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What's really disheartening is how once again WWE gets away with shit behavior. I don't fault Alberto, all he wanted was to be able to do what he wanted with his career, but at the end of the day WWE can keep on being racist shitheads and all it really cost them was letting someone out of a non compete to work places not directly competing with them.

Vince cutting a promo on the Liverpool fans might be the most Vince thing ever. You run 15 shows in 6 days in a country you just blue balled on getting the Network at the last minute and you're shocked the crowd is dead for your B show taping?

The Summer (Spring?) of Brock, book it Vince!

He also showed up in ECW for a match or two as well if I remember correctly. Tully wasn't blackballed, WCW just didn't want to pay him what he felt he was worth after he failed the test since they were in one of those "pay everyone as little as possible" time periods. Somewhere along the way Tully found Jesus and off he went.

I also seem to recall another WCW management change between when Arn/Tull agreed on their deal and when they were supposed to start. The new regime wanted to cut costs and used the test failure as an excuse to pull the offers the prior crew offered.

ECW CyberSlam 96 has Brian Pillman's "smaaart maaaark" profanity laden promo uncensored, that was unexpected.

Southern accent I'd assume. Perhaps he was trying to Cajun it up a little since the Wyatt's backstory was they lived in the swamp.

I'm actually digging how they are building the main event for Survivor Series so far. They've made a point of showing how Team Authority don't really like each other and how Team Cena's game plan is basically "fuck it, let's go down swinging".

Hearing an apology for interrupting the Russian anthem just broke my grew-up-on-80s-wrestling brain.

So from how the Steph/Lana interplay went down, it kind of looks like Rusev might be the one who turns on Team Authority. If that wasn't planting the seed for something, it was quite the ball-chopping of the gimmick.

They've apparently decided no one wants to watch anything that happened before 1995 (except for the first year and a half of RAW), so it looks more and more unlikely we'll ever see any of this stuff.

It's hilarious to consider if the network had all the content available that was on 24/7 at one point or another it would eliminate nearly all the complaints people have.

I think the BrainBusters were on their way out, since failing that drug test was the excuse used by NWA/WCW to pull the offer they made to Tully.

So the other day it was in the daily WON update that it was the anniversary of Bockwinkel's first AWA title win in 1975 over Verne. I've never seen that one before, and I figured if anyone would know where to find it, it would be someone from here.

Plus if they're chanting Jackie Chan at him they can't even be racist correctly.

I'm not big on the usual troop-fellating stuff WWE does, but the segment on Smackdown with the paralyzed soldier walking in the exo suit was pretty awesome.

I can see the argument that it went a week too long, but it would have been silly to have one guy clean house on the team that was pushed as Road Warriors 2.0 for over a year and are moving to the main roster. I'm surprised to hear about the racist stuff considering what a huge reaction he got for his debut. Especially since the NXT crowd seems to be a lot more tuned in to the non WWE world (see also: Sami still getting the Ole Ole chants).

With Finn Balor's NXT debut tonight, it should be mentioned how odd it was Dave made a couple mentions of him not liking the direction they were going with KENTA. He was upset they had the Ascension beat him up a few times in a row, with the implication they were going to use him as a job guy or something. i mean, he had to have read the tapings result and knew it was all leading to something.

He seems like a hilarious guy, I love his twitter feed when he goes on trips and gives play by play of the idiots around him.

Well they're certainly capable, history has shown they can do nearly anything they want if they put their minds to it and do something properly, but will they is the question. I don't know if I'd trust them to have enough patience to boil water correctly without trying to rush it and fuck everything up.

Now that the show's on a better night (with more competition), I wonder if that will mean WWE will put more effort into making it more than a two hour Raw Rewind.

uh not to get personal here but have we all forgotten rovert is like a legit professional troll? I know not too many people here follow the WON board (or at least the pro wrestling section), but even when he has good points every discussion he's involved in turns into the semantics of every single word of every post until everyone runs away screaming.

I laughed out loud at "caca" when Alberto used that last year, came off hilariously over the top being unusual to hear on WWE tv. I don't remember Alberto using it but Santino using it was one of those moments that made you go "and this is why ad rates for WWE programming are never going to be good". It's not nearly as bad when it's a comedy character (not to mention one who's gimmick also includes him mangling English on a regular basis) does it, but it's completely cringe inducing when it's someone we're supposed to take serious. Wasn't there something on one of the Dave shows not too long ago when a question came up about the verbiage in promos where it was explained that's how Vince thinks people actually talk? Or something along those lines.

By the way, they have an opportunity for maximum trolling if they say they're going to make an announcement at the UK RAW only for the fans to hear WELL I'M AFRAID I'VE GOT SOME BAAAD NEWS

Doesn't it seem kind of odd that WWE didn't seem to care that they pissed off US cable and PPV companies but are walking on eggshells when it comes to the UK and Sky? It's as if they actually read the deal they have in place and realized they can't fuck them over.