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I loved the stories guys who worked with her in the 00s who were afraid to hurt her, only to have her cuss them out if they took it easy on her.

Spot calling seemed less obvious in my pre-internet fandom, I guess Jesse sold me when he would say he'd like to talk trash on a guy while having him in a chinlock.

I think the outrage about Bryan is not just because he's a great technical worker, but he's got the biggest reactions anyone in the company has got in years despite at times being actively shit on by the writing/booking/whatever. I think the people who read the sheets get more pissed at the constant claim of giving the fans what they want, only to see them punish anyone who gets over without their seal of approval. The funny part is, he's like the Obi-Wan of WWE. The more they try to cut his legs out from under him, the bigger he becomes. Even way back when he was an NXT "rookie", they jobbed him out constantly and had the fucking Miz as his coach which was almost entirely designed to be a "we'll show these fans he's not a real star" move. They don't seem to realize his whole appeal is the little guy who beats the odds, so all these attempts to downplay his popularity play right into it. He's not one of those guys they get in developmental who were star athletes but end up getting their passion for wrestling beat out of them. By all accounts Bryan lives off that kind of stuff. That's why I'm not too worried about the Wyatt stuff with him. Yes, I think the idea of him willingly joining them sucks, but I have little doubt he will end up just as over (if not more) when it ends. Hell, if Cena ends up the one "rescuing" him, I can really see it blowing up in their faces and having more people turn on him.

I wonder what the deal is with Bryan wanting to stream all the shows live. I guess being able to interact live via Twitter is cool, but it seems like a lot of work on their end for little reward. I think a better improvement would be having a screener for call-in shows to filter out the dummies.

I don't think he's "officially" straight edge, but his vegetarian/vegan lifestyle is pretty similar in terms of not putting bad things in your body.

The Sin Limite shows with Dave and Semp are pretty good. Dave seems to be happier about things (granted that's usually because they do them when he's in the afterglow of the latest NJPW iPPV show), and Mike lets him expand and tell historical tales when Bryan seems to be watching the clock the whole time they do shows.

While everyone's in hysterics it seems over Daniel joining the Wyatts, it seems like they could also use this angle to split off Luke Harper if they wanted. Cole mentioned on commentary about Harper being a truck driver or something before joining the family, which seemed so random a thing to mention it came off to me like they were setting up something for the future. Whenever a guy is in a wacky gimmick like that, WWE doesn't usually go out of their way to mention any backstory unless it's cartoony like Kane.

Another tidbit on the daily WON update was that WWE announced they would be showing Chris Benoit matches as part of the network (airing disclaimers prior to shows he appears on) so that should finally end that tired debate once and for all.

Anyone else think the "Vince doesn't believe in faces and heels anymore" story just happened to come out after they had to turn Miz back after a week because they forgot about his Christmas movie that was coming out?

I bought one of those $20 toy belts for my kid, but he wasn't interested so now I have the WWE World Championship belt sitting in a place of honor on my computer. I won't mention how I've wanted one of my own every since I watched the episode of Saturday Night where Flair first came out with the Big Gold.

To borrow a line from Bryan, Dave seems perpetually BAFFLED~! that the readership of his pro wrestling newsletter/site will choose pro wrestling over mostly everything else in a poll.

III's kid is just getting started (if I have that right), and others seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth shortly after debuting.

I don't see Raw moving off USA unless there is a complete change in leadership there. The biggest change in all this will probably be Smackdown moving to a better network (and off of Fridays). I would be shocked if Main Event/Superstars/NXT landed anywhere better, why would they pay for shows that are clearly C level at best unless WWE packaged them with Raw or Smackdown.

How many times can a photo making fun of a female employee make the rounds at WWE before they get into some serious legal shit? As I recall, Batista or someone else did something similar to Mickie James.

Has WWE ever done so many great promo videos for a PPV so few people will end up buying than this one? At least the production people earned their keep on this show.

What's this in reference to? Punk not liking the booking? He's apparently not been happy with being shunted into the upper mid card, and has been doing his usual passive-aggresive stuff like tweeting a subway sign reading "is your business stuck behind a bad app?".

I'm sure there will be tons of "MELTZER WUZ WERKED" posts over on the board, but I'd assume either the punishment is saved for RAW or it's an effort to keep Punk from getting even more pissed at the company.

reddit guy picking AJ over Nattie, which seems...interesting.

In other Twitter related news, the ongoing rivalry between Blackhawks fan Punk and the LA Kings' mascot Bailey the Lion is one of the best feuds going right now.

Dylan you are not on Twitter so a lot of the display of praise and love seems to be unseen. Essentially everyone in NXT tweeted heartfelt praise and best wishes. Some with smiling photographs with Rob. His friends on the indies and CM Punk then joined in. Then you had the crazyness of people like Jim Ross and Triple H tweeting Rob. It was flabbergasting and overwhelming in terms of content and volume. Rob mentioned in the interview that someone told him that usually someone has to die to get the send off he got from everyone.

I'm sure Nattie could probably make Punk tap out if shit got real.

Well I also get the impression that AJ's crazy chick gimmick is at least somewhat based on reality, so there's that possibility.

Michelle Beadle and Punk have been twitter friends for a long time, the way the story is being told it seems AJ had the impression Beadle was trying to horn in on her man when there was no such intention.

Rob's way to nice to say it, but if you put the pieces together it sure came off like his firing was typical petty WWE jealous bullshit. I'd be willing to wager a large sum someone was pissed that everyone liked Rob and made sure his job got restructured out of existence.

It would probably be a pretty great match before ending with a million pedigrees.