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Summer and Sasha have tried to run twitter angles hoping to get Summer TV time in the past. I wouldn't look into it more than that.

Running at a big place isn't the same as filling it up

He reminds me of CM Punk in that he's skinny fat

Bray is for sure going to go down as the worst booked dude of his generation

It's unknown at this point. It's a biceps injury and if it's a bad tear he's off everything.

I'd love to see actual numbers on this instead of Cody getting booked because of perceived name value and SAYING he's the biggest draw.

Tanahashi got hurt at the ROH TV tapings, so his participation at Dominion and G1 is in doubt right now.

Remember when they already made a title for the US, yet had the finals of the tournament decided by YANO AND MVP? And then it took Nakamura literally saying he was going to make the title important (implying it was a joke) and it basically took making the IC title Nak's vanity belt for the next 3 years to give it any meaning while also removing it from its original purpose (to be a title to be defended in the US/abroad). Imagine how many years it would take to rehab that title if Cody was the inaugural champion.

Much like just about all of Bret's run, terribly disappointing. Wolfpac Sting was the WORST, Bret wasn't at his best, and it was just a dull match with needless fuckery that all big matches had to have then. Made all the worse because this was one of the bigger WWF vs WCW dream matches throughout the 90s, it finally happens and...Sting is in the laziest period of his career, Bret had no passion for wrestling, and it had to have a bullshit finish. Here's that ref leg drop, though, Badger.

Yeah I don't know why they don't tape 205 Live at Full Sail, a place where the audience knows the talent and will react to their shit instead of in front of a crowd that just saw a 2 hour show and most need to leave because they have work or kids to get to school in the morning, a lot of whom didn't watch the CWC and have no idea who these people are or why they're supposed to give a shit about the storylines they don't know about because they don't watch 205 Live on the Network. I assume that's why they keep doing the same angles every week for months on end, because every live audience is basically 70% a brand new audience that doesn't know what the storylines are to begin with.

Cody. Popularity.

I assume it wouldn't be called NXT Women, and would be it's own thing like the cruiserweight and UK shows.

Who gives a shit about either side of this? This is a debate as old as time itself. It is seen in everything. "Back in my day..." vs the new generation. It's the natural order of things. Both sides always have valid points, and nothing is ever settled, and some years later, the new generation starts saying "back in my day...". In the case of entertainment like wrestling, obviously every conceivable genre has an audience somewhere. From dudes using their dicks as weapons to death matches to real sports presentation to sports entertainment presentation to highly choreographed flippies to fat dudes clubbing each other to guys fighting monsters to whatever it is Ibushi is doing on any given day. It's all just dudes play fighting in their underwear at the end of the day. What's really sad is when actual wrestlers catch feelings over this shit.

Also one guy got pushed at the top of the card for 6 years, with wins over every top guy of the era, 11 championships, and retired a legend. The other guy had a 6 month push, got turned into a joke then an actual comedy character for the next few years, retired and was never mentioned again.

They were talking about doing a women's only show about 2 years ago when they didn't have half the talent they do now, so I'm sure they'll take it seriously. Their model going forward seems to be making a show for each segment of their audience and using Raw/SD as catchalls.

I like this idea that the cruiserweights and 205 Live aren't over not because of the 25 straight weeks of the same 3 angles on an hour long show and because nearly all of the heavyweights work a junior style anyway, but because VINCE got his hands on them and made them tone everything down into a plodding style. When, of course, they clearly have no in ring restrictions on the show and do crazy shit in every match. All these dudes make it clear they don't actually watch 205 Live. And it's also been made clear that workrate for the sake of workrate doesn't mean dick to even smart fans who claim they want workrate only. If it did, 205 Live would be their most popular show on the Network and Roman Reigns would be their favorite wrestler. Also, Braun getting hurt is the worst thing to happen to WWE since rehiring Festus.

Cameras were rolling as they showed a clip of it on Raw

Idk I'd cut bait and get rid of him. It's obvious he was only hired because there was some internet buzz and the hope that he could be the next big Hispanic star, yet it was just as obvious they had no idea how he worked or why he worked considering they debuted him as a happy-go-lucky face male stripper type of dude who had a debut where his jobber was more impressive and more over. Then they just...stuck with that for a few months, seemed to forget about him for another couple, finally turned him heel and he's been just as lame and as big of a loser since. I also would have cut Itami and let him go back to try to save NOAH after his 3rd injury.

Scurli's logo reveal and the booting of Cole played like a bad NWO angle. So you mean the Bullet Club then

CHONO has no redeeming qualities? Lol. And y'all call me a troll.

I don't see it that way, but I could see where one could come to that conclusion. I think it's more that his gimmick from the start seemed like he was a ladies man (on account of being dressed like a male stripper) and now they're finally actually doing something with it besides having him look like a tool when he comes to ringside.

I enjoyed it tbh, but I have a higher affinity for Nash than most. When he was putting in the effort, he was pretty solid, and he was putting in the effort his entire second WWE run. There's a SD match with Rock where you can tell he's trying so god damn hard to have the best match he possibly can. I'm not saying he's great or anything, but with the right opponents and proper motivation he could be pretty good. Examples: All matches against Bret, the HBK IYH match, almost all of the first year or so of Outsiders tag matches in WCW, random shit around the spring of 1999 where he was suddenly working his ass off for 3-4 weeks. I also think compared to the last like....idk, ten years or so, the 02-03 booking is worlds better, even with a lot of shitty talent (but also some of the best) and taking the Attitude Era shit to even more absurd extremes at times.

I don't agree with that at all. It seemed bad at the time, but in retrospect it is much better. There's a difference between bad booking and bad matches. The only bad matches during that reign were the ones with Steiner, and the 3 stages of hell with HBK.

HHH has a lot of good matches outside of that period, too. Even his deathreign era had good matches. He was much, much better as a main eventer than he ever was as a mid carder, which was almost entirely dull dogshit, even his matches with Rock for the Euro/IC belts. The only truly bad period he had after becoming a main eventer was the DX reunion stuff.