...TG

I had no idea he was still employed. Not only that, he's only 55. I assumed he'd been around as a jobber in one form or another since the beginning of time.

How would this "egalitarian pay structure" even work? Is Ryback suggesting that when Cena wrestled a just-up-from-NXT Neville on Raw, they should make an equal amount? This feels like posturing on Ryback's part - he wants more money but doesn't necessarily want to say it. Which I'm okay with! But from reading his post, it doesn't look like some sort of well-thought-out proposal to radically change the WWE pay structure. RE: unionization, I'm having a hard time seeing how things substantially change with a union. Film actors are unionized, but Robert Downey Jr. isn't making the same as the (relatively) unknown guy playing Spider-Man. The main benefits of unionization for WWE guys would be non-salary benefits like company-funded health insurance, retirement, and travel.

Another great show! The Yehi/TJP and Williams/Gulak matches were both pretty great, and will probably be up on WWE.com soon.

The Zach Sabre Jr. v Chris Hero rematch was amazing, thought it was better than their match in Dallas. And the TJP/Yehi v Williams/Gulak tag titles match was great too. Evolve is on fire right now, can't wait for tomorrow night.

Johnny Gargano and Marty Scurll just had a great match. I was not impressed with Scurrll in Dallas but he looked great tonight. That finger breaking spot he does is great, and gross.

Matt Riddle with another gem tonight against Anthony Nese. He's insanely good for having like, 10 matches under his belt.

Poor Dutch just doesn't fit in the modern era WWE. He'd be a great b-show or NXT color commentator, but they'd rather have Saxton-esque robots than anything Dutch could bring.

You could also go old school - get down to the library and dig through that microfilm.

Just listened to this today as it was unfortunately pushed aside for the GWE pod-fest. Amazing job again, could listen to Beau talk old school wrestling for hours. I'd love to see him start his own podcast going through the Continental shows week by week (or something).

You shoud have married this lady.

Is he a fan? Or just goofing on this particular match?

The great WWE Network Updates twitter bot (https://twitter.com/WWE_Network_Bot) is showing something called the "WarGames Collection", which from the updates looks like a group of the collected WarGames matches, plus a couple of extra segments with Dusty. Plus there's this: So maybe we're getting another dump of old stuff?

If they really wanted to get him over as a heel, they would have just left this on a countout finish. I was thinking the same thing, but here's a low blow finish. EDIT: nope, wrong again

They really should have mentioned that on commentary. But that would mean acknowledging something that happened in WCW.

Dear Lord, did they just do a Montreal finish?

They were working hard but man, that was way too long. Jericho is 45, and looks it these days.

I hope they keep going all the way with Miz as IC champ, a la Honky Tonk Man - the undeserving wimp sneaking victories out by luck. Every time they try to push him like a tough guy it just doesn't work, just go the opposite way.

I PM'd Grimmas yesterday after the #1 reveal, thanking him for the ridiculous amount of effort he put into the countdown. I also said that it was "good for the board". The tone of these postscripts and moreso, the discussions they've started, are making me rethink that. Last night when I was reading Parv's #5 felt a bit absurd, talking about the "stakes" of GWE being too high. But reading this...I hope I'm wrong, because while the tone of discussion has been far more civil than the 2006 excerpts that Loss posted, I'm worried that GWE has been very corrosive to the community we have here.

Raw has been good. This crowd, however, has been terrible.

Just listened to this, great wrap-up of the weekend. I ended up going to the JR show on Monday night after Raw with Cornette, and it unfortunately it wasn't much better than Will & Pete's experience - too much current product talk, but that's what the crowd clearly wanted. JR did confirm the Murdoch/KKK story, though most in the audience didn't' seem to know who that was.

Flair is Reagan's America. Hogan is John Milius's America. Come on man, don't put Hogan on Milius. His work is a lot more complicated than Hogan.

As an ex-librarian, I can assure you that wrestling is far from the strangest thing I've seen dudes watching on public computers.

Agreed, I definitely wanna watch it. Spoilers, but evidently other WWE people are only involved in the first half hour or so. Good to know, thank you. The trailer makes it seem like a rewrite of the Jean-Claude Van Damme classic "Sudden Death", set at a Pittsburgh Penguins game.

There's been far too little talk about this "Countdown" movie starring Dolph Ziggler as a bad-boy cop and Kane as his disapproving captain. Dolph has to solve some sort of mystery backstage at a Raw taping. There's a bit almost at the end of that trailer where Dolph superkicks a gun out of Rusev's hands. Needless to say, it's probably the greatest piece of cinema ever released.