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The only thing remotely resembling evidence of wrongdoing by Ospreay came from IWL, and now they're walking it back. This is why you don't allow Twitter lynch mobs to be the arbiters of justice.

Cool. Another faction horseshitting up every single match with ref bumps and interference.

Why are Roman and Braun working an Internet angle when both are heels and they're on different brands? As for house shows, WWE was cutting way back on them even before the pandemic because the poor attendance was hurting the stock price. The thing is, most of the wrestlers actually enjoy doing them. The folks lower down on the card get much-needed ring time while the ones higher up get to spread their wings a bit and work without worrying about things like time cues and playing to the hard camera. Plus, their incomes take a hit without merch sales and their cut of the gate, although that's likely balanced out by fewer road expenses.

Why do you want a champion to pick his challenger?

John Cena tied the knot earlier this week. I wonder if he made her sign a War and Peace-sized prenup beforehand.

The sites are archived on the Wayback Machine and the Mediafire links still work (for now, anyway-if he stopped paying for the domain names he likely stopped paying for file storage as well), so all is not lost.

Are the Ditch websites down for anyone else?

That Jake episode is going to make for some depressing viewing if they make Grizzly Smith out to be as much of a monster as he evidently was.

It gets better. Per PWInsider, Retaliation Mercedes Martinez has been removed from the group and sent back to NXT. Retribution is such a mortal threat to WWE that the company can demote its members at will.

That well-known workrate machine Riddick Moss.

WWE must truly be running on empty if they're turning to the Total Divas era for nostalgia. I mean, even if you can overlook the fact that Eva Marie is absolute death once the bell rings because she's hot she "plays her character well," Alexa Bliss and Carmella already have that niche covered. And really, presuming that anyone in WWE's career is on the skids due to their own failings and not Vince's brain worms is laughable. I don't know what reliable advice you could give to a woman in the company who wants to get ahead beyond "dye your hair blonde and get implants." And even then, there are outliers. Like Asuka, who was too talented and charismatic to be denied despite creative's best efforts. And Nia Jax, who is terrible at literally everything except being related to someone who was a star in the Attitude Era.

Everything the Field touches turns to shit, so him moving to the other brand is an unqualified good if you're a Roman fan. Plus, Seth moving to Smackdown hopefully means they're nipping the Aalyah storyline in the bud before it really goes off the rails.

If this is the Rocco/Yamada match you watched, I thought it was pretty great. It's apparently regarded as one of the classic UK matches of the era.

Not even memeing, Taichi is my favorite wrestler in New Japan, perhaps even overall. I greatly appreciate the fact that he doesn't go out there trying to prove he's the toughest man in the world or be too cool for school like the Bullet Club. Plus, he's a sleazy loser who deep down is desperate for Kawada's approval. That's just a great character regardless of what you think of him in the ring.

You youngsters obviously never heard about Magic scoring 42 while playing all five positions.

YOU PEOPLE

Keep in mind that CJ Perry is a trained actress, so she's actually on the high end of the roster when it comes to acting ability. If she doesn't possess the range necessary to pull off a soap opera angle, virtually anyone else in the company would be even worse. It's for that reason that soap opera storylines in wrestling are almost always a disaster. If wrestlers could act, they'd be in Hollywood, not pro wrestling.

Remember when Gargano was in the Royal Rumble and looked like a child next to everyone on the main roster?

That's only if her career is actually over. She still has plenty of good years ahead of her if/when she decides to return. The problem is that WWE wasn't successful with her as the top star. If we're going to call Roman Reigns a failure on top, the women post-Ronda have been even bigger failures by any conceivable metric.

I think it's safe to say that Smackdown is going to get slaughtered in the ratings tonight.

I think Ronda Rousey has a much stronger case on those grounds. As hot as Becky was, there's no way she would have been considered for a Mania main event without Rousey as an antagonist. And it was her success in UFC that forced WWE to treat women as more than a T&A sideshow. "MMA is pro wrestling" is a longstanding punchline on this board, but the fact remains that plenty of voters take it into account.

Why does she keep trying to kill herself on free TV every week? And why do the producers let her?

Most sexual assault cases, especially ones that took place years prior, don't have witnesses or physical evidence, which makes it nearly impossible to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. So police generally don't bother investigating allegations unless they absolutely have to.

Interesting how so many guys buried by politics in 21st century WWE (Matt Morgan, Alex Riley, Tyler Reks) turn out to be chuds. Maybe John Cena was the woke hero we deserve all along.