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AJ Lee is pretty terrible so he doesn't have much to beat there. That said, he was pretty great as nerdy geek in Christian's stable years ago. If they play up the comic book dork aspect, he could be a decent Santino level guy at the very least. Still, AJ can be pretty good if someone can reel him in. I enjoyed his tag team with Tomko before that got randomly killed.

Wait, someone called Naylor an executive's bitch?

I was more talking about the insertion of a Punk promo from RAW.

Well, people tend to take anything thrown on the Internet as real if it looks remotely so. I'll wait to see if Meltzer or anyone confirms it. If it is, the lack of match details is due to the fact the talent and agents work that out. Nothing to do with them being unimportant. Also, why would DVD extras be on the sheet/script?

People have said this for years, but I don't see it, or hear it, as the case may be. Is it because of his voice, I have heard him likened to Kermit the frog? Again I don't hear that. Care to elaborate on why he is annoying? I think there are FAR FAR FAR more annoying personalities out there. But I do appreciate everyone is different, I'm just interested as nobody has ever elaborated on comments such as this that I've seen online previously. And no, I'm not Chico. He has an annoying voice which only makes the random stressing of words more irritating, can be very condescending and has been exposed as knowing a lot less someone in his position should now. People point to his humor as a selling point, but the Bryan and Vinny shows I heard are awful (do people actually listen to his grandmother?) and his more annoying traits become even more exaggerated. He's almost tolerable when he has to actually interview someone, but I haven't heard one worth remembering never mind recommending. Are there more annoying personalties out there? Probably. I only listen/read the WON nowadays so I have to deal with listening to him.

I don't mind Meltzer talking over Alvarez. Bryan is one of more annoying personalities out there.

No, he wasn't. They did think he had a lot of potential, but they were actually on the fence about letting him go before the rap gimmick. Fuck, he was doing clean jobs to Reverend D'Von before he turned heel and even then he was dropping falls to perennial midcarders Billy Kidman and post-2000 Rikishi. He had a strong start with Angle and Jericho (who was supposed to beat him before Jericho vetoed it so Cena could get the win), but he is a guy who definitely earned his spot. And no one is meeting you half way because the point you're making isn't really worth it, sorry. He only called an audible because the crowd was shitting on the segment. If the crowd wasn't, Bryan wouldn't have been pulled in. He wasn't trying to leech off of Bryan, he was just trying to redirect the heat into the promo so it didn't die a painful death.

Do people ignore the jobber matches when they appear or something? They were used as recently as last year getting Ryback over.

I know TNA has become a non-enitity in the wrestling world, but has anyone looked at the tapings these past few weeks? You got fucking Magnus as their world champ. You know...the guy who debuted as a gladiator and did nothing for about 4 years before forming a random tag team with Samoa Joe, doing nothing again for a few months before beating Sting clean by submission at Bound for Glory in a terrible match. He was alright in Ring Ka King, but he doesn't really bring anything to the table aside from being from the UK. Nothing special in the ring and sometimes outright bad, no real mic skills to talk about and he isn't even particularly over. AJ Styles is also apparently gone from the promotion. They couldn't come to terms monetarily so after investing a bunch of time pushing and building him up for the main event of their biggest show, they didn't even have him under contract for the following year.

The thing is...Kofi really isn't that over anymore. He's been kind of jobbed out lately and that's been hurting him. I don't think he's much of a merch mover either. Plus he's been stuck in a feud with the heat vacuum Miz (who's stock has dropped so sharply in only two years). The kind of guy you described is great to keep around. Santino's really over with the kids/general audience and I'm sure those Cobra socks probably sell a ton. R-Truth is someone who's good to keep around. The crowd loves the interaction they get with the What's Up entrance and he's perfectly fine in the tag team he's in now. To be honest, Truth is a guy who I think has more to offer. He was really on a roll a few years ago as a heel before they turned him face again because of the Little Jimmy stuff.

