MoS

You guys make great points about Shane not having the resume to appease Wall Street and Steph not doing creative and being a corporate figurehead. It makes it even more surprising (alarming?) that they fired Barrios and Wilson - both of whom would have had no issues appeasing Wall Street - so suddenly, with seemingly no succession plan.

I think there will be a wrestling person and a business person. Triple H will probably be the wrestling person and Shane the corporate guy to appease Wall Street. Stephanie will be doing both, so I think she will be the most powerful person in wrestling whenever Vince passes on.

Can somebody help me with the last part of her tweet? I think it's cool AEW are honouring Missy.

Would you say it is fair to state that while Orton has charisma and personality and, on occasions when he shows both, he is exciting to watch, more often than not, he does not display any - maybe cuz he does not give a shit - he is not just boring to watch, but often drags down his peers and the angles he is involved in? I mean, I certainly agree that one does not need to be great on the mic to show charisma. Jeff Hardy was terrible on the mic and yet he had tremendous charisma. Brock in his first run cut bad promos but had undeniable charisma. But I don't think calling Randy Orton Blandy Orton for most stretches of his career is unjustified.

I don't know if there is any credence to these whispers but If at all true, it would mean Vince put NXT on USA just to hurt AEW. Which, I mean I know it's Vince and that's just who he has been most of his life, but WWE is basically top 1-10 on its own right now. He will certainly die as the owner of the biggest, most profitable wrestling promotion ever. It just seems so unnecessary.

Yeah, this. He has displayed charisma and excellence a few times while being on top for 17 years. He was getting ridiculously over as a babyface in 2010 as well and then he won the title and all his charisma seemingly dissipated.

Just to be a total mark, here, enjoy:

They are doing better numbers than they were in December, and they have settled into a nice pattern. I am really enjoying following it week to week. I think they will become more must-see as we get closer to their PPV. Next week MJF will lash Cody, and he will be in Alabama, so there's probably an over/under on whether he makes an incest joke.

I really liked the show. Solid storyline progression and again, no Nightmare Collective, which is always a positive. - There's no way they are turning Page heel, is there? I mean he came out ddrinking, handed his drink to his friend, kicked ass, and then finished his drink. That is as close to a universally effective babyface trope as it gets. I mean, Bollywood and other Indian film industries have been using it for the last 50 years. And a heel turn might make Omega interesting. - Nyla Rose is really getting over. - I liked Baker's promo this week. Maybe it's cuz taking shots at JR works better for me haha. - The Cody match was good, and that was because Cody is so over. Absolutely no one in this world thought he would get over and stay over at this level 2 years ago. Sabian was mediocre as a stalling heel and I don't give a shit about the Janela story, but Cody ending the match with an emphatic stretch of multiple finishers just to beat Sabian up was the best way to end the match. Also, I am not close to being the kind of "looks" guy that someone like Cornette is, but Sabian pushing Arn made me laugh, cuz I genuinely believed that Arn, at that age, pot belly and all, would fuck Sabian up. - I am loving the Mox-Jericho build. Mox was massively over in his hometown. I know I sound like a complete Jericho fanboy every time I talk about him these days, but I was actually not much of a Jericho fan before. My comments about him during the GWE were not very flattering. But he has gone up several levels since he started his NJPW run, and he has reached a point where I am finding everything he is doing great, because he is so great. - The PAC promo was a bit corny for me. On the other hand, MJF on commentary was gold.

I used to laugh when Meltzer would call Edge a good actor with good facial expressions, cuz I found his expressions the absolute corniest in the world. But he was out of this world brilliant on Monday, and this is the most interesting thing Orton has done in years and years. Raw is so much better than SD right now, even with SD having Bryan and Roman.

Meltzer also said that he thinks the Rhea Ripley match might be a placeholder and they might be trying to get Charlotte-Ronda done. That sounds much more exciting honestly. He did make it clear that it is not something he has heard from anyone, just something he thought of.

Now I want to see Brock beating someone while chewing popcorn.

No way they have Fiend main event Wrestlemania. Had Ronda come back in the Rumble, I would have thought Becky-Ronda would be the main event, but she didn't, and I don't see them giving Becky-Charlotte, if it happens, the main event cuz that has happened like a million times already. I am guessing it will be either Brock-Mcintyre or some celebrity they will make a deal with during the season.

THEY GOT FUCKING CORBIN TO ELIMINATE RIDDLE IN ABOUT 1 MINUTE. Fuck this company.

THEY GOT FUCKING CORBIN TO ELIMINATE RIDDLE IN ABOUT 1 MINUTE. Fuck this company.

BRO!!

Eww now we are having "Royal Rumble Moments" as well? Can anything be organic?

Hey, it turns out that the rumours were true and Edge was lying when he was denying them. Who could have ever thought this was possible.

Shelton Benjamin takes the spot of stupidest face ever, which has been held by Sting since time immemorial.

Man, Big E is so criminally underutilised and underappreciated. He has the wrestling chops and the charisma to be the top guy of the company.

Honestly, this is better than the Women's Rumble. That was basically interesting only when Shayna got in it.

What happened to the Nakamura-Strowman IC title match?

Stadium shows often have issues with the crowd noise, don't they? I have read a John Cena interview I think where he said he preferred wrestling in arenas for that reason.

WWE's attempt at inserting storylines and "drama" into matches are always hammy and cringey. This match would have been so better if they had just let them wrestle.

Not many people thought Bryan could actually enhance his GOAT case when he returned, but he has. He has been excellent for basically 2 decades now.