C.S.

Kevin Owens and Daniel Bryan are refusing to work the Saudi blood money show. (Sami Zayn obviously won't be there either.) Is it such a blatant attempt though? Taker vs. Goldberg is absolutely a WrestleMania-level match. Geeks will say "not from a workrate rasslin' perspective" but those fans don't and never have mattered. I would've been stoked to see it as a spectacle at Mania. Ditto for the HBK comeback. Alas, I never will - because I refuse to watch Saudi shows (I saw the first one, which I'm glad I did, only because I can say I experienced the most jaw-dropping, misguided, one-sided, shortsighted propaganda I have ever seen occur in my lifetime).

What sucks about these Saudi shows - well, besides everything - is that Sami Zayn will probably never get a real sustained run with the World Title because he can't defend it in Saudi.

Because even though everyone knows wrestling is fake, no one likes being reminded so blatantly. It was impossible to suspend disbelief for that angle because everyone knew Rusev and Lana were together in real life. Plus, Dolph - the babyface - was made to look like a sleazy gigolo for that entire angle.

I disagree. Dolph had one World Title reign, and it was torpedoed quickly by a concussion. Midcard-wise, they've both had relatively the same amount of success.

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME!!! I actually loved that promo from Dolph. It felt like a "shoot" in that you know he probably really does feel that way. Shame it's a once and done for that Saudi bloody money.

This 24-7 stupidity is actually growing on me a little bit.

A shame if this is wasted on the Saudi show.

Wasn't expecting Dolph to return and beat the living shit out of Kofi. If they had booked Dolph like that years ago, they may have been able to salvage him.

I'd rather not wade through a sea of stupidity. Boards like this are much more my style, where there's very little stupidity and what's there gets stamped out pretty quickly. There are definitely a lot of great non-wrestling Reddit pages, but have you found any good ones for wrestling?

FWIW, this got picked up by the Survivor Reddit page (and I am assuming/hoping other more mainstream Survivor sources as well). I doubt this will be the thing that bites Vince and the company in the ass, but between this and John Oliver gaining traction, maybe something will finally give somewhere?

This is actually being discussed in the Ashley Massaro RIP thread. Yes, it is disgusting. No, nothing will be done about it.

Is running around like Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner really better though? With that said, props to EC3 for some gloriously goofy facial expressions during the Roode-Truth skit. Doesn't get him any closer to the main event, but it's genuinely funny - and you have to give him credit for embracing the shit out of this. Edit: I've giffed it. Where is good for wrestling on reddit? I signed up for reddit a few months ago but have avoided wrestling there like the plague. I assumed any major wrestling groups on reddit would be a cesspool. Is that wrong?

Nope. All of that came out after his second run. Unless there was some random Raw appearance I missed?

Not after his bizarre scandal.

The 24/7 Title killed this thread!

Not an official Twitter but still cool/funny. https://twitter.com/247Title

WWE 24/7 Title - FUGLY green belt - Open to anyone from Raw, SD, 205, NXT, and NXT UK - Despite that, only the lowest on the totem pole jabronis seem to want it - First two champions: Titus O'Neil (who won by grabbing it - that's all he had to do) and Robert Roode (who won it seconds later)

The idea of the title being open to anyone from Raw, SD, 205, NXT, and NXT UK is actually really cool, but instead of emphasizing that, the focus is on a corny comedy gimmick with a badly designed belt and worse name that only jabronis seem to want. In other words, WWE being WWE.

Great match! So much for Revival being "buried." This was just bad Vince comedy, nothing more.

If anything, Roman lucked out. Better for it to happen at a meaningless Saudi show that will never be referenced again than at SummerSlam.

Even though I cancelled the Network, I am watching this as background noise out of morbid curiosity. Garbage so far. I only really care about Foley's pointless announcement.

I hope you mean people in WWE and not @sek69 and me.

Post of the year!

I would've been better off watching tonight's episode of GoT, and I've never seen a single second of that show.

Not to mention Balor and others killing themselves, and for what? So that lazy (formerly?) roided up piece of shit could run in at the end and win the match without doing any work. I'll put the money I save by shitcanning WWE Network into Disney+ or count it toward the yearly Criterion Channel subscription I signed up for.