I didn't know/forgot Owen used the sitout Tombstone during the build-up to Survivor Series. He used it on Dan Savern like a year later, but besides that, how many times did he use it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kZmwaFChgk

Really? She looks a bit rough these days. My question is, why is she still on TV? She's not actively bad or anything, but I thought she was thrown on TV so Eric and Hogan could make her feel like a star and thus be in her ear more. Now that they're apparently gone...she's still out there, making videos like this: For a company that was actually decent about the whole magic camera shtick, why are there two of them filming a 'meeting' like this? Using what seems to be 2008 cellphones too.

Stuff like the Quackendriver II. Is that really needed?

That's not going to happen. Dave was talking about possibly lowering the needed percentage from 60% to 50% and being talked out of it. I'd imagine if thoughts like that are in his head, he won't be raising anything. Question: Why does Dave seem to think less names going in is bad? Does the WON get a surge of subscribers around HoF time and less people going in means that might die down? He's also mentioned wanting to get rid of some of the deadwood so I'm not sure if that's the actual reasoning.

I think part of it is that he hasn't really been the focus of the shows since he came back. That's probably going to change around Rumble/Mania season though. That aside, personally, at this point I've found most John Cena matches to be enjoyable if a bit overly formulaic at points before and after.

Yes if it clears up space like Owen Hart and Edge (eventually/hopefully), no if they're just going to start throwing in people like Owen Hart or Edge due to a lack of names.

Cena adds random moves now and then. I imagine he'll drop the neckbreaker thing like he did that flipping Diamond Cutter as time goes by. Hell, I remember him doing a top rope splash and missle dropkick once.

You and Jerry remind me of Sam and Diane from Cheers. Just fuck and get it over with. Probably should just make a "Pro Wrestling Not Really: JVK vs JDW" subforum to contain their bickering.

Gabriel is a guy I don't really care for, but I'm surprised he hasn't been pushed more than he has. When NXT first started, I thought Wade, Bryan and Gabriel were the guys who would amount to something in the company. Bryan for obvious reasons, Wade because he has the look* the company wants while being fairly decent in the ring and Gabriel for having that Jeff Hardy heart throb look and being able to fly. Aside from the initial Nexus push, he hasn't really been given that many opportunities. (*Ryback obviously had the look, but I don't think "Cornfed" Skip Sheffield would have gone too far.)

Well...Billy Gunn used it all the time and never won with it. Seems only Goldberg knew how to unlock the true potential of the fancy vertical suplex.

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Khali has been positioned lately to serve as the babyface side's punishment for heels. Look at tonight, with Vickie charging Del Rio with a night's match against Khali. Maybe Bray Wyatt is the leader but Harper and Rowan aren't booked as some bumbling henchmen or anything. If anything, Bray is the wild card here, because these two guys do the bulk of the work and booked as credibly against the top names as possible. Ryback is still a major force. Just because he lost to the top two names in the WWE (Cena and Punk) doesn't make him any more a joke than anybody else. It's all in context, dude. So, no then? Khali hasn't won a non-comedy match in ages. I never said Rowan and Harper were bumbling henchmen, but they're still Wyatt's cronies. Bray hasn't lost yet while those two have some losses to their name (Harper specifically). As for Ryback, you can't say the guy hasn't been damaged. Sure, he beats mid-card guys like Miz and Kofi, but he hasn't won a big match in a long time. Maybe the match against Jericho in July, but if Chris wasn't leaving, he probably would have lost that too.

Aside from Big Show, are any big guys getting big pushes? Khali, Brodus Clay and Tensai only exist to job, Rowan and Harper are clearly viewed as being beneath Bray, Ryback just got out of a feud with Punk that had Punk beat him three times in a row and almost squashing him in the last one. I guess Roman Reigns, but he's getting pushed alongside two "smaller" guys in a faction. Big E. is getting one too, but it seems height always played more of a factor than weight when it came to Vince.

That wasn't in response to a claim Dave made specifically, just a thought I had when he said Edge was a true success story when wishing him a happy birthday.