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Folks all over the globe paying their respects tonight. (the LA Park/Lucha Bros vs Rush/Briscoes match on the poster here was a great lucha brawl)

Woods and Kofi were dressed in suits tonight because they were going to do a funeral segment about Pretty Deadly until the news broke about Jay Briscoe.

When Dragon Lee gets to NXT, he should have a "loser has to stop wearing speedos for ring gear" match with Tyler Bate.

The family really felt like a fun, if not gruff, close knit redneck family that would give you the shirts off their back.

Fuck, the news just gets worse now that there was a kid in the car.

Wow classy move my acknowledging Jay Briscoe's passing in the middle of NXT. Props to them.

I like coked-up Thea, but this Chase U shit is quickly jumping the shark.

My brain auto-corrected the title to "Jerry Briscoe" because, well honestly he would be the one you'd expect hear he passed away. Beyond tragic news, and even more so after the year they had in wrestling and they were finally getting their flowers from the greater wrestling fandom. From most accounts, the Pugh family seems like the extended close knit bunch they were portrayed on TV. I hope that's the case because IIRC Mark just had a kid not too long ago and the poor guy's going to be emotionally overwhelmed for a while.

I feel bad for Gigi and Jacey, Toxic Attraction has such a "Patriots without Tom Brady" feel now without Mandy.

Apollo/Axiom vs Melo/Trick was unsurprisingly good. I saw that Melo was one of the guys Cody handpicked to train with to get back into ring shape, so clearly game recognize game.

Everything I've ever seen the man say makes me absolutely 100% convinced he would be down if asked.

I can see why Dax and Punk get along so well. They both seem to be very passionate guys who seem like an absolute pain in the ass to be around on a regular basis. I appreciate Dax carrying the torch for tag team wrestling when it seemed like no one in charge of pro wrestling gave a shit about it, but he also comes off as the type who will jump headfirst into every discussion about it no matter if it involved him or not and that gets exhausting as fuck real fast.

LOL I was waiting for you to get upset about the soccer talk Also it's funny how it doesn't get mentioned that while Hunter stated Chyna can't be in the HOF because his kids might Google her and find out she did adult videos, one of the guys she did one with (X Pac) gets to appear on WWE TV all the time with no fear of his kids doing any web searches.

HHH is (and apparently always will be) a massive Flair fan, so it's not surprising.

Yep, you nailed it. I remember when he came to MLS I was like "wow we get to see one of the GOATs" and then watching him play. Also WWE getting lucky as fuck having a major football game end up an early blowout two weeks in a row .

I think Dolph at this point is the WWE version of someone who hung around in real sports forever and piled up a bunch of stats because of that but was actually pretty average.

We nee Bronson vs Otis for the meatiest BIG MEATY MEN match of all time.

I suppose it's another sign of being in a post-Vince in creative world when Cody's return in the Rumble is being promoted weeks in advance and not a Cena style surprise.

Man, Shelton might be the most underused person ever in wrestling. Practically everyone agrees he's great, and yet his highest profile ever was being the Arn of the Hurt Business.

Yeah, in the beginning when Taker was a zombie who felt no pain (ie: never sold much), he wasn't much after the entrance. Just like Bray is now. I hope that now that at least the Fiend shit is over for now, he can actually have matches that don't make the other person look like shit.

Yeah it seemed like an overshoot since when you watch it, Willow wasn't able to see due to how powerbombs work and overestimated how far she needed to jump.

Looking back, I wonder how much of that was due to her seemingly rubbing everyone else in the division the wrong way.

Good lord, Ruby must have downed an entire bottle of aspirin before this street fight.

Also I love how every wrestling promotion loves to hammer home how the biggest person in a battle royale has the advantage, despite that literally only ever being true for Andre.

Liv doing the "what did the five fingers say to the face" to Raquel made me legit lol, but I still don't buy Raquel as any type of badass.