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No, CJ Parker has some new "save the Earth" hippie heel gimmick. He got rid of the Van Hammer hippie gimmick & now walks around the crowd with signs like "There is no Planet B" & shit. He's also still awful in the ring.

Last few times I've seen Mojo he was just put in the jobber role of squash matches, namely to Tyler Breeze whom is the #1 contender. Graves' career is over apparently, after having another concussion. I think they dropped the whole "jig" part of Knox after the first week. Neville is still there, still the champ & still kind of boring. No Crow that I've seen yet or remember. They put Aiden English with Simon Gotch as "The Vaudevillains" & their entrance/gimmick is pretty fun. Ascension is still tag champs.

Do you watch NXT at all? It's a fun, weekly hour of TV too. Tyson Kidd has been on there quite a bit lately. Along with the ex El Generico & some other fun stuff.

I liked Night 4 the most so far. Have yet to watch Night 5. Tomoaki Honma has been a great substitution for Ibushi & I can't imagine him not being in the tournament.

Does Haku/Meng have a body of work worthy of an HOF induction?

I think the Dust Brothers have been pretty much the best non-Titus O'Neill thing going in the WWE for the past couple of months. They haven't done anything in a month. I concede, when the bell rings, they're good. Goldust obviously being better. My problem is all the out of ring stuff. These "comedy" vignettes & whatnot. Stardust just looks like a moron. I guess I don't "get it."

I don't want this Stardust wrestlecrap going any further, that's for sure.

I hope it's a key to a locker with a pink slip.

I am not a fan of how this show is building to a showdown between Stephanie McMahon & Brie Bella. That should not be a focal point of the road to Summerslam. EDIT: I guess I'm out of touch. The crowd ate it up.

Which was admittedly better than midgets beating off in trash cans, cage dancing strippers, The Dupps, etc.

Is "none" not an option?

To me, Jeff Jarrett has always pretty much sucked. TNA certainly wasn't anything special when he was around. Why would I have faith in him to do any better with Karen Angle by his side? Same as when I heard news about Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins wanting to get into pro-wrestling. That's great, but why would I watch? What's the hook? Just indie name guys & expecting them to put on good matches? What is going to make it better than NXT?

WWE have a lot of guys on their roster right now that I really dig. My problem as a fan and a viewer is they keep putting the people I care about & want to get behind in the ring with people I don't care about nor want to see. Granted, I doubt many of us here are what WWE would consider normal, everyday fans. I haven't been to a live event in years, in example. I do have WWE Network but before the Network, I'm not sure what the last WWE PPV that I paid full price for was. I certainly don't go on the website & order merchandise. I am curious if that's a mentality that other fans would have though. Like, I'm never, ever going to care about Randy Orton, The Big Show, Kane, etc. ever again...but they don't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. If I were a big Roman Reigns fan, a feud with Randy Orton is exactly the sort of thing that would make me not care about him anymore. A guy being pushed as the next great main eventer, that only has four moves, and you're going to put him in a feud with a guy, that will probably last three PPVs in a row, that does nothing but headlocks. Complete apathy. At this point, in WWE, it feels like there's only a few ways to get looked at as if you're a big deal: squash people the caliber of Orton, beat John Cena or put on great matches. Instead, you're more likely to trade wins with Orton/Jericho, lose to Cena & if you put on great matches, you'll get cheered like Dolph but it doesn't mean WWE will ever care.

Foley getting thrown off the Cell, Snuka's top of the Cage Splash & The Rockers break-up are all good inclusions. So is the towel being thrown in for the Sheik/Backlund match. Maybe something TLC related, with Jeff Hardy jumping/falling off something high?

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin hitting the first "Stunner" on Vince McMahon, maybe? Or maybe the Austin 3:16 promo. Austin & The Rock are the two biggest stars along with Hogan, so they both have to be involved some how, I'm sure.

