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I dunno, but "she's put up with far worse, Sasha must be a bad influence" is an interesting take

The American education system being what it is, I suppose it is possible he hadn't learned much about the Holocaust, but man that statement makes him come off as an ignorant moron. I think most companies, particularly public companies, and especially ones in entertainment, are going to get rid of employees having pictures of them just doing a little Hitler impression in their free time. I'm sure you can see the difference in a satirical stage show/movie by a Jewish creator who participated in the Battle of the Bulge, and someone from the cast doing the HH with a toothbrush mustache at home, even if as a joke.

I don't remember them acknowledging Punk at all until Steph made a dig about his UFC fight.

That's got to be the most aggressive "fuck this talent" statement WWE has put out since the Austin walk out. Think of all the stories of people walking out or refusing creative and the show having to be rescheduled over the years, and how many times can you remember the announcers openly talking about it on TV and putting out a multiple paragraph statement. I actually can't remember any other than Austin.

I like goofy, mostly comedic mid card stooge EY. I've not liked any of his serious heel runs, especially the psycho stable leader EY from Sanity through VBD.

NXT signings is fine and good because most of them are some of the most talented folks around and it'd be dumb not to pick them up if you have the chance. Booking them the same or redoing feuds is not good. A Gargano/Cole redux would be bad.

I'm truly amazed Darby hasn't had a catastrophic injury on live TV

Jay White did absolutely nothing for me until the G1 in 2020 and he ended up being the MVP and most entertaining guy on the roster.

Well yeah, why would he put titles on people who don't work for him?

I'm convinced that "health issue" Jericho had a few months back was liver related and his doctor told him he needed to stop drinking immediately. Anyway, the look Hangman had after that promo on the floor that wasn't commented on seemed like he didn't really want to say that stuff but needed to hype himself up because he's nervous.

This seems pretty out of nowhere

Also when 205 Live started, Finn Balor was suddenly billed as 206 pounds

There was definitely a lot of awesome stuff on 205. There was a string of multiman matches every week that were great, the Ali/Murphy series, Lio Rush vs Cedric Alexander. In general, Ali was probably having the best face run in WWE since Bryan in 2013.

The energy is always off, both in the crowd and performers. Like the last show of tapings at Full Sail would always be.

Rampage desperately needs to either be live or at least taped separately from Dynamite.

I'm pretty confident Midway going under had nothing to do with the TNA game and everything to do with they were basically only making licensed games and Mortal Kombat games for the entire 2000-2008 period and bad leadership that went through like 3 CEOs in 3 months.

What the hell is Tony doing with the TNT Championship? Shit is the WCW Championship in 2000.

I do not at all enjoy this Jericho doing a WWE satire gimmick, nor do I like that Britt Baker's gimmick seems to be just shitting on her opponent's booking.

Wasn't Fenix supposed to be healed up and ready for action like 3 months ago

JR pretty openly hating Danhausen and all of his segments is good though, because I agree with him

Those aren't skinny jeans, they're track pants with a proper fit

Britt saying finally there's a woman in the ring who knows how to use a mic and immediately proceeding to cut a bad promo where she sounded nervous and stumbled over her words and no doubt ran long based on how fast Excalibur had to do the hard sell.

Hook being billed as 201 pounds is lmao Also lmao that Sammy and Tay were so annoying they turned Dan Lambert face

It's a shame NJ's tag division is garbage because AEW's tag roster is so loaded and there's really no big time matches for them at a joint show. If Kenny is back, I'd like to see Golden Lovers vs FTR.

Sting vs Okada