddamn we gotta make sure his lady gets a record literally less than 5 people give a shit about.

Loss channeling Tony Schiavone on Twitter was the best part of the main event.

Kana's signing/renaming deal from NXT tapings tonight.

Bayley-Sasha Ironman (woman?) match announced as the main event for the next Takeover show in October. I wonder how much can be read into them going all in on NXT when the Diva Revolution is sputtering badly on Raw.

Anyone else get a "Samoan Chyna" vibe from those Nia Jax videos on NXT?

She shouldn't HAVE to cut promos but WWE style demands everyone have to recite overly written promos.

That always struck me as odd since he gives all the signs of being the exact type to know any and all porn genres. Also I get a bad feeling Kana's going to get the "she can't cut it in WWE" rap trying to work miracles with the Eva Maries and Dana Brookes of the world.

I won't be able to watch until HULU tomorrow, but I assume a rotund and amazingly handsome bald man hopped the guard rails and proceeded to be incredibly funny and charming? some guy in a mask started walking down the ramp with Rollins for his entrance for a split second Also, shout outs to the guy who gave The Big Show an utterly pointless thump on the arm I like in an era where most wrestlers can mean mug fans and get laughed at, that dude legit thought for a second Show was going to kill him.

Labor Day + defending college football national champions' first game of the season tonight as well.

16 bit era was an odd time for wrestling games, there really wasn't much good other than Fire Pro games on the Super Famicom, a lot of good wrestling games were on the PC Engine in Japan which was a pretty big selling system, not so much for its US version TurboGrafix 16. Also there was Thunder Pro Wrestling Restuden which was the only Fire Pro game released on the Mega Drive/Genesis. I imported a copy cheap and there's no region lock other than a difference in cartridge size that can be dealt with by using a Gameshark or something similar.

It made sense storyline wise for him to be involved in the Taker match, not sure what they'll do with him now since Rollins is occupied and there's no point of wasting a Brock appearance with him of Taker's not around.

I don't want to blockquote Jerry's whole post but as a video game fan as well as a wrestling fan I agree 100%. My first exposure to wrestling was 80s JCP and there were tons of colorful characters that were all completely different. You had evil Russians, charismatic fat guys, wealthy playboys, dastardly villains, musclebound monsters, pretty boys, rednecks, and football players. There was something for everyone, which was an element missing from WWE up until recently.

So the latest WO.com update mentioned Johnny Ace got engaged to the Bellas' mom recently. Was their relationship ever mentioned on Total Divas? I would totally watch that show to see Big Johnny in the role of the confused dad/older male watching all these wacky shenanigans unfold.

They probably did call them that to their face, but black wrestlers really weren't in the position professionally or socially in those days. That's kind of how racism works.

Can't it be both? I'm sure it was the "official" term to describe black people in wrestling at that point in time *and* it was a racist term because most of the people who were responsible for setting the language of the business were racists. Also I don't think Dave is as much condoning the use of it as much as it's similar to how he's kind of thrown his hands up at drug use in the business. He seems to have the same "it is what it is" feeling towards both.

You would think that someone tampering with evidence would reset the clock, because otherwise you're basically rewarding the person who did it. Seems kind of gross that Snuka could go down for this alone when it seems pretty damn apparent it just didn't magically go away in 1985.

I remember a lot of folks saying her losing was dumb, I don't recall anyone claiming she was "ruined". That's not as easy to work into a narrative about whiny fans who won't accept what the company gives them I guess.

It's pretty telling when the main event is the world champion in a match to prove he's as manly as HHH and also defend the title too.

Actually she's a pretty good example of how people coming of age in the world of social media are completely unaware of the concept that there could be consequences to sharing everything. I know this sounds kind of get-off-my-lawn but it's amazing to me what teens and 20 somethings post on their Twitter/Instagrams/whatevers and then are completely shocked if someone lets them know that might not have been acceptable.