The Chief

I'm fine with that, he's a great heel. This company can't book babyfaces so 90% of the audience is doing goofy chants to amuse themselves during his matches anyway.

Lol, Rob's Shawn Michaels impression is hilarious.

They need to learn the difference between a guy looking courageous and a guy looking like an idiot. If you can't even stand up, why the hell are you going after Brock Lesnar? That's not brave that's goofy and idiotic. Bring a baseball bat or something. You never saw Austin doing stuff like that. Ambrose vs Lesnar street fight should be glorious and will probably be the only Mania match I'm interested in.

Well, Shane winning and making a bunch of NXT guys debut at the RAW after Mania as his first move as a face authority figure would make sense. Knowing this company, the NXT guys would be positioned as heels with HHH while babyface Shane leads the old WWE guard.

Shane looks like 1999 Curt Hennig with the fat puffy coke face

The companies number one priority right now should be creating new stars worthy of the WrestleMania brand. Instead we're wasting time with McMahons. That entire segment felt like such a gigantic step backwards.

A this is awesome chant for Shane McMahon. I give up.

I think both Reigns and Rollins are HHH guys he just has an odd way of "helping his buddies."

Those Lesnar matches were approached so oddly it's almost like they exist in separate universes. With Punk and Cena you had the feeling that these guys were out there fighting for their lives. Reigns too. Hunter just went out and worked a regular match. Using Brock like that just doesn't work, it's akin to sending Rey Mysterio out to squash someone. That's not the Rey match. If you're gonna use Brock, use him in Brock matches. Not all of Brock's post return matches have been great but it's worth pointing out that the only truly bad matches were with Hunter.

Absurd statement and not even remotely true. The girls were generally barely hot stripper types. They added to the act, sure, but the character was over. Your argument that competing in a bunch of clusterfuck multi-man tag matches should have awoken the workrate giant in him is even sillier. As for Koko, his Memphis work had nothing to do with his WWE HOF induction - do not kid yourself about that. Look, I'm not saying he was a great in-ring technician - of course not - but that was never the point. None of his characters needed to be that. Just, wow.... I brought up Koko because he's often used as the barometer for poor candidates. My point was Koko at least has a hot run that he can point to where Godfather doesn't. I never once said Koko's Memphis run got him in, but do whatever mental gymnastics you need to interpret it that way. What's the Godfather's high point? The Tiger Ali Singh feud? The D-Lo tag team? If people cared about The Godfather, his matches would have had heat. His matches barely had consequences. They took the girls away and nobody cared. They rebranded them as escorts and nobody cared. But hey, people popped when he talked about smoking blunts so he's for that going for him. It's the WWE Hall of Fame. All that's required is that you have a pulse. And if you don't that's fine too, they just limit you to one a year. Fakeplastictrees makes a good point, there should be at least some kind of metric other than "people remember him/her."

So yeah, slim resume

Bret vs. Jake in 1992 sounds like a lot of fun. Bret really needed a strong heel during that period, Jake would have been perfect. Come to think of it, he really didn't work heated heel programs in his first run outside of the brief Razor Ramon stuff. I'd argue there wasn't really an issue with Yokozuna either, he was just a guy who happened to challenge him.

He was a gimmick wrestler who was never put in a situation where could he have decent matches, and his two big runs came in eras where that never mattered less (end of Hulkamania era and Attitude Era). Workrate snobs will hold it against him, but he was over like rover regardless of his in-ring ability. LOL, "workrate snobs." He was given plenty of opportunities to have good or even passable matches. Right To Censor was pushed near the top of the card and frequently worked the Hardys, Dudleyz, and the stacked 2000 roster. He worked guys like Shawn and Bret in long TV matches. Of course he was a gimmick wrestler but that's really lowering the bar. He doesn't have anything like a Koko Memphis run to hang his hat on either, he has nothing besides a ring entrance. But hey, people remember him, he's alive and his name hasn't been in the newspapers. Good for him. And I wouldn't say he was over. The girls were over. Nobody cared about The Godfather.

For a guy with as long as career as he had, I can't remember a single good or even decent match.

I'm not sure that this stuff would be any different if Rollins was placed against HHH. Rollins comes out first to generic theme music after a video package is aired showing HHH cutting promos about how he was nothing before he made him. Rollins gets no rebuttal. Before HHH enters there's a 12 minute into showing all the people he's steamrolled over at Mania set to a Motorhead song (RIP Lemmy graphic needs to be shown to maximize babyface pop). HHH comes to the ring on an albino elephant that has Frank Frazetta paintings on it and mounted machine guns for some reason. A Lemmy hologram is present, Coachella style. HHH points to the sky, dedicating the match to Lemmy. Maybe he carries out his C. Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence. Or it's carried to the ring on a dais by all the NXT girls. How can you not love the bastard?

I really, really, really don't like Game Genie Brock Lesnar. I miss watching him wrestle actual matches.

Main event was decent. I really liked the divas match. Just really bored with everything else, and the finish to the main event was eh. I think my interest in this product is at an all time low.

Titus has spent long periods of time on c-show banishment but I don't remember him ever being outright off TV. When did this happen?

This time period was a real low point for the company. McMahons everywhere, lots of petty backstage crap making it's way television, Eddie dying, no mid card direction... I have never been as low on interest in the company as this time. I felt the same way about Big Show and Kane squashing Cade & Murdoch. Led to nothing and made no sense. And to top that off they broke up Cade & Murdoch a couple months later before realizing how dumb that was and reuniting them. They killed teams like this ALL THE TIME for like 8 years. If I can say something positive about the current product it's the fact they have an actual tag division. If the Usos debuted in 2006 they would be split on a Heat episode that nobody watched and one of them released three weeks later.

Yeah, I feel NXT already fills that niche. An entire show based around cruisers would be repetitive but that's just this guys opinion.

Whether what he did was stupid or not, he's getting suspended because of who he is and that's bullshit. Does anybody honestly think if Shawn Michaels or Randy Orton did the same thing they would get suspended?

Hahaha, I was trying my hardest to pay attention to the ring but I couldn't. I'm a bad person.

I find it funny that lightly grabbing the guy who criticizes all these weak millenials for doing human things like sleeping and taking time off for injuries is a big no-no because said septuagenerian is too frail.

It's worth noting that you can mark the steep decline in the quality of the shows with when Bryan stopped appearing on them. What a kick to the gut. This sucks, but that's life. Hope he lives a long, healthy life.

So cranky old Jim sure does have some weird hangups. From this week's podcast: Apparently EVERYBODY has been demanding that Paul Heyman manage Shinsuke Nakamura in WWE (um... huh?). Then he proceeds to do one of his awful impersonations about how these are all just 13 year olds on their keyboard and they don't know anything about wrestling. It's not really a good idea or a bad idea, it's just there. What an odd thing to get so worked up about.