Jesse Ewiak

As other people have said, Bock & Studd is a duo never happened, but seems perfect as you've set them up. Also, Windham having to basically work up to Bockwinkel, by taking out Bundy first could be great in the long term The Movement is a great little stable, especially after getting rid of Akeem & Muhammed. After all, Ray Candy & Leroy Brown in 1984, not exactly hot tickets. Von Erich - Saito was a fun TV main event, and now the question is, will a Von Erich take the belt back from Bock, before any other babyface? Your house shows look solid, especially the huge multi-man tags that would've been salivated by tape dealers for years afterwards.

OMG wins his ring, which makes sense, and Lars gets a push right out of the gate in getting to the TV title match, all while other feuds are pushed forward. I'm sure many young women were happy to tell Steve Armstrong how tough he looked beating up Ken Wayne with his cowboy boot. So, are we getting an OMG face turn? Also, a great way to solidify somebody as mattering in one night by having him make a giant submit clean in the middle. Good way to further Madril & Hercules as heel, avoid Brad or Street having to job, and know I want a KKB & Adrian Street odd couple tag team, in the short run. Tommy Rich blededing a ton? I'm stunned! Solid way to let Landell keep the belt, without actually jobbing Tommy in his return. Fuller & Golden playin babyface is always a little weird, but it works. Plus, I'm sure they'll go back to being full heels soon enough. Another Southern promotion not respecting the World title DiBiase-Gordy in '84 would've been awesome. Hmm, after the main event finish, I wonder if they'll soon be an new masked wrestler entering the rings of SECW.

Vancouver Show - Borne & Slater is a fun team, even though Marauders is a very "let's hit random team name on TEW/EWR and move on" type of name. Haynes & Hickerson is also an odd, but cool face combo. Is it a rule that Ed Wiskowski & Doug Somers always get a push in your fed? Seriously though, Rock 'n' Roll's tget the win, as they should, and I'm sure Buddy won't be happy about that. Chavo-Zenk was probably a decent match, with the angle of the two armies overshadowing things. Now, on the other hand, Garvin-Starr was probably a wild match probably w/ blood, even if neither side was trying to blade. Rose-Bravo was good, but the big news was Piper's return. You're doing fantastic at basically booking Portland, if it had the money for an actual roster. Victoria Show - Decent little tag opener, with Yamada learning some of the heel work he'll eventually use in the NJPW-NOAH feud in two decades. Big win for The Marauders, and then Hickerson gets spiked. Good stuff. Piper is Piper and I'm sure he and Oliver had the type of fun match they'd had 100 times. But the question is, did he kick the leg out of his leg? Shocking tag title change, and now, Rock 'n' Roll's vs. Wiskowkis & Somers doesn't have the tag belts to limit various finishes. Ron Garvin - Jake The Snake is a fun feud, that could be happening now.

The Ratamyus - Samoa feud is one of the funner ones to read about as I've been catching up on stuff, and this tag match is a good way to extend things. Both of the tag teams are interesting original creations (I'm assuming), and giving The Real Deal the win, allows them to move up the ranks without hurting Regal or Rogers too much, who can be a fun midcard act. Speaking of weird stuff like the Ratamyus-Samoa feud, here we go. Give me Mind Controlled Ivan Putski! Orton & Brooks can be a fun heel team, and running over the Jayhawks isn't too much of a loss. I assume that somehow, the TV belt will be back around Tully's waist sooner than later, even as the company focuses on Memphis more. Fun finish to get the Fabulous Ones the win, without totally killing of the Mr. Wrestling II & III. Ayala going over makes sense, as he has something resembling a future, while Atlas isn't over the hill yet, but he's beginning to slide down from his peak. Plus, you keep Atlas strong by Ayala needing something even more than at taped fist to win the match. Road Warriors win, but the more immportan thing is the "face" turn for Demo - I mean, Decimation. Funk getting the win over Tito makes sense, but Tito still has an out, unless he's leaving the promotion via piledriver. Only in Memphis could a DiBiase-Jumbo World Title match in '84 not be the main event :) Fun match though, with DiBiase going over, but Jumbo having some good tape when he eventually heads back to Japan. The main event was the very definition of Memphis smoke and mirrors, as when the heel side is Honky, Well, and Carl Fergie, you need a lot of them. But I'm sure the crowd was going nuts, especially after Lawler got the win.

Unfortunately, that's nothing new. They think you can sell the "real life" story on Good Morning America or at worst, The Network, while Vince has his fun time on TV.

I mean, sure, blame Vince for still being a piece of crap most likely, but of the current writing team, whose still around from twenty years ago or hell, even five years ago? I have zero doubt Vince McMahon doesn't give a damn about the Women's Division beyond it making him money, but I also have no doubt most of the current roster and writing team fully supports it.

