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It just goes to show that sometimes you either have it or you don't. She seems like she'd be a can't-miss prospect on paper with her looks, athletic ability, and life story. But her in-ring never even reached the point of passable and she wasn't nearly charismatic enough to compensate. I suppose she can always go to AEW and make sure Sammy Guevara's working on his forward rolls. They hired Madison Rayne as a coach, so the bar obviously isn't terribly high.

Punk cutting an unscripted promo on Hangman isn't backstage hearsay. It happened in the middle of the ring and was caught on tape. By the way, let's rethink the notion that every instance of Punk lashing out is in response to some secret provocation by the Elite. The only public acknowledgment of the situation by the Bucks and Omega was the match in Chicago where they did the spots mocking Punk, which was childish and lame. I refuse to believe those clowns are such diabolical puppet masters that Punk just can't help repeatedly stumbling into their sinister traps.

It's one thing if everyone agrees to treat Collision as Punk's personal sandbox that is off limits to anyone who has made it onto his shit list for whatever reason. But if he's kicking people out after they've already been flown in, he's costing the company money for no good reason. TK needs to nip that in the bud with the quickness.

It's increasingly obvious that Punk really wants a program with the Elite. And my understanding is that Omega and the Bucks continue to rebuff him privately and he's contractually prohibited from calling them out publicly, so picking a fight with Hangman is his best shot for opening that door.

He doesn't sound so much unhinged as gotten to by some petty annoyance. Making fun of Hangman's toy sales? And complaining about the HOB chopping him after he told them not to? Just bizarre all around.

I mean, Dandy was a jobber in WCW. There wasn't anything more to it than a cowardly heel building up a much lower ranked opponent as a challenger because he wanted to avoid a real challenge. I remember Dandy favoriting a bunch of Bret matches on his YouTube channel when I came across it a while back, so there were evidently no hard feelings over the promo.

Headbutts are legal in the Burmese martial art of Lethwei.

My initial thought was that Chico just meant a roll of quarters as a traditional pro wrestling international object and was tone-deaf to the implications. Then I listened to the clip. Doing it as an explicit callback to an anti-Semitic bullying incident from MJF's childhood is such an insanely bad idea I don't even know where to begin. That's the kind of thing that would have gotten a promotion thrown off TV in the territory days.

Agreed with brother TTK that the vignette with MJF and Cole at a trampoline park was cringe as hell. As he has with most things, Double J executed the concept of beating up children far better.

The Bloodline storyline is in the late-period nWo phase where they're well past the point where it should have ended organically but they feel the need to keep it going with new twists and turns because they're afraid to fuck with the formula.

Stu Saks explained at the time that the top candidates all had marks against them (Bret and Shawn were injured/inactive for much of the year, Undertaker had a slow start, Hogan rarely defended the WCW title, Austin lost most of his high-profile matches, Misawa was Japanese), so they decided to give the top slot to who they considered the best technical wrestler.

Well, yeah. I mean, he thought this was a good idea.

I'm fairly certain Johnny Saint bladed in the match against Jim Breaks that aired on FA Cup Final Day in 1973. Shortly before the finish, he took a bump to the floor and was bleeding from the forehead when he came back in the ring. The finish was a blood stoppage, so that looked like an obvious setup for a bladejob.

I remember thinking Jacques came across badly in the Dino Bravo DSOTR episode. Wasn't his kid training to become a wrestler? What ever happened to him? As for Ruby, I suspect her lack of sustained push is more a reflection of the fact that her overness is inversely proportional to her push. She comes across as a big deal due to her look and charisma (and entrance music in AEW). But if she does get pushed, she runs out of steam quickly because the steak doesn't match the sizzle. She's a bit like Sid in that regard.

Looks like Vince might soon have bigger problems than the Raw script.

How can it be the biggest party of the summer when the megastar LA Knight is stuck in a lame-ass Slim Jim battle royal? Kind of ironic that someone with Knight's physique has spent so much of his WWE career promoting junk food.

The BFT is a snapmare driver, not a stunner. To be honest, I'm not really a fan because it's entirely up to the opponent to make it look good. It looks devastating if they do a headstand bump, but it looks like a botched RKO if they take it on their knees.

How about Jericho vs. Jeff Jarrett for the title of greatest carny of this generation? Better yet, how about Ospreay vs. Jarrett?

Knight is the only person to ever come out of a feud with Bray stronger than he was going in (unless you count Daniel Bryan after WWE course corrected and pulled the plug on him joining the Wyatt Family), so it's pretty safe to say that he got over in spite of working with Bray rather than because of it.

It just isn't Christmas without a Von Erich getting a cage door slammed into his head.

*insert Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man meme*

She took her talents to OutKick (the OAN of sports websites) because she felt stifled from speaking the "truth" about trans athletes at ESPN, so it goes without saying that she's a gigantic asshole. However, my recollection is that she had heat at WWE over repeatedly missing call time for shows rather than assholery.

The team of Bobby Eaton and George Gulas is legendary in that regard, but we don't have the footage to say for certain. And Beefcake wasn't that bad before the parasailing accident. I think I'd go with Randy Savage and Zeus overall and Daniel Bryan and Kane among teams that worked more than a handful of matches together.

What an incredible turn of events it would be if the current WWE boom came to an end because they just couldn't help themselves from trying to make Bray Wyatt happen.

This right here might be the most oddball tag matchup in wrestling history.