The Chief

I'm pretty high on Rose. He's not terrible and there's totally a Godfather role on the card somewhere for a guy like him. But I'm also pulling for Bull Dempsey, so what do I know.

Wyatt vs Undertaker will be my Divas piss/smoke/food break match. Sting vs HHH will at least have the curiosity factor. Everything else can fuck off. I'd like the crowd to be interesting so I could at least get some entertainment out of the show, but they're outside, it's not gonna translate. Raw the next night will be a different story.

They had a little kid cut promos for him in WCW. I didn't think it was that strange. They never once made it out like you were supposed to believe that was Sting. WWE said that was Sting himself breaking his silence.

I interpreted the Sting deal as Steve Borden not being contractually obligated to do the spot which is moronic since it's just a voice over. If it's not that, then I figured it's some ridiculous WWE quirk like Kevin Dunn not thinking his voice is TV friendly enough. But seriously, that was awful. The kind of stuff TNA would get ripped apart for doing.

I don't think at this point the crowds have the energy to rebel or boo or riot or whatever like last year. They're just numb to this shit and will react accordingly.

Christ, 11:17 overrun. That was painfully drawn out.

Crowd is dead silent tonight.

Cena vs Rusev is by far the best thing they've got right now.

Oh dear god, STING CAN'T EVEN DO A VOICEOVER?

I wanna see Brock demolish Reigns after that.

I don't understand the Brock criticisms at all.

Wasn't Demott already in the position when HHH took over?

Somebody already took Mark Madden, but Bruce Prichard is right up there for me.

Yeah it would have been something to see George Steele giving a normal speech on 1994 WWF TV. It was still kind of jarring when I saw it on WWE 24/7 a couple of years ago. They showed him speaking on all of the TV highlights in 1994. I remember the magazine and the TV pushing "the animal finally speaks!" at the time.

Did James Dudley give an acceptance speech? Poor guy looks like he barely knows where he is. And holy shit, Wikipedia says he lived another 10 years!

Given that this is a couple of weeks old I'm not sure if you're still having issues, but I got a super quick response from their support account on Twitter (@AskWWENetwork) by making a series of post complaining about the Network not working on 2 different devices and tagging the main Network account (@WWENetwork) in them. They seem to be motivated pretty quickly by potential negative publicity. I got an incident number from when I called their customer service. I ended up getting through to someone who actually was somewhat helpful, but he never called me back like he said he would and this has been going on for a couple weeks. I've called them a few times and referenced the number and all they can tell me is that it's being looked at by upper management. Apparently they didn't have an amazon fire device in their building so they needed to find one to test. My live stream works fine outside of the same problems everyone else has. The on demand stuff is where it's really bad. The weird thing is, all the HD stuff works fairly decent. But if I try to watch old ECW or a World Class episode, it can barely play for three seconds without freezing. Oh, and they play entrance music when you're on hold. I got to hear Jack Swagger's Real American theme while I was on hold. With the Indian Call Center.

I've always wondered, where is that Kiniski interview footage from? Trying to figure out why they would have been interviewing him in 1994.

So where does Sheamus fit in now? Do they hold off on him until after WrestleMania? Seems like they have six guys tied down to the IC Ladder Match, Barrett, Truth, Ambrose, Harper, Ziggler and Bryan. Pairing him up with Bryan doesn't seem possible at this stage, but who knows. Do they bump the ladder match up to seven guys? Usually they like even numbers for these things. Does he take out a guy like Truth and take his spot? Or does he go in the Andre Battle Royal? That would seem like a real good way to turn a returning guy lukewarm right off the bat. They haven't promoted a specific date yet for his return, is he 100% ready? I haven't been keeping up with house show results so I don't know if he's on the road yet. And both Rhodes brothers were left off TV last night so I highly doubt that feud has Mania legs. You can dump them in the battle royal, but it seems like they're running a very similar angle with Mizdow in there.

If Sandow is going to graduate out of this role and they need a new comedy "heel", Axel is right there.

If you were on the WWF Roster at that time, chances are you held the USWA Title at some point

Was there ever a reason given for why they moved the Raw announcers by the entrance in 2002, other than Bischoff is the GM and that's how it worked on Nitro? Just seems like a very odd thing for them to from a production standpoint, plus all of the announcers hated it.

13 is a tough one because it has what many people would consider their favorite WWE match of all time, but God the rest of that card...

Can somebody smarter than me explain what's going on with Main Event? I know it has something to do with the UK TV deal. Are we going to get it on delay like Raw and Smackdown?

I've said this before, but you can't just watch ECW matches. You need to watch the weekly TV. I love watching the story lines weave in and out of each other. In its glory years ECW never got stale.

I'm talking about how the NAO are treated now. Rey has basically been on a part-time schedule for years and whenever they brought him back he's always just another guy on the roster.