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Man, it's a psychologist's wet dream that Kevin "no ugly or old people on my TV shows" Dunn is the only one with no photo.

I get the Bray comparisons since it's recent, but it seems like they are doing the old Kevin Sullivan Florida gimmick with less overt Satan stuff.

They clearly don't have the first clue how to promote this thing. They spend so much time hammering the price, but they never tell you what you get for it other than PPVs and historic RAW moments (half of which aren't even up yet). It never seems to occur to them the price doesn't matter if you don't tell people what they get.

I get the feeling the "rumor mill" in question about a heel turn was Bryan stating he was convinced that was the plan after all the bad promos and Dave saying as far as he's heard there's no such plans.

So it looks like they can't show Main Event since the deal for the UK WWE Network gives Sky exclusive rights, so either they have to work something out or create an entirely separate network just for the UK. Just when you think they can't bungle this any more.

So then he must be doing good? I think part of the problem is folks forgetting heels are (or at least were) supposed to be unlikable, and when someone does that now it's seen as a turnoff. I think it's another log for the idea that the Attitude Era killed wrestling by making it so all heels have to be cool.

The First Look piece on the Randy Savage DVD is excellent. What really struck me is how many of Randy's friends they were able to track down since he always struck me as a guy who didn't have a large circle. I guess being in pro wrestling your whole life will make you paranoid. Also his mom looked great for being 86 years old, that family seems to age at 1/4 the normal human rate.

No one's going to sound natural and relaxed reading a script written by an old man who everyone's afraid to tell is out of touch.

There's literally zero evidence to back up any claims that Dixie is smart. Destination America may be no better, Bryan related on the B&V show last night he emailed them to ask what other platforms TNA would be available on and they told him to contact his local library.

Haven't there been rumblings that WWE was looking to part ways with Lawler soon? I think there was a mention in the thread on the WON board where Mike Sempervive passes questions on to someone in WWE where it was implied they may not be renewing his deal when it ends. I could see going to Smackdown as the start of those preparations.

Not to mention last year when crowds everywhere, not just in the big markets, rejected babyface Batista. Also, this past Raw was in Corpus Christi, which is traditionally a hot wrestling town. And the crowd was dead as a doornail for most of the night and particularly at the end. They're determined they're going to get their handpicked guy over in Reigns and all they're doing is repeating what happened with The Rock when he debuted. The difference here though is Reigns doesn't have that presence and charisma that The Rock has. Alvarez's radio show this past Tuesday had a section where they were one of the guys was watching the Flair/Rhodes Rivalries episode and how amazing the promos/interviews were between those two. You'd think it would behoove these guys to review their video libraries and focus on the stuff that worked then repackage it into today's world - especially if you're going to try to push a guy like Reigns who desperately needs help right now... Seems like the only thing WWE ever uses its history and/or library for is to illustrate how the current roster sucks compared to all the cool people who used to be in wrestling.

It's pretty amazing that for a guy in Cena who will never turn heel, they've pretty much turned him heel on all but the most die hard 6 year old Cena fans. Hell, they've booked Cena as a better heel than most of the actual heels they have.

Seriously, wtf was that ending segment? I'm as sick of Superman Cena as everyone else but the guy is still your ace and you book an entire three hour show around making him look like an enormous asshole.

As I said before, if they put half the effort into booking that they do being trolls to mean internet people, WWE TV would be awesome right now.

I thought both did a good job, Striker actually carried the load the first match since a four way tag team spotfest was way out of JR's comfort zone. Hearing JR call a hard fought one on one match was like hearing Vin Scully announce baseball or Keith Jackson call college football....It just sounded right for lack of a better descriptor. It almost was weird hearing the announcers put over the match and the guys involved instead of trying to one up each other with corny dad jokes, I did love the not-so-subtle jab JR threw out during the IC title match putting over the importance of the title before quipping "why would anyone even want a title if they all weren't held at the same level" or something to that effect.

I don't know about the audience at large, but I know nothing takes me out of the moment and screams "This is a TV show" more than a guy going for a pin and then helicoptering around the opponent when he realizes he's not facing the hard camera.

So I follow one of the Young Bucks on Facebook and he was posting photos of the Tokyo Dome crowd from last night. One of his followers replied how "wwe could never sell out a place that huge".

Maybe, just maybe, WWE should be spending more time on capitalizing on someone who strikes a chord with a large portion of the audience and use that to make money rather than coming up with ways to troll his fanbase.

There's a lot that could be improved in WWE, some requiring more effort than others, but the fact that they apparently still don't see Bryan as a top level guy after everything that happened in the last year is just depressingly frustrating. The fans couldn't have possibly made it clearer that they didn't want was was being pushed down their throats but the company is still going to be all "nah, we think this big guy with pretty hair who can't cut our style of promo or work long matches is a much better option".

Oh man, in recapping the return of Bryan in the latest WON it's mentioned that the plan is still for Reigns to win the Rumble and "according to one person close to the situation, the obvious question this brings up has not been considered". This is going to blow up in their faces again, isn't it?

I love how the look on Okada's face is saying "why am I in this bullshit promo image?"

I did like how the announcers (for once) didn't beat it over everyone's head what was going on. There was no BAH GAWD MAGGLE HE WANTS CENA TO BRING BACK THA ATHAURATAH~! from JBL, just Cole gradually and quietly realizing that was Seth's end goal. No sledgehammer of plot needed, just putting the pieces together for the people at home.

The moment they announced Cena was the only one who could bring the Authority back, we knew this was going to happen. I wasn't thinking only after a month, but after the opening video (and the million mentions of Edge's neck) my angle alert spider sense started ringing that we were being set up for something. I mean, they painted themselves in a corner since there's not many ways you can have your top babyface bring back the top heel faction if you can't/won't turn him heel.

They clearly didn't know how to book a show without having an evil authority figure to call the shots, and I guess having Cena do it to keep Edge from getting crippled was probably the less lame way to do it. It does kind of come off like a big ol' reset button though.

They were barely bigger than the guys they faced in NXT, and being Neo Road Warriors looks even sillier in WWE. That said, I do hope they get a big push since they were dominant champs in NXT and they are good enough to not deserve the Bo Dallas/Adam Rose treatment.