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Ooh, that makes sense. I kind of thought that's where they were going with the whole performance review skit. Vince was her white knight, and when Hunter inevitably overthows Brad Maddox for being a dipshit, Vince will come back with Vickie and whoever she gathers together as a stable.

It should be noted that previously when the deal ended, DirecTV fought hard to keep exclusivity, to the point of probably overpaying the NFL just to keep it that way.

DirecTV will fight to keep the package exclusive, it's their main club they wield over the competition. They have a lot of subscribers just from football fanatics who want to watch every game. Not to mention all the bars and restaurants that use it as a selling point.

Punk did look like shit in that match, while Orton was bringing a ton of intensity, but Austin probably shouldn't be calling him out on twitter Agreed he shouldn't be calling him out on Twitter, but that kick to the head he did while Orton was on his knees looked like it missed by a mile and was saved by a lucky camera angle.

Anyone else notice when Christian came out for his match, for a second the video wall at the entrance said "Michael Mcgillicutty" before it changed to the right one. At first I was like "live TV, lol" but then I wondered why they would even have that still loaded up considering he's been repackaged to a different gimmick.

The Wyatts fucking ruled, but I might be biased since their theme is my favorite WWE produced music in a long time.

As someone who works for a cable company, I can vouch that the big time boxing PPVs are still the top drawing events no matter the price. Hell, the last few years the busiest we've been for PPVs have been for WrestleMania and whenever Floyd fights. They're going to ask $60 for SD and &75 for HD on the Canelo fight, and I'm going to go out on a limb and say it won't hurt demand one bit. Also, Showtime might end up helping boxing get its shit together. Since they don't have any meaningful MMA left to show they're trying to corner the market on boxing it seems. They signed a huge deal with Floyd for his PPV fights and those of guys he promotes. Since Canelo is being groomed as the Next Big Draw, they could conceivably have the market cornered on top level boxing.

I've always wondered what happened to Jericho, did he have some sort of injury that didn't heal correctly? He looks like a giant stepped on his chest and it caved in. As far as Rey goes, yeah the mask helps, but this is a guy who's looked like he's 12 years old for the last 20 years now. I think he's just one of those people who will always look way younger than he really is.

I don't get why WWE keeps Bill DeMott around considering if even 1/4th of the stories surrounding him are true, he's a PR disaster of a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Is it me or does Kane look like a giant Tom Arnold in that pic?

Having the monster heel quit mid-match and not have it be leading up to some angle to get the heat back makes it seem like someone's not getting a free pass on the Wellness test anymore.

WWC posted pictures from the event showing they came pretty close to selling the place out, looks like the show did great business.

Not to mention it's been the elephant in the room for a long time that other than a few guys at the top, UFC pays shit relative to how much money comes in. What's really ironic is that Bryan has mention several times the costs fighters incur while training, like when UFC 151 got cancelled and pretty much fucked everyone on the card who'd invested in a training camp assuming they were getting a pay day out of it. Plus I'm pretty sure Bryan was making "loltna" type jokes when whoever it was had to take a job selling sunglasses at the mall while knockouts champ.

I'm surprised they didn't find some other role for him since he's one of those rare people in wrestling that literally everyone likes.

Anyone else think it's weird how ROH is spinning this Briscoes deal as not about Sinclair punishing them for stupid tweets, but as part of their long term booking plan? That was the idea when Jay won the belt, to have a brother vs brother match with the shortest build possible then write them out indefinitely?

The only thing I could see being a burial was how when he was at his most obnoxious, Michael Cole would spend the entire time belittling the guy. Sure you could say "well at least he was on Raw instead of jobbing on Superstars", but it went on for so long it seemed like he was never going to get his comeuppance. It always seemed to me they had him slotted in the role of "midcard guy who can have good matches who can carry the guys we want to push on top" until the Raw after WM when he lost in 18 seconds. Looking back, it was a clear case of the hardcore WM travelers who felt they got slapped in the face, but that seemed to open the eyes of people backstage who weren't sold on him. Ever since, he's been pushed as a guy who can hang with the top stars and not seem out of place.

Pretty sure Cena's not dating whatever Bella that was anymore. Also if they gave any thought to Total Divas when planning storylines they would have broken up Natalia and Khali since the Bellas tweeted photos of going to her batchelorette party as part of the show.

A proper end to the Briscoes saga would be for WWE to sign them and have them do an Ambiguously Gay Duo type gimmick.

I'm sure no one involved even realized it, but it was something seeing RAW end with Daniel Bryan doing a kendo stick assisted crossface move on Benoit murder anniversary day. He's come a long way from being fired for work-choking a ring announcer with a tie.

I would assume so, since they run all the Attitude Era stuff unblurred and with WWF mentions un-blanked out now.

They actually mention in the story on WWE.com that the shelves are bowed from people climbing them.

Another great Foley interview, his discussion of the politics of playing Santa Claus is way more entertaining than you'd expect going in. The discussion of how WWE nixed all in ring plans for him because he couldn't pass an impact testing was kind of scary. Obviously you know he's a guy who's likely to have issues in that area, but him talking about feeling he was underwater all the time and how he can't ride rollercoasters anymore was a stark reminder of how much punishment he's taken.

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but doesn't Low Ki just go to places like Japan for short runs? It seems like he's self-aware enough of his shithead-edness to not stay in one place too long.

Well that was unexpected, AAA is putting the show up for free on their YouTube channel. Part one is already up.

I felt this deserved its own thread, since it's one thing for indy groups like ROH to have these kind of problems but it's really inexcusable for one of the main promotions in a country to have a complete failure on this level. Short story is that AAA was offering Triplemania via iPPV on uStream yesterday, and it completely failed. Not a "the stream is laggy or broken up" thing, but completely failing to air any of the show. Worse, it took AAA almost halfway through the show to acknowledge there was a problem, and even then they are throwing uStream under the bus saying it's all their fault. Now keep in mind uStream has been showing New Japan iPPVs for months now with little to no problem so it doesn't seem likely they suddenly forgot how to stream a show. AAA is coming off as extremely bush league in all of this, and most likely killed off what could have been a nice little extra revenue stream in the process.