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One would think there would be less overhead involved for sure.

This is probably the best way to go, all things considered. Not getting cable/sat carriage may be an ego blow but now they don't have to split half whatever they make, so the likely small subscriber base they'll get either way will probably make them more money now. Should be interesting to see the reaction to the non Mania PPVs being available, I'd imagine there's some pants being shat right now at the thought of an anniversary WM being available there too.

No, and that's the problem.

I don't get why they insist on keeping Bryan in the mid card. I mean, I get it in the sense he's not the 6'4 jacked guy Vince seems to think all main eventers should be, but holy shit the guy gets far bigger reactions than anyone on the roster. You'd think at some point Vince's desire to make more money would outweigh his big guy fetish, but I guess not.

I guess Mistico is getting wished well soon, Hunico was playing Sin Cara on Raw tonight and the announcers weren't playing it up as an angle or anything (despite Hunico being noticeably bigger + arm sleeve tattoo up to the shoulder).

Bryan seems to think Nikki Bella would be happier doing porn because she has a huge sex toy collection. In Bryan World that means she's a nympho who clearly needs all holes filled at all times instead of just someone who really likes getting off.

So our pal Davey Richards is off the card for Final Battle. Considering Eddie's still working the show, I'd wager ROH finally got tired of his bullshit rather than assume WWE offered them a deal.

Yeah they seem to be carefully not mentioning the titles will be unified, seems like they are setting up another PPV fuck finish and can rightly claim they never promised anything.

I laughed when JBL told Cole to stop using pronouns and Cole's response was "I wonder who told you that".

Libertarian Glen as the one man Brisco and Patterson of the heel authority group cracks me up every time.

Yeah the crowd coming unglued for Rey getting speared to death was pretty great.

It would be nice if they put the same effort into their PPVs that they put into producing a rib on Michael Hayes.

Nice to see WWE Being A Star by mocking AJ fainting in Europe. It's not like they don't have two injury prone guys as champs right now....oh wait.

It was a close fight, it may have looked different live (Dave often says his opinion who wins changes based on if he was seeing a fight live or on TV) but I felt that giving GSP anything more than two rounds was a gift. That doesn't take away that Dana came off as the white MMA version of Don King last night.

GSP did a post fight promo clearly showing the effects of head trauma from the beating he took, and Dana was basically all "aw, he's fine he'll be back for his next fight" that really made him look bad in our Concussion Aware climate.

It was also funny how for weeks after when hyping upcoming events, they would have Thunder & Lightning photos with their faces obscured despite them being in several matches unmasked (and doing promos) at that point.

Well that's by far WWE's biggest problem. People complain about creative, but clearly they have people who come up with good ideas. The issue is that they get changed around 100x a day before each show. It seems like Vince doesn't have anyone to tell him when something doesn't need changed around, and he's constantly second guessing things.

The actual bump to the buckle seems safe, what scares me is the guy delivering the move really can't see how close he is when doing it. There were a couple times watching ROH TV I thought I was going to see someone's neck broken.

mookie revealing sadistic tendencies ITT

Any double footstomp move makes me cringe since there doesn't really seem to be any way to minimize the impact.

What was the Facebook post all about?

I agree that Gabriel seemed custom made to be the next Jeff Hardy "high flyer with a bit of danger the girls like", and they even seem to sort-of push him that way at times. Not sure why they never went all out with it. I guess the emphasis on less car crash type bumping would be the reason.

I know everyone points out how much Silas Young looks like his uncle, but to me he looks like a young Bill Cowher.

I hope this is true just so TNA can improve their horrible theme music.

He doesn't look nearly as bad when he's not just finishing a 20 minute match.