Right - there's a difference between "this was bad booking" and the reaction online from certain people, which is treating this like the WWE lied about a Wrestlemania main event or something.

He was also in a midcard nothing match at Mania. Whatever the plan is for him, they can start that next week.

I mean, according to recent news, the executives get bonuses if there's more time watched on the Network,

So, can we talk about the fact that one of the women who was getting shots in on the moron was Maria Menuonos?

Yeah, "hey, let me rush Bret Hart, universally beloved among the current roster, while also half his former retired wrestling buddies around. Oh yeah, and Ronda Rousey's MMA fighter husband. This will work out great for me."

They weren't going to have the 1st Women's Main Event in WM History not involve the person that both Triple H & Vince is most behind. Whether that's a good decision or not is left to the beholder, but you have two choices - Becky vs Ronda in the 2nd or 3rd match from the top or the 3-Way headlining. Also, yes, @DMJ, they're totally going to break kayfabe because that's what happens at the end of every big Women's match in WWE, since the first big NXT matches.

So, Wrestlemania can end with all 4 of the Horse Women (Bayley, Sasha, Becky, Charlotte) holding up a title.

To a certain extent, yes. OTOH, giving the Revival a tag title win or whatever is one thing. But, if The Revival continue to push for more or some other young guy who thinks he's the next Cody really pushes for a bigger push than they think somebody warrants? Then they'll happily let him go. I also think it's highly unlikely we're going to get much fleeing talent, because frankly, most of the talent is actually perfectly happy, even if they don't think everything's 100% A-OK. Let's see how many WWE folks happily Instagram their new cars or new houses they buy with their Wrestlemania payoffs before we start acting like it's a sinking ship. Obviously, Vince'll overpay for Brock or people on the next tier down like Bryan or Style. OTOH, Sami Zayn? I could easily see him being quietly released.

I mean, the actual truth of the matter is their non-top of the card booking is so pointless they can insert anybody in there within a few weeks and "give them a push" if it'll keep them happier, but the truth is, outside of a dozen folks, at the end of the day, the WWE will say, "good luck in AEW or NJPW, but we've got 50 other people at the Performance Center who will be just as over as you are within a few months who can also put on "good matches." The wrestlers really have no leverage, because the truth is, the people wanting folks to jump to AEW are going to watch AEW anyway and nobody is changing the channel if The Revival or Rusev aren't on their TV anymore.

HEEL LIGER~! Interesting to see how the International boys do, along with if we get KENTA & Nakajima kicking the crap out of each other in a six man tournament match. Suzuki was obviously the right guy, both in terms of actual drawing business and booking to serve as champ, but will be fun to see who gets crowned as the actual future ace of the company in the long term.

I'm enjoying the actual booking, but still think you're way overdoing the match lengths. If you cut the times of basically every match by 20%, it'd be much more realistic show, with time for more angles and storylines.

The moment Roman went out, one of the other Shield guys was going to win at Mania.

Everything since pre-WM 30 has been a long con by Bryan and the Wyatts! OK, probably not, but it's be dumb enough to be great.

This is very minor, but Lena Yada and Angela Fong are two different people. Fong's is/was Black Lotus in Lucha Underground.

If your position is that all wrestling is carny bullshit being run by likely terrible people, so be it. That's at least consistent. My point was more about the folks who were very very concerned about Vince and Linda's politics, and were very loud about that fact, but seem much less concerned about the Khans, who at best, took until after Trump was elected and they gave him a million bucks to figure out he might not be great. There's also the hilarity of Brandi up there talking about equality as the Jaguars cheerleaders, who like all NFL cheerleaders, are treated like crap by their teams, including a lack of health care, are up on stage with them. But hey, if Cody can pull a good con and extract some money from a billionaire's kid for the boys, so be it. I'm sure Big Dust is looking down at him with a smile on his face for finding a great money mark.

Weird how some of the same people who acted all insulted that the WWE got in bed with Trump or Saudi Arabia are perfectly OK with All Elite Wrestling being backed by a guy who gave a million to Trump's inauguration committee. Guess it's OK to be a scumbag with terrible politics as long as you hate Kevin Dunn's production decisions and like lots of flips.

Well, I think the difference is that Jimmy Hart was basically the #2 guy in the Memphis territory and a PC talent is a PC talent.

I was going to argue against this, but then I put the numbers in the inflation calculator and that comes out to 35k a year in 2018 money, which is just insanely low. Yikes.

Is anybody surprised the moment supposed Flair & NWA fanboy Triple H gets any booking power, or at the very least, is around the dinner table talking to Vince every night, faces become even bigger jokes and heels get long title reigns? Doesn't he realize that's why the NWA lost? I'm only half kidding about this argument by the way.