C.S.

Unless he somehow got WWE to consider WrestleMania his final appearance. I'm not a Bray fan, but I wouldn't mind seeing Windham Rotunda show up tonight for this supposed Brodie tribute, which the show has given no evidence of airing thus far. Edit: Not saying I doubt it's happening - I know it was announced - I'm just surprised it hasn't been mentioned on the show yet.

Sure, but I'm talking about things that have historically had some element of cool-factor - wrestling has, at times - esports and chess have not.

Yep. He came across like an uncaring, unfeeling OCD cyborg. It was very odd. You know I love your posts, Bubba, but you're acting like you're stating absolute facts when we both know you haven't seen one minute of this show yet - no one has, since it premieres tomorrow night.

Maybe five years ago - I'll give you that. Now? Absolutely not. (By design, to be fair.)

I have nothing against most of the wrestlers in AEW - I enjoy them, by and large - but your argument is flawed for one simple reason: Dorks generally don't like watching other dorks (okay, Big Bang Theory is an exception). There's a reason Fonzie - to use your example - is so popular. There's a reason Jungle Boy's dad was so popular as Dylan McKay on Beverly Hills 90210. It has nothing to do with pretending that the "beautiful people" watch pro wrestling or care about it. Wrestlers acting like dorks to appease the dorks in the audience has never really worked. Cool is what sells.

Because WWE invented reality television, right? I always found this reasoning bizarre and complete bubble-think.

And STIIIIIIIILL...

I completely blocked that out of my mind. So yeah, now that you've pointed that out, I think that's definitely where they're going with this.

Anyone else smell a putrid partnership between Jax and Eva as wrestler and manager when they both come back? Just what the world asked for...

Whatever Eva had five years ago is long gone now.

Dreadful obviously scripted promo by Goldberg.

Just what we need: 1. A quick Charlotte victory with a stupid fuck finish over someone with massive potential in Piper Niven (Doudrop) 2. The return of Oldberg

Ali represents all of us thinking this is lame.

Nah, I want Bearcat to win the Royal Rumble and face Big E at WrestleMania. BIG MEATY MEN SLAPPING MEAT!

People who claim Big E can't cut a serious money promo now have egg on the face from all the crow they have to eat.

BEARCAT IS HERE ! ! ! Seriously, at least it's the best gear Keith Lee has worn on Raw to date. Heel turn for the 'Cat?

This was the beginning of the end. Everything else is just fallout from that. (I still like Cody though. And I'll defend the reality show as a worthwhile risk. Time to expand past the useless "workrate" audience. It's a gamble and could fail, but there's relatively little downside, so why not try?)

The Broken Skull Sessions with Seth Rollins was pretty good. He talks about that debacle of a Fiend match, almost being fired from NXT, The Shield, Brock, and his various character tweaks over the years.

Fiend, I mean Finn, should sue WWE for shoddy ring craftsmanship.

That, gents, was complete and utter dogshit.

Roman probably realizes half the hillbillies in Ohiuuuuuuuhh are unvaxxed.

Garbage matches haven't been good in 20 years and I'm not sure they were ever good in WWE.

Yeah, I'll give you that - the dreads are dumb.

I hope you mean Demon is the one who looks cool. Black looks like Spot the fucking dog - absolutely ridiculous.

I cried too, but for different reasons.