Jmare007

Yeah, why y'all think Vince hasn't panicked about the ratings like in previous occasions? This has been a steady decline for months now and he hasn't even tried to change things up. Weird.

Re: Spanish commentary. Announcing is way better in the sense of Carlos and Marcelo not burying talent. But the broadcast as a whole took a nosedive once Hugo stopped being a heel color commentator (which was in 04' or 05'), since then it's been very vanilla commentary. They replaced Hugo Savinovich with Marcelo like 5 years ago, and he tries to play a more heelish role but the banter with Carlos isn't good at all. So yeah, Spanish commentary isn't very good either but for completely different readons than the US one. Also, they've never been micro managed as Cole and others. Or at least you can't really notice it because they are always saying shit that make it seem they have a lot of freedom.

On one hand I'm bummed that Rusev is gonna be used as the new Kane/enforcer for The Authority (unless it's a one night only type of deal). On the other though, Rusev as the new Kane is a huge fucking improvement.

I honestly don't care about Sheamus anymore. So I want him to go full comedy heel like Austin and embrace the shittiness of The Authority and not give a single fuck. He's gonna get booked like shit and be forgotten after he drops the belt in January-February anyways so at least make it funny. He can still be an ass kicker in the ring, but I just don't want the same "authority figure puppet" role for him.

I'll give Corporate Fella a chance, I know he can wrestle his ass off but I hope he embraces the fuckery and is an entertaining character going forward.

Zack Sabre Jr. is not coming back to NOAH. There's some speculation he's going to NXT, specially after he was featured in the WWE.com piece.

Cesaro vs Reigns was awesome, as expected. Fuck that crowd though.

I hope they give Reigns and Cesaro a good amount of time, That can be an awesome match. It's such a shame Fella is so uninteresting as a character and the crowd barely cares about him (not that booking has given them any reason to care about him in the last 3 years). Dude is a great worker.

He was dead on the water before the MITB win too. He's in the same place Del Rio was before he left. Very good in the ring but crowd could care less about the guy.

It's sad it took an awful injury like this one to make me interested in the main event scene again. I hope Rollins can come back 100%, if he returns as a face he's gonna be over huge. So, does WWE get desperate and try to get Cena and/or Brock back for the tournament or do they take the opportunity with all these injuries to make a couple of stars? I think they'll pull the trigger on Sheamus and make him cash in on the winner if it's a face (Reigns, Cena, Ambrose, etc.) to build a filler program until the Royal Rumble.

gif of the injury http://gfycat.com/GlisteningElasticCrocodile

He wasn't really the guy on top for New Japan's resurgence (wouldn't call it peak). In fact he meant very little to New Japan when he was pushed as the top guy for a couple of years. He also doesn't have a lot of time as a great worker, and he's still very inconsistent. In 10-15 more years he'd probably be a lock, but right now I don't think it's even close. Exactly

New Japan held a joint press conference with DDT to announce that Ibushi renew his contract....and that he will miss Power Struggle due to a neck injury, no timetable yet for his return (Cervical disc herniation).

She was, that's how she kept interfering with Vince's plans in various angles during the Attitude Era.

Isn't Vince usually referred to as WWE Chairman (of the board)? I don't think I have ever heard Vince be called CEO in kayfabe, so that reasoning would be unnecessary if true. That might be true. I know he's been called CEO before though because I learned what CEO stood for thanks to Vince. Maybe I'm mixing the english broadcast with the latin one, I know Carlos and Hugo used to refer to him as the chairman of the board or CEO all the time.

I always thought Hunter was given the COO title to differentiate him from Vince, who was the CEO.

Not the best week of reporting by Dave. He got worked on Del Rio's contract and mixed up a former Tough Enough contestant with a "very troubling" past.

Sportswriters will work on ESPN.com and other platforms. Their contracts will be honored. I just hope Lowe isn't sent to Insider

Breaking Ground looks interesting. Those 30 minutes flew by.

Triple H and Taker were fined for doing chair shots to the head in WM 27 so it's not like Taker in untouchable.

Can't remember well but was the Reigns/Ambrose segment (after Roman's win) made to explain why the didn't come out to save Taker? Like, in kayfabe they were celebrating Reigns W?

Oh come on

I think Brock bladed when he blocked being hit with the post. Seemed he had the blade on his wrist and did the thing when he stood there for a while.

You finally got it right Will!