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It's selfish, but Eric was fucking with him so bad at times I can understand why he'd feel that way.

Speaking of, didn't it come out that Shaul leaving developmental to go back to school or whatever was a cover for her getting treatment for an eating disorder?

What makes the "parrot the interviewer's question" thing funny is doing that is the first thing cops/profilers/etc look at to see if someone's lying. The longer it takes for someone to answer a question usually means they are trying to come up with a convincing lie.

The thing with Dustin is not so much the booking (which didn't help) but his penchant for being not in the best of shape a lot of the time in what would have been his physical prime.

That main event was some god damned good professional wrestling. I'm in agreement that it's not even funny how Goldust is above like 90% or more of the roster in less than a month.

I know they claim Cena has superhuman genetics and all, but unless he's secretly one of the X-Men it seems like a slap in the face of everyone who's ever got a Wellness violation that he's returning from a tricep tear in two months. Not to mention the injury itself only became common in other sports after steroid usage became commonplace.

All I know is that it's going to be really hard to resist buying a sheep mask at the merch table, I already have the beard for it.

Sweet, I got my tickets the other day as well. I figure the Rumble is one PPV you can be reasonably certain will have a finish these days.

So I'm watching the Monterrey lucha TV, and they have a trios match with Universo 2000, Mascara Ano 2000, and Cien Caras Jr vs Hijo del Dos Caras (Memo from FCW), Sicodelico Jr, and Mil F'N Mascaras. Mil of course can't bump at all anymore, and his arms are so thin now he looks like Giant Baba wearing a mask, but god damn if that fucker didn't get the win with the flying bodypress. Say what you will about the guy, but that was pretty impressive for a guy in his 70s.

Somewhere Joe Koff is laughing his ass off.

AJ is Cena-like with her loud spot calling tonight.

So when Vince bought the WWF from his dad, he agreed to jobs for life for some of the people who worked with Sr. HHH and Steph have made it clear once they get control they plan to dump all of Vince's people and bring in their own. Based on everything we've heard through the years about how important loyalty is to Vince, how is he not losing his shit over this?

I heard that too, but took it as him reporting the facts of the matter (as he should as a journalist - it was a notable exception) rather than him passing judgement or commentary. In the actual newsletter he did, listing off all the people mentioned and then adding "yes, the 280 pound elephant in the room is Brody".

I noticed her reaction seemed to be legit surprise that he did that, and just laughed uproariously. I gather based on various things he's said over the years that his basic view of her is he'll be respectful because she's the boss but deep down he really doesn't give a shit if he upsets her or not.

So in the latest Observer, Dave mentioned a video package WWC put together as part of their 40th Anniversary featuring all the guys who worked for them who've passed away. He makes a point of mentioning they didn't include Brody, but I'm not sure what he wanted them to do. Including him in a video promoting a show with Invader #1 in a top match seems like it would be worse, and as Dave mentioned it's not like they never mention him in other instances.

He seems like such a cuddly car spa manager....

If they let him do what he's capable of, that's not even a matter of debate. I was surprised the crowd seemed into the Matadores, I thought they would instantly shit on the gimmick. I don't know if Epico and Primo have the chops to pull it off or not, but seeing it in action makes me think it has Dusty-in-polka-dots potential in terms of a lame gimmick getting over.

re: JBL, I liked how they were doing a modern day Ventura with him being a heel announcer who "tells it like it is". Now with the Locker Room vs HHH angle, he's become Hunter's white knight which seems jarring to me.

GAB 88 always seemed like the prototypical "Flair broomstick" match. To me it wasn't that Lex needed carried, but more that Flair was just on another level at that point.

So ROH CEO Joe Koff was on the show today, and it really shows where the company's problems are. He's obviously passionate about wrestling, but it's also just as clear he's entirely out of touch in terms of technology. He admitted he doesn't know shit about how streaming video works, and it's clear the biggest reason the ROH iPPVs keep shitting the bed is due to them going with bargain bin providers. The moment they start gaining any level of traffic the feeds die. It was kind of embarrassing to see him bring up running shows in old buildings as part of the problem when CMLL (a company infamous for being way more behind the times than any other in the world) streams shows from old ass buildings every week with nary a hitch because they partnered up with Terra instead of Bob's Bait Shop and iPPV Emporium.

Yeah, the question was asked "Is Cena the best big match wrestler of all time". Of course the answer would be no. If anything, Dave was being dismissive of the person asking the question for even thinking such a thing. Another funny thing about polls is Bryan mentioned on a non-Dave show that he has nothing to do with the polls ever since putting a joke poll up years ago after a Bryan and Vinny show debate only to have Dave take it down in seconds. The implication that these polls are SERIOUS BUSINESS for Dave make these "who's the bigger star" ones even more hilarious.

Funny moment during the RAW review, Bryan pokes fun at Dave for taking the time to mention JBL referenced the wrong "Welcome Back Kotter" character in a joke he made. All the while I'm thinking Dave probably did that since he knows he has to explain any TV/movie/sports reference to Bryan.

Also what are the chances they end up having AJ join the forces against the Corporation so someone can give Steph her comeuppance? They did do that thing where they had a confrontation so there'd be some storyline logic to it.

I was reminded of Dusty's HOF speech where he mentioned getting yelled at by Steph for not reading emails despite him barely knowing how to operate a computer.

It warmed my heart to hear the loud Dusty chants considering the WWE audience doesn't seem to know anyone pre Attitude Era (nor should they since WWE usually acts like history began in 1996).