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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.

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.