Reading all the news about this & replies on various wrestling forums, this is one of the most fun days I've ever had on the internet. I can't stop smiling! Just losing my shit. I'm legitimately happy about this news. I don't know if that's terrible or not but that's honestly how I feel. TNA is so far beneath WWE that I don't think it would happen, but if Steph or Triple H threw in a random, off hand throwaway comment tonight shitting on TNA that would be the grand finale to this knee-slapper of a day.

I hated Day 2 & thought it was super overrated, even by a few people here in this thread on this site. Not that Day 1 was anything great but at least it had matches I cared about. Getting ready to watch Day 3 & the bar isn't real high, so hopefully it's better. Okada Vs. Makabe should be good. One of the matches of the tournament I'm anticipating.

Kinda think this is where he's going to be anyway, honestly. Or he'll get turned into a Seth Rogan comedy character. I guess I just don't have a lot of faith in Sami Zayn on the main roster. Do people see him in NXT right now & think "this guy has RAW main eventer all over him." I just don't see it. Of course, I didn't see it with Punk or Bryan either & they proved me wrong. I've been wrong before, I'll be wrong again...but I still think the odds of being a Paul London are better than being a C.M. Punk.

Kids also don't have any money and the marquee shows (RAW and PPVs) are both on school nights. So they have to talk their parents into letting them watch the violent show, stay up past bedtime AND spend money...

I just can't foresee WWE every really doing anything risky since becoming publicly traded. I just think back to guys like Daniel Bryan or Fit Finlay getting fired over things that should have been complete non-issues. It's hard to be a program based around physicality to elicit an emotion when everytime you do something that cause people to express emotion, you have to apologize & take action. I used to put some blame on the TV-PG rating but I think the rating isn't so much as the problem as what WWE interprets PG in 2014 as is. It's not like I'm clamoring for women running around in thongs again, or guys bleeding in every match...but it would be nice if someone got accidentially busted open in a cage match if you didn't have to see them get medically attended to mid-match from a ref wearing latex gloves. Should John Cena turn heel? I mean, honestly, at this point, I don't think it matters if he does or not. I just don't feel like anything would be any different. To me, it would just be like when Randy Orton turned heel, or anyone else. All that changes is his opponents. I don't think alignment changes matter anymore; kayfabe is dead. The fans know about his Make-A-Wish contributions. They know he's dating Nikki Bella. They've seen him on Howard Stern & Nickelodeon shows. He's been humanzied. There's not really any mystique anymore. I more think he'll just stay a babyface (or whatever he is now) because WWE don't want to rock the boat. Don't want to worry stockholders... *IF* WWE want to turn him heel, I think they have a pretty good story laying in the weeds with John Cena becoming obsessed with breaking Ric Flair's title record until he's forced to take drastic measures to do so.

I think it's interesting that he says he thinks that Seth Rollins looks like a star but Dean Ambrose doesn't.

Judging by what I've seen of Davey Richards in the past & semi-recently a couple weeks back on Impact, I think NXT would have done him some good. He reminds me a lot of Teddy Hart, which is not a compliment.

Booking for TV ratings, heel authority figures, 20 minute show opening promos, crass humor (projectile vomiting, dropping shit on people, etc.), McMahon's all over TV (was Vince, now it's Steph & Hunter), etc. They're definitely are a lot of them.

Wait, what? I thought the main event match was supposed to be Rusev Vs. Sheamus? When did that change? That kinda makes me sad.

There's just so many guys in the tournament this year that I'm apathetic too. Made worse by the injury to Ibushi getting replaced by Honma. Outside of Styles, the whole Bullet Club stable just sucks to me. I'm never going to care about Anderson, Gallows, Fale, Takahashi or Tonga (although I like his new facepaint look). Not real high on the inclusion or Shelton Benjamin or Yano either. That dude is the shits. Up there with Iizuka & Capt. New Japan for fast-forward material to me. Any match-up between Suzuki, Styles, Tanahashi, Okada, Shibata, Ishii, Makabe & Nakamura I'm down with. Everyone else in the tourney is very "meh" for me. Including Goto, whom my friend John loves but I feel like he's lost a step & his selling is the pits.